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Research Assistant In Effects Of Stress On High-Pressure Phase Reactions
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Location:
Manchester
Salary:
£33,309 to £40,927 per annum, depending on relevant experience.
Hours:
Full Time
Contract Type:
Fixed-Term/Contract
Placed On:
2nd March 2022
Closes:
31st March 2022
Job Ref:
SAE-018459
We invite applications for the position of a Research Associate to join the team on a 5-year, £3.2M, NERC Large Grant “Feedbacks between mineral reactions and mantle convection”, a project to shed new light on how mineral reactions influence the positions of major seismic discontinuities in Earth’s mantle. Key hypotheses to be explored are the “dynamic pressure” in the mantle has an effect on mineral reaction and hence the positions of seismic discontinuities, and that stress has a major effect on reaction conditions and again on the positions of seismic discontinuities.
Your role will have two main focuses. The first will be to perform new experiments at mantle conditions (up to 25 GPa, temperatures up to 1800°C) measuring the effect of stress on evolving mineral properties. To understand how the minerals change, we will examine the experimental products to discover the details of structure and chemistry on the scale of individual grains. The second focus is to commission and perform the first experiments on a new high-pressure deformation apparatus. This new apparatus is an upscaled version of the DT-Cup, multi-anvil apparatus (Hunt et al., 2014, 2019, Hunt & Dobson 2017) and is designed to be capable of controlled strain-rate deformation experiments at lower-mantle pressures (>23.5 GPa). With this you will deform samples under controlled stress conditions.
The observations gained from these experiments will enable us to understand how chemistry and stress interact and their effect on the depth of the mantle phase transitions. You will work closely with other team members (Liverpool, UCL, Orleans, Cardiff) to ground-truth their modelling effort. The whole team will contribute to comparing these results to seismological observations (Cambridge).
The Department is strongly committed to promoting equality and diversity, including the Athena SWAN charter for gender equality in higher education. The Department holds a Silver Award which recognises their good practice in relation to gender; including flexible working arrangements, family-friendly policies, and support to allow staff achieve a good work-life balance. We particularly welcome applications from women for this post. All appointment will be made on merit. For further information, please visit:  ****Our University is positive about flexible working – you can find out more  here
Blended working arrangements may be considered.
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Name: Dr Simon Hunt
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