Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Nanoscience and Technology

University of Oxford -Department of Engineering Science

(2 posts)
Parks Road, Oxford
Grade 7: £29,837 - £36,661 p.a.
We are seeking two full-time Postdoctoral Research Assistants to join Professor Kim’s research group at the Department of Engineering Science in central Oxford. The posts are funded by an FP7 Grant and are available for two years.

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Research Fellow: Polymer Chemistry and Bionanotechnology

University of Birmingham -School of Chemical Engineering

Starting salary £27,854 a year, in a range up to £36,298 a year, with potential progression to £38,522 a year.
Post is available for 24 months. 

A Research Fellow position is available from March 2014 for a two-year EPSRC-funded project entitled “Surface-Based Molecular Imprinting for Glycoprotein Recognition” to work in the field of polymer chemistry and bionanotechnology.

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University of Oxford -Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory

South Parks Road, Oxford
Grade 7: £29,541 - £36,298 p.a. (1% pay award pending)

Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Research Associate to work under the supervision of Professor Peter Edwards, Dr Tiancun Xiao and Dr Vladimir Kuznetsov on a research project funded by King Abdulaziz City of Science and Technology (KACST), Saudi Arabia under the umbrella of KACST-Oxford Petrochemical Research Centre (KOPRC) for a period of 3 years in the first instance.

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Condensed Matter Physics

The University of Manchester -School of Physics & Astronomy

Closing date: 08/12/2013

Reference: E&PS-03602

Faculty / Organisational unit: Engineering & Physical Sciences

School / Directorate: School of Physics & Astronomy

Division: Physics and Astronomy School Office

Employment type: Fixed Term

Duration: up to 24 to 36 months

Location: Oxford Road, Manchester

Salary: £29,541 to £36,298 per annum

Hours per week: full time

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University of Oxford -Department of Materials

Dr H Bhaskaran
The Advanced Nanoscale Engineering Group at Oxford University’s Materials Department is seeking extraordinarily motivated aspiring scientists to join as Doctoral Researchers (DPhil) starting in October 2014 (Michaelmas 2014).  Our group engages in early-stage, blue-skies research to create nanoscale devices and systems. This also involves trying to understand the underlying science.

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University of Oxford -Physical and Theoretical Chemistry

Chemistry Research Laboratory, South Parks Road, Oxford
Grade 7: Salary in the range £29,541 - £33,230 p.a.
Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Research Associate to work under the supervision of Professor Dame Carol Robinson on a research project funded by European Research Council (ERC) for a period of 1 year. The project involves work on lipid binding to membrane proteins.

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Loughborough University -Department of Chemical Engineering

Ref: REQ13664
Salary: 51,073 Euros per annum
Closing Date: Monday 25th November
Department of Chemical Engineering, Interaction of Foams with a Porous Support
Funded by the European Science Foundation, this is a Marie Curie Initial Training Networks CoWet project. The Researcher is required to undertake research into the modelling of the foam drainage in the presence of surfactants and/or polymers, interaction of foams with a porous support and adsorption of desired amounts of a solute from the foam in a contact with a porous substrate to the pores.

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Ultrawide bandwidth photonics devices, sources and application

University of Kent -Physics School of Physical Sciences

Closing Date: 15 November 2014

Two Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher/PhD positions for 36 months starting from 1st February 2014 are available within the Applied Optics Group, School of Physical Sciences. These are supported by an EU funded Marie Curie Initial Training Network European Industrial Doctorate, jointly organized with NKT Photonics Denmark. Students will spend half of their time in Kent and half at NKT in Denmark.

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University of Cambridge -Department of Zoology

(Fixed Term)
Salary: £27,854-£36,298
Reference: PF01869
Closing date: 11 November 2013
The position is available for up to twelve months, starting 1 December 2013 in the Insect Biomechanics Group (laboratory of Walter Federle: (www2.zoo.cam.ac.uk/federle/ ) in the Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

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Faculty of Science, School of Chemistry, University of East Anglia

Ref: RA1006

£30,424 to £36,298 per annum

Synthetic Organometallic Chemistry: Gold(III) Chemistry: Structure, Bonding and Reactivity

Applications are invited for a senior postdoctoral research position in organometallic chemistry funded by the European Research Council. 

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University of Cambridge -Department of Engineering

2 Posts
(Fixed Term)
Salary: £24,049-£36,298
Reference: NM01887
Closing date: 15 November 2013

Applications are invited for two Research Assistants/Research Associates in the Department of Engineering, to work in the field of nanotechnology. The post holder will be located in West Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK.

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University of Leeds -Mathematics & Physical Sciences

Job Summary 
Re-advertisement of MAPFS0027 - previous applicants need not apply 
Fixed term for 36 months 
Food Nanostructure: Role of Molecular Arrangement on Phase Stability and Phase Transitions in Food Processing.  
The post is available immediately for a fixed period of 36 months and supports the Lipid Biophysics Research activities at the School of Food Science and Nutrition at the University of Leeds. You will assist Professor Michael Rappolt in designing and carrying out Small and Wide Angle X-ray Scattering (SWAXS) experiments in the Lab as well as at synchrotron sites (Diamond, DESY, Elettra).

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Recruiter: Bangor University

Application deadline: 30 Nov 2013

£Competitive | Wales 

Department: School of Electronic Engineering

Position Description
The Laboratory for Matter Dynamics is recruiting a Ph.D. student to work on Fujitsu-High Power Computing Wales (HPCW) funded research activities starting October 2013.  The research will apply density functional theory (DFT) to understand bonding dynamics at polymer-carbon nanotube interfaces. Simulations will link to experimental data collected at the National Synchrotron Light Source at Brookhaven National Laboratory and will make extensive use of HPCW facilities.

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Recruiter: University Of York

Application deadline: 01 Mar 2014

£Competitive | North East England | 

The Universities of Durham, Liverpool, Manchester, Oxford and York, with Culham Centre for Fusion Energy, the Central Laser Facility and AWE have formed the Fusion Doctoral Training Network: an EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training.

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University of Southampton -Ocean and Earth Science

Applications are invited for a PhD studentship supported by a Mayflower Scholarship in Ocean and Earth Science at the University of Southampton. Mayflower Scholarships provide full support of fees, student grant and some research support. Due to funding restrictions the scholarship is available only to United Kingdom and European Union citizens.

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University of Southampton -Nano Group

Location: Highfield Campus
Closing Date:  Thursday 31 October 2013
Interview Date:  
Reference:  267613FP

Applications are invited for a PhD scholarship to be filled by November 2013. This scholarship will fund students for their tuition fees, a bursary to cover living expenses (£13,726 per year) and a Research Training Support Grant for research consumables and conference attendance. This role will be based at the Nano Group within the Electronics and Computer Science Department and will use state-of-the-art facilities at the Southampton Nanofabrication Centre. SNC is one of the premiere cleanrooms in Europe, facilitating a uniquely broad range of technologies by combining traditional and novel top down fabrication with state-of-the-art bottom up fabrication.

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The University of Manchester -Manchester Institute of Biotechnology and Photon Sciences Institute

Closing date : 05/12/2013

Reference : LSX-03394

Faculty / Organisational unit : Life Sciences

School / Directorate : Life Sciences

Division : School of Life Sciences Research

Employment type : Fixed Term

Duration : Available until 30 September 2017

Location : Oxford Road, Manchester

Salary : £40,178 per annum

Hours per week : Full Time

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