Postdoctoral Position -Thermal Spray Technologies
Högskolan Väst, Institutionen för ingenjörsvetenskap / Sjukgymnastjobb / Trollhättan
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University West (better known within Sweden as Högskolan Väst, hereafter called HV) located in the town of Trollhättan is a new modern university with about 600 employees and a student strength of approximately 12000.
To learn more about HV, please visit our website:
https://www.hv.se/en/. Apart from being one of the few academic institutions with a specific accent on Work Integrated Learning (WIL) in consonance with the Swedish government's mission to develop WIL, HV has carved out a particular niche for itself in the sphere of Production Technologies. Production Technology West (PTW) has been a prioritised research environment at the University since 2008, with an emphasis on development of production processes in the manufacturing industry and has grown from just a handful of researchers at inception to nearly 90 researchers, PhD students and other technical staff at present.
The Thermal Spray Group at University West is now actively seeking applications from outstanding and highly motivated PhDs to fill a Postdoctoral position that will primarily straddle ongoing projects within the group but will also allow the selected candidate the freedom to simultaneously explore his/her own interests in complementary fields.
Role Description
The candidate eventually selected for this full-time position will be expected to actively contribute to ongoing projects dealing with development of wear-resistant, corrosion-resistant and thermal barrier coatings by High Velocity Air-Fuel (HVAF) and Suspension Plasma Spray (SPS) routes. The candidate will participate in development/preparation of feedstock materials, production of coatings and investigations of coating properties relevant to the projects. As the hands-on technical lead for the projects, the candidate's role will involve, but not be restricted to, the following:
- Planning of experiments, including construction of design of experiments' matrix to investigate effect of various spray process variables and finalizing specimen geometries
- Establishing characterization and performance assessment protocols
- Participating in spraying experiments
- Conduct and/or be responsible for characterization and performance evaluation of coatings
- Conduct and/or be responsible for failure analysis of coatings
- Analysis and interpretation of data
- Writing and/or guiding students to write journal manuscripts
- Explore collaborations to complement processing & characterization capabilities at HV
The selected candidate will also have the opportunity to participate in our group's investigations on coatings with exciting function-dependent architectures that can be realized utilizing hybrid powder-liquid feedstocks. Some of our other activities on the anvil include solution precursor plasma spraying (SPPS), deposition of large-area graphene-incorporated coatings and development of coatings for targeted functionalities (photocatalytic, biocompatible, luminescent etc.)
Qualification
Candidates applying for the Post doc position should ideally have a PhD degree in Mechanical or Metallurgical Engineering. Applicants with a PhD in any other branch of Engineering/Science shall also be considered if they possess appropriate experience. The position is mainly for applicants who have achieved a PhD degree not more than three years before the application deadline. Preference will be given to candidates who have relevant technical background and possession of other pertinent soft-skills will be considered meritorious (illustrative list below):
- Processing of thermal spray coatings (APS, SPS, HVOF, HVAF)
- Characterization of coatings (morphology, microstructure, phase constitution)
- Tribological evaluation of surfaces (sliding/erosion/abrasion wear & COF testing,failure analysis)
- Investigation of TBCs (oxidation, corrosion, thermal conductivity, thermal cycling, thermal shock)
- Data processing, evaluation and interpretation
- Good publication record
- Project leadership
- Supervision of students
- Excellent written & oral communication skills in English
- International research and collaborative project experience
Documented ability to independently plan and carry out experiments, as well as analyze and publish results, is expected. Hands-on experience with characterization techniques (optical & scanning electron microscopy, image analysis. EBSD, XRD, microhardness measurement, thermal conductivity etc.) and performance assessment tools (pin/ball-on-disc, rubber wheel abrasion, thermal cycling/shock test rigs etc.) will be an asset. As at least some of the experiments are expected to be conducted in close collaboration with other research groups and with industry, we are looking for a good team-player with an amicable disposition to cooperate with project partners.
Assessment criteria
The primary assessment criteria for employment will be the relevance of technical expertise and prior experience that a candidate possesses to contribute to the ongoing projects in the Thermal Spray Group at HV. In particular, candidates with background in tribological investigation of coatings will be preferred. Familiarity with thermal spray coatings and their characterization will be an additional asset.
Terms of employment
The employment will be full-time and limited to two years.
Other
In the selection process, interviewing, referencing and proofreading may be relevant. The applications should be made digitally via our recruitment tool. For information about the design of the application, see guidelines for the employment and promotion of teachers at the University West:
https://www.hv.se/en/meet-university-west/job-opportunities/The documents that cannot be sent digitally, such as books and publications; should be labelled with reference number R 2018/180 and sent in two copies.
The application is made to:
Högskolan Väst
HR
461 86 Trollhättan
Sweden
Deadline for application is 2018-08-31.
For more information contact : Professor Shrikant Joshi,
shrikant.joshi@hv.se.
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Varaktighet, arbetstid
100%. Tillträde: By agreement Visstidsanställning
Publiceringsdatum2018-07-10ErsättningMonthly
Så ansöker duSista dag att ansöka är 2018-08-31
Ange följande referens när du ansöker: 2018/180
Klicka på denna länk för att göra din ansökanKontaktShrikant Joshi, Professor +46739013300
FöretagHögskolan Väst, Institutionen för ingenjörsvetenskap
AdressHögskolan Väst, Institutionen för ingenjörsvetenskap
Gustava Melins gata 2
46186 Trollhättan
KontorsadressGustava Melins gata 2
Jobbnummer 4243637
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