Research Fellow (109613-0824)

Location: University of Warwick Campus, Coventry

Duration: 6 months

About the Role

For informal enquiries, please contact J B Staunton (Professor) at j.b.staunton@warwick.ac.uk.

The Department of Physics seeks to appoint a Research Fellow with theoretical and computational modelling skills to participate in an international project on the investigation of new magnetic materials and contribute to the development of theoretical and computational modelling for the investigation of heat treatment processing of ferromagnetic transition metal alloys.

Magnetic materials are ubiquitous and technologically indispensable. They are used in data storage, motors, generators, electronic devices, solid state cooling, medical treatment therapies and diagnostics, toys and so on. This versatility comes from the complex glue of electrons which both binds the nuclei of a material together and generates the magnetism. Recently, we established ab initio computational modelling of multicomponent materials, which describes how intrinsic magnetic properties change as the temperature is varied, a magnetic field applied, the material is strained etc and also how the atoms are arranged to make it truly predictive. Working closely with experimental project partners at Northeastern University in Boston (USA), we are testing the computational modelling and collaborating on methods to streamline manufacture of technologically important magnetic materials. In particular, we are developing realistic atomistic modelling of one of the promising classes of alloys.

We are looking for a researcher to contribute to this development, specifically to the generation of interatomic potentials machine-learned from density-functional theory calculations, for the atomistic simulations.

About You  

We are looking for someone with or soon to attain a PhD or equivalent in a relevant scientific discipline (e.g. physics, materials science, engineering) who has theoretical and computational modelling skills. They will have an emerging track record of publication in relevant peer-reviews journals and have experience or informed interest in using one or more density-functional theory (DFT)-based codes to perform electronic structure calculations of bulk crystalline materials and knowledge of how their results can be used as input for further atomistic modelling.

For further information regarding the skills required for this role please see the personal specification section of the attached job description.

If you are near submission or have recently submitted your PhD but have not yet had it conferred, any offers of employment will be made as Research Assistant at the top of level 5 of the University grade structure. Upon receipt of evidence of the successful award of your PhD, you will be promoted to Research Fellow on the first point of level 6 of the University grade structure. 

CLOSING DATE: Thursday 12 September 2024 at 11.55 pm

Full details of the duties and selection criteria for this role can be found in the vacancy advert on the University of Warwick's jobs pages. You will be routed to this when you click on the Apply button.

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