47 postdoctoral research associate jobs found in Cambridge

A postdoctoral Research Associate position is available within the Genomic Disorders and Cognitive Development programme at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit. The programme takes an interdisciplinary approach to characterising phenotypes and understanding mechanisms in neurodevelopmental disorders of known genetic origin. Applicants should hold a PhD (or equivalent) in cognitive neuroscience or related field. Experience of conducting hands-on research with children or adults is essential. Strong communication skills for interacting with diverse groups and individuals is also an essential requirement. Experience of neuroimaging research and / or cognitive test development are desirable for this post. Experience of working collaboratively across neuroscience disciplines would be advantageous. Fixed-term: The funds for this post are available for 3 years in the first instance. Once an offer of employment has been accepted, the successful candidate will be required to...

Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Research Associate position in the Marti-Solano group at the Department of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge (https://www.phar.cam.ac.uk/research/marti/research). Our group leverages a range of state-of-the-art computational biology techniques to study G protein coupled receptors (GPCRs), an extensive family of proteins found across human cells and tissues. Individual family members detect different signals reaching the cell membrane and convey their messages to signalling partners that activate a variety of physiological responses inside our cells. Due to their capacity to regulate cell responses, GPCRs have become the most common drug targets. However, there are still many aspects of GPCR function that remain unresolved, thus hampering our understanding of the key molecular mechanisms that underlie receptor signalling in cell physiology and in therapeutic responses. We are looking for a PDRA who can help us address some of...

Job description   This project is part of the UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS) programme, funded through the UKRI Strategic Priorities Fund and delivered by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). The TAS programme brings together research communities and key stakeholders to drive forward cross-disciplinary, fundamental research to ensure that autonomous systems are safe, reliable, resilient, ethical, and trusted.    This post is specifically associated with the UKRI Research Node on TAS Governance and Regulation  – Better Governance by Design –  led by Prof Subramanian Ramamoorthy from the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh (UoE), in which Dr Hana Chockler is leading the direction of qualitative and quantitative responsibility. The post holder will be supervised by Dr Hana Chockler, and will work in close collaboration with other PDRAs in the Research Node.     This...

Job description We are seeking a postdoctoral research associate to work on a Wellcome-funded project investigating the neural and computational processes underpinning pathological worry.   In this role, you will work within the lab of Dr Toby Wise in the Department of Neuroimaging and will run studies assessing how people plan to avoid danger, alongside studies exploring how this behaviour relates to worry. You will have the opportunity to use a variety of methods, including fMRI, EEG and neurostimulation, in addition to computational modelling of behavioural data. Experience is not required in all of these areas, but a desire to learn and develop new skills is important. There will also be flexibility for you to develop and pursue your own research ideas within the lab.   As part of this role, you will be given time and financial support to engage in activities related to your career development, such as conferences and training courses. You will also...

Job description A Postdoctoral Research Associate position (PDRA) is available in the Trophoblast and Human Embryo Lab situated in the Centre for Gene Therapy and Regenerative Medicine at King’s College London. The post holder will support the research lead by Dr Norah Fogarty which seeks to understand the molecular processes that govern early placenta development in the human. Our goal is to identify signalling pathways active during trophectoderm and trophoblast differentiation and to determine their functional role in cell proliferation, gene expression and embryo development. This work will further our basic understanding of human biology which in turn could inform our understanding and treatment of infertility and placenta diseases such as miscarriage, preeclampsia, and intrauterine growth restriction.      In order to do so, we leverage  •       Human preimplantation embryos, genetics and quantitative...

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...

We are looking for an experienced post doctoral scientist to join our team. You will support collaborations studying the mechanisms of human behaviour and the impact of neurodegenerative disease on cognition and brain function. The MRC funded post here at the world-renowned MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (University of Cambridge) will identify individual differences in the locus coeruleus, decision making and neurophysiology (M/EEG) in people with or at risk of Alzheimer's disease. Models of brain and behaviour (eg. DDM and DCM) are of particular interest, in our diverse and interdisciplinary research group. For informal inquires, contact james.rowe@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk. Once an offer of employment has been accepted, the successful candidate will be required to undergo a Disclosure and Barring Service check (enhanced with adults' barred list). This appointment also requires a Research Passport application. The closing date for applications is: 16th February 2023...

A full or part-time working opportunity is available for a Postdoctoral Scientist to join the Mahata laboratory at the Division of Immunology, Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge, in a collaborative research project. The University of Cambridge is a world leader in biological research. It provides an unsurpassed environment for both young and established researchers. Scientists are drawn to Cambridge from all over the world, creating a lively international community to exchange ideas to discover and innovate. You will join a pioneering research programme to investigate the underlying principles of immune cell-mediated steroid biosynthesis in regulating cancer immunity. The research area offers an excellent opportunity to create a new dimension in cancer immunology, allowing you to develop your unique research niche and academic independence. You will thrive in a highly collaborative and supportive research environment. You should have a PhD, or due to...

Applications are invited for a part time (14.8 hours per week) Postdoctoral Research Associate, to join work on research related to "Identifying the conditions under which forest-focused supply chain policies (FSPs) lead to improved conservation and livelihoods: a pan-tropical analysis" Project description: Tropical forests are critical for human wellbeing through their contributions to climate stability, biodiversity conservation, food production, and rural livelihoods. Despite numerous global commitments to help conserve and restore tropical forests, these areas are disappearing faster than ever. The goal of this research is to provide major advancements in our understanding of the conditions under which forest-focused supply chain policies can lead to improved conservation and livelihoods in the tropics. The part-time Postdoctoral scholar will be in charge of cleaning and analysing survey data from Brazil as well as managing partnerships with Brazilian collaborators and...

Applications are invited for a 1-year postdoctoral research associate position in the Barker lab (with possible extension subject to funding). The group works at the interface of clinical and laboratory science, aiming to better understand and develop novel treatments for neurological disorders. In particular, the successful candidate will contribute to an expanding programme of research around stem cell derived neurons in investigating the role of the immune system in Parkinson's disease (PD). The candidate will also lead on projects around gene therapies in Parkinson's disease and be expected to contribute to student lab supervision. We seek applicants with a PhD (or close to submission) in neuroscience, and relevant experience and specialist knowledge in the fields of, neurodegeneration, virus work and animal experience is desirable. The post holder will work within a close clinical and scientific team of research assistants, doctoral students, post-doctoral researchers and...

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 and the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre. This role is an exceptional opportunity to join a strong and passionate interdisciplinary team to develop new deep learning approaches to model the multi-scale spatial evolution of ovarian cancer. The successful candidate will drive the development and application of computational pathology methods to quantify tumour heterogeneity across multiple locations and time points. They will also create frameworks to discover and model spatial correlations with other data modalities such as genomics, transcriptomics, and radiological imaging. 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...

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 laboratory of Professor Susan Ozanne (http://www.mrl.ims.cam.ac.uk/research/principal-investigators/susan-ozanne/) is seeking a postdoctoral research associate who has experience in cardio-metabolic phenotyping in rodent models. Our main research interest is in understanding how obesity and impaired glucose tolerance during pregnancy impacts on offspring cardio-metabolic health. We are particularly interested in establishing intervention strategies in the mother that improve both maternal and offspring cardiovascular and metabolic health. Supported by the British Heart Foundation, this post will involve cardio-metabolic phenotyping of rodent models to study the effects of interventions that target insulin resistance and oxidative stress. Key responsibilities Scientists with experience in cardiovascular and metabolic phenotyping, especially in relation to maternal and fetal physiology, are encouraged to apply. Applicants should have a background in studying...

We are seeking a highly motivated and enthusiastic Senior Research Associate or Research Associate to join our Spoken Language Processing (SLP) project team within the virtual Automated Language Teaching and Assessment (ALTA) Institute in the Department of Engineering. You will extend our research into automatic assessment and feedback for learning spoken English as an additional language. We work on real-life free speaking and conversational exams and practice tests, funded and closely collaborating with Cambridge University Press and Assessment (CUP&A). The post holder will be located in Central Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK. The key responsibilities and duties are to design and develop appropriate methodologies to address the above research objectives. This will involve planning and managing their own research activity and liaising with colleagues in the Speech Research Group at Cambridge and with the partner groups in ALTA and CUP&A. The skills, qualifications...

The University of Cambridge wishes to appoint a Postdoctoral Research Associate to join the research group of Prof. Edmund Kunji at the MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit. The post holder will work within a programme focused on mitochondrial transport proteins, which are crucial for the functioning of mammalian cells. This project is funded by Apollo Therapeutics and focusses on the development of specific inhibitors of the mitochondrial pyruvate carrier (MPC). MPC has emerged as a promising drug target for metabolic disorders, including non-alcoholic steatohepatitis and diabetes, metabolically dependent cancers and neurodegenerative diseases. The human MPC is a heterodimer of two homologous small membrane proteins, forming two distinct complexes either MPC1/MPC2 or MPC1L/MPC2 [1]. The goal is to develop novel inhibitors of human MPC to treat the aforementioned diseases. Thermostability shift and transport assays have already been developed to screen for better and more specific...

Job description We are looking for a researcher with a background in psychology, psychiatry, biomedical engineering, physics, or a related discipline to join the Department of Psychosis Studies at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN), King’s College London, as Postdoctoral Research Associate.     The successful applicant will be expected to develop and use machine learning strategies to train and validate predictive models of psychosis and affective disorders using neuroimaging (e.g., structural, functional MRI, spectroscopy, PET) and digital phenotyping (e.g., ecological momentary assessments, passive sensing) datasets.    This post will be offered on an a fixed-term contract for 3 years  This is a full-time post - 100% full time equivalent Key responsibilities Research (70%) •         To develop and use machine learning strategies to...

Job description We are looking for a researcher with a background in psychology, psychiatry, biomedical engineering, physics or a related discipline to join the Department of Psychosis Studies at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN), King’s College London, as Postdoctoral Research Associate.   The successful applicant will be expected to work on a research project involving the application of machine learning techniques to multimodal datasets collected across multiple mental health phenotypes (e.g. psychosis, depression, ADHD).    This post will be offered on an a fixed-term contract for 3 years initially, with possibility to extend.  This is a full-time post - 100% full time equivalent Key responsibilities Research (70%) •   To help establish a transdiagnostic and comparative machine learning approach across the Department (and the wider IoPPN) by applying unsupervised and...

Job description The research group of Dr. Maria Sanz in the Department of Chemistry at King’s College London is looking to hire a postdoctoral research associate. Our lab applies rotational spectroscopy and computational tools to investigate fundamental properties of biologically and atmospherically relevant molecules and clusters.   The project aims to understand the first stages of atmospheric nucleation by analysing clusters of molecules involved in atmospheric processes using broadband rotational spectroscopy and quantum-chemistry calculations. The post holder will develop and implement new strategies for molecular vaporisation and spectral analysis.   Successful candidates should have a PhD in Chemistry or related subject with experience in rotational spectroscopy, spectral analysis and computational methods. Candidates should have a proven track record of research excellence as evidenced by publications in peer-reviewed journals. Candidates...

Job description We are seeking for a highly motivated, scientifically curious, and creative postdoctoral research associate with a strong interest mammalian brain development, specifically neuronal ang glial subtype specification to join Setsuko Sahara in collaboration with Laura Andreae's and Eugene Makeyev lab at King’s College London (  https://devneuro.org/cdn/group-overview.php?groupID=87). This 3-year post is funded by the BBSRC.    The Sahara lab studies the mechanisms regulating the self-renewal potential of cortical progenitors and the ability of multipotent cells to differentiate into different types of progenitors and neurons/glia (Ramos et al 2020). The successful applicant will pursue research projects to understand how a vast diversity of cortical projection neurons and glia emerge from a limited number of progenitors during development. We will address this question by interrogating the molecular mechanisms in mouse cortical...

Job description This full-time post relates to funding received from the Economic and Social  Research Council (ESRC) funded Productivity Institute. The Postdoctoral Research Associate will work full-time on a 24-month project entitled “Skill, digitalisation and productivity in UK frontier firms’' focusing on original data collection and qualitative research in a sample of companies in leading R&D sectors. The ESRC funded project will investigate three questions: i) how are firms adapting skill and innovation strategies to harness digital technologies (DTs) for productivity growth?; ii) how do DT-induced changes in collaborations with external organisations contribute to skill, innovation and productivity gains?; and iii) what are the automation and augmentation effects of DTs, and how are they distributed within the firm? The project will be hosted and managed at King’s Business School (King’s College London), one of the academic...