Senior Turbulence Modeller

As Senior Turbulence Modeller you will play a leading role in advancing our understanding of turbulent transport in the core and/or pedestal region of fusion devices through the development of first principles theory and exploitation of state-of-the-art gyrokinetic and transport codes. You will also lead and contribute to turbulence science in support of devices such as JET, MASTU, and STEP.

Other responsibilities:

• Lead the development of transport theory including identifying missing physics in current models
• Act as a scientific point of contact for turbulent transport modelling in transport barriers
• Act as a scientific contact for reduced (quasilinear)turbulent transport models, e.g. TGLF
• Perform interpretive and predictive linear and nonlinear gyrokinetic simulations of the core and/or pedestal region of devices such as JET, MASTU, and STEP
• Delivery of lead-author and co-author publications in the field of turbulence and transport
• Disseminate results through presentations at international conferences.
• Plan and conduct research independently
• Effective team-working with others working in related areas, both internally at UKAEA, and externally in national and international collaborations.
• Contribute to the research programmes of MAST-U and STEP
• Contribute to the design programme for STEP
• Collaborate with external stakeholders as a recognised technical expert where appropriate

Essential Qualifications:

• PhD or equivalent experience in relevant field.
• Proven ability to conduct independent research.
• Substantial research experience in plasma turbulence (at least at PDRA level).
• Expert knowledge of plasma transport, turbulence and gyrokinetics.
• Track record of publications in the field.
• Expertise in key numerical and computational algorithms used in gyrokinetic codes.
• Demonstrable significant exploitation and/or development of gyrokinetic codes or reduced transport models.
• Experience in programming and developing software for HPC.(e.g. F90, MPI, OpenMP, Python etc).
• Enthusiasm for leading or taking substantial roles in collaborative projects.

A full list of our benefits can be found here https://careers.ukaea.uk/life-at-ukaea/employee-benefits/

UKAEA's mission is clean energy for all, and we welcome talented people from all backgrounds who want to help us achieve our mission.  We are under-represented from some groups and so want to encourage applications in particular from women in STEM, people from Black British Caribbean and African backgrounds and from Pakistani and Bangladeshi British backgrounds. Our Executive team, supported by our 'Head of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion' (EDI) and Wellbeing and our EDI Networks actively promote Inclusion and takes steps to increase diversity within our organization. We reinforce best practices in recruitment and selection and evaluate approaches to remove barriers to success.

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Please note that vacancies are generally advertised for 4 weeks but may close earlier if we receive a large number of applications.