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Please note the availability of support for UK VISA (healthcare) costs through the relevant skilled worker routes.
Salary: £39,748- £44,166 per annum (dependent on skills and experience). Specialist allowance of up to £4k per annum depending on experience and access to STFC UK VISA support. Support (up to £8k) for UK VISA (healthcare) costs through the relevant skilled worker routes.
Hours: Full time
Contract Type: Open Ended.
Location: Science and Technology Facilities Council, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Harwell, Oxfordshire OR Science and Technology Facilities Council, Daresbury Laboratory, Warrington
We are the Scientific Computing Department (SCD), part of the UK National Laboratories at UKRI STFC, based at the Daresbury Laboratory (Warrington) and the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (Oxfordshire). We perform research as well as developing and providing computing services that enable more and better research across the UK and beyond. Our expertise and capability span across the full range of the computing stack – from large-scale computing facilities, computing data services and infrastructure to numerical analysis, software engineering, AI, and computational science, theory development included.
The Theoretical and Computational Physics Group (TPCG [1]) is part of SCD. We are an international, family friendly, diverse group who have played a central role in many ground-breaking UK code development projects including CASTEP, CRYSTAL, ONETEP, Wannier90, and QUESTAAL. We are active in a large number of diverse scientific projects and collaborations with the UK and overseas, and also work in direct collaboration with the STFC large experimental Facilities (Diamond Light Source, ISIS neutron and muon source, the Central Laser Facility).
We are currently looking for three Computational Scientists to join our group. The successful applicants will join a rapidly growing initiative aimed at transforming research performed at large experimental Facilities (synchrotrons, neutron and muon sources, laser-based facilities etc) through a multi-disciplinary approach to data processing, computer simulation and data analytics. This initiative will provide computing hardware, build software and provide computational and data analytics expertise that will spark a paradigm shift in the capability of scientists to design, analyse and interpret experiments.
About the roles:
We are open to consider applicants across a broad range of interests at the confluence between first principles methods and experimental materials science. The ultimate aim of your work will be to advance the science performed at experimental Facilities by improving either data interpretation, experiment design, or facility operation.
To this aim, you will undertake research to develop computational tools based on first principles theories and implement these in software within well-established computational and experimental user communities. You will also use these computational tools to collaborate with Facilities scientists and users on specific application projects.
You will become involved with a number of different codes, both at the development and application levels, and demonstrate the ability to lead and develop new scientific projects effectively, collaborating with both the first principles materials simulation community and STFC experimental Facilities.
Depending on your inclinations and skills, you will be also offered the possibility to contribute, via development and application of suitable first principles materials simulation methods and related workflows to the continuous development of large-scale facility technologies, starting from, but not limited to, the design, screening and development of innovative solutions for underpinning components or elements (beamline materials included) of the Facility experiment.
Additional development of synergies and follow up opportunities with existing EPSRC-funded materials physics/chemistry research (e.g. [2-4]) and community-focused software development initiatives (e.g. [5-9]) active at the TPCG will not only be possible but strongly encouraged.
We are especially interested in applications from candidates with track record and ambitions in one or more of the following specific areas (not necessarily all of them from the same candidate):
About you
These are highly collaborative roles, and you will work closely with a variety of people, as such the ability to interact and communicate well with others is a must. You must have the ability to develop good working relationships and be eager to develop skills in the interaction with experimental scientists.
Essential Criteria:
Desirable Criteria:
How to apply
Please apply for this role via the UKRI careers portal by following this link: https://careersportal.taleo.net/careersection/ukri_int/jobdetail.ftl?job=2200014B&tz=GMT+00:00&tzname=Europe/London
When applying for this role please include in your cover letter (no word limit in principle) also an additional scientific statement of no more than 1300 words highlighting your ambitions in computational physics over the next five years with the TCGP & STFC. Applicants without the statement will not be considered
Please include (in either your cover letter or your CV) also the details of at least 2 referees (who will not be contacted without your permission)
If you have an informal enquiries about this position, please contact the TCPG group leader, Dr Gilberto Teobaldi ([email protected])
Application deadline: Sunday 26 February 2023
Benefits
We are committed to sustaining a diverse and inclusive workforce. We are invested in creating an environment that is welcoming and supportive of all and we strongly encourage applications from under-represented groups.