Research Assistant in Heterogeneous Catalysis

We seek to recruit an enthusiastic, highly motivated scientist with proven intellectual and technical abilities to work on this project is where the main objective is the design, synthesis, testing and comprehensive characterisation of novel heterogeneous catalysts for ammonia synthesis by plasmon-photocatalysis, using batch and flow reactor systems.

Further information is available at the following group webpages:
Professor Graham Hutchings https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/people/view/38519-hutchings-graham

For informal enquiries about the role and the Cardiff School of Chemistry, please contact Professor Graham Hutchings: Hutch@cardiff.ac.uk.

For further details about working at Cardiff University, please contact Caroline Pasmore: Chemy-HR@cardiff.ac.uk.

This position is full time (35 hours per week) and is available from 1st September 2025 for 12 months.

Salary: £33,482 - £36,130 per annum (Grade 5).

Important note: It is the University’s policy to use the person specification as a key tool for short-listing. Candidates should evidence that they meet ALL of the essential criteria as well as, where relevant, the desirable. As part of the application process, you will be asked to provide this evidence via a supporting statement. Please ensure that the evidence you are providing corresponds with the numbered criteria outlined below. Your application will be considered based on the information you provide under each element.

When attaching the supporting statement to your application profile, please ensure that you name it with the vacancy reference number, e.g. Supporting Statement for 20333BR.

Closing date: Sunday, 13 July 2025

Cardiff University is committed to supporting and promoting equality and diversity and to creating an inclusive working environment. We believe this can be achieved through attracting, developing, and retaining a diverse range of staff from many different backgrounds who have the ambition to create a University which seeks to fulfil our social, cultural and economic obligation to Cardiff, Wales, and the world. In supporting our employees to achieve a balance between their work and their personal lives, we will also consider proposals for flexible working or job share arrangements.

Applications may be submitted in Welsh, and an application submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application submitted in English.

The School of Chemistry holds an Athena SWAN Bronze Award that recognises good employment practice and a commitment to develop the careers of women working in science. Cardiff University is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.

Cardiff University is a signatory to the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA), which means that in hiring and promotion decisions we will evaluate applicants on the quality of their research, not publication metrics or the identity of the journal in which the research is published. More information is available at: Responsible research assessment - Research - Cardiff University

For this vacancy we actively encourage women to apply.

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