Assistant or Associate Professor in Mammalian Neuroscience (110565-0625)
Assistant or Associate Professor in Mammalian Neuroscience (110565-0625)
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About The Role
For informal enquiries, please contact Prof Miriam Gifford (Head of School) Miriam.gifford@warwick.ac.uk Prof Mark Wall (NeuroCluster Lead Prof) mark.wall@warwick.ac.uk Prof Bruno Frenguelli (BSc Neuroscience Course Director) b.g.frenguelli@warwick.ac.uk
The School of Life Sciences (SLS) wishes to appoint an excellent and ambitious principal investigator working in experimental mammalian neuroscience to join our existing Neuroscience Research Cluster based in the purpose-built £54m Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research Building (IBRB).
About The Role
For informal enquiries, please contact Prof Miriam Gifford (Head of School) Miriam.gifford@warwick.ac.uk Prof Mark Wall (NeuroCluster Lead Prof) mark.wall@warwick.ac.uk Prof Bruno Frenguelli (BSc Neuroscience Course Director) b.g.frenguelli@warwick.ac.uk
The School of Life Sciences (SLS) wishes to appoint an excellent and ambitious principal investigator working in experimental mammalian neuroscience to join our existing Neuroscience Research Cluster based in the purpose-built £54m Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research Building (IBRB).
The Neuroscience Research Cluster is seeking a colleague with an independent research program capable of integrating with the existing research-active staff. You will benefit from the provision of high-quality research administrative support and research infrastructure within the School of Life Sciences and the IBRB, and also via the University of Warwick’s flagship Research Technology Platforms, which includes advanced bioimaging, proteomics and mass spectrometry, and bioinformatics. In addition, you will be positioned to attract PhD students from the several large Doctoral Training Programs at Warwick that recruit students with interests in neuroscience. In addition to developing your research profile, you will be expected to contribute to and develop various undergraduate and postgraduate teaching programs, in particular the BSc/MBio in Neuroscience, in areas that reflect your research expertise and interests.
About You
Candidates with a strong track record in mammalian neuroscience are welcome to apply but particular areas of interest include, but are not limited to, neurodegeneration & brain injury; stress, anxiety, depression and other mental health conditions; control of neural circuits, epilepsy and pain.
For further information regarding the skills required for this role please see the personal specification section of the attached job description.
About The Department
We believe that collegiality, openness, inclusivity and diversity are essential for an excellent research and teaching environment. Our workplace ethic has enabled us to gain the Athena SWAN Silver award. We are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace and encourage applications from all groups with protected characteristics traditionally under-represented in STEM fields. As part of our ongoing commitment to addressing gender equality under the Athena Swan chartermark, we would particularly encourage and welcome applications from female academics.
For those eligible, the University offers relocation and Immigration Support Scheme packages to assist with costs of relocating and any associated visa applications and HIS (health) surcharge fees.
School of Life Sciences
For further information about the School of Life Sciences please see our website at
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/lifesci/
Neuroscience at the University of Warwick
Warwick neuroscientists are concentrated in the School of Life Sciences and accommodated on a dedicated research floor in the newly-built Interdisciplinary Research Building (IBRB). The grouping has expertise in wide range of neuroscience topics including epilepsy, stroke, chemosensing, cardiorespiratory control, stress, pain and neurodegeneration. The group utilises electrophysiological techniques (patch clamp and field recordings), amperometric biosensors, in vitro and in vivo imaging (epifluorescence, confocal, and implantable fibre optic miniscopes) and behavioural assays (from open field to water maze and operant chambers). These areas of interest are complemented by neuroscience colleagues in Warwick Medical School (chronobiology), Mathematics (computational neuroscience), and Psychology (human cognition; non-human animal ethology). In addition, Neuroscience at Warwick benefits from close ties with the physical sciences, in particular in Chemistry (nanopipette-based biosensing), Engineering (detection of metal deposits in neurodegeneration) and Warwick Manufacturing Group (microCT brain imaging).
These research activities are supported through the provision of Departmental- and School-level facilities (e.g. media prep, glassware, cell culture facilities), but also through the Research Technology Platforms, most notably the Biomedical Services Unit for the provision and maintenance of experimental animals, Advanced Bioimaging for EM, cryoEM and light sheet microscopy, Proteomics for mass spectrometry of proteins and metabolites, and Bioinformatics for the interrogation and interpretation of sequencing, proteomics, and metabolomics data.
Visit the Neuroscience Cluster web pages at: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/lifesci/research/neuro/
About The University
Born in the 60s with a mindset of boldness, imagination and collaboration, the University of Warwick is a world-leading research-intensive university with the highest academic and research standards. We’re one of the world’s top universities, ranked 67th in the world and 10th in the UK*, with 92% of our research assessed to be ‘world leading or internationally excellent’**.
You'll be joining a diverse, innovative and globally connected community committed to igniting real world progress. Here at Warwick, we offer you opportunities to follow your ambitions as long as you bring the energy and determination to succeed.
* QS World University Rankings 2024
* Research Excellence Framework 2021
To find out more about us visit our website.
How to Apply
CLOSING DATE: Monday 30th June 2025 at 23:55 (BST)
To apply, please click ‘Apply’ below and submit an application form by the closing date.
Please plan for any potential delays as you will not be able to submit an application form past this deadline (even if you opened the form at, say, 23:30).
You will have to attach a CV and a cover letter.
* Your CV should include your employment history (including your most recent employment), your education history, and any other relevant experience.
* Please provide a cover letter of no more than three pages explaining your motivations for applying to the role. It should also explain, using examples, how you meet each of the essential and desirable criteria detailed in the Job Description PDF document below, as well as your future research objectives and aspirations. Please note that all essential criteria must be met by candidates who are invited to interview.
* Please: i) describe what makes your research distinctive; ii) include details on how you will attract funding to develop your research portfolio, and iii) outline where you see the potential for collaborations at Warwick.
Please see here for guidance on writing a cover letter. We highly recommend using individual criteria as headers and explaining below, using examples, how you meet the criterion, though you are free to format the letter as you wish.
To streamline our hiring processes, we can only accept applications submitted via our official careers webpage, warwick-careers.tal.net.
* Interview Date: 14th and 15th July 2025
* Start Date: As soon as possible
What we Offer
We will provide you with a great range of benefits, which include an attractive pension scheme, 30 days holiday plus Christmas closure, excellent learning and development opportunities, and savings on a wide range of products and services. We offer a generous maternity/paternity/adoption/parental leave policy, and onsite childcare facilities.
We recognise the importance of a healthy work/life balance and offer you access to flexible working, for more information click here.
We are proud to say that we are a Living Wage employer.
If you are considering relocating to the UK, read our Relocation Guide to find out more about what Warwick has to offer and what might be involved in the process.
Our Commitment to Inclusion
Warwick is committedto building an organisation ofmutual respectanddignity, promoting awelcoming, diverse, and inclusive workingand learning environment. We recognise that everyone is different in a variety of visible and non-visible ways, and that those differences are to berecognised, respected, and valued. Where possible, we go beyond legislation to provide a place where everyone can thrive, supporting all staff to achieve their full potential. We aspire to remove economic, social, and cultural barriers that may otherwise prevent people from succeeding.
We therefore welcome and encourage applications from all communities regardless of culture, background, age, disability, sex/gender, gender identity or expression, ethnicity, religion/belief, or sexual or romantic orientation. To find out more about our social inclusion work at Warwick visit our webpageshere.
The University currently holds aRace Equality Charter Bronze Award,Athena Swan Sliver Awardand aDisability Smart Bronze Award.Further information on all of the University's Awards and Accreditations can be found here. The University of Warwick is also one of the six founder institutions of theEUTOPIA European University Alliance.
Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS)
The University of Warwick is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all those we work with.
In line with the DBS Code of Practice, the successful candidates for any roles involving regulated activity, will be subject to a DBS check at the appropriate level. The University will take all necessary measures to ensure that any individual subject to a barring order does not undertake any work with the barred group specified (i.e. children and/or adults).
We expect all employees, volunteers, and partners to share our commitment to safeguarding.
Rehabilitation of Ex-Offenders
The University undertakes not to discriminate against anyone who makes a disclosure relating to a conviction. The information disclosed at application stage is only visible to the central DBS team (i.e. not recruiting managers) to ensure there is no bias during the shortlisting process.
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