Research Fellow in Computational Screening of Wide Band Gap Conducting Oxide

Salary: Full time starting salary is normally in the range £34,980 to £44,263 with potential progression once in post to £46,974

Contract Type: Fixed Term contract up to August 2028

Background

The School of Chemistry at the University of Birmingham is a vibrant and thriving academic community, with over 100 academic and research staff, 20 professional services staff and over 600 students. We provide an inclusive and supportive environment where we strive to support every member of staff in realising their career potential. With a strong focus on our four Research Themes of Energy, Sustainability, Environment and Health, and a number of interdisciplinary Interest Groups serving as testbeds to explore new and emerging areas of interest, we are a dynamic place to work. We have ambitious plans to expand our research activity and are in an exciting period of growth: major investment from the University will deliver a state-of-the-art research building (opening in 2023/24), and new multi-million pound high-performance computing facilities, which will ensure UK-leading compute capability. These investments build on a major recent expansion of our academic staff and investment in our teaching and learning provision, with our Collaborative Teaching Laboratory, which opened September 2018, already revolutionising how we teach undergraduate practical chemistry.

We are a collegiate School community. You will demonstrate academic citizenship, develop and maintain generous, mutually respectful and supportive working relationships with the School, ensuring the way you carry out your role impacts positively on how others carry out theirs.

The Scanlon Materials Theory Group (SMTG) is led by Professor David O. Scanlon. We are seeking to recruit a Research Fellow in Computational Screening of Wide Band Gap Conducting Oxides, who will computationally explore new semiconducting oxides for transparent conducting oxide and power electronics applications. The position is funded by the project “PRAETORIAN”, an ERC Consolidator grant that has been underwritten by UKRI, and is available for a maximum of 3.5 years, through to the end of the project in August 2028.

This post will bring opportunities for career development, enable you to realise your ambitions in research and teaching, and enhance your leadership and management skills. You will initiate, conduct and disseminate original research, which will have measurable outcomes reflected in your growing national reputation. Management and administration activities will allow you to make important contributions at School level and to managerial/leadership activities (e.g., working groups) across the wider University. 

Person Specification

• PhD (or near to completion) in Computational Materials Chemistry or a related discipline
• Experience in Defect Chemistry Analysis
• Experience in Machine Learning for Materials Science
• Experience in Python Programming
• Expertise in Electronic structure analysis of solids
• Expertise in phonon calculations
• Experience of the VASP Code
• Experience of the Phonon Calculations 

Informal enquiries to Prof. David Scanlon, Professor of Computational Chemistry, email: d.o.scanlon@bham.ac.uk

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