Building Physicist

4 days ago

Wallingford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom Culham Centre for Fusion Energy Full time
About the Role

This position is based at the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy, a leading research facility in Oxfordshire.

The successful candidate will be responsible for conducting scientific tasks related to disruption control in fusion energy.

As part of a team, you will develop models describing physical processes in disruption paths and work closely with researchers to develop real-time tools for disruption avoidance.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Contribute to the development of disruption detection methods with adequate fidelity to allow disruption avoidance methods to function.
  • Participate in experiments on MAST-U to test real-time disruption avoidance for scenarios appropriate to the STEP device.
  • Develop strategies to mitigate disruption consequences, including heat and EM loads, and runaway electrons.
  • Contribute to refereed journal articles and attend international conferences on magnetic fusion as agreed with management.
  • Build a strong network of external collaborations.


What We Offer

Competitive salary of £40,609 (inclusive of MPP) + excellent benefits, including outstanding pension

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Programme

STEP

Department

Plasma Physics

Discipline

Engineering

Location

Culham Centre for Fusion Energy, Oxfordshire

Type of Employment

Full-time

Qualifications

Essential Requirements:

  • PhD or equivalent level of experience in Physics or related area.
  • Proficiency with programming languages, e.g. C, FORTRAN, IDL, Python.
  • Proven ability to conduct independent physics research.
  • Good oral and written communications skills.
  • Excellent team-player with an outward facing work-ethos.

Desirable Requirements:

  • Knowledge of real-time control methods.
  • Proven ability to carry out detailed analysis of experimental and modelled data, use of suitable tools, error analysis, etc.
  • Experience of considering safety as part of planning work.
  • Strong record of publications in a closely related field.
Additional Information

We welcome applications from under-represented groups, particularly individuals from black and other ethnic minority backgrounds, people with disabilities, and women.

Our Executive team actively promotes equality, diversity, and inclusion and takes steps to increase diversity within our organization.

We evaluate approaches to remove barriers to success and reinforce best practices in recruitment and selection.

Please note that vacancies are generally advertised for 4 weeks but may close earlier if we receive a large number of applications.


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