We are seeking a Research Associate to take a key role in the design and development of digital hydraulic fluid power technologies and control systems. This role is funded by the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship, investigating Digital Hydraulic Fluid Power Technologies for Decarbonising Off-road Vehicles. 

Hydraulic fluid power has several advantages, such as high power density, compactness, low weight, fast response, and good controllability. However, the current hydraulic control method involves using valves to throttle flow, reduce pressure, and control the speed and force of the load. Although this approach is simple to operate, it is highly energy inefficient, and the average power efficiency of fluid power systems is only about 21%.

This project aims to design, develop and prototype next-generation digital hydraulic technologies and control systems to significantly improve hydraulic energy efficiency, fuel consumption, and CO2 emissions to decarbonise off-road vehicles for a sustainable and greener future. In addition, there are also opportunities to conduct interdisciplinary research on highly efficient actuation mechanisms, collaborating with colleagues nationally and internationally.

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You will be responsible for delivering high-quality research on the topic, including:

• Design and modelling of digital hydraulic fluid power technologies
• Prototyping, validating and evaluating digital hydraulic converters
• Digital fluid power system integration and experimental validations
• Stimulating and creating pathways to impact and disseminate the research outcomes and promote the exploitation of the new technologies

Further information

As a member of Research Staff at the 成人网站, you will be encouraged to take up a minimum of 10 days professional development pro rata per year

A lower grade offer may be made (Grade 6) with comparable reduction in responsibilities and amendment in job title to Research Assistant, if a suitable applicant cannot be found to fill the Grade 7 position. Applicants will need to be within six months of their course completion date and will be promoted to Research Associate once their PhD has been awarded.

This position is offered on a full time (36.5 hours), fixed term basis for 24 months.

For informal discussions, please contact Prof Min Pan, m.pan@bath.ac.uk.

What we can offer you

We consider ourselves to be a university where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We have an excellent international reputation with staff from over 60 different nations and have made a positive commitment towards gender equality and intersectionality receiving a Silver Athena SWAN award. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds will lead to a better environment for our employees and students, so we encourage applications from all genders, backgrounds, and communities, particularly from under-represented groups, and value the positive impact that will have on the university. We are committed to maintaining a safe and secure environment for our students, staff, and community by reinforcing our commitment.

We are very proud to be an autism friendly university and are an accredited Disability Confident Leader; committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff.

• Free counselling services through Health Assured
• Cycle to work scheme
• Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme
• Staff discount at Team Bath gym
• Staff discounts on postgraduate tuition fees
• Staff discount on language courses
• Generous employer contributory pension schemes
• Generous annual leave allowance with an additional 5 discretionary days so that you can enjoy a positive work life balance
• A wide range of personal and professional development opportunities including Apprenticeships, LinkedIn Learning and more
• Free entry to the Holburne Museum in Bath
• Local discounts and more
• A family-friendly workplace 
• An excellent reward package that recognises the talents of our diverse workforce
• Relocation allowance
• Visa reimbursement and Interest-Free Loan to help with the cost of some immigration expenses

We are committed to continually expanding our benefits to better support you and enhance your experience with us. Find out more about our benefits.

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Closing Date: 19 Jun 2025

Department: Education & Research

Salary: £38,249 to £45,413

The Department of Mechanical Engineering are seeking to appoint a Research Associate within the TREFCO project.

This position is an EPSRC funded collaboration led by 成人网站 and has 8 industrial partners, including battery manufacturers, recyclers, material suppliers and equipment producers. The focus of this is to investigate thermal recycling methods for functional coatings and develop wavelength sensitive adhesives which will ‘unglue’ when subject to certain types of radiation.

• This specific role is to lead research into impacts of different thermal methods on degrading adhesives to aid recycling.
• While experience with adhesives is not necessary, this role would suit someone with a good track record in research from a Physics / Chemistry or Mechanical/Chemical/Materials Engineering background.
• This role will integrate into a team that bridges across all the subjects listed above and the research focus can be directed (within reason) based on the successful applicant’s background. Applicants would work on either item 5a or 5b dependent on their skill set.

Key aspects of the role include:

1. To undertake research into the potential of NIR radiation and intense pulsed light (IPL) as methods to degrade commercial adhesives to aid debonding within a recycling process.
2. To benchmark processes against other commercial ‘debondable adhesives’
3. To adjust commercial adhesives formulation to include absorbing particles to enhance energy adsorption at specific wavelengths. Assessing impacts to bond strength by the incorporation of particles.
4. Manage the validation of a new Near Infra red (NIR) machine in Bath –

5a. Materials characterisation (microscopy/XPS/DSC) to understand chemical impact of thermal processing.

5b. Develop a heat transfer model based on processing and materials absorption characteristics of the adhesives to aid further research.

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As a member of Research Staff at the 成人网站, you will be encouraged to take up a minimum of 10 days professional development pro rata per year

A lower grade offer may be made (Grade 6) with comparable reduction in responsibilities and amendment in job title to Research Assistant, if a suitable applicant cannot be found to fill the Grade 7 position. Applicants will need to be within six months of their course completion date and will be promoted to Research Associate once their PhD has been awarded. 

• will hold a PhD in the area of Physics / Chemistry or Mechanical/Chemical/Materials Engineering.
•  will have experience in at least one of the following areas: materials recovery, advanced thermal processing, mechanical testing - particularly of bond strengths, materials characterisation (SEM/ XRD and XPS). 
• be a self started and able to pick up new concepts quickly.
• have good communications skills and have experience of collaborating between different institutions.
• This role will integrate into a team that bridges across all the subjects listed above and the research focus can be directed (within reason) based on the successful applicant’s background. Applicants would work on either item 5a or 5b dependent on their skill set.
• have experience of managing the installation and validation of specialist laboratory equipment.

Further information

This position is offered on a full-time (36.5 hours), fixed term basis for a duration of 8 months.

For informal discussions please contact Rick Lupton rcl38@bath.ac.uk and Alfred Hill ce9ah@bath.ac.uk.

What we can offer you

We consider ourselves to be a university where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We have an excellent international reputation with staff from over 60 different nations and have made a positive commitment towards gender equality and intersectionality receiving a Silver Athena SWAN award. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds will lead to a better environment for our employees and students, so we encourage applications from all genders, backgrounds, and communities, particularly from under-represented groups, and value the positive impact that will have on the university. We are committed to maintaining a safe and secure environment for our students, staff, and community by reinforcing our commitment.

We are very proud to be an autism friendly university and are an accredited Disability Confident Leader; committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff.

• Free counselling services through Health Assured
• Cycle to work scheme
• Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme
• Staff discount at Team Bath gym
• Staff discounts on postgraduate tuition fees
• Staff discount on language courses
• Generous employer contributory pension schemes
• Generous annual leave allowance with an additional 5 discretionary days so that you can enjoy a positive work life balance
• A wide range of personal and professional development opportunities including Apprenticeships, LinkedIn Learning and more
• Free entry to the Holburne Museum in Bath
• Local discounts and more
• A family-friendly workplace 
• An excellent reward package that recognises the talents of our diverse workforce
• Relocation allowance
• Visa reimbursement and Interest-Free Loan to help with the cost of some immigration expenses

We are committed to continually expanding our benefits to better support you and enhance your experience with us. Find out more about our benefits.

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Closing Date: 06 Jun 2025

Department: Education & Research

Salary: £38,249 to £45,413

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In this research position, you will play a key role in developing an integrated, regional-scale, whole-system model of the petrochemical system, from feedstocks through to polymer production and end-of-life treatment. Specifically, You will:

• Build on models of the petrochemical system at global scale, previously developed 成人网站, to create regional Material Flow Analysis (MFA) / Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) models of current production routes and their emissions.
• Work with other members of the research team (based at the University of Sheffield) to integrate their process modelling and production data analysis into the regionalised model to represent current operation and emissions.
• Again working with the wider project research team, model future scenarios and changes in demand and in process characteristics and production routes, and their effect on emissions.

The role is advertised at Grade 7, but a lower grade offer may be made (Grade 6) with comparable reduction in responsibilities and amendment in job title to Research Assistant, if a suitable applicant cannot be found to fill the Grade 7 position. In this case, applicants will need to be within six months of their course completion date and will be promoted to Research Associate once their PhD has been awarded. 

This research project is an industry collaboration jointly with the University of Sheffield.

As a member of Research Staff at the 成人网站, you will be encouraged to take up a minimum of 10 days professional development pro rata per year.

Our ideal candidate will have

• A PhD in a relevant subject area.
• Expertise in process-based Material Flow Analysis and/or Life Cycle Assessment, or experience in other relevant modelling / data analysis projects and a proven ability to learn and apply new modelling approaches.
• Good organisational and presentation skills.
• The ability to work well in an interdisciplinary environment, with academic and industrial partners.

Ideally, you will have knowledge of chemical engineering and/or polymers and related products and systems — or, perhaps you have instead a strong ability for interdisciplinary collaboration with researchers in chemical engineering, and a willingness to learn.

In our group, we work with Python, version control, and similar tools for developing and sharing research code and models. If you like working in this way, that's great, but also many are new to this, and we'll support you to learn as appropriate.

Further Information

This position is offered on a full time (36.5 hours per week) fixed term basis with an expected end date of 06 November 2027. 

For informal discussions please contact Rick Lupton, Senior Lecturer rcl38@bath.ac.uk and Alfred Hill, Lecturer ce9ah@bath.ac.uk.

What we can offer you

We consider ourselves to be a university where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We have an excellent international reputation with staff from over 60 different nations and have made a positive commitment towards gender equality and intersectionality receiving a Silver Athena SWAN award. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds will lead to a better environment for our employees and students, so we encourage applications from all genders, backgrounds, and communities, particularly from under-represented groups, and value the positive impact that will have on the university. We are committed to maintaining a safe and secure environment for our students, staff, and community by reinforcing our commitment.

We are very proud to be an autism friendly university and are an accredited Disability Confident Leader; committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff.

• Free counselling services through Health Assured
• Cycle to work scheme
• Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme
• Staff discount at Team Bath gym
• Staff discounts on postgraduate tuition fees
• Staff discount on language courses
• Generous employer contributory pension schemes
• Generous annual leave allowance with an additional 5 discretionary days so that you can enjoy a positive work life balance
• A wide range of personal and professional development opportunities including Apprenticeships, LinkedIn Learning and more
• Free entry to the Holburne Museum in Bath
• Local discounts and more
• A family-friendly workplace 
• An excellent reward package that recognises the talents of our diverse workforce
• Relocation allowance
• Visa reimbursement and Interest-Free Loan to help with the cost of some immigration expenses

We are committed to continually expanding our benefits to better support you and enhance your experience with us. Find out more about our benefits.

Find out from our staff what makes the 成人网站 a great place to work. Follow us and on X for more information.

Closing Date: 21 May 2025

Department: Education & Research

Salary: £38,249 to £45,413