Research Officer - SUSTAIN Digital Modelling

Location: Bay Campus, Swansea

About The Role

Applications are invited for a Fixed Term Research Officer in Advanced Digital Modelling within the steel supply chain to enable a sustainable future and a transformation to net-zero. The new research officer will join Professor Beckmann and Professor Giannetti’s research group on Hybrid AI for Industry and Society at Swansea University, as well as the wider modelling, data and AI research community (first point of contact Professor Beckmann) and the wider materials and manufacturing research community (first points of contact will be Professor Giannetti and Professor Pleydell-Pearce) within the Faculty of Science and Engineering. The successful candidate will be responsible to conduct genuine research and innovation to enable knowledge driven Industry 4.0 capabilities for steel manufacturing that address sustainability and a transformation to net-zero. Key challenges that will be addressed include data integration, process modelling, product traceability, digital material passport, and will employ elements of semantic technologies and generative AI. The successful candidate will work closely with an already appointed RA on Blockchain Technologies who is exploring the use of distributed ledger technology in the context of steel supply chains, researchers focussed on data driven approaches, and academics and researchers in other UK universities contributing to SUSTAIN (see below).

This post is part of the EPSRC funded SUSTAIN Future Manufacturing Hub (https://www.sustainsteel.ac.uk/). SUSTAIN is an exciting collaborative project between the Universities of Swansea, Warwick and Sheffield working with the UK steel industry. This project will link to SUSTAIN’s UK Digital Steel Innovation Hub (https://www.sustainsteel.ac.uk/data-driven-innovation), supporting both grand challenges in the SUSTAIN Hub of ‘Zero Waste, Carbon Neutral Iron- and Steelmaking’ and ‘Smart Steel Processing’. The project is also linked to the Materials Made Smarter Research Centre as part of Made Smarter Innovation (https://www.madesmarter.uk/made-smarter-innovation/research-centres/), researching the emerging concept of Material Passports and their uses within the SUSTAIN and MMSC context as an enabler for sustainability and net-zero. As such, we are looking for candidates who are passionate about linking the fields of physics / knowledge driven approaches to modelling steel manufacturing through collaboration with other researchers and teams.

Equality, Diversity & Inclusion

The University is committed to supporting and promoting equality and diversity in all its practices and activities.

Welsh Language Skills

The Welsh language level required for this role is Level 1 - A little. The role holder will be able to pronounce Welsh words, answer the phone in Welsh (good morning/afternoon) and use very basic everyday words and phrases (thank you, please etc.). Level 1 can be reached by completing a 1 hour course.

The University is a proud bilingual institution, our Welsh Language Strategy outlines our aspiration to promote the language and enable our staff to engage with the language as an additional workplace skill and as a gateway to new cultural and social opportunities. Applications are welcome in Welsh and will not be treated less favourably than those submitted in English. Welsh speakers have the right to an interview in Welsh. Applicants for a role where Welsh skills are essential are expected to present their application in Welsh and will be interviewed in Welsh, if shortlisted.

Additional Information

Applications for this role will take the format of a CV submission and cover letter.

Closing Date: 30 October 2024

Interview Date: 18 November 2024

Informal Enquiries

•  Prof Arnold Beckmann A.Beckmann@swansea.ac.uk
•  Prof Cinzia Giannetti C.Giannetti@Swansea.ac.uk

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