Employment Opportunities
Employment Opportunities
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Current Openings
Research Engineer/Scientist, Senior Research Engineer/Scientist, or Principal Research Engineer/Scientist- Illinois Microreactor RD&D Center
NPRE currently has an opening for a research engineer/scientist in the newly established Illinois Microreactor RD&D Center. The Illinois Microreactor RD&D Center at The Grainger College of Engineering is a collaboration of faculty, staff, and students working on advancing the market readiness of microreactors. Current research activities in the Center include microreactor modeling and simulation, siting analysis, market analysis, instrumentation, operations and reactor control, licensing, and policy.
Postdoctoral Research Associates
- 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 (LWR accident tolerant fuel work)
- Postdoctoral Research Associate (Physics and chemistry of molten salt)
- 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.