Imperial College London Junior Research Fellowship 2018, UK

• Imperial College Research Fellowships are intended for post-doctoral researchers of demonstrated ability, who are at the early stages of their research career and who have the potential to establish research independence.  This opportunity is equivalent to the British Academy’s Postdoctoral Fellowship, Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship, EPSRC Postdoctoral Fellowship and Wellcome Trust Henry Wellcome fellowship schemes

• Candidates who hold or have held relatively early post-doctoral fellowships such as the EPSRC Doctoral Prize fellowship are eligible to apply

• It is not expected that candidates will have previously held established fellowships.  This would include an EPSRC Early Career fellowship or an MRC Career Development Award

• At the end of an ICRF fellowship, fellows should be able to show that they have the potential to be an independent leader in their area of research and have the skills and experience to apply for more advanced (intermediate level) funding schemes, such as the Royal Society University Research Fellowship, EPSRC Career Acceleration Fellowship and BBSRC David Phillips fellowship

• Applications are invited from candidates from Imperial College London, the UK and worldwide in all subject areas that have a strong research base at Imperial College London within the Faculties of Engineering, Medicine and Natural Sciences and the Business School.  Note that candidates interested in applying for a fellowship to the Department of Mathematics are directed to the Chapman Fellowships opportunity, which is available to these candidates in place of the ICRF

  • AstraZeneca invite applications in the following areas. Please contact Dr Vjera Magdalenic-Moussavi with any further queries:

    • Oncology: traditional solid cancers in the UK (lung, breast, prostate, bowel) and the US focuses more on the head and neck with an interest in the liquid tumours

    • Cardiovascular, renal and metabolism

    • Respiratory, Inflammation and autoimmunity: with key focus on lung immunity, epithelium and regeneration (COPD and fibrosis mainly)

    • General interest on drug delivery mechanisms with a particular focus on delivering new types of therapeutics such as peptides and RNA molecules

  • Candidates may apply for a fellowship with a co-sponsor from the Francis Crick Institute.  Candidates who wish to discuss this opportunity further or who are seeking guidance on identifying a co-sponsor from the Francis Crick Institute should contact Anthony Wilkinson or Professor Ed Tate

• Fellowships must be based at Imperial College London at any of its campuses

• To allow fellows to focus on establishing their research, there are no obligatory teaching or administrative duties associated with these fellowships. However, if desired, such duties can be negotiated with the host department

• Fellows are encouraged to apply for additional sources of funding to allow them to build further their research programme. Fellows are also provided with career development and cohort activities

• Where appropriate, necessary licences and regulatory approval should be obtained prior to the start of the fellowship

• Fellows may spend up to 12 months in total visiting other research institutions and/or in industry including overseas; the maximum time spent at any one institution being 6 months.  Where this is requested, evidence must be provided to reflect the partner’s willingness to host the fellow.  This does not apply to AZ ICRFs, as an industrial placement forms part of the fellowship 

• Salary is provided for four years within the Imperial College Academic and Research Level B pay scales of 29 to 34 (2018/19 pay scales are yet to be released; however for reference, the 2017/18 pay scales for these grades were £36,800 to £41,940 per annum). Incremental progression through the salary scale will be determined in accordance with procedures governing the Research Staff group

• A contribution toward research and travel costs of £30,000 for the 4 year duration may be requested, increasing to £45,000 if fully justified by the nature of the research.

• Awards are fixed for four years

Eligibility

• There are no restrictions on nationality; however you will be required to provide evidence of your eligibility to work in the UK before commencing any fellowship offered

• Applicants should have a PhD and will normally have no more than four years postdoctoral research experience in an academic environment (calculated from the PhD viva to the application deadline). Exceptions to this can include discipline hopping, where there must still be less than four years post-doctoral research experience in the discipline of the proposed fellowship; career breaks and career changes, where time spent out of the academic research environment will not be counted in the four years 

• In exceptional cases, applicants applying to the Faculty of Engineering and Imperial College Business School are permitted to apply before the submission of the PhD but any offer of funding will be dependent on the PhD being awarded before the start of the fellowship

• For applications to the Faculties of Natural Sciences and Medicine, a PhD must have been submitted before an application is made and the PhD must be awarded before the start of the fellowship

Sponsorship