| Location: | London |
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| Salary: | £51,755 to £60,901 per annum. |
| Hours: | Full Time |
| Contract Type: | Permanent |
| Placed On: | 21st July 2026 |
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| Closes: | 28th August 2026 |
| Job Ref: | 10621 |
About the Role
The post-holder will contribute to the intellectual life of the School and wider institution. They will make contributions to education and research in the subject area of Chemical Engineering, with focus on process systems at a large scale, safety engineering, process simulation and design engineering.
About You
The successful candidate will have a PhD in chemical engineering or related field, and undergraduate background in chemical engineering or similar (petroleum, safety, process engineering). They will also have an appropriate track record of high-quality research in large-scale chemical engineering at a national and ideally international level. An important part of the key skills is the ability to develop research proposals and secure external research funding, as well as subsequent effective award management, and we are particularly interested in individuals with strongly industrially aligned research. In addition, the successful candidate will be committed to high-quality teaching, understanding of student support needs, and able to provide guidance and signposting specialist services where appropriate. We are looking for someone able to utilize their experience to develop industrially applicable chemical engineering undergraduate and MSc projects.
Applications are particularly welcome from women and black and minority ethnic candidates who are under-represented in academic posts in Queen Mary.
About the School/Department/Institute/Project
The School of Engineering and Materials Science (SEMS) is a large, research-intensive School within the Faculty of Science and Engineering, comprising over 110 academic staff and a vibrant community of approximately 2,700 undergraduate and taught postgraduate students, alongside 250 PhD researchers. It is supported by a dedicated team of administrative and technical professionals, creating a strong and collaborative higher education environment.
SEMS is part of Queen Mary University of London, one of the UK’s leading research-intensive universities, recognised for world-class education and impactful research. The School offers a dynamic and interdisciplinary research culture, ranked 7th overall in the UK for research excellence in REF2021, and 2nd for world-leading research outputs. With more than £35 million invested in recent years, SEMS benefits from extensive state-of-the-art experimental and computational facilities, supporting research and teaching across a broad range of engineering and materials science disciplines.
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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