Chair in Immunology

**UE10 £63,673**

**Institute of Immunology and Infection Research**

**School of Biological Sciences**

**College of Science and Engineering**

**Full-time (35 hours per week)**

**Open-ended contract
The Institute of Immunology and Infection Research is recruiting a Chair in Immunology. We are looking for an experienced scientist to drive cutting-edge research in immunology, foster cross-disciplinary collaborations and bring leadership and vision to our research and teaching community.

**The Opportunity**:
You will have the breadth of vision, ability, energy and reputation to give strong academic leadership in the field of immunology. You will have an established track record of significant research funding and publications, and the ability to attract excellent colleagues and students to the Institute and School. You will have track record (or strong potential) in academic leadership, strategic research development and be willing to take on leadership roles in the Institute or School.

You will join a unique research environment featuring strong cross-disciplinary links between immunologists and infection biologists, evolutionary biologists, systems biologists and medical and veterinary researchers. You will have the opportunity to contribute to our vision for the further development of immunology and interdisciplinary approaches at the interface of infection, immunity and evolution. You will also pursue excellence in teaching and student-centred learning for both undergraduate and postgraduate students.

Research in the Institute for Immunology and Infection Research (IIIR) encompasses immunology, parasite biology and immunology, microbiology and the RNA biology of infection. We share extensive links and research collaborations with our sister Institutes of Evolutionary biology and Cell Biology within the School of Biological Sciences. Our focus is on fundamental mechanisms of immune function and dysfunction, human, animal and global health and our researchers are fully integrated within the University-wide Edinburgh Infectious Diseases network. The excellence of our research culture is recognised through our Wellcome Trust PhD programme ‘ Hosts, Pathogens and Global Health’, which closely links with the allied Wellcome PhD programmes, ‘ One Health Models of Disease ’ (hosted within the Roslin Institute) and “ Integrative Cellular mechanisms ” (hosted within the Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology ).

The Institute is a vibrant research environment supported by high levels of research funding from UKRI, The Wellcome Trust, ERC and others. Our academics contribute to national and international funding research panels, Government advisory committees and have shaped global health policy.

**Your skills and attributes for success**:

- Demonstrated ability to lead and develop a research team and secure significant research funding as an independent principal investigator.
- Demonstrated ability to publish and disseminate high quality research as well as effective written and oral communication skills in a range of contexts (e.g. teaching, research presentations, publications and public events)
- Ability to present and implement a clear and achievable personal research and teaching plan, with clear evidence of the vision and skills to make an outstanding and sustained long-term contribution.
- Committed to contributing to a collaborative and positive research culture, with the ability to inspire and support others to achieve
- Committed to achieving excellence through the highest standards of professional integrity

**As a valued member of our team you can expect**:
The Institute community of researchers is highly interactive and cooperative. We strongly support the career development of our early career researchers and have an established track record of progressing externally funded junior researchers on fellowships to senior academic positions within the University. There is an excellent gender balance among our group leaders, and a supportive, family friendly, working environment. You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits **pension scheme **, **staff discounts, **family friendly initiatives **, flexible working and much more. Access our **staff benefits page **for further information and use our **reward calculator **to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.

As well as regular research seminars from invited external scientists, we have a very popular and well attended weekly series of ECR presentations, highlighting in an informal format the progress of our PhD students and postdocs. This encourages the interactive research links between researchers in different areas of immunology and infection and matches the collaborative ethos of Institute, where linking between disciplines is encouraged. This is also reflected in our current innovations in the undergraduate taught