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Research Fellow, Engineering

The research fellow post is for the EU Horizon Europe project “MoWiLife” (Condition Monitoring and Wide bandgap power electronics – Leading Innovations For the European Energy sector). MoWiLIfe (2024-2027) builds 4 demonstrators utilising latest SiC MOSFET devices, including: 2 wind generator converters, MV DC-DC converter, and a 5 kV Medium Voltage DC Circuit Breaker. The consortium is led by Rostock University and involves 9 partners.

School/Section
Engineering
Division
Unspecified
Staff Category
Research
Position Type
Full Time
Grade
Grade 6
Salary
£37,999 - £41,421
Ref No
ENG230RX
Closing Date
06-JAN-2025

Research Fellow, Medicine, Medical Sciences & Nutrition

THE ROWETT INSTITUTE, UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN and the Aberdeen-based Microbiology/Biotechnology company NCIMB will work together to further fundamental and applied research to enhance current knowledge about host-microbe interactions in the human gut that contribute to human health. The project aims to investigate interactions between a novel bacterial co-culture and specific prebiotic substrates. This will lead to generation of a novel synbiotic product to boost gut health and immune function specifically targeted at the ageing population. 

School/Section
Medicine, Medical Sciences & Nutrition
Division
Rowett Institute of Nutrition & Health
Staff Category
Research
Position Type
Part Time
Grade
Grade 6
Salary
£37,999 - £39,105
Ref No
ROW132R
Closing Date
09-JAN-2025

Advanced Research Fellow, Language, Literature, Music and Visual Culture

The Centre for Multilingual Research at the University of Aberdeen (CMLR) promotes and disseminates interdisciplinary and transnational research carried out across a range of language disciplines including but not limited to Arabic, Chinese, Francophone Studies, Gaelic, German, Spanish and Latin American Studies and Translation and Interpreting Studies. The Centre also contributes to the University’s Interdisciplinary Challenge area of Social Inclusion and Cultural Diversity. For the SSHRC-funded project Visual Storytelling and Graphic Art in Genocide and Human Rights Education the Centre is looking for a part time post-doctoral researcher supporting the project’s Rwanda cluster, co-led by Dr Erin Jessee (University of Glasgow) and Dr Fransiska Louwagie (University of Aberdeen).

School/Section
Language, Literature, Music and Visual Culture
Division
Unspecified
Staff Category
Research
Position Type
Part Time
Grade
Grade 7
Salary
pro rata
Ref No
LAN141R
Closing Date
06-JAN-2025

Clinical Lecturer / Teaching Fellow in Primary Dental Care, Medicine, Medical Sciences & Nutrition

Applications are invited from suitably qualified General Dental Surgeons for the full or part-time post of Clinical Lecturer or Clinical Teaching Fellow in Primary Care Dentistry. These roles are ideal for skilled General Dental Practitioners who would like to expand their clinical portfolio by teaching and favourably influencing the education of the next generation of dentists whilst developing professional relationships with colleagues. Part-time sessions will be timetabled to complement existing teaching clinics which follow a regular weekly pattern.

School/Section
Medicine, Medical Sciences & Nutrition
Division
Institute of Dentistry
Staff Category
Academic
Position Type
Full Time
Grade
Clinical Lecturer
Salary
£43,504 - £82,664
Ref No
DEN052A
Closing Date
06-JAN-2025

Administrator (National Decommissioning Centre), Engineering

This is an exciting opportunity to join an R&D intensive centre which has built a strong reputation for successfully delivering key projects and technology developments for the energy sector both nationally and internationally.

School/Section
Engineering
Division
Engineering School Administration
Staff Category
Research
Position Type
Full Time
Grade
Grade 5
Salary
£32,296 - £35,880
Ref No
ENG232S
Closing Date
05-JAN-2025

Research Fellow, Psychology

Applications are invited for a full-time Research Fellow position at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, to work with Dr Mauro Manassi on a project funded by the ESRC (project title: “Serial Effects in Visual Perception: Towards an Operational Definition and a Unifying Model”).

School/Section
Psychology
Division
Unspecified
Staff Category
Research
Position Type
Full Time
Grade
Grade 6
Salary
£37,999 - £40,247
Ref No
PSY067R
Closing Date
06-JAN-2025

Research Fellow, Medicine, Medical Sciences & Nutrition

The Sutherland lab, based at the University of Aberdeen, studies lung diseases at the interface between immunology and extracellular matrix biology. We are seeking to appoint a highly motivated, creative and experienced research fellow to be part of an exciting collaborative research programme studying IL-13 immune regulation of hyaluronan extracellular matrices during lung injury, repair and chronic pathology. This project will work closely alongside an established collaborative team at the University of Manchester and the University of Virginia and is supported by a Wellcome Discovery Award.

School/Section
Medicine, Medical Sciences & Nutrition
Division
Institute of Medical Sciences
Staff Category
Research
Position Type
Full Time
Grade
Grade 6
Salary
£37,999 - £40,247
Ref No
IMS301R
Closing Date
06-JAN-2025

Lecturer/Senior Lecturer Roles (Finance), Qatar Campus

AFG College with the University of Aberdeen is an established and exciting higher education partnership forged in 2017. The partnership has created the first UK University in the State of Qatar offering mainstream degrees outside   of Qatar Foundation. We celebrated our first cohort of graduates in 2019 and have seen significant growth in student numbers. We are committed to supporting the Aberdeen 2040 agenda https://www.abdn.ac.uk/2040/ in addition to the Qatar National Vision 2030.

School/Section
Qatar Campus
Division
Unspecified
Staff Category
Academic
Position Type
Full Time
Grade
Not Applicable
Salary
n/a
Ref No
QAT010A
Closing Date
18-DEC-2024

Research Fellow, Medicine, Medical Sciences & Nutrition

We seek a Research Fellow to work on mechanisms of human chromosome stability in the laboratory of Professor Anne Donaldson & Dr Shin-ichiro Hiraga.  The successful candidate will join a well-funded, dynamic research team within an interactive group of laboratories sharing an interest in chromosome biology.

School/Section
Medicine, Medical Sciences & Nutrition
Division
Institute of Medical Sciences
Staff Category
Research
Position Type
Full Time
Grade
Grade 6
Salary
£37,999 - £41,421
Ref No
IMS292RX
Closing Date
06-JAN-2025

Research Fellow, Medicine, Medical Sciences & Nutrition

We seek a Research Fellow to work on mechanisms of chromosome maintenance in the laboratory of Professor Anne Donaldson & Dr Shin-ichiro Hiraga.  The successful candidate will join a well-funded, dynamic research team within an interactive group of laboratories sharing an interest in chromosome biology.

School/Section
Medicine, Medical Sciences & Nutrition
Division
Institute of Medical Sciences
Staff Category
Research
Position Type
Full Time
Grade
Grade 6
Salary
£37,999 - £41,421
Ref No
IMS291RX
Closing Date
06-JAN-2025