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:

Job opportunity

Research Assistant/Associate in Exascale Computing for Advanced Engineering

Closing date: 
16 October 2024

Department of Engineering, Central Cambridge, UK

Job opportunity

Research Associate (Fixed Term)

Closing date: 
20 October 2024

MRC Biostatistics Unit

The MRC Biostatistics Unit is one of Europe's leading biostatistics research institutions. Our focus is to deliver new analytical and computational strategies based on sound statistical principles for the challenging tasks facing biomedicine and public health.

SMASH postdoctoral research fellow in breathomics and biomarker discovery

Closing date: 
21 October 2024

Applicants are invited to apply for a postdoctoral fellowship in breathomics and biomarker discovery, with the University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia and the University of Manchester, UK.

Job opportunity

Project Manager, Brain Health AI-deas Hub (Part Time, Fixed Term)

Closing date: 
27 October 2024

Department of Psychology, Cambridge City Centre

Applications are invited for a Project Manager to coordinate the Brain Health AI-deas Hub working together with the Hub Directors (Prof Zoe Kourtzi, Dr Anna Moore, Prof Pietro Lio) and cross-disciplinary research teams at the University of Cambridge.

Restricted call: Sir Jules Thorn Biomedical Award 2025

Closing date: 
29 October 2024

The Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust has announced the Sir Jules Thorn Biomedical Award 2025.

Job opportunity

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Computational Biology and Software Engineering - 30 months - Keele University, UK

Closing date: 
30 October 2024

Keele University - School of Computer Science and Mathematics

AZ funded Non-clinical PhD Studentship (Fixed Term) - Health Data Science

Closing date: 
31 October 2024

Department of Public Health and Primary Care

Job opportunity

Research Associate in Biomedical Data Science (Fixed Term)

Closing date: 
31 October 2024

Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit

CPB call for prize nominations for PhD students and postdocs

Closing date: 
31 October 2024

The Cambridge Centre for Physical Biology (CPB) aims to support and facilitate multidisciplinary collaborations across the University of Cambridge. This year the CPB will recognise up to 2 PhDs and 2 Postdocs for their innovative research at the intersection of biological, physical, and/or mathematical sciences. The awardees' work must have been predominantly carried out in Cambridge. Each prize is £500, and winners will be invited to give a talk at the CPB Annual Meeting on 13th January 2025.

The Cambridge Centre for Physical Biology: prize nominations for PhD students and postdocs.

Closing date: 
31 October 2024

The Cambridge Centre for Physical Biology (CPB) aims to support and facilitate multidisciplinary collaborations across the University of Cambridge. This year we will recognise up to 2 PhDs and 2 Postdocs for their innovative research at the intersection of biological, physical, and/or mathematical sciences.
The awardees' work must have been predominantly carried out in Cambridge. Each prize is £500, and winners will be invited to give a talk at the CPB Annual Meeting on 13th January 2025.
 
Remit of the Prizes

PhD studentship: Unlocking the code within the code: Using AI to decipher the role of codon usage in protein synthesis and gene regulation

Closing date: 
31 October 2024

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute


Please note: This PhD opportunity does not come with a funding award. The successful applicant will need to need to secure their own funding to finance the course.

Supervisor: Dr Susanne Bornelöv

Deadline for application: 31st October 2024

Course start date: 1st October 2025

Overview

Dr Susanne Bornelöv wishes to recruit a student to work on the project entitled: "Unlocking the code within the code: Using AI to decipher the role of codon usage in protein synthesis and gene regulation".

PhD Studentship: Developing digital tools to support a personalised preventative pathway for children's mental health

Closing date: 
31 October 2024

Funded PhD at Peterhouse to develop to develop digitally supported personalised prevention pathways for children's mental health services. The project will refine a novel digital pathway for child mental health services, and use multi-modal longitudinal health, education and social care data to build the AI/ML tools to enable early identification of mental health problems in children. The project will involve liaising with patient groups to develop a responsible AI approach, building tools applications to be implemented in clinical systems in Cambridgeshire & Peterborough.

Research call

Pre-announcement – Restricted Call: MRC Centre of Research Excellence funding opportunity – round 3

Closing date: 
1 November 2024

Full details for this funding opportunity are not yet available. The call is expected to open on 09 October 2024. This notification is to bring the scheme to the attention of schools and departments so that early planning and discussions can start taking place. Internal selection deadlines and requirements, as well as any updates to this information, will be circulated once the call opens in October.

Job opportunity

Research Assistant or Research Associate (Fixed Term)

Closing date: 
3 November 2024

Department of Medicine, Cambridge

Job opportunity

Bioinformatics Analyst (Fixed Term)

Closing date: 
4 November 2024

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, Cambridge

Our lab (https://www.cruk.cam.ac.uk/research-groups/biffi-group) combines ex vivo human and murine pancreatic tumour organoid/fibroblast co-cultures with murine in vivo models to study and target the interactions between pancreatic cancer cells and the surrounding microenvironment.

Restricted Call: Royal Society Wolfson Fellowships 2025, Round 1

Closing date: 
6 November 2024

Now open!

 The Royal Society plans to open Round 1 of their 2025 Wolfson Fellowships scheme on 11th September 2024. The programme is to enable UK Universities to strategically recruit and attract outstanding international researchers to the UK’s scientific community. This can be achieved through one of the following routes:

 

Restricted call: ESRC New Investigator Grants

Closing date: 
8 November 2024

The ESRC have announced their New Investigator Grant scheme. This scheme is suitable for early career researchers who have yet to make the transition to be an independent researcher. Proposals are welcome in any topic which falls within ESRC’s remit, including projects at the “interface with the wider sciences”, provided that social sciences accounts for at least 50% of the proposed research. The ESRC will award grants of between £100-350K (covered at 80%fEC).

PhD Studentship in Data-driven mechanics

Closing date: 
15 November 2024

Department of Engineering

Job opportunity

Assistant Professor/Associate Professor in Wearable Computing

Closing date: 
24 November 2024

Department of Computer Science and Technology, West Cambridge

The Department of Computer Science and Technology is seeking to recruit a new faculty member at the Assistant Professor/Associate Professor level who can contribute to research and teaching in the area of Wearable Computing.

Job opportunity

Department of Engineering, West Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK

Closing date: 
1 December 2024

Department of Engineering, West Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK

A position exists, for a Senior Research Associate in Digital Twins in the Department of Engineering, to work on the Digital Roads of the Future (DRF) initiative.

The post holder will be located in the Civil Engineering Building, 7a JJ Thomson Ave, CB3 0FA, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK.

Job opportunity

Assistant Professor/Associate Professor in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)

Closing date: 
12 January 2025

Department of Computer Science and Technology, West Cambridge

The Department of Computer Science and Technology is seeking to recruit a new faculty member at the Assistant Professor/Associate Professor level who can contribute to research and teaching in the area of Human-Computer Interaction.

We encourage applications from candidates having broadly interdisciplinary expertise, and a strong desire to contribute to human-centric design research and teaching at all levels from undergraduate study to doctoral research.

CSAR PhD Students Awards For Applied Research

Closing date: 
18 January 2025

The Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) PhD Student Awards of £1,000 each, are intended to recognise outstanding research with real world application and to assist students to pursue their research or careers. The awards are open to students in any discipline at the University of Cambridge, currently studying for their Ph.D. at the deadline for application.

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