Advanced Materials for Renewable Energy

Research focus

Accelerate discovery of materials for energy conversion and storage, sensing, and radiation-hard devices through ML-guided screening, first-principles theory, and advanced spectroscopy.

Thrusts

• AI + DFT/QMC pipelines for candidate selection
• Magnetic, optical, and transport characterization

Device-oriented prototyping and reliability testing

Facilities and collaboration

Quantum materials and spectroscopy labs, XRD, lasers, HPC; tight linkage with engineering testbeds.

Ideal candidate

Physics/chemistry/materials/EE background; experience with simulation + experiment; interest in accelerated discovery workflows.

Expected outcomes

High-impact publications, shareable datasets/workflows, demonstrator devices, proposals to federal and industry partners.