We are hiring a Â鶹´«Ã½ Assistant to study the role of different extracellular matrices in heart regeneration.

In this role, you will be part of a dynamic and supportive team working at the intersection of cell biology and physics. You will culture heart tissue to model regeneration following damage. Using this system, you will dissect the mechanisms involved in heart regeneration. You should have an understanding of biomaterials for tissue engineering and tissue regeneration.

Key responsibilities

• Grow heart tissue in culture
• Electrospinning, biocomaptability and electrical activity testing
• Contribute to day-to-day running of the lab

About you

We are looking for a motivated and detail-oriented individual with:

• An undergraduate or master’s degree in a biological science or relevant subject.
• Experience working in a laboratory environment (including cell culture, electrospinning and halospinning nanofibres and biocomaptability testing, experience in the design of functionalised de novo-based hydrogels, immunostaining and bioimaging, scanning electron microscopy and mass spectroscopy)
• Strong organisational and time management skills
• Clear communication skills
• The ability to work both independently and as part of a team
• Enthusiasm for learning new skills and techniques

Further information

This is a full-time, fixed term position for 3 months

Informal enquires are welcome, please contact Professor David Tosh (d.tosh@bath.ac.uk) or Professor Kamal Asadi (ka787@bath.ac.uk)

As a member of Â鶹´«Ã½ Staff at the University of Bath, you will be encouraged to take up a minimum of 10 days professional development pro rata per year

What we can offer you:

We consider ourselves to be a university where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We have an excellent international reputation with staff from over 60 different nations and have made a positive commitment towards gender equality and intersectionality receiving a Silver Athena SWAN award. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds will lead to a better environment for our employees and students, so we encourage applications from all genders, backgrounds, and communities, particularly from under-represented groups, and value the positive impact that will have on the university. We are committed to maintaining a safe and secure environment for our students, staff, and community by reinforcing our commitment.

We are very proud to be an autism friendly university and are an accredited Disability Confident Leader; committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff.

• Free counselling services through Health Assured
• Cycle to work scheme
• Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme
• Staff discount at Team Bath gym
• Staff discounts on postgraduate tuition fees
• Staff discount on language courses
• Generous employer contributory pension schemes
• Generous annual leave allowance with an additional 5 discretionary days so that you can enjoy a positive work life balance
• A wide range of personal and professional development opportunities including Apprenticeships, LinkedIn Learning and more
• Free entry to the Holburne Museum in Bath
• Local discounts and more
• A family-friendly workplace
• An excellent reward package that recognises the talents of our diverse workforce
• Relocation allowance
• Visa reimbursement and Interest-Free Loan to help with the cost of some immigration expenses

We are committed to continually expanding our benefits to better support you and enhance your experience with us. Find out more about our benefits.

Find out from our staff what makes the University of Bath a great place to work. Follow us and on X for more information.

Closing Date: 13 Jul 2025

Department: Education & Â鶹´«Ã½

Salary: £30,805 to £37,174

This represents an outstanding opportunity for a lecturer join the vibrant department of Life Sciences and its interdisciplinary research centres. Current research strengths include, but are not restricted to, medical, microbial, and plant biotechnology, the evolution of drug resistance, and the development of novel drugs for health and agriculture.

Please note that we are also currently recruiting a Lecturer (teaching and research) for the MSc Biotechnology degree.

We are seeking:  

• A collegiate, enthusiastic and self-motivated individual with a commitment to excellence in higher education and providing a high-quality experience for our students 
• Demonstrable depth and breadth of knowledge and expertise in Biotechnology
• Excellent communication skills 

About the Department 

The Department of Life Sciences at the University of Bath is located on the main University campus, in close proximity to the Departments of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics and Physics. There is a strong interdisciplinary and collaborative culture across departments, fostered by a number of research centres including those for Bioengineering and Biomedical Technologies, Drug Discovery, Mathematical Biology and Milner Centre for Evolution.

For informal enquiries please contact Dr Zoe Burke, Director of Teaching (bsszdb@bath.ac.uk) or Dr Neil Brown, MSc Director of Studies (nab52@bath.ac.uk).  However, please ensure your application is submitted via the University website. 

Alongside completion of the online application form, you should also upload a full Curriculum Vitae. 

We consider ourselves to be a university where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We have an excellent international reputation with staff from over 60 different nations and have made a positive commitment towards gender equality and intersectionality receiving a Silver Athena SWAN award. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds will lead to a better environment for our employees and students and encourage applications from all genders, backgrounds, and communities, particularly from under-represented groups, and value the positive impact that will have on the university. We are committed to maintaining a safe and secure environment for our students, staff, and community by reinforcing our Safer Recruitment commitment.

We're very proud to be a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant. an accredited Disability Confident Leader; autism friendly university, committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff. 

What we can offer you:

We're continually expanding our benefits package to better support you and enhance your experience with us and the below is just an example of some of the many great benefits we offer:

• Free counselling services through Health Assured
• Cycle to work scheme
• Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme
• Staff discount at Team Bath gym
• Staff discounts on postgraduate tuition fees
• Staff discount on language courses
• Generous employer contributory pension schemes
• Generous annual leave allowance with an additional 5 discretionary days so that you can enjoy a positive work life balance
• A wide range of personal and professional development opportunities including Apprenticeships, LinkedIn Learning and more
• Free entry to the Holburne Museum in Bath
• Local discounts and more
• A family-friendly workplace 
• An excellent reward package that recognises the talents of our diverse workforce
• Relocation allowance
• Visa reimbursement and Interest-Free Loan to help with the cost of some immigration expenses

Find out more about our benefits and watch the video to hear from our staff about what makes the University of Bath a great place to work as well as following us and .

Closing Date: 27 Jul 2025

Department: Education & Â鶹´«Ã½

Salary: £38,249 to £45,413

This represents an exceptional opportunity for an established researcher, with an internationally competitive research programme, to develop new synergies across the vibrant department of Life Sciences and its interdisciplinary research centres. Current research strengths include: medical, microbial, and plant biotechnology, the evolution of drug resistance, and the development of novel drugs for health and agriculture.

You will have an active research programme and a proven track record of innovation and high impact publication in any aspect of biotechnology. These include but are not restricted to: health and sustainable biotechnologies, synthetic biology and biomaterials

As well as conducting innovative externally funded research, you will be encouraged to contribute to the delivery and development of taught courses at undergraduate and master’s level and to supervise postgraduate research students. You should be able to take on additional support roles including acting as an Academic Advisor.

About the Department?

The Department of Life Sciences is located on the main University campus, in close proximity to the Departments of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics and Physics. There is a strong interdisciplinary and collaborative culture across departments, fostered by a number of research centres including those for Bioengineering and Biomedical Technologies, Drug Discovery, Mathematical Biology and Milner Centre for Evolution.

The University of Bath offers cutting-edge High-Performance Computing (HPC) facilities that support advanced research across all fields. Â鶹´«Ã½ers have access to three powerful computing environments: Nimbus, a scalable cloud-based supercomputer hosted on Microsoft Azure; Anatra, an on-site high-throughput computing cluster; and Isambard 3, a regional GW4 supercomputer. The University Imaging Facility (confocal, multi-photon and light-sheet microscopes, flow cytometry and a full spectrum cell analyser) and a Chemical Characterisation Facility including mass spectrometry. The department boasts a suite of molecular microbiology labs, bioreactors, environmentally controlled culture rooms as well as greenhouses, a GridION and PromethION 2 Solo nanopore sequencing facility and a range of dedicated microscopes including confocal and 2-photon.

Additional information

For informal enquiries please contact Dr Zoe Burke, Director of Teaching (bsszdb@bath.ac.uk) or Dr Neil Brown, MSc Director of Studies (nab52@bath.ac.uk).

The role is offered as a full-time permanent (tenured) appointment. There is no compulsory retirement age.

Alongside completion of the online application form, you should also upload a full Curriculum Vitae.

Please note that we are also currently recruiting a Lecturer (teaching only) for the MSc Biotechnology degree

We consider ourselves to be a university where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We have an excellent international reputation with staff from over 60 different nations and have made a positive commitment towards gender equality and intersectionality receiving a Silver Athena SWAN award. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds will lead to a better environment for our employees and students and encourage applications from all genders, backgrounds, and communities, particularly from under-represented groups, and value the positive impact that will have on the university. We are committed to maintaining a safe and secure environment for our students, staff, and community by reinforcing our Safer Recruitment commitment.

We're very proud to be a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant. an accredited Disability Confident Leader; autism friendly university, committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff.

What we can offer you:

We're continually expanding our benefits package to better support you and enhance your experience with us and the below is just an example of some of the many great benefits we offer:

• Free counselling services through Health Assured
• Cycle to work scheme
• Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme
• Staff discount at Team Bath gym
• Staff discounts on postgraduate tuition fees
• Staff discount on language courses
• Generous employer contributory pension schemes
• Generous annual leave allowance with an additional 5 discretionary days so that you can enjoy a positive work life balance
• A wide range of personal and professional development opportunities including Apprenticeships, LinkedIn Learning and more
• Free entry to the Holburne Museum in Bath
• Local discounts and more
• A family-friendly workplace
• An excellent reward package that recognises the talents of our diverse workforce
• Relocation allowance
• Visa reimbursement and Interest-Free Loan to help with the cost of some immigration expenses

Find out more about our benefits and watch the video to hear from our staff about what makes the University of Bath a great place to work as well as following us and .

Closing Date: 27 Jul 2025

Department: Education & Â鶹´«Ã½

Salary: £46,735 to £55,755

We are seeking an industrious, independent, and ambitious postdoctoral researcher to join a multi-institutional project aimed funded by Versus Arthritis focussed on developing a novel peptide-siRNA conjugate for the treatment of osteoarthritis (OA). In this project, you will be involved in the synthesis of peptide-siRNA conjugates that are designed to bind specific receptors to enable targeted delivery of disease-modifying nucleic acid agents directly to affected joint cells.

OA is a degenerative joint disorder and a leading cause of pain and disability, affecting over 500 million people worldwide. Currently, no approved treatments exist that can halt or reverse disease progression. Existing pain relief options are often ineffective or associated with adverse side effects. Small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) have emerged as a promising new class of therapeutics with unique advantages over traditional drugs. Six siRNA-based therapies are already approved for clinical use. However, a major hurdle in applying siRNA therapeutics to OA is the efficient and targeted delivery of siRNAs to joint-resident cells.

About you

You will hold a PhD in organic chemistry, medicinal chemistry, chemical biology, or a related discipline.

You should have practical experience of peptide synthesis, linker chemistries, and the preparation of conjugates with biomolecules, especially nucleic acids.

You should also have a strong track record of carrying out academic or industrial research at the interface of chemistry and biology, ideally evidenced by publications in peer-reviewed journals.

Additional information

The post is available for 12 months and will be primarily supervised by Dr Ian Eggleston (Department of Life Sciences, University of Bath). You will also work closely with Prof Mark Lindsay at Bath, and colleagues at University of Birmingham (Professor Simon Jones) and University Nottingham (Prof Vicky Chapman and Dr Federico Dajas-Bailador).

Interviews will take place in the week commencing 11 August 2025.

For an informal discussion relating to this vacancy, please contact Dr Ian Eggleston (ie203@bath.ac.uk) and Prof. Mark Lindsay (mal37@bath.ac.uk)

What we can offer you:

We consider ourselves to be a university where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We have an excellent international reputation with staff from over 60 different nations and have made a positive commitment towards gender equality and intersectionality receiving a Silver Athena SWAN award. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds will lead to a better environment for our employees and students, so we encourage applications from all genders, backgrounds, and communities, particularly from under-represented groups, and value the positive impact that will have on the university. We are committed to maintaining a safe and secure environment for our students, staff, and community by reinforcing our commitment.

We are very proud to be an autism friendly university and are an accredited Disability Confident Leader; committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff.

• Free counselling services through Health Assured
• Cycle to work scheme
• Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme
• Staff discount at Team Bath gym
• Staff discounts on postgraduate tuition fees
• Staff discount on language courses
• Generous employer contributory pension schemes
• Generous annual leave allowance with an additional 5 discretionary days so that you can enjoy a positive work life balance
• A wide range of personal and professional development opportunities including Apprenticeships, LinkedIn Learning and more
• Free entry to the Holburne Museum in Bath
• Local discounts and more
• A family-friendly workplace 
• An excellent reward package that recognises the talents of our diverse workforce
• Relocation allowance
• Visa reimbursement and Interest-Free Loan to help with the cost of some immigration expenses

We are committed to continually expanding our benefits to better support you and enhance your experience with us. Find out more about our benefits.

Find out from our staff what makes the University of Bath a great place to work. Follow us and on X for more information.

Closing Date: 27 Jul 2025

Department: Education & Â鶹´«Ã½

Salary: £38,249 to £45,413