We currently have 4 vacancies in the School of Engineering and Materials Science:
Teaching Fellow
Salary: £44,288-£51,755 per annum
Reference: 7353
Location: QM London
Closing date: 19 September 2025
We are looking for a Teaching Fellow in Skills/Language for Science and Engineering to undertake a fixed term 2-year post in the Queen Mary Engineering School, in Xi’an, China to support the delivery of undergraduate programmes.The School delivers degree programmes in materials and polymers engineering, all of which are rich in engineering design concepts, professional skills and language and communication in English in preparation for future international careers in engineering.The QMES has been recognised as one of the top 20 international Joint Educational Institutions in China and offers an exciting academic environment to develop innovative education and scholarship in Transnational education. The role is based in London and include extensive travelling to deliver education in China for substantial periods of time.
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Postdoctoral Research Assistant
Salary: £38,419 - £42,091 per annum
Reference: 7127
Location: QM London
Closing date: 24 September 2025
We are looking for an outstanding, post-doctoral researcher with proven expertise and practical experience in biomaterials and bioprinting, with associated relevant experience including cell culture, organ-chip models, tissue engineering, and musculoskeletal biology. The PDRA will plan and conduct experiments, generate high-quality data, prepare publications, make presentations and help supervise associated PhD students.
The successful candidates will join large, supportive research teams led by Profs Knight, Screen and Connelly all working collaboratively at Queen Mary. This is an exciting opportunity to join one of the largest and most successful multidisciplinary centres in this rapidly expanding area of organ-on-a-chip technology.
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Postdoctoral Research Assistant – Musckuloskeletal Organ-Chip Models
Salary: £ 40,015 - £44,288 per annum
Reference: 7126
Location: QM London
Closing date: 24 September 2025
A Postdoctoral Research Assistant (PDRA) is sought to join the musculoskeletal organ-chip research team within Queen Mary’s Centre for Predictive in vitro Models.This 23-month post is part of the Precision Musculoskeletal Care theme at the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre. The PDRA will help drive our activity in developing, validating, and testing a suit of new musculoskeletal organ-chip models. These include different combinations of tissues such as synovium, cartilage, bone, meniscus, blood vessels and fat, as well as conditions such as inflammation, osteoarthritis and fibrosis. The post allows for some flexibility in the specific models and related research, but with a strong emphasis on supporting further grant applications in this field.
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Postdoctoral Research Associate
Salary: £44,288 per annum
Reference: 7483
Location: QM London
Closing date: 24 September 2025
Applications are invited for a full-time Postdoctoral Research Assistant to investigate mechanical sensing and phenotypic switching in vascular smooth muscle cells and the involvement in arterial disease onset and progression.Cardiovascular diseases are the major cause of mortality worldwide, yet there is still a lack of effective treatments. Recent research increasingly emphasised that changes to mechanical sensing, signaling and memory, critically influences the disease onset and progression1. The
Iskratsch Group, at the School of Engineering and Materials Science, Queen Mary University of London is exploiting cutting-edge mechanobiological, as well as imaging approaches 2-5 with the aim to investigate the role of mechanical sensing and memory in cardiovascular disease. The postholder of this British Heart Foundation funded project will especially investigate vascular smooth muscle cell mechanosensing and phenotypic switching, following up on previous work of the Iskratsch Group and collaborators 2-5, showing a role for pressure sensing and extracellular matrix stiffness. This will involve the use of mechanical characterization, mechanical stimulation as well as various quantitative microscopy techniques. The postholder will further collaborate with project partners to establish ex-vivo artery cultures, and characterisation of mechanosensing pathways in vivo.
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