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Queen's University Belfast is a leading centre of academic excellence with a distinguished heritage and a global outlook. Founded in 1845, it has grown into a world-class institution with over 25,000 students and 4,000 staff. A top 200 university globally (QS Rankings 2026), Queen's combines tradition with innovation, and local impact with international reach. Queen's is proud to be one of only twelve UK universities selected to receive funding from the £54 million Global Talent Fund , administered by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). This five-year initiative supports the recruitment of internationally outstanding researchers aligned with the UK's Industrial Strategy. With the support of this funding, Queen's is seeking to appoint professors who will strengthen Queen's research leadership in areas of national and global importance. Appointments will be held within the Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Sciences (MHLS), focusing on translational life science research, and the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences (EPS), which will spearhead appointments in one or more of the UK's Industrial Strategy priority areas of advanced manufacturing, defence, and digital technologies. The Faculty of MHLS has a thriving research environment from discovery science through to clinical development and implementation and focuses its research around three Health Grand Challenges: One Health, Precision Health and Equal Health. Queen's provide a connected ecosystem that is now driving ambition for scientists and clinicians to discover, develop and deliver in the Northern Ireland region and beyond. Successful applicants will be able to join this environment, working within one of our leading research centres such as the Johnston Cancer Research Centre or the Wellcome Wolfson Institute of Experimental Medicine. They will develop translational research programmes in key areas of strength e.g., cancer, ophthalmology, respiratory conditions, immune disorders and infectious disease. Applicants will be supported to take full advantage of our new major infrastructure investments, including the £55 million Future Medicines Institute (FMI) drug discovery research hub and the £64 million iREACH-Health clinical research facility (opening in 2027). The Faculty of EPS is a dynamic and internationally diverse community of staff and students, conducting globally significant research that spans engineering and a wide range of scientific disciplines. We are seeking applicants to join our research community, to expand and develop our work by establishing new teams and opportunities. Applications are sought at the intersections of two or more of the following areas of strength: wireless communications, photonics, advanced functional materials, manufacturing, AI, and cybersecurity. EPS has an extensive network of state-of-the-art labs, high-performance computing facilities, and strategic industrial partners - all part of an interconnected research ecosystem in Northern Ireland where government, industry, and universities collaborate effectively. This leads to innovative and interdisciplinary opportunities that are truly unique. Appointees will join a faculty that serves as the academic engine for two major regional innovation centres with a combined £170 million investment: Momentum One Zero and the Advanced Manufacturing Innovation Centre (AMIC). These centres act as hubs for research, collaboration, and commercialisation, bridging the gap between academia and industry to create tangible, real-world solutions. Enquiries can be made, in confidence, to Jamie Cumming-Wesley or Evan Yeckley at WittKieffer. More information on the position can be found in the candidate brochure and on the WittKieffer website . Completed applications should be submitted electronically to .

The Department of Engineering at Durham University is currently undergoing a period of strategic growth and now seeks to appoint a talented individual to the role of Associate Professor in Electrical Engineering or Fluid Mechanics . We welcome applications from those with research and teaching interests in the broad field of electrical engineering, power electronics, machines and drives. We are particularly eager to hear from candidates working in experimental electrical engineering research, or in fluid mechanics with applications associated with the energy, aerospace or vehicle aerodynamics sectors. Applicants who have a track record of current funding they could bring to Durham are likely to be in a stronger position than those that do not. Applicants much also balance their research expertise with the ability to teach our students to an exceptional standard and to fully engage in the services, citizenship and values of the University. This is an exciting opportunity to join an expanding, unified Engineering Department which is recognised as one of the very best in the UK, with a reputation for excellence in teaching, research and employability of our graduates.In the REF2021 exercise, 95% of our Engineering outputs were graded "Internationally Excellent" or "World Leading", and the Department is committed to an ethos of research-led education at all levels of our taught programmes. Engineering at Durham University was ranked 5th in The Complete University Guide 2026, 6th in The Guardian University Guide 2025, and 6th in The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2025. We were ranked 2nd in Engineering behind only Cambridge in a recent Institute for Fiscal Studies report on the difference in graduate earnings by UK university choice.We are a scholarly community that is open, representative and diverse: our commitment to this is expressed through work of the Department's Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Group, and our Athena Swan Silver award. The Department of Engineering demonstrates significant depth of research excellence across a range of disciplines, with activities that are currently concentrated across eight Research Nodes which group together our day-to-day activities and expertise, yet feed into the UN Sustainable Development Goals .This role nominally falls into either the Electrical Power node or Fluid Mechanics node . We are particularly proud of the collaborative interdisciplinary nature of our research, which also includes strong industrial partnerships. This post offers an exciting opportunity to make a major contribution to the leadership and development of world leading and internationally excellent research and teaching while allowing you unrivalled opportunities to progress and embed your career in an exciting and progressive institution.For more information, please visit our Department pages at . We are keen to hear from outstanding candidates who have already achieved Chartered Engineer status. As a minimum, if not already professionally qualified, candidates will be expected to demonstrate the ability and desire to become Chartered. Job Title: Associate Professor in Electrical Engineering / Fluid Mechanics Vacancy Reference: Department: Engineering Responsible to: Head of Department Salary Grade: Professor (Grade 9) - £59,966 - £67,468 Working arrangements: Full Time (we will consider requests for flexible working arrangements) Closing date: 23:59 on 2 November 2025 Start Date: Ideally 1 May 2026 Apply link: :00&tzname=Europe/London

We have an exciting opportunity in the Department of Earth Sciences at Durham University to appoint an Associate Professor (Research and Education) in Sustainable Earth Energy to help strengthen our existing research, teaching and impact that addresses the major energy transition from an Earth Sciences perspective. We seek an outstanding individual to take a leadership role in low carbon geoenergy, energy transition including storage and/or energy transition resource sustainability. We believe that education and research are a vital part of our response in this time of unprecedented change on Earth. We seek an outstanding individual to take a leadership role in research and teaching in this area as part of Durham Earth Sciences. This post offers an exciting opportunity to make a major contribution to the development of internationally excellent research and teaching while allowing unrivalled opportunities to progress and embed your career in an exciting and progressive institution. You will have an established, internationally recognised, and active research programme in environmental geosciences, earth system science, sustainability, or related fields, combining field, lab, and/or computational approaches on topics such as, but not limited to, global carbon cycle dynamics, carbon sequestration, environmental sustainability, climate change and mitigation, energy transition or sustainable resource management. You will be expected and supported to conduct cutting-edge research at the highest level, build your own externally funded research group, collaborate widely within and without the department and to explore the full potential of the impact of your research. Your work will contribute to research and impact themes in the Department, the Science Faculty and across the University, including cross-disciplinary and collaborative vehicles such as the Durham Energy Institute and the Institute for Hazard, Risk and Resilience. Durham is a UK top 5 Earth Sciences department and is committed to helping you to develop your full potential in both education and research. Start-up packages can be negotiated and there are many examples of flexible working practices. The Department strives for a collegial, collaborative and flexible working environment and is a member of the Athena SWAN Charter, currently holding a departmental Silver Athena SWAN award. Please visit our website for more information on the department, its research and facilities: . Interviews will take place in December/January 2025 and successful applicants will, ideally, be in post by 1 September 2026.

The Department of Engineering at Durham University is currently undergoing a period of strategic growth and now seeks to appoint a talented individual to the role of Associate Professor in Electrical Engineering or Fluid Mechanics . We welcome applications from those with research and teaching interests in the broad field of electrical engineering, power electronics, machines and drives. We are particularly eager to hear from candidates working in experimental electrical engineering research, or in fluid mechanics with applications associated with the energy, aerospace or vehicle aerodynamics sectors. Applicants who have a track record of current funding they could bring to Durham are likely to be in a stronger position than those that do not. Applicants much also balance their research expertise with the ability to teach our students to an exceptional standard and to fully engage in the services, citizenship and values of the University. This is an exciting opportunity to join an expanding, unified Engineering Department which is recognised as one of the very best in the UK, with a reputation for excellence in teaching, research and employability of our graduates.In the REF2021 exercise, 95% of our Engineering outputs were graded "Internationally Excellent" or "World Leading", and the Department is committed to an ethos of research-led education at all levels of our taught programmes. Engineering at Durham University was ranked 5th in The Complete University Guide 2026, 6th in The Guardian University Guide 2025, and 6th in The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2025. We were ranked 2nd in Engineering behind only Cambridge in a recent Institute for Fiscal Studies report on the difference in graduate earnings by UK university choice.We are a scholarly community that is open, representative and diverse: our commitment to this is expressed through work of the Department's Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Group, and our Athena Swan Silver award. The Department of Engineering demonstrates significant depth of research excellence across a range of disciplines, with activities that are currently concentrated across eight Research Nodes which group together our day-to-day activities and expertise, yet feed into the UN Sustainable Development Goals .This role nominally falls into either the Electrical Power node or Fluid Mechanics node . We are particularly proud of the collaborative interdisciplinary nature of our research, which also includes strong industrial partnerships. This post offers an exciting opportunity to make a major contribution to the leadership and development of world leading and internationally excellent research and teaching while allowing you unrivalled opportunities to progress and embed your career in an exciting and progressive institution.For more information, please visit our Department pages at . We are keen to hear from outstanding candidates who have already achieved Chartered Engineer status. As a minimum, if not already professionally qualified, candidates will be expected to demonstrate the ability and desire to become Chartered. Job Title: Associate Professor in Electrical Engineering / Fluid Mechanics Vacancy Reference: Department: Engineering Responsible to: Head of Department Salary Grade: Professor (Grade 9) - £59,966 - £67,468 Working arrangements: Full Time (we will consider requests for flexible working arrangements) Closing date: 23:59 on 2 November 2025 Start Date: Ideally 1 May 2026 Apply link: :00&tzname=Europe/London

We have an exciting opportunity in the Department of Earth Sciences at Durham University to appoint an Associate Professor (Research and Education) in Sustainable Earth Energy to help strengthen our existing research, teaching and impact that addresses the major energy transition from an Earth Sciences perspective. We seek an outstanding individual to take a leadership role in low carbon geoenergy, energy transition including storage and/or energy transition resource sustainability. We believe that education and research are a vital part of our response in this time of unprecedented change on Earth. We seek an outstanding individual to take a leadership role in research and teaching in this area as part of Durham Earth Sciences. This post offers an exciting opportunity to make a major contribution to the development of internationally excellent research and teaching while allowing unrivalled opportunities to progress and embed your career in an exciting and progressive institution. You will have an established, internationally recognised, and active research programme in environmental geosciences, earth system science, sustainability, or related fields, combining field, lab, and/or computational approaches on topics such as, but not limited to, global carbon cycle dynamics, carbon sequestration, environmental sustainability, climate change and mitigation, energy transition or sustainable resource management. You will be expected and supported to conduct cutting-edge research at the highest level, build your own externally funded research group, collaborate widely within and without the department and to explore the full potential of the impact of your research. Your work will contribute to research and impact themes in the Department, the Science Faculty and across the University, including cross-disciplinary and collaborative vehicles such as the Durham Energy Institute and the Institute for Hazard, Risk and Resilience. Durham is a UK top 5 Earth Sciences department and is committed to helping you to develop your full potential in both education and research. Start-up packages can be negotiated and there are many examples of flexible working practices. The Department strives for a collegial, collaborative and flexible working environment and is a member of the Athena SWAN Charter, currently holding a departmental Silver Athena SWAN award. Please visit our website for more information on the department, its research and facilities: . Interviews will take place in December/January 2025 and successful applicants will, ideally, be in post by 1 September 2026.

The Department of Engineering at Durham University is currently undergoing a period of strategic growth and now seeks to appoint a talented individual to the role of Associate Professor in Electrical Engineering or Fluid Mechanics . We welcome applications from those with research and teaching interests in the broad field of electrical engineering, power electronics, machines and drives. We are particularly eager to hear from candidates working in experimental electrical engineering research, or in fluid mechanics with applications associated with the energy, aerospace or vehicle aerodynamics sectors. Applicants who have a track record of current funding they could bring to Durham are likely to be in a stronger position than those that do not. Applicants much also balance their research expertise with the ability to teach our students to an exceptional standard and to fully engage in the services, citizenship and values of the University. This is an exciting opportunity to join an expanding, unified Engineering Department which is recognised as one of the very best in the UK, with a reputation for excellence in teaching, research and employability of our graduates. In the REF2021 exercise, 95% of our Engineering outputs were graded "Internationally Excellent" or "World Leading", and the Department is committed to an ethos of research-led education at all levels of our taught programmes. Engineering at Durham University was ranked 5th in The Complete University Guide 2026, 6th in The Guardian University Guide 2025, and 6th in The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2025. We were ranked 2nd in Engineering behind only Cambridge in a recent Institute for Fiscal Studies report on the difference in graduate earnings by UK university choice. We are a scholarly community that is open, representative and diverse: our commitment to this is expressed through work of the Department's Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Group, and our Athena Swan Silver award. The Department of Engineering demonstrates significant depth of research excellence across a range of disciplines, with activities that are currently concentrated across eight Research Nodes which group together our day-to-day activities and expertise, yet feed into the UN Sustainable Development Goals . This role nominally falls into either the Electrical Power node or Fluid Mechanics node . We are particularly proud of the collaborative interdisciplinary nature of our research, which also includes strong industrial partnerships. This post offers an exciting opportunity to make a major contribution to the leadership and development of world leading and internationally excellent research and teaching while allowing you unrivalled opportunities to progress and embed your career in an exciting and progressive institution. For more information, please visit our Department pages at . We are keen to hear from outstanding candidates who have already achieved Chartered Engineer status. As a minimum, if not already professionally qualified, candidates will be expected to demonstrate the ability and desire to become Chartered. Job Title: Associate Professor in Electrical Engineering / Fluid Mechanics Vacancy Reference: Department: Engineering Responsible to: Head of Department Salary Grade: Professor (Grade 9) - £59,966 - £67,468 Working arrangements: Full Time (we will consider requests for flexible working arrangements) Closing date: 23:59 on 2 November 2025 Start Date: Ideally 1 May 2026 Apply link: :00&tzname=Europe/London