Vacancies
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Key details
- Location UK DRI at Imperial
- Salary: £48,056 - £56,345 per annum
- Lab: Prof Paul Matthews
About the role
The Matthews Lab invites applications from talented, highly motivated and creative postdoctoral scientists to take a leading role to investigate the molecular neuropathology of Alzheimer’s disease based on the study of post-mortem human tissues.What you would be doing
You will lead a project intended to develop a molecular description of how glial cells may trigger neurodegeneration in Alzheimer’s disease. The work will be guided by explorations of how risk variants associated the disease that are expected to modulate microglial function, lipid homeostasis or pathological protein degradation lead potentiate neurodegenerative processes. A strong foundation for this work has been established with the development of methods for highly multiplexed imaging mass cytometry, multi-omic data acquisition and analyses.What we are looking for
You will be a motivated and organised researcher, excited by the science we do.
You will hold (or be near completion of) a PhD in neuroscience (or related discipline).
Experience of one or more laboratory techniques including immunohistology, single cell transcriptomics, spatial transcriptomics
Experience of statistical analysis
Experience of emerging genomics approaches, e.g., long-read sequencing
Training

PhD students
The Imperial College London Graduate School provides a range of free courses and workshops for postgraduate students, including topics such as:
- Research communication
- Research computing and data science
- Professional progression
Postdoctoral researchers
Imperial's Postdoc and Fellows Development Centre (PFDC) offers bespoke training for postdoctoral researchers, in areas including:
- Leadership development and peer mentoring
- Project management
- Fellowship applications
Staff
A wide range of staff development courses and programmes are available to all Imperial staff.
See here for further information about training opportunities available to UK DRI at Imperial researchers and staff.
Staff networks

LGBTQ+ Allies Network
The LGBTQ+ Allies Network promotes LGBTQ+ visibility within Imperial's Department of Brain Sciences, and provides a bridge with the wider LGBTQ+ STEM community.
Able@Imperial
Able@Imperial are a staff network who support and help Imperial staff with disability in the workplace.
Londonomics
The Londonomics network addresses a critical need for connectedness and support for Early Career Computational Researchers (ECCRs) based across London.