Research Assistant/Post Doctoral Research Associate (0.5fte)

A Challenge Supervisor place is on the market instantly within the Division of Chemistry of the College of Bodily Sciences on the College of Liverpool, as a part of the analysis teams led by Professor Andrew Cooper FRS and Professor Anna Slater.

We need to recruit a Challenge Supervisor to affix a collaborative undertaking funded by the UK Atomic Vitality Authority (UKAEA) in partnership with Atkins and the Nationwide Bodily Laboratory. The undertaking will develop and check natural materials options to separate hydrogen isotopes utilizing kinetic quantum sieving (KQS). Two PDRAs are already in put up, and we now have been awarded funding to increase the undertaking to incorporate computational modelling and make use of a full-time undertaking supervisor to supervise administration of this undertaking.

Nuclear fusion is seen as essentially the most promising carbon-free, clear vitality supply for our future. Essentially the most believable gas for fusion reactors is deuterium and tritium, isotopes of hydrogen, essentially the most ample aspect on our planet. The event of fusion energy expertise is dependent upon a sustainable expertise for the separation of hydrogen’s three isotopes, however present strategies are each vitality intensive and inefficient. Nanoporous supplies provide a much less energy-intensive methodology to separate hydrogen isotopes, by a course of generally known as kinetic quantum sieving, nonetheless most candidates aren’t commercially viable on account of poor efficiency. Our expertise has made a breakthrough on this discipline, with a sophisticated nanoporous materials found on the College of Liverpool that reveals excessive hydrogen isotope separation efficiency.  This undertaking will additional develop this expertise, by working with key business companions, to develop and check a hydrogen isotope separation resolution for the way forward for nuclear vitality.

That is an thrilling alternative for a Challenge Supervisor to take a lead function in managing the programme elements of this undertaking, together with liaising with companions, working with post-doctoral researchers and PIs to coordinate undertaking course, reporting, operational necessities, milestone and progress monitoring and planning, and budgeting. You may be integral to the supply of the undertaking, guaranteeing that communication throughout the collaboration is efficient, and main and coordinating actions to make sure the undertaking is efficiently accomplished.

The Cooper Group and Slater Group are based mostly within the Division of Chemistry and within the Supplies Innovation Manufacturing unit (MIF). Each teams undertake in depth collaboration with educational and industrial companions, and there can be alternatives to contribute extra broadly to the institution and supply of partnership and translational actions inside these analysis areas.

A graduate stage qualification in a Science, Engineering or Enterprise self-discipline is required alongside demonstrable expertise in profitable undertaking administration, ideally in an HEI setting.

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The put up is mounted time period till 31 March 2025.

The College has the fitting to shut the emptiness early whether it is deemed that there have been sufficient purposes acquired.