Careers

Fusion research fellowships

Research fellowships currently available at CCFE and partner organisations:

Culham Fusion Research Fellowship

Closing date: 28 February each year

We intend to appoint an outstanding physicist or engineer who has recently completed a doctorate, to a two-year research fellowship in any field of fusion research conducted at Culham Centre for Fusion Energy.

Candidates need to be highly motivated and show initiative. Managed and/or self-directed personal training and career development at Culham and elsewhere will be available and there will be opportunities for conference attendance. Periods of overseas placements with our collaborators will be encouraged. The appointments will be two-year fixed term staff positions.

Requirements

In general, successful candidates will have completed their doctorates in the previous five years. Candidates need a good degree in physics, mathematics, materials or engineering science and a relevant PhD, preferably in fusion research. Since academic excellence is one of the selection criteria, it is recommended candidates mention significant prizes or other recognition.

Application procedure for Culham Fusion Fellowships

Please submit a completed application form and, in addition, a full CV (including publications) and short (1-2 page) personal statement of your research interests and objectives and a brief outline of a possible 2-year research programme (no more than 2 pages).

Applicants should also arrange for at least two referees (Reference Template) to write directly to the address below by the closing date. Candidates are responsible for ensuring that references arrive on time, and should give referees enough time to do so. Please click here for guidelines for referees.

Interviews are planned for mid-late March 2012 and the dates will be published.

The application and references should be sent to Karen Bailey at Karen.Bailey@ccfe.ac.uk or to:

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Please note that a CV alone is not acceptable as an application.

Candidates from outside the European Economic Area are reminded that they will need to produce clear documentation to show that they have formal permission to work in the UK.

Postdoctoral Research Position in MHD Waves in Magnetically Confined Fusion, University of Warwick, UK

Closing date: 1 March 2012

Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Research Assistant/Fellow position to work on a project led by Dr Erwin Verwichte in the Centre for Fusion, Space and Astrophysics at the University of Warwick, to model magnetohydrodynamic waves (specifically Compressional Alfvén Eigenmodes) and their interaction with energetic particles in magnetically confined fusion. The work will also involve comparison with experimental data in collaboration with national and international fusion facilities.

Candidates will have, or expect to attain, a PhD or equivalent degree in an area relevant to high temperature plasma physics, with experience in magnetically confined plasma physics and applications of magnetohydrodynamic theory. Candidates should have experience with developing simulation codes in a programming language such as Fortran 90.

This is a full-time, fixed term position for a period of three years, starting no later than 30 June 2012. The full job advert and application procedure can be found at http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/cfsa/pdra_cae2012. Informal enquiries should be addressed to Dr Erwin Verwichte via email Erwin.Verwichte@warwick.ac.uk.