External Fellowship Applicants
The University of Aberdeen welcomes expressions of interest from external applicants to UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships and other independent fellowship schemes including EU Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships.
The University is committed to equality of opportunity, to eliminating discrimination and to creating an inclusive working environment. We strongly encourage candidates irrespective of age, disability, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion and belief, gender identity, sex, or sexual orientation.
The University of Aberdeen is a research-intensive university with an equal commitment to excellence in education and in research. We are seeking to appoint people who will help us achieve our goals. We'll consider supporting applications in any area of our research aligned to our strategic priorities.
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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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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”).
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.
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.
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.
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.