The successful candidate will work with the project team to perform catalyst evaluations, pursue structural and functional understandings of the catalysts using a suite of state-of- the-art instruments, and collaborate with staff performing the corresponding computational chemistry. Typical reactions include acid-catalyzed dehydrations and aldol condensations and metal-catalyzed (de)hydrogenations. The use of tandem or cascade strategies is sometimes employed to enable higher conversion by converting reaction intermediates in subsequent, coupled steps. Designing new multi-functional catalysts for the efficient upgrading of bio- or waste-derived feedstocks to fuels and chemicals is an important area of research and development at PNNL.