Postdoctoral Research Associates Program

JILA supports a very active Postdoctoral Research Associates Program. Research Associate appointments are offered for durations of one year or more and provide training in connection with various research programs in JILA.

A number of prestigious National Research Council (NRC) Postdoctoral Fellowships are available through sponsorship by NIST scientists.

Direct inquiries about research opportunities to the appropriate senior scientist; names appear in the JILA Faculty section found on the JILA home page.

You can download application forms to your computer. To then print the forms, use the print icon at the far left of the Adobe Acrobat toolbar, located below the browser toolbar. (NOTE: To view and print the forms, you need Adobe Acrobat Reader version 3.0 or higher, which you can download for free).

Direct inquiries and requests for our brochure to: jilavf@jila.colorado.edu, (303) 492-7796, or Secretary of the Visiting Scientists Program, JILA, University of Colorado, 440 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309-0440. You can also download an intermediate-resolution copy of our brochure (10M).

There are many benefits of postdoctoral research for both the scientist and the institute. Some scientists undertake postdoctoral research to gain experience in a new field. Others, who have backgrounds primarily in fundamental research, choose to do postdoctoral work in applied research. And still other scientists choose to do postdoctoral research to gain more technological experience. For scientists interested in pursuing an academic career, postdoctoral research can provide advanced training.

Recent JILA postdoctoral research associates have moved into a variety of professional positions, including academic positions at institutions such as the University of North Carolina, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Virginia, and Yale; government positions at laboratories such as NIST, NOAA, NASA-Goddard, and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; and industrial positions at companies such as Intel, New Focus, and Aerospace Corporation.

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