Employment Opportunities
Employment Opportunities
Ready to move your career forward with one of the top-ten educational programs in nuclear engineering in the country? Apply for one of our open positions today. Check this page regularly for new opportunities and updates.
Current Openings
Research Professor (Open Rank)- Illinois Plasma Institute
NPRE invites applications for a full-time Research Faculty (assistant, associate, full) position. The incumbent will carry out responsibilities related to research and public service. The duties associated with the position are to support the research, education, and maintain and establish the vigorous and externally funded research program at the Illinois Plasma Institute (IPI) and serve as the Associate Director of the IPI.
Postdoctoral Research Associates
- Postdoctoral Research Associate with Prof. Daniel Andruczyk and Prof. David Ruzic (Tokamak and Stellarator Operation and Liquid Lithium/Metals as well as Chemistry and High-Power Impulse Magnetron Sputtering (HiPIMS))
- Postdoctoral Research Associate with Prof. Davide Curreli (Large-scale, high-performance computing particle-in-cell codes for fusion plasmas and plasma-material interaction applications)
- Postdoctoral Research Associate with Prof. Caleb Brooks (Thermal hydraulics and safety of nuclear reactor systems; emerging opportunities related to micro-reactors)
Graduate Students
For other graduate student positions open within NPRE, please contact a faculty member in whose research you are interested, or contact Becky Meline, Coordinator of Academic Programs.