Research Fellow in RF Power Transfer and Antenna Design (1308320FP)

You will work on the Applications theme of the "Wearable and Autonomous Computing for Future Smart Cities" EPSRC Platform Grant. This is a great opportunity to specialise in textile-based wireless power transfer, including antenna design, fabrication and testing. You will be working with hardware - constructing, testing and deploying wirelessly-powered sensor nodes. This will be targeted at case-study applications.

You will collaborate with researchers on the other themes of the project: devices (wearable sensors and power supplies), circuits and algorithms (power conversion and embedded system platforms, and algorithms to manage power), and smart software (large-scale information-gathering and sense-making). Where possible, outputs from other themes will be incorporated into application demonstrators.

To be successful you will have a PhD or equivalent professional qualifications and experience in antenna/rectenna design, fabrication and testing along with a detailed understanding and knowledge of antenna/rectenna design, matching/co-design, and interface circuits and experience in modelling, simulating and designing textile based RF antennas for wireless power transfer.

Equality, diversity and Inclusion is central to the ethos in the School of Electronics and Computer Science. We particularly encourage women, Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME), LGBT and disabled applicants to apply for this position. We are committed to improving equality for women in science and have been successful in achieving an  Athena SWAN bronze award in April 2020.   We give full consideration to applicants that wish to work flexibly including part-time and due consideration will be given to applicants who have taken a career break. The University has a generous maternity policy**, and onsite childcare facilities

The University of Southampton is in the top 1% of world universities and in the top 10 of the UK’s research-intensive universities. The University of Southampton is committed to sustainability and being a globally responsible university and has recently been awarded the Platinum EcoAward.  Our vision is to embed the principles of sustainability into all aspects of our individual and collective work, integrating sustainable development into our business planning, policy-making, and professional activities.  This commits all of our staff and students to take responsibility for managing their activities to minimise harm to the environment, whether this is through switching off non-essential electrical equipment or using the recycling facilities.

The post is full time fixed term until 31/03/2022 due to funding restrictions.

*Applications for Research Fellow positions will be considered from candidates who are working towards or nearing completion of a relevant PhD qualification.  The title of Research Fellow will be applied upon successful completion of the PhD. Prior to the qualification being awarded the title of Senior Research Assistant will be given.

For further information please contact Dr Alex Weddell email: asw@ecs.soton.ac.uk

Application Procedure 

You should submit your completed online application form at https://jobs.soton.ac.uk. The application deadline will be midnight on the closing date stated above. If you need any assistance, please call Hannah Farrance (HR Recruitment Team) on 02380 592750 or email recruitment@soton.ac.uk  Please quote reference 1308320FP on all correspondence.

Closing Date: 20 Nov 2020
Post Type: Education, Research & Enterprise