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ITL PostDocs

NIST's Postdoctoral Program supports a nationwide competitive postdoctoral program administered in cooperation with the National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council. The postdoctoral program brings research scientists and engineers of unusual promise and ability to perform advanced research related to the NIST mission, introduces the latest university research results and techniques to NIST scientific programs, strengthens mutual communication with university researchers, shares NIST unique research facilities with the U.S. scientific and engineering communities, and provides a valuable mechanism for the transfer of research results from NIST to the scientific and engineering communities.

Technical specializations:
 

  • cryptography 
  • combinatorial and discrete algorithms 
  • cybersecurity 
  • data science
  • dynamical systems
  • complex systems, network science
  • health information technology 
  • applied optimization 
  • special functions 
  • quantum information science
  • stochastic modeling 
  • applied mechanics 
  • fluid dynamics 
  • electromagnetics 
  • materials modeling 
  • computational physics and biology 
  • parallel and distributed algorithms 
  • data mining and visualization 
  • software testing 
  • uncertainty quantification for simulations 
     

NIST Postdoctoral Students (NRC Postdocs)


 

Created August 26, 2016, Updated August 14, 2025
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