Science and Technology Facilities Council Salary: £39,375 to £43,313 per annum (dependent on skills and experience). Hours: Full time (37 hours per week) Contract Type: Fixed Term (7 months). Location: Science and Technology Facilities Council, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Harwell, Oxfordshire
Job Description Come and do the kind of science that made you want to become a scientist.
Explore the unknown and get to grips with the biggest challenges in Big Science.
And, alongside world class engineers, technicians and technologists, use everything you've learnt to find real answers that shape society and improve lives. Put simply, discover the kind of impact you can make when you work with some of the best facilities and brightest scientists in the world.
STFC are advertising for a post-doctoral research assistant based at the ISIS Pulsed Neutron and Muon Source to work on a Government Office of Technology Transfer project (Knowledge Asset Grant Fund) developing STFC's proprietary ammonia decomposition catalysts.
You will be part of the ISIS Energy Materials group and entails developing the ammonia decomposition catalysts invented at STFC into a demonstrator system which will: (i) showcase the development of straightforward catalyst coating techniques to various substrate architectures; (ii) operate at a scale of around 1 kW power.
The objective of the project is to develop STFC's intellectual property so it is licensable to industry.
The role is full-time, however requests for flexible working will be considered.
Job Responsibilities Regular laboratory-based chemistry work in synthesis and characterisation of ammonia decomposition catalysts; Running ammonia decomposition experiments to characterise catalyst performance; Design and implementation of appropriate strategies for coating the catalyst (in collaboration with our partners at University of Birmingham); Data analysis (including bespoke programming) to elucidate the catalyst and demonstrator performance; Regular meetings with project partners; Writing up results in report-based format. Person Specification The below will be reviewed at shortlisting and Interview: Essential: PhD in chemistry or related discipline (or where thesis has been recently submitted for a PhD).
(S) Experience working with gaseous ammonia in conjunction with solid-state materials (e.g.
catalysts, sorbents etc.).
(S&I) Knowledge and experience of the appropriate safety measures for ammonia and hydrogen gases.
(S&I) Experience using characterisation techniques for solid-state materials, particularly powder diffraction, Raman spectroscopy and thermal analysis.
(S&I) Quality of cover letter in communicating candidate's fulfilment of the selection criteria.
(S) Desirable: Experience of using Python to analyse catalyst experimental data (S&I) Experience using gas lines to conduct catalytic ammonia experiments with mass spectrometry analysis of products.
(S&I) Experience of ammonia decomposition experiments/demonstrators at a scale of kW or greater.
(S&I) Employee Benefits: STFC offers our staff a wide range of excellent non-paying employee benefits, including but not limited to:
30 days holiday (in addition to 10.5 bank holidays and privilege days). Flexible working hours. An excellent defined average salary pension scheme Excellent learning and development opportunities. Please note, if you will require sponsorship to work in the UK, as part of your sponsorship application, you and any dependants travelling with you, will be required to pay costs directly to The Home Office for the application before you start your role with us.
UKRI is normally able to reimburse some, or all of these fees after you have become an employee and this can be discussed with the Hiring Manager. How to apply Online applications only preferred for this role.
Please submit a CV and covering letter which clearly outlines how you fulfil the criteria specified along with your motivation for UKRI and the role.
Ensure that the job reference number is included in the filename description of each document uploaded.
Note that failure to address the above criteria or submit an application without a covering letter may result in the application not being considered.
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