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ABOUT THE ROLE

Applications are invited for a Research Associate position in the Department of Mathematics at Imperial College London (ICL). The position is funded by a US Air Force Office of Scientific Research grant and can be extended to 36 months. The project involves an interdisciplinary effort bringing together stochastic mathematical modelling and data analysis, geophysical fluid dynamics, and novel modelling of plasma dynamics with the goal of furthering our understanding and parameterization of unresolved dynamics (unresolved subscales, Alfvén waves, etc.) in operational plasma physics models. The project, entitled Stochastic Plasma Physics Dynamics (SPPD) also has a strong computational mathematics flavour both in terms of project definition and the desirable outcomes.

WHAT YOU WOULD BE DOING

The successful applicant will be working in collaboration with PI D. Holm and Co-PI R. Hu as well as other postdocs involved with the project, in addition to a larger group of scientists involved in projects led by the PI (involving the mathematics department at Imperial College, and other active collaborations spread over various international institutions). The project aims to deliver new capabilities for assessing variability and uncertainty in theoretical plasma physics models. The stochastic approach accounts for uncertainty of transport on scales that are currently unresolvable in computer simulations yet may have effects in observations and operational plasma physics models.