The Earth and Planets Laboratory (EPL), a division of the Carnegie Institution 
for Science, seeks applications for a highly motivated Postdoctoral Fellow to 
investigate numerical modeling of thermo-chemical convection in Earth’s core and 
its implications for geomagnetic field evolution. The position is part of a 
National Science Foundation (NSF) funded program “Numerical Modeling of Thermo-
chemical Convection in Earth’s Core and Implications for Geodynamo Evolution” 
(Award # 2200322) to investigate convection in a rotating spherical shell driven 
by coupled thermal and chemical buoyancy sources. The broader goal is to 
understand how the interactions between these sources have controlled the 
evolution of Earth’s magnetic field, which is thought to be critical to shielding 
Earth from harmful high-energy particles. The candidate will perform 3D dynamo 
simulations of Earth’s outer core using newly developed features in the 
Computational Infrastructure for Geodynamics (CIG) sponsored code Rayleigh that 
allow temperature and chemistry to be linked at the inner-core boundary.