Postdoctoral Scholar, Civil and Environmental Engineering

University of Nevada Reno•Reno, NV

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Wildfire Science and Engineering Lab at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) is seeking dynamic individuals for multiple Postdoctoral Fellow positions to conduct research in the emerging field of Wildfire Engineering. These roles will focus on both Pre-Fire and Active-Fire domains. The positions require individuals with knowledge of fire science or related fields, a willingness to work within a multidisciplinary team in a fast-paced research and development environment, and a commitment to learning new skills and producing high-quality research. Successful candidates will interact with other research members, faculty, and partnering institutes and agencies. The lab is dedicated to postdoctoral mentorship and supports independent career development.

Requirements

Ph.D. in Engineering, Physics, Computational Science, Atmospheric Science, or a closely related field.
Programming and computational skills.
Proven ability to publish in peer-reviewed journals.
Doctoral degree completed within the five years immediately preceding the first date of appointment.
Cannot have held previous positions in the professional ranks.

Nice To Haves

Expertise in uncertainty quantification and stochastic simulation.
Scientific software development in C/C++, Fortran, and Python.
HPC/GPU computing.
GIS, remote sensing, and geospatial analysis.
Machine learning and deep learning.

Responsibilities

Conduct research in the emerging field of Wildfire Engineering across the Pre-Fire and Active-Fire domains.
Contribute to the development of solution platforms for integrating spatial and temporal information, harnessing remote sensing data, using climate information, understanding fuel modeling and mapping, and running physics-based or data-driven wildfire simulations for risk mitigation (Pre-Fire domain).
Contribute to the development of high-performance and GPU-enabled modeling tools for wildfire simulations (Active-Fire domain).
Interact with other research members at the Lab as well as faculty members at UNR and other partnering institutes and agencies.
Publish research in peer-reviewed journals.