The successful applicant will be required to review protocols for GCP and operational compliance and take teams forward to application and initiation. The ideal applicant will also have experience of working independently with sites, performing source data verification and monitoring trials to GCP, as some site visits may be required.

The post holder will be required to:

• Set up, initiate and on occasion monitor and close clinical trials on behalf of the sponsor where one or more of the partner institutions is acting as sponsor, to ensure regulatory compliance.
• Provide support to investigators conducting clinical trials sponsored by partner institutions to ensure they are set up and working to the highest quality standards and report on the progress of trials.

The clinical research fellow will undertake research activities, focussed on either stromal cell therapy in liver disease or Metabolic Dysfunction Associated Steatotic Liver Disease (MASLD) under the supervision of Prof Philip Newsome within the newly revamped Roger Williams Institute of Liver Studies at King’s College London. The 3-year post is suitable for Specialty Trainees in Hepatology. The ideal candidate would be looking for a career in academic liver disease.

This post is based at the Denmark Hill Campus and the Fellow will be expected to take part in research activities in line with the objectives and requirements of the department, sufficient to maintain and develop pre-existing skills. There is a clinical component including out-patient work at King’s College Hospital (two clinics per week) under the supervision of Prof Philip Newsome.

Applicants should be medically qualified with full GMC registration with license to practice in the UK.  The post is suitable for Specialty Trainees in Cardiology who intend to specialise in the cardiac imaging sub-specialty or who have already commenced training in general cardiology and wish to gain more sub-specialty experience in Cardiac MRI (CMR), by taking an Out-Of-Programme Experience (OOPE) from their current training programmes.  The ideal candidate would be looking for sub-speciality experience in CMR imaging to further their medical career or alternatively be seeking a year’s clinical research experience which would allow them time to write grants and apply for further fellowships which may lead to further academic work.

The candidate should have excellent interpersonal, analytical and problem-solving skills with a proven ability to manage projects, work to deadlines and collaborate with clinical teams.  Prior research experience and peer-reviewed publications are highly desirable but not essential.  

Our Cardiac MRI service is run through extended days during weekdays covering from 08:00 to 20:00 hours, 5 days a week.  You are expected to participate in a rota of shifts covering some early shifts and some late shifts.   There will also be a requirement to cover weekend lists which are run routinely to help with waiting list pressures.  Hence, the post holder must have the flexibility to fully participate in the weekend rota, as well as early and late shifts in the week.

King’s College London is an internationally renowned university delivering exceptional education and world-leading research. We are dedicated to driving positive and sustainable change in society and realising our vision of making the world a better place.

EMBRACE is a visionary, multicomponent international research programme, the first of its kind in the world, supported by Inkfish with £35M core funds over six years, starting in April 2025. It is a global study of 60,000 participants, including 20,000 mothers, 20,000 infants and up to 20,000 partners.  It brings together world-leading clinician scientists across six distinguished Healthcare organisations, world-leading AI & technology companies, together with premier biotech companies, with the overarching aim to fast-track major scientific breakthroughs, revolutionise maternal and early childhood health through precision-personalised interventions, powered by a groundbreaking symbiosis of cutting-edge AI combined with human support.

The post of Senior Research Scientist is a senior role on the EMBRACE study led by Professor Josip Car. The post holder will design and co-lead a programme of complex intervention research focusing on physical activity during pregnancy.  The post holder will bring extensive relevant expertise and experience to the post.

The postholder will conduct cutting-edge research at the intersection of neuroimaging, genomics, and computational modelling, with a focus on child and adolescent mental health.

The successful candidate will primarily lead analyses of large-scale datasets, applying advanced computational and statistical methods to integrate multimodal data (including MRI, MEG, EEG, and genomic data).

The postholder will work with a team with a strong track record in Big Data analytics in child mental health, helping accelerate the move toward analytics that support precision care in mental health.  We have a strong interest in determining the clinical, neural and genomic features that predict the course of childhood mental challenges as well as response to treatments.  The role also provides the opportunity to gain experience in data acquisition and analysis as part of the launch of the £11 million UKRI funded Clinical Research Centre, which houses state-of-the-art OP-MEG, MRI, EEG and fNIRS technologies.

The Department of Mathematics at King’s College London invites applications for two postdoctoral research associate positions, for durations of 24 months and 36 months, starting in October 2026. 

The successful candidates will work on several projects related to many-body systems, with particular interest in the regime when they are inhomogeneous and out-of-equilibrium, and they are well described via hydrodynamics theories. They will be supported by EPSRC under grant UNIHYPE: Universal hydrodynamic principles and emergent physics, EP/Z534304/1 (assessed under the ERC Advanced Grant scheme). 

The ideal candidates will hold a PhD in theoretical/condensed matter physics, with knowledge of non-equilibrium many-body physics and methods of (quantum and classical) integrability, one position emphasising the former and the other the latter. Some numerical skills is also expected. 

We are looking for a candidate with a strong background in synthetic organic chemistry, including experience in multi-step synthesis and mechanistic studies, and particular expertise in NMR spectroscopy. Experience in solution- and/or solid-phase peptide and nucleic acid synthesis and their isolation and characterisation is highly desirable.

Excellent organisational and interpersonal skills are essential, as is the ability to contribute to the design and implementation of research projects, maintain accurate records and analyses, and prepare internal reports and publications.

The role will be to develop and clinically test a new drug-device treatment for onychomycosis (fungal infection of the human nail plate). Onychmycosis affects one in ten people, and it is classed as a significant unmet medical need because the current treatment is inadequate, with fewer than one in three people being cured. Infections in the hands and toenails are usually acquired in young adult life and can persist until death. Although onychomycosis can be perceived as a cosmetic problem among young adults, later in life, if a sufferer experiences immunocompromise, the infection can spread to all digits and across the skin. In chronic immunocompromisation, onycomycosis can also lead to invasion and the generation of blood-based infections. At King’s College London, we are developing a new topical therapy that promises to be a significant breakthrough for onychomycosis patients.

We are seeking a motivated Research Associate to help develop a new drug-device combination for the treatment of onychomycosis. We are currently in the stages of finalising the device design. We have funding for a new translational research project, which will advance the new treatment from the laboratory into clinical testing in a Phase 2b clinical trial. We are seeking a clinical coordinator to lead this project.

The position is funded by the Open Philanthropy grant “Verifiably Robust Conformal Probes”. The project’s goal is to develop methods for latent probing (aka activation monitoring) of large language models (LLMs) that leverage certification and conformal prediction techniques to offer probabilistic and adversarial robustness guarantees. Applications include detection of misaligned LLM intentions such as deception, harmfulness, jailbreaking, and power-seeking behaviours.

You will work alongside Dr Nicola Paoletti and a core team that includes a PhD student from Dr Paoletti’s lab, Prof Osvaldo Simeone from the Department of Engineering at King’s College London, and Dr Mehran Hosseini from the University of Manchester. You will join a vibrant research environment, with several researchers in Dr Paoletti’s lab working on related topics, within a department that has a strong track record in AI research.

Applicants for the associate position should have already completed, or be close to completing, a PhD in a relevant discipline. Applicants for the fellow position should also have prior post-doc experience. Commensurate with their career stage, applicants should have an outstanding research track record in topics related to the project’s scope, such as mechanistic interpretability of LLMs, robustness verification of machine learning models, and conformal inference.

This position is set within a growing research initiative supported by the prestigious UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship, focusing on the development of sustainable aluminium-ion batteries. The aim is to develop innovative, high-performance cathode materials for non-aqueous aluminium-ion batteries and to explore their underlying reaction mechanisms.

We are seeking a highly motivated postdoctoral researcher passionate about materials science and its application to energy storage devices. The focus of the position is to gain a fundamental understanding of the structure-properties-performance relationship of the developed materials using ex-situ and in-situ characterisation methods of the bulk and the electrode-electrolyte interfaces. The work will further include the synthesis of inorganic materials and their electrochemical characterisation in batteries.

Synthesis methods will include mainly solid-state and solvothermal syntheses. Standard characterisation techniques will include X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, and electrochemical analysis.

You will be part of a dynamic, diverse, and growing research team with a strong focus on creating a positive and collegial group culture.  We maintain strong partnerships with researchers both in the UK and internationally, and we are looking for a candidate who is excited about working in a team and willing to travel for collaborative research visits.

Food allergies are increasing, affect 8% of children and 10% of adults and can be life-threatening. With no cure, patients must avoid allergens and carry emergency medication, leading to restricted social lives and anxiety. While immunotherapy can raise the reaction threshold, it does not eliminate life-style limitations and risk of reactions. Urgent action is needed to develop definitive treatments for food allergies. Exposure to food allergens through the gastrointestinal tract is tolerogenic. Peanut consumption from the first year of life reduced peanut allergy by 81% in a randomised-controlled trial. This impressive effect was allergen-specific and sustained over time. However, the underlying immune mechanisms of oral tolerance induction to peanut are not well understood. In this research programme, we will use unique samples from young children undergoing their first oral exposure to peanut to explore the changes in the immune response to peanut induced by oral exposure. Their blood and intestinal immune cell populations will be analysed ex vivo and after co-culture with intestinal organoids to ascertain how these processes are regulated in the gut.

This work will be done in close collaboration with the Santos Lab at King’s College London. This collaborative effort will allow us to pinpoint key pathways involved in establishing oral tolerance to food allergens and explore how they can be modulated to develop curative treatments for food allergies.

The Conte lab seeks a skilled Research Associate in RNA Cellular Biology with expertise in RNA-binding proteins, RNA biology, microscopy and cross-linking IP methodologies.

The post holder will work on a BBSRC funded project to elucidate the Syntax of Protein Disorder in RNA-Binding Function. The research aims at uncovering how intrinsically disordered regions in proteins contribute to RNA-binding specificity and RNP regulation, and how perturbations and modifications in these regions shape RNA networks in cells. The post holder will work in close synergism with biophysics and structural biology experts to provide a comprehensive understanding of molecular mechanisms and their functional impact.

This is an opportunity to work in a truly inter- and multidisciplinary setting at the interface of protein disorder, RNA regulation, and network biology. We seek a candidate passionate about RNA biology who wants to contribute to cutting-edge research. 

We are seeking a Research Associate (RA) to work on our Brain Health in Gen2020 study, which seeks to understand the mechanisms by which fetal infection – specifically from COVID-19 –  impact fetal cortical development and folding.

Our specific interest is in finding someone with experience of running finite element models (FEM) of soft tissue mechanics. It is essential that the successful applicant can directly translate mathematical models to code (rather than directly apply FEM software) since the long-term objective is to translate the methods to a learning-based (AI) framework.

The first requirement of this RA role will be to run models of fetal cortical folding to use as training data for physics-constrained AI simulations. Over the course of the project the applicant would be expected to translate these solutions into novel AI frameworks that learn from longitudinal imaging data. Data sources include both macrostructural (whole brain) MRI and microstructural (microscopy) of primary tissue slice cultures.

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Postdoc Fellowship Position summary/title: Research Associate in Robotics & AI

Deadline : 13 November 2025.

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The role falls under the “Understanding” strand, and the postholder will be based in the Department of War Studies in the Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy. The Understanding strand will map the distribution, prevalence and forms of slavery across diverse conflict zones in the modern world, building a new analytical paradigm to understand the phenomenon of slavery in war since the 1790s. The postholder will bring historical expertise to the team, supporting work to develop the Centre’s datasets and the team’s use of data analytics and machine learning.

Together, this Centre strand team will build a blended data resource and sets of case studies that can help to gauge the prevalence, forms, and distribution of slavery in wars from 1791 to the present, and to understand the ways slavery and war have shaped each other as phenomena. Key research questions include: How have forms of slavery manifested in wars throughout modern history ? What factors explain how slavery has manifested in wars? How can diverse datasets be synthesised and analysed to research and address slavery in war?

The role-holder will work collaboratively as part of an interdisciplinary team including King’s College London colleagues from War Studies, Digital Humanities and Law, and with colleagues at our partner institution (University of Nottingham) as well as undertaking independent research. They will use approaches, methodologies, and techniques appropriate to the research.

Applications are invited for two STFC funded Research Associate posts in Theoretical Physics in the Department of Mathematics at King’s College London. These are fixed-term posts for 12 months with the expectation that they will be extended for up to 36 months, subject to funding. The topic of research can overlap with that of any of the permanent members of the group.

Candidates should have the potential to carry out research which has high levels of originality, innovation and depth that may create significant impact on the field of theoretical physics, including aspects of quantum field theory and gravity.

We are seeking an enthusiastic Research Associate to work closely with Professor Sophie Moore on a Wellcome Trust funded clinical trial in The Gambia (the INDiGO trial). INDiGO randomises pregnant women and their infants to micronutrient interventions from mid-pregnancy through to six-months post-partum. The primary outcome of the trial is infant neurocognitive development, using functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) and eye tracking technologies, alongside the collection of neurobehavioural data. The trial collects repeated measures across infancy, culminating in a large volume of complex data. We seek an individual with specific skills and experience in the collection, processing and analysis of complex data to help support this trial.

This post provides an exciting opportunity to engage in a large collaborative research project, working with nutrition scientists, trial statisticians, infant developmental psychologists, biomedical engineers, policy makers as well as working closely with a large, multidisciplinary field team based in The Gambia. Furthermore, this post will provide the opportunity for the individual to develop their own embedded research questions, within the framework of the larger trial. Opportunities for training and development (e.g. junior Fellowship applications) will be encouraged and supported.

The role is divided between supporting the delivery of funded clinical trials within the Psychology Department and contributing to the mental health and neuroscience focused NIHR Support Service Hub hosted by King’s College London and Partners.

You will play a key role in the innovative NIHR program grant, REFUEL-MS, which is developing and evaluating a tailored digital treatment to help individuals with multiple sclerosis effectively manage their fatigue. You will be involved in analysing data and preparing publications for other trials, such as the PACT-AM trial, evaluating personalised acceptance and commitment therapy for Parkinson’s disease, and the evaluation of the COMPASS online psychological treatment for individuals experiencing psychological distress related to long-term health conditions.

As part of the NIHR Research Support Service Hub hosted by King’s College London and Partners, you will be fully immersed in a dynamic team dedicated to research methodology in mental health and neuroscience. This hub is committed to helping researchers improve people’s lives by understanding how to prevent mental health difficulties and find better treatments. As a member of the NIHR RSS hub at King’s, you will collaborate with a diverse team of methodologists to provide support, advice, and expertise to researchers, especially those applying for and receiving NIHR funding, especially fellowships, with a focus on quantitative aspects of the design.