Job Description
Position Details
Department of Civil Engineering
Location: University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham UK
Full time starting salary is normally in the range £35,880 to £45,163 with potential progression once in post to £47,874
Grade: 7
Full Time, Fixed Term contract up to March 2025
Closing date: 10th November 2024
Background
To create and contribute to the creation of knowledge by undertaking a specified range of activities within an established research programme and/or specific research project. The Research Fellow will work in a multi-disciplinary team comprising civil engineers and environmental scientists across the University of Birmingham, the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, and the British Geological Survey. The role is part of the STORMS – Strategies and Tools for Resilience of Buried Infrastructure to Meteorological Shocks project funded under the Centre of Excellence for Resilient Infrastructure Analysis on DAFNI call by UKRI. The aim of the STORMS project is to develop a comprehensive weather-related risk assessment framework for buried infrastructure and use the framework to understand the potential impacts of scenarios under both current and future climate. This project will also co-develop adaptation measures with stakeholders to increase resilience to extreme weather events and Climate Change.
Role Summary
- Work within specified research grants and projects and contribute to writing bids
- Operate within area of specialism
- Analyse and interpret research findings and results
- Contribute to generating funding
- Contribute to licensing or spin out deals with demonstrated commercial success (such as revenues, asset or company sales, IP generated) and/or public understanding of the discipline or similar
Main Duties
The responsibilities may include some but not all of the responsibilities outlined below.
- Work across the STORMS team
- Develop buried infrastructure risk assessment workflow on the DAFNI platform by integrating a range of models and datasets
- Assess vulnerability for buried infrastructure under extreme weather conditions
- Apply hydrodynamic models for analysing flood impacts on buried infrastructure
- Engage with stakeholders to develop resilience strategies
- Develop research objectives and proposals for own or joint research, with assistance of a mentor if required
- Contribute to writing bids for research funding
- Analyse and interpret data
- Apply knowledge in a way which develops new intellectual understanding
- Disseminate research findings for publication, research seminars etc
- Supervise students on research related work and provide guidance to PhD students where appropriate to the discipline
- Contribute to developing new models, techniques and methods
- Undertake management/administration arising from research
- Contribute to Departmental/School research-related activities and research-related administration
- Contribute to enterprise, business development and/or public engagement activities of manifest benefit to the College and the University, often under supervision of a project leader
- Collect research data; this may be through a variety of research methods, such as scientific experimentation, literature reviews, and research interviews
- Present research outputs, including drafting academic publications or parts thereof, for example at seminars and as posters
- Provide guidance, as required, to support staff and any students who may be assisting with the research
- Deal with problems that may affect the achievement of research objectives and deadlines
- Promotes equality and values diversity acting as a role model and fostering an inclusive working culture.
Person Specification
- Hold a PhD in a subject relevant to the research area, or equivalent qualifications/research experience
- High level analytical capability
- Fluency in relevant models, techniques or methods and ability to contribute to developing new ones
- Excellent ability of programming and handling large datasets using CUDA, C++, Python and Matlab
- Experience of flood risk assessment
- Experience of developing open-source hydrodynamic models, e.g., HiPIMS and SynxFlow
- Experience of working with high-performance computing environment
- Ability to communicate complex information clearly
- Ability to assess resource requirements and use resources effectively
- Ability to plan and organise research projects
- Ability to co-ordinate own work with others to avoid conflict or duplication of effort
- Understanding of and ability to contribute to broader management/administration processes
- Knowledge of the protected characteristics of the Equality Act 2010, and how to actively ensure in day to day activity in own area that those with protected characteristics are treated equally and fairly
Informal enquiries to Dr Xilin Xia E: x.xia.1@bham.ac.uk T: 0121 414 4297
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- Job Identification: 5876
- Job Category: Academic Non-clinical
- Posting Date:11/01/2024, 01:01 AM
- Apply Before: 11/11/2024, 12:59 AM
- Job Schedule: Full time
- Locations: Edgbaston, Birmingham, West Midlands, B15 2TT, GB
