EPAC Application Scientist/Senior Scientist

Updated: over 2 years ago
Location: Harwell, ENGLAND
Job Type: FullTime
Deadline: 18 Jul 2021

Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell, Oxfordshire

Salary: £31,931 - £34,709 or £39,748 - £44,166 per annum (dependent on skills and experience)

Full time

Permanent

Based at the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) the Central Laser Facility (CLF) is building a new laser centre - the Extreme Photonics Applications Centre (EPAC) and is seeking new team members to help to build this and to contribute to our existing facilities. EPAC is an £81M facility that will use lasers developed by our team to drive new types of novel particle and radiation beams that can be applied to a wide range of problems in science and industry. We are looking for people like you, scientists at all stages of their careers to be a part of our friendly and enthusiastic team.

About the Role

We are looking for a passionate champion of the application of novel laser-driven accelerators to assist in the delivery of a programme of engagement, research, and development that ensures EPAC is primed to deliver experiments tailored to industry users when it opens in 2024.

As an EPAC Application Scientist/Senior Scientist, you will support the scientific direction of the programme, champion industry applications and expert technical knowledge, and maintain key relationships crucial to the programme’s success including with senior academics, staff across STFC and UKRI in particularly the STFC Business and Innovation Directorate, and industry partners.

You will lead collaborations and experiments for the industry user programme, and conduct research that feeds directly into the strategic development of laser-driven beams, and associated detector and target technologies, for industry applications.

This role encompasses industry engagement, experimental planning, delivery, and stakeholder relationship management, and is key to driving industrial impact and societal benefit from high power lasers

About You

With a degree (or equivalent) in science or engineering, you should also have a PhD in a relevant field of expertise (experimental science) or an equivalent level of experience. With a record of independent research, you should also have the ability to see novel solutions to problems.

Experience of high power laser experiments and laser-driven particle acceleration, or particle accelerator beamlines, or x-ray imaging technology would also be advantageous.

The role requires the candidate to be self-motivated, to work well in a team and to be able to operate independently. You will demonstrate excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage industrial and scientific audiences, with diverse levels of technical ability. A track record of collaborating with external partners, or industry, or academia and engagement with diverse audiences is essential.

Employee Benefits:

We are offering permanent positions that provides a whole host of family friendly benefits including; 30 days holiday (in addition to bank holidays), an excellent pension scheme, employee shopping/travel discounts, a salary sacrifice cycle to work scheme, plus many more benefits and wellbeing initiatives that enable our employees to have a great work life balance.

UKRI is an Equal Opportunity & Disability Confident Employer.

The closing date for applications is 18th July 2021, however applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis.



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