Research Officer

1 month ago


Swansea, City and County of Swansea, United Kingdom Swansea University Full time

Location: Bay Campus, Swansea

Closing Date: 1 September 2024

Interview Date: 16 September 2024

Informal Enquiries

  • Prof Arnold Beckmann
  • Prof Cinzia Giannetti

About The University

Swansea University is a research-led university that has been making a difference since 1920. The University community thrives on exploration and discovery and offers the right balance of excellent teaching and research, matched by an enviable quality of life.

Our stunning waterfront campuses and multicultural community make us a desirable workplace for colleagues from around the world. Our reward and benefits, and ways of working enable those who join us to have enriching careers, matched by an excellent work-life balance.

About The Role

Applications are invited for a Fixed Term Research Officer in Advanced Digital Modelling based on Semantic Technologies within the steel supply chain to enable a sustainable future and a transformation to net-zero. The new research officer will join Professor Beckmann and Professor Giannetti's research group on Hybrid AI for Industry and Society at Swansea University, as well as the wider modelling, data and AI research community (first point of contact Professor Beckmann) and the wider materials and manufacturing research community (first points of contact will be Professor Giannetti and Professor Pleydell-Pearce) within the Faculty of Science and Engineering. The successful candidate will be responsible to conduct genuine research and innovation based on semantic technologies to enable knowledge driven Industry 4.0 capabilities for steel manufacturing that address sustainability and a transformation to net-zero. The successful candidate will work closely with an already appointed RA on Blockchain Technologies who is exploring the use of distributed ledger technology in the context of steel supply chains, researchers focussed on data driven approaches, and academics and researchers in other UK universities contributing to SUSTAIN (see below).

This post is part of the EPSRC funded SUSTAIN Future Manufacturing Hub ). SUSTAIN is an exciting collaborative project between the Universities of Swansea, Warwick and Sheffield working with the UK steel industry. This project will link to SUSTAIN's UK Digital Steel Innovation Hub ), supporting both grand challenges in the SUSTAIN Hub of 'Zero Waste, Carbon Neutral Iron- and Steelmaking' and 'Smart Steel Processing'. The project is also linked to the Materials Made Smarter Research Centre as part of Made Smarter Innovation ), researching the emerging concept of Material Passports and their uses within the SUSTAIN and MMSC context as an enabler for sustainability and net-zero. As such, we are looking for candidates who are passionate about linking the fields of physics / knowledge driven approaches to modelling steel manufacturing through collaboration with other researchers and teams.

£38,205 to £44,263 per annum



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