Professor of Surgical Robotics

About us

The Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine is one of the largest and most successful centres for research and education in theThe Faculty was created as a result of the merger of elements of the School of Biomedical Sciences with the School of Medicine. The merger brings together basic, translational and clinical scientists to provide new cross-School research collaborations.

The Faculty has unparalleled expertise in basic, translational and clinical research in: analytical and forensic science; asthma and allergy; biophysics and cell biology; cancer; cardiovascular; nutrition and diabetes; genetics; infection and immunology; imaging and biomedical engineering; transplantation immunology; pharmaceutical science; physiology and women's health. We also have thriving research programmes in global health, and health and social care.

Within FoLSM, the School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences is a cutting-edge research and teaching School dedicated to development, translation and clinical application within medical imaging and computational modelling technologies. Our objective is to facilitate research and teaching guided by clinical questions and is aimed at novelty, understanding of physiology and pathophysiology as well as development of new diagnostic tools and therapies. In this way, basic science can be rapidly translated into clinical applications (and vice versa). The School consists of eight research departments: Cardiovascular Imaging, Cancer Imaging, Early Life Imaging, Imaging Chemistry & Biology, Biomedical Computing, Surgical & Interventional Engineering, Imaging Physics & Engineering and Digital Twins for Healthcare.

Our staff and students comprise physicists, chemists, biologists, engineers, computer scientists, mathematicians and clinicians working together in a highly cross-disciplinary way. The chemists and biologists develop new contrast agents and radiopharmaceuticals for molecular imaging; the physicists and engineers develop imaging hardware and instrumentation; and the computer scientists and mathematicians develop imageprocessing and computational modelling methodologies; meanwhile, the clinicians apply them in the clinic in a wide range of areas, such as cardiology, vascular surgery, cancer, neurology, paediatrics, nuclear medicine and radiology. This interdisciplinary group encourages the generation of projects far beyond classic research by combining the skills and equipment of basic scientists with those of clinical researchers. Our proactive approach to collaboration with other departments and Schools, both in basic sciences and clinical sciences, means that we widen the use of imaging and maximise the benefit to patients. There is a close and vital relationship in our work between problem solving in clinical and biomedical application areas and methodological research in the basic disciplines.

About the role

The successful candidate will have an established track record in continuum and image-guided surgical robotics, with demonstrable experience of translating research from concept through to clinically relevant validation. The candidate will lead an ambitious and independent research programme that exploits the Research Department's pre-clinical evaluation, MRI, and X-MR capabilities.

We are looking for a colleague who brings entrepreneurial drive alongside scientific rigour: someone who builds productive industrial collaborations, attracts competitive external funding, and advances the translation of novel robotic technologies towards clinical adoption. The successful candidate will complement and extend existing research strengths in mechatronics, continuum robotics, and interventional imaging, contributing to a cohesive and forward-looking departmental vision.

The post-holder will be responsible for academic and strategic leadership and will support the Head of School in ensuring the Research Department, School, College & its GSTT collaborators executes excellence across all its activities.

This is a full-time post (35 hours per week), and you will be offered an indefinite contract.

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