Research Assistant in Effects of Stress On

7 months ago


Manchester, United Kingdom The University of Manchester Full time

Your role will have two main focuses. The first will be to perform new experiments at mantle conditions (up to 25 GPa, temperatures up to 1800°C) measuring the effect of stress on evolving mineral properties. To understand how the minerals change, we will examine the experimental products to discover the details of structure and chemistry on the scale of individual grains. The second focus is to commission and perform the first experiments on a new high-pressure deformation apparatus. This new apparatus is an upscaled version of the DT-Cup, multi-anvil apparatus (Hunt et al., 2014, 2019, Hunt & Dobson 2017) and is designed to be capable of controlled strain-rate deformation experiments at lower-mantle pressures (>23.5 GPa). With this you will deform samples under controlled stress conditions.

The observations gained from these experiments will enable us to understand how chemistry and stress interact and their effect on the depth of the mantle phase transitions. You will work closely with other team members (Liverpool, UCL, Orleans, Cardiff) to ground-truth their modelling effort. The whole team will contribute to comparing these results to seismological observations (Cambridge).

What you will get in return:

- Fantastic market leading Pension scheme
- Excellent employee health and wellbeing services including an Employee Assistance Programme
- Exceptional starting annual leave entitlement, plus bank holidays
- Additional paid closure over the Christmas period
- Local and national discounts at a range of major retailers

As an equal opportunities employer we welcome applicants from all sections of the community regardless of age, sex, gender (or gender identity), ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation and transgender status. All appointments are made on merit.

Our University is positive about flexible working - you can find out more here

Hybrid working arrangements may be considered.

Any CV’s submitted by a recruitment agency will be considered a gift.

**Enquiries about the vacancy, shortlisting and interviews**:
Name: Simon Hunt

**General enquiries**:
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**Please see the link below for the Further Particulars document which contains the person specification criteria.



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