31 faculty science mathematics jobs found in Cambridge

Applications are invited for a Research Associate in the astrophysics group, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge. The successful candidate will work with Dr. Del Zanna on a range of topics, to improve our understanding of the solar transition region and corona, by combining advanced models with new observations. The first is to make advanced atomic models of the solar transition region and corona available to the community. The second is to further develop the models and apply them to observations (e.g. SoHO/CDS and Solar Orbiter SPICE in the EUV and DKIST in the near infrared) to measure the physical state of the plasma and improve our understanding of the formation of the main spectral lines. The third is to develop improved models and apply to Hinode EIS observations to measure the coronal magnetic field. The successful candidate should have a PhD in a relevant area of solar physics or atomic physics, and have an...

DEPARTMENT/LOCATION Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics SALARY £34,308-£42,155 REFERENCE LE34569 CATEGORY Research PUBLISHED 12 December 2022 CLOSING DATE 5 March 2023 A post-doctoral Research Associate position in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics is available, in the research group of Prof. Hamza Fawzi. Funding for this position will come from Prof. Fawzi's UKRI Frontier/ERC Starting Grant titled 'Conic relaxations: scalable and accurate global optimization beyond polynomials'. Applicants should have (or be close to completing) a PhD on, or related to, mathematical optimization. We welcome applications from candidates working on the theory or algorithms for convex optimization and/or applications of convex optimization to areas such as quantum information and theoretical physics, or otherwise. Excellent academic writing, as well as presentation and communication skills are essential....

DEPARTMENT/LOCATION Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics SALARY £34,308-£42,155 REFERENCE LE34393 CATEGORY Research PUBLISHED 6 December 2022 CLOSING DATE 3 February 2023 A position exists for a Research Associate in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics and the Gurdon Institute to work on the theory of living and active matter. Alongside wet lab work using transgenic mouse models and organoid systems, the Simons group uses analytical and computational approaches to study theories of living and active matter, from mechanisms of cell fate in normal and cancerous states to the morphogenesis of patterned tissues, epigenetic inheritance and machine learning based methods (http://www.simons.group.gurdon.cam.ac.uk/). Current interests of the lab include stem cell density regulation, and the role of injury-induced cellular reprogramming in cancer development. The group benefits from collaborations...

We are looking for a Research Fellow in Mathematical Modelling of Tuberculosis Control to join our group. The post is a great opportunity to develop a broad range of skills and experience, including informing public health policy and practice and build an international network of collaborators. TB is a major cause of morbidity and mortality globally, and remains important cause of health inequality in the UK, associated with ethnicity,... Job listing information Reference MED03558 Date posted 6 January 2023 Closing date 31 January 2023 Job summary We are looking for a Research Fellow in Mathematical Modelling of Tuberculosis Control to join our group. The post is a great opportunity to develop a broad range of skills and experience, including informing public health policy and practice and build an international network of collaborators. TB is a major cause of morbidity and mortality globally, and remains important cause of...

Ref Number B04-03257 Professional Expertise Research and Research Support Department UCL BEAMS (B04) Location London Working Pattern Full time Salary See advert text Contract Type Fixed-term Working Type Hybrid (20% - 80% on site) Available For Secondment No Closing Date 12-Feb-2023 About us The Department of Mathematics at UCL is an internationally renowned department within one of the world’s most prestigious universities. Since its beginning, mathematics at UCL has been enhanced by its many outstanding members of staff. Indeed, two of its students (and later staff) Professor Klaus Roth (1958) and Professor Alan Baker (1970) have gone on to win the Fields Medal. Another former member of staff Professor Tim Gowers won the Fields Medal in 1998 for work he did whilst at UCL. Since 2011 the department has grown considerably. There are now 80 academic members of whom 32 are full professors, and a number of Honorary...

Applications are invited for a 3-year postdoctoral research position within the Drug Transport and Tumour Metabolism Lab, led by Dr Louise Fets. We are seeking a talented scientist to deliver an exciting and innovative research project funded by a 6-year Cancer Research UK-funded Career Establishment Award on “Understanding how membrane transporters influence variability in cancer drug uptake and investigating implications for efficacy”.... Job listing information Reference MED03624 Date posted 24 January 2023 Closing date 21 February 2023 Job summary Applications are invited for a 3-year postdoctoral research position within the Drug Transport and Tumour Metabolism Lab, led by Dr Louise Fets. We are seeking a talented scientist to deliver an exciting and innovative research project funded by a 6-year Cancer Research UK-funded Career Establishment Award on “Understanding how membrane transporters influence...

Applications are invited for a Research Associate position in the Department of Mathematics at Imperial College London.  The position is funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and will involve the study of time-inconsistent dynamic optimization. Job listing information Reference NAT01366 Date posted 18 January 2023 Closing date 8 February 2023 Job summary Applications are invited for a Research Associate position in the Department of Mathematics at Imperial College London.  The position is funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and will involve the study of time-inconsistent dynamic optimization. Duties and responsibilities The project is to develop new theory and methodology, including, but not limited to, characterization of equilibrium solution and control with backward stochastic differential equation (BSDE), computation with machine learning...

The Centre for Mathematics of Precision Healthcare (CMPH) in the Department of Mathematics at Imperial College London is part of a £3.4 million multi-university collaboration funded by the National Institute of Health Research to better understand Long COVID, improve diagnosis and find new treatments for the condition. The LOCOMOTION study aims to create a “gold standard” approach for the treatment of the Long COVID and will work to... Job listing information Reference NAT01356 Date posted 18 January 2023 Closing date 1 February 2023 Job summary The Centre for Mathematics of Precision Healthcare (CMPH) in the Department of Mathematics at Imperial College London is part of a £3.4 million multi-university collaboration funded by the National Institute of Health Research to better understand Long COVID, improve diagnosis and find new treatments for the condition. The LOCOMOTION study aims to create a...

Fixed-term: The funds for this post are available for 2 years in the first instance. This is an exciting new opportunity for a highly motivated computational researcher to join Professor Sir Shankar Balasubramanian's pioneering research programme to play a key role in advancing the understanding of sequence, structure and chemical modifications in DNA and RNA. Using their expert knowledge of programming languages, statistical/machine learning methods, bioinformatics tools and resources, the ideal candidate will use and develop computational approaches to transform raw sequencing data into biologically meaningful information. The successful candidate will have strong problem analysis/solving skills and be able to work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team working at the interface between chemistry, biology and bioinformatics. This is a vital post and the applicant will join a small team, with two other bioinformaticians, applying their expertise across the group. The...

We invite applications for a postdoctoral Research Associate to work in the Department of Oncology at the University of Cambridge. The successful candidate will also become a member of the Mark Foundation Institute for Integrated Cancer Medicine, the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre, and the Cambridge-GE HealthCare AI partnership. This role is an exceptional opportunity to join a strong and passionate interdisciplinary team to develop new deep learning approaches to model the spatial and temporal response to therapy of ovarian cancer using imaging data. The successful candidate will have access to extensive annotated datasets and drive the development and application of new deep learning approaches to track the evolution of primary and metastatic lesions during treatment. The research will aim to reveal new scientific insights into the disease as well as to provide support to critical, unsolved clinical questions. The Research Associate will be supervised by Dr Mireia...

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a key analytical role in the Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, funded by Cancer Research UK. A key responsibility of the post holder will be to utilise population-wide electronic health records to investigate the generalisability and transportability of models for the early detection and diagnosis of cancer. The post-holder will contribute to the development and application of statistical and machine learning approaches to adapt models for the early detection and diagnosis of cancer for clinical use in real world settings. The research will have translational and methodological impact. The preferred candidate will have a PhD (or equivalent) in Health Data Informatics, Data Science, Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Operational Research or other related quantitative subjects. Otherwise, if the candidate can demonstrate an outstanding fit to all the other criteria, a good Masters degree...

The University of Cambridge wishes to appoint a postdoctoral scientist to join the research groups of Prof Maria Grazia Spillantini and Prof Patrick Chinnery at the Department of Clinical Neurosciences and the MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit https://spillantinilab.medschl.cam.ac.uk/ http://www.mrc-mbu.cam.ac.uk/people/patrick-chinnery. The position is part of a collaborative Wellcome Trust award, lead by Prof Nick Jones (https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/nick.jones/publications.html ) at the Department of Mathematics at Imperial College, London. The award aims to understand the role of cryptic mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) mutations in aging and neurodegenerative disease. You will be based at the Clifford Allbutt Building in the Department of Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Cambridge and will have strong links also with Imperial College London, with regular travel between the two sites throughout the tenure. You will be involved in generating and...

Job description The post-doctoral researcher will join a team at King’s College London in the context of the Horizon Europe Framework Programme (HORIZON) project “SERMAS: Socially-acceptable Extended Reality Systems and Models”. The team comprises Prof. Luca Viganò (Department of Informatics), Dr. Oya Celiktutan and another postdoctoral researcher (both at the Department of Engineering). This is an exciting opportunity to participate in research in collaboration with our SERMAS partners in Italy, Germany, Ireland, Switzerland. The revolutionary opportunities opened by eXtended Reality (XR) technologies will only materialize if techniques and tools are provisioned to ensure the social acceptance of XR systems. A socially-acceptable XR system needs to satisfy the goals and needs of the user, be in compliance with the social context in which it is used, and be secure, safe, explainable and trusted by the user. By following an multi-disciplinary...

An opportunity has arisen for a Research Assistant or Associate to work on a funded research project on the impact of climate change on malaria. The post is based in the MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis, within the Department for Infectious Disease Epidemiology. The public health impact of climate change on vector borne diseases is highly unclear. Malaria remains one of the deadliest diseases and there is fear that morbidity... Job listing information Reference MED03604 Date posted 18 January 2023 Closing date 15 February 2023 Job summary An opportunity has arisen for a Research Assistant or Associate to work on a funded research project on the impact of climate change on malaria. The post is based in the MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis, within the Department for Infectious Disease Epidemiology. The public health impact of climate change on vector borne diseases is highly unclear. Malaria...

Ref Number B04-03214 Professional Expertise Research and Research Support Department UCL BEAMS (B04) Location London Working Pattern Full time Salary See advert text Contract Type Fixed-term Working Type Hybrid (20% - 80% on site) Available For Secondment No Closing Date 02-Feb-2023 About us The Department of Statistical Science at UCL is the longest established university statistics department in the world and has played a pioneering role in the development of the subject since its foundation in 1911. It is one of nine departments in the UCL Faculty of Mathematical and Physical Sciences and has close links with many other departments, both within the Faculty and outside of it. We teach statistical science at all levels (undergraduate single/combined honours, service courses, MSc and PhD) and carry out research across a wide range of theoretical and applied areas. In the last Research Excellence Framework exercise (2021/22),...

Ref Number B02-04331 Professional Expertise Research and Research Support Department School of Life & Medical Sciences (B02) Location London Working Pattern Full time Salary £38,308- £46,155 Contract Type Permanent Working Type On site (> 80% of working time) Available For Secondment No Closing Date 30-Jan-2023 About us Dementia is the greatest health challenge of our century. To date there is no way to prevent it or even slow its progression, and there is an urgent need to fill the knowledge gap in our basic understanding of the diseases that cause it. The UK Dementia Research Institute (UK DRI) is the biggest UK initiative supporting research to fill the major knowledge gap in our basic understanding of the diseases that cause dementia. The prime scientific aim of the Busche laboratory is to understand and ultimately reverse the cellular mechanisms that lead to Alzheimer’s...

Applications are invited for postdoctoral research position within the Computational Cardiac Imaging Group, led by Prof Declan O’Regan We are seeking a talented scientist with a background in mathematics or computer science with previous experience in cardiac image segmentation and motion analysis.   This post is part of a 4-year NIH program in a partnership between Imperial College London and Brigham and Women’s Hospital using machine... Job listing information Reference MED03554 Date posted 17 January 2023 Closing date 14 February 2023 Job summary Applications are invited for postdoctoral research position within the Computational Cardiac Imaging Group, led by Prof Declan O’Regan We are seeking a talented scientist with a background in mathematics or computer science with previous experience in cardiac image segmentation and motion analysis.   This post is part of a 4-year NIH program in a...

The GEMMA Project GEMMA, which stands for Genome, Environment, Microbiome and Metabolome in Autism, is a multicentre European Commission Project for exploring interactions between gut microbiome, metabolome, epigenome and immune function in order to discover new biomarkers useful for early diagnosis of autism, which would pave the way for early intervention. The European Commission has selected and financed GEMMA project as part of its Horizon... Job listing information Reference MED03611 Date posted 10 January 2023 Closing date 31 January 2023 Job summary The GEMMA Project GEMMA, which stands for Genome, Environment, Microbiome and Metabolome in Autism, is a multicentre European Commission Project for exploring interactions between gut microbiome, metabolome, epigenome and immune function in order to discover new biomarkers useful for early diagnosis of autism, which would pave the way for early intervention. The...

Applications are encouraged for a Research Associate position to work on the prediction of hydrogen-assisted failures using computational methods, on the project titled “Simulation-based assessment of the interplay between hydrogen, defects and plastic straining,” funded by Shell. This role will work under the supervision of Dr Emilio Martínez-Pañeda and be based in the Mechanics of Infrastructure Materials research group. Hydrogen... Job listing information Reference ENG02456 Date posted 12 January 2023 Closing date 9 February 2023 Job summary Applications are encouraged for a Research Associate position to work on the prediction of hydrogen-assisted failures using computational methods, on the project titled “Simulation-based assessment of the interplay between hydrogen, defects and plastic straining,” funded by Shell. This role will work under the supervision of Dr Emilio...

Applications are invited for a fully funded 24 month position at the Research Associate (PostDoc) level. The post is funded by the EPSRC, grant number EP/W032643/1,  “Distributed Quantum Computing and Applications”. This is a multi-million pounds project aiming at the timely challenge of the design and efficient use of networked clusters of quantum devices. The over-arching goals for this position are to develop quantum algorithms applied... Job listing information Reference ENG02387 Date posted 3 January 2023 Closing date 2 February 2023 Job description Job summary Applications are invited for a fully funded 24 month position at the Research Associate (PostDoc) level. The post is funded by the EPSRC, grant number EP/W032643/1,  “Distributed Quantum Computing and Applications”. This is a multi-million pounds project aiming at the timely challenge of the design and efficient use of...