H-Mode Pedestal MHD Modeller
Overview of Responsibilities
This role will be 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.
The Role
As a H-Mode Pedestal MHD Modeller you will model tokamak pedestal plasmas using non-linear MHD stability codes. The modelling will focus on the pedestal stability and ELM crash dynamics and will help to understand the processes governing the pedestal limits and evolution as well as to evaluate and minimise the divertor heat loads from ELMs. You’ll use the models for predicting and optimising pedestals in future fusion devices such as ST based power plant designs to be developed in the STEP programme, as well as developing methods to mitigate and suppress the ELMs.
Additional Responsibilities:
- To run and analyse results from JOREK for simulated equilibria in future devices to predict ELM behaviour and construct ELM mitigation methods
- To propose and develop models describing the physical processes in the H-mode pedestal
- The postholder shall strongly interact with experimental colleagues and other modellers and play an active role in contributing to pedestal elements of the research programme on STEP
- Report results at science and other regular progress meetings
- Disseminate results through conferences and peer reviewed journal papers
Qualifications
Essential Requirements:
- PhD level of knowledge of numerical modelling of physical experiments
- Proven ability to carry out detailed analysis of experimental and modelled data, use of suitable tools, error analysis, etc.
- Proficiency with programming languages, e.g. C, FORTRAN, IDL, Python
- Proficiency with running codes in high performance computing environment
- Proven ability to conduct independent physics research
- Good oral and written communications skills
- Excellent team-player with an outward facing work-ethos as he/she will work closely with scientists from around the world
Your career development as a scientist will be strongly supported, including working towards chartership with the Institute of Physics.
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.
