Senior Fast Particle Modeller
Overview of Responsibilities
This role is based at the following site; 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.
The Role
Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to make a difference? Join our team and contribute to the future of fusion energy. As Senior Fast Particle Modeller, you will play a pivotal role in planning, coordinating and performing work on the modelling of fast particle behaviour in tokamak plasmas, focusing in particular on:
– Fast particle drive of plasma instabilities
– Non-classical transport of fast ions due to MHD and fast particle-driven instabilities
– Redistribution and losses of fast particles due to prompt orbit effects and externally imposed three-dimensional magnetic field perturbations
– Effects of fast particle-driven instabilities on bulk plasma transport
– Effects of fast particles on plasma turbulence
Additional Responsibilities:
• Contribute to the development of codes describing the interaction of fast particles (in particular fusion alpha-particles and injected beam ions) with tokamak plasmas
• Where possible, validate fast particle models experimentally on MAST-U
• Contribute to and help to formulate the research programmes on STEP, MAST-U and other tokamaks supported by EUROfusion, implementing research strategy in these areas
• Report results at science and other regular progress meetings
Qualifications
Essential Requirements:
• A PhD in plasma physics or equivalent experience.
• Proficiency with programming languages, e.g. FORTRAN, C, IDL, Python, Matlab.
• Proven experience of exploiting kinetic tokamak plasma simulation codes.
• Proven ability to conduct independent research.
• The post-holder must be a good team-player with an outward facing work-ethos as they will work closely with scientists around the world.
• Good oral presentation 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/
We welcome applications from under-represented groups, particularly individuals from black and other ethnic minority backgrounds, people with disabilities, and women. Our Executive team, supported by our 'Equality, Diversity and Inclusion' (EDI) Partner and Inclusion Ambassadors, actively promotes EDI 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.
Please note that vacancies are generally advertised for 4 weeks but may close earlier if we receive a large number of applications.
