Research Assistant

at  University of Portsmouth

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• Competitive salary, including incremental progression within your scale.
• Contributory defined benefits pension schemes – Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) for support and research staff and Teachers Pensions for our academic staff.
• Generous leave entitlement of 32–35 days a year, plus bank holidays, and an additional Christmas closure.
• Family-friendly policies supporting flexible working.
• Staff discounts and loyalty schemes.
• Staff car parking and discounted public travel.
• Excellent training and development opportunities.
• Staff wellbeing programmes.
• Long service awards and recognition awards, which are awarded to staff for exceptional performance.
• Recreation facilities, including discounted gym membership, food on campus schemes, use of the Library and staff social activities.
• Discounted learning.
• Start-up business mentoring from expert entrepreneurs via our Entrepreneurs in Residence programme.

In this project, an experimental method will be employed to develop strategies for component design and manufacturing using additive manufacturing (AM) to create a step-change in the optimisation of material properties for critical alloys used in automotive sector. The aim of this 1-year feasibility study is to develop a fundamental understanding of the relationship between AM processing conditions, microstructure and micro-texture with mechanical properties of the alloys produced via AM route. Work will be undertaken using the equipment available at the Faculty of Technology Centre: Metal Laser Melting 3D Systems ProX300 system, high performance CAD/CAM systems and various mechanical testing facilities. Furthermore, FEM will be conducted to understand AM processing and property relationship.
This appointment is a fixed-term contract until 28 February 2025,
For internal candidates it may be possible to apply for this role under the Secondment Policy . If you wish to apply as a secondee, you must have approval of your line manager in advance of submitting your application form. Please confirm in your application that your line manager has approved this.