Professor in the Physical Sciences of Life

Job title:

Professor within the Bodily Sciences of Life

Firm

King’s Faculty London

Job description

Job id: 086285. Wage: Ranging from £80,324 every year, together with London Weighting Allowance.

Posted: 13 March 2024. Deadline: 14 April 2024.

Enterprise unit: Pure, Mathematical & Engineering Sci. Division: NMES School Workplace.

Contact particulars: Professor Mike Malim and Professor Abigail Tucker. michael.malim@kcl.ac.uk and abigail.tucker@kcl.ac.uk

Location: Strand Campus. Class: Tutorial & Instructing.

Job description

We’re recruiting for a Professor within the Bodily Sciences of Life as a part of a serious enlargement in analysis and schooling within the bodily sciences of life at King’s Faculty London.

These positions type a part of a serious at King’s, targeted on boundary-breaking science analysis, schooling and innovation that advantages society. This funding is accelerating progress throughout and stimulating new initiatives on the interfaces between conventional areas.

We’re searching for proficient teachers with sturdy monitor information in analysis and schooling. Particular areas of curiosity embody, however will not be restricted to:

• Making use of interdisciplinary empirical, analytical and modelling approaches to grasp the complexity of residing programs in well being and illness
• Integrating organic, biophysical, biochemical, mathematical and computational strategies throughout scales: spanning molecules, cells, organs, organisms and populations
• Leveraging complicated and various datasets to grasp organic processes and pathways
• Growing and utilizing bodily and life science methodologies to review organic and physiological processes in real-time
• Utilizing chemical biology and artificial chemistry to research or disrupt organic programs; for instance, drug discovery, imaging, designer switches for regulatory cascades

Profitable candidates will play a key function in creating and executing internationally main analysis, working collaboratively throughout King’s. You’ll have a powerful analysis monitor file, demonstrating interdisciplinary engagement, and be prepared to ascertain and develop a analysis programme that pulls exterior funding. Additionally, you will be dedicated to educating scientists of the long run by means of a variety of undergraduate and postgraduate diploma programmes, together with revolutionary new programmes in Pure Sciences.

This is a chance to contribute to the strategic progress of world-class analysis, working synergistically throughout disciplines, and figuring out and rising promising early profession researchers. We additionally want to maximise the relevance of our work to society by means of engaged analysis that engages various audiences, particularly in our native communities in London and past.

It is necessary that King’s displays the range of the inhabitants we serve, and we strongly encourage purposes from candidates of all backgrounds.

Shortlisted candidates will probably be consulted on applicable self-discipline areas and host departments as a part of the choice and interview course of.

This publish will probably be supplied on an indefinite contract.

It is a full-time publish.

Key tasks

• Present tutorial management in an applicable space of analysis
• Set up, develop and maintain an internationally aggressive, externally-funded analysis programme per, or complementary to departmental / college / college analysis methods at King’s.
• Keep a constant, excellent monitor file of publication (usually 2-4 analysis publications (relying on appointment degree) over a rolling five-year interval that features world main or internationally wonderful work, as first, final and/or corresponding creator).
• Contribute to educating of undergraduate and postgraduate college students and curriculum improvement.
• Plan, organise and ship a variety of educating and evaluation actions (e.g. lecturing, challenge supervision and tutorials) and main on no less than one substantive module/programme.
• Supervise and practice postgraduate and undergraduate college students to make sure their efficient improvement.
• Supervise and practice analysis and technical employees employed on the publish holder’s analysis tasks to make sure their efficient improvement.
• Interact within the dissemination of analysis by means of information switch, outreach, persevering with skilled improvement, public engagement and so forth.
• Contribute absolutely to tutorial life and strategic planning inside a Division/Faculty and, the place required/applicable to the broader strategic planning processes in School and College at an applicable degree.
• Determine strategic improvement alternatives in educating and analysis and contribute to the event of those concepts.
• Contribute to driving and making certain a constructive and inclusive analysis tradition.

The above record of tasks will not be exhaustive, and the publish holder will probably be required to undertake such duties and tasks as could fairly be anticipated throughout the scope and grading of the publish.

Expertise, information, and expertise

Important standards * PhD/DPhil diploma

• Scientific synergy with present analysis at King’s
• Vital, established experience in an space of basic science analysis associated space to the bodily sciences of life
• Expertise in main excessive influence interdisciplinary analysis
• Excellent impartial monitor file of publication of worldwide stature
• Established and constant file of attracting peer reviewed analysis grant funding or fellowships
• Robust and constant monitor file of main tutorial analysis groups
• Expertise of main multi-disciplinary groups and sharing and inspiring good observe
• Vital expertise in management in tutorial administration
• Expertise in supervising and creating analysis college students and/or analysis employees
• Member of prestigious tutorial and/or industrial advisory boards
• Expertise of commercial/industrial funding alternatives to underpin utilized analysis

Fascinating standards: * Vital expertise of supply of undergraduate educating

Additional Info

Purposes ought to embody:

• a 1 web page cowl letter highlighting your key scientific contributions, a short abstract of future plans and match with King’s. Please additionally point out which departments/schools you’re feeling that you simply finest align with.
• a CV with a full publication record
• a analysis assertion (as much as 2 pages)
• a educating assertion (as much as 1 web page)
• particulars of three tutorial referees, together with one out of your present or most up-to-date employer. Do you have to be shortlisted, letters of advice will probably be sought forward of the interview from two of your references. The third reference, out of your present employer, will solely be requested along with your consent.

Candidates ought to element how they meet the important standards listed within the advert. If we obtain a powerful area of candidates, we could use the fascinating standards to decide on our shortlist, so please embody your proof towards these the place potential.

The shortlisting / interview course of will happen in two levels: a panel interview and, if shortlisted, an invite to current a seminar and meet colleagues. Preliminary interviews are on account of happen in early Might.

We notably welcome purposes from feminine and minority ethnic candidates. We perceive that versatile working preparations or profession breaks could also be obligatory in sure circumstances and welcome the chance to debate this chance.

We additionally welome and help proleptic appointments for candidates with current private fellowships.

Anticipated wage

£80324 per yr

Location

Strand, Central London

Job date

Sat, 16 Mar 2024 08:58:05 GMT

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