Postdoc in Nuclear Fuel Materials

Academic Positions • Stockholm, Stockholm County • Posted July 23, 2026

Position Overview

Job description

Nuclear Science and Engineering (NSE) at the Department of Physics seeks an ambitious, motivated, structured, and collaborative postdoc to join the nuclear fuel materials team to study fission product kinetics by ion implantation of advanced nuclear fuel (Uranium Nitride). The project is supported by the Swedish Radiation Safety Authority () and in collaboration with Westinghouse and Uppsala University. You will lead research efforts using experimental and computational methods to evaluate the fission product diffusion kinetics and the formation of the high burnup structure (HBS) in uranium nitride

Qualifications

Requirements

  • A doctoral degree or an equivalent foreign degree. This eligibility requirement must be met no later than the time the employment decision is made.
  • PhD in Nuclear Engineering, Materials Science, Engineering Mechanics or similar.

    • Preferred qualifications

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