Academic jobs in polymer and materials science.
615 faculty and teaching searches, 211 postdocs and 163 national-lab and agency roles open right now, and 110 with a review date or deadline in the next 30 days. Read straight from universities' and labs' own job systems, with review and deadline dates pulled out of each posting, the fellowship programs that run on their own calendars, and a way for a PI to post a position directly.
Review dates coming up
Searches that start reading applications, or close, soonest first. Most stay open after review begins, but applications in by then get full consideration.
- Assistant Professor - BiochemistryUniversity of North Florida · Jacksonville, FLReview Oct 30
- Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering (Geotechnical Engineering)Texas A&M International University · Laredo, TXReview Oct 30
- Assistant Professor in Computational Chemistry (Broadly Defined)Louisiana State University · Baton Rouge, LAReview Oct 30
- Assistant, Associate or Full Professor in Analytical ChemistryLouisiana State University · Baton Rouge, LAReview Oct 30
- Experimental Quantum Information Systems (QIST) Tenure Track Associate/Full Professor, Empire Innovation, Physics and AstronomyStony Brook University · Stony Brook, NYReview Oct 30
- Experimental Quantum Information Systems (QIST) Tenure Track Associate/Full Professor, Empire InnovationStony Brook University · Stony Brook, NYReview Oct 30
- Assistant Professor in ChemistryUniversity of California, Davis · Davis, CAReview Oct 30
- Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering (Structural Engineering)Texas A&M International University · Laredo, TXReview Oct 31
- Associate Professor of Experimental Physical ChemistryVanderbilt University · Nashville, TNApply by Oct 31
- Assistant Professor, Chemistry DepartmentNew York University · New York, NYApply by Oct 31
- Assistant Professor of Organic ChemistryLehigh University · Bethlehem, PAApply by Oct 31
- Assistant Professor, Tenure-Track, Biomedical Engineering: Biomaterials or BiomechanicsBaylor University · Waco, TXReview Oct 31
Faculty and teaching
615 open faculty, lecturer and instructor positions in polymer and materials science, chemistry, chemical engineering and the engineering and physics departments that hire materials people.
- Assistant Professor - BiochemistryUniversity of North Florida · Jacksonville, FLReview Oct 30
- Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering (Geotechnical Engineering)Texas A&M International University · Laredo, TXReview Oct 30
- Assistant Professor in Computational Chemistry (Broadly Defined)Louisiana State University · Baton Rouge, LAReview Oct 30
- Assistant, Associate or Full Professor in Analytical ChemistryLouisiana State University · Baton Rouge, LAReview Oct 30
- Experimental Quantum Information Systems (QIST) Tenure Track Associate/Full Professor, Empire Innovation, Physics and AstronomyStony Brook University · Stony Brook, NYReview Oct 30
- Experimental Quantum Information Systems (QIST) Tenure Track Associate/Full Professor, Empire InnovationStony Brook University · Stony Brook, NYReview Oct 30
- Assistant Professor in ChemistryUniversity of California, Davis · Davis, CAReview Oct 30
- Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering (Structural Engineering)Texas A&M International University · Laredo, TXReview Oct 31
Most faculty searches are never posted to a job board. Chemjobber keeps two lists of them for this hiring season, kept up by readers who add the searches they hear about.
Postdocs
211 open postdoc positions from universities, national labs and industry research groups. Most postdocs never reach a job board; the fellowship programs below and the form at the bottom are the other two ways in.
- ***REVISED*** Princeton Materials Science Postdoctoral Fellowship (PCCM)Princeton University · Princeton, NJApply by Nov 1
- Postdoctoral Research AssociateThe University of Akron · Akron, OHReview Nov 4
- Chemist Postdoctoral ScholarLawrence Berkeley National Laboratory · Berkeley, CAApply by Nov 6
- CSU Ceramic Materials Group Postdoctoral FellowColorado State University · Fort Collins, COApply by Nov 15
- Postdoctoral Fellowship in AI, Advanced Materials, and Planetary Health at BIDMaP, UC BerkeleyUniversity of California, Berkeley · Berkeley, CAApply by Dec 1
- Postdoctoral ResearcherLouisiana State University · Baton Rouge, LAApply by Dec 8
National labs and agencies
163 research and staff scientist roles at national laboratories and federal agencies, a path many academic scientists take, sometimes between a postdoc and a faculty line.
Fellowship programs
Funded positions with deadlines instead of postings. Dates shift year to year; confirm on the program page before you plan around one.
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.