16 Postdoctoral Fellowship at Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom

Applicants are invited to apply for a 2-year full-time CRUK funded postdoctoral research position to join Prof Crnogorac-Jurcevic’s team investigating biomarkers for early, non-invasive detection of cancer. It  spanns both a discovery of novel as well as validation of existing biomarkers in bodyfluids, including blood and urine. The research will be based in the Centre for Cancer Biomarkers and Biotherapeutics, Barts Cancer Institute, within the Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London.

Applicants are invited for a Postdoctoral Research Assistant position in machine learning for wireless networks in the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science. The role will be part of an EPSRC-funded project on Scalable Hybrid Architecture for Wireless Collaborative Federated Learning (SHAFT). This is a joint project among Queen Mary University of London, the University of Manchester and with industrial partners, such as BT and Toshiba.

Applications are invited for a Wellcome Trust-funded Postdoctoral Research Associate post to join the laboratory of Professor Sussan Nourshargh within the Centre for Microvascular Research at William Harvey Research Institute, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London (QMUL). The position offers an exciting opportunity for motivated postdoctoral fellows to join a dynamic team of young researchers investigating neutrophil trafficking. Specifically, and building on significant findings from the team (e.g. Woodfin et al., Nature Immunology, 2010; Colom et al., Immunity, 2015; Girbl et al., Immunity, 2018; Owen-Woods et al., J Clin Invest., 2020; Barkaway et al., Immunity, 2021), the present project aims to enhance our knowledge of the aberrant response of neutrophil reverse transmigration in terms of its pathophysiological relevance, phenotype and molecular signature.

We are seeking an ambitious postdoctoral researcher to promote earlier detection of oesophageal cancer by identifying individuals at high risk for this disease, using quantitative methods to identify new risk and protective factors of oesophageal cancer. They will also develop novel strategies to target high-risk individuals for interventions.

A Postdoctoral Research Assistant position is available at Queen Mary University of London in Dr Özge Eyice’s group to work on “Towards an understanding of methylotrophic methane production in anoxic coastal sediments” funded by NERC. The project aims to understand the diversity and metabolism of microorganisms degrading key methylotrophic compounds such as methanol, dimethylsulfide and trimethylamine to methane in anoxic coastal sediments via microbial diversity profiling, stable isotope probing, metagenomics and metatranscriptomics. The project is a collaboration with Prof Colin Murrell (University of East Anglia) and Prof Yin Chen (University of Warwick).

The project is focused on the molecular mechanism of DNA replication initiation in bacteria. Together with the laboratory of Prof. Heath Murray at Newcastle University, this work is aimed at unravelling the sequence of events that lead to helicase loading during initiation and restart. This structural biology project will take advantage of the expertise in the lab working with nucleoprotein complexes aided by dedicated cryo-EM and X-ray crystallography facilities. The group has routine access to the Titan Krios microscopes at LonCEM and eBIC and an in-house computing infrastructure for data processing.

We invite applications for the position of Postdoctoral Research Assistant in the School of Mathematical Sciences. The successful applicant will work in close collaboration with Dr Alex Fink on the project “Extensions of matroid Hodge theory”, funded by EPSRC. A recent breakthrough, for which June Huh won a 2022 Fields Medal, was to prove that the Chow ring of any matroid satisfies the Kähler package even when there is no associated Kähler manifold. Objectives of this project include the extension of this theory to similar objects, in particular further flag varieties and Coxeter types, and oriented matroids; developing Berget, Eur, Spink and Tseng’s theory of matroid tautological bundles, and proving inequalities on their Chern classes; and to explore applications to conjectures concerning invariants so far inaccessible, like Speyer’s g-invariant.

Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Research Assistant based at the School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences (SBBS), Queen Mary University of London. The Plant Cell and Molecular Biology group at SBBS, led by Dr Guy Hanke, is running a 3-year BBSRC funded project to better understand the function of photosynthesis in developing seeds of cereals, with a focus on barley. This involves genetic manipulation of barley, proteomics, electron and fluorescence microscopy and various techniques for measuring photosynthesis.

We are pleased to offer a Postdoctoral Research Assistant post under the supervision of Prof Maria Liakata on explainability of Natural Language Processing models involving rumour verification, summarisation and longitudinal predictions in the context of Liakata’s UKRI/EPSRC Turing AI fellowship, on Creating time-sensitive sensors from user generated language and heterogeneous content.

The Methylation Epidemiology Laboratory (MEL) is a world-renowned, highly interdisciplinary team of scientists and medical researchers with the goal of developing low-cost solutions for the non-invasive detection of multiple cancer types. We have developed a methylation classifier that is well suited for triage of women who might be at risk of developing cervical cancer using cervical exfoliated cells, and have received funding to validate and develop this classifier on self-collected samples for cervical cancer screening.

The School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science at Queen Mary University of London is looking to recruit two Postdoctoral Research Assistants to support a project in the Antennas group led by Prof Xiaodong Chen. The project is to develop a ground-based demonstrator of novel wireless power transmission system in the space based solar power programme funded by UK government.

Applications are invited for a full-time Postdoctoral Research Associate/Assistant to work on the EPSRC project “Energy Efficient Composite Tooling with Integrated Self-Regulating Heating and Curing Capabilities based on Recycled Composite Waste (ECOTOOL)”, a Synergy Promotion projects funded by the EPSRC Future Composites Manufacturing Hub, within the Polymers and Composites group at QMUL.

The project aims to develop a smart heated composite tooling based on recycled composite wastes, providing efficient composite manufacturing with improved safety. This project links the expertise and experience of seven academic and industrial contributors, addressing the need of sustainable development of composite sector alongside multiple Hub priority research themes.

The Methylation Epidemiology Laboratory (MEL) is a world-renowned, highly interdisciplinary team of scientists and medical researchers with the goal of developing low-cost solutions for the non-invasive detection of multiple cancer types. We have developed a methylation classifier that is well suited for triage of women who might be at risk of developing cervical cancer using cervical exfoliated cells, and have received funding to validate and develop this classifier on self-collected samples for cervical cancer screening.

Applications are sought for a Postdoctoral Research Assistant to join the Prasad group in the Centre for Endocrinology at the William Harvey Research Institute, Queen Mary University of London.