We anticipate hiring a postdoctoral associate who will be responsible for conducting novel experiments to probe the
fundamental kinetics and branching fractions of key reactions in the autoignition chemistry of small alkanes, under the direction of staff scientists in the Combustion Chemistry Department in the Combustion Research Facility of Sandia National Laboratories. The postdoctoral associate will also be expected to interact strongly with related ongoing computational kinetics and modeling efforts in the department and with external collaborators.
This position falls under Job Opening 635874 -- All candidates must apply online at www.sandia.gov/careers
Required: Ph.D in chemistry, mechanical engineering, physics, or related field, with emphasis on chemical reaction kinetics or dynamics strongly preferred. Candidate must have substantial expertise in at least one of the following areas: chemical kinetics, laser spectroscopy, mass spectrometry, or photoionization detection of chemical species. Must have high scientific ability demonstrated by a strong publication record and have good presentation and communication skills.
U.S. citizenship is not required.
Desired: Familiarity with high-pressure (> 50 bar) chemical kinetics experiments; experience with master equation modeling of chemical reactions; and knowledge of combustion chemistry. Familiarity and experience with computational kinetics methods is also desirable.
Department Description: The Combustion Chemistry program, under the principal sponsorship of the Department of Energy's Office of Basic Energy Sciences, seeks to reveal the key chemical processes that underlie the complex mechanisms of combustion. The program emphasizes determination of the rates and mechanisms of chemical reactions, characterization of molecular structure and energetics, and development of full descriptions of chemical composition and evolution of combustion systems. Researchers in the program employ laser-based pump/probe techniques to interrogate chemical reactivity and structure, ion-imaging to simultaneously measure velocity and internal-state distributions of reaction products, experimental techniques in the picosecond and femtosecond domains to directly probe energy transfer and conversion within and between molecules, and laser-based methods directed at detection of combustion-generated particles. In other work, molecular photolysis is coupled with absorption/fluorescence detection methods to determine the thermal rate coefficients and product distributions for reactions that constitute the individual steps in the combustion chain process. Current computational efforts include ab initio calculations of molecular structure and energetics and computer modeling of the complete kinetics of combustion processes in both laminar and turbulent environments.
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