Jobs

Work with Marco De Vivo’s Molecular Modeling and Drug Discovery unit on small molecules for cancer targets, including GTPases. Methods include docking, virtual screening, molecular dynamics, free-energy calculations and machine learning, in collaboration with experimental medicinal chemistry. The renewable one-year contract offers annual gross pay of EUR…

Study the transition from normal blood stem cells to leukaemic stem cells and identify mechanisms that enable disease progression and therapeutic evasion. The project uses patient material and experimental approaches in cell and molecular biology, with opportunities to integrate omics and functional perturbation. This full-time temporary post is in Petter…

The Anatomy Centre within the Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience (PDN) is seeking an enthusiastic and organised Anatomy Support Technician to join its busy and collaborative team. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in supporting the delivery of both Human and Veterinary Anatomy teaching, which is wide in its variety…

EMBL-EBI seeks a scientific developer for the Open Targets Safety 2.0 project. The role builds machine-learning and data-processing pipelines that extract drug side-effect evidence from publications, clinical trials and drug labels, map it to biomedical ontologies, and integrate results with ChEMBL and the Open Targets Platform. The researcher will help…

CERN is recruiting a detector-simulation physicist to develop GPU-accelerated Monte Carlo software in the Geant4 team, with a focus on optical-photon transport. The work includes GPU algorithm design, validation against established CPU simulations, performance profiling and optimisation, and integration with experimental software frameworks. The 24-month…

CSIRO is recruiting a specialist to design and strengthen STEM workforce pathways for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students, graduates, researchers and emerging science leaders. The role coordinates scholarships and graduate, pre-doctoral, doctoral and postdoctoral pathways; builds partnerships with universities, research organisations and…

We are seeking a new Director for the Microscopy Bioscience Platform (https://www.bio.cam.ac.uk/microscopy-platform), based within the School of the Biological Sciences city centre campus. This strategically important position will manage, develop and inspire an established team that delivers cutting-edge approaches and supports more routine imaging…

CSIRO’s Environment and Sustainability Research Team seeks a chemical engineer in Pullenvale, Brisbane, to develop catalysts for methane-emissions abatement and conduct laboratory and field research on mine dust. The role includes materials preparation and characterization, project leadership, staff supervision and communicating research findings. This is…

Lead an approximately 15-person team responsible for plant, invertebrate and genetic-variation resources in Ensembl and the European Variation Archive. This faculty position combines scientific strategy, genomic data services, staff and budget management, fundraising and community partnerships. The team supports crop genomics and variation research across…

A 12-month appointment in the Département de Chimie Moléculaire, a joint CNRS–Université Grenoble Alpes laboratory, funded by ANR’s SANTAC project. Create sequence-controlled DNA amphiphiles using solid-phase synthesis and non-natural building blocks, then investigate their self-assembly and delivery of therapeutic nucleic acids in cell models. Work…

FAPESP-supported postdoctoral fellowship in São Paulo investigating malaria drug discovery and cellular signalling. The project studies new molecular targets, GPCR-like receptors and therapeutic strategies against Plasmodium falciparum. One position is advertised under project 2023/07656-0. Applicants should send a CV and cover or motivation letter…

Support animal-virus diagnostics and vaccine research within the One Health Virology team at Wageningen Bioveterinary Research. Work includes developing and validating PCR, sequencing and immunological assays, characterising outbreak viruses and maintaining research data. Based in Lelystad for 32–36 hours weekly, initially on a one-year contract with…

The EMBL International PhD Programme is accepting applications for its 2027 winter recruitment across EMBL sites. Successful candidates join research groups spanning molecular biology and the life sciences, with virtual assessment followed by in-person interviews.

Join Melanie Chan’s Renal Genomics group at the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences on Imperial’s Hammersmith campus. The project investigates gene-regulatory networks in kidney and urinary-tract development and how their disruption causes congenital anomalies. Establish iPSC-derived kidney and ureteric-bud organoids, perturb candidate regulatory elements…

Develop reproducible bioinformatics analyses for adipose-tissue research in the Spalding laboratory. Work with RNA, single-cell and small-RNA datasets to investigate senescence, inflammation and metabolism, and integrate computational findings with laboratory experiments. Responsibilities include analysis workflows and clear communication with experimental…

A 23-month postdoctoral appointment at 0.8 FTE in Pieter Medendorp’s sensorimotor research group at the Donders Institute. The project investigates perception, movement and decisions under uncertainty through behavioural experiments and computational models. Work combines multisensory integration, Bayesian modelling and optimal control with virtual reality,…

Develop antibody-based approaches to Alzheimer’s disease at the Queensland Brain Institute. The project investigates tau-targeting monoclonal antibodies through protein production, cell-based experiments and mouse studies. Responsibilities include analysing results, preparing publications, contributing to funding applications and supporting junior…

The BrAIN group recruits a postdoctoral researcher for the ERC-funded BrainAlign project, investigating whether human brain activity can improve language models’ long-timescale understanding. The researcher leads the computational neuroscience work, integrates heterogeneous fMRI datasets and develops models that learn from naturalistic language…

Postdoctoral research with Christian Doeller at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, Germany. The group studies structured representations supporting navigation, episodic and working memory, learning and decision-making. Projects connect hippocampal population coding with knowledge representations and possible…

Postdoctoral research with Stefanie Grosswendt’s group at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine, Münster, Germany. The laboratory investigates how neighbouring cells communicate and how these interactions influence gene regulation, cell fate and tissue function. Experimental and computational approaches combine single-cell genomics,…

Design and conduct behavioural and neuroimaging studies of learning-related brain plasticity at the Center for Lifespan Psychology. The project tests the EESR theory through motor-skill learning and analyses of brain change. Responsibilities include study design, advanced statistical analysis, manuscripts and scientific presentations. The Berlin appointment…

Lead the behavioural-evaluation component of Mariya Toneva’s ERC BrainAlign project. The postdoc will develop tasks and a gamified platform to collect human understanding of full narratives and books, then evaluate brain-aligned language models against those data. The role combines NLP, machine learning and cognitive science, with collaboration across…

Join Marcus Ebeling’s Medical Demography Group to study how medical progress changes disease burden, ageing and population vulnerability. Themes include the distinction between disease presence and impact, diffusion of medical advances, and population resilience. Postdocs contribute to the shared programme while developing an independent research direction,…

Study how urban energy, material and population flows change over decades and centuries in Patrick Roberts’s Department of Coevolution of Land Use and Urbanization. Research connects supply-chain vulnerabilities and land-use impacts with historical, archaeological and environmental evidence. The Jena fellowship lasts three years; full time is standard and a…