Reader Sensory Biology University of Bristol

Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Reader

Sensory Biology

University of Bristol - School of Biological Sciences

Reference: 16907

Contract: Permanent

Salary: £33,734 - £52,556 Level b - Level d in Pathway 1

Closing date for applications: 9:00am 09 Feb 2012

Anticipated start date: 01 Oct 2012

The School of Biological Sciences wishes to recruit an exceptional individual with internationally recognised expertise in the field of sensory biology. We are particularly keen on a researcher who complements existing strengths and who focuses on the mechanisms underlying sensory perception, notably molecular neuroscience or molecular biophysics. An appointment in this area will also be synergistic with University strengths in neuroscience, nanobiology, vision, photonics and signal processing. University strengths in this area, to which the School of Biological Sciences is already well linked, will create exciting collaborative opportunities.

You will have or be developing an international reputation for research and a track record in research income and publication to support this. You will be expected to be or become a research leader, bringing or building your own research group and developing new research avenues with colleagues in both the school and the University at large.

The position forms part of a wider investment in the biological sciences at Bristol, and benefits from location in the new Life Sciences Building, a £50M development to be completed in late 2013.

This is one of four academic posts currently advertised in the School of Biological Sciences. The others are Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Reader in Biological Responses to Global Change (reference 16906), Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Reader in Behavioural Biology (reference 16908), and Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Reader in Systems Biology Approaches to Plant Water Use (reference 16909).

Interviews for all posts will run on various dates from 29 February through March 2012.

Contact for informal enquiries:
Professor I Cuthill (I.Cuthill@bristol.ac.uk | 0117 928 9177)