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Opportunities

Fellowship Opportunities

The Department is happy to host prospective and future fellowship grant holders and offers a competitive start-up package for early career researchers seeking to carry out their research in Oxford.

Current vacancies

Postdoctoral Neuroscientist

Grade 7: £33,309-£40,927 per annum

A postdoctoral position is available in the laboratory of Liliana Minichiello at the Department of Pharmacology, the University of Oxford, to study the fundamental mechanisms regulating the integration of newly born neurons into neural circuits during critical periods of brain plasticity underlying cognition, learning and memory.

Funded by the Medical Research Council (MRC), this project builds on the Minichiello group’s recent findings, which show that interfering with specific neural circuits during brain development results in brain disorders that affect later adult life.

Therefore, you will use precise genetics with cutting-edge sequencing techniques, such as RNAseq and ATACseq and integrated computational analysis of single-cell transcriptome and epigenome to identify new potential genetic factors regulating time-sensitive periods during brain circuits development. These are fundamental and necessary steps towards the design of innovative pharmacological treatments relevant to neurodevelopmental disorders.

The post is available on a fixed-term basis, for three years, funded by the Medical Research Council.
 
The closing date for applications is 12noon on Monday 15 November 2021.

Apply online via the University website

Early Morning Receptionist

Grade 2: £20,047-£20,092 (with a discretionary range to £21,686) per annum

A part-time, early-morning receptionist is required to join a team of reception desk and security staff in the Department of Pharmacology.
 
The early-morning receptionist will cover the period from 6am to 8am, Monday to Friday (except bank holidays and departmental fixed closure days).
 
The postholder needs to be able to understand all of the Department's Security Procedures and to provide a friendly and helpful front-of-house service. You will be responsible for daily security checks, unlocking exterior doors and the goods lift and liaising as necessary with University Security Services and on-call staff. You will need to provide general reception services such as dealing with incoming phone calls, handing enquiries from members of the Department and dealing with visitors.

The post is a permanent role, available from 1 January 2022.
 
The closing date for applications is 12noon on Monday 15 November 2021.

Apply online via the University website