The NRL Postdoctoral Fellowship Program provides approximately forty
(40) new postdoctoral appointments per year. Fellows are competitively
selected on the basis of their overall qualifications and technical proposals
addressing specific areas defined by the host Navy laboratories. The selected
participants will work in a unique Navy laboratory environment, while
interacting with senior laboratory scientists and engineers.
As corporate research laboratory of the Navy, the Naval Research Laboratory
(NRL) conducts a broadly based multidisciplinary program of scientific
research in advanced technological development, techniques, systems,
and related operational procedures. NRL is one of the largest scientific
institutions within the US government.
Established in 1923, NRL still occupies its original site on the Potomac
River in Washington, DC. Additional facilities are located at Stennis
Space Center, MS; Monterey, CA; and other support facilities and field-experiment
sites throughout Maryland and Virginia.
Current research interests focus on such areas as computer science,
artificial intelligence, plasma physics, acoustics, radar, fluid dynamics,
chemistry, materials science, optical sciences, condensed matter and
radiation sciences, electronics science, environmental sciences, marine
geosciences, remote sensing, oceanography, marine meteorology, space
technology, and space sciences. Facilities include a Connection Machine
computer; a high-power gyrotron laboratory; a large-aperture, high-resolution
towed thermistor chain; a 4-TW accelerator; a 3-MV tandem Van de Graaff;
versatile facilities for high-magnetic-field and cryogenics research;
light-gas guns for studying hypervelocity impact; a 300-m3 pressurizable
chamber for combustion studies; extensive facilities for studying mechanical
properties of materials; a variety of gas and solid-state lasers; one
of the world's largest anechoic chambers; a micro-electronics facility,
molecular beam epitaxy facilities; a combined wave and wind channel;
a physical acoustic center; deep ocean and shallow water instrumentation;
oceanographic equipment for optical measurements; geophysical/acoustic
deep-towed measurement system; a new magnetic observatory; aircraft-mounted
multispectral scanner; electromagnetic sensor system; and experimental
satellite development and test facilities.
NRL has a continuing need for scientists and engineers in many fields of research. For this reason, NRL conducts postdoctoral
fellowship programs with the objectives of (1) providing postdoctoral scientists and engineers of unusual promise and ability
the opportunity for research on problems that are compatible with the interest of the Navy and (2) contributing to the overall
efforts of NRL by the stimulus offered to research programs by the presence of bright, highly motivated, recent doctoral graduates.
