Topic: biosensors

Two faculty vacancies advertised together, with tenure-track or tenured appointments expected for the 2027–28 academic year. Develop an independent funded research programme using biochemical, computational and AI approaches to protein, enzyme, metabolic or nucleic-acid engineering. Environmental applications include carbon capture, remediation, biosensors and waste-based biomanufacturing. Responsibilities include teaching, mentoring and service. Full consideration is by 1 November 2026, followed by continued review until filled.

This business-led collaborative research and development competition will fund new engineering-biology products, processes and services and de-risk technologies with strong market potential. Projects may address health, agriculture and food, chemicals and materials, low-carbon fuels, waste and environment, or cross-cutting technology and service development. The central innovation must purposefully engineer biological systems and may involve biosensors, biomanufacturing, synthetic-biology platforms, gene editing, AI or computational biology. Projects must have total eligible costs of £750,000

Melody is recruiting a protein engineer to create biosensors from allosteric switches, signaling motifs, reporter proteins, site-specific chemical modifications, and bioelectronic interfaces. The role spans construct design, wet-lab screening, device integration, experimental or computational protein design, and mentoring within a continuous molecular-monitoring program.

Melody is hiring a bioelectronics engineer to integrate protein biosensors, surface chemistry, hydrogels, membranes, and optical or electrochemical readout hardware into continuous molecular-monitoring technology. The role owns wetware integration strategy, diagnostic experimentation, directed-evolution workflows, materials development, instrumentation, and automation for real-world biosensing and eventual in-vivo studies.