L4 - UK FUSION RESEARCH - Plasma Physics - Turbulence Modeller (PERMANENT)

The salary for this role is ££40,609 (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 MAST-U, and JET, as well as future burning plasmas such as STEP. You will exploit and/or develop advanced computational tools (e.g. flux-driven 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 MAST-U 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.