Two Research Fellows in Geophysics – Geology and Geophysics Research Group, Ocean and Earth Science, University of Southampton
Location: Ocean and Earth Science, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton
Salary: Both Positions from £28695
Fixed Term Permanent
Closing Date: Monday 15th June 2015
Interview Date: 13-14th July 2015
The University of Southampton is in the top 1% of world Universities and one of the UK’s top 10 research-intensive universities. We have an international reputation for research, teaching and enterprise activities. Following our excellent performance in the Research Excellence Framework (REF2014) assessment (where over 93% of our research activity was recognised as being of either world-leading or internationally excellent quality), Ocean and Earth Science are looking to appoint two Research Fellows in the Geology and Geophysics Research Group. You will be joining an active research group, with 11 full academic staff, 6 Research Fellows, and almost 40 PhD students (http://blog.soton.ac.uk/ggblog/). The two fellowships will be in:
1. Marine Electromagnetics (5 year position) – focus on building on the successful Southampton EM Lab and delivering on three newly won grants: EU Blue Mining, NERC PI-LAB, and ERC EURO-LAB. This extended Fellowship will be strongly encouraged to also develop their own research strands and to link with colleagues both within the group, across NOCS and the broader national and international geophysics communities.
2. Passive Seismology (up to 2 Years) – this post will play a vital role in at the start of a large international project to image and understand the properties that make a tectonic plate strong. As part of this role the Fellow will work on two funded research projects: the NERC PI-LAB project and ERC EURO-LAB project. The Fellow will do one or more of the following projects: global imaging of the tectonic plate, in situ imaging of the 0 – 40 My old Atlantic plate using data collected from a large ocean bottom seismic experiment, in situ seismic-MT joint inversions, and/or developing full-waveform inversions of anisotropic structures based the data and ridge synthetics. In addition, to supporting these projects, the Fellow will be encouraged to develop their own research interests in seismology. Interaction with international collaborators is key, since broad impact will be attained by integrating seismic and MT results and incorporating a wide range of seismic resolutions.
Details of the funding projects and other associated work can be found in the “High Resolution Marine Geophysics and Geotechnics”, “Methane Hydrates” and “Global to Local Tectonics” Research Projects section of the blog. http://blog.soton.ac.uk/ggblog/research-projects/
Informal enquiries can be made to the Head of Group, Dr Justin Dix (jkd@noc.soton.ac.uk) for the Marine Electromagnetics position and Dr. Catherine Rychert (C.Rychert@soton.ac.uk) for the Passive Seismology position.
Application Procedure:
You should submit your completed application form online at www.jobs.soton.ac.uk. Please include your CV and Publication list. 3 references will be required if you are successful at shortlisting, so please provide 3 referees on your application form. The vacancy will close at midnight on the closing date as shown above. If you need any assistance, Please contact Carol Read on +44 (0) 23 8059 3649 Please quote vacancy reference numbers 560515HN and 560615HN respectively on all correspondence.