Postdoctoral Associate Positoin at Stony Brook University

Campus Description: Stony Brook University, home to many highly ranked graduate research programs, is located 60 miles from New York City on Long Island's scenic North Shore. Our 1,100-acre campus is home to 24,000 undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral students and more than 13,500 faculty and staff, including those employed at Stony Brook University Medical Center, Suffolk County's only academic medical center and tertiary care provider. The University is a member of the prestigious Association of American Universities and co-manager of nearby Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), a multidisciplinary research laboratory supporting world class scientific programs utilizing state-of-the-art facilities such as the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, the National Synchrotron Light Source, and the Center for Functional Nanomaterials, and the NewYorkBlue IBM BG/L+P supercomputer, owned by Stony Brook and managed by BNL. Stony Brook is a partner in managing the Laboratory for the Department of Energy, and is the largest institutional scientific user of BNL facilities. As such, many opportunities exist for collaborative research, and in some cases, joint appointments can be arranged.

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Descriptive Title: Postdoctoral Associate	REF#: WC-S-6779-11-06-F
Budget Title: same as above	State Professional Position
Department: Applied Math & Statistics	State Line#: 24211
Grade: SL-1	Campus: Stony Brook West Campus/HSC
	Salary: $36, 000-$46, 600

Required Qualifications: Ph.D in operations research or related discipline. Research areas to include mathematical programming, nonlinear optimization, stochastic optimization, combinatorical optimization, and applications of optimization.
Preferred Qualifications: A record of achievement to include published papers, an established reputation for research excellence, visibility within the research community, and experience writing proposals and working on funded research projects. The ideal candidate will have a strong potential for developing an externally funded research program.

Brief Description of Duties: Under the direction of the principal coordinator, the postdoctoral associate will setup, execute, and analyze computer-based simulations targeting biological systems involved in human disease such as HIV/AIDS, cancer, influenza, and botulism.

• Conduct research to include all areas of mathematical programming, optimization, modeling and simulation.
• Participate in collaborative research with faculty involved with Stony Brook Advanced Energy Research & Technology Center (AERTC) in areas of renewable energy research, power production and distribution, and system optimization for Smart Grid technology. May include areas of transportation optimization, sensor networks, wireless information technology, and quantitative finance.
• Teaching undergraduate and/or graduate courses.

Special Notes: This is a full time temporary one year appointment. FLSA Exempt position, not eligible for the overtime provisions of the FLSA. Internal and external search to occur simultaneously.

Application Procedure: Those interested in this position should submit a State employment application, cover letter and resume to:

Janice Hackney
Postdoctoral Associate (6779) Search
Applied Math and Statistics
Math Tower, P140
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook , NY 11794-3600
Fax # 631- 632-8490