Last Updated on December 10, 2025 by Scholar Idea
University of Cambridge in United Kingdom invites application for vacant Research Positions, a collegiate public research university in Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Research Positions
Title Department/location Salary Closes Research Associate (Honorary Resident Doctor) in Early Phase Cancer Trials (Fixed Term) Department of Oncology £38,831-£73,992 18 December 2025 Biomedical Engineer (Fixed Term) Department of Clinical Biochemistry £33,002-£35,608 £37,694-£46,049 14 December 2025 Early-Career Research Fellow (Fixed Term) Faculty of Divinity £37,694-£46,049 12 December 2025 Group Leader Research Fellowship Sponsorship Scheme Department of Genetics See job description for details. 28 February 2026 Janeway Institute Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (Research Assistant or Research Associate) (Fixed Term) Faculty of Economics £33,002-£35,608 £37,694-£46,049 30 January 2026 Next Generation Fellow (Fixed Term) Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience £37,174-£45,413 30 January 2026 Oppenheimer Research Fellow (Fixed Term) Office of the School of the Physical Sciences £37,694-£46,049 6 January 2026 PDRA (Fixed Term) Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy £33,002-£35,608 £37,694-£46,049 5 January 2026 PDRA (TMDs) (Fixed Term) Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy £37,694-£46,049 23 December 2025 Post-doctoral Research Associate in Applied Mathematics (Fixed Term) Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics £37,694-£46,049 31 December 2025
Post-Doctoral Research Associate: Supramolecular Chemistry (Fixed Term) Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry £33,002-£35,608 £37,694-£46,049 17 December 2025 Postdoctoral Fellowship in Early Cancer Research (Fixed Term) (Internal Applicants Only) Department of Oncology £37,694-£46,049 4 January 2026 Postdoctoral Research Associate (Fixed Term) Department of Psychology £37,694-£46,049 21 December 2025 Postdoctoral Research Associate (Fixed Term) Department of Genetics £37,694-£46,049 25 January 2026 Postdoctoral Research Associate (Fixed Term) Centre for Research in Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities £37,694-£46,049 7 January 2026 Postdoctoral Research Associate (Part Time, Fixed Term) MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit £37,694-£46,049 pro rata 21 December 2025 Postdoctoral Research Associate in Applied Mathematics (Fixed Term) Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics £37,694-£39,906 2 February 2026 Postdoctoral Research Associate in Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) Cosmology (Fixed Term) Institute of Astronomy £37,694- £46,049 or £34,610 – £35,608 14 December 2025 Postdoctoral Research Associate in Genome Privacy (Fixed Term) Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics £37,694-£46,049 22 December 2025
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Microbiology (Fixed Term) Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry £33,002-£35,608 £37,694-£46,049 10 December 2025 Postdoctoral Research Associate or Assistant Research Professor in Cosmology (Fixed Term) Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics £37,694-£59,966 3 January 2026 Research and Outreach Associate (Fixed Term) HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Centre of Islamic Studies £33,002-£35,608 £37,694-£46,049 31 January 2026 Research Assistant (Fixed Term) Department of Medicine £33,002-£35,608 6 February 2026 Research Assistant (Fixed Term) Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology £33,002-£35,608 9 January 2026 Research Assistant (Fixed Term) Department of Pharmacology £33,002-£35,608 4 January 2026 Research Assistant (Fixed Term) Department of Psychiatry £33,002-£35,608 4 January 2026 Research Assistant (Fixed Term) Department of Public Policy (Bennett School of Public Policy) £34,610 – £35,608 per annum 5 January 2026 Research Assistant (Fixed Term) Department of Zoology £33,002-£35,608 14 January 2026
Research Assistant / Associate (Fixed-Term) Department of Pathology £34,610 – £35,608 (Grade 5) £37,694 – £46,049 (Grade 7) 31 December 2025 Research Assistant in the Insect Ecology Group (Fixed Term) Department of Zoology £33,002-£35,608 7 January 2026 Research Assistant/Associate (Fixed Term) Department of Pathology £33,002-£35,608 £37,694-£46,049 2 January 2026 Research Assistant/Associate in Empirical Finance (Fixed Term) – Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finance Judge Business School £33,002-£46,049 9 February 2026 Research Assistant/Associate in Evolutionary Biomechanics (Fixed Term) McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research £33,002-£46,049 12 January 2026 Research Assistant/Associate in Exoplanetary Remote Sensing and Data Science (up to 2 posts) (Fixed Term) Institute of Astronomy £37,694- £46,049 or £34,610 – £35,608 11 January 2026 Research Assistant/Associate in HEP Theory Department of Physics £33,002-£35,608 £37,694-£46,049 5 January 2026 Research Assistant/Associate in Nanosheet Device Arrays (Fixed Term) Department of Engineering £33,002-£35,608 £37,694-£46,049 19 December 2025 Research Assistant/Associate in Nuclear Engineering and Reactor Design (Fixed Term) Department of Engineering £33,002 – £35,608 or £37,694- £46,049 15 December 2025
Research Assistant/Associate in Theoretical Computer Science (Fixed Term) Department of Computer Science and Technology £33,002-£35,608 £37,694-£46,049 16 December 2025 Research Assistant/Associate in Theoretical Finance (Fixed Term) – Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finance Judge Business School £33,002-£46,049 9 February 2026 Research Assistant/Research Associate (Fixed Term) Department of Computer Science and Technology £33,002-£46,049 14 December 2025 Research Associate (Data Science) (Fixed Term) Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology £37,694-£46,049 11 January 2026 Research Associate (Fixed Term) Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit £37,694-£46,049 8 January 2026 Research Associate (Fixed Term) Department of Physics £33,002-£35,608 £37,694-£46,049 21 December 2025 Research Associate (Fixed Term) Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience £37,694-£46,049 12 January 2026 Research Associate (Honorary Resident Doctor) (Fixed Term) Department of Clinical Neurosciences £38,831-£73,992 12 December 2025 Research Associate (Huntly Lab – Fixed Term) Department of Haematology £37,694-£46,049 21 December 2025
Research Associate (Káradóttir Lab) (Fixed Term) Cambridge Stem Cell Institute (SBS) £33,002-£46,049 23 December 2025 Research Associate (Part Time, Fixed Term) MRC Biostatistics Unit £37,694-£46,049 pro rata 26 December 2025 Research Associate in Cosmology and Gravitation (Fixed Term) Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics £37,694-£46,049 15 December 2025 Research Associate in Dynamic Cancer Risk Prediction (Epidemiologist/Statistician/Health Data Scientist) (Fixed Term) Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit £33,002-£35,608 £37,694-£46,049 5 January 2026 Research Associate in Innovation and Operations Management (Fixed Term) Judge Business School £37,694-£46,049 23 February 2026 Research Associate in Low-Dimensional Topology (Fixed Term) Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics £37,694-£46,049 15 December 2025 Research Associate in Quantum Fields and Gravity (Fixed Term) Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics £37,694-£46,049 14 December 2025 Research Associate/Assistant in Human Evolutionary Anatomy (Fixed Term) McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research £33,002-£46,049 12 January 2026 Research Nurse (Part Time, Fixed Term) Department of Clinical Neurosciences £37,694-£46,049 pro rata 4 January 2026
