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Salary: Grade 6, £28,929

Contract Type: Full Time (1FTE), Fixed Term for 3 months

Rewards and Benefits: 33 days annual leave, plus 9 buildings closed days (and Christmas Eve when it falls on a weekday) for all full time staff. Use our total rewards calculator: https://www.hw.ac.uk/about/work/total-rewards-calculator.htm to see the value of benefits provided by Heriot-Watt University.

Heriot-Watt University has established a reputation for world-class teaching and leading-edge, relevant research, which has made it one of the top UK universities for innovation, business and industry.

Heriot-Watt University has five campuses: three in the UK (Edinburgh, Scottish Borders and Orkney), one in Dubai and one in Malaysia. The University offers a highly distinctive range of degree programmes in the specialist areas of science, engineering, design, business and languages. Heriot-Watt is also Scotland's most international university, boasting the largest international student cohort.

About the Team

Within the Photonics Instrumentation Group (PhI), and specifically the “TannerLab� sub group we exploit novel photonic techniques such as time resolved single photon technologies and optical fibre sensors to tackle clinical/biomedical challenges and other real world applications.

Our work is primarily experimental, developing measurement systems and principles, with theory and analysis to support this. We strongly collaborate with clinical practitioners in order to move those systems towards application.

Description

This specific position is to support our ongoing project on NG Tube placement. This will be focussed on mechanical and optical testing of optical fibres to be placed within feeding tubes. Additionally we will combine these with data acquisition of light passage through scattering media.

The role will be to support an existing PDRA in advancing testing.

This may also include collecting, evaluating and processing data - this will use advanced detection techniques, such as time resolved imaging.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Performing rigorous and systematic experiments to characterise optical fibres mechanical and light transmission properties.
• Working with optical systems to perform the above.
• Working with time resolved photon counting techniques, specifically SPAD arrays, for measurements in the above.
• Processing data from the above.
• Reporting on the above through written summaries for the team, and potential feeding in to formal documentation.
• Assisting in the day-to-day maintenance of the experimental facilities.

Education, Qualifications and Experience

Essential Criteria

• A degree in physics or engineering or related discipline (or awaiting graduation by the start date of the project).
• Direct experience operating optical systems for biological / medical application.
• Experience of experimental data acquisition or experimental system in relevant coding languages (e.g. Matlab / python)
• Experience of single photon counting techniques.
• A proven academic ability and a demonstrable high level of technical competence in experimental science and the analysis / modelling of the results.
• The ability to articulate research work, both in technical reports / papers and by oral presentation.
• The ability to work as part of a team on the experiments at Heriot-Watt and more widely with collaborators at other institutions.

Desirable Criteria

• Extensive experience in CMOS based SPAD array characterisation/optimisation, control and application to biophotonics.
• Demonstrated experience in analysing data from the above.

Travel

Short-term travel to visit collaborators and possible international conference attendance is expected.

‘How to Apply'

Applications can be submitted up to midnight (UK time) on 1st May 2023

Please must submit via the Heriot-Watt on-line recruitment system (1) Cover letter describing your interest and suitability for the post; (2) Full CV that includes the list of publications

Heriot-Watt University is committed to securing equality of opportunity in employment and to the creation of an environment in which individuals are selected, trained, promoted, appraised and otherwise treated on the sole basis of their relevant merits and abilities. Equality and diversity are all about maximising potential and creating a culture of inclusion for all.

Heriot-Watt University values diversity across our University community and welcomes applications from all sectors of society, particularly from underrepresented groups. For more information, please see our website https://www.hw.ac.uk/uk/services/equality-diversity.htm and also our award-winning work in Disability Inclusive Science Careers https://disc.hw.ac.uk/ .

Use our total rewards calculator: https://www.hw.ac.uk/about/work/total-rewards-calculator.htm to see the value of benefits provided by Heriot-Watt University.