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Found 56 vacancies

Title Department/location Salary Category Posted Closes Reference
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
Marie Curie AI for proteomics PhD position (Lilley Group) - (Fixed Term) Department of Biochemistry See job description for details. Research PH51013
Next Generation Fellow (Fixed Term) Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience £37,694-£46,049 Research PM50284
Post-Doctoral Research Associate (Fixed Term) Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry £33,002 - £35,608 or
£37,694- £46,049
 Research MA50990
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 MA50961
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 £34,610-£35,608
£37,694-£46,049 		Research MA50960
Postdoctoral Research Associate (Fixed Term) MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit £37,694-£46,049 Research SU51024
Postdoctoral Research Associate (evaluating food marketing restrictions) [Fixed Term] Clinical Biochemistry (Institute of Metabolic Science Epidemiology) £37,694-£46,049 Research SJ50788
Postdoctoral Research Associate (Fixed Term) x2 Department of Clinical Neurosciences £37,694-£46,049 Research RR50983
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) MRC Toxicology Unit £33,002-£35,608 Research PU51028
Research Assistant (Fixed Term) Department of Clinical Neurosciences £33,002-£35,608 Research RR50879
Research Assistant (Part Time, Fixed Term) Department of Clinical Neurosciences £33,002-£35,608 pro rata Research RR50844
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/*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 development of 4D image processing methods (Fixed Term) Department of Engineering £34,610-£35,608
£37,694-£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/Research Associate (Fixed Term) Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology £33,002-£46,049 Research NQ50329
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 Assistant[INTERNAL ONLY] (Fixed Term) Department of Medicine £33,002-£35,608 Research RC51015
Research Associate (Blouet and Káradóttir Labs) Cambridge Stem Cell Institute (SBS) £33,002 - £35,608 or
£37,694- £46,049
 Research PS51001
Research Associate (Fixed Term) Department of Zoology £37,694-£46,049 Research PF50636
Research Associate (Fixed Term) Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience £37,694-£46,049 Research PM50981
Research Associate (Fixed Term) Department of Medicine £33,002 - £35,608 or
£37,694- £46,049
 Research RC50997
Research Associate (Fixed Term) Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology £33,002 - £35,608 or
£37,694- £46,049
 Research NQ51006
Research Associate (Fixed Term) MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit £34,610 £35,608


£37,694 £46,049
Research SM50861
Research Associate (Fixed Term) Faculty of Classics £37,694-£46,049 Research GE50790
Research Associate (Fixed Term) MRC Biostatistics Unit £37,694-£46,049 Research SL51050
Research Associate (Grade 7) or Assistant Research Professor (Grade 9) in AI for Fundamental Physics (Fixed Term) Institute of Astronomy £37,694-£59,966 Research LG51052
Research Associate (Laurenti Lab) (Fixed Term) Department of Haematology £37,694-£46,049 Research RB51037
Research Associate (Wang Group) (Fixed Term) Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute £37,694-£46,049 Research SW50974
Research Associate - Connectomics Research Group (Fixed Term) Department of Zoology £37,694-£46,049 Research PF50549
Research Associate - Miska Group (Fixed Term) Department of Biochemistry £37,694-£46,049 Research PH51016
Research Associate - Zatulovskiy Group (Fixed Term) Department of Biochemistry £37,694-£46,049 Research PH50994
Research Associate in Developmental Mechanics (Fixed Term) Gurdon Institute £37,694-£46,049 Research PR50995
Research Associate in Machine Learning (Fixed Term) Department of Engineering £37,694-£46,049 Research NM50807
Research Associate in Machine Learning for Astronomical Imaging (Fixed Term) Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics £37,694-£46,049 Research LE50980
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
Research Associate: Marine Ecology & Conservation (Fixed Term) Department of Zoology £37,694-£46,049 Research PF50942
Research Professor in the field of Bacteriology Department of Medicine Grade 11: £71,566; Grade 12: £82,932; or Clinical: £113,565 - £150,569 Research RC50977
Senior Research Associate Milner Therapeutics Institute £42,254-£56,535 Research XZ51036
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