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Academic Vacancies
Postgraduate Teaching Vacancies
Only available to UCL Chemistry Students - working a maximum of 20 hours per week. Work must not be carried out until we have seen and verified your Right to Work (i.e. passport). If you work before this, you will not be paid for any hours you did.
- Postgraduate employment opportunities - Chemistry Department
You should not carry out any work until we have seen and verified your right to work, as any work carried out before this Right to Work check will not be paid for.
Applications are invited from postgraduate students who wish to be considered for the following post:
Postgraduate Teaching Assistants (Grade 6)
Payment will be at Grade 6 pt 21 on the UCL salary scale, which is currently £15.32 per hour (including London Allowance).
The postholder will be required to assist in the teaching of undergraduate chemistry, in teaching (remote and or face to face) and marking of laboratory scripts for undergraduate chemistry laboratories, in outreach and widening participation activities and other related duties including providing support to module teams to develop online learning materials and activities, under direction of the module lead.Please note: Undergraduate students who carry out ad-hoc duties, or demonstrating at Workshops or Open Days will be paid at Grade 5 pt 20, which is currently £14.94 per hour and this will be organised through UniTemps. Again, they must see your Right to Work first before any work is done. Please contact our Chemistry HR team for guidance (hr.chem@ucl.ac.uk)
If you wish to apply for Postgraduate teaching/demonstrating, please go to the PG Teaching Moodle page at: https://moodle.ucl.ac.uk 'Chemistry Teaching for PhD Students and PDRA's', then to 'Contracts and Training' for a Job Description & Person Specification and further instructions. You can also email our Chemistry HR team for further details (Email: hr.chem@ucl.ac.uk).
Successful applicants will be issued with an FTE-based PGTA contract. For more information please visit: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/human-resources/postgraduate-teaching-assistant-code-practice.
A CV containing the following information will be required:
1. Full name
2. Address
3. Date of birth
4. Academic Qualifications
5. National Insurance No. (if known)
6. Your Student registration number
7. Your areas of expertise
8. The name of your Supervisor
9. Month and year your postgraduate studies are due to finish if you complete and submit your thesis on time.
Please note, your Right to Work (i.e. passport) must be checked before you commence work. Please arrange with a member of the Chemistry HR team for verification of your Right to Work.
Applications are welcome at any time throughout the year but you cannot be considered for any paid employment within the department until you have applied and been accepted, and a contract has been set up.
Postdoctoral Research Vacancies
- Doctoral Candidate in Synthetic Cells
UCL Department / Division
Chemistry
Hours
Full Time
Salary
(inclusive of London allowance)£35,159 - £46,759 per annum
Have you lived inside the UK for less than 12 months in the past 3 years?
Are you thinking about completing a PhD in Synthetic Biology?
Applications are invited for a Doctoral Candidate with a background in synthetic biology, biochemistry, biotechnology, or related areas to work in the group of Dr Michael Booth (https://boothlab.uk/), at University College London, on the SIGSYNCELL Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Network (https://sigsyncell.crpp.cnrs.fr/) exploring novel signaling mechanisms in synthetic cells.
The construction of synthetic cells has emerged as a ground-breaking new biotechnology to study living cellular processes and as smart drug delivery devices. In the consortium SIGSYNCELL, we want to develop synthetic cells as systems having the key characteristic functions of living systems: their capacity to interact with their environment.
Project: Remote control of transmembrane signal transduction in synthetic cells
In this project, we will engineer synthetic versions of natural transmembrane signaling systems that allow the activation of processes inside and outside synthetic cells without transferring molecules. Beyond generating mimics of vital living signaling mechanisms, we will also construct signaling systems that can be used to spatiotemporally target cancer cells. The student will be based in the Booth group, who have extensive experience in synthetic cell engineering, having developed light-activated DNA templates to tightly-regulate cell-free protein synthesis within synthetic cells (Booth 2016 Sci. Adv. 10.1126/sciadv.1600056 and Hartmann 2023 JACS 10.1021/jacs.3c02350) and synthetic cells that can controllably communicate with neighbouring bacteria (Smith 2023 Nat. Chem. Biol. 10.1038/s41589-023-01374-7). Please visit our group website for further details about our research: www.boothlab.uk.
This PhD position is funded by UKRI for 36 months, with a start date of September 2024.
Key Requirements
You must not have resided in the UK for more than 12 months over the past 3 years. You must have, or be expecting to achieve, a first or upper second-class MSc degree in Synthetic Biology, Biochemistry, Biotechnology or a related discipline and have a genuine desire to complete a PhD in Synthetic Biology. Background or profound interest in synthetic biology/synthetic cells (should be specified in supporting statement) Knowledge and/or practical experience in molecular biology, lipid compartments, and/or DNA nanotechnology. Willingness to work as part of a team and to travel and work across EuropeOur department holds an Athena SWAN Bronze award, which illustrates our commitment to addressing gender equality.
This appointment is subject to UCL Terms and Conditions of Service for Research and Support Staff.
Please use these links to find out more about the UCL Terms and Conditions related to this job and further information about UCL.For informal enquiries please contact Dr Michael Booth m.j.booth@ucl.ac.uk. Any queries on the application process can be directed to H Dansey h.dansey@ucl.ac.uk, as we wish to encourage online applications.
We particularly welcome female applicants and those from an ethnic minority, as they are under-represented within UCL at this level
Closing Date 27th May 2024
Further Details
A job description and Person Specification can be accessed at the bottom of this page.
To apply for the vacancy please click on the ‘Apply Now’ button below.
Please upload the following with your application:
- A cover letter explaining the motivation for applying for the post, understanding of the research project, and previous research experience.
- A curriculum vitae setting out the educational qualifications as well as any additional scientific achievements and publications.
- Evidence of English proficiency – for more details please see: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-students/graduate/english-language-requirements
- Copy of Bachelor’s and Master’s certificates (if available at the time of application).
- Copy of Bachelor’s and Master’s transcripts.
- Two letters of recommendation from researchers familiar with your academic activities, e.g. the advisor of your Master’s thesis
- Research Fellow in Computational Chemistry and Machine Learning
UCL Department / Division
Chemistry
Hours
Full Time
Salary
(inclusive of London allowance)£42,099 - £50,585 per annum
Applications are invited for a Research Fellow to work in the group of Dr Tim Hele in the Department of Chemistry at University College London. The post is funded through an Enhancement Award to Dr Hele’s Royal Society University Research Fellowship Designer lighting: a radical approach to improve organic solar cells and light-emitting diodes. This proposal aims to design molecular emitters for organic light-emitting diodes with emission throughout the visible and infra-red, to model the non-adiabatic dynamics of such systems and to design molecules for singlet fission downconversion. There are further aims of using Machine Learning and AI to accurately and reliably predict the spectra of organic radicals containing a variety of heteroatoms to extend the computational methodology to systems with multiple unpaired electrons such as diradicals, and to simulate the emission mechanism of organic light-emitting diodes.
The appointment is available to start immediately and in the first instance runs until 30th September 2025. Subject to funding and funder approval it may be extended to a duration of up to 28 months.
Some parts of the role can be undertaken remotely if necessary and the postholder will be required to work onsite at least one day a week.
Key Requirements
The successful candidate will have a PhD degree (or be about to be awarded a PhD) in Chemistry, Physics, or similar subject. A knowledge of quantum mechanics and electronic structure theory, as well as using quantum chemical methods for excited state calculations is required, as well as experience with HPC and programming. Experience with python programming, radical electronic structure and non-adiabatic dynamics is desirable. They will be expected to work in a highly multidisciplinary collaborative team and have effective verbal and written communication skills in English.
Please note, appointment at Grade 7 is dependent upon having been awarded a PhD; if this is not the case, initial appointment will be at Research Assistant Grade 6B (salary £37,332 to £39,980 per annum) with payment at Grade 7 being backdated to the date of final submission of the PhD thesis.
Further Details
A Job Description and Person Specification can be accessed at the bottom of this page. Please include a publication list and a CV, along with a cover letter outlining why you are interested in the role, and which of the essential and desirable criteria you meet and how.
To apply for the vacancy please click on the 'Apply Now' button below.
Informal enquiries should be addressed to Dr Tim Hele (t.hele@ucl.ac.uk). Any queries on the application process can be directed to H Dansey – h.dansey@ucl.ac.uk.
We particularly welcome female applicants, applicants with disabilities and those from ethnic minorities
Closing Date
8th July 2024
Professional Services Vacancies
- Senior Student Advisor
UCL Department / Division
Chemistry
Grade
8
Hours
Full Time
Salary
(inclusive of London allowance)£51,747 - £60,521 per annum
Duties and Responsibilities
The Senior Student Advisor is a new role in the Chemistry Department Student Lifecycle and Support Team and will contribute to the work of the Departmental Teaching Committee as well as work and conversations in the faculty. The purpose of this role is to support the wellbeing of Chemistry students and to enhance their experience throughout the entire university lifecycle from pre-arrival to graduation, by providing key administration and education support activities. This role will provide effective, professional guidance and signposting to students on a range of issues relating to welfare, health, and support for academic progression. This role does not directly itself provide specialist practitioner support or clinically qualified treatment. An important part of this work will be to support the processes around Extenuating Circumstances, as part of Chemistry’s Departmental Extenuating Circumstances Panel, and Summary of Reasonable Adjustments (SORAs), working with academic colleagues and in partnership with SSW to establish reasonable and effective methods of support or academic adjustments for students in situations of difficulty or with complex circumstances, and to signpost and recommend to both internal and external specialist services and treatment providers where necessary. The role holder will also advise or lead on best practices and innovations to enhance the wider student support network and to create a welcoming environment for students in the department.
Key Requirements
We are looking for an individual who has experience of working in student facing roles, and of providing wellbeing support, but also one that can collate and analyse data to help develop strategic ways to support our students better by contributing to conversations across the faculty. We aim to recruit a candidate who has a genuine interest in student welfare, and who will enjoy being part of a highly dynamic Teaching and Learning team. The post-holder will have a good general education to Honours degree level or the equivalent with substantial knowledge of the HE sector, in particular student services management and administration, both undergraduate and graduate and both UK and International. The post-holder will have experience of enhancing engagement through training, feedback and focus groups. The post-holder will have excellent written and verbal communication skills and excellent interpersonal skills.
Further Details
A Job Description and Person Specification can be accessed at the bottom of this page.
To apply for the vacancy please click on the 'Apply Now' button below.
Informal enquiries related to the post or the application process should be directed to hr.chem@ucl.ac.uk as we wish to encourage online applications.
We particularly welcome female applicants and those from ethnic minorities, as they are under-represented within UCL at this level.
Closing Date
05 May 2024
Please use these links to find out more about the UCL Terms and Conditions related to this job, employee benefits that we offer and further information about UCL.
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