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Current Research jobs at the University of Cambridge.

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Title Salary Reference Closes
Assistant Conservator, Manuscripts & Printed Books (Fixed Term)
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
£32,546-£35,116 DA46014 8 June 2025
Clinical Research Associate (Fixed Term)
Department of Paediatrics
£36,616-£70,425 RP46195 18 June 2025
Clinical Research Associate (Fixed Term)
Department of Clinical Biochemistry
£36,616-£70,425 RG44517 18 June 2025
Next Generation Fellow (Fixed Term)
Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Central Cambridge
£37,174-£45,413 PM45775 30 January 2026
Post Doctoral Research Associate (Fixed Term)
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Cambridge
£37,174-£45,413 LE45652 1 July 2025
Post-Doctoral Research Associate in Image Analysis (Fixed Term)
Department of Medicine
£37,174-£45,413 RC46120 17 June 2025
Post-Doctoral Research Associate x 2 (Fixed Term)
Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry
£32,546-£35,116
£37,174-£45,413
MA46017 15 June 2025
Post-Doctoral Research Associate: Atmospheric Composition-Climate Modelling for Stratospheric Aerosol Injections
Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry
£32,546-£35,116
£37,174-£45,413
MA45964 9 June 2025
Post-Doctoral Research Associate: Battery Interface Characterisation using Scanning Probe Microscopy and Impedance Spectroscopy (Fixed Term)
Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry
£32,546-£35,116
£37,174-£45,413
MA45970 10 June 2025
Postdoctoral Fellowship (Expressions of Interest) (Fixed Term)
Faculty of Divinity, Cambridge
£37,174-£45,413 GF45962 9 June 2025
Postdoctoral Research Associate (Fixed Term)
Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics, Cambridge
£37,174-£45,413 GP45934 15 June 2025
Postdoctoral Research Associate (Fixed Term)
Department of Medicine
£37,174-£45,413 RC46134 12 June 2025
Postdoctoral Research Associate: Chromosomal instability in marine transmissible cancers (fixed-term)
Department of Zoology
£37,174-£45,413 PF45896 22 June 2025
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Sri Lankan History (Fixed Term)
Faculty of History
£32,546-£35,116
£37,174-£45,413
JJ46063 15 June 2025
Postdoctoral Researcher in Human Physiology and Metabolism (Fixed Term)
Department of Clinical Biochemistry
£37,174-£45,413 RG45908 15 June 2025
Principal Research Associate/Director of Research: Programme Lead, Centre for Pandemic Risk Management Programme [Part Time, Fixed Term]
Centre for Research in Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, Cambridge
Competitive VM46066 15 June 2025
Research Assistant (Part Time, Fixed Term)
Faculty of Economics
£32,546-£35,116 pro rata JH46008 10 June 2025
Research Assistant (Bulstrode Lab) (Fixed Term)
Cambridge Stem Cell Institute (SBS)
£32,546-£35,116 PS46217 19 June 2025
Research Assistant (Fixed Term)
Milner Therapeutics Institute, Cambridge
£32,546-£35,116 PR46151 16 June 2025
Research Assistant (Fixed Term) x 2
MRC Toxicology Unit, Central Cambridge
£32,546-£35,116 PU46090 7 July 2025
Research Assistant (Genomics Core Facility) (Fixed Term)
Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute
£32,546-£35,116 SW46238 25 June 2025
Research Assistant (Part Time, Fixed Term)
The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER), Cambridge Institute for Technology and Humanity
£32,546-£35,116 pro rata GO46048 6 July 2025
Research Assistant (SCOR) (Fixed Term) Internal Applicants Only
Department of Haematology
£32,546-£35,116 RB46143 13 June 2025
Research Assistant - Plant Developmental Plasticity (Fixed Term)
Sainsbury Laboratory
£32,546-£35,116 PT46072 20 June 2025
Research Assistant - Synthetic Organic Chemistry (Fixed Term)
Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry
£32,546-£35,116 MA46173 17 June 2025
Research Assistant / Associate (Fixed Term)
Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Central Cambridge
£32,546-£45,413 PM46068 16 June 2025
Research Assistant / Research Associate (Fixed Term)
Department of Plant Sciences
£32,546-£35,116
£37,174-£45,413
PD46127 30 June 2025
Research Assistant in Metabolism (Stable isotope tracer techniques) (Fixed Term)
Department of Clinical Biochemistry
£32,546-£35,116 RG45948 8 June 2025
Research Assistant in Mixed-Methods Primary Care Research (Part Time, Fixed Term)
Department of Public Health and Primary Care, The Primary Care Unit
£32,546-£35,116 pro rata SN46155 15 June 2025
Research Assistant in Viral Immunology (Fixed Term)
Department of Pathology, Central Cambridge
£32,546-£35,116 PK46138 29 June 2025
Research Assistant x 2 Connectomics Research Group (fixed term)
Department of Zoology
£32,546-£35,116 PF45916 8 June 2025
Research Assistant/Associate (Fixed Term)
Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Central Cambridge
£32,546-£35,116
£37,174-£45,413
PM45891 31 July 2025
Research Assistant/Associate in Large Language Models Applied to Crystal Plasticity (Fixed Term)
Department of Engineering, Central Cambridge, UK
£32,546-£35,116 or
£37,174-£45,413
NM46040 12 June 2025
Research Assistant/Associate in Soft Electronics (Fixed Term)
Department of Engineering, West Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
£32,546- £35,116 or
£37,174- £45,413
NM46225 29 June 2025
Research Assistant/Research Associate (Fixed Term)
Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics, Cambridge
£32,546-£45,413 GP46130 15 June 2025
Research Assistant/Research Associate (Fixed Term)
C.I.M.R. Haematology
£32,546-£35,116
£37,174-£45,413
SB46087 24 June 2025
Research Assistant/Research Associate (Fixed Term)
Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, West Cambridge
£32,546-£35,116
£37,174-£45,413
NQ46111 11 June 2025
Research Assistant/Research Associate (Fixed Term)
Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, West Cambridge
£32,546-£35,116
£37,174- £45,413
NQ46023 15 June 2025
Research Assistant/Research Associate* (Fixed Term)
Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Cancer Genetic Epidemiology
£32,546-£35,116
£37,174-£45,413
RS46126 11 June 2025
Research Associate (Balasubramanian Group) (Fixed Term)
Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute
£37,174-£45,413 SW45402 3 July 2025
Research Associate (Fixed Term)
Department of Pathology, Central Cambridge
£37,174-£45,413 PK46139 15 June 2025
Research Associate (Fixed Term)
MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit
£37,174-£45,413 SM46103 10 June 2025
Research Associate (Fixed Term)
The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER), Cambridge Institute for Technology and Humanity
£37,174-£45,413 GO46112 6 July 2025
Research Associate (Fixed Term)
Department of Physics, West Cambridge
£37,174-£45,413 KA46030 30 June 2025
Research Associate (Fixed Term)
Department of Psychology, Central Cambridge
£37,174-£45,413 PJ46180 22 June 2025
Research Associate (Fixed Term)
Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, West Cambridge
£37,174-£45,413 NQ46146 13 June 2025
Research Associate (Fixed Term)
Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Central Cambridge
£37,174-£45,413 PM46196 10 June 2025
Research Associate (Fixed Term)
MRC Toxicology Unit, Central Cambridge
£37,174-£45,413 PU46158 1 July 2025
Research Associate (Fixed Term)
Department of Medicine
£37,174-£45,413 RC46018 15 June 2025
Research Associate (Fixed Term)
Department of Oncology
£37,174-£45,413 RD45862 4 July 2025
Research Associate (Fixed Term)
Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Cambridge
£37,174-£45,413 PM45938 9 June 2025
Research Associate (Fixed Term)
Department of Radiology
£37,174-£45,413 RQ45993 10 June 2025
Research Associate (Wilkinson Lab) (Fixed Term)
Department of Haematology
£37,174-£45,413 RB46102 25 June 2025
Research Associate - Jackson (Fixed Term)
Department of Biochemistry, Central Cambridge
£37,174-£45,413 PH46147 17 June 2025
Research Associate - Pathogen Dynamics Unit (Fixed Term)
Department of Genetics
£37,174-£45,413 PC45972 9 June 2025
Research Associate Bioinformatics (Fixed Term)
Department of Oncology
£36,924-£45,413 RD46190 20 July 2025
Research Associate in Environmental Observations for Aircraft (Fixed Term)
Department of Engineering, West Cambridge, UK
£37,174-£45,413 NM46161 16 June 2025
Research Associate in Non-linear Waves (Fixed Term)
Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics
£37,174-£45,413 LF46210 30 June 2025
Research Associate in Paleogenomics (Fixed Term)
Department of Genetics
£37,174-£45,413 PC46200 17 June 2025
Research Associate x 2 (Fixed Term)
Milner Therapeutics Institute, Cambridge
£37,174-£45,413 PR46150 23 June 2025
Research Associate- Dupree Group (Fixed Term)
Department of Biochemistry, Central Cambridge
£37,174-£45,413 PH45944 20 June 2025
Research Associates in Physics-inspired/physics-based computing (Fixed Term)
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics
£37,174-£45,413 LE45926 15 July 2025
Senior Research Associate - Multimodal Machine Learning for Breast Cancer Research (Fixed Term)
Department of Oncology
£46,735-£59,139 RD46031 22 June 2025
Visiting Research Fellowship: Battery Materials
Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry
MA45769 16 June 2025