34 faculty science chemistry jobs found in Cambridge

Fixed-term: The funds for this post are available for 1 year in the first instance. We are currently seeking a postdoctoral research associate to join the group of Professor Oren Scherman in the Department of Chemistry on a multidisciplinary project funded by an ERC grant (CAM-RIG, 726470). The position offers an exciting opportunity to study the fundamental structure-property relationships within a range of polymeric networks and materials using a bespoke experimental setup. The aim of the project is to understand how fundamental physical and chemical properties of gel networks are related to the structure and dynamics of a wide variety of functional soft materials and supramolecular composites. Deconvolution of multiple relaxation dynamics in the system will enable a new level of understanding and insight with wide-ranging implications in functional materials design. The successful candidate must have, or be about to obtain, a PhD in chemistry, polymer physics or...

We are looking for an experienced structural biologist to work on a collaborative project with Apollo Therapeutics to develop inhibitors against an exciting new cancer target. The postholder will be responsible for establishing crystallographic platform for fragment-based and structure-guided drug discovery campaign, to validate the binding mode of existing inhibitors and of new hit molecules from our own screens. They will also be performing fragment screens on the target and validate hit molecules using biophysical methods. Fixed-term: The funds for this post are available from the 1st June 2023 for 12 Months in the first instance. Click the 'Apply' button below to register an account with our recruitment system (if you have not already) and apply online. For informal enquiries can be sent to Professor Marko Hyvonen mh256@cam.ac.uk For any questions about this vacancy or the application process please contact: personnel@bioc.cam.ac.uk Please quote...

Fixed-term: The funds for this post are available for up to 4 years. A position exists for a Research Assistant / Research Associate in Organic Physical Chemistry and Chemical Kinetics, as part of the Planetary Astrochemistry Group at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, in close collaboration with the University College London. The aim of the role is to investigate prebiotic chemical networks. The successful applicant will explore the physical and chemical parameter space relevant for origins of life scenarios. The result of this investigation will be the determination of chemical lifetimes and rate constants for dozens of species for a range of conditions. This fundamental research is essential for determining whether prebiotic scenarios can take place in a local environment. This work will involve controlled reactions under a range of physical and chemical conditions, and the use of several analytical techniques, especially NMR and FTIR, to quantitatively...

Ref Number B02-04805 Professional Expertise Research and Research Support Department School of Life & Medical Sciences (B02) Location London Working Pattern Full time Salary £39,508 - £47,355 Contract Type Fixed-term Working Type On site (> 80% of working time) Available For Secondment No Closing Date 17-Apr-2023 About us The Division of Infection and Immunity and The Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research are co-located in the Cruciform Building at UCL and are lively and sociable research environments striving for excellence in research. There is an established track record for department post docs gaining personal fellowships and independently minded and talented investigators will be encouraged and supported in seeking such fellowship support. About the role The research project aims to understand the molecular details of the relationship between human immunodeficiency virus and the human innate immune system. We employ...

Ref Number B04-03533 Professional Expertise Research and Research Support Department UCL BEAMS (B04) Location London Working Pattern Full time Salary See advert text Contract Type Permanent Working Type On site (> 80% of working time) Available For Secondment No Closing Date 16-Apr-2023 About us The Chemistry Department at UCL is one of the top-ranked departments in the UK, with 100% of its outputs ranked as being world-leading (4*) or internationally excellent (3*) in the recent REF2021. The Department is committed to supporting excellence in both research and teaching. The department offers undergraduate BSc and MSci programmes in Chemistry and currently teaches over 700 undergraduates registered in Chemistry as well as students who select Chemistry on the Natural Sciences programme and first year Chemistry for life scientists. The Department also offers a number of Postgraduate Taught Masters courses with around 100 students per year. The...

Ref Number B04-03318 Professional Expertise Research and Research Support Department UCL BEAMS (B04) Location London Working Pattern Full time Salary £38,308- £46,155 Contract Type Fixed-term Working Type On site (> 80% of working time) Available For Secondment No Closing Date 30-Mar-2023 About us The Chemistry Department at UCL is one of the top-ranked departments in the UK, with 100% of its outputs ranked as being world-leading (4*) or internationally excellent (3*) in the recent REF2021. The Department is committed to supporting excellence in both research and teaching. The department offers undergraduate BSc and MSci programmes in Chemistry and currently teaches 700 undergraduates registered in Chemistry as well as students who select Chemistry on the Natural Sciences programme and first year Chemistry for life scientists. The Department also offers a number of Postgraduate Taught Masters courses with about...

The role is to provide specialist expertise as a synthetic chemist and radiochemist to perform radiopharmaceutics research within a multidisciplinary EPSRC-funded Project Grant: “Translational Nanoconstructs for Targeted Tissue Accumulation and Guided Surgery in Cancer” based at Imperial College London, King’s College London and the University of Hull. The team will include specialists in organic and inorganic chemists and radiochemists,... Job listing information Reference NAT01405 Date posted 6 March 2023 Closing date 3 April 2023 Job summary The role is to provide specialist expertise as a synthetic chemist and radiochemist to perform radiopharmaceutics research within a multidisciplinary EPSRC-funded Project Grant: “ Translational Nanoconstructs for Targeted Tissue Accumulation and Guided Surgery in Cancer”  based at Imperial College London, King’s College London and the University of...

Lightweight carbon fibre reinforced composites are critical materials across many sections. In transport, particularly, they improve fuel efficiency and increase range, playing a potentially enabling role in electrification. Whilst carbon fibre materials contribute to sustainability in use, their production is problematic; nearly all structural carbon fibres are made from petrochemicals. At Imperial College, we have developed a new approach to... Job listing information Reference NAT01401 Date posted 6 March 2023 Closing date 3 April 2023 Job summary Lightweight carbon fibre reinforced composites are critical materials across many sections. In transport, particularly, they improve fuel efficiency and increase range, playing a potentially enabling role in electrification. Whilst carbon fibre materials contribute to sustainability in use, their production is problematic; nearly all structural carbon fibres are made from...

Fixed-term: The funds for this post are available for 24 months in the first instance. The post should ideally start 1st September 2023. The successful candidate will join the Di Martino Lab (https://www.dimartinolab.msm.cam.ac.uk), as part of the Device Materials Group, University of Cambridge, which is world leading in the field of nanoscience. Applications are invited for an experimental Research Assistant/Associate exploring ferroelectrics memories based on binary oxides using plasmon enhanced spectroscopy. The aim is to provide critical knowledge for materials and device engineers to guide the creation of devices of unparalleled performance. New abilities to confine light to the nanometre scale developed by us give a host of opportunities for new types of in-operando optical characterization of thin film materials (see https://www.dimartinolab.msm.cam.ac.uk/Publications). You will be developing nano-optics studies of nanoparticles and nanostructures to explore and...

Applications are invited for a Research Assistant/Associate (Postdoctoral Researcher) in the Department of Engineering, to work on the testing of Li Ion battery cathodes fabricated by flame pyrolysis as part of an EPSRC Grant with partners at the University of Cambridge and UCL. The post holder will be located at the University of Cambridge in the group of Prof. Michael De Volder (www.nanomanufacturing.eng.cam.ac.uk/). The successful applicant will focus on fabrication of battery electrodes using flame pyrolysis as well as their testing and optimisation for battery performance. This involves battery slurry preparation and optimisation of its composition, coating electrodes and building cells. Other key responsibilities of the candidate include the electrochemical testing of the batteries, processing and testing of cathode materials, battery material characterisation methods, work together with the team to optimise the flame pyrolysis process. We will consider candidates with...

We are seeking to recruit an experienced post-doctoral researcher to work at the exciting interface between nucleic nanotechnology and synthetic biology. The candidate will be supported by a BBSRC International Partnership Award held, in collaboration, by Dr Lorenzo Di Michele (Cambridge), Dr Yuval Elani (Imperial College), Prof. Masahiro Takinoue (Tokyo Tech) and Prof. Hirohide Saito (Kyoto). The project seeks to apply the tools of nucleic acid nanotechnology to engineer structures (organelles) and behaviours in both synthetic and biological cells. Further details on the project are available upon request. The candidate will be primarily based in the Cambridge lab, joining an extensive team of PhD students, postdoctoral researchers, and research fellows working on similar topics. Here, the researcher will have access to state-of-the-art experimental facilities for DNA nanotechnology, molecular biology, membrane biophysics, microscopy, microfabrication, and...

Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Research Associate position in a unique split research/facility support role. The post is jointly funded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation (https://www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/research/dupree) and the Department of Biochemistry Biophysics Facility (https://www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/research/stott), with the intention that the post-holder acquires and develops outward-facing skills in solution-state NMR and molecular biophysics, in order to support the cutting-edge research of the Dupree and Stott labs, with particular focus on the use of NMR spectroscopy and molecular biophysics for the study of carbohydrates and disordered proteins. The post holder will also support others in the wider Department and beyond, with opportunities for research and development of key techniques, as required. Applicants should hold a PhD in chemistry, biochemistry, or a related discipline, with skills in at least two of: protein chemistry/biochemistry, carbohydrate...

A position exists for a postdoctoral Research Assistant/Associate to work on the development of nanomaterial-based (opto)electronic devices. The role holder will join the Electrical Engineering Division under the supervision of Prof Hannah Joyce and Dr Jack Alexander-Webber. The successful individual will join a project that aims to develop new high-throughput device integration, characterisation, and analysis techniques to generate large multi-technique characterisation datasets of nanomaterials, such as semiconductor nanowires, graphene, and two-dimensional semiconductors. The post holder will be located in West Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK. The successful candidate will be engaged in: (i) Fabricating and characterising (opto)electronic devices based on arrays of nanomaterials. (ii) Designing and optimising high-throughput (opto)electronic characterisation techniques which may include automated probing, or integration of nanomaterial devices with CMOS, readout...

Applications are invited for a Research Assistant or Postdoctoral Research Associate to join Dr Edward Avezov's laboratory as a part of a multidisciplinary project supported by The Evelyn Trust at the department of Clinical Neurosciences, UK Dementia Research Institute in Cambridge, based at the Cambridge Biomedical Campus. The post holder will be expected to lead the development of methods to control intracellular localisation of amyloid precursor proteins and to apply these in brain cell models to study and gain the ability to mitigate protein aggregation-related damage. The project will be conducted in collaboration with Cambridge Department of Chemistry, Centre for Misfolding Diseases. The UK Dementia Research Institute (UK DRI) is the biggest UK initiative driving forward research to fill this gap. We are a globally leading multidisciplinary research institute of 700 staff investigating the spectrum of neurodegenerative disorders causing dementia, with laboratory-based...

Job description We are seeking a motivated Lecturer / Senior Lecturer to join our Medicines Development research group at the Institute of Pharmaceutical Science (IPS).    We encourage applicants who have an expanding research profile and a proclivity for curiosity driven, perceptive research that will enhance the world-class research portfolio of the School of Cancer and Pharmaceutical Sciences and King’s Health Partners clinical academic groups of Pharmaceutical Science.     IPS academics have expertise in the areas of pharmaceutical formulation and analysis, delivery across biological barriers, theranostic nanomedicines, enabling technologies, medicinal/bioinorganic/bioanalytical chemistry, biophysics, microbiology, systems biology, neurodegenerative diseases, pharmacology, vascular biology and inflammation. These are linked by cross-cutting themes in cancer diagnostics and therapeutics, antimicrobials and respiratory medicines. ...

Job description We are seeking a motivated Lecturer / Senior Lecturer to join our Medicines Development research group at the Institute of Pharmaceutical Science (IPS).   We encourage applicants who have an expanding research profile and a proclivity for curiosity driven, perceptive research that will enhance the world-class research portfolio of the School of Cancer and Pharmaceutical Sciences and King’s Health Partners clinical academic group of Pharmaceutical Science.   IPS academics have expertise in the areas of pharmaceutical formulation and analysis, delivery across biological barriers, theranostic nanomedicines, enabling technologies, medicinal/bioinorganic/bioanalytical chemistry, biophysics, microbiology, systems biology, neurodegenerative diseases, pharmacology, vascular biology and inflammation. These are linked by cross-cutting themes in cancer diagnostics and therapeutics, antimicrobials and respiratory medicines.   In...

Natural, mathematical, and engineering sciences have played a central role at King’s since its foundation nearly 200 years ago. This rich tradition continues to the present day where we have created a diverse student and academic community, who have impact globally.   In the past six years, the  Natural, Mathematical & Engineering Sciences (NMES) has doubled in size to 5,000 students, 400 academic, and 150 professional services staff, and has joined the world top 100 across all areas. NMES comprises the departments of Chemistry, Engineering, Informatics, Mathematics, and Physics, and also hosts  interdisciplinary research centres in the  Physical Science of Life and  Net Zero, the  Centre for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP) based in Informatics, and is home to the university’s  Artificial Intelligence Institute. We have made significant investments in our staff and infrastructure, and...

Ref Number B02-03913 Professional Expertise Research and Research Support Department School of Life & Medical Sciences (B02) Location London Working Pattern Full time Salary £39,508 - £47,355 Contract Type Permanent Working Type On site (> 80% of working time) Available For Secondment No Closing Date 28-Mar-2023 About us Biosciences is one of the world’s foremost centres for research and teaching in the biological sciences and one of the largest Divisions within UCL, undertaking a significant amount of research and teaching. The Division has a diverse portfolio addressing all areas of biology from protein interactions to cell function, organism development, genetics, population studies and the environment. Computational modelling approaches are frequently used alongside experimental research programmes and much of our research crosses traditional boundaries, including the relationship of biodiversity to the health of the planet....

Ref Number B02-04824 Professional Expertise Teaching, Teaching Support and Examination Support Department School of Life & Medical Sciences (B02) Location London Working Pattern Full time Salary £48,614 - £57,041 Contract Type Fixed-term Working Type Hybrid (20% - 80% on site) Available For Secondment Yes Closing Date 03-Apr-2023 About us UCL School of Pharmacy is one of the world’s leading centres of excellence for pharmaceutical science, education and professional engagement. This is an exciting time to join one of the most highly rated pharmacy schools in the UK, currently rated 4th in the world by QS Rankings (Pharmacy and Pharmacology 2022) as well as 5th in the Shanghai Ranking (Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Science). The School has a well-established track record in high quality research across a broad range of drug delivery, drug discovery, pharmacy and patient safety related areas as well as in the development of...

Ref Number B04-00201 Professional Expertise Research and Research Support Department UCL BEAMS (B04) Location London Working Pattern Full time Salary £38,308- £46,155 Contract Type Fixed-term Working Type Hybrid (20% - 80% on site) Available For Secondment No Closing Date 01-Apr-2023 About us The Physics and Astronomy Department at UCL is located in the heart of the historical area of Bloomsbury. UCL Physics & Astronomy is among the top departments in the UK for this subject area: UCL is consistently placed in the global top 20 across a wide range of university rankings - and is currently 8th in the QS World University Rankings 2020, and 4th in the UK for Physics & Astronomy. We have forged an internationally renowned reputation for being at the forefront of world leading research and providing high class teaching. Those joining us can expect to be part of a dynamic community of Physicists and Astronomers whose enthusiasm for science...