20 Postdoctoral Fellowship at University of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England

Are you an ambitious, impact-focussed researcher looking for your next challenge? Do you have a research interest in policing and vulnerable groups, and the interactions between them and other service providers? Do you want to further your career at a leading research-intensive University?

You will work within the ESRC Vulnerability and Policing Futures Research Centre, jointly led from the University of York and University of Leeds, with a team of over 25 leading researchers from diverse social science disciplines. Working alongside 38 regional, national and international partners, you will play an important role, assuming significant data collection responsibilities, writing up research findings, and developing and delivering knowledge translation through Continuing Professional Training and other impact work. With a doctorate or equivalent knowledge exchange, training or research experience relevant to this research field and proven experience of empirical research, you will conduct fieldwork, synthesise existing evidence, develop research-based collaborations and work with wide-ranging partners and communities to advance social change through research.

Are you an aspiring researcher looking to further your career in one of the UK’s leading research-intensive Universities and receive a structured programme of support? Do you have a research background in Accounting & Finance, Analytics, Technology and Operations, Economics, International Business, Management and Organisations, Marketing, and Work & Employment Relations?

Leeds University Business School (LUBS) is a full service business school built on the rigour of disciplinary strength while working in a pluralistic way to deliver impactful research and education. With a research environment judged to be conducive to producing world leading and internationally excellent research by the REF 2021 panel, the Faculty is investing substantially in the further development of this environment through the Faculty’s two year Post Doctoral Fellowship Scheme We are looking for enthusiastic and highly motivated individuals who can make a significant contribution to our research activities. You will receive a structured programme of support. Dedicated mentors will work with you and advise you on journal article preparation and submission, grant application, and new research and career trajectories. You will also have opportunities to develop teaching skills by undertaking teaching duties at definite, identifiable points in the year.

Inspiring Futures for Zero Carbon Mobility (INFUZE) is a major £7.8m five-year research grant funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. Working across the Universities of Leeds, Lancaster and the Royal College of Art INFUZE is seeking to achieve transformative change in how transport works, addressing the climate challenge whilst improving fairness and quality of life. INFUZE is an exciting new collaboration which will work with citizens and businesses to re-imagine our transport systems. The programme will build an increasingly ambitious suite of real-world trials with communities, transport providers and government partners.

We are looking to recruit a passionate and committed researcher to drive forward our work on assessing possible transitions away from individualised car ownership. The candidate will require expertise in the statistical analysis of trends in individual and household travel patterns and aspirations over time, with experience in the analysis of secondary data sources as well as in the design of bespoke surveys. This work will have a direct interface with stakeholders and mobility service providers, so we are particularly seeking applicants who are comfortable working with external stakeholders to co-create data sources and analysis plans and creatively present the results of the analysis.

Are you an ambitious climate scientist looking for your next challenge? Do you want to work with world leaders in climate-ice sheet science to model past Antarctic ice sheet collapse? Do you want to further your career in one of the UK’s leading research-intensive Universities? 

In this role, you will join a large international team of scientists from the SWAIS-2C project “Sensitivity of the West Antarctic Ice sheet to 2 °C of Warming” and work with Dr Lauren Gregoire to understand the drivers of past Antarctic ice sheet collapse. The SWAIS-2C international team are drilling the sediments below the Ross Ice Shelf to reveal how much of the West Antarctic ice sheet melted when the climate was warmer than present, thus revealing how sensitive the Iice sheet is to the 1.5-2°C Paris Agreement warming target. Your role in the project will be to run and analyse the first coupled climate-ice sheet simulations of the Last Interglacial period (127,000  years ago) from the UK flagship Earth System Model UKESM on national High-Performance Computing facilities. You will be supported by technical and scientific experts from the Centre for Environmental Modelling And Computation (CEMAC) and National Centre for Atmospheric Science. The aim is to evaluate the climate and ice sheet mechanisms driving Antarctic ice sheet retreat or collapse during past warm interglacials, including ocean circulation changes, marine ice sheet instabilities and tipping points. The work will further our understanding of the key mechanisms in future ice sheet evolution, test the complex models used to make projections and contribute to the next IPCC reports. 

Would you like to help to bring about the transition to sustainable aviation fuels (SAFs) that will help reduce the climate impact of aviation, do you have an established background in experimental cloud and aerosol research and do you want to further your career in a one of the world’s leading atmospheric science institutes? 

You will become a key member of the SAFice team focused on quantifying the concentration of ice-forming particles emitted from burning SAF in jet engines rather than fossil kerosine. SAFice is a new NERC funded project based in Leeds involving partners in Sheffield and Imperial. It will make use of the new PINE chamber, for counting ice-forming particles (Ponsonby et al. 2024), and also the new jet engine test rig at the Translational Energy Research Centre (TERC) in Sheffield. SAFice is one of 10 projects funded through a NERC call focussed on understanding aviation’s non-CO₂ impacts on climate, which is in turn part of a £1.7 Billion investment in making the UK’s aviation sector more competitive (Innovate UK, ATI). Hence, you will be well-positioned in the expanding field offering a solution to a climate problem.

You will become a key member of the SAFice team focused on quantifying the concentration of ice-forming particles emitted from burning SAF in jet engines rather than fossil kerosine. SAFice is a new NERC funded project based in Leeds involving partners in Sheffield and Imperial. It will make use of the new PINE chamber, for counting ice-forming particles (Ponsonby et al. 2024), and also the new jet engine test rig at the Translational Energy Research Centre (TERC) in Sheffield. SAFice is one of 10 projects funded through a NERC call focussed on understanding aviation’s non-CO₂ impacts on climate, which is in turn part of a £1.7 Billion investment in making the UK’s aviation sector more competitive (Innovate UK, ATI). Hence, you will be well-positioned in the expanding field offering a solution to a climate problem.

Are you a driven early-career researcher with interests in flow processes? Do you want to work on translating fundamental understanding of flow processes into industrial applications? Do you want to further your career in one of the UK’s leading research-intensive universities?

Manufacturing and processing of emulsions is almost always carried out in a batch process both in academia and industry. Recently, a few methods have allowed for flow production of emulsion droplets via microfluidics or membrane emulsification processes, but this has yet to transfer to large-scale industrial processes. One challenge still to overcome concerns the fact that emulsion droplets are sometimes further processed to adsorb functional coatings on their surfaces, particularly in formulated products. This project aims to develop flow processes that allow in-situ functionalisation of emulsion droplet surfaces using more efficient and less energy-intensive methods.

Do you hold a PhD in experimental Physics, Materials Science or a closely related discipline? Do you have expertise in microfluidics, cell sorting and deformation cytometry characterisation? Do you want to further your career in one of the UKs leading research-intensive Universities?

We are looking for a self-motivated, enthusiastic and ambitious postdoctoral research fellow to join the multidisciplinary and highly collaborative Molecular and Nanoscale Physics group in the School of Physics and Astronomy. You will build on our current expertise in Deformability Cytometry to develop a Deformation Cytometry Based Cell Sorter. Working closely with colleagues from the Faculties of Biological Sciences and Medicine and Health, you will be involved in developing a new approach for identifying and separating cells based on their mechanical deformability.

Are you a surface scientist looking to develop a career in energy research with societal impact? Are you interested in surface analysis with a world-leading near-ambient pressure X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy facility? Do you want to be part of an interdisciplinary research team developing solutions for sustainable transportation? Do you want to further your career in one of the UK’s leading research-intensive Universities?

The academic team at the University of Leeds is looking to recruit an experienced surface scientist to join a multi-institution research collaboration with Infineum UK Ltd, bringing together several UK universities and a globally leading specialty chemicals company. You will be responsible for delivering the research activities at the University of Leeds and will contribute to the overall coordination of the collaborative research projects in the fields of decarbonised transport, magnetorheological fluids and batteries. You will undertake research visits, develop new research ideas and deliver results collaboratively. This position is intended for an ambitious researcher to build a leadership profile, by developing an original research portfolio with both academic and real-world impact through collaborations with PhD students and external partners.

Are you an early career researcher looking for your first challenge? Do you have a background in a behavioural discipline, preferably organizational psychology, organizational behaviour, social psychology, and/or human factors? Do you want to further your career in one of the UK’s leading research intensive Universities?

One in ten people need surgery each year, but waiting times are at an all-time high with 7.2 million people awaiting routine treatment. This means people are living with prolonged symptoms, added anxiety, and employment issues, in addition to paying for additional care. This affects the quality of life for patients, carers, and their families. Demand for hospital care is limited by the availability of acute care beds with over thirteen thousand patients occupying beds (one-seventh of total NHS bed capacity) who are medically fit but don’t have access to suitable community and social care support. Technology can help to address these problems by making surgical care pathways more efficient. But uptake of technologies into routine care is slow with only a small number making it and benefiting patients. The new NIHR funded HealthTech Research Centre has been established to accelerate surgical care, so that technology can be used more effectively in surgery to ensure early diagnosis and personalised care; enable surgery to be more precise, less invasive, and safer; and help speed up recovery.

Are you an early career researcher looking for your first challenge? Do you have a background in Cement Research? Do you want to further your career in one of the UK’s leading research-intensive universities?

The overarching aim of this research project is reproducing cement from Rubble. The outcomes intend to enable closed loop recycling of concrete.

This role involves high-temperature calorimetry and synthesis of clinkers with different heating modes (e.g., microwave), followed by phase assemblage and microstructure characterisation to deliver optimal performance and the best hydration characteristics which must also be assessed.

Are you an ambitious researcher looking for your next challenge? Do you have experience related to computer vision, point cloud data processing or railways? Do you want to further your career in one of the UK’s leading research-intensive Universities? Do you want to be part of an EU funded international innovation programme with collaboration between partners across Europe?

We seek a motivated and versatile Research Fellow to help with novel computer vision and point cloud analysis of railway track turnouts. You will be working on the XCROSS project which aims to make a step-change in railway turnout maintenance. As part of this, you will work with an international consortium comprising a range of leading Universities, software companies, sensor companies, railway track owners and rail industry bodies.

Working with Professor David Connolly, you will conduct novel research and international impact activities. This will involve developing computer vision analysis algorithms to study changes in images and 3D point clouds of turnouts. It will also involve working with and supporting the other XCROSS work packages led by other project partners. These include the numerical simulation of wheel-rail interaction, sensor development and spatial computing.

Would you like to be part of an international collaboration to help track and treat cholera? Are you looking to apply your simulation expertise to predicting disease transmission? Do you thrive on working in an exciting and creative environment committed to making a difference?

The ‘Integrated Surveillance Suite for Targeting Interventions to Cholera Outbreaks’ three-year project is funded by the Wellcome Trust to develop integrated pathways for the testing, tracking, and treatment of cholera. An important part of controlling cholera relates to understanding the spatial extent of emerging outbreaks and targeting interventions to reduce their impact. In environments with sparse or delayed testing data, this means the use of predictive modelling to identify and respond to risks.

We are looking to recruit a dynamic and creative researcher to drive forward our research on the simulation of cholera outbreaks in developing countries. Working with academic partners at University of Oxford and UCL, and international partners in Bangladesh, the post holder will develop agent-based models of the activities, mobility, behaviours, and feedback loops that influence the spread of cholera epidemics. As part of this work, we will explore model interfaces with concurrent developments at Oxford around Gaussian Process modelling of disease transmission. The models will also integrate with data visualisation dashboards, developed by another researcher at Leeds, to enable exploration of future scenarios and policy interventions. Given the collaborative nature of the project, it is important that the post holder is comfortable in working within and across interdisciplinary teams.

Are you an ambitious researcher looking for your next challenge? Do you have a PhD in data science, epidemiology, statistics or mathematics and domain expertise in healthy and sustainable diets? Do you want to further your career in one of the UK’s leading research intensive Universities?

The Nutrition and Lifestyle Analytics team are based in the interdisciplinary settings of the School of Food Science and Nutrition and the Leeds Institute for Data Analytics, working closely alongside the Consumer Data Research Centre (CDRC).

A Research Fellow is required to work on a major project, funded by the UKRI, as part of the Transforming Food Systems Call. Our project “FIO-food, food insecurity in people living with obesity: improving sustainable and healthier food choices in the retail food environment”, is a collaboration with the University of Aberdeen, University of Liverpool, Leeds Beckett University, Robert Gordon University, and University College London. The Research Fellow will analyse customer sales/loyalty card data from a leading UK supermarket, in combination with the nutrition/health metrics, sustainability indicators, and demographic information from the Census.

Are you interested in the differences that arts, culture and heritage make to people’s lives? Do you want to work within a national research centre to understand more about how researchers can evidence cultural value? Would you like to work closely with the UK’s next City of Culture?

Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to support an exciting new research project funded by the ESRC on behalf of the Centre for Cultural Value, a national research centre funded by the AHRC, Arts Council England and Paul Hamlyn Foundation. Under the supervision of the Director, Professor Ben Walmsley, the successful candidate will manage the logistics and communications between the research team and project/sector partners and coordinate a small number of webinars and publications.

(18) Postdoctoral Fellowship Position

Postdoc Fellowship Position summary/title: Research Fellow in Program Optimization for Large Models

Deadline : 18 August 2024

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This role will be based on the university campus, with scope for it to be undertaken in a hybrid manner. We are also open to discussing flexible working arrangements.

We are looking to recruit an independent and ambitious Research Fellow on the NERC-funded project, Losing their Cool, which aims to investigate the physical interactions between the atmosphere and the glacier surface at high-elevation (>6,000 m a.s.l.) in the Everest region of Nepal. The project is seeking to understand the processes that determine ice temperatures at the point of formation, with melting and refreezing in the accumulation area being a possible explanation for the surprisingly warm ice temperatures observed previously at lower elevations. To help test this hypothesis, we are seeking a numerical modeller, who can combine field observations of conditions within the firn with physically-based simulations of key subsurface processes to evaluate the role of melting and refreezing in prescribing glacier characteristics.

Are you an ambitious researcher looking for your next challenge? Do you have an established background in molecular seed biology? Do you want to further your career in one of the UKs leading research intensive Universities?

Seeds underpin sustainable agriculture and food security, providing the majority of global food principally as cereals and legumes. High vigour seeds display rapid, uniform germination and seedling establishment that is tolerant of stress conditions. We hypothesise a central role for DNA repair and damage signalling processes in seed germination vigour which impacts on seedling establishment. Here we will use genetic, biochemical and high throughput analytical approaches to reveal the molecular link between genome integrity and seed vigour, establishing the mechanistic basis of how seed germination impacts on seedling vigour. The ultimate aim of this project is to apply the knowledge gained in this study to develop novel lines of plants with improved germination performance through modulating the activity of these DNA repair factors. We will test the potential of key factors to genetically improve the resilience of seed germination in Arabidopsis and Brassica oleracea, a crop species important to UK agriculture.