174 research associate jobs found in London

Ref Number B04-03056 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 31-Jan-2023 Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Research Associate position to work on an exciting and ambitious research on biomarker preconcentration in paper-based analytical devices. Point-of-care testing devices enable rapid, affordable, and widely accessible diagnosis, but their limited sensitivity makes them inappropriate for the diagnosis of early-stage diseases. To address this ongoing technological challenge, we aim to introduce a radically new concept for biomarker preconcentration by exploiting colloid transport mechanisms based on interfacial and electrokinetic phenomena. The validation of this new approach could lead to...

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 highly motivated and conscientious post-doctoral researcher to join a very collaborative, interdisciplinary, and friendly research group at King's College London led by Dr Bipin Rajendran.     The successful candidate will work on the EPSRC Open Plus Fellowship awarded to Dr Rajendran that focuses on creating a smarter and greener AI. The focus of this researcher will be on developing novel event-driven AI algorithms for trustworthy decision-making motivated by the free energy principle. They will also work in parallel with another researcher who will be building nanoscale devices based on 2D materials and pursue the novel approach of using the undesirable imperfections of nanoscale devices as a resource for efficiently implementing free energy-based AI algorithms in hardware.    The post will be based in the Department of Engineering.  The department is located at the Strand campus of King's, located in...

Job description Applications are invited for a Research Associate post in Geometry in the Department of Mathematics at King’s College London. The Geometry Group conducts research in algebraic geometry, cohomology theories, differential geometry, geometric analysis, homogeneous space, Lie groups, mirror symmetry, symplectic geometry and low-dimensional topology.  The permanent members of the group are Prof Jurgen Berndt, Dr Peter Jossen, Prof Dmitri Panov, Prof Konstanze Rietsch, Prof Simon Salamon, Prof Nick Shepherd-Barron, Dr Calum Spicer, Prof Giuseppe Tinaglia and Dr Mehdi Yazdi.   This is a fixed-term post for 36 months. Candidates should have the potential to carry out research which has high levels of originality, innovation and depth that may lead to significant impact on their field over the long term, and have expertise related to Birational Geometry, Complex Geometry, Foliation theory or related fields.   The post is available as of...

Job description We are seeking a highly motivated and conscientious post-doctoral researcher to join a very collaborative, interdisciplinary, and friendly research group at King's College London led by Dr Bipin Rajendran.     The successful candidate will work on the EPSRC Open Plus Fellowship awarded to Dr Rajendran that focuses on creating a smarter and greener AI. The focus of this researcher will be on building nanoscale devices based on 2D materials to efficiently implement AI algorithms.     They will work in parallel with another researcher who will be developing novel event-driven AI algorithms for trustworthy decision-making motivated by the free energy principle. The research will pursue the novel approach of using the undesirable imperfections of nanoscale devices as a resource for efficiently implementing free energy-based AI algorithms.     The post will be based in the Department of Engineering.  The...

Job description This is an exciting opportunity for a Research Associate to join the thriving Nicotine Research Group in the Addictions Department at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London. The postholder will be part of the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) South London, working with the Public Health and Multimorbidity Theme. This Theme includes programmes of work relating to vascular health, diabetes and smoking. The purpose of this role is to support existing and new research projects related to tobacco use among people who experience multimorbidity, particularly people with mental health and/or substance use problems, diabetes and vascular disease. This will also advance the integration of the Public Health and Multimorbidity Theme. The postholder will be responsible for: •         working across the Public...

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 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 The King’s India Institute at King’s College London invites applications for a Research Assistant (Masters level) or Research Associate (PhD level) in trade and business and economics.   The post will be based in the research team of Dr Sunil Mitra Kumar (King’s India Institute) and Dr Kamini Gupta (King’s Business School) at KCL’s Strand Campus in central London as part of a 3-year project Enablers and Obstacles for UK-India Trade: Banks and Diasporas (UKIT- ENOB) funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and Indian Council of Social Science Research.   UKIT-ENOB aims to understand key enablers and obstacles to UK-India trade from the perspective of small export-oriented firms in India. Key project collaborators also include India-based Primary Investigator Dr Prateek Gupta (IIM, Bangalore) as well as non-academic partner FICCI UK. The project focuses on understanding macro questions...

Job description The King’s Health Partners Clinical Trials Office (KHP-CTO) is a joint initiative between the member institutions of King’s Health Partners. It was set up to provide a single interface for those wishing to conduct clinical trials within the partner institutions, and to ensure that there are common, efficient processes for the set up and administration of clinical trials. http://www.khpcto.co.uk The KHP-CTO Quality Team was established in 2008 to manage the sponsor responsibilities for Clinical Trials of Investigational Medicinal Products (CTIMPs), as defined in the Medicines for Human Use (Clinical Trials) Regulations, for trials sponsored or co-sponsored by King’s Health Partner Organisations. The team assists Chief Investigators with the set-up, initiation, maintenance and closure of their trials and ensures that these trials are established and conducted according to Good Clinical Practice (GCP) and the Regulations.  ...

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...

Job description We are looking to appoint a 21-month (currently until 31st Aug 2024, with the possibility to be further extended) postdoctoral Research Associate who will work on grid-scale compressed air energy storage and thermal energy storage in the Department of Engineering, King’s College London. The post will primarily work on an EPSRC project and collaborate with other group members in various research projects related to energy storage. The postdoctoral Research Associate will be supervised by Dr Wei He, working with other project collaborators and partners.      The project aims to develop a novel compressed air energy storage technology, which aims to integrate with high-temperature thermal energy storage to achieve high energy conversion efficiency, high energy and power density, and operational flexibility.      This full-time post is available for a candidate to start as soon as possible    This...

Job description We invite applications for a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Probability/Combinatorics to work with Dr Matthew Jenssen in the Department of Mathematics at King’s College London.   The position is full time, fixed-term for two years, and supported by a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship. The starting date is flexible.   The successful candidate will join the newly-formed Probability group at King’s and be responsible for conducting research as part of the UKRI-funded project “Statistical Physics Methods in Combinatorics, Algorithms, and Geometry”. They will write up their results for publication, present papers at conferences, and contribute ideas for new research projects. They will also contribute to the activities of the group, for instance by participating in internal seminar series and reading groups.   Applicants will have, or be close to completing, a PhD in mathematics or a related discipline. They...

Job description We are advertising for a two-year Post-Doc position at King’s College London to work with Prof. Osvaldo Simeone and Prof. Bipin Rajendran on AI and neuromorphic computing with applications to wireless communication systems. Of particular interest is the investigation, at fundamental theoretical and algorithmic levels, of digital twin platforms for the design and monitoring of next-generation cellular systems.  The post will be based in the King’s Communications, Learning & Information Processing lab, at the Centre for Telecommunications research within the Department of Engineering.  The department is located at the Strand campus of King's, located in the centre of London.     The successful candidate should have a PhD in Electrical Engineering and s/he should meet the following criteria  •           Background in machine learning ...

Job description About the Centre for Society and Mental Health: The Centre for Society and Mental Health aims to ensure that the impact of social contexts is central to how we understand mental health, working in partnership with affected communities and group.   There are three programmes within the Centre – this role is based within the Centre’s programme on ‘ Work, Welfare Reform and Mental Health’ (co-led by Prof. Ben Geiger and Prof. Karen Glaser). There are also programmes on Young People & Social Change, and on Marginalised Communities, with whom this programme works closely. Our research is underpinned by platforms which ensure innovative approaches and interdisciplinary interactions between the programmes.   The Centre is an interdisciplinary enterprise that brings together social scientists (both empirical researchers and social theorists from the Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy, SSPP)...

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....

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...

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...

Job description Reporting to the project leader, Professor David Demeritt, the postholder will work as a part of a small research team exploring the regulation of veterinary medicines and anti-microbial resistance (AMR) in Argentina. The post holder will be responsible for contributing research assistance, in particular the design, administration, and analysis of a questionnaire surveys of farmers, as well as interviews with regulators and other stakeholders in Argentina to understand the regulatory system, and the preparation of final reports and publications. Fluency in Spanish is therefore essential, while knowledge of regulation, livestock production systems and veterinary medicine are desirable. The postholder may be required to travel and will be expected to work closely with other team members and research partners in Argentina and at the University of Bristol. The postholder will also be expected to be a full collaborator in authoring publications and other means...

Job ID: 060325 Salary: £40,386 - £42,592 per annum, including London Weighting Allowance Posted: 04-Jan-2023 Closing d a te: 01-Feb-2023 Business unit: Social Science & Public Policy Department: Global Health & Social Medicine Contact details: Professor Ben Geiger / Professor Karen Glaser, Ben.Geiger@kcl.ac.uk / Karen.Gaser@kcl.ac.uk About the Centre for Society and Mental Health:   The Centre for Society and Mental Health aims to ensure that the impact of social contexts is central to how we understand mental health, working in partnership with affected communities and group. There are three programmes within the Centre – this role is based within the Centre’s programme on ‘Work, Welfare Reform and Mental Health’ (co-led by Prof. Ben Geiger and Prof. Karen Glaser). There are also programmes on Young People & Social Change, and on Marginalised Communities, with whom this programme...