24 Postdoctoral Fellowship at King’s College London, United Kingdom

The department of Informatics is looking to appoint a Research Associate or Research Fellow to work in the area of cryptography.The candidate will work alongside Prof. Martin Albrecht and other cryptographic researchers in the department on topics in lattice-based cryptography and related fields. The post is funded by an ERC/UKRI Frontier Research grant on investigating practical advanced post-quantum cryptography from lattices.The applicant will work in the cryptography lab in the Cybersecurity group (CYS) in the department. The cryptography lab currently consists of Martin Albrecht, Ngoc Khanh Nguyen, Eamonn Postlethwaite and Yixin Shen. The mission of the cryptography lab is to conduct word-class research to address research and practical challenges in cryptography. 

The Policy Institute at King’s College London works to solve society’s challenges with evidence and expertise. We combine the rigour of academia with the agility of a consultancy and the connectedness of a think tank. In this role, you will be expected to work in a fast-paced and dynamic research environment on high-profile and influential policy research and analysis projects. This includes both academic, consultancy and exploratory projects as well as more media-focused polling. The successful applicant will help to oversee the Policy Institute’s quantitative research capacity, including leading on projects or workstreams with analytical components, ensuring methodological rigor in the analytical approaches we use, and actively looking for opportunities to innovate in the methods we employ. The successful applicant will have significant experience of analysing survey data, though experience of working with other datatypes would be advantageous.

We wish to appoint a Postdoctoral Researcher (Research Associate) within the Health Psychology Section in the Department of Psychology, Insititute of Psychiatry Psychology and Neuroscience, at King’s College London. The position will be full time (100% FTE) for a fixed-term duration of 2 years. This position will require in-person work at the Health Psychology Section, Guy’s Hospital, at least three days per week. The other two days can be flexibly worked from Guy’s Hospital or remotely.  

This post-doctoral position is for a nutritionist or dietitian and will involve exciting research studies on diet in inflammatory bowel disease, mostly focussing on food additives and ultra-processed foods. The post will provide excellent opportunities for skill development and dissemination, whilst working alongside other postdocs, doctors and dietitians involved in the study. The post holder will lead and coordinate the research project on a day-to-day basis, with a key role including obtaining regulatory approvals changes, maintaining study documentation, co-ordinating subject correspondence and conducting study visits, sample processing, analysing laboratory samples, and ensuring measurements of primary and secondary outcomes are conducted according to standard operating protocols and storage of samples is HTA compliant. They will also be involved in data analysis and dissemination, including manuscript preparation, and co-ordination of correspondence and financial arrangements with the funders. Applying for grant funding and writing manuscripts will be a key role, and depending upon the experience of the candidate, some participant visits may be undertaken. The post-holder will be expected to work closely and effectively with other team members, including supporting doctoral students.

We are advertising for two two-year post-doctoral positions at King’s College London, to work with Professor Osvaldo Simeone at the intersection of distributed Bayesian learning and communication networks. The positions will be based in King’s Communications, Learning & Information Processing laboratory, at the Centre for Intelligent Information Processing Systems within the Department of Engineering. The department is located at King’s Strand Campus, in the centre of London.

The laboratory of Dr. Rushad Pavri at King’s College London (which will start in January 2024) is inviting applications for a postdoctoral position in the fields of molecular immunology and gene regulation. The Pavri group studies the molecular mechanism of antibody maturation and associated genome instability in B cells. Specifically, we investigate how transcription, chromatin architecture, DNA replication and epigenetic features regulate the key processes of antibody somatic hypermutation and class switch recombination as well as the oncogenic chromosomal translocations arising from these mutagenic pathways. In addition, we study the physiology of germinal centers in murine lymphoid tissues, which is where the antibody maturation reactions occur. The laboratory uses a multi-disciplinary approach to address major questions in these areas. These include mouse genetics, immunology, molecular biology, biochemistry and genomics. A list of publications from the group can be found here: https://www.imp.ac.at/groups/rushad-pavri/publications.

Applications are invited from individuals who would like to join a friendly and dynamic team of clinicians, clinical academics and basic scientists working on two translational clinical studies studying therapeutic intervention strategies underlying inflammation driven disease in Ulcerative Colitis and Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis. The position is available for two years and is funded by the Wegner’s Trust Charity and Pfizer. The successful candidate will be required to work closely with clinicians to process clinical trial/study samples and undertake research into identifying novel molecular mediators of disease and relapse from therapy. The research will take place in the laboratory of Dr Susan John, Peter Gorer Department of Immunobiology, School of Immunology and Microbial Sciences situated at Guy’s Hospital. Interested applicants can email [email protected] for further information.

The primary objective of PDRA (Italian Sources) is to collect data regarding the production, consumption and trade of four target commodities (coral, honey, citrus and cheese) through extensive archival research as part of a team that will include the Principal Investigator and another Research Associate working on the Crown of Aragon. The ability to work with archival sources and related secondary literature from Genoa and Liguria specifically, and Italy more broadly, is essential. Ability to work with archival sources from neighbouring or related regions is an advantage. The PDRA will expand their research skills through examination of other important regions within Italy and its zones of contact as feasible. They are expected to have knowledge of the history and historiography of the region, to be able to connect this to the wider research questions of the project, and should have an interest particularly in the economic and environmental history of the region and the ability to develop expertise in these. In addition, the post-holder will be expected to attend project meetings, seminars and conferences related to the project, give conference papers, and publish research papers. They will also undertake any other reasonable duties associated with the project as required by the PI, or within the Department as required by the Head of Department.

The Department of Informatics is looking to appoint a post-doctoral research associate in the area of algorithmic mechanism design, funded by the EPSRC project “Designing Efficient Market Mechanisms with Simplicity Requirements”, led by Dr Bart de Keijzer. The post is offered on an a fixed-term contract for 1.5 years, and has a flexible starting date, between 1 February 2024 and 1 July 2024. The project is aimed at studying a hierarchy of mechanism design problems for market settings, with a focus on designing mechanisms that simultaneously achieve good social welfare approximation guarantees, and satisfy certain simplicity requirements. Bilateral trade among one seller and one buyer is the simplest setting in this hierarchy, where the aim will be to improve on the present lower and upper bounds on the social welfare achievable by trading under a fixed price mechanism. On the other end of the hierarchy lie combinatorial exchange markets, where many agents act as traders and have complex preferences over a set of tradeable goods, and where the main aim will be to develop conceptually simple and computationally efficient mechanisms that facilitate trade among such agents.

This position in the Jeremy Green and Philippa Francis-West labs at King’s College London is for a newly-funded BBSRC project on “Mechanisms of Ventral Closure”. Ventral Closure (VC) is a late morphogenetic event in development whose failure leads to the birth defects omphalocoele and gastroschisis. The project will ask how VC happens or fails, specifically what are the cellular events and molecular regulators that make the muscular abdominal wall, dermis and epidermis grow around the viscera. The work will be in close collaboration with Dr. Caroline Formstone (see Panousopoulou et al. J. Cell Sci. 2016 (https://doi.org/10.1242/jcs.180703) and builds on related work in sternum development (see Mao et al. Nature Comms. 2016 ([https://doi: 10.1038/ncomms11469](https://doi: 10.1038/ncomms11469)). Advanced microscopy, cutting-edge biophysical techniques and genetically engineered mouse models will be used. The labs are well-established and located in the vibrant and supportive environment of the Centre for Craniofacial Regeneration and Biology on the Guy’s Hospital Campus.

The project will be led by Carmine Ventre, https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/carmine-ventre , and will run for one year starting from the 1st of January 2024. The project will explore our ability to simulate, experiment with, and therefore understand the dynamics of the Lloyd’s insurance markets, forecast future market environments, and ultimately help better decision making of market participants. The focus will be on modelling and accounting for their incentives by adopting game-theoretic techniques. The use of machine learning techniques to improve the scalability of the simulator and the adaptivity of the strategies adopted by market players could also be investigated. The post holder will benefit from a close collaboration with leading industrial partners within the Lloyd’s ecosystem and will be based in the Department of Informatics in the Faculty of Natural, Mathematical & Engineering Sciences of King’s College London.

This post is for a combined clinical/ research position (0.5/0.5 FTE split) at specialist trainee (CT2/3/ ST1-4) level which will suit a medically qualified individual who is interested in pursuing research as part of an out-of-training experience or as springboard for a research career. The post holder will work under the overall direction of Professor Andre Strydom, based within the Department of Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Sciences at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neurosciences (IoPPN), a leading research centre in neurodevelopmental conditions including intellectual disability. Research duties will include contributing to work being undertaken in the department to address inequalities in the care of people with an intellectual disability or autistic people, as part of KCL’s LeDeR programme, under the direction of Prof Strydom and Dr Rory Sheehan. In addition, the postholder will support medical assessments of individuals participating in research studies and clinical trials. They will be supported to develop research ideas as well as to lead on/ contribute to funding applications.  The post holder’s clinical responsibilities will include provision of community mental health assessments and treatments for adults with learning disabilities within the Southwark mental health for people with a learning disability (MHLD) service at the South London & Maudsley NHS Trust.

The Department of Informatics is looking to appoint a Postdoctoral Researcher to work on a project on user experiences of online harms and their mitigation strategies, funded by the EPSRC: The successful candidate will join King’s College London to work with Dr. Kovila Coopamootoo,  https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/kovila-coopamootoo, on the EPSRC-funded project “AGENCY” ( https://agencyresearch.net). The candidate will be working at the intersection of (1) privacy and security and (2) human-computer interation or sociology. The project will run for six months starting from the 1st of January 2024 and will investigate a particular technology-enabled online harm context ( https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/online-harms-white-paper/online-harms-white-paper), such as in relation to Intimate Health Care, Femtech or Intimate Image Sharing. It will focus on a particular user community or population, to examine the socio-technical factors and interaction dynamics that contribute to complex harm situations or to mitigating harms.

We are seeking a proactive and collaborative Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T-cell biologist to join Dr Yan’s group in the School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences, King’s College London. We are a dynamic radiochemistry and biology team with access to cutting-edge instruments for preclinical nuclear imaging. You will develop a new generation of CAR T-cell PET imaging reagent to provide early insight to the safety and efficacy of the infused cell products. In collaboration with CAR T-cell scientists, Dr John Maher and James Arnold from KCL and radiochemist, Prof Erik Årstad from UCL, the successful candidate will evaluate novel PET tracers to the detection of CAR T-cell’s biodistribution and behaviour in preclinical mouse cancer models. The project involves the generation of cancer targeting CAR T-cells, in vitro biological evaluation of CAR T-cell specific radiotracers, establishing tumour xenograft models, and PET imaging of CAR T-cells in tumour xenograft models with newly developed PET tracers. The ultimate goal is to develop a generic long-term CAR T-cell PET imaging strategy to enable clinicians to determine the real-time in vivo biodistribution of the CAR T-cells allowing prediction of therapeutic efficacy and potential off-target toxicity of therapeutic cells at earlier stages of their development.

(18) Postdoctoral Fellowship Position

Postdoc Fellowship Position summary/title: Research Associate

Deadline : 19 November 2023.

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Working in the department of  Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Sciences (FANS), School of Academic Psychiatry (SoAP),  Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN) on an exciting new project.  The purpose of this job is to project manage the clinical arm of the Brain Health in Gen 2020 study, reporting to and working closely together with the project Clinical Lead (Prof McAlonan) and the team of investigators on the administrative, operational, and financial aspects of the project. Brain Health in Gen 2020 is an exciting new prospective, multimillion pound longitudinal study aiming to assess how the prenatal mother-baby environment, including exposures such as maternal Covid 19, impacts upon early brain development and later childhood outcomes.  It is unique for its interdisciplinary nature, combining expertise from clinical psychiatry, psychology, paediatrics, brain imaging, immunology, and neuroscience; and for its multiscale approach, spanning in-depth brain investigation in small cohorts through to large-scale population measures. The postholder will have a pivotal role in coordinating activities across 5 clinical work-streams and facilitating the cutting-edge science embarked upon to improve childhood outcomes. They will also contribute to a productive, friendly and supportive culture within the programme and work closely with the preclinical lead (Dr Katie Long) to ensure clinical activities are tightly coordinated with the preclinical workstreams of the programme hosted at the MRC Centre for Neurodevelopmental Disorders.

The Padilla-Parra lab is offering a postdoc position funded by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) award to be appointed at the Department of Infectious Diseases. The successful candidate’s role will be to conduct research consisting on the application of advanced lifetime microscopy and single molecule approaches to study the molecular basis of HIV-1 virus entry and fusion. This project is in collaboration with Dr. Sabrina Simoncelli at University College London (UCL) The candidate will also be expected to contribute to running the lab, including management and developing protocols on molecular biology, virology and advanced photonics. The successful candidate will have track record in advanced microscopy, cell biology and ideally virus entry. Experience with T cell lines, virus like particle production (VLP), retrovirology is desirable. Also experience with labelling and molecular biology at undergraduate and postgraduate level, as well as experience co-supervising MSc and PhD students will be a plus.

The overall purpose of the job is to co-ordinate all aspects of the study, including managing the research team. Position allocated will depend on relevant experience.The National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) funded Recovery Colleges Characterisation and Testin olleges and to identify how they can be optimised to maximise the benefit they confer to people who use mental health services. Recovery Colleges provide adult education to mental health service users, carers and staff, to support personal recovery (living as well as possible) and the recovery orientation of staff and affiliated services (supporting illness self-management and community participation). They are run jointly by mental health professionals and people with personal experience of mental illness.

We are seeking to recruit a Research Associate, as a key member of KHP DHH, with a background in Digital Product Design, Interaction Design, Service Design or related fields (e.g. Human-Computer Interaction, Experience Design, Sustainable Design). You will have strong practical design skills and experience of advising on a range of projects, alongside experience of co-designing digital interventions with diverse stakeholder communities. The post-holder will be based in Engineering, working across the Faculty of Natural, Mathematical & Engineering Sciences (NMES), Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing & Midwifery (NMPC) and the School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences (BMEIS) in the Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine (FoLSM), with a physical teamwork location at the London Institute for Healthcare Engineering (LIHE), St Thomas’ campus. This post holder will work closely with Professor Wei Liu (Engineering, NMES), together with Professor Glenn Robert (Methodologies, NMPC) and Professor Louise Rose (Applied Technologies for Clinical Care, NMPC) to achieve the Co-Creation pillar of the KHP DHH.  

King’s College London is seeking a quantitative social or behavioural science post-doctoral researcher for their XCEPT project. The qualified applicant will hold a PhD and have extensive experience in inferential statistics in social or behavioural science research. The candidate will ideally have experience in mixed methods behavioural research. They will be expected to take the lead on inferential statistical analyses on large-scale longitudinal psychometric surveys and randomised control trial studies. Demonstrated skills in structural equation modelling, factor analysis, multiple regressions, cluster analysis, mixed effect models, multi-level models, latent class models, and other relevant analyses are required. The researcher will also be heavily involved in project management. They must be London-based or be willing to relocate to London.  XCEPT is a FCDO funded multi-partner research project that examines issues related to conflict in fragile and conflict affected states (FCAS). KCL’s component of XCEPT is led by the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR).   

The School of Security Studies wishes to recruit a postdoctoral researcher to join a growing team in the Freeman Air and Space Institute (FASI) during an exciting period in its development. The postholder will be responsible for conducting original research and analysis of current and emerging air and space issues, and working with two co-Directors  and other staff to support FASI’s growing portfolio of activities. The position will be based in the Department of War Studies on the Strand Campus at King’s, and will work across the School, including with colleagues based in the Defence Studies Department at Shrivenham, near Swindon. Examples of relevant subject matter for the post include: air and space strategy, doctrine and operations; integrated air and missile defence; future combat air and space power; artificial intelligence and air/space operations; deterrence in the air and space domains; and the public-private dimensions of air and space policy and procurement.