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Postdocs in polymer and materials science.
89 open postdoc positions right now, from national labs, universities and industry research groups. Most postdocs never reach a job board, so this page also lists the fellowship programs that run on their own calendars, and lets a PI post a position directly.
Where they are right now
Faculty and teaching
54 open faculty, lecturer and instructor positions in polymer and materials science, chemistry and chemical engineering.
- Sustainable Chemistry for Recyclable Biopolymers Research Assistant/Associate/Full ProfessorUniversity of Tennessee, Knoxville · Knoxville, TN
- Assistant/Associate/Full Professor- Chemical & Biomolecular EngineeringUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · Urbana, IL
- Assistant Professor of Chemistry (Tenure Track)University of the Pacific · Stockton, CA
- Lecturer in ChemistryThe University of Georgia · Athens, GA
- Research Assistant ProfessorUniversity of South Carolina · Columbia, SC
- Tenure-Track: Assistant Professor (CHEN, AI and Machine Learning in Chemical Engineering)Texas A&M University · College Station, TX
- Assistant ProfessorRutgers University · Newark, NJ
- Tenure-Track: Assistant Professor (Chemical Engineering, Process Systems Engineering)Texas A&M University · College Station, TX
Fellowship programs
Funded positions with deadlines instead of postings. Dates shift year to year; confirm on the program page before you plan around one.
NRC Research Associateship Programs
National Academies, placing postdocs at NIST, NRL, AFRL, ARL, NOAA and other federal labs
Four review dates a year: February 1, May 1, August 1, November 1
NASA Postdoctoral Program
NASA centers and JPL, administered by ORAU
Three cycles a year: March 1, July 1, November 1
Lawrence Fellowship
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Annual, applications in the fall
Truman Fellowship
Sandia National Laboratories
Annual, fall deadline
Director's and Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowships
Los Alamos National Laboratory (Feynman, Oppenheimer and Reines fellowships)
Director's fellowships reviewed on a rolling basis; distinguished fellowships annually
Wigner, Weinberg and Russell Fellowships
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Annual
Linus Pauling Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Annual, applications in the fall
Goldhaber Distinguished Fellowship
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Annual
Intelligence Community Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
ORISE, for the US intelligence community; any accredited US research institution
Annual, applications open in the winter
MPS-Ascend Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
National Science Foundation, mathematical and physical sciences
Annual, typically a fall deadline
Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellowship
Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation, chemistry and chemical instrumentation
Annual, nomination cycle typically in the fall
Beckman Institute Postdoctoral Fellows
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Annual, fall deadline
Schmidt Science Fellows
Schmidt Sciences with the Rhodes Trust; nominated by your PhD institution
Annual
Miller Research Fellowship
Miller Institute, UC Berkeley; nominated by a Berkeley faculty member
Annual, nominations in September
Rowland Fellows
Rowland Institute at Harvard; independent, fully funded five-year positions
Annual, summer deadline
President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
University of California, all ten campuses
Annual, November 1
Branco Weiss Fellowship
Society in Science at ETH Zurich; five years at any host institution
Annual, January 15
Postdoctoral Program in Environmental Chemistry
Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation; the PI applies on your behalf
Annual
Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships
European Commission; host institution in Europe
Annual call, September deadline
Humboldt Research Fellowship
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany
Rolling, reviewed several times a year
JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowships
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Two calls a year
Post a postdoc
For principal investigators and hiring groups. Free. It goes live within about 30 minutes, once our classifier has read it, and appears alongside every other listing. Your name and contact email are shown on the posting so applicants can reach you.