Salary: As this vacancy has limited funding the maximum salary that can be offered is Grade 7, salary £37,099.
Contract Type: Fixed Term contract up to December 2024
Closes: 05/06/2024
Background
TeleGraft is an EU-funded project that proposes telemonitoring of home dialysis utilising a smart biomimetic arteriovenous graft. Researchers from seven European countries (Denmark, Great Britain, Sweden, Lithuania, Germany, Portugal, and Spain) are working on the development of a new arteriovenous graft (TELEGRAFT) for dialysis. The innovatively developed artificial blood vessel can be easily and efficiently used for safe home dialysis and will allow for remote monitoring and real-time online detection of potential challenges.
This post will work on in vitro evaluation of the graft by developing biomaterial-based strategies that will aid integration of the graft while preventing scarring. The duration of this post is 8 months full time.
Role Summary
- Work within specified research grant and projects and contribute to writing bids
- Operate within area of specialism
- Analyse and interpret research findings and results
- Contribute to generating funding
- Contribute to licensing or spin out deals with demonstrated commercial success (such as revenues, asset or company sales, IP generated) and/or public understanding of the discipline or similar
Main Duties
- Develop research objectives and proposals for own or joint research, with assistance of a mentor if required
- Contribute to writing bids for research funding
- Analyse and interpret data
- Apply knowledge in a way which develops new intellectual understanding
- Disseminate research findings for publication, research seminars etc
- Supervise students on research related work and provide guidance to PhD students where appropriate to the discipline
- Contribute to developing new models, techniques and methods
- Undertake management/administration arising from research
- Contribute to Departmental/School research-related activities and research-related administration
- Contribute to enterprise, business development and/or public engagement activities of manifest benefit to the College and the University, often under supervision of a project leader
Person Specification
- First degree and PhD (or near to completion) in Chemical Engineering or equivalent qualifications
- High level analytical capability
- Ability to communicate complex information clearly
- Fluency in relevant models, techniques or methods and ability to contribute to developing new ones
- Ability to assess resource requirements and use resources effectively
- Understanding of and ability to contribute to broader management/administration processes
- Contribute to the planning and organising of the research programme and/or specific research project
- Co-ordinate own work with others to avoid conflict or duplication of effort
- Knowledge of the protected characteristics of the Equality Act 2010, and how to actively ensure in day to day activity in own area that those with protected characteristics are treated equally and fairly
Informal enquires can be made to Emma Lardner, email: e.c.lardner@bham.ac.uk
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