Postdoc in Nuclear Fuel Materials

Job description

The Nuclear Science and Engineering (NSE) Division seeks an ambitious, motivated, structured, and collaborative postdoc to join the nuclear fuel materials team to study the thermal stability and pellet-cladding mechanical and chemical interaction of burnup simulated doped UO2 fuel (ADOPTTM SIMFUEL). The project is supported by the Swedish Radiation Safety Authority (https://www.stralsakerhetsmyndigheten.se/) and in collaboration with Westinghouse and Chalmers University of Technology. You will lead research efforts using experimental and computational methods to evaluate the effect of fission products on the thermal and mechanical properties and on the pellet cladding mechanical and chemical interactions (PCMI and PCCI) of Cr2O3 and Al2O3 doped UO2.

Qualifications

Requirements

• A doctoral degree or an equivalent foreign degree. This eligibility requirement must be met no later than the time the employment decision is made.
• PhD in Nuclear Engineering, Materials Science, Engineering Mechanics or similar.

Preferred qualifications

• A doctoral degree or an equivalent foreign degree, obtained within the last three years prior to the application deadline
• Hands-on experience from lab work related to sintering, powder metallurgy, and characterization techniques.
• Knowledge and experience in modelling techniques in Mesoscale and Multiphysics finite element modelling
• Good communicative skills, teamwork competence and collaborative abilities, as well as capability to work independently.
• Motivation and dedication to research work is a very strong merit.
• Teaching experience is an advantage.
• Awareness of diversity and equal opportunity issues, with specific focus on gender equality

Great emphasis will be placed on personal skills.

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To apply for the position

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The application must include:

• CV including relevant professional experience and knowledge.
• Copy of diplomas and grades from your previous university studies. Translations into English or Swedish if the original documents have not been issued in any of these languages.
• Brief account of why you want to conduct research, your academic interests and how they relate to your previous studies and future goals. Max two pages long.
• Name and contact details to 2-3 reference persons (and letters of support from these persons, if at hand).

Your complete application must be received at KTH no later than the last day of application, midnight CET/CEST (Central European Time/Central European Summer Time).

About the employment

The position offered is for, at the most, two years.

A position as a postdoctoral fellow is a time-limited qualified appointment focusing mainly on research, intended as a first career step after a dissertation.

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