The Agricultural Research Service (ARS) is the United States Department of Agriculture's chief scientific research agency and one of the world's premiere scientific organizations. ARS Postdoctoral Research Associates are hired to supplement a lead scientist's research on agricultural problems of high national priority affecting American agriculture.

This position is located in the Animal Metabolism Agricultural Chemical Research Unit.

**ANNOUNCEMENT IS OPEN UNTIL FILLED OR 3/17/2025*

• Performs research on projects that support the mission and goals of National Program 108, Food Safety (100%).
• Develops sustainable technologies that tackle perfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS) contamination issues in various environmental matrices and food animals.
• Works on the development of high throughput PFAS analytical methods in environmental and/or food animal matrices and collaborate with team members on studying the fate of target chemicals in vitro and live food animals.
• Laboratory techniques not limited to nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, chromatography, mass spectrometry will be used to evaluate the effectiveness of developed technologies/ or methods.