Postdoctoral Research Associate

at  Kings College London

Job id: 106405. Salary: £46,421 per annum, including London Weighting Allowance.
Posted: 03 February 2025. Closing date: 09 February 2025.
Business unit: IoPPN. Department: Developmental Neurobiology.
Contact details: Beatriz Rico. beatriz.rico@kcl.ac.uk
Location: Guy’s Campus. Category: Research.
About us:
Applications are invited for an enthusiastic Postdoctoral Researcher to join a SFARI Award led by Profs. Beatriz Rico and Oscar Marin. As a member of the team, the post-holder will be working in close collaboration with a multidisciplinary team of researchers in Guy’s campus.
About the role:
This project aims to investigate Parvalbumin interneuron deficits in mTORpathies associated with ASD. This project will be supervised by Prof Beatriz Rico.
Candidates should have strong experience in cortical circuits. Experience in in electrophysiology in vivo, viral injections and histology are essential.
This is a full-time post and you will be offered a fixed term contract until March 2027.
About you:
To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:
Essential criteria
1. PhD in Neuroscience/related field
2. Experience in electrophysiology in vivo (cerebral cortex)
3. Experience in stereotaxic viral infections
4. Experience in histology
5. Experience in behaviour
6. Papers published from the PhD
Desirable criteria
1. Knowledge of Deeplabcut
2. Experience in cortical interneurons (neocortex and hippocampus)

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• Please note that this is a PhD level role but candidates who have submitted their thesis and are awaiting award of their PhDs will be considered. In these circumstances the appointment will be made at Grade 5, spine point 30 with the title of Research Assistant. Upon confirmation of the award of the PhD, the job title will become Research Associate and the salary will increase to Grade 6.

Further information:
We ask all candidates to submit a copy of their CV, and a supporting statement, detailing how they meet the essential criteria listed in the advert. If we receive a strong field of candidates, we may use the desirable criteria to choose our final shortlist, so please include your evidence against these where possible.
To find out how our managers will review your application, please take a look at our ‘How we Recruit’ pages.
Interviews date/s TBC.
We are able to offer sponsorship for candidates who do not currently possess the right to work in the UK

Please refer the Job description for details