Postdoc in nuclear fuel materials

Tasks

The Department of Nuclear Engineering and Technology (NSE) at the Department of Physics is seeking an ambitious, motivated, structured, and collaborative postdoc to join the nuclear fuel materials team to study fission product kinetics through ion implantation of advanced nuclear fuel (uranium nitride). The project is supported by Strålsäkerhetsmyndigheten (https://www.stralsakerhetsmyndigheten.se) and is carried out in collaboration with Westinghouse and Uppsala universitet. You will lead research efforts using experimental and computational methods to evaluate the diffusion kinetics of fission products and the formation of high burnup structure (HBS) in uranium nitride.

Qualifications

Requirements

• A completed doctoral degree or a foreign degree assessed to correspond to a doctoral degree. This eligibility requirement must be met no later than when the employment decision is made.
• Doctoral degree in nuclear engineering, materials science, engineering mechanics, or similar.

Merit

• At the closing date of the application, no more than three years since the doctoral degree or a foreign degree assessed to correspond to a doctoral degree was obtained.
• Practical experience in laboratory work related to sintering, powder metallurgy, and characterization techniques.
• Knowledge and experience of modeling techniques within mesoscale and multiphysics finite element modeling.
• Good communication skills and proficiency in English, both written and spoken, as it is required in daily work.
• Good collaborative skills and the ability to work independently.
• Motivation and commitment to research work is a very strong merit.
• Experience in teaching is meritorious.
• Awareness of diversity and equal treatment, with a particular focus on gender equality.
• Independence.

We will place great emphasis on personal qualities.

Become a part of KTH

KTH shapes the future through education, research, and innovation. As a leading international technical university, we play an active role in driving and contributing to the transition to a sustainable society. Here, you are offered the opportunity to grow and develop in a creative and dynamic workplace with good working conditions and benefits. Equality, diversity, and equal opportunities are a matter of quality and an inherent part of KTH's values as a university and a government agency.

Read more about our benefits and what it is like to work and develop at KTH.

Trade union representatives

Contact details for trade union representatives.

Application

You apply via KTH's recruitment system. As an applicant, you are primarily responsible for ensuring that your application is complete when submitted.

The application should include:

• CV including relevant professional experience and knowledge.
• Copy of degree certificates and transcripts from your previous university studies. Translations into English or Swedish if the original documents are not issued in either of these languages.
• A brief account of why you want to conduct research, your academic interests, and how they relate to your previous studies and future goals. max 2 pages long.
• Names and contact details of 2–3 references (and any letters of recommendation from these persons).

The application must reach KTH no later than the closing date of the application at midnight, CET/CEST (Central European Time/Central European Summer Time).

About the employment

The employment is permanent, but for a maximum of two years.

An employment as a postdoc is a fixed-term qualifying position primarily focused on research, intended as a first career step after graduation.

Other information

For information on the processing of personal data in connection with recruitment.

An employment at KTH may be subject to security clearance. If this is the case for this specific employment, a security clearance of the applicant will be conducted in accordance with the Security Protection Act (2018:585) after consent. In these cases, a prerequisite for employment is that the applicant is approved after the security clearance.

We reserve the right to decline direct contact with staffing and recruitment companies as well as advertisers.