Dear Colleagues, I would like to bring to your attention this Postdoc opportunity at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. The Rea Postdoctoral Fellowship Program is now accepting applicants to work with the Section of Minerals & Earth Sciences staff at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History (CMNH) in Pittsburgh, PA (link below). International applicants will receive support for a J-1 visa. The appointment is 1 year, with the possibility to extend for a second year. Applicants must possess a Ph.D. at the start of the fellowship and must discuss the feasibility of prospective research projects with the individual CMNH scientific staff with whom they intend to work. https://us59.dayforcehcm.com/CandidatePortal/en-US/car/Posting/View/2886<https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fus59.dayforcehcm.com%2fCandidatePortal%2fen-US%2fcar%2fPosting%2fView%2f2886&c=E,1,JQAg27txMb1zuQin-mlCNMMjZD4r8df4F-QbDp_22xhOzL_NxuOEcAAX-FSj9Yuc7x0-NPyhKdXkAGyWhKiuLBiJne8CgEkEPvUR0XLJFzVAC4RDqKT5&typo=1> The Rea Postdoctoral Fellowship Program supports training and early career development of outstanding young scientists to conduct research at CMNH. The goal of the program is to facilitate innovative collections- or field-based independent research at the museum under the mentorship of scientific staff. Under Dr. Travis Olds, your research will be centered on descriptive mineralogy and structure-property studies of mineral specimens from the CMNH collection, other museums, private collections, field collected specimens, and synthetically prepared materials. The applicants research proposal will preferably be based upon aspects of analytical mineralogy, including X-ray/neutron crystallography, spectroscopy, chemistry, or materials science studies of minerals. The successful applicant will spend significant time in the field and supplement their research using instruments at CMNH, nearby universities (Carnegie-Mellon and University of Pittsburgh), and national laboratories. Interested applicants should provide background information and research interests to oldst@carnegiemnh.org<mailto:oldst@carnegiemnh.org>. Submission deadline is May 1st, 2021. Regards, Travis A. Olds Assistant Curator of Minerals Section of Minerals & Earth Sciences Carnegie Museum of Natural History 4400 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15238 The information contained in this message and/or attachments is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any system and destroy any copies. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender.