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Research Associate

Employer
KINGS COLLEGE LONDON
Location
London (Greater) (GB)
Salary
£38,304 - £40,414 per annum, including London Weighting Allowance
Closing date
16 Sep 2021

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Academic Discipline
Engineering & Technology
Job Type
Research Related, Research Associate
Contract Type
Temporary
Hours
Full Time

Job Details

Job description

A Research Associate position is available in the Department of Engineering, King's College London to work under the guidance of  Professor Jian S Dai in the EPSRC funded project  REST: Reconfigurable lower limb Exoskeleton for effective Stroke Treatment in residential settings. 

This position takes the responsibility of design, optimisation and advanced control in developing an exoskeleton for lower limb rehabilitation for stroke patient recovery. The candidate needs a strong background in theoretical kinematics, dynamics, design and mechatronics, with locomotion control and Lyapunov stability analysis skills and should work in a team by collaborating with other universities and hospitals in developing the exoskeleton and in working on papers and reports for the development and for solving the scientific issues. The project that the PDRA works on is to bring rehabilitation to people in their own homes by developing affordable innovative exoskeletons that are reconfigurable, tailored to meet patients’ needs, deliver effective diagnosis and personalised treatment and monitored remotely by physiotherapists

To generate high quality journal and conference publications. A PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering or Robotics is a plus. 

Recently re-founded, the Department of Engineering is rapidly expanding into a world-class research and teaching department. Research currently focuses on robotics, telecommunications and biomedical engineering, but we are looking to establish new research themes.  

We offer both undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, with a distinctive approach, combining both traditional teaching methods with modern, project-based learning, catering for the needs of our students and the industries in which they will work.  

As a new department we have invested in new laboratories and maker space at the centre of the Strand campus, with more dedicated labs under development.  

For more information:   https://www.kcl.ac.uk/engineering   

This post will be offered on a fixed-term contract for up to 18 months, ending no later than 28th February 2023 

This is a full-time  post - 100% full time equivalent

Key responsibilities

  • design
  • simulation
  • data analysis
  • theory development
  • paper writing
  • report writing

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

1.       PhD*

2.       Strong scientific background in design of a parallel mechanism 

3.       Strong skills of using mathematical tools, for example, screw theory, manifold intersection to analyse the kinematics of a mechanism or a robot 

4.       Ability to design parallel mechanisms 

5.       Knowledge of advanced kinematics 

6.       Knowledge on mechanism synthesis and analysis 

7.       Written communication skills including presentation and report-writing skills 

8.       Experience in synthesis, and analysis of a mechanism system 

9.       Experience in design, and simulation of a mechanism 

10.   Experience in journal paper publication 

Desirable criteria

1.       Skills in design of metamorphic mechanisms 

2.       Knowledge on reconfigurability and configuration changes 

3.       Experience in benchmarking mechanisms 


* 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.

Company

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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LONDON
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