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Research Associate

Employer
KINGS COLLEGE LONDON
Location
London (Greater) (GB)
Salary
Grade 6, £38,304 to £45,026 per annum, including London Weighting
Closing date
27 Nov 2020

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Job description

Applications are invited for a Research Associate post in Theoretical Physics in the Department of Mathematics at King's College London.
The Theoretical Physics group conducts research in supersymmetry, string and related areas. The permanent members of the group are Dr Dionysios Anninos, Dr Benjamin Doyon, Professor Nadav Drukker, Professor Nikolay Gromov, Professor Christopher Herzog, Professor Neil Lambert, Professor Sameer Murthy, Professor George Papadopoulos, Dr Andreas Recknagel, Professor Gerard Watts and Professor Peter West.
This is a fixed-term post for 8 months, and is funded by the European Research Council (ERC) research project QBH. Candidates should have the potential to carry out research which has high levels of originality, innovation and depth that may lead to significant impact on their field over the long term, and have expertise related to the areas of black hole microstate counting and AdS/CFT correspondence.

Responsibility to: Professor Sameer Murthy (Principal Investigator)

The post is available as of 1 January 2021

This post is a full-time fixed-term contract for 8 months

Key responsibilities

  • Attend and, as appropriate, present research findings and papers at internal academic meetings and external professional conferences, and contribute to the internal and external visibility of the department.
  • Work as a conscientious and committed member of the team in order to achieve the aims of the QBH ERC projects.
  • Provide help in organizing conferences and workshops as a part of the ERC project.
  • Undertake such specific departmental roles and functions as may be reasonably required e.g. rotation as seminar programme co-ordinator.
  • Develop and undertake research of high quality consistent with making a full active research contribution, including establishing a track record of high quality publications.
  • Conduct individual and collaborative research projects.
  • Write up research work for publication.
  • Continually update knowledge and understanding in field of research.
  • Translate knowledge of advances in the subject area into research activity.
  • Foster inter-disciplinary working within the department.
  • Actively follow King's policies including equality of opportunity, data protection, etc.

The above list of responsibilities may not be exhaustive, and the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks and responsibilities as may reasonably be expected within the scope and grading of the post

Skills, knowledge, and experience

Essential criteria

  • PhD or equivalent awarded in Theoretical Physics or Mathematics, or PhD or equivalent in Theoretical Physics or Mathematics near completion by the start date of the post.
  • Evidence of high levels of originality in their published papers on Theoretical and Mathematical Physics.
  • A good technical understanding of the area of research of the “QBH” ERC project: black hole microstate counting, superconformal index of super Yang-Mills theory, AdS/CFT correspondence. Good understanding of the current state of the art in methods to calculate microstate degeneracy.
  • Research experience in Theoretical Physics and in the areas closely related to the “QBH” ERC research project (subjects as in previous point)
  • Competence in spoken and written English
  • High research productivity and reasonably fast pace of project completion
  • Ability to work in a team

Desirable criteria

  • Good presentation and communication skills
  • Possess an underlying vision which motivates their research
  • Good organisational skills (experience in organizing scientific events)

Please note that this is a PhD level role but candidates who have submitted their thesis and are awaiting award of their PhDs will be considered. In these circumstances the appointment will be made at Grade 5, spine point 30 with the title of Research Assistant. Upon confirmation of the award of the PhD, the job title will become Research Associate and the salary will increase to Grade 6.

Further information
Applicants should also arrange for three referee letters and a brief outline of their past and future research to be sent to
https://nms.kcl.ac.uk/nikolay.gromov/GATIS/KINGS_2019_POSTDOCS.php

This advertisement does meet the requirements for a Certificate of Sponsorship under Home Office regulations and therefore the university will be able to offer sponsorship for this role.

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King's College London is one of the top 20 universities in the world and among the oldest in England. King's has more than 27,600 students (of whom nearly 10,500 are graduate students) from some 150 countries worldwide, and some 6,800 staff.

King's has an outstanding reputation for world-class teaching and cutting-edge research. In the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) King’s was ranked 6th nationally in the ‘power’ ranking, which takes into account both the quality and quantity of research activity, and 7th for quality according to Times Higher Education rankings. Eighty-four per cent of research at King’s was deemed ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’ (3* and 4*). The university is in the top seven UK universities for research earnings and has an overall annual income of more than £684 million.

King's has a particularly distinguished reputation in the humanities, law, the sciences (including a wide range of health areas such as psychiatry, medicine, nursing and dentistry) and social sciences including international affairs. It has played a major role in many of the advances that have shaped modern life, such as the discovery of the structure of DNA and research that led to the development of radio, television, mobile phones and radar.

King's College London and Guy's and St Thomas', King's College Hospital and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trusts are part of King's Health Partners. King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre (AHSC) is a pioneering global collaboration between one of the world's leading research-led universities and three of London's most successful NHS Foundation Trusts, including leading teaching hospitals and comprehensive mental health services. For more information, visit: www.kingshealthpartners.org.

King’s £600 million campaign, World questions|KING’s answers, has delivered huge global impact in areas where King’s has particular expertise. Philanthropic support has funded new research to save young lives at Evelina London Children’s Hospital; established the King’s Dickson Poon School of Law as a worldwide leader in transnational law; built a new Cancer Centre at Guy’s Hospital; allowed unique collaboration between leading neuroscientists to fast-track new treatments for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, motor neurone disease, depression and schizophrenia at the new Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute; created the Cicely Saunders Institute: the first academic institution in the world dedicated to palliative care, and supported the King’s Sierra Leone Partnership in the Ebola crisis. Donations provide over 300 of the most promising students with scholarships and bursaries each year. More information about the campaign is available at www.kcl.ac.uk/kingsanswers.

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