Postdoc Position at Virginia Tech (topics: HPC, CFD, FEM)

[Johann Rudi]

Hello all!

My collaborators and I are hiring a postdoc position in the area of HPC / scientific computing / CFD solvers for large-scale Earth's mantle convection, and this project is a collaboration with TACC, the supercomputing center in Texas. More details are found below.

Please reach out directly to me if you are interested and/or would like to apply: jr...@vt.edu

Johann Rudi

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Details about the position:

We seek a full-time Postdoctoral Associate at the Department of Mathematics at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA. The position involves development of scalable algorithms for NSF’s next generation supercomputer, in particular, the algorithms will address earthquake rupture and plate tectonics on a global scale. The computational methods utilize parallel high-performance computers. Our team, based at Virginia Tech, Caltech and NYU's Courant Institute, works in collaboration with the Texas Advanced Computer Center (TACC) and has been developing solvers for Earth's mantle and plate tectonics and involves geophysics, computational fluid dynamics, numerical analysis, and scientific computing. We utilize and develop, for instance: finite elements, adaptive mesh refinement, and multigrid in parallel.

Now, we are targeting new hardware platforms, NSF’s next generation supercomputer “Horizon” (https://www.hpcwire.com/2022/04/14/tacc), and new science problems. We seek candidates with an outstanding recent PhD in Mathematics or Computer Science (or a related field) and with a background in computational science including skills in parallel / high-performance computing and numerical methods (preferably finite element analysis). Other preferred qualifications include code optimization on massively parallel HPC platforms, knowledge of MPI, and C/C++. The position will be based at Virginia Tech’s campus in Blacksburg, VA and it will involve travel to TACC in Austin, TX and collaboration with our interdisciplinary team.