Research Fellow in Bioanalytical Chemistry

Salary: As this vacancy has limited funding the maximum salary that can be offered is Grade 7, salary £36,924

Contract Type: Fixed Term contract up to May 2027 

Background

The School of Chemistry at the University of Birmingham is a vibrant and thriving academic community, with over 110 academic and research staff, 20 professional services staff and over 600 students. We provide an inclusive and supportive environment where we strive to support every member of staff in realising their career potential. With a strong focus on our four Research Themes of Energy, Sustainability, Environment and Health, and a number of interdisciplinary Interest Groups serving as testbeds to explore new and emerging areas of interest, Birmingham is a dynamic place to work. We have ambitious plans to expand our research activity and are in an exciting period of growth: major investment from the University has delivered a state-of-the-art molecular sciences research building. This investment builds on a major recent expansion of our academic staff and investment in our teaching and learning provision, with our Collaborative Teaching Laboratory, which opened September 2018, already revolutionising how we teach undergraduate practical chemistry.

We are a collegiate School community. You will demonstrate academic citizenship, develop and maintain generous, mutually respectful and supportive working relationships with the School, ensuring the way you carry out your role impacts positively on how others carry out theirs.

Main Duties

• Collect, analyse, and interpret research data; this may be through a variety of research methods, such as scientific experimentation, literature reviews, and research interviews
• Apply knowledge in a way which develops new intellectual understanding
• Contribute to developing ideas, directions, research objectives, models, techniques, and methods
• Contribute to Departmental/School research-related activities and research-related administration
• Contribute to enterprise, business development and/or public engagement activities of manifest benefit to the College and the University, often under supervision of a project leader
• Disseminate research findings for publication, research seminars etc
• Supervise/guide students on research related work and provide guidance to PhD students where appropriate to the discipline
• Undertake management/administration arising from research
• Deal with problems that may affect the achievement of research objectives and deadlines
• Develop research objectives and proposals for own or joint research, with assistance of a mentor if required
• Contribute to writing bids for research funding
• Analyse and interpret data

Person Specification

• Completed a PhD (or near to completion) in Chemistry, or equivalent qualifications
• Significant experience in using UV-Vis absorption and fluorescence spectrometers, and microplate readers
• Experience in handling biological samples and performing enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISA)
• Experience of purification and characterisation (e.g., HPLC, NMR, IR, MS) methods, and formation of materials including polymers and hydrogels without and with dyes/fluorophores/probes
• Experience in electrospinning and/or microfluidics
• Interest in interdisciplinary research and willingness to learn new techniques
• Ability to keep up to date with new developments in relevant research fields
• Ability to work both independently and as part of a team, both as a leader and team member, on research programmes

Informal enquiries can be made to Dr Ruchi Gupta, email: r.gupta.3@bham.ac.uk 

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