Senior Tokamak Disruption Physicist – UK Atomic Energy Authority
The salary for this role is £42,858 – £56,596 (inclusive of a Specialist Allowance). This base pay is based on skills and experience.
Onsite working is expected for 3 days each week, with flexible working arrangements supported. This position can be based at: Culham, Oxfordshire.
Employees must complete an online Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS), including DBS checks for criminal convictions. An open source data search may also be required.
Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to make a difference? Join our team and contribute to the future of fusion energy. As Senior Tokamak Disruption Physicist, you will play a pivotal role in modelling/documenting disruptions and disruption mitigation and avoidance, and disruption forecasting in tokamaks. Understanding disruptions and how to avoid and mitigate them is an important step toward commercial fusion power. Various opportunities are available for this job holder, including documenting and modelling disruptions on MAST‑U, investigating disruptions in other EUROfusion machines including JET data, and understanding disruptions in future power plants such as STEP.
Responsibilities
* Propose, lead and carry out disruption experiments on MAST‑U and develop the strategy for investigating disruptions and their mitigation on MAST‑U, using the database of MAST/MAST‑U disruptions to improve understanding of disruptions in spherical tokamaks.
* Model aspects of disruptions and their mitigation: tools may include MHD equilibrium and stability codes, nonlinear MHD codes and models of the conducting structures around the plasma, and collaborate internationally on this work.
* Lead work with diagnosticians to document disruptions and mitigated disruptions.
* Participate in the WPTE EUROfusion programmes as appropriate, potentially also act as Scientific Coordinator for one of these experiments.
* Oversee PhD students from external universities and postdoctoral researchers, supervising project work and providing recommendations and direction to build on competence and capability.
* Manage research projects on disruption physics for over annual timescales e.g. for WPTE.
* Lead work on understanding the likely types of disruption on STEP and their consequences and develop mitigation and avoidance strategies.
* Write refereed journal articles and attend international conferences on magnetic fusion as agreed with management.
* Responsible for building a strong network of external collaborations.
Qualifications
Essential Requirements
* PhD in Physics or related field.
* Extensive knowledge of fusion plasma physics, radiation physics, and tokamak disruptions.
* Experience with modelling tools for tokamak disruptions and/or experimental disruption mitigation.
* Strong publication record in a closely related field.
* Demonstrated ability to consider safety in work planning.
Desirable Requirements
* Experience leading experiments and supervising students or researchers.
Benefits
* Outstanding defined benefit pension scheme, details of which can be found at the end of this advert.
* Corporate bonus scheme up to 7% and a Relocation allowance (if eligible).
* Flexible working options, including family friendly policies and the right to request flexible working from the start of your employment.
* Employee Assistance Programme and trained Mental Health First Aiders.
* Generous annual leave allowance starting with 25 days, plus 3 days Christmas closure and 2.5 privilege days, in addition to UK bank holidays.
* Wide range of career development opportunities.
* A vibrant culture committed to equality and being fully inclusive.
A full list of our benefits can be found here https://careers.ukaea.uk/life-at-ukaea/employee-benefits/
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