Postdoctoral Research Associate

2 months ago

Edinburgh, United Kingdom University of Edinburgh Full time

**UE07 £37,099 to £44,263 per annum (A revised salary range for this grade of £39,347 to £46,974 is planned to take effect from Spring 2024)**

**College of Science and Engineering, School of Biological Sciences, Institute of Cell Biology**

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

**Fixed term (12 months)**

We are looking for a highly motivated postdoc to join the Swaffer lab and lead a major research project within the lab’s overall focus on understanding how cell size impacts core cellular processes (see swafferlab.co.uk and Swaffer et al., Cell 2023 for details).

**The Opportunity**:
We're a multi-disciplinary group that combines approaches across cell, molecular, systems & quantitative biology, and we welcome applicates from diverse academic backgrounds. Start date is flexible and funding for this project is secured for at least 4 years as part of an 8-year Wellcome Trust CDA grant to the Swaffer lab.

**Your skills and attributes for success**:

- Strong motivation to contribute to a novel area of cell biology research: _i.e. _understanding the role of cell size.
- Skilled with standard techniques across cell and molecular biology.
- Expertise / training in one or more of the following: RNA biology, genomics, proteomics, single cell imaging, quantitative data analysis.

**Click to view a copy of the full **job description **(opens new browser tab)

**As a valued member of our team you can expect**:
An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success. 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.

The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.

If invited for interview you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our **right to work **webpages.

  • Postdoctoral Research Associate

    1 week ago

    Edinburgh, United Kingdom University of Edinburgh Full time

    **Postdoctoral Research Associate** **UE07 £35,333 - £42,155 per annum** **School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences** **Full time, 35 hours per week** **Fixed Term, 36 months** **1 post available **The Psychology department in the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences is seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate on a...

  • Postdoctoral Research Associate

    1 month ago

    Edinburgh, United Kingdom University of Edinburgh Full time

    **Postdoctoral Research Associate **Grade/Salary Range UE07 - £37,099 - £44,263** **School/Department School of Mathematics** **Contract type/Hours per week Fixed terM/Full-time** **Fixed Term dates, 27 months** Applications are invited for the post of Postdoctoral Research Associate in applied algebraic geometry/computational commutative...

  • Postdoctoral Research Associate

    4 weeks ago

    Edinburgh, United Kingdom University of Edinburgh Full time

    **Postdoctoral Research Associate **UoE Grade 7** **College of Arts, Humanities and Social Science** **School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences** **Full time, Fixed Term (24 months) We are looking for a postdoctoral research associate for a full-time, fixed term post for 24 months from July 2024 to work as part of the Edinburgh team on the...

  • Postdoctoral Research Associate

    2 months ago

    Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom The University of Edinburgh Full time

    Full-time: 35 hours per weekFixed-term: for 3 years from 1st August, 2024We are looking for a Postdoctoral Research Associate in High-Pressure Neutron Diffraction.The Opportunity:Following a recent successful bid for funding from EPSRC we are seeking a PDRA to join the School's programme of neutron scattering studies of simple-molecular systems at megabar...

  • Postdoctoral Research Associate

    3 weeks ago

    Edinburgh, United Kingdom The University of Edinburgh Full time

    Contract Type - Fixed Term for 2 years, starting before September 2024 Full Time - 35 Hours Per Week The Opportunity: We are looking for a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the field of cometary science. The successful candidate will join the research group led by Prof Colin Snodgrass and Dr Cyrielle Opitom at the Institute for Astronomy (IfA) at the...

  • Postdoctoral Research Associate

    3 weeks ago

    Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom The University of Edinburgh Full time

    Contract Type - Fixed Term for 2 years, starting before September 2024Full Time - 35 Hours Per WeekThe Opportunity:We are looking for a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the field of cometary science. The successful candidate will join the research group led by Prof Colin Snodgrass and Dr Cyrielle Opitom at the Institute for Astronomy (IfA) at the...

  • Postdoctoral Research Associate

    4 weeks ago

    Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom The University of Edinburgh Full time

    Full time, Fixed term (24 months)We are looking for a postdoctoral research associate for a full-time, fixed term post for 24 months from July 2024 to work as part of the Edinburgh team on the John Templeton Foundation funded project "Functional Communication, Quality of Life, and Human Flourishing," with Principal Investigator: Dr Dan Mirman (Edinburgh).The...

  • Postdoctoral Research Associate

    4 weeks ago

    Edinburgh, United Kingdom The University of Edinburgh Full time

    Full time, Fixed term (24 months) We are looking for a postdoctoral research associate for a full-time, fixed term post for 24 months from July 2024 to work as part of the Edinburgh team on the John Templeton Foundation funded project “Functional Communication, Quality of Life, and Human Flourishing,” with Principal Investigator: Dr Dan Mirman...

  • Postdoctoral Research Associate

    1 month ago

    Edinburgh, United Kingdom University of Edinburgh Full time

    **UE07: £35,333.00 - £42,155.00 Per Annum.** **COLLEGE OF SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING / SCHOOL OF PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY / INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR AND PARTICLE PHYSICS / PARTICLE PHYSICS THEORY.** **Fixed Term Contract - 2 Years, must start by 1st June 2023; Full Time - 35 Hours Per Week.** Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the...

  • Postdoctoral Research Associate

    1 month ago

    Edinburgh, United Kingdom University of Edinburgh Full time

    **UE07 £36,333 - £43,155 Per Annum** **College of Arts, Humanities and Social Science / School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences** **Fixed Term (until March 2023, with possibility of extension)** **Full time, 35 hours per week The Psychology Department in the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences is seeking a Postdoctoral...

  • Postdoctoral Research Associate

    1 month ago

    Edinburgh, United Kingdom University of Edinburgh Full time

    **UE07 £36,333 - £43,155 Per Annum** **College of Science and Engineering / School of Mathematics** **Fixed term for 3 years, starting date between 1st Oct and 1st Dec 2023** **Full time (35 hours per week)** We are looking for a postdoctoral research associate (PDRA) to conduct research in finite element exterior calculus for the Einstein equations,...

  • Postdoctoral Research Associate in Earth

    1 month ago

    Edinburgh, United Kingdom University of Edinburgh Full time

    **Postdoctoral Research Associate in Earth Observation of ice sheet-lake interactions** **UE07, £37,099-£44,263** **[School of GeoSciences, College of Science and Engineering]** **Full time, 35 hours per week** **Fixed-Term for 2.5 years** We seek to appoint a 2.5-year (30 month) postdoctoral research associate (PDRA) to work on the UK NERC-funded...

  • Postdoctoral Research Associate in Experimental

    6 days ago

    Edinburgh, United Kingdom University of Edinburgh Full time

    **UE07 £35,333 - £42,155** **College of Science and Engineering, School of Biological Science, Institute of Ecology and Evolution** **Fixed Term, Full Time** **6 months We are looking for a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Experimental Evolution. **The Opportunity**: To join a research group using experimental evolution in the single celled alga to...

  • Postdoctoral Researcher

    1 month ago

    Edinburgh, United Kingdom University of Edinburgh Full time

    **Postdoctoral Researcher** **UE07 (£36,333 - £43,155)** **College of Arts, Humanities and Social Science** **School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences** **Contract Type - Full time - 35 Hours Per Week - Fixed Term (until August 2024)** **1 x position available** The Psychology Department in the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language...

  • Postdoctoral Research Associate

    4 weeks ago

    Edinburgh, United Kingdom University of Edinburgh Full time

    **Grade UE07: £39,347 - £46,974 per annum** **School of Physics and Astronomy/Centre for Science at Extreme Conditions** **Full-time: 35 hours per week** **Fixed-term: for 3 years from 1st August, 2024 We are looking for a Postdoctoral Research Associate in High-Pressure Neutron Diffraction. **The Opportunity**: Following a recent successful bid for...

  • Postdoctoral Research Associate

    2 months ago

    Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom The University of Edinburgh Full time

    Contract Type - Fixed Term contract (proposed start date: 1st July end date 30 June 2026).Full time - 35 Hours Per WeekA Postdoctoral Research Associate is sought by the Blackburn laboratory at the Institute for Regeneration and Repair, University of Edinburgh ) to work on the effect of thymus regeneration on T cell mediated immune responses in vivo. This...

  • Postdoctoral Research Associate

    2 weeks ago

    Edinburgh, United Kingdom University of Edinburgh Full time

    **UE07 - £35,333 - £42,155 per annum** **School of Mathematics** **Full time - 35 hours per week** **Fixed term for 3 years, starting date between April 1 **st **and October 1 **st **2023** We are looking for a postdoctoral research associate (PDRA) to conduct research in efficient algorithms for Bayesian inverse problems, under the mentorship of Dr...

  • Postdoctoral Research Associate

    1 month ago

    Edinburgh, United Kingdom University of Edinburgh Full time

    **UE07 £36,333 - £43,155 Per Annum** **College of Science and Engineering / School of Biological Sciences / Institute of Ecology and Evolution** **Full time contract, 35 hours per week** **Fixed Term (start date: asap; end date: 31 October 2024) We are looking for a postdoctoral research associate to perform comparative genomic analyses of British...

  • Postdoctoral Research Associate

    1 month ago

    Edinburgh, United Kingdom University of Edinburgh Full time

    **UE07 (£39,347 - £46,974)** **College of Science and Engineering** **School of Biological Sciences** **Institute of Ecology and Evolution** **Full time contract (35 hours per week), (28 hours per week is also an option)** **Fixed Term (proposed start date: 1 July 24, end date no later than 31 August 26) We are looking for a postdoctoral research...

  • Postdoctoral Research Associate in Statistics and

    1 month ago

    Edinburgh, United Kingdom University of Edinburgh Full time

    **Grade UE07: £37,099 to £44,263 per annum (A revised salary range for this grade of £39,347 to £46,974 is planned to take effect from Spring 2024)** **College of Science and Engineering / School of Mathematics** **Contract type: Full Time (35 hours per week)** **Fixed term: 2 years (starting 1 **st **September 2024)** We are looking for a...