Research Assistant – Renewable Energy Materials/Devices Cardiff University -Cardiff School of Engineering

Applications are invited for a Research Assistant to join the Thermoelectric Group in the School of Engineering, Cardiff University. The post is associated with a EU-FP7 programme to develop and characterise thermoelectric materials for energy harvesting applications. The main tasks at Cardiff focuses on establishing a measurement technique for characterisation of electrical and thermal properties and preparation of nanostructured thermoelectric materials. You should have good knowledge and experiences of materials science and measurements. The practical skills of design and construction of measurement system and characterisation of electric and thermal properties of materials will be desirable.
This post is fixed-term, starting as soon as possible and ending on 30/10/2014.
Salary: £25013 - £28972 per annum (Grade 5)
Closing date: 10th March 2014

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