Turbulence Modeller

The salary for this role is 40609  (inclusive of a Market Premium Payment (MPP)). Onsite working is expected for 3 days a week however we actively support requests for flexible working. 

This role is based at the following site; 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 a member of the Turbulence group you will play a pivotal role in building and refining reduced models to describe the turbulent transport in devices such as MASTU and JET as well as future burning plasmas such as STEP. You will exploit and/or develop advanced computational tools (e.g. fluxdriven transport calculations using gyrokinetic simulations and/or reduced models) and use these simulations to improve reduced transport models and predict turbulence and transport in conceptual high beta burning plasmas.

In addition you will be involved in validating calculations of the turbulence and reduced models of the associated transport against data from MASTU and other experiments as well as predicting performance and exploring routes to optimise reactor designs. You will disseminate these results regularly via reports presentations and external conferences.

Your career development as a scientist will be strongly supported including working towards chartership with the Institute of Physics.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Disseminate outputs at conferences and in journals where appropriate.

• You will be expected to collaborate with turbulence modellers and developers based at UKAEA and in external collaborating organisations.

Qualifications :

Essential Requirements:

• PhD (or equivalent experience) in relevant field

• Experience in numerical modelling of plasma turbulence

• PhD level of knowledge of plasma turbulence transport

• Interest in model validation by testing models against experiment

• Experience with programming

• Selfdriven researcher

• Good team player

• Relevant publications

Additional Information :

A full list of our benefits can be found here

UKAEAs mission is clean energy for all and we welcome talented people from all backgrounds who want to help us achieve our mission.  We are underrepresented 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.

UK Atomic Energy Authority is committed to being accessible. Please email if you have any questions or require help or adjustments to compete on a fair basis for example changes to the way we interview or share information.  

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