Associate Professor of Materials

Salary:£52,815 - £70,918 p.a. plus additional benefits as detailed below including a Housing Allowance of £11,000 per annum. An additional allowance of £2,931 p.a. would be payable upon award of Full Professor title

Applications are invited for the post of Associate Professor of Materials to be held in the Department of Materials, with effect from 1st September 2024 or soon thereafter.

The successful candidate will work at the Department of Materials and also will be appointed to a Tutorial Fellowship at St Catherine’s College. The Department of Materials at Oxford University is a world leader in energy materials, theory and modelling of materials, and microstructural and nanoscale characterisation of materials, as well as substantial activities across a range of materials systems and technologies.

The postholder may specialise in any aspect of Materials Science or Engineering, laboratory based or modelling. Areas of particular interest include but are not limited to: materials for sustainability, functional and device materials including for medical applications, polymers, biomaterials, quantum materials, and materials processing.  We are seeking an exceptional candidate, who will complement our existing activities in the Department of Materials, and who will contribute to strengthening our teaching and research. The successful candidate will have a doctorate in materials science or a closely related subject, and will have a record of internationally excellent research clearly centred on Materials Science or Engineering, supported by strong publications commensurate with their career stage. 

The successful candidate will be required: to build an independent research group, consistent with the department’s strategy that produces research outputs of the highest international quality, to disseminate that research; to engage in knowledge transfer activities; to teach, supervise and examine undergraduate and postgraduate research students; and to participate in the administration of the department and college. 

We are a Stonewall Top 100 Employer, Living Wage employer, holding an Athena Swan Bronze Award and Race Equality Charter Bronze Award.

All applicants will be judged on merit, according to the selection criteria.

The closing date for applications is 12 noon on 29 January 2024.

Interviews are expected to be held w/c 15 April 2024.