Associate Professorship (or Professorship) of Materials

Applications are invited for the post of Associate Professor or Professor of Materials to be held in the Department of Materials and St. Anne’s College, with effect from 1st September 2025 or soon thereafter. In exceptional cases, the title of full Professor may be awarded on appointment.

The successful candidate will work at the Department of Materials and also will be appointed to a Tutorial Fellowship at St Anne’s College. The Department of Materials at Oxford University is a world leader bringing a highly interdisciplinary approach to the development of materials with a particular focus on materials for a sustainable future across a range of materials systems and technologies including energy storage and conversion materials. The work of the department is underpinned by excellence in the, theory and modelling of materials, microstructural and nanoscale characterisation of materials, and the processing a production of materials.

The postholder may specialise in any aspect of Materials Science, laboratory based or modelling. Areas of particular interest for the current post include but are not limited to: the development and application of atom-probe tomography, biomaterials and materials for medical applications, quantum materials, and materials processing. We are seeking an exceptional candidate who will complement our existing activities in the Department of Materials, and who will contribute to strengthening our teaching and research. The successful candidate will have a doctorate in materials science or a closely related subject, and will have a record of internationally excellent research clearly centred on Materials Science, supported by strong publications commensurate with their career stage.

The successful candidate will be required: to build an independent research group, consistent with the department’s strategy that produces research outputs of the highest international quality, to disseminate that research; to engage in knowledge transfer activities; to teach, supervise and examine undergraduate and postgraduate research students; and to participate in the administration of the department and college.

Specifically in the College, you will be one of two Materials Scientists with Tutorial Fellowships and you will help to manage a lively group of undergraduate and graduate materials scientists, and play a full part in the teaching of Materials Science at undergraduate level.

Queries about the post should be addressed to the Head of Department, Professor Pete Nellist, at head.department@materials.ox.ac.uk, telephone: +44 (0) 1865 273737, or to the Senior Tutor at St Anne’s College, Dr Shannon McKellar (senior.tutor@st-annes.ox.ac.uk). All enquiries will be treated in strict confidence and will not form part of the selection decision.

Note that this post is being advertised simultaneously with a similar one in association with Trinity College. Unless applicants specify otherwise, all candidates will be considered for both posts - you do not need to apply to both vacancies. For further information on this arrangement, please contact recruitment@materials.ox.ac.uk

We are a Stonewall Top 100 Employer, Living Wage employer, holding an Athena Swan Bronze Award and Race Equality Charter Bronze Award.

All applicants will be judged on merit, according to the selection criteria.

The closing date for applications is 12 noon on 30 May 2025.

Interviews are expected to be held week commencing 7 July 2025.

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