Postdoc Opportunities in Microbiology in United Kingdom

University of Oxford is advertising a Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Laboratory-based Sciences at the Institute of Biomedical Engineering , Department of Engineering Science (Headington), United Kingdom. The post sits within the EPSRC-funded Beyond Antibiotics research programme and focuses on evaluating the effect of clinically viable physical stimuli, especially biomedical ultrasound with/without ultrasound-responsive agents, on antimicrobial and antibiofilm efficacy and on host tissue phy...

Postdoctoral Research Scientists in Materials & Devices for Life Sciences at the Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT), Oxford, United Kingdom. This postdoctoral opportunity sits within the Institute of Materials & Devices for Life Sciences (MDLS) , led by Professor Hagan Bayley . The programme aims to advance human health by scaling interdisciplinary science at the interface of chemistry, biology, and engineering . Research themes include nanopore technologies for small-molecule diagnostics, si...

Postdoc opportunity at the University of Liverpool for a Research Associate in AMR Drug Discovery . The project focuses on developing novel antibacterial agents , making it relevant to research interests in antimicrobial resistance, microbiology, drug discovery, biology, medical science, pharmacy, and public health. The post is advertised as a postdoctoral opening with a salary of £39,906–£43,482 per year . No additional eligibility details are included in the post itself, so applicants should c...

Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Biotechnology at the University of Oxford , based in the Department of Engineering in Oxford, United Kingdom. This postdoctoral project focuses on biotechnology , robotics , mechanical engineering , software , and the development of robotic tools for the long-term directed evolution of microbes. The successful candidate will join a multidisciplinary team and contribute to co-designing new research questions, defining application domains, guiding PhD students an...

Postdoctoral Research Associate opportunity at the University of Liverpool in Algorithms and Computing Systems , working on the AIM-SAFE Horizon Europe project . The role sits within the Intelligent Systems Research Group, School of Electrical Engineering, Electronics & Computer Science, and focuses on building a multi-agent clinical reasoning framework from open-weight, locally deployable AI. The project involves benchmarking and selecting small language models for clinical NLP tasks such as en...

Postdoctoral Research Associate opportunity at the University of Liverpool in the United Kingdom, focused on the interface of medicinal chemistry , microbiology , and antimicrobial drug discovery . The project aims to develop novel antibacterial agents . The successful candidate will contribute to the design, synthesis, characterisation, and biological evaluation of bioactive compounds within a multidisciplinary research programme. This is a postdoctoral opening, not a PhD or Masters call. Appli...

Research Fellow (ICB Liaison Officer) at the University of East Anglia , Norwich Medical School, in collaboration with the NHS Norfolk and Suffolk Integrated Care Board . This is a fixed-term, part-time (0.5 FTE) research and liaison role focused on health research , public health , and care systems . The post supports research capability building across institutions and acts as a link between academia, the ICB, health and care providers, and local authorities, especially in out-of-hospital sett...

University of Oxford-based postdoctoral researcher opportunity in the Gram-Negative Antibiotic Discovery Innovator (Gr-ADI) project. The project is focused on antibiotic discovery and uses molecular simulation to assess, for each lead compound/target protein pair, how many mutations could lead to resistance. This is an interdisciplinary role at the interface of chemistry, biology, medical science, pharmacy, and computational research. Ideal applicants will have a PhD and experience in molecular ...

Research Fellow in Environmental Microbiology and Nitrogen Cycling at the University of Warwick (School/Department: Life Sciences). This fixed-term, full-time role is part of a NERC-funded project titled “Partners in crime: Does microbial cooperation exacerbate nitrous oxide emission from soil?” . The project investigates how ammonia oxidation , microbial interactions , and nutrient exchange between ammonia-oxidising and denitrifying microorganisms shape nitrogen cycling and N2O production in so...