Opportunities

Ongoing opportunities for Collaboration and MPhil and PhD Programmes are provided under the subheadings in the menu. Do you have an opportunity you'd like to post? Please get in contact and we can help advertise it with our extensive network.

Current opportunities

From across the University of Cambridge and relevant external opportunities:

Closing date: 
20 March 2024

Bookings required and spaces fill quickly (at time of posting, bookings not yet open). Full details https://training.cam.ac.uk/event/4809246

Job opportunity
Closing date: 
25 March 2024

Department of Pathology, Central Cambridge

Applications are invited for two BBSRC-funded postdoctoral vacancy in molecular biology to join a multi-disciplinary team based at the Department of Pathology in Central Cambridge. The successful candidate will study RNA-structure dependent translational regulation in response to environmental changes.

Job opportunity
Closing date: 
27 March 2024

Department of Haematology

Do you have great analytical and IT skills? Interested in a role aiming to improve lives? Looking for your next challenge?

Closing date: 
27 March 2024

Department of Haematology

We are recruiting a statistical geneticist in Rare Diseases Genomics who can lead statistical genetics analyses for rare diseases, including epigenetics. The postholder ideally will already have experience in statistical genetics, rare or complex disorder genetics and show a keen interest in translational research. The post will work closely with the rare disease NIHR BioResource lead and contributing PIs.

About NIHR BioResource:

Closing date: 
27 March 2024

Department of Haematology

We are recruiting a statistical geneticist in Eating Disorders Genomics who can lead statistical genomic and epigenomic analyses to generate new hypotheses of eating disorders aetiology and treatment. The postholder will ideally have experience in statistical and/or complex disorder genetics, such as psychiatric or behavioural genetics, and show a keen interest in eating disorders or mental health research. The postholder will work closely with the NIHR Mental Health BioResource lead.

About NIHR BioResource:

Closing date: 
27 March 2024

Department of Haematology

We are recruiting a statistical geneticist in Cognition Genomics who can lead statistical genomic and epigenomic analyses for cognitive and population genetics related studies. The postholder will ideally have experience in statistical genetics, complex disorder genetics, dementia, cognitive, or behavioural genetics, and show a keen interest in neurodegeneration research.

About the job:

Closing date: 
31 March 2024

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute


This is a unique opportunity for PhD study in the world-leading Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI), to start a research career in an environment committed to training outstanding cancer research scientists of the future. The Institute has excellent state-of-the-art facilities and research ranges from basic biology and computational biology through to translational cancer research and clinical application.

Closing date: 
1 April 2024

Department of Pathology, Central Cambridge

Join our team as a Bioinformatician!

The McGovern lab is seeking a talented and motivated Bioinformatics Research Associate to join their research group. Our research aims to understand how mononuclear phagocyte biology is altered in disease.

The McGovern Lab:

Job opportunity
Closing date: 
2 April 2024

Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Cancer Genetic Epidemiology

Job opportunity
Closing date: 
7 April 2024

MRC Biostatistics Unit

Research call
Closing date: 
9 April 2024

Pre-announcement: Restricted call: Future Leaders Fellowship, Round 9 

Job opportunity
Closing date: 
11 April 2024

Cambridge Institute for Technology and Humanity, Cambridge


The Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI) seeks to appoint an Assistant Professor with expertise in policy, regulation, and/or law as it relates to the ethics of AI, data and algorithms.

Research call
Closing date: 
16 April 2024

Restricted call: UK - Germany Bilateral: Collaborative R&D Round 3 (internal deadline: 16th April, 2024) 

Job opportunity
Closing date: 
21 April 2024

Department of Computer Science and Technology, West Cambridge


Are you passionate about understanding what drives innovation? Are you looking for an opportunity to leverage data science methods and tools to analyse the scientific process?

We are looking for a Research Assistant/Research Associate to join our team, developing a new project that explores the data science of science.

Closing date: 
1 May 2024

Bookings required and spaces fill quickly. Full details https://training.cam.ac.uk/event/4809361

Closing date: 
16 May 2024

Department of Computer Science and Technology, West Cambridge


Fixed-term: The funds for this post are available for 48 months.

The Project

Applications are invited for a PhD student to work on machine-learning guided and verifiably correct code generation.

About us

The Cambridge Centre for Data-Driven Discovery (C2D3) brings together researchers and expertise from across the academic departments and industry to drive research into the analysis, understanding and use of data science and AI. C2D3 is an Interdisciplinary Research Centre at the University of Cambridge.

  • Supports and connects the growing data science and AI research community 
  • Builds research capacity in data science and AI to tackle complex issues 
  • Drives new research challenges through collaborative research projects 
  • Promotes and provides opportunities for knowledge transfer 
  • Identifies and provides training courses for students, academics, industry and the third sector 
  • Serves as a gateway for external organisations 

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