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We are looking for a talented computational physicist, applied mathematician or programmer to design the stellarator coil winding surface. As a member of the Science team the candidate will work closely with the coil computational physicist and with the equilibrium, transport, and stability teams to ensure the designed field meets the physics-imposed criteria. In addition, he/she will interact with the engineers to understand the manufacturing constraints.

Responsibilities

Individual research responsibilities

• Design the stellarator coil winding surface in a flexible computational framework.

• Optimize the coil winding surface for accurate reproduction of a target plasma magnetic field, minimum Laplace forces, as well as current simplicity.

• Leverage on the latest advances in artificial intelligence, and computational hardware (for example GPU based High-Performance computing architectures).

• Stay up to date with the latest academic advances, initiate and maintain collaborations with the academic community, present results at conferences.

• Respond in an agile and proactive way to changes in constraints and design;

• Assist as needed on the coil design for non-fusion spin-offs.

Responsibilities as a team member

• Interact with the engineering division to ensure that the coil winding surface sustaining the coils satisfies the hard limits and maximizes performance from a material, mechanical, technological and economic standpoint.

• Interact with the equilibrium, transport and physics groups to ensure that the design maximises physically desirable properties.

• Work with the equilibrium and coil computational physicist in the development and implementation of a combined plasma and coil optimization.

• Interface the design framework with the analysis tools of the computational and physics departments, so that physics properties of any coil winding surface can rapidly be analyzed.

• Collaborate with the Mathematics and Computational departments to create, optimize, accelerate and deploy constrained optimization algorithms.
  

Qualifications -essential:

• PhD in physics, mathematics or mathematical physics.

• Excellent programming skills in modern programming languages (Python, C++).

• Experience in scientific computing and in developing novel algorithms.

• Experience with modern coding practices; continuous integration, version control (git).

• Excellent mathematical skills and strong gasp of differential geometry.

• Ability to work independently as well as in a team.

• Strong communication skills and a proven record of disseminating results at conferences.

Qualifications -desirable:

• Excellent understanding of plasma physics and electromagnetic theory.

• Experience in stellarator design and optimization.

• Experience in FORTRAN; familiarity with the REGCOIL algorithm.

• Solid publication record in stellarator optimization.

Qualified and interested?

Send your cv to jobs@renfusion.eu.