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We are seeking a highly creative and motivated Postdoctoral Research Assistant/Associate to join the Machine Learning Group in the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, UK. This position will contribute to the research programme of the recently founded "AI Hub in Generative Models", a research consortium funded by EPSRC.

The goal of the programme is to do research in the area of deep generative models, e.g., diffusion, energy based, normalizing flow or transformer-based models. With a focus on the particular domain of molecules. The project will contribute to accelerate the drug discovery process, leading to more economic and effective drugs that can significantly improve the health and lifestyle of millions. The resulting methods are also expected to have an impact in materials science, e.g, by leading to more effective batteries.

The post holder will join the Machine Learning Group at the Department of Engineering, working with Prof. José Miguel Hernández Lobato and Prof. Mark Girolami and other members of the Cambridge Machine Learning Group (http://mlg.eng.cam.ac.uk/). The project offers also collaborations with other participants of the "AI Hub in Generative Models" (UCL , Oxford, Imperial, Edinburgh, Cardiff, Manchester and Surrey) and with its industrial partners.

Key responsibilities include working on deep learning, probabilistic modelling, deep generative modelling, and graph neural networks.

Additional responsibilities include developing research objectives and proposals; presentations and publications; assisting with teaching; liaising and networking with colleagues and students; planning and organising research resources and workshops.

Successful applicants will have or be near to completing a PhD in computer science, information engineering, statistics, chemistry or a related area, with extensive research experience and a strong publication record. Excellent mathematical and programming skills are essential, with experience in two or more of Bayesian methods, deep learning, deep generative models, reinforcement learning, graph neural networks.

Appointment at Research Associate level is dependent on having a PhD. Those who have submitted but not yet received their PhD will be appointed at Research Assistant level, which will be amended to Research Associate once the PhD has been awarded.

Salary Ranges: Research Assistant: £29,605 - £33,966 Research Associate: £36,024 - £44,263

Fixed-term: The funds for this post are available for 24 months in the first instance.

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Please ensure that you upload your Curriculum Vitae (CV) and a covering letter in the Upload section of the online application. If you upload any additional documents which have not been requested, we will not be able to consider these as part of your application. Please submit your application by midnight on the closing date.

If you have any questions about this vacancy or the application process, please contact: Kimberly Cole, email: div-f@eng.cam.ac.uk

Please quote reference NM40984 on your application and in any correspondence about this vacancy.

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The University has a responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to live and work in the UK.

Reducing the environmental impact of the built environment requires more sustainable structural design. This means using better structural materials and using structural materials better. Achieving efficient, constructable solutions for floor systems that require both long spans and flexible service layouts has been a barrier to the adoption of new lower net carbon materials, such as engineered timber, in the commercial building sector worldwide. The aim of this project is thus to develop, test and produce design guidance for timber-hybrid cellular beam solutions for long-span floor systems.

During this research, you will use a combination of analytical, numerical and experimental research methods to understand the behaviour of timber-hybrid cellular beams and then use this understanding to inform design. You will have the opportunity to investigate novel timber-hybrid cellular beam concepts proposed by industrial partners and to develop your own design solutions.

You will be part of a supportive research group that embraces diversity and enables flexible working. We are centred in the new Civil Engineering Building which accommodates both state-of-the-art lab spaces and a vibrant community of research students, researchers, academics and more.

Applicants should have (or expect to obtain by the start date) at least a good 2.1 degree in an Engineering or related subject. Knowledge or experience of structural analysis, numerical modelling and/or experimental testing is desirable. Industrial experience is welcome but not expected. A background in timber engineering is similarly welcome but not expected.

EPSRC DTP studentships are fully-funded (fees and maintenance) for students eligible for Home fees. Full eligibility criteria can be found via the following link; https://www.postgraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/finance/fees/what-my-fee-status

Applications should be submitted via the University of Cambridge Applicant Portal https://www.postgraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/courses/directory/egegpdpeg, with Dr Rob Foster identified as the potential supervisor. Applications may close early if the position is filled before the advertised date.

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A position exists, for a Research Assistant/Associate in the Department of Engineering, to work on Power Electronics and Magnetics for Electromobility and Electrical Power.

The post holder will be located in West Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK.

Key responsibilities and duties are the design, implementation, and testing of high-current power-electronic circuits and circuit boards as well as of magnetic components, magnetic fields, and motor technology, reporting progress in regular meetings with the international partners, writing of research papers, and establishing research collaborations and writing proposals.

The skills, qualifications and experience required to perform the role are experience in high-current, high-frequency PCB designs and SiC/GaN-based power converters; familiarity with magnetic simulation software packages and finite element analysis; previous knowledge in wireless power transfer; experience in spatial magnetic field shaping; experience with mathematical modelling and common convex optimization algorithms; experience with mathematical modelling for non-deterministic polynomial (NP-hard) problems; familiarity with common digital controllers/signal processors as well as control strategies and in innovative modulation strategy designs; experience in designing integrated power electronics for battery or sensor systems; proven track record of publishing in tier-1 journals; experience in dealing with international collaborations; experience in grant writing, preferably in English; experience of working in collaborative research projects with regular strict milestones, external partners relying on results, and regular progress and justification meetings with a sponsor or manager, and ability to prepare status reports and lead a status meeting.

The candidate will have or be close to obtaining a PhD in electrical engineering or a similar field with work closely related to the research to be performed in this position.

Appointment at Research Associate level is dependent on having a PhD. Those who have submitted but not yet received their PhD will be appointed at Research Assistant level, which will be amended to Research Associate once the PhD has been awarded.

Applicants wishing to work part-time (minimum 50% FTE) will be considered.

Salary Ranges: Research Assistant: £29,605 - £33,966 Research Associate: £36,024 - £44,263

Fixed-term: This post is available for 12 months in the first instance, with the possibility of extension, subject to available funding.

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Please ensure that you upload your Curriculum Vitae (CV) and a covering letter in the Upload section of the online application. If you upload any additional documents which have not been requested, we will not be able to consider these as part of your application. Please submit your application by midnight on the closing date.

If you have any questions about this vacancy or the application process, please contact Sue Murkett by email: sm330@cam.ac.uk

Please quote reference NM40967 on your application and in any correspondence about this vacancy.

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The project will establish a physical laboratory and theoretical techniques that will shape new research at the interface of geomechanics and robotics at the University of Cambridge, launching an integrated program dedicated specifically to the study of Soil-Machine Interaction (SMI). Humans move, manipulate, and interact with terrain on a massive scale - for civil construction, mobility, agriculture, and mining. In what ways will advances in mechatronics revolutionize the machines used in these applications? The project focuses on exploring the deformations and forces involved as machine components come into contact with soft terrain, focusing primarily on deformation with the terrain itself. The studentship provides considerable latitude in defining the specific aims of the project. Creative individuals with interests in physical experiments, theory, and/or numerical simulation are encouraged to apply, irrespective of degree or background. For additional information about the PI and links to related media and publications, please visit www.jimhambleton.com.

Applicants should have (or expect to obtain by the start date) at least a good 2.1 degree in Engineering or a related subject.

EPSRC DTP studentships are fully-funded (fees and maintenance) for students eligible for Home fees. Full eligibility criteria can be found via the following link; https://www.postgraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/finance/fees/what-my-fee-status

To apply for this studentship, please send your CV and a document with names and contact information for two referees to James Hambleton (jh631@cam.ac.uk) no later than 5 April 2024. Applications may close early if the position is filled before this date.

Please note that any offer of funding will be conditional on securing a place as a PhD student. Candidates will need to apply separately for admission through the University's Graduate Admissions application portal (https://www.graduate.study.cam.ac.uk/courses/directory/egegpdpeg). Candidates also need to have submitted a full application through the application portal no later than 5 April 2024.

The University actively supports equality, diversity and inclusion and encourages applications from all sections of society.

A position exists for a Research Assistant in the Department of Engineering, to work on low cost digital automation solutions in industrial contexts. The post holder will work with the Distributed Information and Automation Laboratory (led by Prof. Duncan McFarlane).

The post holder will be located in West Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK.

The key responsibilities and duties are developing industry and lab-based demonstrators providing digital automation solutions; testing and experimenting with solutions to assess their effectiveness and impact on connected manufacturing systems and people; and generating and supporting presentations and reports.

The skills, qualifications and experience required to perform the role are to have a Bachelors degree in Manufacturing, Engineering, Computer Science or related subjects; experience in planning and development of digital automation or augmentation systems; and experience in the use of low cost sensing, communication and computing devices.

Salary Range:
Research Assistant: £29,605 - £33,966

Fixed-term: The funds for this post are available until 31 March 2025 in the first instance.

Once an offer of employment has been accepted, the successful candidate will be required to undergo a health assessment.

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Please ensure that you upload your Curriculum Vitae (CV), a covering letter, your research publication list, and your most relevant paper in the Upload section of the online application. If you upload any additional documents which have not been requested, we will not be able to consider these as part of your application. Please submit your application by midnight on the closing date.

If you have any questions about this vacancy or the application process, please contact Bet Fowler email dial-admin@eng.cam.ac.uk.

Please quote reference NM40926 on your application and in any correspondence about this vacancy.

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The University has a responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to live and work in the UK.

A position exists, for a Senior Research Associate in Digital Twins in the Department of Engineering, to work on the Digital Roads of the Future (DRF) initiative.

The post holder will be located in the Civil Engineering Building, 7a JJ Thomson Ave, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB3 0FA, UK.

The key responsibilities and duties are to provide technical leadership and coordination to the DRF initiative via research advancement in Digital Twins within its existing grants; authoring new grant proposals; authoring publications and disseminating the initiative's outcomes; teaching and learning support; administration, financial management, planning and organisation; staff management, training, and supervising; and internal and external networking, while constantly upholding the university's values.

The skills, qualifications and experience required to perform the role are: (i) having obtained a PhD degree in any relevant engineering or science discipline, or architecture; (ii) possessing significant previous academic experience related to Digital Twins for infrastructure or the built environment as a Research Associate or equivalent; (iii) possessing a relevant and very strong academic track record with peer reviewed journal publications in top journals or patents, with some evidence of preparation of successful proposals; (iii) possessing previous project and financial management experience; (iv) possessing excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

Appointment at Senior Research Associate level is dependent on having significant experience as a postdoctoral research associate or equivalent, with proven impact from authored publications.

Fixed-term: The funds for this post are available for 25 months or until 31 March 2027, whichever comes sooner.

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Please ensure that you upload your Curriculum Vitae (CV) and a covering letter in the Upload section of the online application. If you upload any additional documents which have not been requested, we will not be able to consider these as part of your application. Please submit your application by midnight on the closing date.

If you have any questions about this vacancy, Prof Ioannis Brilakis, ib340@cam.ac.uk may be contacted for queries of a technical nature related to the role or the application process, please contact: Ms Rachel Judson, email rj419@cam.ac.uk

Please quote reference NM40998 on your application and in any correspondence about this vacancy.

The University actively supports equality, diversity and inclusion and encourages applications from all sections of society.

The University has a responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to live and work in the UK.

We are seeking a Finance Clerk to join the department's Finance Office. You will undertake a full range of accounts administrative duties within the Department's "central" Finance Office following University policy and procedures and best practice in order to achieve accurate input within specified guidelines and against specified deadlines.

You will be educated to at least A Level standard and will be AAT qualified at intermediate level or working towards this qualification. The role involves day-to-day contact with academic, technical and administrative staff and students and requires the ability to communicate effectively with a wide range of people.

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If you have any questions about this vacancy or the application process, please contact the HR Office at the Department of Engineering (hr-office@eng.cam.ac.uk, 01223 332615).

Please quote reference NM40904 on your application and in any correspondence about this vacancy.

The University actively supports equality, diversity and inclusion and encourages applications from all sections of society.

The University has a responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to live and work in the UK.

Significant progress has been made in recent years in understanding the behaviour of vibration-isolated buildings, with research in Cambridge having considered various aspects of the vibration source, the transmission paths and the building itself. This project aims to advance our understanding to the point at which practicable design guidance may be formulated. The project has three primary objectives.

Quantifying Soil-Structure Interaction: A range of theoretical studies will be undertaken to quantify the effect of constructing a foundation in the vicinity of an underground railway tunnel. This will include extending recent work on the dynamic behaviour of piled foundations to account for layered soils. A range of semi-analytical and numerical models will be used.

Simplified Models for the Prediction of Base-Isolation Performance: A range of simplified models will be developed based on current research into effective building/foundation impedance modelling. This will take advantage of the findings of recent power flow analysis, which has highlighted the dominant vibration transmission paths and helped establish the acceptable modelling assumptions that may be made to enhance computational efficiency.

Design Methodology: An outline design methodology will be developed to cover the measurement (or prediction) of free-field vibration levels, the accounting for building and foundation structures and the prediction of the final isolation performance. The focus will be on a practicable methodology, supported, where necessary, with computationally efficient tools that are suitable for practitioner use.

The research will be conducted in close collaboration with CDM-Stravitec, a leading supplier of vibration isolation products.

Applicants should have (or expect to obtain) a 1st class, or high 2:1, honours degree in Mechanical or Structural Engineering. Preference will be given to those with experience in Structural Dynamics.

EPSRC DTP studentships are fully-funded (fees and maintenance) for students eligible for Home fees. Full eligibility criteria can be found via the following link; https://www.postgraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/finance/fees/what-my-fee-status

To apply for this studentship, in the first instance please email a CV to Dr James Talbot (jpt1000@cam.ac.uk), to arrive no later than 19 April 2024.

Please note that any offer of funding will be conditional on securing a place as a PhD student. Candidates will need to apply separately for admission through the University's Graduate Admissions application portal; this can be done before or after applying for this funding opportunity. The applicant portal can be accessed via: www.graduate.study.cam.ac.uk/courses/directory/egegpdpeg. The final deadline for PhD applications is 16 May 2024, although it is advisable to apply earlier than this.

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An exciting opportunity exists to join the Resource Efficiency Collective (www.refficiency.com) led by Professor Jonathan Cullen, at the Department of Engineering's site in Trumpington Street.

The Centre Coordinator is the senior administrative role and will develop and maintain the administrative policy and processes for the Resource Efficiency Collective to ensure the smooth running of research and teaching related activities. This involves managing project timelines and a budget, managing external partner networks, running workshop and conference events, bidding for funding, and co-ordinating the group's HR and administrative processes.

Educated to degree level or equivalent level of practical experience, you will have expertise in using various types of administration software as well as possess excellent organisational, communication and interpersonal skills. Previous administrative experience, including the use of systems to manage HR, IT, finances, communication, website curation and social media are essential requirements for this role.

Fixed-term: The funds for this post are available for 6 months in the first instance.

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If you have any questions about this vacancy or the application process, please contact the HR Office at the Department of Engineering (hr-office@eng.cam.ac.uk, 01223 332615).

Please quote reference NM40874 on your application and in any correspondence about this vacancy.

The University actively supports equality, diversity and inclusion and encourages applications from all sections of society.

The University has a responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to live and work in the UK.

A position exists a Research Assistant to perform surgical implantation of neural probes and drug delivery devices in rodent models and carry out behavioural analysis to evaluate their performance.

Neural probes containing arrays of microelectrodes are designed and microfabricated within the research group with the aim of treating a wide range of neurological conditions. The probes can be implanted into the brain to record electrical signals or used to electrically stimulate neural tissue in order to deliver therapy. The role will involve probe development and validation. The position will require communication of the results to a highly multidisciplinary team, in order to aid in the development and validation of new implantable neural treatments.

Applicants must have a BSc or equivalent in engineering. Applicants should hold a personal Home Office Licence or be willing to undertake the necessary training.

Fixed-term: The funds for this post are available until 31 January 2025 in the first instance.

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Please ensure that you upload your Curriculum Vitae (CV) and a covering letter in the Upload section of the online application. If you upload any additional documents which have not been requested, we will not be able to consider these as part of your application. Please submit your application by midnight on the closing date.

If you have any questions about this vacancy, please contact Professor George Malliaras for queries of a technical nature (gm603@cam.ac.uk) and Kirsty Shepherd (kjs64@cam.ac.uk) for queries related to the application process.

Please quote reference NM40829 on your application and in any correspondence about this vacancy.

The University actively supports equality, diversity and inclusion and encourages applications from all sections of society.

The University has a responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to live and work in the UK.

We are seeking a Finance Coordinator to support financial administration across all departments in the School of Technology. This is a new role, which will be based primarily in the Finance Office at the Department of Engineering's site in Trumpington Street, to provide direct accounting support in a highly trained, efficient and flexible manner to all departments across the School of Technology.

Reporting to the Department of Engineering's Finance Office Manager, the majority of time will be spent supporting the Department of Engineering, with the remainder of time spent supporting other departments in the School in order to contribute to the management of financial operations across the School.

You will be educated to at least A Level standard with an AAT level 4 Professional Diploma, or equivalent accounting qualification, or actively studying for the later stages of the AAT level 4 Professional Diploma. The successful candidate will be highly numerate and analytical as well as skilled in processing accounting transactions, ideally using computerised accounting systems such as Oracle Financials. Good communication skills, both oral and written, with the ability to display tact and diplomacy in dealing with a wide range of staff at all levels, are essential for this role. The successful candidate should be able to demonstrate significant experience gained whilst working in a busy financial or administrative function within a large organisation.

As this role supports the School of Technology as a whole, some travel to other University sites in the city of Cambridge may be required as well as occasional travel outside of the city.

If you think you are the right candidate for this role, we would love to hear from you.

Benefits of working at Cambridge include:

• Competitive rates of pay with automatic service-related pay progression and annual cost of living increases;
• Generous annual leave allowance of 40.5 days paid leave (including bank holidays);
• Flexible and hybrid working opportunities;
• Generous maternity, adoption and shared parental leave entitlement and other family friendly schemes (e.g. workplace nurseries and salary exchange schemes for childcare);
• An auto-enrolment pension scheme, with a generous employer contribution;
• Travel benefits and retail discounts at over 2,000 local and national stores;
• Schemes to support with relocation / the provision of accommodation.

Fixed-term: The funds for this post are available for 2 years in the first instance.

Applications are welcome from internal candidates who would like to apply for the role on the basis of a secondment from their current role in the University.

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The closing date for applications is Tuesday 26 March 2024. If you have any questions about this vacancy or the application process, please contact the HR Office at the Department of Engineering (hr-office@eng.cam.ac.uk, 01223 332615).

Please quote reference NM40238 on your application and in any correspondence about this vacancy.

The University actively supports equality, diversity and inclusion and encourages applications from all sections of society.

The University has a responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to live and work in the UK.

Talk Abstract: Integrated architectural design takes into consideration various parameters at an early stage for the development of optimised buildings. One of these is naturally structural performance. In other words, integrating structural performance in the early conceptual design stages can lead to significant material efficiency as well as aesthetic quality. This presentation will focus on how form-finding frameworks, and in particular graphic statics, can play a crucial role in integrated design and how it can enable the collaboration between architects and engineers. Relevant research conducted at CUED will be showed along with recent examples of applying these methods to projects at Foster + Partners.

Speaker Bio: Marina is an Industrial Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. In her hybrid role spanning industry and academia, she is based at the Specialist Modelling Group (SMG) at Foster + Partners and the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge. Marina has a background in applied mathematics and physics, after which she specialised in computational design at the Architectural Association, and civil engineering at the University of Cambridge. She holds a PhD from the Department of Engineering on ‘Geometry-based structural analysis and design’ (graphic statics). Her previous academic and industry collaborations include ETH Zurich (Chair of structural design) and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (structures group). As a Design Systems Analyst and SMG Research Lead, she specialises in conceptual structural design, form-finding, and architectural geometry. In addition, she contributes to research projects focusing on additive manufacture, robotics, space architecture and extra-terrestrial infrastructure. In her academic capacity, Marina develops computational tools and theoretical frameworks for the design of materially efficient structures using graphic statics.

• Speaker: Dr Marina Konstantatou
• Friday 08 March 2024, 15:00-16:00
• Venue: CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).
• Series: Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars; organiser: Nishangani Gowrikanthan .

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ABSTRACT :

Concrete may appear as a boring material on a macroscopic level. However, the concrete fracture process exhibits an interesting complex behaviour dominated by disorder, long-range interactions, and long memory in the intensified stress field ahead of the crack tip known as the fracture process zone. The fracture process resulting from such complexity usually generates long-tailed distributions leading to self-organization signifying the emergence of order from the disorder. The existence of self-organization also hints at a universal pattern dominated by simple governing rules, regardless of system configuration. Consequently, entropy can be used as a measure of disorder to quantify the randomness of the probability distributions arising from the system variable. In this study, we propose cumulative distribution functions for acoustic emission features derived from Tsallis’ non-extensive entropy formulation. The Tsallis entropy is well-suited for modeling long-tailed distributions due to its sensitivity to the tail behaviour. Furthermore, the non-linearly interacting multi-scale cracks in the fracture process zone of concrete are inseparable and the whole system cannot be divided into simple sub-systems without tampering with the systemic properties, resulting in non-additivity and non-extensivity.

An experimental investigation was conducted to acquire acoustic emission data from the concrete fracture process. The testing involves three different sizes of notched plain concrete beams under three-point bending subjected to monotonic and fatigue loading. Two features of the AE stress wave, amplitude (magnitude) and inter-event time appear to be correlated with crack size and crack occurrence rate respectively. Distribution functions derived using the Tsallis entropy formulation are then fitted to the experimental data and compared across the beam sizes and loading conditions. The pattern in the collective behavior of entropic indices evaluated from the AE distribution is illustrated to highlight the possibility of self-organization. Monotonic loading controlled by crack mouth opening displacement allows stable crack growth resulting in critical AE distribution parameters that are used as a reference to track the damage evolution under sub-critical fatigue loading.

KEYWORDS : Concrete, Fracture, Fatigue, Acoustic emission, Tsallis Entropy

SPEAKER BIO :

Dr. Nitin Burud is currently working at the University of Surrey as a post-doctoral researcher. He received a doctorate from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. His research work focuses on fracture and fatigue in materials, specializing in structural health monitoring applications using statistical data analysis. He worked extensively on acoustic emission techniques for understanding the fracture process in concrete-like cementitious materials. Consequently, his doctoral dissertation is a thematic exploration of acoustic emission data for mechanistic as well as statistical description, diagnosis, and prediction of damage evolution in concrete. Bringing a complexity perspective to understand the fracture process in concrete, and the use of Tsallis entropy as a measure of the complexity, is a central idea of his recent research. Before joining the University of Surrey, he shortly worked as an assistant professor at a deemed university in India. At the University of Surrey, he is investigating the fatigue behavior of a 130-year-old railway bridge through large-scale testing and numerical modeling.

• Speaker: Nitin Burud, University of Surrey
• Friday 15 March 2024, 15:00-16:00
• Venue: CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).
• Series: Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars; organiser: Sam Cocking.

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We are seeking a Research Assistant/Associate in Environmental Assessment to join the Centre for Industrial Sustainability within the Department of Engineering, to work on the SEEBEYOND project which aims to motivate food companies to improve environmental performance beyond legal compliance. The project is funded by the Environment Agency and Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).

The position is tailored for a motivated researcher with a strong publication record in environmental assessment, poised to conduct cutting-edge transdisciplinary research. The successful candidate will provide technical expertise to rigorously assess environmental performance of food companies along their supply chains covering various aspects, such as carbon emissions, water, materials and waste throughout product life cycles. Furthermore, this role will involve integration with digital traceability technologies, operations management and AI.

Appointment at Research Associate level is dependent on having a PhD. Those who have submitted but not yet received their PhD will be appointed at Research Assistant level, which will be amended to Research Associate once the PhD has been awarded.

Salary Ranges: Research Assistant: £29,605 - £33,966 Research Associate: £36,024 - £44,263

Fixed-term: The funds for this post are available for 18 months in the first instance.

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Please ensure that you upload your Curriculum Vitae (CV) and a covering letter in the Upload section of the online application. If you upload any additional documents which have not been requested, we will not be able to consider these as part of your application. Please submit your application by midnight on the closing date.

If you have any questions about this vacancy, Dr Lili Jia (email: lj340@cam.ac.uk) may be contacted for queries of a technical nature related to the role or for queries related to the application process, please contact: Frances Bycroft (email: fb285@cam.ac.uk).

Please quote reference NM40680 on your application and in any correspondence about this vacancy.

The University actively supports equality, diversity and inclusion and encourages applications from all sections of society.

The University has a responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to live and work in the UK.

Reducing the environmental impact of the built environment requires more sustainable structural design. This means using better structural materials and using structural materials better. Achieving efficient, constructable solutions for floor systems that require both long spans and flexible service layouts has been a barrier to the adoption of new lower net carbon materials, such as engineered timber, in the commercial building sector worldwide. The aim of this project is thus to develop, test and produce design guidance for timber-hybrid cellular beam solutions for long-span floor systems.

During this research, you will use a combination of analytical, numerical and experimental research methods to understand the behaviour of timber-hybrid cellular beams and then use this understanding to inform design. You will have the opportunity to investigate novel timber-hybrid cellular beam concepts proposed by industrial partners and to develop your own design solutions.

You will be part of a supportive research group that embraces diversity and enables flexible working. We are centred in the new Civil Engineering Building which accommodates both state-of-the-art lab spaces and a vibrant community of research students, researchers, academics and more.

Applicants should have (or expect to obtain by the start date) at least a good 2.1 degree in an Engineering or related subject. Knowledge or experience of structural analysis, numerical modelling and/or experimental testing is desirable. Industrial experience is welcome but not expected. A background in timber engineering is similarly welcome but not expected.

EPSRC DTP studentships are fully-funded (fees and maintenance) for students eligible for Home fees. EU and international students may be considered for a small number of awards at the Home fees rate. Full eligibility criteria can be found via the following link; https://www.postgraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/finance/fees/what-my-fee-status

Applications should be submitted via the University of Cambridge Applicant Portal https://www.postgraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/courses/directory/egegpdpeg, with Dr Rob Foster identified as the potential supervisor. Applications may close early if the position is filled before the advertised date.

The University actively supports equality, diversity and inclusion and encourages applications from all sections of society.

The University has received funding for one of three Hubs in Telecommunications, named 'Platform Driving the Ultimate Connectivity' (TITAN). The TITAN consortium comprises 16 UK universities, each with distinct domain expertise in telecommunications. The University of Cambridge, through its LiFi Research Centre (LRC), is leading TITAN. The aim of this Hub is to lay the foundations for the future 'network of networks' and to translate this research into emerging global standards, such as 6th generation (6G) wireless networks. Additionally, the University is involved in the second Telecoms Hub, 'All-Spectrum Connectivity' (HASC), which is led by the University of Oxford, along with several other publicly funded projects aligned with TITAN.

The TITAN Hub unit will be based within the Electrical Engineering Division at West Cambridge and we are seeking an experienced Research Coordinator to provide coordination support for all ongoing projects and management of the day-to-day operations of the LRC.

You will be responsible for the comprehensive management of all administrative and financial matters, overseeing recruitment processes, arranging travel and workshops, and acting as a Personal Assistant to the Principal Investigator (PI). You will also support the development of new project proposals stemming from the research in these projects.

Educated to degree level/Level 6 vocational qualification, or equivalent level of practical experience, you will be an experienced user of Microsoft Office, as well as proficient in the use of the LaTeX document preparation software, with excellent organisational skills. Previous administrative experience within a role in higher education, as well as an understanding of research coordination are essential. Ideally, this would have been gained from a background in a similar role in the University. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills are also necessary pre-requisites for this role.

Fixed-term: The funds for this post are available until 31 March 2025 in the first instance.

Applications are welcome from internal candidates who would like to apply for the role on the basis of a secondment from their current role in the University.

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The closing date for applications is Monday 18 March 2024. If you have any questions about this vacancy or the application process, please contact the HR Office at the Department of Engineering (hr-office@eng.cam.ac.uk, +44 (0)1223 332615).

Please quote reference NM40646 on your application and in any correspondence about this vacancy.

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Decarbonizing the global economy can only be achieved by reducing the carbon intensity of energy sources. A key to achieving this is reducing the techno-economic barriers to replacing fossil fuel usage with low carbon and renewable sources. Solutions which reduce plant costs, improve plant efficiency, and increase plant flexibility with other energy sources, are key to delivering the UK Net Zero target.

This project addresses this by developing design methods to improve the performance of turbomachines operating with non-conventional or 'advanced' fluids, which can be used to reduce energy demand and improve energy efficiency. These advanced fluids include dense-gases (such as organic vapours) and supercritical fluids (such as super-critical CO2) and are fundamental to low-carbon energy systems using Organic Rankine Cycles and sCO2 cycles. These systems are important for a range of technologies including Heat Recovery and CHP, Carbon Capture, Hydrogen Gas Turbines and Renewables. Advanced fluids can be used as working fluids for heat management systems and to augment the performance of a gas-turbine prime mover. By exploiting the very high-power densities achievable with high pressure advanced fluids, these systems can be relatively compact and therefore minimize overall system cost and size. The project will use high fidelity simulations (Direct Numerical and Large Eddy Simulation) to investigate turbomachinery flows with advanced fluids (such as super-critical CO2).

Applicants should have (or expect to obtain by the start date) at least a good 2.1 degree, preferably at masters level, in an Engineering or related subject.

EPSRC iCASE studentships are fully-funded (fees and maintenance) for students eligible for Home fees. EU and international students may be considered for a small number of awards at the Home fees rate. Full eligibility criteria can be found via the following link; https://www.postgraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/finance/fees/what-my-fee-status

Applications should be submitted for the PhD in Engineering via the University of Cambridge Applicant Portal https://www.postgraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/courses/directory/egegpdpeg with Professor Andrew Wheeler identified as the potential supervisor.

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Engineering Interfaces to Efficiently Charge Catalysts

With the emergence of low-cost renewable energy sources and our societal push for decarbonization, it has become attractive to utilize renewable electrons to drive important industrial reactions such as ammonia synthesis and hydrogen production and to address issues related to sustainability such as emissions capture and conversion. However, conventional porous catalytic materials currently in use are designed for thermal processes, and they are inefficient in storing and using charges at the catalytic interface to affect reaction performance. Our research group has the capability to engineer these catalytic interfaces to improve electron transport and storage using a robust atom-by-atom deposition methodology inspired from thin film technologies such as Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) and Self-Assembled Monolayers (SAM). This methodology improves over conventional methods of incipient wetness that have issues related to large crystallite formation and irregular structures, leading to an inefficient use of materials.

In this studentship, you will engineer nanostructures and investigate their catalytic properties under charge modulation for reactions involving fuel generations. The theme, as you have noticed, is efficiency i.e. efficiency in utilizing materials and efficiency in storing energy. Therefore, your work will include both exciting proof of concept studies and wider exploratory studies related to industrial applications. The advancements you make will have a major impact on UK's pursuit for decarbonization. Throughout the studentship, we will develop the research objectives over time, with the central theme focusing on engineering interfaces. You will have the opportunity to work with world-class experts at Cambridge and at other national and international institutions.

Informal enquiries to tmo32@cam.ac.uk are warmly encouraged.

Lab website: http://onnlab.eng.cam.ac.uk/home

EPSRC DTP studentships are fully-funded (fees and maintenance) for students eligible for Home fees. EU and international students may be considered for a small number of awards at the Home fees rate. Full eligibility criteria can be found via the following link; https://www.postgraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/finance/fees/what-my-fee-status

Applications should be submitted via the University of Cambridge Applicant Portal https://www.postgraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/courses/directory/egegpdpeg, with Tzia Ming Onn identified as the potential supervisor. Applications may close early if the position is filled before the advertised date.

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Applications are invited for two Research Laboratory Technicians to join the Civil Engineering Division, which supports world-leading research and teaching. Both roles are offered on an initial three-year fixed-term basis. One of the positions available will have a focus on soil mechanics, the other focussing on structural engineering, although the team supports activities across both areas.

The roles, which are part of Division D, have been created to provide maintenance and technical support to ensure the smooth running of the NRFIS geotechnical laboratories in the Civil Engineering Building. The roles will offer a variety of responsibilities, including working with academics and researchers to manufacture and prepare specimens, providing technical advice to students/researchers on the design of experiments, supporting students/researchers and others in practical sessions, maintaining state-of-art equipment and contributing towards ensuring safety regulations are followed. There may be an opportunity to work on research projects taking place within the geotechnical group.

The Research Laboratory Technicians will be required to work flexibly across the week to accommodate the different durations of tests and experimental schedules. They will be expected to act with a high level of independence and to work proactively and on their own initiative.

The successful candidate will have practical experience in the safe use of machine tools and hand tools and experience in providing training and knowledge of specialised geotechnical laboratory activities and equipment would be an advantage. You should have a standard of education/qualification equitable to degree/level 6, or an equivalent level of practical experience. Excellent communication and organisational skills are essential for this role, together with the ability to understand and explain diverse technical and design problems to researchers/students.

Fixed-term: The funds for these posts are available for 3 years in the first instance.

Applications are welcome from internal candidates who would like to apply for the role on the basis of a secondment from their current role in the University.

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If you have any questions about this vacancy or the application process, please contact the HR Office at the Department of Engineering (hroffice@eng.cam.ac.uk, +44 (0)1223 332615).

Please quote reference NM40593 on your application and in any correspondence about this vacancy.

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We are looking for an experienced IT Support Technician to join the Department of Engineering's Information and Computing Services group (ICS) at the Department's site in Trumpington Street.

ICS provides IT and AV services that underpin the Department's world-leading teaching and research, as well as the administration that supports them. ICS comprises approximately 30 IT professionals, working in teams focused on user support, infrastructure, AV, research support and DevOps.

As Principal IT Support Technician, you will join the helpdesk and desktop support team headed by the IT Support Team Leader. The Support Team is responsible for front-line IT services and provides first- and second-tier support to users in the Department of Engineering, working closely with colleagues within the Support Team and across the ICS group. Alongside your core support work, you will have the opportunity to work on special projects and services, and to contribute to IT planning.

With users comprising students, academics and professional staff, this is a busy and dynamic environment, and you will be exposed to a wide range of technologies. You should enjoy interacting with customers and have a desire to progress your technical skills through your work and through the training and development opportunities available to members of ICS. The IT Support Team is the face of IT in the Department for many users, and it must respond quickly, communicate effectively and provide high levels of service. Ideally, you will have demonstratable skills and experience with:

• Delivering customer-facing IT services and support
• Computer configuration management and deployment tools
• Troubleshooting PC hardware and software issues
• Proactively investigating issues and determining fixes
• Defining, carrying out and documenting small projects
• Contributing to standard procedures and support documentation
• Microsoft Windows, Office and all Microsoft 365 products

Experience with any/all of networking (DNS, DHCP), Linux (CentOS, Ubuntu), Macs, Active Directory and Windows Server would be advantage.

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If you have any questions about this vacancy or the application process, please contact the HR Office at the Department of Engineering (hr-office@eng.cam.ac.uk, 01223 332615).

Please quote reference NM40583 on your application and in any correspondence about this vacancy.

The University actively supports equality, diversity and inclusion and encourages applications from all sections of society.

The University has a responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to live and work in the UK.