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

One focus of our research is the exploitation of antibiotic natural products and their biosynthesis towards the development of new compounds.  This 1 year postdoctoral position is funded by an MRC impact acceleration award. It aims to build on our recent work (in review) to develop novel methodology towards peptide natural product derivatives to tackle antimicrobial resistance.  

This project is an exciting opportunity to be involved in an interdisciplinary team. It will involve generating a peptide library and screening it this against a known protein target. The project is in collaboration with Prof. Rivka Isaacson (KCL chemistry) and Prof. Tim McHugh (UCL, microbiology).

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. 

Applicants should have already completed, or be close to completing, a PhD in a relevant discipline. (Applicants who have not yet completed a PhD will be appointed at the top of grade 5 as per King’s HR regulations). Applicants should have an outstanding research track record in cryptography. Applicants should be able to demonstrate scientific creativity, research independence, and the ability to communicate their ideas effectively in written and verbal form. 

We are seeking a Research Fellow to focus on digital therapeutics and health apps. This role emphasizes the development and application of digital health tools, including health apps and digital therapeutics, for health monitoring, diagnostics, and intervention. The successful candidate will be involved in innovative projects that integrate digital technology, data science, and AI to enhance evidence-based health outcomes using health apps and digital therapeutic approaches.

We are seeking of an outstanding and enthusiastic individual with an interest in statistics/data science, epidemiology (enviromental), and population mental health research to work on an exciting programme of inter-disciplinary research funded by Wellcome. The first aim of the research is to explore the impacts of extreme ambient heat and other environmental stressors on the mental health of urban communities. The second aim is to investigate the possible mitigation of these impacts by different types of urban green spaces.

Applications are invited for the prestigious King’s College London Prize Fellowships. These fellowships seek to recruit outstanding postdoctoral basic or translational scientists who are looking to establish their own independent research careers. These awards will provide a generous salary plus running expenses (c£20K) for 24 months.  They will enable appointees to establish their own research programme at King’s and to compete for intermediate-level post-doctoral fellowships from Research Councils, the Wellcome Trust and other funders. The awards may be held in any part of King’s College London but must be focused on biomedical or health-related research.

This is an exciting opportunity for a post-doctoral researcher interested in Public and Patient Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) in research to make a difference in the Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre in Mental Health at the South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience as our Research Coordinator. Our BRC believes in putting the service user voice at the heart of research, so we are looking for a person committed to coordinate service user involvement in our BRC and in our research. We conduct research from service users’ perspectives so that the results can be easily translated into beneficial clinical care. In addition to specific mental health research, the post-holder will help to facilitate and develop patient and public involvement across the Maudsley BRC.

The role offers an exciting opportunity to undertake internationally-leading research in the field of Optical Wireless Communication as part of the EPSRC funded Platform Driving The Ultimate Connectivity (TITAN) project. 

TITAN aims to conduct unique and highly transformative research on the interfaces of classic communication network elements to achieve the seamless, open and fully integrated network of networks. TITAN brings together 17 universities that individually lead research in crucial segments of communication networks and engages with industry to translate research into future products and provide crucial input for the development of new policies. 

Within TITAN, you will be part of the Optical Wireless Networks Integration lighthouse project. This lighthouse project focuses on optical wireless communication networks across multiple environments and all architectural elements while exploiting the sensing capabilities of optical signals. 

We are advertising for a two-year Post-Doc position at King’s College London to work with Professor Osvaldo Simeone on neuromorphic computing for wireless communications. The post will be based at the Centre for Intelligent Information Processing (CIIPS) and at the King’s Communications, Learning, and Information Processing lab (see https://blogs.kcl.ac.uk/kclip/) within the Department of Engineering.  The department is located at the Strand campus of King’s, located in the centre of London. 

You will be a conscientious, innovative scientist who has successfully completed a PhD (or equivalent) in computer science, Telecoms, and engineering including electrical/electronic engineering or similar. Experience in federated learning/deep reinforcement learning is preferred. 

At King’s, you will join a research-leading and multi-disciplinary team led by Dr Yansha Deng. You will be based in the Centre for Telecommunications Research group at the Department of Engineering.

We are recruiting postdoctoral research associates who will work on a large-scale research programme “Challenges in Immersive Audio Technology (CIAT)” conducted in collaboration between King’s College London, University of Southampton and University of Surrey.  There are 6 positions available, two at each university.

We are looking to appoint a Post-doctoral Research focusing on illicit and non-medical use of drugs research. The person appointed will be based in the Addictions Department at King’s College London (KCL) and will report to Professor Sir John Strang (‘drugs’ lead for the PRU), through whom there will be accountability to the PRU’s management team. The appointee will also work with Dr Tom Freeman (deputy PPIE lead, and based at the University of Bath), with specific working responsibilities for individual studies likely influenced by specific areas of expertise (e.g. John Strang with strength on opiates and harm reduction and public policy; Tom Freeman with strength on cannabis and public health and policy). You will be part of a team of pre- and post-doctoral researchers, collaborating with colleagues across the PRU working in various universities, clinical groups and service providers, commissioners and policymakers across the UK.

An exceptional opportunity has arisen for a highly skilled quantitative researcher specialising in evidence synthesis or digital health and computer science to provide crucial support to the Global Atopic Dermatitis Atlas (GADA) project.

GADA is a flagship international project under the leadership of Professor Carsten Flohr, Chair in Dermatology and Population Health Sciences at King’s College London.

We are seeking an experienced, highly skilled and motivated postdoctoral researcher to work on an exciting research programme: Improving Communication with Adults with Learning Disabilities (ICALD).

Based at Evelina London Children’s Hospital and sponsored by South London and Maudsley NHS Trust (SLAM) in collaboration with KCL, ICALD is a multi-disciplinary and cross institution programme of research bringing together psychology, psychiatry, speech and language therapy, economics, statistics and social sciences. We want to learn from individuals with learning disabilities, their families and from staff working in social care what they would find helpful in improving the use of communication strategies for people with very little or no speech in the context of their home. This information will help us to improve staff training and provide the right support after the training. All stakeholders such as people with learning disabilities, families, care staff and professionals providing training and therapy will be actively involved in ICALD from start to finish.

As a Bioinformatician in the Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics at King’s College London, you will play a pivotal role in advancing our understanding of common and rare bone and joint diseases, with a particular focus on ankylosing spondylitis. Joining the esteemed research group led by Professors Matt Brown and Emma Duncan, you will contribute to groundbreaking genetic analyses that aim to unravel the intricate complexities of these debilitating conditions.

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Postdoc Fellowship Position summary/title: Research Associate (ER-mitochondria signaling in dementia) in the Department of Basic & Clinical Neuroscience

Deadline :08 January 2024.

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Applications are invited for a postdoctoral research associate to be based in the Department of Basic and Clinical Neuroscience at King’s College London. The post is funded by the Alzheimer’s Research UK for at least 18 months and will investigate the role of defective endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-mitochondria signaling in dementia and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). ER-mitochondria signaling and its role in dementia/ALS are highly topical areas of research and the grant holders have made major contributions to these fields. The successful applicant will join a multi-disciplinary group that seeks to understand the mechanisms by which ER-mitochondria signaling is perturbed in dementia/ALS and how correcting damaged ER-mitochondria signaling might be therapeutic for these major diseases. 

The bioinformatician will work under the supervision of Dr. Alessandra Vigilante, Senior Lecturer in Bioinformatics, and Professor Carsten Flohr, Chair in Dermatology and Population Health Science and Mind & Skin Chief Investigator, and be embedded in the new KCL Hub for Applied Bioinformatics (HAB). S/he will provide support in the data integration analyses as well as statistical analysis of data. The main purpose of the role encompasses performing data integration and statistical analysis while offering comprehensive data-driven decision support by overseeing the cleaning, integration, and analysis of diverse datasets. This crucially involves collaborating closely with the interdisciplinary team to ensure the harmonization and cleanliness of multiple datasets, with the ultimate goal of uncovering connections between adolescent skin disorders, sleep disruptions, and altered brain function in the ‘Mind & Skin’ research programme.

We look for an ambitious candidate with established expertise in bioinformatics, specifically dealing with large data sets and data integration. Knowledge of python and R are essential.

We are seeking of an outstanding and enthusiastic individual with an interest in stasistics/data science, epidemiology (enviromental), and population mental health research to work on an exciting programme of inter-disciplinary research funded by Wellcome. The first aim of the research is to explore the impacts of extreme ambient heat and other environmental stressors on the mental health of urban communities. The second aim is to investigate the possible mitigation of these impacts by different types of urban green spaces.

The post will be based across two departments; Health Service and Population Research Department (HSPR) and Department of Psychosis Studies. The post is initially available for 12 months (Grade 6) from January 2024 or as soon as possible thereafter. The Research Associate will join a multidisciplinary team of public mental health researchers, epidemiologists, biostatisticians, psychologists, data scientists, envriomental exposure modellers, database managers from the two departments.

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced researcher, holding a PhD in biophysics, biochemistry  or related disciplines that has experience and is interested in different aspects of single molecule mechanobiology. The candidate will work with single molecule AFM and magnetic tweezers to study the nanomechanical properties of cell-cell junction proteins. 

The project is funded by a BBSRC sLOLA programme. The project will be developed between the Francis Crick Institute and the Department of Physics at King’s College London. 

This project, funded by the BBSRC, aims to understand how cells regulate membrane thickness and how this affects membrane-dependent processes, including those involving the cytoskeleton like cell division and movement. In collaboration with Prof. Stefan Howorka’s lab at UCL, we are developing sensors of membrane thickness, based on DNA nanotechnology. The researcher on this project will apply our successful prototypes to study membrane biology and will be involved in the development of new sensors, including organelle-specific versions. The Research Associate in this post will use techniques such as cell biology, imaging, biophysics and lipidomics.

A PhD in a relevant discipline is required (or applicant to be near completion) and an excellent publication record and presentation skills are essential. Applicants with experience in membrane/lipid biology, the cytoskeleton and/or lipidomics are particularly welcome.

The project spans several topics including Brauer groups, Brauer–Manin obstructions, and the frequency of failure of local-global principles in families of varieties and number fields. It also includes applications of p-adic geometry to the study of Brauer–Manin obstructions and rational points on varieties. The postdoctoral research associate will contribute to appropriate strands of the project according to their background and interests. Those interests may be in arithmetic geometry, arithmetic statistics and/or analytic number theory.

The number theory group at King’s currently consists of David Burns, Lassina Dembélé, Fred Diamond, Netan Dogra, Natalie Evans, Peter Jossen, Payman Kassaei, Asuka Kumon, Steve Lester, Rachel Newton, Owen Patashnick, Beth Romano, Aled Walker and Igor Wigman, as well as several postdoctoral researchers and PhD students. We also benefit from being part of the wider London number theory community, with the London Number Theory Seminar and associated study groups hosted by Imperial, King’s and UCL.

The King’s College London British Heart Foundation (BHF) Centre of Research Excellence is designed to drive translation of world-leading basic science into advances in clinical practice, focussing on cardiac and vascular biomedicine. The School of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine & Sciences (SCMMS) is a core constituent of this BHF Centre which has strong connections with many other research departments both outside and within King’s. This position seeks to appoint a highly-motivated scientist to join a BHF-funded, collaborative project in the laboratories of Dr Alison Brewer (https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/alison-brewer) and Dr Aleks Ivetic (https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/aleksandar-ivetic) who are principle investigators in the SCMMS together with that of Dr Perucha (https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/espeperucha) who is a principal investigator in the Centre for Inflammation Biology and Cancer Immunology at King’s. We are seeking an experienced researcher with a biomolecular and cellular background who will pursue collaborative research with a project focus on understanding the epigenetic molecular mechanisms driving vascular disease. The post holder will be investigating the physiological role of DNA methylation in the maintenance of vascular homeostasis and its pathological dysregulation in the development of inflammation leading to vascular disease. In particular, the role of the demethylating enzymatic systems, notably TET2, in modulating the endothelial cell phenotype will be the focus of the investigation.

You will join the UKRI-funded research project, QUALREP, The Quality of Women’s Political Representation, originally awarded by the European Research Council. You will be responsible for the case study of Poland.

QUALREP is a five-year, £5million research project. Through thick comparison involving qualitative and quantitative methods, it will identify the conditions under which women, and especially marginalized and minoritized women, are well represented in and by through representative democracy. Evidence showing how and when women in their diversity can be well represented is needed to strengthen democratic institutions and processes to enable the promise of democracy to be more fully realised. QUALREP addresses this need by conducting a theoretically driven analysis of the quality of women’s representation, attentive to intersectional and ideological diversity, with particular concern for the most marginalised women, across five European nations, selected to represent variation in gendered welfare regimes: Belgium; Poland; Portugal, Sweden, and the UK.

We are seeking to appoint a biophysicist or a cell/molecular biologist (preferably with a PhD in Physics, Cell/Molecular Biology, Chemistry, Biochemistry, Bioengineering or related disciplines) with proved experience in any area of mechanobiology.  

This project aims to investigate the molecular mechanisms by which extracellular mechanical forces travel long distances inside the cell to reach the nucleus on biologically-relevant timescales, and how mechanical forces activate force-induced transcriptional programmes. The project can be attacked from different perspectives (single molecule, single cell, or tissue level) but in all cases requires extensive experience in the relevant mechanical techniques, according to each relevant length-scale. The project is funded by the Leverhulme Trust.[A1]  The project will be developed between the Francis Crick Institute and the Department of Physics at King’s College London. 

Applications are invited for two postdoctoral research associate positions in Dr. Angika Basant’s group at the Randall Centre for Cell and Molecular Biophysics, King’s College London.

The Basant group, funded by a grant from the Wellcome Trust, seeks to understand how tyrosine phosphatases regulate cell signalling. This large family of enzymes has been highly understudied compared to its kinase counterpart. We investigate these phosphatases in the context of signalling to the actin cytoskeleton and in virus-infected cells.

Applications are invited for a post-doctoral research associate to work with Netan Dogra on the Royal Society funded project “Diophantine geometry, modular forms and fundamental groups”. This is a one-year position which includes a travel budget. The post is available from the 1st of October 2024. 

The PDRA will be expected to work on extensions of applications of p-adic integration to the Diophantine geometry of modular curves and Shimura varieties. These extensions would be developed by establishing links with the theory of p-adic modular forms, p-adic integration on modular curves, the p-adic Hodge theory of varieties with bad reduction, and explicit/computational methods for p-adic cohomology and isocrystals. In particular, the PDRA would be expected to have expertise in at least one of these areas. 

Applications are invited for a postdoctoral position to work on single protein nanomechanics in the Department of Physics at King’s College London. This post is an ERC-awarded project funded by the UKRI Horizon Europe guarantee. 

In this role, you will develop and employ cutting-edge force spectroscopy techniques to unravel the molecular mechanisms governing key mechanotransduction processes in focal and fibrillar adhesions. Specifically, your research will focus on studying, from a single-molecule perspective, how post-translational modifications finely tune the activity of force-sensing proteins, such as talin, FAK, or tensin.  

The role is to perform radionuclide production research and provide expertise as a radiochemist or cyclotron targetry specialist within a multidisciplinary team of organic and inorganic chemists and radiochemists, nanodrug and cell therapy researchers, and molecular imaging biologists.

King’s College has established an EPSRC funded research-dedicated cyclotron and radiochemistry laboratory, the CARL Facility, accessible to research users to produce radionuclides and incorporate them into radiotracers for preclinical research. The CARL Facility is embedded within a wider collaborative network comprising the Imaging Chemistry and Biology Department and the PET centre at the School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences at King’s, and a network of major internal and external collaborations with other major London universities and hospitals.

The Department of Mathematics at King’s College London invites applications for 1 postdoctoral research associate position for a duration of 27 months starting in October 2024. The successful candidate will be affiliated with the Quantitative and Digital Law Lab [https://quantlaw.co.uk] to do theoretical and data-driven research in collaboration with Dr Pierpaolo Vivo and Dr Alessia Annibale on several projects at the interface between complexity science, statistical physics and network theory to address legal, political and socio-economic issues.

This postdoctoral role is a great position with which to apply biological in vivo skills to several questions relating to novel cell-based anti-cancer therapies and understanding how immune cells migrate through the body. It is funded by the EPSRC Research Programme on Next Generation of Molecular Imaging and Therapy with Radionuclides ( MITHRAS) and aims to study the biological effects within a variety of cells, e.g. T cells and stem cells, labelled with radioactive radionuclides and to quantify the minimum level of radioactive cells administered into animals that can still be picked up by non-invasive imaging using preclinical positron emission tomography (PET).

The Department of Political Economy (DPE) is looking for a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the field of climate adaptation policy, for a period of 10 months, starting on 1 March 2024 (1.0 FTE). The successful candidate will collaborate with Dr Francesca Pia Vantaggiato (DPE) and Dr James Porter (Geography) on a comparative assessment of climate adaptation measures adopted at local government level in the four nations of the UK. The successful candidate will be centrally involved in all aspects of the research, including research design, data collection and analysis, production of the research outputs, coordination and collaboration with partners and stakeholders, and writing external grant applications to extend the research.  

This is an exciting opportunity to gain and develop research skills. The successful candidate will play a key role in innovative studies taking an exciting new immunologically-focussed approach to understanding and treating neuropsychiatric disorders. They will join Dr Tom Pollak’s research group. 

Our team believes the immune system may hold clues to how psychosis and other psychiatric disorders are caused and how people respond to treatments. We will investigate blood and cerebrospinal fluid from patients, and use machine-learning to identify the treatment-relevant immune processes, with an emphasis on immune cells, autoantibodies and inflammatory markers. If we can show causal links, our work could guide future targeted immune-based interventions.