This position is an exciting opportunity to work at the forefront of divertor physics research
You will work with Durham engineers to build a polarization interferometer (coherence imaging) camera as well as a polychrometer camera system. You will use those and other diagnostics to create 2D maps of emissivity, electron temperature and density as part of your studies of plasma detachment.
You will need to spend periods of time (1-3 weeks) at collaborating institutes for experiments at the TCV and MAST-U tokamaks.
A PhD in Plasma Physics or equivalent experience studying plasmas is essential. You should have hands-on experience with spectroscopic measurements, their analysis and relationship to atomic physics.
Further details of the grant which funds this post are at http://www.york.ac.uk/physics/ypi/research/divertor/
For further discussions about the position please contact Professor Ray Sharples (r.m.sharples@durham.ac.uk) or Professor Bruce Lipschultz (bruce.lipschultz@york.ac.uk).
Salary: £31,656 - £34,576 a year. The post is intended to start as soon as possible after 1 October 2016, and is available on a fixed-term basis for up to 41 months.