Science jobs in Birmingham

Aston Institute for Membrane Excellence (AIME) has been awarded £6.1m in funding from the UK Government Department of Science, Industry and Technology (DSIT), with a further £7.1m in potential co-funding from partners including Science Card and Bruntwood SciTech. The funding has been made through the Research Ventures Catalyst (RVC) programme, which was set up to provide funding to tak

This is an exciting opportunity to work on a project exploring contemporary relations between the UK and Germany, at a time when these are being significantly developed by both counties.  The project is funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).You will be working within a small team of researchers at Aston led by Dr. Ed Turner and Dr Carolyn Rowe in gathering data on the relation

An exciting four-year opportunity is available for a Post-Doctoral Research Associate with expertise in the acquisition and analysis of human MEG +/- OPM-MEG data to study brain function and cognition in children and young people as part of a Wellcome-funded project. The post-holder will work with Dr Sukhvir Wright and colleagues at the Institute of Health and Neurodevelopment (IHN) in the MRC-fun

The Engineering for Sustainable Development Research Centre, the Energy and Bioproducts Research Institute (EBRI) and the Aston Institute for Membrane Excellence (AIME) are seeking to appoint three Early Career Researchers (ERCs) from Thailand for 12 months. The fellowships, funded by the British Council under the UK’s International Science Partnerships scheme (ISPF), aim to provide the sele

Aston University invites applications for a Postdoctoral Research Associate (PDRA) to join the UK Multidisciplinary Centre for Neuromorphic Computing. The project will focus on determining functional properties and mechanisms of human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell (iPSC) derived cortical neuronal networks in cortical organoids and planar cultures. Techniques used will include electrophysiological

We are seeking a highly motivated and mathematically skilled Postdoctoral Research Associate (PDRA) to join Aston University’s interdisciplinary team within the recently established UK Multidisciplinary Centre for Neuromorphic Computing. The revolutionary project will see scientists use human brain stem cell clusters (organoids) on microchip arrays to push the boundaries of neuromorphic

An exciting opportunity has arisen at the Engineering for Sustainable Development Research Centre at Aston University for 12-month fellowships for three Early Career Researchers from Jordan. The fellowships are funded by the British Council under the UK’s International Science Partnerships scheme. The fellowships programme aims to provide the selected early career researchers with a str

The University of Worcester has received a significant award from the National Institute for Health and Social Care Research (NIHR) to expand our mental health research capacity and develop a programme of research into rural mental health inequality.  Led by the University of Worcester, the programme will be delivered in collaboration with colleagues at the Institute for Mental Health, Univer

Pancreatic cancer is a devastating disease affecting 500,000 people globally each year, including over 10,000 in the UK, with a mere 5% ten-year survival rate. Our goal is to accelerate the clinical translation of innovative miniature, hair-thin imaging devices we have previously developed [https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JBO.29.2.026002]. These devices are designed to enable early and accurate detectio

Join a unique British University in China.  The University of Nottingham Ningbo China (UNNC) was the first Sino-foreign university to open its doors in China. This award winning campus offering a UK style education has grown to establish a student body of over 9,000 in just 20 years.The University of Nottingham Ningbo, China, a pioneer in Sino-foreign tertiary education, is rap

Based in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Nottingham, this role will focus on electromagnetic design, modelling and validation of microwave heating technologies for the BioIron™ project—a groundbreaking collaboration with Rio Tinto to decarbonise the iron and steel-making industry. The iron and steel-making industry is responsible for around 11% of the global CO2 emissio

Applications are invited to join the Manufacturing Metrology Team (MMT) and the Quantum Information & Metrology Research Theme (QI&M) at the University of Nottingham to carry out research focused on quantum metrology for two-dimensional and three-dimensional imaging applications, focusing on derivation of fundamental limits and quantum enhanced strategies for discrimination and estimation

(Internal Only)The Mechanical and Aerospace Systems Research Group (MAS) requires a Senior Research Fellow who is experienced in the fields of safety critical engineering relating to Thermofluids and Materials to work across several industry relevant projects and for the development of future group research strategy. MAS has a large intra-disciplinary team of researchers, engineers, technicians, s

We are now recruiting an Associate/ Fellow or Senior Fellow to join Professor Philippa Tomczak’s prestigious £1.3m, five year European Research Council Starting Grant RECEDE: ‘REgulating Criminal justicE DEtention: glocal prospects for improving health and safety in detention and society’. Successful applicants will demonstrate strong ability or potential in one&n

We are looking for a researcher, whose expertise lies in Number Theory and Modular Forms, to work with Dr. Fredrik Stromberg, on an EPSRC-funded project entitled “Explicit Methods for non-holomorphic Hilbert Modular Forms”. The central aim of the project is to develop explicit algorithms for computing with non-holomorphic Hilbert Modular Forms and using these algorithms together with t

Applications are invited for the post of Research Fellow in the School of Chemistry. The research project is part of an exciting multi-disciplinary collaboration involving academia and industry focusing on the use QM/MM simulations to study targeted covalent inhibition and approaches to accelerate quantum chemistry calculations on quantum computers.Candidates should have a PhD in computational che

INTERNAL VACANCY This vacancy is open to employees of the University of Nottingham onlyAn exciting and unique opportunity has arisen for a Senior Research Fellow to join the Centre of Evidence Based Dermatology (CEBD) which is part of the Unit of Lifespan and Population Health within the School of Medicine. Led by Professors Kim Thomas and Hywel Williams, CEBD has an international reputation

Applications are invited for a Research Associate/Fellow position to work on an ERC funded project ‘WATER-BLIND’ which seeks to uncover how roots sense water stress.Building on our recent discoveries (Mehra et al., Science, 2022), this project aims to identify novel genes and regulatory pathways involved in sensing water availability in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana. We are part

We are looking to appoint a highly motivated researcher to join the Business School in our externally funded interdisciplinary research project ‘Transdisciplinary Hub to Decarbonise Commissioning and Delivery of Healthcare’ (PI Prof M Bhutta, Brighton and Sussex Medical School, University of Sussex). The vision is to create a world-leading hub to support the NHS to become a low carbon

The Nottingham School of Economics is a top research and teaching institution with an international reputation for excellence across all areas of the discipline. It ranks 5th in the UK according to the most recent UK Research Excellence Framework assessment and among the top 50 in the world according to the latest Tilburg University and IDEAS RePEc tables.About the roleWe are pleased to share that