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:

C2D3 Early Career Researcher Seed Funding 2024

Closing date: 
8 May 2024

C2D3 will be awarding £15,000 of Seed Funding to Early Career Researchers, up to £5,000 per project. C2D3 would like to invite University of Cambridge Early Career Researchers to apply for a seed fund. The aim of the funds are to provide a step towards an independent research career. 

Applications should focus on cross-disciplinary data science or AI.  Preference will be given towards cross-disciplinary activities that address one or more of the following: 

Training: Reproducible Research with R (IN-PERSON)

Closing date: 
1 May 2024

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

Project ideas and matchmaking request: Cambridge Zero for Bezos Earth Fund Grand Challenge

Closing date: 
3 May 2024

Cambridge Zero is inviting your submissions of ideas for research projects within the broad space of Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning Applications for Climate and Nature

Job opportunity

Delivery Manager

Closing date: 
8 May 2024

University Information Services

Are you interested in an exciting and unique opportunity to help shape and deliver the UK's first National AI Research Service? We are looking for an experienced and enthusiastic Delivery Manager to work on Dawn, the most powerful supercomputer in the UK. Dawn is now being deployed for use by scientists across the UK in critical research fields such as clean energy, personalised medicine and climate science and we need your help to develop and manage this critical resource.

Who you'll be working with

Higher Education Innovation Fund: IRC/SRI Small Grants for Impact and Knowledge Exchange

Closing date: 
9 May 2024

IRC / SRI Small Grants for Impact and Knowledge Exchange 
 
Funding has been secured from the institutional HEIF (Higher Education Innovation Fund) allocation to set up small grants for impact and knowledge exchange for Interdisciplinary Research Centres (IRCs) and Strategic Research Initiatives (SRIs). Details of the fund can be found in the attached guidance.  
 

Job opportunity

Research Associate - Data Science (Fixed Term)

Closing date: 
13 May 2024

Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry

Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Research Associate (PDRA) position to work on the development and applications of a microfluidic platform for analysing protein aggregation, with a focus on high-throughput data analysis and management, a project funded by the Michael J. Fox Foundation. The PDRA will work in the group of Professor Tuomas Knowles in the Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge.

Job opportunity

Research Associate - Data Science (Fixed Term)

Closing date: 
13 May 2024

Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry

Fixed-term: The funds for this post are available until 28 February 2026 in the first instance.

Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Research Associate (PDRA) position to work on the development and applications of a microfluidic platform for analysing protein aggregation, with a focus on high-throughput data analysis and management, a project funded by the Michael J. Fox Foundation. The PDRA will work in the group of Professor Tuomas Knowles in the Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge.

PhD Studentship in Machine-Learning Guided Compilation (Fixed Term)

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.

Job opportunity

Research Assistant/Associate in Advanced Neuroimaging and Computational Neuroscience (Fixed Term)

Closing date: 
16 May 2024

Department of Engineering, Central Cambridge

A position exists, for a Research Assistant/Associate in spinal/brain neuroimaging and computational neuroscience in the Department of Engineering, to work on projects related to the neural processing and endogenous modulation of pain signals in the central nervous system.

The postdoc will be supervised by Dr Flavia Mancini and join the dynamic and multidisciplinary research environment of the Computational and Biological Learning group (https://www.cbl-cambridge.org/)

The key responsibilities/duties are:

Job opportunity

PhD Studentship in the framework of the MSCA Doctoral Network GLITTER: Advanced Bayesian analysis and optimisation (Fixed Term)

Closing date: 
18 May 2024

Department of Physics

Fixed-term: The funds for this post are available for 36 months in the first instance.

Job opportunity

PhD Studentship in the framework of the MSCA Doctoral Network GLITTER: Antenna technology (Fixed Term)

Closing date: 
18 May 2024

Department of Physics, West Cambridge

Fixed-term: The funds for this post are available for 36 months in the first instance.

Job opportunity

Research Associate in Modelling Network Data (Fixed Term)

Closing date: 
26 May 2024

Institute of Criminology

An exciting opportunity has arisen for two Post-Doc Research Associates to work alongside Dr Paolo Campana in the Institute of Criminology on two new research projects. Each project requires a dedicated Research Associate to play a key role in building networks from large-scale datasets, testing hypotheses and carrying out quantitative analysis.

The two positions available are as follows:

1) Research Associate in Modelling Network Data (Nuffield Foundation)

Funding call: Safeguarded AI - Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA)

Closing date: 
28 May 2024

ARIA (Advanced Research and Invention Agency) have launched their second programme, Safeguarded AI, led by Programme Director David ‘davidad’ Dalrymple.

Accelerate Programme for Scientific Discovery:Image Generation Study Group

Closing date: 
1 June 2024

Interested in finding out more about AI-generated images? Register for our image generation study group which will explore how these models work and how workflows can be adapted for research purposes. Open to all postgraduate students and researchers. Sign up: https://bit.ly/4d8mZ5Z

Job opportunity

Senior Research Associate in Data Science for Climate (Fixed Term)

Closing date: 
2 June 2024

Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics

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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