Research Associate in Acoustics

Job description:

A great opportunity has arisen for a research assistant to join a prestigious grant from the UK’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council led by the University of Sheffield. This £2.5M grant is a collaboration with the Universities of Southampton and Imperial College London. The overall aim of this grant is to develop new bio-inspired micromachine sensors to measure acoustical quantities that have never been measured before. New sensors will ultimately be deployed on autonomous robots continuously monitoring networks of buried water pipes detecting hidden leaks and wall damage onset. The grant is supported by key UK water utilities and a robotics manufacturer who have a very strong interest to see the new technology trialled successfully and deployed in the field ultimately. The research team also has strong international links so that there are opportunities for the appointed person to travel overseas to present key theoretical findings and to visit top research centres outside the UK.

Your task will be to create a new theoretical foundation to support research into new micromachine sensors and to validate the new theoretical foundation via numerical simulations and laboratory experiments. You will also develop new signal processing algorithms and apply machine learning to interpret the meaning of the new acoustics quantities predicted theoretically and measured with the new sensors in the laboratory. Your work will contribute to the integration of these sensors with a working robot prototype provided by our industry partner and to the experimental validation of the simulated performance. It is expected that your work will be sufficiently novel and significant to warrant its publication in top academic journals and conference proceedings.

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