Research Assistant or Officer in Experimental Physical Chemistry/Chemical Physics
| Posting date: | 23 September 2025 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 19 October 2025 |
| Location: | Swansea, Wales |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Swansea University |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | SU01158 |
Summary
About The Role
The Post-Doctoral Researcher (either Research Assistant or Research Officer, dependent on experience) will work on the Future Leaders Fellowship project ‘Rotationally controlled reactions’, led by Dr Helen Chadwick in the Department of Chemistry, which aims to use quantum state control to change the rate of reactions of closed-shell, ground state molecules in collisions with surfaces.
The project will involve controlling the rotational orientation projection states of molecules such as hydrogen before they collide with the surface to study the effect that this has on the reactivity of the molecules with surfaces and energy exchange processes. The project will combine experiments and computational work to analyse the data, as well as developing both the experimental and analytical methods that will be used throughout.
Contract: Fixed term for 24 months
The Post-Doctoral Researcher (either Research Assistant or Research Officer, dependent on experience) will work on the Future Leaders Fellowship project ‘Rotationally controlled reactions’, led by Dr Helen Chadwick in the Department of Chemistry, which aims to use quantum state control to change the rate of reactions of closed-shell, ground state molecules in collisions with surfaces.
The project will involve controlling the rotational orientation projection states of molecules such as hydrogen before they collide with the surface to study the effect that this has on the reactivity of the molecules with surfaces and energy exchange processes. The project will combine experiments and computational work to analyse the data, as well as developing both the experimental and analytical methods that will be used throughout.
Contract: Fixed term for 24 months