Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher

Founded in 1894, City, University of London is a global university committed to academic excellence with a focus on business and the professions and an enviable central London location.

City attracts around 20,000 students (over 40% at postgraduate level), from more than 150 countries and staff from over 75 countries.

In the last decade City has almost tripled the proportion of its total academic staff producing world-leading or internationally excellent research. During this period City has made significant investments in its academic staff, its estate and its infrastructure and continues to work towards realising its vision of being a leading global university.

Background

The post holder will be recruited as part of the Horizon Europe Doctoral Networks of the European Commission DT-HATS “Digital Twins for Hydrogen and Ammonia injection, ignition, and release in Transport Systems”. The position is funded for three years and will offer to the recruited Doctoral Candidates (DCs) an exciting research and training programme, enhancing their career perspectives in both the academic and non-academic sector. The recruited DC will be enrolled in our PhD programme. In addition to the individual doctoral project, the DCs will benefit from a dedicated training programme comprising an integrated curriculum of local and network wide training activities related to the development of scientific knowledge and the enhancement of transferable skills.

Responsibilities

1. Execute the research plan as outlined in the Grant Agreement (GA)
2. Prepare, write-up and submit on time the deliverables specified in the GA
3. Communication with all MFLOPS partners for most efficient way of data collection, management, regression, storage, and manipulation so that they are recoverable and usable by all stakeholders of the consortium.
4. Participation in the training sessions of the MFLOPS consortium.

Person Specification

Essential qualifications:

1. The post holder should Master Degree or equivalent in Mechanical, Aeronautical, Aerospace, Chemical Engineering or Physics
2. Good knowledge of computational fluid dynamics
3. Knowledge of two-phase flow modelling approaches, such as flows with interfaces based on Volume of Fluid method or similar
4. A sound knowledge of the English language, both oral and written
5. Applicants should not have been living in the UK for more than 12 months in the last 3 years
6. Programming languages like C++, Fortran, Python etc

Additional Information

Closing date: 9th November 2025 at 11:59pm.

City offers a sector-leading salary, pension scheme and benefits including a comprehensive package of staff training and development.

The applicants will have to complete a technical essay prior to the interview. They should also make a presentation on their background experience in the advertised position.

To apply and for more information about the post please use the 'Apply' link, above.

City, University of London is committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion in all its activities, processes, and culture for our whole community, including staff, students and visitors.

We welcome applications regardless of age, caring responsibilities, disability, gender identity, gender reassignment, marital status, nationality, pregnancy, race and ethnic origin, religion and belief, sex, sexual orientation and socio-economic background.

City operates a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants.

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