Next Generation Fellows will be mentored to develop and establish an independent research program that will complement that of other groups within the Centre for Trophoblast Research. Fellows will be expected to contribute fully to the activities of the Loke CTR and to their host department. They will supervise MPhil/masters, summer and/or undergraduate students. They may be a co-applicant on research grant applications to recruit, train and co-supervise postdoctoral researchers, research assistants, technical staff and PhD students.

The post holder will be expected to create a strong track record of publishing high impact papers and disseminate the results of their work in any ways that seem appropriate and effective (e.g. via conferences and seminars). They will be responsible for compliance with all the relevant laws (Home Office, HTA, HFEA). Candidates should hold a PhD and have a high-quality publication track record in academic journals or equivalent.

We are looking for a second postdoc to join the lab for a Leverhulme Trust-funded project on the development and evolution of electroreceptors in weakly electric fishes. Electroreception was lost in the ancestors of teleost fishes, but evolved independently at least twice within different teleost groups, most likely via the modification of mechanosensory lateral line neuromasts. The project overall involves knifefishes (gymnotiforms) and freshwater elephantfishes (mormyrids): these lineages independently evolved ‘ampullary’ organs that detect low-frequency electric fields in water (for example, from other animals), as well as electric organs (modified muscle/nerve) and ‘tuberous’ organs that respond to high-frequency electric organ discharges (used for communication, electrolocation, etc). You will focus primarily on lateral line organ development in knifefish. The project involves experimental embryology (fate-mapping lateral line placodes with DiI; small-molecule manipulation of different signalling pathways; CRISPR/Cas9-mediated gene targeting in 1-cell embryos), bioinformatic analysis of single-cell transcriptomic datasets and gene-expression studies using in situ hybridisation/HCR. You will undertake all work with live knifefish embryos via extended research visits (each lasting several weeks) to our collaborator Michael Markham’s lab at the University of Oklahoma (Norman, OK, USA). Fixed specimens will be shipped to Cambridge for analysis there.

Are you interested in accelerating novel interventions for the early diagnosis of cancer and risk stratification of individual at risk of cancer? Applications are invited for a highly motivated Clinical Research Associate to join a state-of-the-art translational research programme headed by Professor Rebecca Fitzgerald and Dr Massimiliano di Pietro, focusing on novel endoscopic and non-endoscopic tools for the early detection of early upper GI neoplasia.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a cutting-edge research group at the University of Cambridge. The Fitzgerald group is passionate about finding innovative ways to detect and understand cancer from the earliest stages, with a particular focus on oesophageal and gastric cancer. Our team leverages a comprehensive research infrastructure and cutting edge clinical facilities to study minimally invasive and endoscopic imaging techniques aimed at improving early detection of cancers of the oesophagus and stomach. The team has a wide range of scientific collaborations with Physicists, Engineers and Data scientist with the aim to foster and multidisciplinary approach to early cancer diagnosis. In particular the OASIS is a multidisciplinary consortium in partnership with University College London and Imperial University funded by Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC, UKRI) aimed to intgrate novel technology into health research. The role of the post holder is to perform the research under the direction and mentorship of clinical and research scientists. As part of this post the candidate will have the opportunity to undergo training in advanced endoscopic techniques for the treatment of early oesophago-gastric cancer

The department carries out research and education at the highest international standards of excellence. A substantial proportion of the work in the department aims to develop novel methods to identify women at high risk of pregnancy complications. This programme of work has driven two prospective cohort studies: POPS (4,512 women) and POPS2 (aims to recruit 5,500 women, currently at ~85% of target). Both studies include large scale collection of data and biological samples, the latter >500,000 aliquots across the two cohorts.

As a Research Assistant, you will join the Conservation Science Group and the Mandala project (www.mandala-consortium.org) to work primarily on methods for assessing the sustainability of food and applying them to real-world data. Working closely with the team behind ‘LIFE’ – a state-of-the-art biodiversity assessment method, and with access to an exciting novel dataset on the food purchasing habits of 2000 households in the UK, this work has the potential for substantial impact in policy and the scientific literature. Work will include helping to develop a pipeline to estimate the impacts of individual food products and applying them to food purchasing data to explore the demographic drivers of consumption impacts. Work may also include contributing to a global standard of food impact assessments. Potential aspects of this role are broad, but might include a review of existing approaches to assessing the impacts of agricultural products, data manipulation – bringing together several data sources, developing code to automate procedures, carrying out statistical analyses and presenting results in various formats.

The Faculty of History and Christ’s College invite applications for a three-year fixed term Fellowship, as part of the Isaac Newton Trust’s Academic Career Development Fellowship programme.

The Fellow will contribute to research and teaching in the Faculty and College, specialising in Latin American History. For one third of their time, the Fellow will develop and pursue their own research projects within this field. The proposed start date of the position is October 2025.

The Fellow will take on a teaching load across undergraduate and taught postgraduate programmes in the Faculty, as appropriate to their area of specialism. In the first year of employment, we expect the appointee to contribute to the IB Topics paper (T17: Modern Latin America: 1780 to the Present) and to create a new IA Sources paper, From the second year of employment, we hope that the postholder will introduce a new Part II Advanced Topic paper in Latin American History. The Fellow might also contribute through College supervision and occasional lectures to some Part 1A and Part 1B papers.

The German Section of the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages at the University of Cambridge is seeking a full-time Schröder Research Associate. The role is fixed term for three years.

This vacancy is in the context of the EU- and UKRI-funded project Cartography of the Political Novel in Europe (www.caponeu.eu) and the research project Cultural Production and Social Justice (mmll.cam.ac.uk/german/research/cultural-production-social-justice).

CAPONEU is a collaboration between six European universities. The Cambridge team is led by the core researchers Sarah Colvin, Charlotte Woodford, and Tara Talwar Windsor, and the project PhD student Chalo’a Waya, and focuses on narrative in the modern period as a means by which knowledge travels across class barriers, across time, across space, and across communities. The associated research project Cultural Production and Social Justice (CPSJ) critically examines the relationship between artistic production and social and epistemic justice.

Join us at the world-leading CRUK Cambridge Institute. We’re a unique department of the University of Cambridge, core funded by Cancer Research UK’s charitable activities, and we’re eagerly searching for a postdoctoral Research Associate to join our Aliee Group.

Our group develops AI-driven models to understand and interrogate biological complexity, with a focus on hypothesis generation, cellular modelling, and gene regulation. By integrating existing biological data and adapting to new experimental inputs, we build predictive and generalizable models that support the design of novel experiments, uncover the principles that govern cell behaviour, and infer context-aware gene regulatory networks. Ultimately, we aim to reveal foundational insights into how living systems function, adapt, and vary – advancing both basic science and personalized approaches to health and disease.

We offer positions in both foundational and applied research. Opportunities on the foundational side include developing advanced AI models – such as artificial general intelligence (AGI), agent-based systems, causal inference frameworks, and generative models – tailored to address complex biological problems. These efforts involve integrating prior knowledge from text or other modalities with biological data to merge decades of domain expertise (e.g., in cancer diagnosis) with new experimental findings to generate hypotheses and drive discovery. On the applied side, we welcome researchers interested in applying novel and existing computational tools to biological datasets, with a particular focus on patient stratification and uncovering individual differences that can inform personalized treatments.

We invite applications for up to two postdoctoral Research associates in physics-inspired/physics-based computing at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics. The successful appointees would be expected to start any time before October 2025 for two years.

One position will be funded by the UK multidisciplinary centre for neuromorphic computing. Candidates should be qualified to undertake research topics on quantum to classical transition, broadly defined. Another position will be funded by the Horizon Europe Pathfinder grant. Candidates should be qualified to undertake research topics in spin-glass physics, quantised vortices, or physics-based machine learning and neural networks, broadly defined.

The successful candidates will have completed (or nearly completed) a PhD in applied mathematics, scientific computing or theoretical physics focusing on one or several areas from the following topical list: machine learning, neural networks, quantum information, statistical mechanics, quantum fluids, combinatorial optimisation or other closely related areas prior to their appointment and will have demonstrated a capacity to produce world-class research.

We are seeking an outstanding researcher to join Professor Teuta Pilizota’s group at the University of Cambridge, in their effort to understand how physico-chemical forces limit bacterial growth and death. Vibrio natriegens is one of the fastest-growing organisms ever known, as it can double in about 10 minutes. That said, if we look simply at its protein sequences, it is more than 97% similar to another Vibrio species, V. campbellii, which takes twice as long to double. Therefore, it is unlikely that V. natriegens simply adopted its proteome for faster growth. Intrigued by this puzzle of supercharged growth, we recently compared the speed of enzymes found in V.natriegens with those of V. campbellii, and of the bacteria Escherichia coli, and Bacillus subtilis, which are much slower growing. We would like to find out why there are such substantial differences. It seems that the biological environment created in the cytoplasm of V. natriegens has unique physico-chemical properties that effectively raise the temperature ¿ and thus speed up ¿ the rate at which reactions occur.

As the principal museum of the University of Cambridge and the largest cultural venue in the region, The Fitzwilliam Museum acts as a crucial bridge between the University, the City and the rest of the world, and has an international reputation for extraordinary research, world class exhibitions, award-winning public programmes and significant collections spanning many cultures and centuries. The Hamilton Kerr Institute (HKI) is a sub-department of the museum and is one of the world’s leading centres for teaching and research in paintings conservation and heritage science.

The Fitzwilliam Museum holds an important collection of British art, across paintings, drawings, prints, miniature, sculpture, decorative arts and books, spanning the Medieval era through the present day. This is an exciting opportunity for an early career researcher to be develop their curatorial practice around British Art (1700-1950). The post holder will have the opportunity to build partnerships in the University of Cambridge and beyond, and participating in research networks such as the Collections-Connections-Communities initiative. We particularly encourage applicants who will seek to bring new perspectives to these collections, including from under-represented audiences and considering collection histories.

We are looking for a highly motivated Postdoctoral Research Associate (PDRA) with interest in commercialising scientific breakthroughs. The successful candidate will lead research on ERC PoC project PepVerse within Prof. Knowles’ research group at the Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge. This is a unique opportunity to drive the commercialisation of a cutting-edge platform that accelerates peptide-based drug discovery.

Peptide-based drugs present significant advantages over existing molecular therapeutics. Their ability to target challenging biological sites and modulate intracellular functions¿capabilities beyond those of traditional small molecules and biologics¿make them a promising class of medicines. However, progress in this area has been limited by the absence of high-quality, large-scale protein¿peptide interaction datasets critical for rational, AI-driven peptide design. To address this challenge, as part of ERC Consolidator grant, Prof. Knowles’ research group developed a platform that enables high-throughput screening of peptide-based libraries against protein targets. The platform can be used to identify peptide-based binders across a variety of protein targets and provide starting points for drug discovery programmes. Moreover, it has the potential to create the world’s largest protein/peptide mimotope dataset foundational for advancing any peptide-based drug discovery programme. The ERC PoC PepVerse project focuses on increasing the technology readiness of this platform, transitioning it from a promising research tool to a commercially attractive platform.

We are seeking a Research Associate to join a research group led by Professor Ulrich Keyser, focusing on biosensing approaches with solid-state nanopores. The lab is composed of around 10 researchers with backgrounds ranging from biophysics to biology. The aim of this 15-month project is to design, assemble and test DNA and RNA nanostructures that can be used to count the number of RNA molecules extracted from cells. The cells can be both pro- and eukaryotic. In addition, with the help of DNA nanotechnology, the successful candidate will quantify the frequency of RNA modifications using nanopore sensing.

 

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Postdoc Fellowship Position summary/title: Research Associate in Latin American Development (Fixed Term)

Deadline : 7 July 2025

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The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER) invites applications for a Research Associate interested in improving our understanding of how AI may deliberately or accidentally affect biosecurity risk, as well as developing commentary on why some advances and interactions have provoked more concern than others. This role is fixed term for 12 months and would suit someone with a PhD in a relevant technical field, who is interested in engaging with governance and policy.

CSER is part of the Institute for Technology and Humanity (ITH), which supports world-leading research and teaching that investigates and shapes technological transformations and the opportunities and challenges they pose for our societies, our environment and our world. The highly interdisciplinary team works on topics ranging from pandemics to climate change, engaging with policymakers at the national and international level.

Professor James Rowe is looking for a new Clinical Research Associate (Clinical Fellow) to join the vibrant team at the Cambridge Centre for Frontotemporal Dementia. The Centre brings together leading clinicians and scientists focusing on mechanisms, diagnostics and novel treatments for patients with Frontotemporal dementia and related disorders.

The research brings together clinical, brain imaging, disease outcomes and treatment responses and use this knowledge to develop new treatments.

Successful candidates will be eligible for higher specialist training in the UK (ST3 and above). The post is ideally suited for neurology trainees wishing to undertake a PhD and develop your career in cognitive neurology.

A position exists for a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics modelling the decontamination of porous and absorbent material. This project aims to provide mathematical models of decontamination processes and is funded by the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl). The approach to mathematical modelling is multifaceted, with experiments playing an important role not only in motivating and inspiring the mathematical approaches, but also in providing the data sets against which the models can be validated.

The principal focus of this position within the team is the experimental work on decontamination of porous materials, although it is also expected that the successful candidate will contribute strongly to the analytical and numerical modelling efforts.

Applications are invited for a post-doctoral Research Associate to join the group of Dr Danielle J. Harper within the new Early Cancer Institute on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus. This interdisciplinary group designs state-of-the-art optical imaging systems to aid surgical resection of cancerous tissues. Dr. Harper is dually appointed between the Early Cancer Institute and the Department of Physics, allowing the lab to span the full spectrum of Biophotonics hardware development through clinical application. We are seeking a motivated post-doctoral Research Associate to join the team.

The successful candidate will have prior experience in optical system design and will contribute to the lab’s efforts to develop a suite of optical coherence tomography systems that are appropriate for intraoperative imaging. The role will involve maintaining active collaborations both within the University of Cambridge and externally through the efforts of the OASIS hub (www.oasishub.org.uk). As a post-doctoral Research Associate, the successful candidate will also be expected to lead on and contribute to manuscripts and present their work at national and international conferences. They will join a highly collaborative and friendly environment and will be offered opportunities for training in any areas necessary for career progression.

We seek a postdoctoral scientist to work with Professor Sir Shankar Balasubramanian (https://www.balasubramanian.co.uk/) on the structure and function of nucleic acids and their role in the fundamental mechanisms of cancer. The post will be based in our lab at Cancer Research UK’s Cambridge Institute (CI) and involves close collaboration with our sister lab based in the University Chemistry Department. The post is available immediately.

We have a vacancy for a molecular biologist, biochemist or mechanistic cell biologist. Current projects include elucidating four-stranded nucleic acid structures (G-quadruplexes), their interacting proteins, their role in gene regulation and the biology of cancer. We also have an interest in their suitability as therapeutic targets and biomarkers of cancer. Our interdisciplinary lab innovates and applies new methods involving sequencing technologies, genome-targeting and chemical biology.

We are seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate to develop manuscripts for publication from PhD research. The successful candidate with carry out experimental and theoretical analyses to study the diversity of photosystem II subunit S across the green lineage. 

The position will focus on the study of transgenic Arabidopsis lines expressing diverse PsbSs, as well as marchantia and maize lines with adjusted expression levels of PsbS.

A position exists for a Post Doctoral Research Associate in Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics to work on the theory and implementation of algorithms and protocols on quantum networks.

This position is part of a UK-Canada Quantum for Science collaborative project “Quantum network applications in theory and practice” funded by STFC/EPSRC (UK) and NSERC (Canada), led by Professor Adrian Kent (DAMTP, University of Cambridge), Professor Erika Andersson (Heriot-Watt University), Professor Alex May (Perimeter Institute), Professor Debbie Leung (IQC Waterloo and Perimeter Institute) and Professor Thomas Jennewein (Simon Fraser University and IQC Waterloo).

Project research topics include real time responsive routing of quantum states on a network, quantum money and alternatives, quantum position verification, entanglement on quantum networks and network capacity and noise mitigation.

A position exists, for a Research Assistant/Associate in the Department of Engineering, to work on a European consortium project, UP2030. UP2030 aims to support cities in driving the transitions required to meet their climate neutrality targets (see: https://up2030-he.eu/). The University of Cambridge is leading activities on data governance and city-wide carbon management.

We wish to appoint a Research Assistant or Postdoctoral Research Associate with experience in Electronic Health Records (EHR) research to work alongside the University Department of Psychiatry, clinical institutions such as Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust, and with a secondment to industry (Akrivia Health) to advance science and develop common data models for electronic health records of people with mental disorders, under the guidance of Dr Osimo and Prof Murray at Cambridge, and a line manager to be selected at Akrivia Health.

The aim of the research programme is to develop EHR common data model specifications and to advance knowledge in the field of psychiatry EHR research, including clinical risk prediction modelling.

We are seeking an enthusiastic, motivated individual for a postdoctoral position in the group of Professor Anne Willis, MRC Toxicology Unit, University of Cambridge. You will join an exciting research programme investigating the effects of mRNA translation surveillance mechanisms on the cytotoxicity of chemotherapeutic agents. This post will involve the use of cutting edge biochemical, proteomic, and next generation sequencing techniques.

This position is available for an immediate appointment. Candidates must have a PhD in a relevant biological subject with expertise in either the DNA or RNA damage response. Candidates must also have demonstrable expertise in biochemistry, cell biology and/or molecular biology with experience of gene editing techniques and a proven ability to perform and analyse proteomics experiments. A high-quality peer-reviewed publication and a background in studying mechanisms of genotoxicity or cytotoxicity are also essential.