The FINANCIAL -- The University of Liverpool is co-ordinating a multimillion pound international research network and is looking for the “best scientists and engineers available”, to fill 22 early-stage researcher posts.

Professor Carsten P Welsch, from the Department of Physics and affiliated Cockcroft Institute, has won a £5m EU grant to further research into the Optimisation of Particle Accelerators.

According to the University of Liverpool, oPAC brings together 22 institutions from across the world, including CERN in Switzerland, the University of Seville and France’s Soleil synchrotron light facility, alongside a large number of industry partners, to investigate particle beam dynamics, accelerator instrumentation and numerical simulation tools, to improve the performance of present and future accelerators.

The project is intrinsically linked with industry and will involve partners throughout the four year process, to ensure the results delivered have practical uses.

The link with industry will also form a crucial part of the selection process for the 22 early stage researchers, three of whom will be based at the University with the rest spread across Europe.

oPAC officially launched at the University this month and the application period for early-stage researchers is open until 9 March.

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