Professor in the Physical Sciences of Life

Job title:

Professor within the Bodily Sciences of Life

Firm

King’s School London

Job description

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

These positions type a part of a significant 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 in search of gifted teachers with sturdy observe data in analysis and schooling. Particular areas of curiosity embody, however usually are not restricted to:

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

Profitable candidates will play a key position in growing and executing internationally main analysis, working collaboratively throughout King’s. You’ll have a robust analysis observe report, demonstrating interdisciplinary engagement, and be prepared to ascertain and develop a analysis programme that draws exterior funding. Additionally, you will be dedicated to educating scientists of the longer term by 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 engaged analysis that engages numerous audiences, particularly in our native communities in London and past.

It’s important that King’s displays the variety of the inhabitants we serve, and we strongly encourage functions from candidates of all backgrounds.

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

This put up can be supplied on an indefinite contract.

This can be a full-time put up.

Key tasks

• Present educational management in an acceptable space of analysis
• Set up, develop and maintain an internationally aggressive, externally-funded analysis programme in step with, or complementary to departmental / school / college analysis methods at King’s.
• Keep a constant, excellent observe report of publication (sometimes 2-4 analysis publications (relying on appointment degree) over a rolling five-year interval that features world main or internationally glorious work, as first, final and/or corresponding creator).
• Contribute to instructing of undergraduate and postgraduate college students and curriculum improvement.
• Plan, organise and ship a variety of instructing and evaluation actions (e.g. lecturing, venture supervision and tutorials) and main on a minimum of one substantive module/programme.
• Supervise and prepare postgraduate and undergraduate college students to make sure their efficient improvement.
• Supervise and prepare analysis and technical workers employed on the put up holder’s analysis tasks to make sure their efficient improvement.
• Have interaction within the dissemination of analysis by information switch, outreach, persevering with skilled improvement, public engagement and many others.
• Contribute totally to educational life and strategic planning inside a Division/College and, the place required/acceptable to the broader strategic planning processes in College and College at an acceptable degree.
• Establish strategic improvement alternatives in instructing 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 might not be exhaustive, and the put up holder can be required to undertake such duties and tasks as could fairly be anticipated throughout the scope and grading of the put up.

Abilities, information, and expertise

Important standards * PhD/DPhil diploma

• Scientific synergy with present analysis at King’s
• Vital, established experience in an space of elementary science analysis associated space to the bodily sciences of life
• Expertise in main excessive impression interdisciplinary analysis
• Excellent unbiased observe report of publication of worldwide stature
• Established and constant report of attracting peer reviewed analysis grant funding or fellowships
• Sturdy and constant observe report of main educational analysis groups
• Expertise of main multi-disciplinary groups and sharing and inspiring good follow
• Vital expertise in management in educational administration
• Expertise in supervising and growing analysis college students and/or analysis workers
• Member of prestigious educational and/or industrial advisory boards
• Expertise of commercial/business funding alternatives to underpin utilized analysis

Fascinating standards: * Vital expertise of supply of undergraduate instructing

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/colleges you are feeling that you just finest align with.
• a CV with a full publication record
• a analysis assertion (as much as 2 pages)
• a instructing assertion (as much as 1 web page)
• particulars of three educational referees, together with one out of your present or most up-to-date employer. Do you have to be shortlisted, letters of advice can be sought forward of the interview from two of your references. The third reference, out of your present employer, will solely be requested together with your consent.

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

The shortlisting / interview course of will happen in two phases: 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 significantly welcome functions from feminine and minority ethnic candidates. We perceive that versatile working preparations or profession breaks could also be vital in sure circumstances and welcome the chance to debate this chance.

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

Firm

King’s School London is likely one of the high 20 universities on the planet and among the many oldest in England. King’s has greater than 27,600 college students (of whom practically 10,500 are graduate college students) from some 150 nations worldwide, and a few 6,800 workers.

King’s has an excellent fame for world-class instructing and cutting-edge analysis. Within the 2014 Analysis Excellence Framework (REF) King’s was ranked sixth nationally within the ‘energy’ rating, which takes into consideration each the standard and amount of analysis exercise, and seventh for high quality based on Instances Greater Training rankings. Eighty-four per cent of analysis at King’s was deemed ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally glorious’ (3* and 4*). The college is within the high seven UK universities for analysis earnings and has an total annual revenue of greater than £684 million.

King’s has a very distinguished fame within the humanities, legislation, the sciences (together with a variety of well being areas comparable to psychiatry, drugs, nursing and dentistry) and social sciences together with worldwide affairs. It has performed a significant position in lots of the advances which have formed trendy life, comparable to the invention of the construction of DNA and analysis that led to the event of radio, tv, cellphones and radar.

King’s School London and Man’s and St Thomas’, King’s School Hospital and South London and Maudsley NHS Basis Trusts are a part of King’s Well being Companions. King’s Well being Companions Educational Well being Sciences Centre (AHSC) is a pioneering world collaboration between one of many world’s main research-led universities and three of London’s most profitable NHS Basis Trusts, together with main instructing hospitals and complete psychological well being providers. For extra data, go to: .

King’s £600 million marketing campaign, World questions|KING’s solutions, has delivered enormous world impression in areas the place King’s has specific experience. Philanthropic assist has funded new analysis to save lots of younger lives at Evelina London Youngsters’s Hospital; established the King’s Dickson Poon College of Regulation as a worldwide chief in transnational legislation; constructed a brand new Most cancers Centre at Man’s Hospital; allowed distinctive collaboration between main neuroscientists to fast-track new remedies for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, motor neurone illness, despair and schizophrenia on the new Maurice Wohl Scientific Neuroscience Institute; created the Cicely Saunders Institute: the primary educational establishment on the planet devoted to palliative care, and supported the King’s Sierra Leone Partnership within the Ebola disaster. Donations present over 300 of essentially the most promising college students with scholarships and bursaries every year. Extra details about the marketing campaign is offered at .

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Anticipated wage

£80324 per yr

Location

Central London

Job date

Sat, 16 Mar 2024 01:04:57 GMT

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