07 Postdoctoral Fellowship at University of Surrey, England

Plastic packaging persists in the environment and is difficult to recycle. There is a growing demand for alternative materials to use as containers for liquids. Pulpex Ltd. (https://www.pulpex.com) are developing a new type of bottle made from cellulose fibres. The Pulpex bottle uses sustainable materials, can be recycled in existing paper waste-streams, can naturally degrade if not recycled, and has a carbon footprint 30% less than poly(ethylene terephthalate).

This research post is part of the EPSRC-funded SustaPack Prosperity Partnership project between the University of Surrey and Pulpex Ltd. As a research fellow, you will help to make the paper bottle a reality through your fundamental research on autonomous quality control. The coatings are needed for the bottles to hold liquids and to achieve a long shelf-life of the products contained within them. You will work as part of a team of three post-doctoral fellows and a PhD student at the University of Surrey along with engineers from Pulpex.

The Fire and Explosion Modelling Group (FEMG) at University of Surrey is seeking a Research Fellow to work on CFD modelling of hydrogen fire and explosions using OpenFOAM. The research aims to fill important knowledge gaps related to the upscaling of hydrogen energy applications.

You will build on the in-house HyFOAM solver, which has been modified within the frame of OpenFOAM for simulating hydrogen jet fires and explosions. The sponsor will conduct in-house small and medium-scale tests with substantial instrumentation to support model validation. The explosion modelling will be limited to turbulent deflagrations for this phase of the project, which is for a duration of two years. 

You will simulate vapour cloud explosions from cryogenic liquid hydrogen releases for a joint industry project led by Professor Jennifer Wen.  There will be ample opportunities to interact with the industrial sponsors from the oil and gas industry. For the execution of both projects, limited modifications are needed for HyFOAM. FEPG has a Senior Research Fellow who help to perform code modifications and consolidation.

This project explores the use of organic soft semiconductor technology, leveraging electronic polymers and small molecules  that absorb light in the blue, green, and red parts of the spectrum, mimicking the natural function of cone cells in the human retina. Unlike conventional rigid silicon-based technology, device concept is to enable  flexible, curved, pixelated and even rollable future prosthesis.

A key focus of the project is the development of organic semiconductor based photo-activated devices, operational in electrolytic environment, generating  photovoltage and photocurrent responses. Understanding and optimising these processes are essential for improving the performance and stability of the prosthesis.

The Centre for Vision, Speech, and Signal Processing is seeking to recruit several posts to support a new project in generative AI, computer vision and LLM development. These posts include research fellowships, Research Software Engineers and Project Management. You will join an established research group within a highly rated research department, with an excellent computing and software infrastructure for first class research, modern facilities and close links with industry. Surreys Institute for People Centred AI builds on 38 years of work into foundational AI at the Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP) which is ranked 1st in the UK for Computer Vision and in the top-5 for both Audio-Visual AI and Robotics (CS Rankings, Sept 2024).

These posts are part of a new five-year project “SignGPT” which will build tools to allow spoken language to be automatically translated into photo-realistic sign language and video of sign language to be translated into spoken language. The project is a collaboration between the University of Surrey (Prof Bowden), the University of Oxford (Prof Zisserman) and UCL (Prof Cormier and Woll). 

We are seeking two research fellows to undertake the core research within the project although they will also contribute to other related research projects within the group. Subject to skills, we will be allocating one post to video recognition/translation and one to video production. 

The School of Engineering at the University of Surrey is seeking to recruit a full-time postdoctoral Research Fellow in LCA and Engineering Biology to work under the leadership of Prof Jhuma Sadhukhan.

The primary objective of this role is to conduct comprehensive research focusing on techno-economic analysis and life cycle sustainability assessment including life cycle assessment, life cycle costing and social life cycle assessment of metal recovery and circular economy through engineering biology. The role will also explore AI for biodiversity and environmental modelling. 

The successful candidate will study the sustainability of systems and combine it with AI for intelligent decision-support tools. You will develop the above methodologies for plausible metal bioleaching, biorecovery, bioprocessing, biosensing and bioremediation and compare them against conventional systems and conduct their uncertainty analysis. You will create AI models with large-scale biodiversity and environmental parameter samples. You will also produce educational training materials on the studies you conduct and publish in high-impact journals. You will develop interactive tools for all the work done for users to evaluate and analyse their systems.

An exciting opportunity for a Research Fellow in the School of Veterinary Medicine. The Veterinary Health Innovation Engine is a cross disciplinary entity dedicated to generation of data and then taking such data, turning it into information and thereby developing tools, approaches and devices to improve animal health. It is based in the School of Veterinary Medicine and collaborates extensively with the School of Biosciences. There has been a significant development in measurement technologies applied to human medicine research and diagnostic tool generation. We are applying these same approaches into veterinary medicine. Thus, much of the platform development work has been achieved in our lab and the labs of others. 

The postdoctoral fellowship aims to build and expand our proteomics and informatics capability, primarily focused on improving human and veterinary health. The job holder will contribute to the team’s mission by using advanced analytical techniques to define the relative levels of key biomarkers in the blood samples from companion animals and livestock. The post will involve developing assays for nucleic acids (e.g. miRNA) and mass spectrometry-based techniques. You will analyse protein levels and biomarkers using ELISA, LC-MS, and bioinformatics tools (training provided) and optimise sample preparation SOPs for omics techniques.