Fusion Modeller & Scenario Architect

Fusion Energy Base; Abingdon; Hybrid; GBP 39,000 - 48,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Excellent pension

Job summary

UK Atomic Energy Authority Culham, Oxfordshire, is seeking an Integrated Modeller and Scenario Developer to exploit the JINTRAC core-SOL-divertor coupled transport code and its modules to understand tokamak transport and confinement, validate new physics models, and perform cross-code benchmarks.

You will contribute to advancing core/edge transport codes and collaborate with code developers to implement advanced tokamak physics.

Qualifications

• PhD (or equivalent) in plasma physics.
• Experience running plasma integrated simulation codes.
• Experience developing scientific codes for computational physics.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to research carried out through international collaborations and work packages.
• Deliver high-quality research and software outputs aligned with UKAEA priorities and disseminate in journals.
• Guide students and early career researchers in integrated modelling.

Skills

Integrated modelling experience

Code benchmarking

Scientific programming

Education

PhD (or equivalent) in plasma physics

Job description

UK Atomic Energy Authority Culham, Oxfordshire, is seeking an Integrated Modeller and Scenario Developer to exploit the JINTRAC core-SOL-divertor coupled transport code and its modules to understand tokamak transport and confinement, validate new physics models, and perform cross-code benchmarks.

You will contribute to advancing core/edge transport codes and collaborate with code developers to implement advanced tokamak physics.