Organisation/Company CIEMAT (Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas) Research Field Physics » Applied physics Researcher Profile First Stage Researcher (R1) Positions PhD Positions Application Deadline 1 Dec 2026 - 23:59 (Europe/Madrid) Country Spain Type of Contract Temporary Job Status Full-time Hours Per Week 40 Offer Starting Date 2 Feb 2027 Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme? Not funded by a EU programme Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure? No

Offer Description

Magnetic confinement fusion holds the promise of a clean, unlimited source of energy for the mankind. The optimized stellarator WISER is currently under development in CIEMAT with the aim of demonstrating reactor-relevant operation. Turbulent transport remains one of the key open questions, as it may substantially constrain the achivable scenarios and determine the technologies to be developed.

In this Ph.D.



project you will evaluate turbulent transport experimental data from the W7-X stellarator1 and compare it to current numerical models in order to identify its impact on design parameters of reactor scenarios currently under discussion, with the ultimate aim to establish potential limits on the operational capacities of future fusion power plants and devise mitigation strategies in order to overcome them.

Requirements

Research Field Physics Education Level Master Degree or equivalent

Skills/Qualifications

- Strong academic physics/engineering background with an interest in plasma physics and nuclear fusion energy
- Fluent in English (minimum B2/C1 level in spoken and written communication).
- Programming skills (Python/Matlab/C++) and numerical computing.

📌 Operational trajectories in a stellarator fusion reactor (España)
🏢 CIEMAT (Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas)
📍 España