Senior Research Fellow

King's College London - Neurobiology

Location:	London
Salary:	£65,091 to £72,593 Per annum, including London Weighting Allowance
Hours:	Full Time
Contract Type:	Fixed-Term/Contract

Placed On:	21st May 2026
Closes:	31st May 2026
Job Ref:	144065

About Us

The Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) offers an intellectually stimulating environment in which to work, where staff are dedicated to the advancement of knowledge and learning, in the service of society. Across our three schools, we provide high-quality teaching, research and innovation across psychiatry, psychology and neuroscience.

This post will vary depending on the applicant giving you the opportunity to work across our incredible world changing departments.

About the role

These fellowships are supported by The Karlsson Játiva Charitable Foundation (KJCF) through the KJCF Quest Fellowships in Brain Health and Multimorbidity.

The two fellowships, known as KJCF Quest Fellows, will focus on preventing, treating or managing co-occurring multiple long-term conditions, where at least one is neurological or neuropsychiatric. They are open to pre-clinical and clinical researchers. Fellowships will be awarded to two outstanding post-doctoral scientists establishing their independence.

The fellows will be based within the IoPPN and we welcome applicants with interests across the lifespan. One of the fellowships will focus specifically on children and young people and will be based within the King’s Maudsley Partnership for Children and Young People, a partnership between King’s College London and South London and Maudsley Hospital.

The fellowships will be open to researchers utilising a broad range of methods and we will be open to applications exploring how specific mental and brain health conditions may co-occur with physical conditions in addition to research looking at the overlaps between different domains of brain health itself. The focus will be on those conditions those that most significantly affect people’s lives and where research leads to real clinical impact.

Each fellowship will include an attached PhD student, with the postholder responsible for leading the recruitment once in post.

This is a full time post (35 hours per week), and you will be offered an a fixed term contract until 01/09/2031.

Research staff at King’s are entitled to at least 10 days per year (pro-rata) for professional development. This entitlement, from the Concordat to Support the Career Development of Researchers, applies to Postdocs, Research Assistants, Research and Teaching Technicians, Teaching Fellows and AEP equivalent up to and including grade 7. Visit the Centre for Research Staff Development for more information.

About You

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:

Essential criteria

Clear articulation of a research program that brings impactful insights into the co-occurrence of brain/mental health conditions within one another or with physical conditions.
Proven track record of scientific outputs with high impact
Demonstrable expertise and mastery of the technological/methodological techniques that will be used
PhD in cognate discipline

Desirable criteria

Experience in supervision, support of junior trainees
Proven ability to communicate with a wide range of stakeholders
A focus on mental/brain health conditions that have an impact on functioning and abilities

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