Research Scientist: Medical AI

The University of Oxford is a stimulating work environment, which enjoys an international reputation as a world-class centre of excellence. Our research plays a key role in tackling many global challenges, from reducing our carbon emissions to developing vaccines during a pandemic.

The Department of Psychiatry is based on the Warneford Hospital site in Oxford – a friendly, welcoming place of work with an international reputation for excellence. The Department has a substantial research programme, with major funding from Medical Research Council (MRC), Wellcome Trust and National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) and provides highly rated medical training in psychiatry. The Head of Department is Professor Belinda Lennox.

We are looking for a Research Scientist to be part of the bioinformatics research group with responsibility for carrying out research in generative AI applied to mental and cognitive health, such as custom large language models applied to electronic health records and imaging.

What We Offer

As an employer, we genuinely care about our employees’ wellbeing and this is reflected in the range of benefits that we offer including:

• An excellent contributory pension scheme
• 38 days annual leave
• A comprehensive range of childcare services
• Family leave schemes
• Cycle loan scheme
• Discounted bus travel and Season Ticket travel loans
• Membership to a variety of social and sports clubs

This role also offers the opportunity for hybrid working, with a minimum of 2 days per week working from the office.

About the Role

The post is funded until 31 August 2028 and is based in the Department of Psychiatry at the Warneford Hospital.  

You will be working on a specific project where neural networks are applied genomics, fluorescent microscopy and proteomics for cell profiling. The project is already ongoing, and you will need to use the code and tools that have already been developed by the team.

These include the use of Tensorflow, PyTorch and Python. You will work with large imaging datasets commonly used by the research team and will test the algorithms already developed by the laboratory and improve them on the basis of their performance to recognise drug induced cell morphologies

About You

You will have an MSc or equivalent qualification in mathematics, machine learning, LLMs, and biomedical image analysis or computational psychology. You will have proven experience in stochastic analysis and neural differential equations and with the development of stable diffusion models. Post qualification research experience would be desirable.  

Diversity

Committed to equality and valuing diversity

Our active Psychiatry People and Culture teams  and initiatives including our values and behaviours framework, work to make the Department of Psychiatry as supportive, welcoming and inclusive as possible.

Application Process

You will be required to upload a covering letter/supporting statement, CV and the details of two referees as part of your online application. Please see the University pages on the application process at https://www.jobs.ox.ac.uk/application-process

The closing date for applications is 12:00 midday on 4 December 2025

It is anticipated that the interviews will take place on 17 December and will be online

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