Research Assistant / Associate

This post is full time (35 hours per week) and has funding until 31^st August 2027 in the first instance.

Working under the supervision of Professor Jon Cooper, the successful candidate will contribute to a project focusing on combining spatially offset and stand-off Raman spectroscopy systems incorporating a ps pulsed laser and an advanced time gated array detector for applications in non-contact/non-invasive healthcare monitoring.

Examples of healthcare applications include assessment of osteoporosis, identification of bone fractures and diagnosis of melanomas. The project particularly emphasizes the development of compact robust instrumentation that can be used outside of the laboratory such as a non-Czerny-Turner spectrometer and other remote and digital health based sensing techniques as aids to diagnostics.

Ideally the applicant will have experience in developing optical systems involving pulsed lasers, high speed detectors and software interfaces for tailored data collection; alternatively, a good appreciation of how these systems work and their integration with other system elements will need to be shown. The successful candidate will be able to contribute to the formulation and submission of research publications and have the opportunity to develop further research funding proposals.

The University of Glasgow has a responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to live and work in the UK.  If you require a Skilled Worker visa to work in the UK, you will be required to meet the eligibility requirements of the visa route to be assigned a Certificate of Sponsorship.

Please note that this post may be eligible to be sponsored under the Skilled Worker visa route if tradeable points can be used under the Skilled Worker visa rules. For more information please visit: https://www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa

For informal enquiries or further information about the project, please contact Professor Jonathan Cooper (Jon.Cooper@glasgow.ac.uk)

Closing date: 11th January 2026 at 23:45

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