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 Imperial College London, England has multiple postdoctoral fellowships. Apply to the Imperial College London, England’s postdoctoral fellowships today and take the first step towards a rewarding and fulfilling academic career.
1. Postdoctoral Fellowship
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Project Summary: Your role will be to characterise the interfaces of functional materials, using amongst others the recently set up Imperial Centre for Cryo-Microscopy of Materials. This will be primarily focused on hybrid interfaces including thin films based on small molecules such as phthalocyanines and perylene derivatives, and will be extended to other systems across the programme. You will use advanced transmission electron microscopy techniques (TEM) to observe boundaries, including atomic diffusion between different materials and domain walls between different electrical or magnetic polarisations. The observations will be correlated with other surface techniques such as e.g. secondary ion mass spectroscopy (SIMS) and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, synchrotron-based techniques and bulk characterisation techniques such as SQUID-based magnetometry and electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy for a full understanding of structure-properties relationships across length scales.
2. Postdoctoral Fellowship
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Project Summary: We are seeking an outstanding individual to develop novel approaches to develop materials for photoelectrochemistry, their synthesis, characterisation, and tests, with special emphasis on the interfaces of photoanodes and photocathodes. Our target is to achieve efficient solar energy devices for water splitting (hydrogen generation) and explain property-performance relationships for a rational design.
3. Postdoctoral Fellowship
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Project Summary: The Electrochemical Science & Engineering Group is looking to hire a researcher to develop models of degradation mechanisms in electrodes, including silicon composite electrodes. This work will support the development of next generation solid state batteries (SSB). In order to design better SSB cells and battery packs, physics-based models are required, which capture the underlying physics that governs performance and degradation. This position will focus on developing mechanistic and phenomenological models including electrochemical, thermal, chemical and mechanical behaviour for SSBs.
4. Postdoctoral Fellowship
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Project Summary: Almost all bacteria secrete toxins to antagonize competitors in their proximity and/or to promote their capacity to survive hostile environments including within eukaryotic hosts. Bacterial secretion systems export effector proteins with toxic activity, from the bacterial cytoplasm into the environment or directly into target cells. One such system is the type six secretion system (T6SS). These T6SSs are best known for mediating interbacterial killing enabling strains to outcompete rivals and likely facilitate dominance in a broad range of niches including in soil, plants and animals.
5. Postdoctoral Fellowship
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Project Summary: In this project, you will work on the development of effective sulfur cathode scaffolds for lithium-sulfur batteries, based on electrospun carbon materials and novel S/C composites, supported by modelling and characterisation efforts from the other work packages. The project combines fundamental research at material and cell level, with a view to supporting scaling up to ensure the work conducted has the potential for direct industrial impact. Your tasks will involve materials synthesis and electrode design, surface and structural characterisation of the materials, and electrochemical testing of these systems in coin and pouch cell configurations.
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6. Postdoctoral Fellowship
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Project Summary: We are looking for a highly motivated Research Associate with practical experience in 3D bioprinting and device engineering to advance our 3D printing and transwell technologies for studying the gut microbiome. You will join our multi-disciplinary EPSRC project on building microbiome models being able to collaborate with team members and work in project partners labs, including time spent in the US.
7. Postdoctoral Fellowship
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Project Summary: The group has a long track record of leading population based and workforce based health surveys (including multicentre, international surveys that involve collaborations with low and middle income countries). The work examines the burden of, risk factors (including lifestyle, environmental and occupational) for and prognosis of poor respiratory health and disease (for example low lung function, asthma, COPD, occupational lung disease and tuberculosis). The group has extensive experience using more widely available research databases (for example UK Biobank). The second role will focus on Bayesian adaptive designs for cluster / complex trials.
8. Postdoctoral Fellowship
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Project Summary: You will focus on the reconstruction and analysis of simulated and read data from the CosmoPort atmospheric ray tomography scanner prototype. You will take a leading role in the development of novel machine-learning based algorithms to reconstruct muon tracks within the scanner detector modules for deployment in the prototype, and more generally for use in the R&D areas of the project.
9. Postdoctoral Fellowship
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Project Summary: We focus on the role of key neural-circuit plasticity processes thought to be critical for healthy network function. To achieve this, we use preclinical mouse models and cutting-edge technologies including 1- and 2-Photon in vivo microscopy, electrophysiology, automated behavioural testing, single cell/nuclei transcriptomics, non-invasive brain stimulation, Imaging Mass Cytometry and computational modelling.
10. Postdoctoral Fellowship
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Project Summary: The Department of Earth Science and Engineering is seeking a Research Associate/Fellow in AI for Computational Thinking Pedagogy. You will lead research into the use of artificial intelligence (AI)/machine learning (ML) and the design of associated novel digital technologies to support training and skills development in the area of computational thinking (CT). This is an exciting opportunity to join an existing team and interact with a number of related activities and like-minded researchers across Imperial College London on the use of AI and novel digital tools to support modern pedagogy.
11. Postdoctoral Fellowship
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Project Summary: This research associate position will be undertaken at the intersection of several funded projects in neurotechnology development, specifically to support preclinical studies. In this role, you will plan, lead and carry out a high quality research programme in the intersecting fields of materials science and bionic devices. You will collaborate with academic partners, undertake project management and/or supervise multi-disciplinary teams, including assistant supervision of PhD students. In addition, you will be expected to submit publications to peer-reviewed journals, attract external research funding, and contribute to the teaching activities of the Institute.
12. Postdoctoral Fellowship
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Project Summary: This position will focus on developing physics-based modelling tools that capture the underlying physics which govern performance and degradation, with a focus on quantifying the errors in degradation prediction. This role includes collaborating with an industry partner to use knowledge on degradation prediction to develop better battery management algorithms.
13. Postdoctoral Fellowship
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Project Summary: The Electrochemical Science & Engineering Group is looking to hire an experimental researcher to join our diverse and expanding team at the centre of cutting-edge research in electrochemical storage. Funded by the Faraday Institution, Innovate UK and Industry, we work with Industrial collaborators to develop the next generation of batteries and Battery Management Systems with the goal of improving performance and lifetime.
14. Postdoctoral Fellowship
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Project Summary: Applications are invited for an exciting Postdoctoral Research Associate position in the laboratory of Professor Speck at Imperial College London (http://www.specklab.com/). This post aims to uncover fundamental and medically relevant mechanisms that guarantee efficient human DNA replication employing cutting-edge biochemical and structural approaches. The project’s primary objective is to discover 1.) how DNA replication origins are specified through epigenetic mechanisms and specific recruitment factors and 2.) how DNA replication is regulated to allow faithful DNA replication. The candidate will be able to take advantage of a recently established reconstituted system, which allows us to address these questions for the first time.
15. Postdoctoral Fellowship
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Project Summary: Be part of an academic/industrial collaboration to transform photochemical reactions from small lab scale processes to industrial scale manufacturing capacities. ‘Photocatalytic Reactions in Flow: Enhancing Low Energy Chemical Production Capabilities’ is part of a large collaborative project, working with a major chemical manufacturer, investigating gas-liquid photochemical reactions (e.g. carbonylations and hydroformylations) for the up-scaling of commodity and high-value chemicals. Considering that the chemical industry is the largest energy consumer in the manufacturing sector, with heat being a major contributor, circumventing thermal activation pathways is essential for achieving industry Net Zero targets.
16. Postdoctoral Fellowship
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Project Summary: A key challenge in quantum computing is dealing with errors that can arise from environmental noise or other sources. Error mitigation and correction strategies are essential to the development of practical quantum computing devices. In recent years, photonic quantum computing has emerged as a promising platform for quantum computing and demonstrating a genuine quantum advantage. Quantum states of light (QSoL) are robust to environmental noise and can be easily manipulated and measured using simple optical components at room temperature. Additionally, QSoL can be transmitted over long distances using optical fibres, which makes them an attractive option for quantum communication and networking.
17. Postdoctoral Fellowship
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Project Summary: The proposed research aims at the development of new mathematical tools in statistical inference for stochastic processes. The research centre’s on developing statistical tests of independence for pairs of paths of Gaussian processes. We will concentrate on the archetypical examples of both stationary and highly non-stationary processes: the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck (OU) process, the Wiener and fractional Brownian motion processes, and their discretely observed versions and analogues.
18. Postdoctoral Fellowship
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Project Summary: You will belong to a cohort of up to five Fellows recruited during the 2023-24 academic year. The Fellowships may be held for 3 years in the first instance. You may spend up to 12 months visiting other research institutions and/ or in industry, the maximum time spent at any one institution or company being 6 months. Research space will be provided at Imperial, consistent with needs, along with a non-renewable research start-up fund of £30,000. You will have access to specific additional support for specialised equipment that they might need. Additional funds may also be available on a project-by-project basis from other internal funds, including e.g., those of the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre or the UKRI Impact Acceleration Account (IAA) scheme administered by the College.
19. Postdoctoral Fellowship
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Project Summary: You will carry out and lead an independent high-quality programme of research on tropical cyclones. Of particular interest is improving the understanding of the physics of tropical cyclones and the forecasting/projecting of tropical cyclones on all time scales from hours to decades. You will be using a wide range of models including statistical, regional and global. One objective is to provide improved information on climate risk. You will be expected to submit high impact publications to refereed journals. You will be joining Europe’s largest tropical cyclone research group.
20. Postdoctoral Fellowship
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Project Summary: The main aim of the project is to investigate the mechanisms of modern artificial intelligence algorithms, particularly deep neural networks. The project will combine cutting edge research on deep learning, statistical learning theory, and non-Euclidean machine learning to help develop next-generation machine learning methodologies that are not only high-performing and efficient, but are also robust and reliable in novel contexts, and are guided by sound inductive biases. Application areas of immediate interest include computer vision, natural language processing, 3D vision, neuroscience, computational biology, and related fields.
21. Postdoctoral Fellowship
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Project Summary: This post, funded by a recent UKRI Prosperity Partnership with First Light Fusion, involves multi-dimensional radiation hydrodynamics and magneto-hydrodynamics simulations of experiments undertaken both in house at Imperial College, and by other members of the Partnership including the University of York, and the University of Oxford. The experiments we will model include those on pulsed power systems, high energy lasers and gas gun facilities in the United Kingdom and the United States.
22. Postdoctoral Fellowship
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Project Summary: The Hub has been funded to support and coordinate the UK’s response to the escalating threat posed by vector-borne diseases (VBDs). This project team brings together experts in the transmission and control of human and animal VBDs, data sharing, and forecasting of complex systems to establish a Hub which will enhance the links between data collection, analysis, and policy making. A key component of the Hub project will be creating tools for visualising VBD data, pulling together data from multiple repositories, and linking those data appropriately with environmental datasets.
23. Postdoctoral Fellowship
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Project Summary: Loss and Damage is now an integral part of the climate negotiations. However, there are persistent challenges in establishing causality, despite recent advances in attribution science. Your efforts will be pivotal in translating diverse scientific insights across multiple disciplines into robust, evidence-based assessments of loss and damage. You will not only develop and publish your own ground-breaking research on damage attribution science, but also build a capacity at our Institute to rapidly assess and publicly disclose attribution assessments of losses and damages from extreme events worldwide.
24. Postdoctoral Fellowship
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Project Summary: The lab focuses on characterizing the molecular mechanisms of stress signalling and protein homeostasis within the ER. The lab uses a multidisciplinary approach that encompasses structural biology, biophysical and cellular techniques. The main focus of this position will be structural studies of ER stress signalling complexes.
25. Postdoctoral Fellowship
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Project Summary: You will focus on R&D work on MuCol project, in particular on the Cooling Demo experiment and on NuSTORM facility. MuCol project aims to develop a feasible design of the Muon Collider at CERN as a serious proposal for the machine to explore the energy frontier. You will take a leading role in the design and simulation of pion production and capture, beam transport, development of accelerating system and instrumentation. You will evaluate the performance of the proposed facilities and the physics reach.
26. Postdoctoral Fellowship
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Project Summary: You will focus on the development of the upgraded RICH and silicon tracking detectors, and contribute to the operation of the existing RICH detector. Imperial played a leading role in the design and construction of LHCb’s RICH detectors, will play a similar role in the operation of the current RICH detectors and design of their upgrade, and has begun development of the mechanical design of the new silicon tracking detector planned for the next upgrade.
27. Postdoctoral Fellowship
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Project Summary: We are seeking to appoint a Clinical Research Fellow, who will be involved in a major research project in the surgical gut microbiome directed by Mr James Kinross. The research project will entail project design, experimental work in addition to data analysis and reporting the results in peer-reviewed journals. The successful candidate will work across our research themes with leaders in cancer research, the microbiome and translational sciences. You will have an opportunity to work with international collaborators and to develop skills in computational biology and clinical trials.
28. Postdoctoral Fellowship
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Project Summary: The successful candidates will work across our research themes, including alongside policy makers and researchers in the Centre for Health Policy in the Institute of Global Health Innovation, product designers in the HELIX Centre, and leaders in Safety and Quality in the NIHR Patient Safety Translational Research Centre.
29. Postdoctoral Fellowship
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Project Summary: The successful candidates will work across our research themes, including alongside policy makers and researchers in the Centre for Health Policy in the Institute of Global Health Innovation, product designers in the HELIX Centre, and leaders in Safety and Quality in the NIHR Patient Safety Translational Research Centre.
30. Postdoctoral Fellowship
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Project Summary: This is an opportunity to lead two research studies looking at how people can be better supported in their own homes at the end of life. Our team at the Helix Centre has developed a set of digital and paper-based interventions – called “Palliate” – to help train and support lay carers to administer symptom relief at end of life. We are now setting out to evaluate the safety and experience of the intervention when used by members of the public, as well as to explore opportunities and barriers to adoption through qualitative research with different stakeholder groups. We are therefore looking for a Research Associate or Research Assistant to lead that work.
31. Postdoctoral Fellowship
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Project Summary: A Research Associate position in Small-Molecule Optical Probes for DNA and RNA is available within the Chemistry Department at Imperial College, London. You will join the group of Prof. Ramon Vilar (https://www.imperial.ac.uk/vilar-research-group) building on their successful track record in the development and application of small molecules as DNA binders and optical probes. This includes a range metal complexes (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018, 57, 310; Chem. Eur. J. 2018, 24, 11785; Chem. Sci., 2018, 9, 3459) and polyaromatic systems (Chem. Eur. J. 2016, 22, 4129; Nature Comm. 2015, 6, 8178) which have been successfully applied as probes to visualize G-quadruplex DNA in live cells (Nat. Commun. 2021, 12, 162; Chem. Eur. J. 2012, 18, 16277).
32. Postdoctoral Fellowship
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Project Summary: We are looking to expand the Centre activities that focus on understanding what business organizations do or should do to contribute to sustainable development. In particular, for this role we are looking for a candidate with expertise in computational social science and with a proven track record of research and publications at the interface between finance, business and corporate social responsibility. It is essential that the candidate is interested in developing a research agenda that focuses on the social impact of business operations and that the candidate have experience with the social dimension of sustainability.
33. Postdoctoral Fellowship
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Project Summary: You will be expected to plan research in accordance with the project aims; conduct translational research with appropriate supervision using a Quality Management System (ISO13485) for regulatory and ethical approval; present findings to colleagues and actively participate in group research meetings and internal seminars; attend relevant workshops and conferences as necessary; submit publications to high-quality refereed conferences and journals; assist in the supervision of undergraduate and postgraduate research students as required; and promote the reputation of the group, the departments and the College.
34. Postdoctoral Fellowship
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Project Summary: The objective of the project the post holder will carry out is to determine the HLA-associated immunological mechanisms that drive natural protection to type 1 diabetes (T1D) in individuals with the protective DR15-DQ6 haplotype in the presence and absence of known HLA-associated risk alleles (DR4-DQ8 and DR3-DQ2 haplotypes). Single nucleotide polymorphisms in the DR15-DQ6 haplotype are associated with T1D protection. However, 1 in 50 individuals carrying these polymorphisms progress to T1D, representing failure in the genetic protection provided by DR15-DQ6. Understanding the underlying mechanisms by which DR15-DQ6 exerts its protective effects and how this is attenuated in people who carry the variant but still develop T1D would provide invaluable information for the design of therapies that mimic natural protection to T1D. In particular, we will be examining the frequency and functionality of autoantigen-specific CD4+ T cells in people with T1D that harbor risk and/or protective HLA alleles and diabetes-free relatives with similar HLA genotypes.
