Carnegie Mellon University is a private, global research university that stands among the world’s most renowned education institutions. With ground-breaking brain science, path-breaking performances, creative start-ups, big data, big ambitions, hands-on learning, and a whole lot of robots, CMU doesn’t imagine the future, we invent it. If you’re passionate about joining a community that challenges the curious to deliver work that matters, your journey starts here!Innovation. Interdisciplinary collaboration. Complex problem solving. In Carnegie Mellon University’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, faculty members, researchers, and students are revolutionizing focus areas in advanced manufacturing, bioengineering, computational engineering, energy and the environment, product design, and robotics. In addition, they are using their expertise in interdisciplinary research centers across the university. Carnegie Mellon University’s department of Mechanical Engineering is searching for a Postdoctoral Research Associate to join their team. This is an exciting opportunity for someone who thrives in an interesting and challenging work environment. The successful candidate will lead data collection and analysis for two mobile sampling campaigns. We are conducting mobile measurements of air toxic VOCs in several cities in New Jersey, and we will soon begin a second project to make similar measurements in rural Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Ohio. These measurements will help to quantify exposures in urban/suburban communities New Jersey and in rural communities impacted by oil and gas development PA, WV, OH. Both the urban and rural communities are in environmental justice areas.The ideal candidate is someone who wants the opportunity to apply innovative and creative approaches to analyzing large and complex datasets. The mobile sampling approach combines high resolution mass spectrometry with in-motion sampling. This results in a rich, chemically specific,
