Top Research Jobs in Edinburgh

Manage a portfolio of research grants, providing financial management, post-award administration, compliance with funder terms, financial reporting, and risk and issue resolution. The role supports researchers and professional services colleagues, helps maximize research income, improves processes, and trains others in new procedures within a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.

Conduct numerical calculations and formal developments in lattice field theory and precision lattice QCD, including semileptonic decays with QED corrections. Use C++ in UNIX environments and national supercomputing resources to produce research results in theoretical particle physics. The role requires independent research, publications, conference presentations, and collaboration within the Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics.

Conduct organic chemistry synthesis research under the King-Smith Group to advance AI-guided chemistry. The role involves completing research projects, applying machine learning concepts to synthesis, communicating findings effectively, and contributing to a collaborative academic research environment. The position is full-time, fixed-term for 24 months, with part-time and flexible working arrangements potentially available.

Conduct research on how DNA damage drives mutagenesis as part of the Cancer Grand Challenges CAUSE team. Develop and apply methods to enrich and map DNA damage and modifications in the human genome, investigating repair, mutagenesis, and damage tolerance. Perform molecular biology, nucleic acid manipulation, biochemistry, and protein purification, while collaborating with experts in sequencing and mass spectrometry data analysis.

Conduct research on inflammation, innate immunity, and efferocytosis using Drosophila, live imaging, and complementary mammalian-focused collaboration. The role investigates how efferocytosis affects macrophage fate and function during health and disease, identifies evolutionarily conserved mechanisms, and contributes to a multidisciplinary Cell Death research group. Responsibilities include experimental research, collaboration, communication, professional development, and publication activities.

Conduct theoretical physics research within an ERC-funded project on classical and semiclassical aspects of scattering amplitudes. Work will examine large gauge transformations, amplitudes and observables, semiclassical observables in scattering and bound systems, and amplitudes in time-dependent spacetimes. The role involves collaboration with researchers at the Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics and requires preparing a CV, research statement, and referee details for application.

Conduct theoretical particle physics research under the STFC Consolidated Grant, focusing on scattering amplitudes in gauge theory, Feynman integrals, kinematic expansions, infrared divergences, and Regge limits. Collaborate with researchers in the Particle Theory Group, prepare research outputs, and contribute to the wider Higgs Centre research community. The role is full-time and fixed-term for three years at the University of Edinburgh.

Supports the Research Accountant and Research Grants Team by preparing detailed financial award reconciliations, resolving legacy grant issues, identifying root causes, and implementing remedial ledger actions to support grant closure and post-award financial administration.

Conduct numerical calculations and formal developments in lattice field theory and theoretical particle physics. Research includes precision lattice QCD, multi-hadron scattering and decay amplitudes, long-distance matrix elements, and spectral quantities. The role requires using C++ in UNIX environments and national supercomputing resources, publishing research, presenting at conferences, and working independently within a two-year academic research project.

Conduct research in scattering amplitudes in gravitational physics, with applications to gravitational waves, cosmology, and formal theory. Collaborate with particle theory researchers at the Higgs Centre and contribute to the STFC Consolidated Grant UKRI4228. The role is a full-time, three-year postdoctoral position involving preparation of research outputs and participation in the University’s research community.

Conduct theoretical particle physics research on LHC phenomenology within the Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics. Work will focus on extracting Standard Model parameters, developing machine learning tools, and calculating approximate N3LO corrections to top and jet cross-sections, with opportunities to collaborate with the NNPDF collaboration. The role also requires independent academic research, statistical data analysis, and communicating results through peer-reviewed publications and conference presentations.

Conduct independent and collaborative research in random growth models, the KPZ universality class, probability theory, and related areas. Publish and present research findings, contribute to seminars and workshops, and optionally support undergraduate tutorials and project supervision. The role involves collaboration with researchers at the Maxwell Institute for Mathematical Sciences and participation in an ERC-funded research program.

Leads Scottish Funding Council research strategy, focusing on research sustainability, investment cases, evidence development, research value, and UK R&D policy. Builds relationships with Scottish and UK governments, UKRI, universities, and other stakeholders; provides strategic advice, briefings, and reports; represents the organisation externally; supports cross-team collaboration; and manages a team of two. The role requires senior-level policy influence, knowledge of Scottish and UK research policy, strong communication and negotiation skills, and strategic judgement.

Conduct research on horses transported by road, collecting physiological and behavioral measures to understand their experiences and support development of an equine transportation welfare assessment tool. The role involves joining an equine behavior and welfare research team at the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies and working full time on a 36-month funded project.

Conduct independent and collaborative research in mathematical physics, particularly within the Simons Collaboration on Celestial Holography. The researcher will work with the grant-holder, develop original research approaches, contribute to the University of Edinburgh’s mathematical physics group, and pursue research excellence. The role includes substantial research and travel support and requires preparation of a research statement, CV, and reference letters.

Perform warehousing, shipping, receiving, packing, material movement, inventory handling, equipment operation, transportation movements, stock recordkeeping, replenishment, and procurement at forward-deployed OCONUS warehouse locations.

Lead population genomic analyses for a NERC-funded project investigating adaptive introgression in European butterflies. Responsibilities include comparative selective-sweep scans across 42 species, hybrid-zone analysis using whole-genome and long-read sequencing data, computational genomics on high-performance computing systems, collaboration with laboratory and international partners, fieldwork opportunities, conference presentations, and student supervision.

Research Accountant leading financial control implementation for a project addressing legacy research grant reviews. Responsibilities include managing a project team, reducing the grant review backlog, providing progress reporting, implementing process improvements, and applying lessons learned to support business-as-usual operations across the University’s research grants portfolio.

Conduct hands-on research on frontier AI models, reasoning, agents, and multimodal systems. Design benchmarks, evaluation frameworks, and experimental pipelines; rapidly execute research cycles from hypotheses to prototypes and validated findings. Identify model limitations and research opportunities, translate customer challenges into measurable outcomes, and collaborate with engineering and product teams. The role emphasizes LLMs, foundation models, AI security, benchmarking, and evaluation.

Conduct industry, market, competitor, and target-account research across enterprise technology and industrial sectors. Analyze procurement processes, customer priorities, comparable products, and emerging opportunities. Summarize findings in reports and presentations while supporting consulting and product initiatives. Collaborate with leadership on commercial strategy and organize complex information into clear insights.

Conduct research on epigenetic regulation of stem and progenitor cells in growth and ageing. The role uses stem cell culture, targeted epigenomic engineering, CRISPR barcoding, and mouse models to investigate DNA methylation, tissue regeneration, stem cell output, cellular ageing, and mammalian size regulation within a multidisciplinary genetics and cancer research team.

Lead advanced AI research evaluations involving foundational problems, mathematical proofs, algorithms, numerical experiments, simulations, and high-performance computing. Validate results through rigorous verification, reproduction, and formal methods; assess novelty and scientific significance; document model limitations and research progress; and recommend promising research directions and evaluation standards.

Provide empathetic email-based support for Overleaf and Papers AI users, handling technical, billing, and account inquiries. Maintain and create knowledge-base content, report reproducible bugs, refine support processes, and collaborate with Product, Engineering, Sales, Marketing, Customer Engagement, and Finance. Monitor support trends and surface user feedback while helping establish support documentation and playbooks for an early-stage AI product.

Analyzes institutional, financial aid, higher education, labor market, and survey data for strategic planning, government reporting, and student success initiatives. Develops queries, reports, dashboards, surveys, and custom programs; validates and interprets complex datasets; tracks performance metrics; conducts research and environmental scanning; and communicates findings to internal and external stakeholders. Provides training and technical support in data analysis, research methods, survey administration, and data literacy.

Participate in a 60–80-minute moderated remote usability study about sending money from the UK to India. Discuss current money-transfer methods, complete an approximately $20 transfer using the tested mobile application, and provide spoken feedback during a recorded video session. Participants must be UK residents, use an online transfer service, have not previously used Wise, and have an iOS or Android device. Compensation is $100 per hour plus reimbursement of the transfer amount.