Postdoctoral Research Fellow - Edinburgh, United Kingdom - University of Edinburgh

University of Edinburgh

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Grade UE07:
£37,099 to £44,263 per annum (A revised salary range for this grade of £39,347 to £46,974 is planned to take effect from Spring 2024)

Centre for Inflammation Research, Institute for Regeneration and Repair

Fixed-Term contract for 10 months

Full time (35 hours per week)

The Opportunity:

This post is full-time (35 hours per week), however, we are open to considering requests for hybrid working (on a non-contractual basis) that combines a mix of remote and regular on-campus working.

This is an ideal opportunity for an ambitious individual to be involved in cutting-edge research as part of a large multidisciplinary team based in the IRR of UoE under the supervision of Dr Qiang Wang and also work closely with Dr Ahsan Akram, Dr David Dorward, and Prof James Hopgood.

Your skills and attributes for success:

Strong programming skills with Python, Matlab, C++, or others.
Confidence in biomedical image processing software, e.g., ImageJ/Fiji, QuPath.
Proven experience in image processing, e.g., classification, registration, or segmentation.
Excellent skills in ML/DL, familiar with commonly used ML/DL libraries, e.g., scikitlearn, PyTorch, TensorFlow, or others.
Handson experience in implementing conventional and/or developing bespoke ML/DL models for biomedical image processing, e.g., GANs

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As a valued member of our team you can expect:

A competitive salary of £37,099 to £44,26
An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work
To be part of a diverse and vibrant international community
Comprehensive Staff Benefits, such as a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme, staff discounts, familyfriendly initiatives, and flexible work options. Check out the full list on our
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Championing equality, diversity and inclusion:

The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education.

We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.

Key notes for applicants:

Prior to any employment commencing with the University you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK.

Further information is available on our
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ABOUT THE TEAM
The Institute for Regeneration and Repair (IRR) is a large multidisciplinary cross-college institute composed of three world-class research centres.

Our scientists and clinicians study tissue regeneration and repair to advance human health and reproductive outcomes across two state-of-the-art buildings with capacity for over 1,000 staff and students.

The institute provides a fertile and dynamic environment, which allows its researchers and professional services staff to flourish.

CIR

The Centre for Inflammation Research (CIR; Director, Professor David Dockrell) leverages peer-reviewed interdisciplinary research programmes and focussed collaboration, to characterise mechanisms of acute and chronic inflammation.

The CIR aims to characterise what promotes health at the molecular level in order to prevent the harmful consequences of inflammation in clinical medicine.

Effort is targeted at:

inhibiting the initiation of inflammation by blocking specific molecular triggers and by modulating cellular and tissue responses resulting in organ dysfunction; finding new approaches to modulate established inflammatory responses to limit tissue injury; and promoting safe resolution of inflammation to restore healthy structure and function of tissue.

A particular focus is on tissue fibrosis - the result of longstanding harmful inflammation, with programmes looking at the mechanisms underpinning resolution of fibrosis and its non-invasive monitoring and imaging.

The CIR will be located from 2023 in state-of-the-art facilities in the Institute of Regeneration and Repair.

Our research aims align closely with the vision of IRR and other centres within IRR, to promote human health through in-depth understanding of tissue regeneration and repair, while developing a multi-pronged translational programme to effect therapeutic innovation in this area.

IRR is located on the BioQuarter Campus, Edinburgh.