Summary

The High Explosives and Organic Materials Group of the Theoretical Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory has two immediate openings for Postdoctoral Research Associates. Both positions are associated with a new, multidisciplinary effort involving tightly integrated theory, experiment, and computation aimed at understand the physics leading to, and chemistry resulting from, spatial and temporal localization of energy in explosives due to mechanical or thermal loading.

The first position focuses on developing and parameterizing dislocation dynamics models for crystal plasticity in highly anisotropic, low-symmetry, conformationally complicated molecular crystals using both particle- and continuum-based methods. The research will be performed in close collaboration with leading experts in large-scale molecular dynamics simulation and leveraged against state-of-the-art dynamic experimental methods.

The second position will be focused on the development of material-aware continuum models, to include chemical reaction, that directly incorporate experimental and theoretical information regarding rate-dependent, anisotropic sub-scale physical dissipative physics which generally extend from low to high Reynolds number regimes.

Required Skills

Given the combined experimental and theoretical, multidisciplinary nature of the overall effort, exceptional written and spoken communication skills are required, as is a demonstrated record of achievement appropriate to junior associates. Experience with large-scale parallel computing is assumed.

Desired Skills

The ability and willingness to obtain a U.S. Department of Energy "Q" clearance, which generally requires U.S. citizenship, is useful but not required.

Education

PhD in physics, materials science, mechanical engineering, or related field completed within the past five years or soon to be completed.

Notes To Applicants

Serious technical inquiries regarding any of the described positions should be sent to Dana Dattelbaum at danadat@lanl.gov and Tommy Sewell at sewell@lanl.gov.

Pre-Employment Drug Test

The Laboratory requires successful applicants to complete a pre-employment drug test and maintains a substance abuse policy that includes random drug testing.

Government Conflict of Interest

To ensure that you and LANL avoid any potential conflicts of interest, all current/former Government Officials must read and respond, if applicable, to the LANL Applicant Disclosure Form.

Contact

For specific questions about the status of this job, call (505)665-6406