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Jobs in MIDAS
We are looking for new team members to help to deliver MIDAS. The group is currently seeking to recruit three postdoctoral research associate, who will be primarily based with the group at the University of Manchester. The role-holders will also become core partiipants in Manchester’s Zirconium Technology group, the largest academic research group working in the field of zirconium alloys in the UK.
If you join the MIDAS team, you’ll work closely with the other researchers at Manchester and at MIDAS partner institutions, as well as with our stakeholders in industry and the wider research community in this field. Our team has a culture of sharing: we are highly active in publishing our results and in presenting at conferences. We actively promote the practices of open and reproducible science.
As part of the the role, you would also have plenty of career-development opportunities, such as joining in the supervision of research and playing an active role in the running and promotion of MIDAS. We work together, help each other out, and share our successes.
You will be committed to respecting the principles of equality, diversity and inclusivity, and contributing to a positive, constructive working environment for all MIDAS and Zr group members.
Role 1: “Understanding corrosion and failure mechanisms of irradiated zirconium alloys by advanced microscopy’”
This role, with Dr Philipp Frankel, is ideally suited to a PhD graduate with a good knowledged of metallic materials and their degradation mechanisms, with experience devising and performing materials degradation tests (e.g. autoclave corrosion), and with emonstrated expertise is using analytical electron microscopes (SEM & TEM) and EBSD systems.
For further details, and to apply, please click here (ref. SAE-017184).
Role 2: “Using theory and simulation to improve x-ray line profile analysis of dislocation loops ”
This role, with Dr Chris Race, is ideally suited to a candidate with a PhD (or equivalent experience) in the computational simulation of materials, who can demonstrate expertise in the simulation of materials at the atomic scale, has experience of running simulations in a high-performance computing environment, and has expertise in the analysis of simulation data usingscripting languages such as MATLAB and/or Python.
For further details, and to apply, please click here (ref. SAE-017185).
Role 3: “Modelling Second Phase Precipitate Evolution in Zirconium Alloys under Irradiation ”
This role, with Prof. Joe Robson, is ideally suited to a PhD graduate with good understanding of metallic materials and the essential fundamentals of second phase particle precipitation, experience with atomistic modelling methods as applied to metals, and an understanding of methods used for scale-bridging from the atomistic to microstructural scale.
For further details, and to apply, please click here (ref. SAE-017189).