Staff Vacancies

The post is one of five established professorships in the Department. The appointee will be expected to engage in internationally outstanding research; provide leadership in a particular area of biological sciences; develop a vigorous externally-funded research programme; and teach aspects of the subject at undergraduate and postgraduate level. The Department of Zoology recently celebrated its 150th anniversary, and although it maintains its historic name its research programmes have expanded to include the ecology and evolution of animals, bacteria, viruses and ecosystems. The Department has research strengths in evolution, ecology, animal behaviour, conservation, development and disease biology, spanning all levels of analysis from molecules to ecosystems (see http://www.zoo.ox.ac.uk). The Professorship is open to applicants from any field of biological science research, although preference will be given to candidates whose research aligns with the Department’s strengths mentioned above and with research priorities of major funding agencies.

Applications are invited for a one-year post of Graduate Research Assistant (Characterisation of Neisseria from the meningitis belt) in the Department of Zoology. The position is available immediately.

Closing date: midday on Wednesday 22 February 2012

A postdoctoral assistant position is available, for four years and starting as soon as possible, to develop web service application programming interfaces (APIs) and analysis modules for a bacterial genome sequence database platform (BIGSdb).

Closing date: Wednesday 22 February 2012

We are looking for an enthusiastic, hardworking young Biologist to work as a voluntary Research Assistant to help with our pelagic seabird research on Skomer Island, Pembrokeshire, Wales, in Spring and Summer 2012.