PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in Biophysics in United Kingdom

The University of Bristol is accepting applications for a funded PhD investigating how free fatty acids regulate beta-coronavirus infection. Co-supervised by Christiane Berger-Schaffitzel, Andrew Davidson, Harriet Mears and Paul Verkade, the project will examine how free fatty acids influence coronavirus infection, replication and evolution. It builds on the discovery of a conserved fatty acid-binding pocket in the coronavirus spike protein. The research combines structural biology, electron cry...

[PhD studentship funded by BBSRC through the Midlands Integrated Biosciences Training Partnership, in partnership with the University of Warwick, University of Birmingham, Aston University, Harper Adams University, Coventry University, and the University of Leicester.] PhD studentship at the University of Birmingham on understanding and modulating protein-protein interactions (PPIs) involving intrinsically disordered regions . The project is designed to develop new approaches for targeting chall...

The University of Birmingham is seeking a Research Fellow to join the Morris lab in the Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences, School of Medical Sciences. Based in Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom, the full-time fixed-term position runs through November 2029 and is supported by a Wellcome Trust Discovery Award . The research focuses on fundamental mechanisms of DNA replication , DNA damage and repair , and the regulation of replication fork transitions. The successful researcher will in...

[4-year Norwich Research Park Biosciences Doctoral Training Partnership PhD studentship. Includes payment of tuition fees, a stipend of £21,805 for 2026/27, and a Research Training Support Grant of £5,000 per year.] PhD studentship at the University of East Anglia on cracking the carbohydrate code : how carbohydrate-binding modules control starch digestion. This project sits at the intersection of food science, carbohydrate biochemistry, biophysics, and advanced spectroscopy. It addresses a majo...

[Studentship provides full fees and a stipend of £21,805 per annum for 2026/7; funded by EPSRC.] University of Exeter PhD studentship in In Silico Directed Evolution of Biological Qubits: Rational Design of Nanoscale Quantum Transducers . This project sits at the interface of quantum biology, protein engineering, computational chemistry, and AI-driven molecular design. The research aims to move beyond passive fluorescence-based quantum sensing toward active biological transduction , where geneti...

King’s College London is recruiting a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Medicinal Chemistry within the Institute of Pharmaceutical Science and the Centre for Host-Microbiome Interactions . The project is a multidisciplinary drug-discovery collaboration between Professor Miraz Rahman and Professor Julian Naglik focused on discovering and optimising peptide and peptidomimetic inhibitors that neutralise candidalysin , a key virulence factor from Candida albicans . The post is based at Waterloo Cam...

PhD opportunity in Engineering Biology at the University of Bristol , offered in collaboration with Prof Dek Woolfson through the SWBio DTP . The project is titled Engineering co-translational protein assembly using de novo designed proteins (Project ID: 3544). It asks how proteins assemble while being synthesised on the ribosome, building on advances in protein structure prediction such as AlphaFold and focusing on the folding and assembly of de novo designed coiled-coil proteins during transla...

[Fees plus a stipend of £21,805 per annum for 2026/7; funded by EPSRC.] PhD Studentship at the University of Exeter in the Physics department on an ambitious project to build a polarisation-resolved nonlinear microscope with true 3D vectorial control of the focal field. This studentship is aimed at a candidate interested in advanced optical instrumentation, structured light, nonlinear microscopy, and the physics of biological tissue. The project will focus on polarisation-resolved second-harmoni...

University of Oxford is advertising a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Structural Mass Spectrometry within the Department of Biochemistry in Oxford, United Kingdom. The post sits in the Newstead group and the Kavli Institute for Nanoscience , working with Professor Simon Newstead and Dr Jo Parker . The research focuses on the native mass spectrometry study of solute carrier (SLC) transporters , with broader links to structural biology , biophysical chemistry , analytical chemistry , proteomics...