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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
Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Single-Cell Imaging of Antimicrobial Resistance
Condensed Matter Physics
RESEARCH GRADE 7: £39,424 - £47,779 per annum
Postdoctoral Research Assistant
Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics
RESEARCH GRADE 7: Grade 7: £39,424 - £47,779 per annum
Postdoctoral Research Assistant
Condensed Matter Physics
RESEARCH GRADE 7: £39,424 - £40,514 per annum
Postdoctoral Research Assistant
Condensed Matter Physics
RESEARCH GRADE 7: £39,424 - £40,514 per annum
Post Doctoral Research Assistant
Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics
RESEARCH GRADE 7: Grade 7: £39,424 - £47,779 per annum
Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Cosmology
Astrophysics
RESEARCH GRADE 7: Grade 7: £39,474 - £47,779
Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Single-molecule Gene Expression
Condensed Matter Physics
RESEARCH GRADE 7: £39,424 - £47,779
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
Teaching Laboratory Technician – Multi - Labs
Professional and support services
STANDARD GRADE 5: Grade 5: 32,108 - £37,338 per annum
Teaching Laboratory Technician –Optics
Professional and support services
STANDARD GRADE 5: Grade 5: 32,108 - £37,338 per annum
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.
Postdoctoral Research Associate(s) in Theory of Quantum Systems
Atomic and Laser Physics
RESEARCH GRADE 7: £39,424 – £47,779 per annum
Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Processing and Characterisation of Halide Perovskites
Condensed Matter Physics
RESEARCH GRADE 7: £39,424 - £47,779 per annum
Postdoctoral Research Assistance in Supernova Cosmology
Astrophysics
RESEARCH GRADE 7: Grade 7: £39,424 -£47,779 per annum
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
Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Climate Forecasting
Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics
RESEARCH GRADE 7: Grade 7: £39,424 - £47,779 per annum