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Ronggui Yang

Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Sanders Faculty Fellow in Engineering

University of Colorado at Boulder

 

Office Location: ECME 136, Engineering Center

Tel: 303-735-1003 (O),  Fax: 303-492-3498

 

Post-Doctor Offices: ECME 251A, ECME 251B

Student Offices and Labs: ECME 165, ECME 219

 

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Open Research Assistant/Associate Positions

(Updated on December 14, 2010)

 

 

The NEXT research group led by Professor Ronggui Yang of Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Colorado-Boulder has 3 open positions for post-doctoral research associates or Ph.D research assistants that need to be filled by Spring 2011. In general, the NEXT group is interested in both the fundamentals of micro/nanoscale energy transport and conversion and the applications of micro/nano-technologies for energy conversion/storage and thermal management systems. We usually commit our financial support for > 2 years for post-doctoral research associates and >4 years for Ph.D students (hopefully until they complete their Ph.D degrees). The three immediate open positions are:

 

Position #1 (post-doc): Liquid-vapor phase-change heat transfer. The candidate for this post-doc research associate position should have experiences on either modeling/simulation or experimental techniques for liquid-vapor phase-change heat transfer while it is more desirable to have experiences on both areas. In particular, we are interested in evaporation, condensation, and boiling on micro/nano-structured surfaces and the scaling of the micro/nanoscale processes for large scale systems, which would involve multi-scale modeling/simulation and experimentation.

 

Position #2 (post-doc or Ph.D student): Optical characterization of thermal transport in nanostructures. The candidate for this position should have strong experiences with laser-based characterization of nanoscale thermal transport, such as pump-and-probe method or AC calorimetry.

 

Position #3 (post-doc or Ph.D student): Modeling, synthesis, and characterization of nanomaterials/nanostructures for energy applications. In general we are interested in nanomaterials/nanostructures for energy conversion and storage devices, such as photovoltaics, thermoelectrics, lithium ion batteries, and thermal energy storage. In particular, those who have strong experiences in multiscale and multi-physics modeling and simulations for either fundamentals or device/system research in electrochemical or thermal energy storage are encouraged to apply.

 

 

For post-doctoral research associate positions, applications including the following items as PDF file attachment should be sent in a single email to Professor Ronggui Yang (Ronggui.Yang@Colorado.Edu) with the subject “post-doctor application”:

1). Detailed CV, 2). Contact information of three reference letter writers, 3). A 2-3 page research statement describing the past achievement and his/her visions of his/her own research field. 4). A short statement of how he/she fits to any of the above mentioned open positions and his/her career goal.

We usually respond to a complete application package within a week with follow-up inquiries if we see a match.

 

As an individual group, we do not offer answers or guidance to general inquiries for graduate application/admission since those could be well taken care of by our graduate office. We generally offer Research Assistantship (RA) positions to high profile students who have demonstrated research capabilities through their master’s study.