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Research Fellow (111806-0626)
We are seeking to appoint an experienced Research Fellow to undertake advanced crystallographic research on superconductors and correlated oxide materials, with a particular focus on developing a detailed structural understanding of complex, weakly ordered, and incommensurate crystalline phases.
The post will centre on the use of high precision spatially resolved single crystal X ray diffraction (XRD) to resolve subtle symmetry breaking, modulated structures, and crystallographic heterogeneity that underpin superconducting behaviour. Particular attention will be given to structural phase transitions, oxygen sublattice ordering, lattice instabilities, nanoscale structural inhomogeneity and the structural defects such as dislocations or stacking faults.
You will have a PhD in physics, materials science, chemistry, or a related discipline, with a strong background in crystallography or diffraction based structural analysis.
You will have demonstrable experience in the study of complex structural behaviour in solids, such as weak or emergent symmetry lowering, incommensurate or modulated order, crystallographic disorder, or subtle lattice distortions associated with superconducting or correlated oxide materials such as ferroelectrics. Extensive experience with X ray diffraction techniques (powder or single crystal diffraction) is essential, and experience using XRD to investigate subtle transitions or oxygen occupancy ordering is highly desirable.
Experience of synchrotron beamtime is essential. A demonstrated track record via employment at a synchrotron or large scale facility beamline—for example contributing to instrument operation, user support, or method development—is particularly welcome.
Equally important, you will bring an open, positive, and collaborative approach to research, with enthusiasm for working across experimental boundaries. You will be comfortable acting as a conduit between diffraction specialists and functional materials researchers, contributing structural insight to a wider experimental story.
For details on the experience and skills required, please refer to the job description attached as a PDF below.
PhD Status
If you are near submission of your PhD, or have not yet had it conferred, any offers of employment will be made at Research Assistant level, at the highest spinal point of pay grade 5 (£34,610 per annum).
Upon receipt of evidence confirming the successful award of your PhD, you will be promoted to Research Fellow, at the lowest spinal point of grade 6 (£35,608 per annum).