Applications are invited for a fully funded Post-Doctoral Research Assistant post for 36 months starting by the end of July 2015. The post is funded as part of the Innovate UK ATI (Aerospace Technology Institute) Airbus led Agile Wing Integration (AWI) research project. You will be supervised by Prof J.E. Cooper from the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Bristol.

There is a great emphasis at the moment on green aircraft designs, influenced by the Flightpath-2050 initiative to cut aircraft emissions. In the medium and long term period it is evident that significant steps will be required to design more efficient aircraft that are able to meet ever stringent environmental requirements, and key to this is the multidisciplinary integration and optimisation of a range of different technologies. The goals set in Flightpath-2050 complement recent work in this area at the University of Bristol that has concentrated upon the exploitation of aeroelastic deflections to achieve these goals.

The AWI project is aimed at developing a step change in performance expectations via specific developments in the commercial aircraft conceptual design and technology maturity process, with several disruptive technologies being considered. You will work on improving the multidisciplinary integration and optimisation process to maximise synergies between the new technologies and traditional disciplines on both conventional and novel aircraft configurations.

You will have a good first degree in engineering and a PhD in aeroelasticity, optimisation or related subject. Experience in the use of Finite Elements, Aeroelasticity software and optimisation packages would be beneficial.

You will be based at the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Bristol, but will also be expected to spend short placements working at Airbus, and also with the other partners in the AWI project.

Contact Professor J.E. Cooper for more information on this programme; Dept of Aerospace Engineering, University of Bristol, BS8 1TR. Email: j.e.cooper<στο>bristol.ac.uk

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The closing date for applications is 15 March 2015.

It is expected that interviews will be held towards the end of March 2015.

Contract Type

The successful applicant for this vacancy may be appointed either on a fixed term or a permanent contract depending on the extent of their previous relevant research experience, in line with the