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Current Research jobs at the University of Cambridge.

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Title Salary Reference Closes
Clare College Pathway to Independence Fellowship in Ecology and Conservation Biology
Department of Zoology
PF43824 8 January 2025
Clinical Research Associate - Neuroimaging Analysis (Part Time, Fixed Term)
Department of Psychiatry
£32,398-£63,152 pro rata RN43852 1 December 2024
Clinical Senior Research Associate [internal only] (Fixed Term)
Department of Oncology
£99,532-£105,390 or £108,390-£118,884 or £131,964 RD44031 27 November 2024
Director (Fixed term)
Cambridge Institute for Technology and Humanity, Cambridge
Competitive GO43759 25 November 2024
Herchel Smith Postdoctoral Research Fellowship - Extreme Universe: Physics, Institute of Astronomy, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, (Fixed Term)
Academic Division, Cambridge
£36,924 - £45,163 AK43992 15 December 2024
Herchel Smith Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Pure Mathematics
Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics
£36,024-£44,263 LF43771 16 December 2024
Herchel Smith Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in School of Biological Sciences, (Fixed Term)
Academic Division, Cambridge
£36,924 - £45,163 AK43998 15 December 2024
Herchel Smith Research Fellow in Organic/Biological Chemistry
Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry
£36,924-£45,163 MA43984 9 December 2024
Independent Clinical Fellow (Sponsorship) (Fixed Term)
Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute
SW44030 28 February 2025
Janeway Institute Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (Research Assistant or Research Associate) (Fixed Term)
Faculty of Economics, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 9DD
£31,396- £33,966 or
£36,024- £44,263
JH43829 15 December 2024
Junior Group Leader (AI for Cancer Research) (Fixed Term)
Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute
£45,585-£57,696 + CRUK Enhancement

SW43794 24 November 2024
MSCA Research Fellow (Fixed Term)
Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology
NQ43593 30 November 2024
Next Generation Fellow (Fixed Term)
Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Central Cambridge
£36,024-£44,263 PM42798 31 January 2025
Oppenheimer Research Fellow (Fixed Term)
Office of the School of the Physical Sciences, Cambridge
£36,024-£44,263 LA43859 7 January 2025
Post Doctoral Research Associate (Fixed Term)
Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Cambridge
£36,924-£45,163 ZE43947 2 December 2024
Post-Doctoral Research Associate x 2 (Fixed Term)
Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry
£32,296-£45,163 MA43989 6 December 2024
Post-Doctoral Research Associate (Fixed Term)
Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry
£32,296- £34,866 or
£36,924- £45,163
MA44116 17 December 2024
Post-Doctoral Research Associate (Fixed Term)
Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry
£32,296- £34,866 or
£36,924- £45,163
MA44113 17 December 2024
Post-Doctoral Research Associate (Fixed Term)
Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Cambridge
£36,924-£45,163 ZE44008 8 December 2024
Post-Doctoral Research Associate - Synthetic Organic Chemistry (Fixed Term)
Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry
£31,396- £33,966 or
£36,024- £44,263
MA43892 2 December 2024
Post-Doctoral Research Associate / Research Assistant (Fixed Term)
Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Cambridge
£36,924-£45,163 ZE44012 8 December 2024
Postdoctoral Research Associate (Fixed Term)
Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics
£36,024-£44,263 LF43838 8 January 2025
Postdoctoral Research Associate (Fixed Term)
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics
£36,024-£44,263 LE43766 30 November 2024
Postdoctoral Research Associate (Fixed Term)
MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge
£36,924-£45,163 SU43980 31 December 2024
Postdoctoral Research Associate : Computational Biology (Fixed Term)
Department of Pathology, Central Cambridge
£36,024-£44,263 PK43661 1 December 2024
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Dynamics (Fixed Term)
Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics
£36,024-£44,263 LF43730 15 December 2024
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Statistics (Fixed Term)
Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics
£36,024-£44,263 LF43571 10 December 2024
Postdoctoral Research Training Associate (Fixed Term)
Department of East Asian Studies, Cambridge
£36,024-£44,263 GX43378 17 January 2025
Research Assistant (Fixed Term)
Department of Veterinary Medicine, West Cambridge
£32,296-£34,866 PP44044 27 November 2024
Research Assistant (Brenton Group) (Fixed Term)
Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute
£32,296-£34,866 SW44046 27 November 2024
Research Assistant (Data Science) (Fixed Term)
Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute
£32,296-£34,866 SW44080 1 December 2024
Research Assistant (Fixed Term)
Department of Clinical Biochemistry
£30,505-£34,866 RG42349 10 December 2024
Research Assistant (Fixed Term)
Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
£32,296-£34,866 JU44137 6 December 2024
Research Assistant (Fixed Term)
Department of Medicine
£32,296-£34,866 RC44069 5 December 2024
Research Assistant (Genomics Core) (Fixed Term)
Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute
£32,296-£34,866 SW44145 8 December 2024
Research Assistant - Obesity, Lipid remodelling and Cardiometabolic diseases (Fixed Term)
Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Cambridge
£32,296-£45,163 RG43843 2 December 2024
Research Assistant / Associate (Fixed Term)
Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Central Cambridge
£32,296- £34,866 or
£36,924- £45,163
PM44053 2 December 2024
Research Assistant / Research Associate (Fixed Term)
Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology
£31,396-£44,263 NQ43853 24 November 2024
Research Assistant / Research Associate (Fixed Term)
Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology
£31,396-£44,263 NQ43819 30 November 2024
Research Assistant / Research Associate (Fixed Term)
Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology
£31,396-£44,263 NQ43821 30 November 2024
Research Assistant / Research Associate (Fixed Term)
Department of Plant Sciences
£32,296- £34,866 or
£36,924- £45,163
PD44079 19 December 2024
Research Assistant in Multi-target Tracking and Bayesian Intent Prediction (Part Time, Fixed Term)
Department of Engineering, Central Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK
£32,296-£34,866 pro rata NM44097 4 December 2024
Research Assistant in synthetic and molecular biology (Fixed Term)
Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry
£32,296-£34,866 MA44013 26 November 2024
Research Assistant/Associate (Fixed Term)
Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, West Cambridge
£31,396- £33,966 or
£33,966- £44,263
LJ43639 22 November 2024
Research Assistant/Associate (Luisi Lab)
Department of Biochemistry, Central Cambridge
£32,296-£45,163 PH43950 4 December 2024
Research Assistant/Associate - Howe Group (Fixed Term)
Department of Biochemistry, Central Cambridge
£32,296-£45,163 PH44131 20 December 2024
Research Assistant/Associate in AI (Part Time, Fixed Term)
Faculty of Law, Cambridge central
£31,396-£44,263 pro rata JK43912 22 November 2024
Research Assistant/Associate in Computational Mechanics (Fixed Term)
Department of Engineering, Central Cambridge, UK
£32,296-£34,866 or
£36,924-£45,163
NM43987 22 November 2024
Research Assistant/Associate in Digital Underground Construction (Fixed Term)
Department of Engineering, West Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK
£32,296 - £34,866
£36,924 - £45,163

NM44016 10 December 2024
Research Assistant/Associate in High Energy Density Li-Ion Batteries
Department of Engineering, West Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK
£32,296 - £34,866 or £36,924 - £45,163 NM44117 3 December 2024
Research Assistant/Associate in Machine Learning Methods Based on Imaging and Omics Applied to Parkinson's Disease (Fixed Term)
Department of Computer Science and Technology
£31,396- £33,966 or
£36,024- £44,263
NR43940 3 December 2024
Research Assistant/Associate in Nanosheet Transistors and Circuits (Fixed Term)
Department of Engineering, West Cambridge, UK
£32,296 - £34,866
£36,924 - £45,163

NM44021 27 November 2024
Research Assistant/Associate in the Physics of Metal-Halide Pervoskite Semiconductors
Department of Physics
£32,296- £34,866 or
£36,924- £45,163
KA44041 4 December 2024
Research Assistant/Associate: AP4L: Adaptive PETs to Protect & emPower People during Life Transitions (Part Time, Fixed Term)
Department of Computer Science and Technology, West Cambridge
£32,296-£45,163 pro rata NR44084 27 November 2024
Research Assistant/Associate: CMB Cosmology (Fixed Term)
Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge
£32,982 - £33,966 or £36,024 - £44,263 LG43858 29 November 2024
Research Assistant/Fly Technician (piRNA team) (Fixed Term)
Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute
£31,396-£33,966 SW43866 29 November 2024
Research Assistant/Research Associate (Fixed Term)
Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics, Cambridge
£31,396-£44,263 GP43863 26 November 2024
Research Assistant/Research Associate (Fixed Term)
MRC Toxicology Unit, Central Cambridge
£32,296 - £34,866
£36,924 - £45,163

PU44003 25 November 2024
Research Assistant/Research Associate in Survey Cosmology and Astrophysics (Fixed Term)
Institute of Astronomy
£33,882- £34,866 or
£36,924-£45,163
LG43994 13 January 2025
Research Assistant: Biochemical assay developer (Part Time, Fixed Term)
Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry
£32,296-£34,866 pro rata MA43990 22 November 2024
Research Assistant: Ng'ipalajem Project (Fixed Term)
McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge
£32,296-£34,866 JC43901 25 November 2024
Research Assistants in Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics (Fixed Term)
Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics
£32,296-£34,866 LF44094 8 December 2024
Research Associate (Fixed Term)
Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
£36,024-£44,263 PM43839 29 November 2024
Research Associate (Fixed Term)
University Library, Cambridge
£36,024-£44,263 VE43704 1 December 2024
Research Associate (Balasubramanian Group) (Fixed Term)
Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute
£36,024-44,263 SW41419 4 January 2025
Research Associate (Fixed Term)
MRC Toxicology Unit, Central Cambridge
£36,924-£45,163 PU44118 3 December 2024
Research Associate (Fixed Term)
Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
£36,024-£44,263 PM43841 29 November 2024
Research Associate (Fixed Term)
Milner Therapeutics Institute, Cambridge
£36,024-£44,263 PR43931 25 November 2024
Research Associate (Fixed Term)
Department of Public Health and Primary Care, The Primary Care Unit
£36,924-£45,163 SN44088 9 December 2024
Research Associate (Fixed Term)
Centre for Research in Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, Cambridge
£36,924-£45,163 VM44103 8 December 2024
Research Associate (Fixed Term)
Milner Therapeutics Institute, Cambridge
£36,024-£44,263 PR43930 25 November 2024
Research Associate (Fixed Term)
Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
£36,024-£44,263 PM43836 29 November 2024
Research Associate (Fixed Term)
Department of Medicine
£36,924-£45,163 RC44059 4 December 2024
Research Associate (Fixed Term)
Faculty of English
£36,024-£44,263 GG43684 25 November 2024
Research Associate (x2): Rare Events in Non-equilibrium Statistical Physics
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics
£36,024-£44,263 LE43318 30 November 2024
Research Associate - Molecular/Chemical Biologist (Fixed Term)
Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry
£32,296-£45,163 MA42596 2 January 2025
Research Associate - Refinement Types for Program Verification (Fixed Term)
Department of Computer Science and Technology, West Cambridge
£36,924-£45,163 NR44050 24 November 2024
Research Associate in Cognitive Neuroscience (Fixed Term)
Department of Psychology, Cambridge City Centre
£36,024-£44,263 PJ43736 25 November 2024
Research Associate in Galaxy Formation and Evolution (Fixed Term)
Department of Physics, West Cambridge
£31,396-£44,263 KA43615 28 November 2024
Research Associate in Non-linear Waves (Fixed Term)
Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics
£36,924-£45,163 LF43879 12 January 2025
Research Associate in Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics (Fixed Term)
Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics
£36,024-£44,263 LF43422 1 January 2025
Research Associate in optical lattice research
Department of Physics
£32,296- £34,866 or
£36,924- £45,163
KA44015 26 November 2024
Research Associate*/Research Assistant in Green Computing (Fixed Term)
Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit
£32,296- £34,866 or
£36,924- £45,163
RH43993 25 November 2024
Research Associate*/Research Assistant in Sustainable Computational Science (Fixed Term)
Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Cambridge
£32,296 - £34,866 or
£36,924 - £45,163
RH43982 25 November 2024
Research Associate*/Research Assistant in Sustainable Research Practices (computational science) (Fixed Term)
Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit
£32,296- £34,866 or
£36,924- £45,163
RH43995 25 November 2024
Research Associate- Pellegrini Group (Fixed Term)
Department of Biochemistry, Central Cambridge
£36,024-£44,263 PH43820 25 November 2024
Research Associate- Welch Group: Global reprogramming of virulence and AMR in Pseudomonas aeruginosa bymutations in FusA1 (Fixed Term)
Department of Biochemistry, Central Cambridge
£36,024-£44,263 PH43823 8 December 2024
Research Associates in Quantum Fields and Gravity (Fixed Term)
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics
£36,024-£44,263 LE43495 13 December 2024
Senior Research Associate (Data Manager) (Fixed Term)
Department of Clinical Biochemistry
£46,485-£58,596 RG42179 15 December 2024
Senior Research Associate (Fixed Term)
Department of Medicine
£46,485-£58,596 RC44049 21 November 2024
Senior Research Associate (Senior Statistical Geneticist)
Department of Clinical Biochemistry
£45,585-£57,696 RG42181 1 December 2024
Senior Research Associate [Bioinformatician Project Team Lead] (Fixed Term)
Department of Clinical Biochemistry
£46,485-£58,596 RG44092 15 December 2024
Smuts Visiting Research Fellowship (Fixed Term)
Academic Division, Cambridge
£46,485-£58,596 AK44037 15 December 2024
Viral Immunologist (Fixed Term)
Department of Pathology, Central Cambridge
£32,296- £34,866 or
£36,924- £45,163
PK44060 15 December 2024