Senior Exhaust Physicist

About the role

As a Senior Exhaust Physicist , you will use primarily 3D physical models to describe the turbulent behaviour of plasma at the periphery of tokamak devices. Key duties include modelling of turbulent transport in the scrape-off layer (SOL) and validating simulation results and theoretical findings against MAST-U experimental measurements, as well as other machines and predictive modelling of future machines. Your career development as a scientist will be strongly supported, including working towards chartership with the Institute of Physics.

Responsibilities

• Contributing to and guiding the development of new SOL predictive and interpretative codes.
• Providing interpretative modelling of MAST-U, and other tokamak devices, and predictive modelling of future devices, with 3D turbulence codes using Hermes-3
• Contributing to and guiding the development of models describing physical processes in the SOL.
• Supporting experimentalists by providing theoretical insight when requested.
• Disseminating results and reporting findings at internal meetings, international meetings, conferences and in peer-reviewed journals.
• Building strong relations with external laboratories and universities in support of the above accountabilities.
• Supervising and mentoring placement and PhD students associated with exhaust physics.
• Essential Requirements:
• PhD level of knowledge of 3D turbulent exhaust codes and SOL turbulence, with post-doc or equivalent research experience.
• Proven ability to conduct independent research.
• Documented experience in working with relevant codes e.g. Hermes-3.
• Experimental and theoretical knowledge of SOL and exhaust physics issues.
• Excellent team-player with an outward facing work-ethos as they will work closely with scientists around the world.
• Excellent oral and written communications skills.
• Strong record of publications in the field.
• Proficiency with post-processing programming languages.
• A full list of our benefits can be found here https://careers.ukaea.uk/life-at-ukaea/employee-benefits/
• UK Atomic Energy Authority is committed to being accessible. Please email talent@ukaea.uk if you have any questions or require help or adjustments to compete on a fair basis, for example, changes to the way we interview or share information.
• Please note that vacancies are generally advertised for 4 weeks but may close earlier if we receive a large number of applications.

Benefits

Additional Information

The salary for this role is £57,117 (inclusive of a Specialist Allowance) . Onsite working is expected for 3 days each week, however, we actively support requests for flexible working. This role can be based at any of the following sites: 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 and possibly a search of open source data.

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