If you’re a PhD degree holder and seeking postdoctoral fellowships, University of Cambridge, England has several online applications open. Explore the opportunities across diverse research areas and submit your application soon.
1. Postdoctoral Job
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
Two posts are available within Tim Dalgleish’s research programme at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, a Postdoctoral Research Associate (PDRA) and a Senior Research Associate/PDRA. The post holder will be a member of the clinical research programme run by Tim Dalgleish who will line manage the post holder. The post holder will work on a Wellcome Mental Health Award (PI: Becky Lawson, Cambridge Dept. of Psychology) focused on uncertainty processing as a fundamental mechanism in the understanding and treatment of anxiety disorders. The post holders will be involved in setting up and delivering embedded mechanisms studies/interventions in a randomised controlled trial of cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) for uncertainty involving participants with a diagnosis of Generalised Anxiety Disorder.
Application Deadline: 3 June 2024
2. Postdoctoral Job
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
Computational modelling is at the core of climate science, where complex models of earth systems are key to the scientific process. Most models embed significant inherent and accidental complexity which hampers verification and maintenance, reproducibility, and performance. Furthermore, modern models are exceptionally data-rich, both in terms of observational inputs and simulation outputs. There is consequently a pressing need for multi-disciplinary research, bringing together computer science, data science and climate science to deliver new high-quality, high-performance, and high-assurance models capable of yielding real transformational insights into our changing climate. Fostering such multi-disciplinary research is the aim of this 3-year Early Career Advanced Fellowship in the Institute of Computing for Climate Science (ICCS) at the University of Cambridge.
Application Deadline: 2 June 2024
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3. Postdoctoral Job
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
The McDonald Institute invites applications for the third annual Fellowship in archaeology (broadly defined) aimed at candidates of Black Identity or Heritage. The McDonald Institute aims to nurture excellence in the discipline of archaeology regardless of background and in pursuit of diverse knowledges, approaches and practices. We recognise that persistent structural inequalities disadvantage people from Black backgrounds and communities, including within higher education and academic research. As such, we are keen to enable underrepresented early career researchers of Black Identity or Heritage to develop their portfolio of research experience and to thrive in academia. This one-year postdoctoral Fellowship is designed to attract research excellence and we will provide the Fellows with training, mentorship and support to drive their careers forward and to generate a more diverse pipeline of future talent.
Application Deadline: 14 June 2024
4. Postdoctoral Job
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
Applications are invited for a 30 month position funded by the National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS), a Research Centre of the Natural Environment Research Council. You will be a key part of the NCAS@Cambridge group based in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge. The successful applicant will work closely with other scientists in NCAS, the UK Met Office, and the University of Cambridge on work focused on developing next generation software for use on current and future supercomputing hardware, as accelerators are increasingly used in large high performance computing systems.
Application Deadline: 6 June 2024
5. Postdoctoral Job
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
The purpose of this role is to carry out technical research and scientific analysis of objects and artworks in the collections of the Fitzwilliam Museum, artworks under treatment at the HKI, as well as participate in collaborative research projects across the University of Cambridge. The role holder will investigate and document individual objects and works of art with a combination of non-invasive techniques and scientific imaging in particular, such as Macro-X-Ray Fluorescence scanning, Infrared Reflectography, Hyperspectral Imaging, as well as invasive techniques such as sampling, and microscopy techniques including Scanning Electron Microscopy.
Application Deadline: 2 June 2024
6. Postdoctoral Job
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
The post-holder will help develop a modular, open-source displacement tracking toolbox for natural systems building on pre-existing implementations. This development will be a collaborative exercise working with PI Max Van Wyk de Vries, and other CoMHaz group members including PhD students. The successful applicant will therefore require some knowledge of programming languages, and ideally specialized image analysis and optical feature tracking experience. The second aspect of this project will be applying the methods developed to map slow-moving landslides in a regional case study in the Himalaya. This will involve a visit to Kathmandu (Nepal) to meet local partners and possible fieldwork.
Application Deadline: 17 June 2024
7. Postdoctoral Job
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
Duties include developing and conducting individual and collaborative research objectives, proposals, and projects. The role holder will be expected to plan and manage their own research and administration, with guidance if required, and to assist in the preparation of proposals and applications to external bodies. You must be able to communicate material of a technical nature and be able to build internal and external contacts. You may be asked to assist in the supervision of student projects, the development of student research skills, provide instruction, or plan/deliver seminars relating to the research area.
Application Deadline: 16 June 2024
8. Postdoctoral Job
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
We are seeking a postdoctoral researcher to join a multidisciplinary project studying earthquake hazard in India, and helping to build resilience to that hazard. The successful candidate will combine seismology, fieldwork, and the analysis of satellite data to characterise and quantify earthquake hazard, including the development of new techniques and approaches. The work will span both Himalayan and ‘intraplate’ faulting, and will be undertaken in close collaboration with India-based members of the project team, in particular Prof Supriyo Mitra at IISER Kolkata.
Application Deadline: 2 June 2024
9. Postdoctoral Job
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
This post is an exciting opportunity to develop a new generation of radiation detectors that can make medical imaging safer and more effective. The project is jointly funded by the UK EPSRC and the US NSF. You will be part of a world-leading team involving our group at the University of Cambridge, Oxford, and the University at Buffalo, and there is a substantial travel budget to work with these external groups. The proof-of-concept results were published recently by us in Nature Communications (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-38008-4), as well as a patent (GB no. 2203932.5). We developed the synthesis of BiOI single crystals with low defect densities <1010 cm-3, which were capable of detecting X-rays with dose rates as low as 22 nGyair s-1 (with an extrapolated limit of detection of 1.1 nGyair s-1), and high sensitivity of 103 C Gyair-1 cm-2.
Application Deadline: 2 June 2024
10. Postdoctoral Job
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
A creative postdoctoral researcher with experimental or computational expertise is sought to work in Mark Howarth’s group on a project funded by MRC at Cambridge University Department of Pharmacology. The Howarth group have broad interests, including synthetic biology, biotechnology and entrepreneurship (www.howarthgroup.org). The project relates to engineering a protein superglue to enhance cell therapy of cancer. SpyTag is a genetically-encoded peptide created by the Howarth lab, which forms an irreversible covalent bond to its protein partner SpyCatcher. SpyTag provides a unique resource for molecular assembly and has been applied by >1,000 groups around the world for basic research and biotech, as well as reaching clinical trials.
Application Deadline: 16 June 2024
11. Postdoctoral Job
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
We have a postdoctoral position available to study host-pathogen interactions and innate immune recognition in the group of Prof. Yorgo Modis in the University of Cambridge Department of Medicine. The Modis group is part of the Molecular Immunity Unit within the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (MRC-LMB). We benefit from the outstanding scientific environment and infrastructure of the MRC-LMB, and from being part of the virology and immunology communities as members of the Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology & Infectious Disease (CITIID).
Application Deadline: 2 June 2024
12. Postdoctoral Job
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Research Associate (PDRA) to work on computational modelling of prosthetic heart valves with Dr Shelly Singh-Gryzbon in the department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology at the University of Cambridge. Funding is available for a 1 year fixed-termed post in the first instance. The aim of the project is to develop and validate computational models and simulations for assessing clinical outcomes of aortic valve replacement procedures. Research will be focused on valve thrombosis, coronary obstruction, and structural implications of valve-in-valve procedures.
Application Deadline: 30 June 2024
13. Postdoctoral Job
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
We have a vacancy for a molecular biologist to contribute to our research on genome structure and function. Current projects include elucidating four-stranded nucleic acid structures (G-quadruplexes), their interacting proteins, their mechanisms in relation to gene expression regulation, and their suitability as therapeutic targets and biomarkers of cancer. We also study the structure and function of chemically-modified DNA bases and their epigenetic roles in normal biology and disease. Our interdisciplinary lab innovates and applies methods that include sequencing technologies, genome-targeting and chemical biology.
Application Deadline: 30 May 2024
14. Postdoctoral Job
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Research Associate to work with Dr Virginia Pedicord at the Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology & Infectious Disease (CITIID) in the Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre to explore the mechanisms by which commensal microbes affect disease susceptibility. This will involve using in vivo models, cellular immunology, transcriptomics and proteomics to characterise the complex interactions between the intestinal epithelium, immune cells and commensal microbial community. The ideal applicant will love scientific investigation, have a good work ethic and excellent organisation skills, be detail-oriented, persistent, and passionate about working as a team to build a successful research group.
Application Deadline: 26 May 2024
15. Postdoctoral Job
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Research Associate to work with Dr Virginia Pedicord at the Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology & Infectious Disease (CITIID) in the Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre to explore the mechanisms by which commensal microbes affect host immunity. This will involve using, improving and expanding the lab’s metagenomics and transcriptomics bioinformatics tools and pipelines. The ideal applicant will love scientific investigation, have a strong work ethic and excellent organisation skills and be detail-oriented, persistent, and passionate about working as a team to build a successful research group. Applicants must have a PhD degree in Bioinformatics or Computational Biology or equivalent experience, preferably with some experience in metagenomics and/or transcriptomics.
Application Deadline: 26 May 2024
16. Postdoctoral Job
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
We are looking for a statistical geneticist to join the Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit (CEU), Department of Public Health and Primary Care at University of Cambridge. The postholder will be developing novel statistical methodologies that enable translational and clinical application of genetic risk models. The exact project will be designed based on your research interest and the translational/clinical need proposed by our clinical collaborators. You will be working on genomic, molecular (transcriptomics, proteomic, and metabolomics), and electronic health record data, empowered by and contributing to multiple resources developed and maintained by the team (e.g. PGS Catalog, Omicspred).
Application Deadline: 9 June 2024
17. Postdoctoral Job
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
A position exists, for a Research Assistant/Associate in the Department of Engineering, to work on aperiodic quantum photonic devices. The Research Assistant/Associate will join the Integrated Quantum Photonics group, based in the Nanoscience Centre at the University of Cambridge, a newly founded research group that works on simulation, nanofabrication and optical characterisation of nano- and quantum photonic devices, integrating quantum light emitters.
Application Deadline: 7 June 2024
18. Postdoctoral Job
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
Applications are invited for a Research Associate to join the Prorok Laboratory in the Department of Computer Science and Technology, at the University of Cambridge, UK. The Prorok Laboratory has a variety of robotic platforms (aerial and ground), and boasts expertise in controlling and deploying them in practice, as well as in designing coordination strategies. Our recent work on ML-based co-optimization demonstrates some of our key research directions relevant for this position.
Application Deadline: 12 June 2024
19. Postdoctoral Job
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
Two Research Assistant/Associates are sought to work on a new 3-year EPSRC project, Towards compact and efficient nuclear reactors. This project seeks to develop low loss tapes suitable for use in tokomaks. The RAs will work in the CAPE building which is part of the Electrical Engineering Division of the University of Cambridge. The role of the RAs in the project is to help develop the PSALM low loss tape system. The project will address numerous unexplored challenges in creating tapes suitable for use in fusion reactors at high currents and under AC conditions. The culmination of the project will be a fully developed low loss tape. Broadly one of the RAs will develop the tape patterning techniques, the other will be responsible for the analysis of the behaviour and expected behaviour of the resultant tapes.
Application Deadline: 7 June 2024
20. Postdoctoral Job
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
We are starting a new project with the aim to transform the design of engineering components from one based on selecting a best single material to one in which material properties and compositions are treated as continuous, spatially varying quantities. The project will amongst other things use (i) lab-based flux enhanced tomography for full field measurement of deformation fields and X-ray diffraction measurements of volumetric stress coupled to novel specimen designs, and (ii) associated data-driven material model discovery techniques. We are looking a research associate/assistant to work in the experimental aspects to the project which will involve insitu material testing within X-ray tomographic setups, design of these setups as well as analysis of the associated measurements.
Application Deadline: 28 May 2024
21. Postdoctoral Job
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
The role involves developing new low-power systems and algorithms to significantly enhance the capabilities of onboard AI when used within small satellites. The project is a collaborative effort involving teams at the University of Manchester and University of Southampton and partners at the Alan Turing Institute and HMGCC. The research will seek innovations at both the software and hardware level. The use of a novel memory system and recent advances in low-power machine-learning accelerators will create significant scope to explore new research directions. On-board processing tasks will include object detection, compression, interpretation and various image retrieval tasks. The “Perfect Recollection for Clearer Insight” project is funded by EPSRC.
Application Deadline: 30 May 2024
