The salary for this role is £57,117 (inclusive of a Specialist Allowance) [. Onsite working is expected for 3 days each week, however, we actively support requests for flexible working.
This role can be based at any of the following sites: Culham, Oxfordshire.
This role requires employees to complete an online Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS), including The Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) checks for criminal convictions and possibly a search of open source data.
The Role
Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to make a difference? Join our team and contribute to the future of fusion energy. As Senior Core Transport and Turbulence Modeller, you will play a pivotal role in leading, proposing, and conducting turbulence and transport analysis using advanced transport codes and integrated modelling frameworks like JINTRAC and TRANSP, while exploiting state-of-the-art core turbulence and gyrokinetic codes. The postholder will carry out such analyses for a range of existing and future tokamaks, including MAST-U and the conceptual high-β spherical tokamak power plant, STEP. Additionally, you will direct, propose, and execute experiments on MAST-U, aiming to validate and guide the development of reduced transport models, ultimately enhancing confidence in predictive simulations of core transport.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide scientific leadership and guidance in developing and validating turbulence models to produce predictive simulations of the core plasma transport in support of the UK’s STEP programme.
- Maintain and guide the development of Prokinetics, the Python library used for gyrokinetic code analysis.
- Direct, propose and execute experiments on MAST-U, especially in the area of the role.
- Act as the scientific point of contact for core plasma modelling on MAST-U.
- Nurture and grow existing collaborations, and seek new opportunities for national and international collaborations.
- Provide guidance and expertise, directing the future of development of transport and turbulence analysis at UKAEA.
- Report results at science and other regular progress meetings. Disseminate results through presentations, conferences, and peer reviewed journal papers.
- Guide. and mentor Early Career researchers in areas relating to turbulence and transport modelling.
