The above full-time post is available immediately for four years, in the College of Life and Environmental Sciences.
Job Description
The Medical Research Council Centre for Medical Mycology (MRC CMM) at the University of Exeter is seeking to award a four-year Fellowship to a newly qualified postdoctoral researcher (with up to 5 years post-doctoral experience), with the aim of attracting the most promising individual to develop an early independent research career in medical mycology. This Fellowship covers salary and comes with a generous consumable budget (up to £20k per annum).
The successful applicant will be expected to develop their own independent research programme, becoming an independent junior principal investigator (PI). Support and mentoring will be provided from our MRC CMM Directors and other Centre PIs (https://www.exeter.ac.uk/medicalmycology/team/)
This post will focus specifically on Bioinformatics. The post-holder’s research programme should combine bioinformatics with ‘omics’ approaches to address the host or the host-pathogen interface, complementing the research conducted by Dr. Rhys Farrer’s team.
The successful applicant will: develop their own independent research programme; collaborate effectively with other members of the MRC CMM; write up their work for publication; present their work at conferences;
and contribute to the activities of the Centre (e.g. research, outreach and teaching).