Research Assistant/Associate in Quantum Modelling

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Salary
Research Assistant: £33,951 - £35,608 per annum.
Research Associate £36,636 - £46,049 per annum.

The Role
We are excited to launch this new opportunity for a Research Associate/Research Assistant in Quantum Modelling to join us in the Quantum Group in the School of Computing. You will join a diverse community of colleagues based in our state-of-the-art Urban Sciences Building, in the Newcastle Helix Campus, 10 mins walk from Newcastle Central Station. You'll be working with Dr Jonte Hance, Head of the Quantum Group and an emerging leader in quantum foundations and quantum information, and Dr Barbara-Anne Robertson (School of Psychology), a behavioural neuroscientist focussed on understanding emotional memory. The position is funded under Dr Robertson and Dr Hance's UKRI Cross Research Council Responsive Mode Grant Quantum Emotions: Using the Quantum Formalism to explain temporal order effects in memory for emotional events. This project involves applying the quantum formalism to model experimental observations of human emotional memory performance and the neural systems that support it, to better understand both systems. You will work closely with internal collaborators, external project partners (including at Nagoya University, Ritsumeikan University, and the National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, in Japan, and Linnaeus University, in Sweden), and new and developing external collaborators.

The role is currently funded for two years, but we will be hoping to obtain funding to extend the position further. We are happy to consider flexible and/or part-time working for the role. We are ideally looking for a candidate who has either already been awarded their PhD, or who is in their final year of a PhD programme, and would be set to submit their thesis prior to starting the role. In the latter case, due to institutional requirements the position would be at Research Assistant level until the PhD was awarded.

The post is full-time and fixed-term for 2 years.

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