This role is based at Culham, Oxfordshire.

This role requires employees to complete an online Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) including The Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) checks for criminal convictions.

The Role

Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to make a difference? Join our team and contribute to the future of fusion energy. As Disruption Control Physicist, you will play a pivotal role in performing scientific tasks on identifying and characterising the sequence of mechanisms leading to disruptions, which are likely to be relevant for the STEP device. 

As part of a team develop models describing the physical processes in the various disruption paths, including working closely with those making 3D nonlinear simulations of disruptions, and developing real-time tools for disruption avoidance, with the aim of testing these on present experiments. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the development of disruption detection methods with adequate fidelity to allow the disruption avoidance methods to function. 
• Participate in experiments on MAST-U to test real-time disruption avoidance for scenarios appropriate to the STEP device. 
• For STEP study means to mitigate disruption consequences, including heat and EM loads,  and runaway electrons 
• Contribute to refereed journal articles and attend international conferences on magnetic fusion as agreed with management. 
• Be responsible for building a strong network of external collaborations