Overview of Responsibilities
The salary for this role is £42,858 (inclusive of a Specialist Allowance). Onsite working is expected for 3 days a week, however, we actively support requests for flexible working.
This role is based in Culham, Oxfordshire.
This role requires employees to complete an online Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS), including The Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) checks for criminal convictions and possibly a search of open source data.
The Role
As a Plasma Exhaust Modeller, you will develop and use primarily numerical/computational physical models to describe the behaviour of plasma at the periphery of tokamak devices. Key duties include: modelling of the scrape-off layer (SOL) transport, including the effect of neutral particles; providing interpretative modelling of MAST-U with 2D and 3D fluid codes; and validating simulation results and theoretical findings against MAST-U experimental measurements.
Your career development as a scientist will be strongly supported, including working towards chartership with the Institute of Physics.
Additional Responsibilities:
- Contribute to and lead the development of new SOL predictive and interpretative codes.
- Provide interpretative modelling of MAST-U with 2D and 3D fluid codes. For example modelling of tungsten transport in the SOL and pedestal to understand tungsten screening.
- Support experimentalists by providing theoretical insight when requested.
- Complete projects for validating numerical and theoretical results against MAST-U experiments.
- Propose experiments and lead/contribute to research on MAST-U.
- Report research findings in refereed journal articles as well as at internal meetings, workshops and international conferences.
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Qualifications
Essential Requirements:
- PhD in plasma physics or equivalent.
- Knowledge of and/or experience of implementing software engineering best practices.
- Proven ability to conduct independent research.
- A good team-player with an outward facing work-ethos as he/she will work closely with scientists around the world.
- Good oral and written communications skills.
Additional Information
A full list of our benefits can be found here https://careers.ukaea.uk/life-at-ukaea/employee-benefits/
UKAEA's mission is clean energy for all, and we welcome talented people from all backgrounds who want to help us achieve our mission. We are under-represented from some groups and so want to encourage applications in particular from women in STEM, people from Black British Caribbean and African backgrounds and from Pakistani and Bangladeshi British backgrounds. Our Executive team, supported by our 'Head of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion' (EDI) and Wellbeing and our EDI Networks actively promote Inclusion and takes steps to increase diversity within our organization. We reinforce best practices in recruitment and selection and evaluate approaches to remove barriers to success.
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Please note that vacancies are generally advertised for 4 weeks but may close earlier if we receive a large number of applications.