Post-doctoral Research Fellow

ABOUT THE ROLE

This project of Ice Protection using Slippery Liquid-like Coatings with Integrated Active Methods is aiming to build a hybrid ice-protection technology for tackling icing issues on aircraft wings, wind turbines and other critical structural surfaces. You will support the principal investigators and co-investigators in Northumbria University at Newcastle and Edinburgh University for delivery of the aim and objectives of such project. You will focus to create a next-generation ice-protection system that combines (1) low ice adhesion coatings for passive protection, and (2) acoustic-wave-based ice removal for mechanical active protection), benchmarked against electrothermal heating for thermal active protection. You will demonstrate such the reliable and energy-efficient hybrid approaches work for both anti-icing and de-icing using in-lab and wind tunnel experiments. 

The position is a fixed-term, three-year research appointment, starting on 1 Oct ...