Chemistry - 318300

07/21/2026

07/20/2027

No

Postdoctoral Scholar

Post-Doc Research Associate

PDS004916

Full-Time Temporary

40

1

Chapel Hill, NC

Dependent upon education and experience

12 Months

The Chemistry Department is one of the largest and most complex departments in the College of Arts and Sciences. There are 50 faculty members, 44 SHRA and 37 EHRA staff positions, 260 graduate students, 37 postdoctoral research associates, 700 undergraduate majors, and an annual total of approximately 10,000 registrations by all students in classroom and laboratory courses. The Department is housed in five buildings with over 580,000 sq. feet of space. The faculty participate in teaching assignments which involve an average of 200 students per faculty member per semester. The majority of faculty are research active and supervise graduate students working on their Masters or Ph.D. degrees, undergraduate students carrying out independent research and honors programs, research technicians and postdoctoral research associates. Primarily the research is funded by federal and private agencies such as NSF, NIH, Army, Navy, DOE, PRF and involves expenditures of more than nineteen million dollars annually. A total of over thirty-two million dollars from all sources is expended annually in the Department.

These positions are a part of the development of the research program in a specific lab at the Department of Chemistry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This posting is used to collect applications. Interested candidates should reach out directly to the PI they would like to work under.

PhD degree in Chemistry or related field.

Must have completed PhD in Chemistry or related field.

Qualification require knowledge of the molecular dynamics simulations, polymer physical chemistry, and data analysis, Linux operating systems, programming skills and scripting, all of which could be obtained during the course of study for the required PhD.