67 faculty science physics jobs found in Cambridge

A position exists for a Post-Doctoral Research Associate in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics to work on verified algorithms for infinite-dimensional spectra, control and data science with Dr Matthew Colbrook to start in October 2023 or earlier by negotiation. The PDRA will work on developing robust numerical methods for infinite-dimensional spectral computations and data-driven control (broadly understood) under the project entitled "Verified data-driven algorithms for control and neural network training" funded by the Isaac Newton Trust. 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...

Applications are invited for a postdoctoral position in the development and use of optical microscopy to study electrochemical process in battery electrode materials. The successful candidates will work between the groups of Prof. Akshay Rao (http://www.rao.oe.phy.cam.ac.uk/) and Prof. Dame Clare Grey (https://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/group/grey/index), and build on our recent advances is developing optical microscopy to study ion dynamics, phase transitions and degradation in battery electrodes [References 1-3]. The project is part of the Faraday Institution Degradation Project (https://degradationproject.com/) and will involve close collaboration with consortium members across the UK. The ideal candidate should have a PhD or be about to obtain a PhD in Chemistry, Physics or a related area, and a strong background in optical microscopy, electrochemistry and battery materials. A strong track record of high-quality research and an excellent publication record publication are...

Applications are invited for a Post-doctoral Research Associate/Research Assistant position in Ultrafast Microscopy of Functional Materials in the group of Prof. Akshay Rao at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge (http://www.rao.oe.phy.cam.ac.uk/). We are looking for a highly motivated and enthusiastic candidate with a strong background in ultrafast spectroscopy/microscopy. To be successful in this role you should have: 1. A PhD or be about to obtain your PhD in Physics, Chemistry or a related area, and should have demonstrated excellency in multi-disciplinary research projects. 2. An interest in designing and constructing novel ultrafast experiments and a strong background in non-linear optics, the photophysics of semiconductor and solid-state systems Experience with ultra-short pulse generation, time-resolved microscopy, pulse shaping techniques, high-speed data acquisition and optical holography/tomography would be a plus. The group has a broad research...

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....

Ref Number B04-03223 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 10-Feb-2023 About us We wish to appoint a Research Fellow to work on a UKRI funded project. The major objective of the project is to investigate new quantum phenomena in low-dimensional semiconductor nanostructures, and exploit them for possible future quantum technologies. We are looking for an enthusiastic researcher to take a proactive role in performing research activities as outlined below. About the role The successful candidate will have an opportunity to develop expertise in a specialised field of experimental quantum condensed matter physics by investigating new phenomena and participating in group activities towards delivering the...

Ref Number B02-04497 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 08-Feb-2023 About us The mission of the Department of Clinical and Experimental Epilepsy is to transform the lives of people living with epilepsy for the better by identifying, understanding, and correcting or preventing the underlying mechanisms leading to the epilepsies and associated comorbidities in each individual person. Our vision is to build upon the excellence and breadth of our research, seamlessly integrating basic and clinical science. About the role We are now recruiting a Research Fellow to join our team and work with us on an EPSRC-funded, multi-centre project on the MR imaging aspects 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...

Ref Number B04-03234 Professional Expertise Academic Leadership Department UCL BEAMS (B04) Location London Working Pattern Full time Salary £47,414 - £55,805 Contract Type Permanent Working Type Hybrid (20% - 80% on site) Available For Secondment No Closing Date 05-Mar-2023 About us The Department of Physics and Astronomy at UCL is located on our main Bloomsbury campus in central London. The department currently has 86 academic staff organised into 5 research groups – Atomic Molecular Optical and Positron Physics (AMOPP), Astrophysics (Astro), Biological Physics (BioP), Condensed Matter and Materials Physics (CMMP), and High Energy Physics (HEP). Close links exist between the department and the London Centre for Nanotechnology (LCN), the UCL Quantum Science and Technology Institute (UCLQ) and the Mullard Space Science Laboratory (MSSL). The HEP research group currently comprises approximately 100 people...

Applications are invited for self-motivated individuals to join our exciting research into new nanomagnetic and magneto-optic technologies. We have had a number of synergistic recent breakthroughs on low-power neuromorphic computing (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41565-022-01091-7),low-power all-optical magnetic writing https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.00697and functional magnonics. We are looking for two motivated PDRAs, keen to join us and... Job listing information Reference NAT01376 Date posted 1 February 2023 Closing date 1 March 2023 Job summary Applications are invited for self-motivated individuals to join our exciting research into new nanomagnetic and magneto-optic technologies. We have had a number of synergistic recent breakthroughs on low-power neuromorphic computing (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41565-022-01091-7),low-power all-optical magnetic writing https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.00697and functional magnonics....

Imperial College London invites applications for a Research Associate position to work on the LHCb experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider.  Job listing information Reference NAT01368 Date posted 25 January 2023 Closing date 27 February 2023 Job summary Imperial College London invites applications for a Research Associate position to work on the LHCb experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider.  Duties and responsibilities You will focus on the analysis of LHCb data, with the opportunity to also contribute to the Group’s ongoing activities on the detector, software and future upgrades of the experiment. We expect you to take an active role in LHCb data analysis in an area in which there is excellent potential to observe physics beyond the Standard Model. Essential requirements You will hold a PhD (or equivalent) in a relevant area  You must also be able to demonstrate the...

We are looking for a Research Associate to work on developing next generation plasma-based accelerators in the John Adams Institute for Accelerator Science. Job listing information Reference NAT01370 Date posted 19 January 2023 Closing date 16 February 2023 Job summary We are looking for a Research Associate to work on developing next generation plasma-based accelerators in the John Adams Institute for Accelerator Science. Duties and responsibilities The position will be to develop and diagnose plasma sources for the AWAKE experiment at CERN. AWAKE is a proton driven wakefield acceleration experiment that is investigating the use of plasma accelerators for next generation particle colliders. The post holder will be expected to help produce independent and original research, submit publications to refereed journals and help with the administration of the research group. The work typically would involve a high...

We are seeking to recruit an experienced post-doctoral researcher to work at the exciting interface between DNA nanotechnology and bottom-up synthetic biology. The candidate will be supported by the ERC starting grant "NANOCELL", which utilises DNA nanotechnology to construct cell-like micro-robots, or "artificial cells". They will join the NANOCELL team consisting of another post-doctoral researcher and two PhD students, and collaborate closely with the group of Dr Lorenzo Di Michele including several other PhD students and postdocs working on closely related topics. Artificial cells are fully synthetic entities, constructed de novo starting from non-living molecular components in order to replicate responses typically associated with biological cellular life, including adaptation, energy consumption, communication, motion, division etc. Artificial cells can be constructed out of anything, from biological proteins and enzymes to polymers, lipids and nanoparticles. In our group,...

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...

The research team of Professor Laura Machesky is seeking to recruit a postdoctoral fellow with a background in physics and/or cell biology for a multidisciplinary project. The candidate would join an international team of biologists studying cell migration, mechanosensing and the molecular mechanisms of cancer metastasis. This project is funded by the Human Frontier Scientific Program Organization (HFSPO) and is a part of a joint programme with groups in Japan and USA. Our goal is to build a scanning ion conductance microscope (SICM) and use it to study how cells couple their migration with energetic demands. Cells can adapt their migration machinery for nutrient uptake and perform macropinocytosis during starvation conditions. Little is understood about the properties of macropinocytic structures and new advances in the technology of SICM provide an opportunity to study the structure, mechanical properties and dynamics of this process. Fixed-term: The funds for this post are...

An opportunity has arisen for a Research Associate to work on a funded research project on the impact of climate change on infectious diseases. The post is split between the MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis and the Grantham Institute for Climate Change and the Environment. Quantifying the potential public health impact of climate change on infectious diseases is an increasing priority for the global health policymaking... Job listing information Reference MED03603 Date posted 18 January 2023 Closing date 15 February 2023 Job summary An opportunity has arisen for a Research Associate to work on a funded research project on the impact of climate change on infectious diseases. The post is split between the MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis and the Grantham Institute for Climate Change and the Environment. Quantifying the potential public health impact of climate change on infectious diseases is an increasing priority for the...

Job description Research in the Department of Surgical and Interventional Engineering within the School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences focuses on developing robotic systems for minimally invasive surgeries. The primary activity relating to this post is robotic intraspinal catheterisation. The project, a 3-years collaboration with an EU-wide consortium (IEC Pathfinder scheme), aims to develop a soft everting robot that navigates the subarachnoid space of the spine to deliver therapy-loaded scaffolds to the brain ventricles. Our vision is that with localised therapy delivery, diseases such as Alzheimer’s can be better managed.    The robotic technology behind the project relates to everting robots. This class of robots “unfolds” within the anatomy rather than being inserted/pushed. This navigation approach minimises friction and shear forces to delicate tissue and can conform to the anatomy through patient-specific designs....

Ref Number B04-03109 Professional Expertise Research and Research Support Department UCL BEAMS (B04) 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 13-Feb-2023 About us The Chemistry Department at University College London is the oldest in England, and today is one of the best in the UK, being ranked 2nd in the UK for the world-class impact of its research in REF(2014). We are located in Bloomsbury, at the heart of London, and offer an exciting and vibrant environment in which to study in one of the UK's top universities. The Department of Chemistry at UCL is committed to supporting excellence in both research and teaching. The department offers undergraduate BSc and MSci programmes in Chemistry and currently teaches ~750 undergraduates registered in Chemistry as well as students who...

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...

Ref Number B04-03285 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 04-Apr-2023 About us The Biomedical Optics Research Laboratory (BORL) within the Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering at UCL is internationally recognized for developing optical methods for biological applications, including NIRS, optical imaging and photo acoustic. The laboratory has a substantial skill base in physics, engineering, mathematical modelling, and the development of optical systems. A significant strength of the BORL is the translation of laboratory-based research into reliable and robust systems which are being used to address a wide range of basic science and clinical questions. For Informal Enquires...