Department of Engineering

A position exists, for a Research Assistant/Associate in the Department of Engineering, to work on Molecular Modelling.

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

The key responsibilities and duties are:

• Performing molecular simulation of materials using first principles methods and machine learned force fields
• Developing machine learned interatomic potentials (force fields) based on first principles data using active learning and other uncertainty quantification methods
• Liaising with project partners, principally other modelling groups to understand their modelling requirements; help them use the new force fields;
• Draft and publish papers, in collaboration with the PI and others to report results in reputable journals; present such results at conferences and workshops
• Write and maintain simulation codes including documentation suitable for publication and wide dissemination.

https://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/38336/