Job Description

Salary: Full time starting salary is normally in the range \xc2\xa334,980 to \xc2\xa344,263 with potential progression once in post to \xc2\xa346,974

Contract Type: Fixed Term contract up to November 2027

Closes: 27th September 2023

Background

You will work on combining theory and experiment for materials discovery, and the understanding of thermodynamic and kinetic aspects of solid-state reactions and materials, including mechanochemistry, thermochemistry and photochemistry. Expertise is preferred with plane-wave density-functional theory calculations (VASP, QuantumEspresso, CASTEP, etc.) and/or equilibrium-based classical force field molecular dynamics, for crystalline solids (LAMMPS, Gromacs, etc.). Other relevant experience (e.g., metadynamics, Monte Carlo) will be considered.

The School of Chemistry at the University of Birmingham is a vibrant and thriving academic community, with over 100 academic and research staff, 20 professional services staff and over 600 students. We provide an inclusive and supportive environment where we strive to support every member of staff in realising their career potential. With a strong focus on our four Research Themes of Energy, Sustainability, Environment and Health, and a number of interdisciplinary Interest Groups serving as testbeds to explore new and emerging areas of interest, we are a dynamic place to work. We have ambitious plans to expand our research activity and are in an exciting period of growth: major investment from the University will deliver a state-of-the-art research building (opening in 2023/24), and new multi-million pound high-performance computing facilities, which will ensure UK-leading compute capability. These investments build on a major recent expansion of our academic staff and investment in our teaching and learning provision, with our Collaborative Teaching Laboratory, which opened September 2018, already revolutionising how we teach undergraduate practical chemistry.

We are a collegiate School community. You will demonstrate academic citizenship, develop and maintain generous, mutually respectful and supportive working relationships with the School, ensuring the way you carry out your role impacts positively on how others carry out theirs.

Role Summary

• Work within specified research grants and projects and contribute to writing bids
• Operate within area of specialism
• Analyse and interpret research findings and results
• Contribute to generating funding
• Contribute to licensing or spin out deals with demonstrated commercial success (such as revenues, asset or company sales, IP generated) and/or public understanding of the discipline or similar
• Work closely with the PI in developing research projects and also in guiding junior group members, such as undergraduate, M.Sc. and PhD students
• Take position of leadership and independence when developing research projects
• Engage in and maintain collaborations with other team members, as well as research groups in academia and industry in UK and overseas
• Engage in organisation of events, preparation of manuscript and presentation of work at conferences
• Assist in day-to-day operations of the group

Person Specification

• Have, or be near the completion of, a PhD in an area relevant to research
• High level analytical capability
• Ability to communicate complex information clearly
• Fluency in relevant models, techniques or methods and ability to contribute to developing new ones

Informal enquires can be made to Tomislav Friscic, email:

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