Research Fellow

About us The UCL School of Pharmacy is one of the Divisions located within the Faculty of Life Sciences (FLS) and is one of five areas that constitute the Faculty, the others being Biosciences, the MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology at UCL, the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre for Neurocircuits and Behaviour and the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit.The Faculty has been associated with nine Nobel Laureates and continues to build on its existing strengths in cell and developmental biology, evolutionary and population genetics, cellular and circuits neuroscience, and structural and molecular biology. F http://www.ucl.ac.uk/pharmacy/ About the role The core requirement of this role is the development of automated formulation systems, requiring skills in robotics and machine learning.Experience of pharmaceutical formulation is a benefit but not a requirement. In addition, you will be required to support other lab members and res earch students.The role will require the dissemination of research findings via presentation at conferences and written publication.For a comprehensive list of attributes, please see the job description. About you We are seeking a Research Fellow to deliver a research project funded by the EPSRC on the subject of automated closed-loop formulation.The project focusses on pairing robotics and machine learning for formulation of liquid medicines.The project is a collaboration between Dr Michael Cook (PI, UCL) and Dr David Shorthouse (CoI, UCL).The project has close links with industry and there will be opportunities to collaborate with major healthcare companies What we offer As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:• 41 Days holiday (27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days)· Additional 5 days’ annual leave purchase scheme• Defined benefit car eer average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE)• Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan· Immigration loan·Relocation scheme for certain posts• On-Site nursery• On-site gym• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay• Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service• Discounted medical insurance Visit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/rewards-and-benefits to find out more. As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer great benefits. Please visit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/rewards-and-benefits to find out more. Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion As London’s Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world’s talent.We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong.We therefore particularly encour age applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL’s workforce. These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+ people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women. • Our department holds an Athena SWAN Silver award, in recognition of our commitment to advancing gender equality. You can read more about our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion here : https://www.ucl.ac.uk/equality-diversity-inclusion/