Postdoctoral Fellowship (17) at King’s College London, United Kingdom

The PDRA will lead the development of new computational and mathematical models to quantify and predict infectious disease risk, particularly for identifying high risk individuals and groups. The PDRA will translate conceptual frameworks into mathematical models of complex cross-scale disease dynamics across different epidemiological scenarios. A key responsibility is to test key assumptions about differential disease risk by integrating high-resolution socio-ecological, environmental, and novel health data from individual and population sources. This research will advance our understanding of how major infectious diseases of concern in the UK emerge, spread, and unequally affect different individuals and population groups. 

Outcomes of this research will help advance the development of more equitable, spatial data-driven approaches to public health surveillance and pandemic preparedness, with direct links to public health policy. The findings will inform the development of a real-time spatial AI system to improve early detection and risk prediction, to protect vulnerable populations in the UK and in the future globally. 

The Functional Materials and Devices Laboratory (https://patel.sites.er.kcl.ac.uk/) in the Department of Physics is looking to recruit a Postdoctoral Research Associate (PDRA) to work on an EPSRC-funded project developing vapour-deposited perovskite thin films for high-efficiency multijunction solar cells. 

The successful candidate will engineer novel precursor materials and commission a state-of-the-art physical vapor deposition (PVD) system in the new Strand labs, located in central London, in collaboration with industry partners (Kurt J. Lesker) to enable scalable manufacturing of complex alloyed perovskite compositions.

The Department of Physics at King’s College London is diverse, international, and friendly with a positive atmosphere of collaboration and support between research groups. We offer a welcoming environment and welcome applications from applicants of all backgrounds.

The successful candidate will work closely with Dr Patel and other group members, mentor MSc and PhD students, and help guide the direction of the project. They will have the opportunity to experience both academic and industrial research environments, forge new collaborations and attend international conferences. Building on your existing skills, you will be expected to develop additional expertise in thin film materials processing and characterisation, gain new skills, and confidently place our research in context within the broader scientific community.

​​The Department of European & International Studies, School of Politics and Economics, King’s College London, is recruiting a fixed-term Postdoctoral Research Associate to work on the Horizon-funded project Enhancing Democratic Support under Conditions of Geographic and Intersectional Inequalities in Europe (EDGE). The project is co-led by Prof Alexia Katsanidou, GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences and Prof Sofia Vasilopoulou, King’s College London.

The EDGE project addresses a central challenge for the future of democracy: how are economic inequalities – both objective and subjective – related to European citizens’ democratic support? It aims: first, to advance knowledge on the mechanisms through which different types of inequality undermine or, under certain conditions, reinforce democratic support; and second, to causally assess policy interventions to identify efficient solutions that strengthen democracy across diverse territorial and social contexts. The project integrates geographic and intersectional perspectives to show how personal experiences, social identities, and territorial contexts interact with media and digital networks in shaping perceptions of inequality and democratic support.

The successful applicant will have an excellent academic track record, a strong knowledge of research methods, and ideally have expertise in survey and/or experimental research and/or social data science. They will be expected to work with the design, collection and analysis of new survey data and survey experiments, co-author research outputs from the project, and organize events to disseminate the project’s findings.

This Postdoctoral Research Associate (PDRA) role is a full-time, fixed-term research position within the Plumbing Poverty project, an interdisciplinary study examining insecure water access, affordability, debt, and service disconnections across cities in Europe and the United States. The primary purpose of the role is to co-lead and manage data analysis across multiple international case studies, advancing both theoretical and policy-relevant understandings of water poverty at the household level. The postholder will work with complex qualitative and quantitative datasets to advance the theoretical and applied environmental justice aims of the Plumbing Poverty project.

The PDRA will undertake the development and implementation of cross-cultural, mixed-methods analytical approaches across the project’s case studies. This includes comparative (metatheme) analysis of cross-cultural ethnographic and qualitative data generated by the project’s case studies, and quantitative analysis and management of household water insecurity survey data. A key component of the role is the co-leadership of a household water insecurity survey in a European city (likely Barcelona), which involves overseeing fieldwork logistics, training and supervising enumerators, and ensuring high standards of data quality and management.

The postholder will also contribute significantly to the production and dissemination of research outputs, including peer-reviewed journal articles, policy briefs, and reports. They will coordinate and collaborate with a network of international researchers and partners, and play an active role in translating research findings for academic, policy, and public audiences. In addition, the PDRA will support the organisation of project-related events and contribute to the development of a European research network on household water insecurity.

Professors Jernej Ule and Benjamin Blencowe are seeking a Research Associate to join a team of researchers working on the Wellcome funded project *‘*Context-dependent RNA regulation and its application in auto-gating therapeutics for brain disorders’ described here: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/context-dependent-rna-regulation this project runs until 2032.

The post is based at the Francis Crick Institute, where the joint Blencowe/Ule satellite lab is located. The lab consists of six researchers including PhD students, postdoctoral fellows and a technician. For more information, please see the laboratory website.

The successful candidate will focus on the design and testing of auto-gating therapeutics in the iNeuron models of neurologic diseases, which will also involve the generation and culture of induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) lines, their differentiation into neurons and analyses with transcriptomics and imaging, thus contributing to relevant publications in collaboration with other team members.

We are a synthetic chemistry group working in supramolecular and biological chemistry, and nanotechnology. We work in the Francis Crick Institute in London, and at King’s College London.

Our research looks at how we can apply Supramolecular Chemistry in Biological settings. Supramolecular Chemistry is the study of intermolecular, non-covalent interactions. These non-covalent interactions are critical to protein folding, DNA base pairing, and cellular signalling. Supramolecular Chemistry applies these same principles to create artificial systems capable of performing complex tasks.

The McTernan Group aims to apply recent breakthroughs in artificial molecular machines, high-affinity host-guest chemistry, and metal-organic capsules, in biologically relevant settings. We work with rotaxanes, catenanes, macrocycles and capsules to synthesise functional architectures, creating de novo catalytic enzyme analogues, artificial cellular receptors, and targeted drug delivery vehicles. We also work to create supramolecular analogues of known therapeutic modalities. We work both in basic science, and on translational applications.

We are seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Computational Linguistics to co-lead the computational stream of the COALA project.

This role is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a pioneering project at the intersection of natural language processing, historical linguistics, and computational humanities.

The postholder will co-lead the computational stream of the project, which involves developing novel algorithms for time-sensitive word sense disambiguation (WSD) in Latin, contributing to the creation of a 100-million-token annotated corpus, and conducting large-scale quantitative analyses of semantic change. You will work closely with Latin linguists to integrate linguistic insights into computational models and help build open-source tools and resources that will support future research in historical semantics and NLP.

You will be responsible to the Principal Investigator and will collaborate with a team of postdoctoral researchers and external advisors across linguistics, NLP, and classical studies.

The Department of Informatics at King’s College London is seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate to join the GenOracle project, which focuses on advancing automated software testing through Large Language Models (LLMs) and search-based software engineering. The project investigates how AI techniques can support the automation of software testing activities, with a particular focus on automated test oracle generation.

The research will explore how modern LLMs can be combined with search-based approaches to improve the effectiveness, scalability, and usability of automated testing techniques. A major focus of the project is the generation of test oracles which are the mechanisms that determine whether software behaves correctly during execution. These oracles may take different forms, including invariant-based oracles, executable assertions, and natural-language-enhanced specifications. The project will investigate how such oracles can be automatically generated, refined, and made more understandable and useful for developers.

The successful candidate will contribute to the design and implementation of novel testing techniques, empirical evaluations of AI-driven software testing approaches, and hybrid methods that integrate LLM-based reasoning with search-based optimisation. 

The purpose of this role is to deliver exciting and innovative research studies in the Department of Psychosis Studies. Working closely with the Lead Investigators, the post holder will ensure the successful conduct and completion of the research programme.

They will contribute to the collection and analysis of data and play a key role in the assessment and monitoring of participants. They will also work closely with other research staff in the project and foster effective collaborative working relationships with the local and regional services for psychosis, as well as neurology, rheumatology and neuropsychiatry services. The successful candidate will also be encouraged to deliver teaching on immunopsychiatry topics and will have the opportunity to join a unique and growing clinical immunopsychiatry service.

The post-holder will have opportunities to get involved in data analysis and develop their research interests within the projects. Training in research methods will be provided, and the post-holder will develop skills in using gold-standard diagnostic and clinical ratings, which will be useful for future research and clinical practice.

We are seeking an enthusiastic and motivated Postdoctoral Researcher to join the Department of Psychological Medicine at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN), King’s College London for a quantitative research project investigating attitudes towards covid vaccination during pregnancy.

This role offers the opportunity to contribute to an important public health research project focused on vaccine uptake and behavioural science. The successful candidate will play a leading role in the design, implementation, and analysis of quantitative research activities, including survey development, piloting, administration, and statistical analysis using software such as SPSS. The post holder will also contribute to systematic literature reviews and the dissemination of findings through reports, presentations, and academic publications.

A key component of the role will involve establishing and coordinating Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) activities to ensure meaningful public contribution throughout the research process. The post holder will work closely with Professor James Rubin and collaborators within the NIHR Health Protection Research Focus Award in Outbreak Related Behaviour.

The evolution of radiofrequency and optical wireless networks for advanced communication and radar systems toward increasingly complex devices demands powerful digital signal processors to enable real-time data processing and rapid decision-making.

On the other hand, fundamental limitations of digital electronics in bandwidth and power consumption have resurfaced interest in analogue logic. An analogue processing engine can utilize fundamental properties of electromagnetic waves for massive parallel computations to enable massively parallel processing capabilities literally at the speed of light. Notably, the very nature of an analogue processor can facilitate dramatic reduction in size, weight and power compared to its digital counterpart.

In the past decade, there has been substantial progress in the development of processing units that perform matrix operations, by leveraging electromagnetic waves in free space and in guided wave structures. However, less attention has been paid to reconfigurable analogue structures that could be programmed on demand to perform the desired transfer function in radiofrequency and wireless optical networks, as well as through physical engineered materials. In this vein, a large number of relevant signal processing operations boils down to basic matrix operations.

The specific aim of the post will be to train machine learning models to detect and classify specific imaging planes using our pre-existing dataset of fetal ultrasound scans. A range of machine learning approaches will need to be tested.

• Develop and test machine learning models designed to identify specific image planes corresponding to particular fetal organs, from a stream of ultrasound video data.
• Work independently on defined research packages while consulting with the PI and collaborators as needed.
• Contribute to the planning, design, and management of new and ongoing project components.
• Collaborate effectively with internal and external partners.
• Stay up to date with relevant scientific literature in medical AI.
• Lead and contribute to writing high-quality scientific publications.
• Present findings at conferences and group meetings.
• Maintain accurate and reproducible records of research activities.
• Support training and supervision of students or junior team members.
• Participate in routine responsibilities such as data handling, code documentation, and ensuring safe working practices in the lab.
• Contribute to teaching activities when requested.

King’s College London is seeking to appoint a Postdoctoral Research Associate (PDRA) to contribute to the project Developing Meaning and Purpose, funded by the John Templeton Foundation and delivered collaboratively with the University of Edinburgh (project lead). Based within the Department of Theology and Religious Studies and working closely with the Associateship of King’s College (AKC), the role offers an exciting opportunity to contribute to an innovative interdisciplinary research project exploring ethics and values education in European higher education.

The project forms part of a wider international movement concerned with moral self-reflection amongst university students from a range of disciplinary backgrounds. While related initiatives have developed primarily in North America, this pilot project is designed to refine and evaluate an approach suitable for wider delivery across European universities. The project combines philosophical, theological, educational, and psychological approaches to ethics education, with a particular interest in narrative, moral identity, reflective learning, and students’ understanding of personal and social responsibility.

The successful candidate will play a central role in the conceptual development, facilitation, and evaluation of a semester-long programme of ethics-education research workshops involving up to 20 student research participants during Semester 1 of the 2026/27 academic year. Working closely with Dr Edward David (AKC Director and Co-Investigator at King’s College London) and with collaborators at the University of Edinburgh, the PDRA will contribute to the design of workshop materials and reflective-learning interventions, facilitate weekly seminar-style research workshops, support participant recruitment and administration, and assist with mixed-methods evaluation activities.