Advanced Technician

The Role and the Department   

The Department of Biosciences is composed of 62 academic staff and research fellows; around 50 research and technical support staff; over 90 Research Postgraduate students and over 500 Single Honours undergraduate students, and also teaches students from the Natural Sciences programme.

The Department is committed to an ethos of research-led teaching at both BSc and MBiol levels, and was ranked 4th in the UK for Biological Sciences Departments in the Complete University Guide 2027.

The Department holds an Athena SWAN Silver award. Athena SWAN is a national initiative that recognises the advancement of gender equality, representation and progression.

The Department embraces excellence in all of its forms and invites all qualified applicants to apply. We particularly welcome applications from women and black and minority ethnic candidates who are under-represented in the academic sector.

Join us as a Technician at the Centre for Programmable Biological Matter!

At the Centre for Programmable Biological Matter, we are interested in understanding, designing and building natural and artificial bionanomachines. We ask – can we design artificial versions of such machines to carry out processes not available or possible in nature? The ability to design functional, dynamic proteins will revolutionise medicine. It will mean new capabilities in vaccines and drug including nanoscale medicine that can be programmed and can self-propel. We have established the Centre of Programmable Biological Matter (CPBM) as to spearhead research in this area.

To find out more about our research, head to our website:

As Technician, you will be working closely with our Post-doctoral Research Assistant working on a project to design artificial, protein bases systems for delivering cargoes to Mitochondria.

The post holder will be required to provide flexible technical support as part of a research team. Primarily servicing the needs of research, assisting undergraduates, postgraduates, post doctorates and academic supervisors with regard to everyday laboratory requirements.

This role will be based on-site, at the Department of Chemistry, Durham University, in our newly refurbished labs with state-of-the art equipment. 0.5FTE for 12 months

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