Postdoctoral Associate

University of Rochester

Rochester, NY, United States
Full-time
Posted June 10, 2026

Job Description

University of Rochester: Office of the Provost: Academic Center: School of Arts & Sciences: Earth & Environmental Sciences

**Salary Range or Pay Grade**
60,000.00-64,000.00
**Description**

**Description:**

The University of Rochester’s Ice Core and Atmospheric Chemistry Laboratory, located in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, has an opening for a postdoctoral position. The successful candidate will work with **Dr. Aparajeo Chattopadhyay** and **Professor Vasilii Petrenko** on an atmospheric chemistry gas kinetics project recently funded by the National Science Foundation’s Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences (NSF-AGS). In this laboratory project, we aim to investigate the kinetic isotope effects (KIEs) of methane (CH 4 ) in atmospheric removal through reactions with the hydroxyl (OH) radical and the chlorine (Cl) atom, employing a temperature and pressure-controlled laser photochemical reactor coupled with online and offl...