UK: Postdoctoral and Postgraduate Research Associates, and Postgraduate Studentships in Nuclear
Postdoctoral and Postgraduate Research Associates, and Postgraduate Research Studentships
"Keeping the Nuclear Option Open"
"Keepingthe Nuclear Option Open" is a major (£6M) EPSRC and BNFL-fundedinitiative, with the involvement of Imperial College and several otheruniversities. It is a four year programme supporting a wide range ofresearch addressing different aspects of nuclear power production.Imperial College is providing the overall academic leadership (RobinGrimes), and is leading two of the four work packages into which theprogramme is divided.
From this autumn onward Imperial College will be seeking to appoint a range of research staff in the following technical areas:
- Reactor safety analysis, thermal-hydraulics and structural mechanics
- Advanced methods for reactor criticality calculations
- Molecular dynamics simulations
- Non-destructive testing
Appointmentswill vary at Postdoctoral Research Associate, Postgraduate ResearchAssistant and Research Student levels, depending on the technical areaand experience of the candidates, typically for three to four years.Salaries and other conditions will be in line with Imperial College'snormal practice for such positions.
If you think youmay be interested please in the first instance send a CV and coveringletter to Simon Walker (details below). We will then, as appropriate,forward this information to the relevant Work Package leader, and sendyou further information.
These posts will be based atthe Imperial College South Kensington campus. There is no formalclosing date, as we expect to be conducting a rolling programme ofrecruitment over the next 12 months, but early application isadvisable.
Please email a CV and covering letter as attachments to s.p.walker@imperial.ac.uk .
These emails will be screened electronically, so:
- the email MUST include the text KNOO in the subject line
- the attachments MUST be in the form of pdf files, and named in the form YOURNAME_CV.pdf and YOUNAME_COVER.pdf
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