Location: | Durham |
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Salary: | £22,630 to £24,144 |
Hours: | Full Time |
Contract Type: | Fixed-Term/Contract |
Placed On: | 22nd March 2023 |
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Closes: | 5th April 2023 |
Job Ref: | 23000448 |
The Role and the Department
The Department of Biosciences is composed of 62 academic staff and research fellows; around 50 research and technical support staff; over 90 Research Postgraduate students and over 500 Single Honours undergraduate students, and also teaches students from the Natural Sciences programme. The Department is committed to an ethos of research-led teaching at both BSc and MBiol levels, and was ranked 5th in the UK for Biological Sciences Departments in the Complete University Guide 2023.
You will join a large busy and ambitious lab, the newly established Centre for Programmable Biological Matter, led by Professor Jonathan Heddle. We are a large, multidisciplinary and well-equipped laboratory with a grand vision to design, develop, understand and build novel biological nanomachines. We expect that our research will lead to break throughs in new materials and therapeutics. These will all be biocompatible, biodegradable and highly sustainable. You will assist the PI in all administrative matters, helping the scientific team to focus on their core research goals. This will include handling scheduling, responding to internal and external requests for information and handling lab finances.
The post is full time, fixed term for 60 months. Funding is available from 1st September 2023.
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