The UK Atomic Energy Authority’s (UKAEA’s) Culham Centre for Fusion Energy and the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) are two of the leading centres researching nuclear fusion worldwide. Both run national facilities with international impact, and operate the two most advanced spherical tokamaks in the world. The spherical tokamak provides a potential pathway to a magnetically-confined fusion reactor design which is much smaller than conventional tokamak machines like ITER. Whilst this technology is earlier in the development cycle, it could lead to cheaper construction costs of reactors in the longer term. The US and the UK are the main international players in this field.
UKAEA and PPPL are beginning a joint-fellowship scheme in which a cohort of three-year post-doctoral researchers will be based at one of the laboratories, expected to spend significant periods of time working at the other as part of a joint US-UK team.
To initiate the UKAEA-PPPL fellowship scheme, UKAEA is seeking to recruit up to six post-doctoral researchers in 2018 into three-year positions. These post-docs will be employed by UKAEA and based at the Culham Science Centre, but with the opportunity for extended visits to Princeton during their three year position.
The post-doc positions for 2018 are: MHD Analyst, RF Modeller for STs,
Scenario Developer for STs, Development of Spherical Tokamak Models for Systems Codes, Exploitation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) on Spherical Tokamaks (STs) and, Understanding Irradiation in High Temperature Superconductors.
More details can be found at this link: http://www.ccfe.ac.uk/Fellowships.aspx