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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

Hintze Prize Fellowships in Astrophysics

Astrophysics
RESEARCH GRADE 7: Grade 7: £39,424 -£47,779 per annum
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Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Single-Cell Imaging of Antimicrobial Resistance

Condensed Matter Physics
RESEARCH GRADE 7: £39,424 - £47,779 per annum
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Postdoctoral Research Assistant

Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics
RESEARCH GRADE 7: Grade 7: £39,424 - £47,779 per annum
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Postdoctoral Research Assistant

Condensed Matter Physics
RESEARCH GRADE 7: £39,424 - £40,514 per annum
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Postdoctoral Research Assistant

Condensed Matter Physics
RESEARCH GRADE 7: £39,424 - £40,514 per annum
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Post Doctoral Research Assistant

Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics
RESEARCH GRADE 7: Grade 7: £39,424 - £47,779 per annum
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Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Cosmology

Astrophysics
RESEARCH GRADE 7: Grade 7: £39,474 - £47,779
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Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Single-molecule Gene Expression

Condensed Matter Physics
RESEARCH GRADE 7: £39,424 - £47,779
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Head of IT

Professional and support services
STANDARD GRADE 10: Grade 10: £65,336 - £75,439 per annum, with discretionary range to £82,255, inclusive of Oxford Weighting
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Teaching Laboratory Technician – Multi - Labs

Professional and support services
STANDARD GRADE 5: Grade 5: 32,108 - £37,338 per annum
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Teaching Laboratory Technician –Optics

Professional and support services
STANDARD GRADE 5: Grade 5: 32,108 - £37,338 per annum
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Associate Professorship (or Professorship) of Quantum Condensed Matter Theory

Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR (TF-UNIVERSITY): £58,265 - £77,645 p.a. plus substantial additional benefits including a housing allowance of £12,642 p.a. and Tutor’s allowance of £3,661 p.a. An allowance of £3,199 p.a. would be payable upon award of Full Professor title.
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Postdoctoral Research Associate(s) in Theory of Quantum Systems

Atomic and Laser Physics
RESEARCH GRADE 7: £39,424 – £47,779 per annum
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Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Processing and Characterisation of Halide Perovskites

Condensed Matter Physics
RESEARCH GRADE 7: £39,424 - £47,779 per annum
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Postdoctoral Research Assistance in Supernova Cosmology

Astrophysics
RESEARCH GRADE 7: Grade 7: £39,424 -£47,779 per annum
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Associate Professor of Physics (Quantum Technology)

Atomic and Laser Physics
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR (TF-UNIVERSITY): £58,265 to £77,645 p.a., plus substantial additional benefits
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Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Climate Forecasting

Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics
RESEARCH GRADE 7: Grade 7: £39,424 - £47,779 per annum
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