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Found 57 vacancies

Title Department/location Salary Category Posted Closes Reference
Research Assistant (Fixed Term) Department of Oncology £33,002-£35,608 Research RD50817
Research Associate in Islamic Art (Fixed Term) HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Centre of Islamic Studies £37,694-£46,049 Research VN50843
Assistant Research Professor (Fixed Term) Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry £47,389-£59,966 Research MA50915
De Ying Research Associate and Curator, Contemporary Art Fitzwilliam Museum £37,694-£46,049 Research DA50470
Isaac Newton Trust and Sir John Plumb Academic Career Development Fellowship in Latin American History (Fixed Term) Faculty of History £37,694-£46,049 Research JJ50893
Janeway Institute Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (Research Assistant or Research Associate) (Fixed Term) Faculty of Economics £34,610-£35, 608
£37,694-£46,049 		Research JH50885
Kavli Institute Fellowship in Cosmology and Astrophysics (Fixed Term) Department of Physics £37,694 to £46,049

£47,389 to £59,966 		Research KA50918
Next Generation Fellow (Fixed Term) Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience £37,694-£46,049 Research PM50284
Post-Doctoral Research Associate in Experimental Quantum Optics and Quantum-Light Spectroscopy (Fixed Term) Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry £33,002-£46,049 Research MA50961
Post-Doctoral Research Associate in Experimental Quantum Optics and Quantum-Light Spectroscopy (Fixed Term) Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry £34,610-£35,608
£37,694- £46,049 		Research MA50619
Post-Doctoral Research Associate x 2 (Fixed Term) Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry £33,002-£46,049 Research MA50962
Post-Doctoral Research Associate: Indoor air quality (Fixed Term) Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry £34,610 £35,608


£37,694 £46,049
Research MA50851
Post-Doctoral Research Associate: Nuclear Quantum Effects in Non-Equilibrium Dynamics (Fixed Term) Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry £33,002-£46,049 Research MA50960
Postdoctoral Research Associate (evaluating food marketing restrictions) [Fixed Term] Clinical Biochemistry (Institute of Metabolic Science Epidemiology) £37,694-£46,049 Research SJ50788
Research and Outreach Associate (Fixed Term) HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Centre of Islamic Studies £37,694-£46,049 Research VN50841
Research Assistant (Fixed Term) Department of Clinical Neurosciences £33,002-£35,608 Research RR50946
Research Assistant (Fixed Term) Cambridge Stem Cell Institute (SBS) £33,002-£35,608 Research PS50966
Research Assistant (Fixed Term) Department of Medicine £33,002-£35,608 Research RC50813
Research Assistant (Fixed Term) Department of Psychiatry £33,002-£35,608 Research RN50834
Research Assistant (Fixed Term) Department of Clinical Neurosciences £33,002-£35,608 Research RR50829
Research Assistant (Fixed Term) Department of Clinical Neurosciences £33,002-£35,608 Research RR50879
Research Assistant (Flow Cytometry Core Facility) Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute £33,002-£35,608 Research SW50774
Research Assistant (Genomics Core) (Fixed Term) Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute £33,002-£35,608 Research SW50694
Research Assistant (Internal Only) (Fixed Term) Department of Psychiatry £33,002-£35,608 Research RN50839
Research Assistant (Part Time, Fixed Term) Department of Clinical Neurosciences £33,002-£35,608 pro rata Research RR50844
Research Assistant (Part Time, Fixed Term) Department of Pathology £33,002-£35,608 pro rata Research PK50913
Research Assistant (Wang Group) (Fixed Term) Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute £33,002-£35,608 Research SW50975
Research Assistant / Research Associate (Fixed Term) Department of Clinical Neurosciences £34,610 - £35,608

£37,694 - £46,049
 Research RR50947
Research Assistant / Research Associate in three dimensional forest ecology (Fixed Term) Department of Geography £33,002-£46,049 Research LC50715
Research Assistant/*Postdoctoral Research Associate (Fixed Term) MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit £34,610 - £35,608


£37,694 - £46,049
Research SU50576
Research Assistant/Associate in Business Model Innovation, Quantum Technologies and Productivity (Fixed Term) Department of Engineering £34,610 - £35,608


£37,694 - £46,049
Research NM50754
Research Assistant/associate in development of 4D image processing methods (Fixed Term) Department of Engineering £33,002-£46,049 Research NM50970
Research Assistant/Associate in Quantum Photonics (Fixed Term) Department of Engineering £34,610 £35,608


£37,694 £46,049
Research NM50894
Research Assistant/Associate in Systems Microbiology (Fixed Term) Department of Engineering £34,610 £35,608
£37,694 £46,049
Research NM50835
Research Assistant/Associate in the Physics of Radio Pulsars (Fixed Term) Department of Physics £33,002-£46,049 Research KA50760
Research Assistant/Associate in Trustworthy Generative AI for Computational Science (Fixed Term) Department of Computer Science and Technology £34,610 - £35,608


£37,694 - £46,049
Research NR50505
Research Assistant/Research Associate (Fixed Term) Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology £33,002-£46,049 Research NQ50329
Research Assistant/Research Associate (fixed term) Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience £33,002 - £35,608 or
£37,694- £46,049

 Research PM50828
Research Assistant/Research Associate - AI Tutors for STEM Education (Fixed Term) Department of Computer Science and Technology £34,610 £35,608


£37,694 £46,049
Research NR50921
Research Associate (Fixed Term) Department of Plant Sciences £34,610 £35,608


£37,694 £46,049
Research PD50850
Research Associate (Fixed Term) Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience £33,002-£46,049 Research PM50266
Research Associate (Fixed Term) MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit £34,610 £35,608


£37,694 £46,049
Research SM50861
Research Associate (Fixed Term) Department of Zoology £37,694-£46,049 Research PF50611
Research Associate (Fixed Term) Faculty of Classics £37,694-£46,049 Research GE50790
Research Associate (Fixed Term) Department of Zoology £37,694-£46,049 Research PF50636
Research Associate (Fixed Term) Department of Pathology £37,694-£46,049 Research PK50877
Research Associate (Fixed Term) Department of Pathology £37,694-£46,049 Research PK50876
Research Associate (Wang Group) (Fixed Term) Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute £37,694-£46,049 Research SW50974
Research Associate Caribbean Collections Ecologies (Fixed Term) Fitzwilliam Museum £37,694-£46,049 Research DA50651
Research Associate in Cognitive Neuroscience & AI (Fixed Term) Cambridge Institute for Technology and Humanity £37,694-£46,049 Research GO50857
Research Associate in Machine Learning (Fixed Term) Department of Engineering £37,694-£46,049 Research NM50807
Research Associate in Machine Learning for Materials Simulation (Fixed Term) Department of Physics £34,610 - £35,608

£37,694 - £46,049 		Research KA50805
Research Associate in Social Cognition (Fixed Term) Department of Psychology £37,694-£46,049 Research PJ50699
Research Associate/ Senior Research Associate (Fixed Term) MRC Biostatistics Unit £37,694-£59,966 Research SL50853
Research Associate: Conservation and Land Use (Fixed Term) Department of Zoology £37,694-£46,049 Research PF50726
Senior Research Fellowship Sponsorship Scheme Department of Zoology See job description for details. Research PF50279
SF Express Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship in Industrial Logistics (Fixed Term) Department of Engineering £42,254-£56,535 Research NM50735