Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence in the Biosciences

Department: School of Biological & Behavioural Sciences
Salary: £49,785 - £58,595 per annum (Grade 6)
Reference: 1558
Location: Mile End
Date posted: 12 March 2024
Closing date: 9 April 2024

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About the Role

We are seeking to recruit a highly motivated and research-driven Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the Biosciences to join either our Department of Biochemistry or our Department of Biology, depending on their research focus. This is a fantastic opportunity for an individual with a strong publication record and a keen interest in establishing their research group in this discipline.

About You

The successful candidate will have demonstrated an ability to contribute to AI in the Biosciences or related aspects of Computational Biology. We encourage applications from excellent candidates with interests across the spectrum of Biosciences, including Biomedicine. The successful applicant will further develop our research strengths in AI and Computational Biology and will contribute to the development and delivery of a new MSc programme in AI in the Biosciences. Teaching responsibilities will be reduced for the first two years while the post holder establishes their research

About the School

The School of Biological & Behavioural Sciences at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) is undergoing an exciting phase of expansion and development. The School is a large academic unit, which provides a supportive and friendly environment and encourages interdisciplinary research.

About Queen Mary

Queen Mary University of London is a member of the Russell Group and one of the largest colleges in the University of London. We are of the UK's leading research-intensive institutions (7th for the quality of our research outputs in the 2021 Research Excellence Framework). We have made a strategic commitment to world-class research and teaching across all disciplines.

At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits

We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities including an on-site nursery at the Mile End campus.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability.

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