Postdoctoral Research Associate

About the Role
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Postdoctoral Research Assistant to lead the delivery of a UK-wide collaborative study aiming to identify and characterise the earliest biological changes associated with multiple sclerosis in people at enhanced risk. The project will recruit and follow a cohort of people with increased MS risk, undertaking multimodal phenotyping and examining signatures that may suggest increased risk.

The successful candidate will support the development of the study database, enabling data input from both researchers and participants. They will co-ordinate participant recruitment from collaborating sites, and lead on the processing and analysis of biological samples along with remote follow-up, data collection, analysis, and dissemination, working closely with clinicians, researchers, and patient/public contributors. Your role will play a key role in delivering a high-impact programme of research with strong translational potential.

About You
We are looking for a highly motivated researcher with a PhD or equivalent research experience, strong organisational and communication skills, and experience of working on health or clinical research projects. Experience of MS research, multimodal phenotyping, longitudinal studies, and PPIE would be an advantage.

About the School/Department/Institute/Project
The Wolfson Institute of Population Health (WIPH) is an exciting and dynamic environment, home to 450 staff, 100 PhD students and 500 postgraduate taught students. It harnesses expertise across a wide range of population-based research and education activities and is an internationally recognised centre of excellence in population health, primary care and preventive medicine. The postholder will be based in the Centre for Preventive Neurology (CPN). The CPN performs research across neurological diseases, including dementia, Multiple Sclerosis, and Parkinson’s Disease.

About Queen Mary
At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits
We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.

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