Research Fellow (108233-1123)

The Department of Physics seeks to appoint a Research Fellow who will be part of the facility management team of the High-Field NMR National Research Facility (NRF) and provide support for external users to perform experiments and interpret the results.

The appointee will be part of the facility management team of the High-Field NMR National Research Facility (NRF) and provide support for external users to perform experiments and interpret the results. The primary responsibilities of this development role is to assist material science and chemistry users with no or limited previous experience in solid-state NMR. The NRF provides access to a 850 MHz wide bore and a 1 GHz narrow bore Bruker Neo spectrometer, with a 1.2 GHz system to be installed in 2025. The facility has a large variety of MAS probes including a 0.5 mm probe spinning up to 150 kHz, a DOR probe, a 7 mm LASER probe, and 0.7 mm, 1 mm, 1.3 mm, 1.6 mm, 1.9 mm, 2.5 mm, 3.2 mm, 4 mm and 7 mm probes, with a large variety of triple resonance combination, and extended variable temperature capabilities.  

The UK High-Field Solid-State NMR Facility (warwick.ac.uk)

We will consider applications for employment on a part-time or other flexible working basis, even where a position is advertised as full-time, unless there are operational or other objective reasons why it is not possible to do so.  

You should hold, or be about to attain, a PhD in solid-state NMR as applied to materials science and/ or chemistry. Be enthusiastic about the capabilities of solid-state NMR to answer questions relating to structure and dynamics at the atomic level in research fields such as energy materials, sustainable materials or biopolymers.

For further information regarding the skills required for this role please see the personal specification section of the attached job description.

If you are near submission or have recently submitted your PhD but have not yet had it conferred, any offers of employment will be made as Research Assistant at the top of level 5 of the University grade structure. Upon receipt of evidence of the successful award of your PhD, you will be promoted to Research Fellow on the first point of level 6 of the University grade structure. 

For further information about the Physics department, please visit our website.

The Physics Department and the University of Warwick are proud of their diverse community of staff, students, and visitors, and are committed to maintaining an excellent record in teaching and research by ensuring that there is equality of opportunity for all, fostered in an environment of mutual respect and dignity. Further information can be found at this website.

Benefits

As a member of staff at Warwick you can enjoy a wide range of competitive benefits, along with excellent learning and development opportunities. Take a look at the benefits that are on offer and information about working within our department.

The University supports flexible working and requests for job-share will be considered where possible.

The Physics Department holds an Athena SWAN Silver award, a national initiative to promote gender equality for all staff and students. The Physics Department is also a Juno Champion, which is an award from the Institute of Physics to recognise our efforts to address the under-representation of women in university physics and to encourage better practice for both women and men. 

Further information can be found at www.warwick.ac.uk/physics/staff/working/.

Childcare

Childcare can be provided for you at the University of Warwick Nursery (www.warwick.ac.uk/services/childrensservices/nursery) in order for you to attend the interview. Childcare is subject to availability of places at the Nursery.

Born in the 60s with a mindset of boldness, imagination and collaboration, the University of Warwick is a world-leading research-intensive university with the highest academic and research standards. We’re one of the world’s top universities, ranked 67th in the world and 10th in the UK*, with 92% of our research assessed to be ‘world leading or internationally excellent’**. 

You'll be joining a diverse, innovative and globally connected community committed to igniting real world progress. Here at Warwick, we offer you opportunities to follow your ambitions as long as you bring the energy and determination to succeed.

*QS World University Rankings 2024

** Research Excellence Framework 2021

To find out more about us visit our website.

Please direct all informal enquiries to the NRF Technical Director Dinu Iuga via email:  d.iuga@warwick.ac.uk.

To apply, please complete your essential personal details and attach a CV and a covering letter explaining why you wish to be considered for the position, in particular how you meet the essential and desired criteria.

The interviews will be held on December 2023/ January 2024

Closing Date: 13 December 2023.

We will provide you with a great range of benefits, which include an attractive pension scheme, 30 days holiday plus Christmas closure, excellent learning and development opportunities, and savings on a wide range of products and services. We offer a generous maternity/paternity/adoption/parental leave policy, and onsite childcare facilities. 

We recognise the importance of a healthy work/life balance and offer you access to flexible working, for more information click here. 

We are proud to say that we are a Living Wage employer.

Warwick is committed to building an organisation of mutual respect and dignity, promoting a welcoming, diverse, and inclusive working and learning environment.  We recognise that everyone is different in a variety of visible and non-visible ways, and that those differences are to be recognised, respected, and valued.  Where possible, we go beyond legislation to provide a place where everyone can thrive, supporting all staff to achieve their full potential. We aspire to remove economic, social, and cultural barriers that may otherwise prevent people from succeeding. 

We therefore welcome and encourage applications from all communities regardless of culture, background, age, disability, sex/gender, gender identity or expression, ethnicity, religion/belief, or sexual or romantic orientation. To find out more about our social inclusion work at Warwick visit our webpages here. 

The University currently holds a Race Equality Charter Bronze Award, Athena Swan Sliver Award and a Disability Smart Bronze Award. The University of Warwick is also one of the six founder institutions of the EUTOPIA European University Alliance. 

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