DPhil Studentship/Marie Sklodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network ESR Fellowship
Posted: 25th September 2017
We invite applications for a Marie Sklodowska-Curie ITN Early Stage Researcher Fellowship, tenable for 3 years at Oxford University, to start before 1/2/18. The MSC-ESR Fellow will work with Prof Blanca Rodriguez on Personalised In-Silico Cardiology (PIC), within the Computational Cardiovascular Science team to investigate why and how medicines cause cardiotoxicity in healthy people and in people with cardiac disease. Working on the PIC-project you will aim to improve our understanding and prediction of cardiotoxicity, which is of huge interest for society, industry and regulatory bodies.
The Fellowship is offered in conjunction with a DPhil position at the University of Oxford, and will be subject to the Fellow satisfying the University’s admissions requirements for DPhil study. The EC funding for this position provides for a remuneration starting from £31,377 p.a., actual salary will depend on employer deductions, personal circumstances and the exchange rate applicable to the fellowship. This amount includes an annual living allowance and a mobility allowance (to cover the expenses associated with working in a different country). To be eligible for the post you must not have been resident in the UK for more than a total of 12 months in the past 3 years up to the start date. Persons who would have obtained a doctorate or had more than 4 year’s full time research experience at the start date are ineligible.
An application should include a current CV, transcripts giving evidence of degree qualifications and familiarity with programming language(s), high performance computing, multi-scale mathematical modelling, together with the names and contact details of three referees.
Candidates should apply online for the DPhil quoting reference CS-MSC-BR-2018
Candidates will need to make a second online application for the Fellowship.
The closing date for applications is 12.00 noon on 23 October 2017.
Any questions should be directed to Recruitment Enquiries