Are you looking to take your education and career to the next level? Do you have a passion for research and a desire to make meaningful contributions to your field of study? If so, a Postdoctoral Fellowships may be the perfect choice for you.
Attention all aspiring scholars and researchers! The University of Edinburgh, Scotland has multiple postdoctoral fellowships. Apply to the University of Edinburgh, Scotland’s postdoctoral fellowships today and take the first step towards a rewarding and fulfilling academic career.
1. Postdoctoral Fellowship
About Postdoctoral Position
Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the laboratory of Prof Hiro Ohkura at the Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology in the University of Edinburgh, UK. The laboratory investigates fundamental mechanisms of meiotic chromosome segregation using Drosophila oocytes as a model system (http://ohkura.bio.ed.ac.uk). We are looking for an enthusiastic and talented researcher to study the molecular regulation of the spindle microtubules and/or chromosome organisation. This is an excellent opportunity to lead a exciting project combining in vivo and in vitro approaches including live-imaging microscopy, genetics, mass-spectrometry and biochemistry. Examples of a project include kinetochore-microtubule interaction, key differences between two modes of cell division, mitosis and meiosis, spatial and temporal control of microtubule-associated proteins or motors by phosphorylation and ubiquitination. The position is available from 3 January 2024 for 3 years in the first instance with a possibility of further extension.
2. Postdoctoral Fellowship
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We are looking for a highly motivated person to take on an exciting project opportunity and be the driver for an Innovate UK funded Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) between the University of Edinburgh and Optos. The project aims to revolutionise the way in which damage to the retina, causing vision loss, is detected and managed by clinical eye-care specialists at a time when new treatments are being licenced for use, bringing hope of saving sight amongst sufferers. Optos’ imaging devices provide a comprehensive scan of the retina, providing clinicians with high-quality images with which to detect damage in the retina. The key objective of this partnership is to take leading edge knowledge of retinal image processing and analysis, and prototype Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence methods to automatically detect and quantify damage in the retina and translate that into software for devices that will be usable in the clinical environment.
3. Postdoctoral Fellowship
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This project is closely linked to exciting new Scottish legislation, the Good Food Nation (Scotland) Act, and aims to support its ongoing implementation. Led by University of Edinburgh Business School, our transdisciplinary team brings together academic, governmental, public sector and 3rd sector partners with expertise in nutrition and public health, environmental modelling, public food procurement, food policy and governance, anthropology, and sociology, of food, food and procurement law, social policy, behavioural change, and food systems transformation.
4. Postdoctoral Fellowship
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Our group has strategic leadership roles in both physics analysis and operations. We make precision measurements of Higgs boson physics and search for potential new particles and forces, including SUSY, dark matter, long-lived and new gauge particles. We have major roles in simulation and trigger. For ATLAS upgrade, we have significant roles in the Inner Tracker (ITk), including the layout, design, and physics performance, as well as pixel services and assembly, pixel module construction and testing. In addition, we have substantial contribution in software & computing for both simulation and trigger. The group is led by 6 academics and 3 senior researchers. In addition to 7 postdoctoral research associates, 12 PhD students, 2 engineers and 3 technicians.
5. Postdoctoral Fellowship
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This Research Associate position will contribute to Neurotechnology projects within the Institute for Integrated Micro and Nano Systems (IMNS) at the University of Edinburgh, which are funded by Wellcome Trust and in collaboration with colleagues at the Discovery Brain Science in University of Edinburgh.
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6. Postdoctoral Fellowship
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We are looking for a postdoctoral Research Fellow to study mechanisms of astrocyte ingestion of synapses and the role this plays in synaptic degeneration in Alzheimer’s disease. The fellow will be based in the UK Dementia Research Institute (UK DRI) at the University of Edinburgh, working in a project funded by a UK DRI industry collaborator which is led by Prof Tara Spires-Jones and Dr Claire Durrant.
7. Postdoctoral Fellowship
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The dynamical systems view of turbulence, in which the flow “pinballs” between exact coherent states (ECS), is a promising way to unify our statistical understanding of turbulence with a mechanistic understanding of the complex self-sustaining processes that underpin it. Historically, this approach has been restricted to weakly turbulent flows due to the difficulty of identifying and converging ECS, and this project will seek to use advances in machine learning and automatic differentiation to overcome these barriers.
8. Postdoctoral Fellowship
About Postdoctoral Position
This project is closely linked to exciting new Scottish legislation, the Good Food Nation (Scotland) Act, and aims to support its ongoing implementation. Led by University of Edinburgh Business School, our transdisciplinary team brings together academic, governmental, public sector and 3rd sector partners with expertise in nutrition and public health, environmental modelling, public food procurement, food policy and governance, anthropology, and sociology, of food, food and procurement law, social policy, behavioural change, and food systems transformation.
9. Postdoctoral Fellowship
About Postdoctoral Position
This project is closely linked to exciting new Scottish legislation, the Good Food Nation (Scotland) Act, and aims to support its ongoing implementation. Led by University of Edinburgh Business School, our transdisciplinary team brings together academic, governmental, public sector and 3rd sector partners with expertise in nutrition and public health, environmental modelling, public food procurement, food policy and governance, anthropology, and sociology, of food, food and procurement law, social policy, behavioural change, and food systems transformation.
10. Postdoctoral Fellowship
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This Research Associate position will contribute to achieving the aims and objectives of the Dijkstra’s Pipe project within the Institute for Computing Systems Architecture at the University of Edinburgh. In particular, the planned work will investigate causal theory approaches to neural network explainability, robustness against adversarial manipulations and memory-efficient data engineering designs.The post is full time and available for 12 months.
11. Postdoctoral Fellowship
About Postdoctoral Position
This project is closely linked to exciting new Scottish legislation, the Good Food Nation (Scotland) Act, and aims to support its ongoing implementation. Led by University of Edinburgh Business School, our transdisciplinary team brings together academic, governmental, public sector and 3rd sector partners with expertise in nutrition and public health, environmental modelling, public food procurement, food policy and governance, anthropology, and sociology, of food, food and procurement law, social policy, behavioural change, and food systems transformation.
12. Postdoctoral Fellowship
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The candidate will join our multi-disciplinary research team of cellular and circuit neurophysiologists who employ advanced in vivo 2-photon imaging (voltage/calcium), patch-clamp electrophysiology and high-density extracellular recordings combined with optogenetics and quantitative behaviour (https://duguidlab.com). We promote a team based approach to science in a highly collaborative environment that takes advantage of a wealth of groups working on cellular and systems neuroscience research in the Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences (https://discovery-brain-sciences.ed.ac.uk) and Simons Initiative for the Developing Brain (https://sidb.org.uk/) at The University of Edinburgh.
13. Postdoctoral Fellowship
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The PDRA will work with Principle Investigator Dr Matti Wilks on a UKRI multi-population project examining factors that shape the moral consideration we grant to others. Research will be conducted with children, adults, and specialist populations. We are open to considering requests for hybrid working that combines a mix of regular on-campus working and remote working within the UK for the successful candidate.
14. Postdoctoral Fellowship
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This position is also affiliated with a prestigious Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies held by Regius Chair of Engineering Prof Prodromakis, Director of CEF. The appointee will support the delivery of the vision of this 10-year programme that aspires developing Embedded AI Hardware solutions for Lifelong Learning applications.
15. Postdoctoral Fellowship
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The project NACS aims to explore new frontiers in computational counting and sampling, including developing new algorithms and analysis techniques. Typical tools and topics are Markov chains Monte Carlo, Lovasz local lemma, high dimensional expanders, geometry of polynomials, etc. The successful applicant will be generously supported by the project and will have the opportunity to collaborate with project partners.
16. Postdoctoral Fellowship
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An exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and ambitious Postdoctoral Researcher to lead a project investigating mechanisms of RNAi in Cryptococcus, an important yet understudied opportunistic human fungal pathogen. Endogenous RNAi pathways have been shown to influence rates of antifungal drug resistance in Cryptococcus, but little is known about how RNAi functions in this (basidiomycete) branch of the fungal kingdom. The project, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, will employ a combination of state-of-the-art approaches including CRISPR/Cas genome editing, microscopy, proteomics and RNA-sequencing analysis to investigate novel aspects of Argonaute protein function and regulation in Cryptococcus.
17. Postdoctoral Fellowship
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Within the School of Health and Social Science, the Fellow will be linked to one of our Research Centres or established Research Groups, contributing to the School’s research excellence through a range of activities including delivering high-quality research, bidding for and implementing funded research, developing their public engagement and impact around research, and enhancing their networks and professional skills.
18. Postdoctoral Fellowship
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This post will contribute to an interdisciplinary collaboration of evolutionary biologists, astrobiologists, synthetic biologists, and phylogeneticists trying to unravel the evolutionary origins of the flagellar motor. The post holder will build mathematical models to understand the factors that favour the initial evolution of powered movement, and use analysis of bioinformatic datasets and meta-analysis of the published literature to test model predictions. This post is funded by a collaborative grant from the Human Frontier Science Program.
19. Postdoctoral Fellowship
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SCONe is an exciting interdisciplinary project for the collection, curation and classification of retinal images and has the primary aim to investigate early-intermediate Age-related Macular Degeneration biomarkers and more widely, establish a world-leading retinal imaging biorepository. The current post will support data collection efforts and design and carry out a programme of qualitative research around patient and public perspectives on the use of unconsented medical data for research and the adoption of AI technology in optometry.
20. Postdoctoral Fellowship
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Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Wide-Field Extragalactic Archaeology. The successful candidate will join the research group of Prof. Annette Ferguson at the Institute for Astronomy, which is part of the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Edinburgh. The research goal of the position is to use wide-field photometric data to study the archaeological record in nearby galaxies. The successful candidate will exploit observational datasets from Subaru’s Hyper Suprime-Cam and the CFHT’s MegaCam to conduct analyses of stellar halos and globular cluster systems, and place constraints on galaxy assembly histories.
21. Postdoctoral Fellowship
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The main theme of research is to examine galaxy evolution in the radio. The primary focus is to use the Simba simulation suite, as well as its successor and/or spin-off simulations, to examine the constraints on galaxy formation physics enabled by the ongoing generation of radio surveys using the MeerKAT radio array in South Africa. The applicant would be liaising closely with observers on the LADUMA and MIGHTEE Large Projects on MeerKAT, on which Prof. Davé is a Co-I, as well as the MALS Large Project, ideally assuming the position of the point person to coordinate data/simulation comparisons for within teams. Additionally, the applicant would be leading a robust science program of their own, taking advantage of close comparisons to radio survey and ancillary observations in order to better understand the physics of galaxy evolution across cosmic time.
22. Postdoctoral Fellowship
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The power electronics research team within the Institute for Energy Systems at the University of Edinburgh is seeking to appoint an experienced Research to work on the modelling of high voltage DC (HVDC) systems and DC circuit breakers (DCCB). The successful candidate will be responsible for part of the University of Edinburgh’s contribution to the Network DC project. This is a multiparter project, led by Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSE), which aims to advance the readiness of HVDC networks and enable the deployment of multi-terminal DC grids which cannot exist without DCCBs.
23. Postdoctoral Fellowship
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We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated post-doctoral research associate to join the NERC funded project ‘ECOFLU: Understanding the ecology of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in wild bird populations. The post is full time and fixed term for 24 months.
24. Postdoctoral Fellowship
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The project will combine a well characterised preclinical model of white matter damage and vascular cognitive impairment with genetic and pharmacological approaches to modify microglia state. A range of in vivo, cellular, molecular and quantitative neuroimaging techniques will be used including behavioural measures of cognitive abilities and preclinical MRI/DTI/PET neuroimaging to study blood brain barrier integrity, white matter microstructure and inflammation. In parallel collaborative studies supported by other researchers, single cell RNA sequencing and spatial transcriptomics, will be used to identify how targeting regulators of microglia number/function impact on microglia and on endothelial cell populations, their cell state(s), intercellular communication and how these might alter in relation to the progression of white matter abnormalities and cognition. The work will also be related to findings in relevant human cohorts.
25. Postdoctoral Fellowship
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We are looking for at least 2 promising early-career researchers in high-pressure laboratory experiments and numerical modelling to explore the transport properties of Earth and planetary interiors. The position is for a 2 years duration (with possible extension) Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Centre for Science at Extreme Conditions at University of Edinburgh.
26. Postdoctoral Fellowship
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We are seeking applicants with expertise to work on cosmological inference, with a focus on the Rubin Observatory. This will involve developing statistical methods and tools for analysing measurements made with the telescope, especially using machine learning and differentiable methods. It will also involve applying these methods to forecasts and early Rubin data. Successful candidates will also have the freedom to pursue their own related research interests, within the supportive environment of the IfA. There will be the opportunity to join the LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration.
27. Postdoctoral Fellowship
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The main theme of research is galactic archaeology using DESI and possibly WEAVE data. The main effort will be in the analysis and modelling of the spectroscopic samples from DESI to make inferences about the Milky Way potential/accretion history and it is meant to be broad and open. Candidates are encouraged to take their initiatives to come up with new ideas and steer their own research directions, making use of the stimulating work environment at the IfA and the broader research community.
28. Postdoctoral Fellowship
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The research goal of the position is to study the archaeological record of galaxy formation that is contained in galaxies located throughout the Local Volume. The successful candidate will exploit forefront observational datasets from the Subaru telescope and the recently launched Euclid satellite to work on stellar halo analyses, including searches for globular clusters and satellite galaxies. There will also be scope to compare the observational results with predictions from numerical simulations of galaxy formation.
29. Postdoctoral Fellowship
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The primary research goal of this position is to advance our understanding of galaxy evolution, particularly the life cycle of gas in galaxies, through the combination of next-generation optical spectroscopy and radio HI surveys. The successful candidate will work together with Dr Duncan on a variety of projects with the forthcoming ORCHIDSS ESO Community Survey, depending on their research experience and interests. They will also have the opportunity to develop their own research projects with access to a wide range of multi-wavelength observations such as the MIGHTEE and LOFAR (2.0) extragalactic radio surveys, the WEAVE-LOFAR spectroscopic survey (deputy PI: Duncan), the JWST PRIMER/JELS imaging surveys and associated spectroscopic follow-up campaigns.
30. Postdoctoral Fellowship
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As a Postdoctoral Research Associate, you will work within the Edinburgh Centre for Research on the Experience of Dementia (ECRED) on two exciting new projects. You will lead on projects funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (IMAGINED: Investigating Meaning-making and the cocreation of Guidelines for Evaluation IN participatory Arts for Dementia) and the Medical Research Council (Effects of social leisure engagement on the psychological, cognitive, and physical wellbeing of older adults). Respectively, the projects will involve developing a theoretical foundation and novel applied framework that considers relational meaning-making processes as central to the health of those living with dementia, and exploring the impact of social leisure engagement on older adults’ psychological, cognitive, and physical wellbeing. The studies are mixed-methods, but the work for this post will primarily be qualitative and arts-based. Both projects include knowledge-exchange and public engagement activities.
31. Postdoctoral Fellowship
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You will join the UKRI-funded research project, QUALREP: The Quality of Women’s Political Representation, to collaborate closely with the project team on research design, data collection and analysis; authoring project outputs; and supporting the dissemination, engagement and impact efforts. There is a possibility of extension for an additional 2 years.
