Natural Sciences Jobs

Fully Funded PhD Studentship (Home Fees)

Project Title: Developing Fair and Robust Cancer Risk Prediction Models Using Health Data

Supervisor: Professor Angela Wood (Professor of Biostatistics and Health Data Science)

Start date: January 2027 (or earlier)

We are offering an exciting fully funded PhD studentship at the University of Cambridge, embedded within Cancer Data Driven Detection (CD3) - a major £10 million national research programme bringing together leading experts in cancer epidemiolog...

Dr Tristan Sjoeberg Postgraduate Scholarship

Primary Supervisor - Professor Dorothee Bakker

**Scientific background **

The Southern Ocean takes up about 10% of the carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted by human activity, thus slowing down climate change. Investigation of the unique year-round Rothera CO2 timeseries (2010-2020) has highlighted how wintertime sea ice cover controls CO2 uptake by Antarctic coastal waters [1]. Rapid sea ice decline, strong glacial melt and warming raise concerns on how these cl...

This 3.5-year PhD project is fully funded; students who are eligible to pay tuition fees at the Home rate are eligible to apply (more details can be found here). The successful candidate will receive an annual tax-free stipend set at the UKRI rate (£21,805 for 2026/27) and tuition fees will be paid. The start can be September 2026, January 2027, April 2027 or July 2027.

We recommend that you apply early as the advert may be removed before the deadline.

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About the role:

The role will engage in translational research developing AI tools for rapid assessment of fetal heart anatomy and function from echocardiography images. It utilizes such tools to assess a type of advanced fetal heart intervention, fetal aortic valvuloplasty, where catheters are used to relieve flow obstruction in the fetal heart to avoid a progression to congenital heart malformation at birth. It will further develop a computational model for better patient selection.

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The Tucker lab is looking for a research technician to work on a project funded by the Medical Research Council (MRC). The post is for three years to study the function of the junctional epithelium using mouse models. The selected applicant will join the vibrant and friendly Tucker lab and work as part of a team interacting with the group of Dr Emily Lu. The Tucker and Lu labs are part of the internationally acclaimed Centre for Craniofacial and Regenerative Biology and Centre for Host-m...

We are seeking to appoint a talented and ambitious Postdoctoral Research Assistant interested in studying the molecular mechanisms of Salmonella pathogenesis, with a particular focus on the role of multidrug efflux pumps as virulence determinants. You will report to Dr Ilyas Alav, a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow. As well as joining the dynamic research community at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, you will be part of a larger Salmonella and host-pathogen research group led by Prof. Ter...

This 0.5 FTE part-time post is immediately available. This post is offered as a fixed term contract and is funded by UKRI until 30 November 2028, subject to finalisation of contracts/collaboration agreement.

The Role

The European Centre for Environment and Human Health part of the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences wishes to recruit a 0.5 FTE Postdoctoral Research Fellow to participate in METIUS (mobilising evidence through artificial intelligence and user informed synthesis) project funded by UK...

We are seeking a brilliant post-doctoral researcher to lead on a range of innovative epi-/genetics and neuroimaging projects related to an ERC/UKRI-funded 5-year project on BrainHealth.

The post is available as either a Grade 7 Research Associate or Grade 8 Research Fellow post, dependent on skills and experience.

About the role

The project, led by Dr Esther Walton, aims to map how our epigenome and brain ages; and how this links to lifelong mental health.

Whereas most studies to date have focused o...

Motivation

Achieving reliable, high-performance fusion requires a predictive understanding of turbulence and instability dynamics at the tokamak edge, where fluctuations spread nonlocally and strongly influence pedestal structure, confinement, and the approach to disruptive events. These processes are difficult to diagnose experimentally and too computationally intensive to model in real time with first-principles simulations, motivating new approaches that blend physics-based modelling with mode...

**Application deadline: **31/05/2026
**Research theme: **Metallic materials
How to apply: https://uom.link/pgr-apply-2425

UK only

This 3.5-year PhD project is fully funded and home students are eligible to apply. The successful candidate will receive an annual tax-free stipend set at the UKRI rate (£20,780 for 2025/26) and tuition fees will be paid. We expect the stipend to increase each year. The start date is October 2026.

We recommend that you apply early as the advert may be removed before the de...

Jochen Blumberger at the Condensed Matter and Materials Physics Laboratory, University College London, UK.

Interested candidates may want to work on one of the following two projects.

Project 1: Machine Learning Molecular Dynamics.

The project involves the** development and application of machine learning methods that enable a major boost of the time and length scales accessible to ab-initio/first principles molecular dynamics simulations.** You will contribute to the development of novel work flow...

Large-scale wind turbines, specifically located offshore, present very specific technical challenges. Structural design and optimisation of performance in energy conversion are dependent on a correct estimation of the effects of flow, but scale and interaction between devices have a significant impact.

In this project you will work on and develop numerical modelling capabilities for arrays of turbines with non-homogeneous flows and wake effects. The modelling technology will be leveraged to devel...

Supervisor: Dr Ravindra Desai, University of Warwick

Space weather is driven by eruptions of plasma from the Sun’s surface called coronal mass ejections. Upon arrival at Earth, these not only extend the northern and southern lights to low latitudes but can knock out satellites, communications and entire power grids. Extreme events with low return periods are especially important for power plants where 1 in 10,000 year risk levels are required to be mitigated for. Through collaboration with EDF En...

The global need for researchers with capabilities in materials chemistry, digital intelligence and automation is intensifying because of the growing challenge posed by Net Zero and the need for high-performance materials across multiple sectors. The disruptive nature of recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, and emerging quantum computing offers timely and exciting opportunities for PhD graduates with these skills to make a transformative impact on both R&D and society more b...

Fixed-term: The funds for this post are available for 2 years in the first instance.

Applications are invited for an experimental researcher post available from July 2026 for 2 years. The researcher will be part of the NanoPhotonics group, which looks at nanoscale assembly and NanoPhotonics interactions. The candidate will join a dynamic and diverse team that values collaboration. The role holder will develop novel infrared spectroscopy on self-assembled plasmonic nanocavities to study nonlinear ...