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We offer a diverse range of job opportunities at the Department of Physics from academic and research roles to professional services and support roles. From technicians and engineers to accountants and administrators, everybody in the department plays their part; together, we apply the transformative power of physics to the foremost scientific problems, educate the next generation of leading physicists and promote the public understanding of physics.

Current vacancies

Project Liaison and Researcher

Astrophysics
Grade 7 £36,024 - £44,263 per annum
Closing date: 12:00pm, 25 September 2023

Postdoctoral Research Assistant on tropical and post-tropical North Atlantic cyclones in a changing climate

Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics
Grade 7: £36,024 - £44,263 p.a.
Closing date: 12:00pm, 29 September 2023

Project Portfolio Manager

Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics
Grade 7: £36,024 - £44,263 per annum
Closing date: 12:00pm, 03 October 2023

Senior Mechanical Design Engineer

Professional and support services
Grade 8: £45,585 – £54,395 per annum
Closing date: 12:00pm, 04 October 2023

Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Atmospheric Physics

Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics
Grade 7: £36,024 - £44,263 per annum
Closing date: 12:00pm, 12 October 2023

Leverhulme-Peierls Fellow

Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics
Grade 8: £45,585 - £54,395 p.a.
Closing date: 12:00pm, 13 October 2023

Associate Professor of Theoretical Biophysics

Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics
Associate Professor (Tf-University): from £52,815 p.a.
Closing date: 12:00pm, 01 November 2023