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Cryogenic Sample Environment Industrial Placement

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  • Internship
    Full-time
    Placement Program
  • Research & Development
    Science
  • £21.6K
  • Oxford

Requirements

  • Essential:
  • Currently enrolled on an undergraduate degree course
  • Are required or have requested to take an industrial placement year
  • Able to commence employment in summer 2024
  • Have the right to live and work in the UK for the duration of the placement
  • Ability to work in a radiation controlled area
  • Achieved average of at least 2:1 on currently completed portion of Physics degree course
  • Good communication, team working, and time/task management skills
  • The willingness to learn new skills, both technical and non-technical, hands-on and theoretical
  • Familiarity with making experimental measurements individually or in a small group, analysing data and establishing next steps
  • Desirable:
  • Experience with electronic experimental data collection using, for example, oscilloscopes, digital voltmeters and lock-in amplifiers
  • Use of a scientific programming language (e.g. Python/MatLab/Labview) for data collection or analysis
  • Strong undergraduate-level understanding of quantum mechanics, thermodynamics or cryogenic engineering

Responsibilities

  • Join the cryogenics team for a period of 12 months.
  • Contribute to the day-to-day activities of the group, gaining a high level of technical skill in a bustling scientific environment.
  • Develop their theoretical physical understanding of, and practical ability with, ULT and high magnetic field equipment.
  • Perform an investigation into the dependence of HTS superconductor critical current on temperature and applied strain.
  • Progress an existing prototype thermal weak-link assembly into a final version which can be deployed to live neutron experiments. This will be used on dilution refrigerators in order to access the temperature range 50 mK – 4 K, instead of the usual range limited to 1 K.

Government
Industry
1001-5000
Employees
2018
Founded Year

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