Research Associate in High-Temperature Creep and Creep Fatigue

at  University of Leicester Recruitment Team

ABOUT YOU

With a PhD in a relevant subject area, you should be able to demonstrate expert knowledge of discipline in a field relevant to physical metallurgy of steels or relevant metallic materials, or solid mechanics. This should include a demonstrable track record in performing advanced microstructure characterisation and data analysis.

Mechanics of Materials Research Group at University of Leicester is seeking to appoint a Postdoctoral Research Associate based at School of Engineering. You will work with Prof Bo Chen on an EPSRC funded programme on high-temperature creep and creep-fatigue of austenitic stainless steel.
Working with a renowned research team, you will carry out high-quality research across advanced microstructure characterisation, large-scale experimental facilities as well as computational modelling. The role offers opportunity for industrial collaboration.
You will already demonstrate good knowledge in either of the above-mentioned three areas and be supported to grow their expertise into the role and lead their own activities within the team. You will also undertake travels within the UK and internationally.
The current available position is a microstructure characterisation focused role, in which you will use high-end microstructural characterisation facilities such as the Hercules facility, a combination of micro-CT with diffraction contrast tomography and laser-assisted focused ion beam, to study microstructural degradation of Type 316 stainless steel subject to creep-fatigue loads. It is also expected that you perform advanced data analysis by leveraging the emerging tools such as machine learning to establish the link of process-structure-property.
Further information can be found in the job summary.