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Current Research jobs at the University of Cambridge.

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Title Salary Reference Closes
Senior Clinical Research Associate (Fixed Term)
Department of Clinical Neurosciences
£88,364 - £119,133 ZE44466 5 January 2025
Clare College Pathway to Independence Fellowship in Ecology and Conservation Biology
Department of Zoology
PF43824 8 January 2025
Clinical Career Development Fellowship in Multi-Cancer Early Detection (Honorary Consultant) (Fixed Term)
Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Cancer Genetic Epidemiology
£105,504-£139,882 RS44476 5 January 2025
Clinical Research Fellow [Clinical Research Associate] (Fixed Term)
Department of Oncology
£32,398-£63,152 RD44364 19 January 2025
Clinical Research Fellow [Clinical Research Associate] (Fixed Term)
Department of Clinical Biochemistry
£32,398-£63,152 RG44517 31 January 2025
Diabetes Research Nurse (Fixed Term)
Department of Clinical Biochemistry
£36,924-£45,163 RG44549 31 January 2025
Group Leader Research Fellowship Sponsorship Scheme
Department of Genetics
PC44210 28 February 2025
Independent Clinical Fellow (Sponsorship) (Fixed Term)
Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute
SW44030 28 February 2025
Judith E. Wilson Poetry Fellow (Fixed Term)
Faculty of English
£46,485-£58,596 GG44320 31 January 2025
MSCA Fellowship - PhD Student (Fixed Term)
Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology
NQ44098 24 January 2025
Munby Fellowship in Bibliography 2025 - 2027
University Library
£40,247 VE44196 17 January 2025
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
£36,924 - £45,163 p.a. LA43859 7 January 2025
PDRAs in AI & Theoretical Physics or Applied Maths
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics
£36,924-£58,596 LE44228 5 January 2025
Post-Doctoral Research Associate: Atmospheric Chemistry Modelling (Fixed Term)
Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry
£32,296- £34,866
£36,924- £45,163
MA44542 31 January 2025
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 Genetics
£36,924-£45,163 PC44455 12 January 2025
Postdoctoral Research Associate (Fixed Term)
Cambridge Institute for Technology and Humanity, Cambridge
£36,924-£45,163 GO44365 12 January 2025
Postdoctoral Research Associate (Fixed Term)
Department of Zoology, Cambridge
£36,924-£45,163 PF44189 20 January 2025
Postdoctoral Research Associate (Fixed Term)
Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology
£36,924-£45,163 NQ44601 19 January 2025
Postdoctoral Research Training Associate (Fixed Term)
Department of East Asian Studies, Cambridge
£36,024-£44,263 GX43378 17 January 2025
Postdoctoral Scientist in Single-Molecule Imaging and Neurodegenerative Research (Fixed Term)
Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry
£32,296-£45,163 MA44566 19 January 2025
Research Assistant (Fixed Term)
Faculty of Economics, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 9DD
£32,296-£34,866 JH44025 10 January 2025
Research Assistant (Fixed Term)
Department of Pharmacology, Central Cambridge
£32,296-£34,866 PL44587 31 January 2025
Research Assistant (Fixed Term)
Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry
£32,296-£34,866 MA44539 5 January 2025
Research Assistant (Fixed Term)
MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge
£32,296-£34,866 SU44243 8 January 2025
Research Assistant (Fixed Term)
Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge
£32,296-£34,866 RN44237 8 January 2025
Research Assistant (Health Data Analytics) (Fixed Term)
Department of Psychiatry
£32,296-£34,866 RN44321 12 January 2025
Research Assistant (Part Time, Fixed Term)
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
£32,296-£34,866 pro rata JN44294 3 January 2025
Research Assistant - Internal Candidates Only (Fixed Term)
MRC Epidemiology Unit
£32,296-£34,866 SJ44520 5 January 2025
Research Assistant / Associate in Probabilistic Machine Learning (Fixed Term)
Department of Engineering, Central Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK
£32,296- £34,866 or
£36,924- £45,163
NM44400 22 January 2025
Research Assistant / Research Associate (Fixed Term)
Department of Psychology, Central Cambridge
£32,296-£34,866 or
£36,924- £45,163
PJ44584 26 January 2025
Research Assistant / Research Associate (Fixed Term)
Department of Plant Sciences
£32,296-£34,866 or
£36,924-£45,163
PD44594 31 January 2025
Research Assistant / Research Associate (Fixed Term)
Department of Plant Sciences
£32,296-£34,866 or
£36,924-£45,163
PD44591 31 January 2025
Research Assistant / Research Associate (Fixed Term)
Department of Plant Sciences
£32,296-£34,866 or
£36,924-£45,163
PD44589 31 January 2025
Research Assistant / Research Associate in Cognitive Computational Neuroscience (Fixed Term)
Department of Psychology, Central Cambridge
£32,296- £34,866 or
£36,924- £45,163
PJ44439 13 January 2025
Research Assistant/Associate (Fixed Term)
Department of Pharmacology, Central Cambridge
£32,296-£34,866
£36,924- £45,163
PL44490 19 January 2025
Research Assistant/Associate (Fixed Term)
Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, West Cambridge
£32,296- £34,866 or
£36,924- £45,163
LJ44403 2 January 2025
Research Assistant/Associate in Efficient Machine Learning Systems at the Edge (Fixed Term)
Department of Computer Science and Technology, West Cambridge
£30,505 - £34,866 (Research Assistant)
£36,924 - £45,163 (Research Associate)
NR41691 25 January 2025
Research Assistant/Associate in Empirical Finance (Fixed Term) - Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finance
Judge Business School, Central Cambridge
£32,296- £34,866 or
£36,924- £45,163
NS44298 9 February 2025
Research Assistant/Associate in Fluid Dynamics and in co-ordinating the hub for the NFFDy (Part Time, Fixed Term)
Department of Engineering, Central Cambridge, UK
£32,296 - £34,866 or
£36,924 - £45,163
NM44599 14 January 2025
Research Assistant/Associate in High Temperature Superconductors (Fixed Term)
Department of Engineering, West Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK
£32,296 - £34,866 or
£36,924 - £45,163
NM44458 10 January 2025
Research Assistant/Associate in Machine Learning (Fixed Term)
Department of Engineering, Central Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK
£32,296 - £34,866 or
£36,924 - £45,163
NM44369 21 January 2025
Research Assistant/Associate in Theoretical Finance (Fixed Term) - Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finance
Judge Business School, Central Cambridge
£32,296-£45,163 NS44297 9 February 2025
Research Assistant/Associate: Cosmological Simulation Based Inference (up to 3 posts) (Fixed Term)
Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge
£33,882- £34,866 or
£36,924-£45,163
LG44063 2 January 2025
Research Assistant/Associate: Modelling Marine Calcification Mechanisms (Fixed Term)
Department of Earth Sciences
£32,296-£45,163 LB44489 13 February 2025
Research Assistant/Research Associate in Serverless Edge Computing (Fixed Term)
Department of Computer Science and Technology, West Cambridge
£32,296- £34,866 or
£36,924- £45,163
NR44469 5 January 2025
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/Research Associate* in Population Multi-omics x 2 posts (Fixed Term)
Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit
£32,296- £34,866 or
£36,924- £45,163
RH44206 5 January 2025
Research Assistant/Research Associate: Brain-World Foundation Models (Fixed Term)
Department of Computer Science and Technology, West Cambridge
£32,296-£34,866 or
£36,924- 45,163
NR44506 4 January 2025
Research Assistant: Climate Change Policy (Fixed Term)
Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry
£32,296-£34,866 MA44537 2 February 2025
Research Associate (Ali Group) (Fixed Term)
Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute
£36,924-£45,163 SW44498 29 January 2025
Research Associate (Balasubramanian Group) (Fixed Term)
Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute
£36,024-44,263 SW41419 4 January 2025
Research Associate (Behaviour & Physiology) (Fixed Term)
Department of Pharmacology, Central Cambridge
£36,924-£45,163 PL44590 31 January 2025
Research Associate (Comparative genomics) (Fixed Term)
Department of Pharmacology, Central Cambridge
£36,924-£45,163 PL44592 31 January 2025
Research Associate (Fixed Term)
Department of Clinical Neurosciences
£36,924-£45,163 ZE44264 6 January 2025
Research Associate (Fixed Term)
Department of Genetics
£36,924-£45,163 PC44547 3 January 2025
Research Associate (Fixed Term)
MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit
£36,924-£45,163 SM44512 19 January 2025
Research Associate (Fixed Term)
Department of Clinical Neurosciences
£36,924-£45,163 ZE44465 12 January 2025
Research Associate (Fixed Term)
Department of Genetics
£36,924-£45,163 PC44565 12 January 2025
Research Associate (Fixed Term)
Department of Clinical Biochemistry
£36,924-£45,163 RG44580 25 January 2025
Research Associate (Fixed Term)
Department of Genetics
£36,924-£45,163 PC44563 12 January 2025
Research Associate (Fixed Term)
Department of Clinical Neurosciences
£32,296-£45,163 ZE44398 2 February 2025
Research Associate (Fixed Term)
Department of Physics, West Cambridge
£33,882- £34,866 or
£36,924-£45,163
KA44312 2 February 2025
Research Associate (Narita Group) (Fixed Term)
Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute
£36,924-£45,163 SW44572 4 January 2025
Research Associate (Real-World Evidence) (Fixed Term)
Department of Psychiatry
£36,924-£45,163 RN44323 12 January 2025
Research Associate (piRNA Team Hannon Group) (Fixed Term)
Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute
£36,924-£45,163 SW44355 12 January 2025
Research Associate - Molecular/Chemical Biologist (Fixed Term)
Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry
£32,296-£45,163 MA42596 2 January 2025
Research Associate / Senior Research Associate (Fixed Term)
University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, Cambridge
£36,924-£45,163 EN44448 19 January 2025
Research Associate in Automated Performance and Productivity Measurement in Construction (Fixed Term)
Department of Engineering, West Cambridge, UK
£36,924-£45,163 NM44470 13 January 2025
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 Wireless Communication and Signal Processing (Fixed Term)
Department of Engineering, West Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK
£36,924-£45,163 NM44485 10 January 2025
Research Associate/Assistant in Cosmology and large-scale structure (Fixed-Term
Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge
£33,882- £34,866 or
£36,924-£45,163
LG44148 10 January 2025
Research Associate/Assistant in Supernovae / Astrostatistics / Data Science (Fixed Term)
Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge
£33,882- £34,866 or
£36,924-£45,163
LG44290 13 January 2025
Research and Outreach Associate (Fixed Term)
HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Centre of Islamic Studies, CAMBRIDGE
£32,296-£34,866 or
£36,924- £45,163
VN44543 31 January 2025
Senior Research Associate (Fixed Term)
Department of Clinical Biochemistry
£46,485-£58,596 RG41832 13 January 2025
Senior Research Associate (biological determinants of pandemic risk)(Fixed Term)
Centre for Research in Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, Cambridge
£46,485-£58,596 VM44345 12 January 2025
Senior Research Associate in Data-Centric Construction (Fixed Term)
Department of Engineering, West Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK
£46,485-£58,596 NM44299 2 January 2025
Smuts Research Fellow (Fixed Term)
Centre of African Studies, Cambridge
£36,924-£45,163 UA44258 28 January 2025