<div dir="ltr"><p style="font-size:small;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal">The</span><span> </span><span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal">Center for Computational Sciences and Engineering has an immediate opening for two postdoctoral researchers to work on the development of </span><span>computational optimization algorithms and decision support systems. The focus of the first position is the development of methods for large-scale computationally expensive optimization problems. The second position focuses on the development of data-informed surrogate models for decision support systems in the water-energy nexus. </span></p><p style="font-size:small;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);min-height:15px"><br><span></span></p><p style="font-size:small;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span>We are looking for candidates with experience in nonlinear computational optimization including mixed-integer, derivative-free, or global optimization. Experience with surrogate models, data analysis, machine learning, and uncertainty quantification is a plus.</span></p><p style="font-size:small;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);min-height:15px"><span></span><br></p><p style="font-size:small;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span>The candidates will work independently as well as collaboratively in a multidisciplinary team environment that includes mathematicians, computer/computational scientists, and domain scientists. The candidates will have the opportunity to apply their developments to exciting application areas. </span></p><p style="font-size:small;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span><br></span></p><p style="font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none;font-size:12.8px;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span>For more information about optimization at LBL, please visit <a href="https://optimization.lbl.gov/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal">https://optimization.lbl.gov</span></a></span></p><p style="font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none;font-size:12.8px;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span><br></span></p><p style="font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none;font-size:12.8px;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial"><span>For more information about these particular openings, please contact Juli Mueller at JulianeMueller (AT) <a href="http://lbl.gov/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><span>lbl.gov</span></a></span></p><p style="font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none;font-size:12.8px;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial"><span><br></span></p><p style="font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none;font-size:12.8px;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial"><span>To apply, please go to the postings at</span></p><p style="font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none;font-size:12.8px;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;min-height:15px"><span></span><br></p><p style="font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none;font-size:12.8px;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;min-height:15px">decision support:</p><p style="font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none;font-size:12.8px;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial"><span><a href="https://lbl.referrals.selectminds.com/jobs/computational-postdoctoral-scholar-water-energy-decision-support-957" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">https://lbl.referrals.selectminds.com/jobs/computational-postdoctoral-scholar-water-energy-decision-support-957</a><br></span></p><p style="font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none;font-size:12.8px;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial"><br></p><p style="font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none;font-size:12.8px;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial">large scale optimization:</p><p style="font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none;font-size:12.8px;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204)"><span style="text-decoration:underline"><a href="https://lbl.referrals.selectminds.com/jobs/postdoctoral-scholar-center-for-computational-sciences-and-engineering-929" target="_blan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