To teach, research and supervise undergraduate and postgraduate students in line with the university and faculty’s strategy.
Responsibilities:
Teaching & Learning:
- Maintain a portfolio of teaching activities of high-quality reputation and impact across a range of modules or within a subject area to relevant levels (undergraduate, postgraduate and/or higher research degree students through lectures, seminars, labs, and personal supervision.
- Review and incorporate new approaches to preparing, designing and delivering teaching, learning, and assessing.
- Actively engage in assessment and reflection of teaching as part of continual development.
- Lead teaching and learning at undergraduate level, using innovative teaching methods and approaches.
- Act as an external journal peer reviewer and an External Examiner
- Contribute to the development of new approaches to teaching, learning and assessment within the subject area.
- Proactively involved in developing teaching and learning skills
Research:
- Contribute to the department’s research strategy.
- Initiate interdisciplinary collaborations.
- Have a record of involvement in postgraduate supervision even at co-supervision level.
- Have a track record of publications in recognised journals.
- Develop, and define own research objectives in line with departmental research strategy.
- Carry out substantive, original, and significant research which supports the departmental research activity in line with your research of interest.
- Develop methods and techniques appropriate to the type of research pursued that add to the intellectual understanding of the field.
- Develop a plan for achievement of personal research in conjunction with HOD/Research Leader through the relevant process.
- Conduct individual and /or collaborative research projects in a variety of settings (laboratory, creative performance, field, clinical setting)
- Maintain relevance and continual updating of knowledge and understanding in the field or speciality.
- Translate knowledge of advances in the subject area into the course study
- Contribute as appropriate to the development of theory and practice in the field research
Administration:
- Take responsibility for organizing own activities and for the management of allocated resources, this include all lecturing related work as well.
- Contribute to the organization of the wider work area, e.g. as a module leader, coordinate with others such as support staff or academic colleagues.
Community Engagement:
- Liaise with industry and community organizations, e.g., regarding student placement, cooperative visits; or other activity required by the department.
- Provide advice to professional and community bodies as appropriate to the discipline.
- Actively contribute to local community & networks
- Contribute actively to conferences and/or participate in workshops, e.g., involvement beyond the role of attendance
Minimum requirements
- A MSc in Physics specializing in theoretical, computational solid-state physics, which focuses on modelling quantum systems and analyzing their properties.
- Ability to use MD and DFT as modelling tools.
- The ability to operate an XPS equipment and analyze subsequent data.
- A good track record of teaching and research with the relevant specialty.
Recommendations:
- A PhD in Physics specializing in theoretical, computational solid-state physics, which focuses on modelling quantum systems and analysing their properties.
- Knowledge of university policies, rules, and regulations
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