Disruption Control Physicist

Disruption Control Physicist

Abingdon Rd, Culham, UK

Full-time

Company Description

As an employee of UKAEA you will benefit from:

- 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.

The salary for this role is £40,609 (inclusive of a Market Premium Payment (MPP)), and onsite working is expected for at least 3 days a week.

Job Description

This role is based at Culham, Oxfordshire.

This role requires employees to complete an online Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) including The Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) checks for criminal convictions.

The Role

Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to make a difference? Join our team and contribute to the future of fusion energy. As a Disruption Control Physicist, you will play a pivotal role in performing scientific tasks on identifying and characterising the sequence of mechanisms leading to disruptions, which are likely to be relevant for the STEP device.

As part of a team develop models describing the physical processes in the various disruption paths, including working closely with those making 3D nonlinear simulations of disruptions, and developing real-time tools for disruption avoidance, with the aim of testing these on present experiments.

Key Responsibilities:

- Contribute to the development of disruption detection methods with adequate fidelity to allow the disruption avoidance methods to function.

- Participate in experiments on MAST-U to test real-time disruption avoidance for scenarios appropriate to the STEP device.

- For STEP study means to mitigate disruption consequences, including heat and EM loads,  and runaway electrons.

- Contribute to refereed journal articles and attend international conferences on magnetic fusion as agreed with management.

- Be responsible for building a strong network of external collaborations.

Qualifications

Essential Requirements:

- PhD or equivalent level of experience in Physics or related area

- Proficiency with programming languages, e.g. C, FORTRAN, IDL, Python

- Proven ability to conduct independent physics research

- Good oral and written communications skills

- Excellent team-player with an outward facing work-ethos as he/she will work closely with scientists from around the world

Desirable Requirements:

- Knowledge of real-time control methods.

- Proven ability to carry out detailed analysis of experimental and modelled data, use of suitable tools, error analysis, etc.

- Experience of considering safety as part of planning work.

- Strong record of publications in a closely related field.

Additional information

A full list of our benefits can be found here https://careers.ukaea.uk/life-at-ukaea/employee-benefits/

We welcome applications from under-represented groups, particularly individuals from black and other ethnic minority backgrounds, people with disabilities, and women. Our Executive team, supported by our 'Equality, Diversity and Inclusion' (EDI) Partner and Inclusion Ambassadors, actively promotes EDI and takes steps to increase diversity within our organisation. We reinforce best practices in recruitment and selection and evaluate approaches to remove barriers to success.

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