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Post-Doctoral Researcher in Nuclear Science and Technologies

Your mission :

The Laboratory for Reactor Physics and Systems Behaviour (LRS) led by Prof. A. Pautz is looking for an outstanding candidate to support our efforts in neutron noise experiments and theory.



The postdoctoral fellowship is part of a large European collaboration in the framework of the Horizon 2020 program of the European Commission, and is led by Chalmers University of Technology during the period 2017-2021. The project, called CORTEX (Core monitoring Techniques and EXperimental validation and demonstration) includes currently 20 partners and aims at developing core monitoring techniques that can be used to detect and characterise operational problems, before they have any inadvertent effect on plant safety and availability. It relies on using the fluctuations existing in any process parameter that can be measured at the plants in order to monitor their state, primarily the neutron flux. The LRS is leading the Work Package 2 devoted to experimental validation.



The CORTEX project will benefit from the LRS experimental infrastructure and activities on noise theory and applications, and the in-core devices and instrumentation developed in this aim for our teaching and research reactor CROCUS. The postdoctoral researcher will also be involved in these activities, in particular the development of detection instrumentation, and the COLIBRI experimental programme. COLIBRI consists in fuel rods oscillation experiments and their investigation using neutron noise measurements.
Main duties and responsibilities include :

• Contribute to developments of instrumentation for noise measurements based on miniature neutron scintillators


• Contribute to the design, organisation, execution, and analysis of measurements campaigns:

• within the framework of CORTEX, in the EPFL CROCUS and Dresden University of Technology's AKR-2 experimental reactors


• within the framework of the CROCUS experimental programmes on reactor noise theory and applications, such as COLIBRI.

Your profile :

• PhD degree in nuclear physics or nuclear engineering


• Good experience in radiation detection and instrumentation, in-core neutron measurements, and possibly neutron noise measurements


• Good experience in the field of reactor physics and integral experiments


• Experience in neutron transport codes, and possibly reactor fluctuations modelling


• Proficiency in data analysis tools and programming languages

We offer :

• A project in a large scale international collaboration for cutting-edge technologies


• Experience on a teaching and research reactor


• A young, dynamic, interdisciplinary, and international team


• A modern working environment based at the EPFL campus

Start date :

1st September 2019
Term of employment :

Fixed-term (CDD)
Work rate :

100%
Duration :

1 year initially, 1 year extension
Remark :

Only candidates who applied through EPFL website or our partner Jobup’s website will be considered.apply online