ABOUT US

The Research Department of Structural and Molecular Biology (SMB) is a world leading academic centre that promotes multi-disciplinary research at the interface of structural, computational and chemical biology, pioneering multi-disciplinary approaches aimed to bridge across the scales of biology, and methods to integrate disparate data across the disciplines.
Our research portfolio encompasses several foci, including (i) gene expression & RNA biology, (ii) protein folding, membranes & trafficking, (iii) microbiology & synthetic biology, (iv) metabolism, cancer & biological chemistry and (v) evolution, computational biology with AI & deep learning (https://www.ucl.ac.uk/biosciences/structural-and-molecular-biology/).

We invite Expressions of Interest from early career researchers who wish to be sponsored for external fellowships that will enable them to establish an independent research group at SMB, via a tenure-track like process (https://www.ucl.ac.uk/biosciences/structural-and-molecular-biology/research-fellowships). Such fellowships include: Wellcome Trust Career Development Award, MRC Career Development Award, CRUK Career Development Fellowship, ERC Starting Grant, Royal Society URF, Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship, EPSRC Open Fellowship and similar awards.
Our research fellows make vital contributions to our research department. They bring energy and prestige, novel and original research questions and approaches and new collaborative opportunities, as they widen or deepen our current research portfolio. We run two selection rounds per year. The closing day/time for this round is Monday 13 October 2025, 23:59 BST.
We welcome applications with research focus on Structural and Molecular Biology with particular interest in the areas of Engineering Biology, Integrative Biology – including Omics and Computational Biology – and Microbiology.