The Habershon research group at the University of Warwick are seeking to recruit a research fellow in computational and theoretical chemistry.
The research fellow will work on a new EPSRC-funded project focussing on the development and implementation of automated computational schemes for direct design of homogeneous metal-free catalysts for CO2 transformations. Combining automated reaction discovery simulations, microkinetic modelling, machine learning, and global optimization, this project will develop a new and exciting route to addressing one of society's grand challenges - turning CO2 from pollutant to commodity.
The successful candidate will join the Habershon research group in the Warwick Centre for Computational and Theoretical Chemistry (CaTCh), based in the Department of Chemistry. CaTCh is a vibrant community of 6 academic research groups – around 40 PhDs and research fellows in total – with strong interdisciplinary links to researchers in engineering, physics, mathematics, and life sciences. Our research is supported by excellent on-campus high-performance computing facilities through Warwick’s Scientific Computing Research Technology Platform (SCRTP).
This project is funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), and is available for 36 months (subject to satisfactory completion of probation requirements).
Further information on the Habershon group is available at: go.warwick.ac.uk/habershongroup
About You
You will have a strong background in computational chemistry, preferably with experience of AI/ML strategies for analysis of reactive chemical processes such as homogeneous catalysis.
You will be familiar with state-of-the-art ab initio computational methods, as well as reaction analysis strategies such as minimum-energy path calculations.
Experience of software development, documentation and dissemination (through routes such as GitHub) is also essential.
PhD Status
If you are near submission of your PhD, or have not yet had it conferred, any offers of employment will be made at Research Assistant level, at the highest spinal point of pay grade 5 (£34,610 per annum).
Upon receipt of evidence confirming the successful award of your PhD, you will be promoted to Research Fellow, at the lowest spinal point of grade 6 (£35,608 per annum).
To streamline our hiring processes, we can only accept applications submitted via our official careers webpage, warwick-careers.tal.net.
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