RESEARCH ASSOCIATE (CARMA)

Department: Chemical Engineering
Salary: Starting from £37,999, rising to £45,163
Closing date: Friday 28 February 2025

WHAT WE CAN OFFER YOU:

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- Free counselling services through Health Assured
- Cycle to work scheme
- Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme
- Staff discount at Team Bath gym
- Staff discounts on postgraduate tuition fees
- Staff discount on language courses
- Generous employer contributory pension schemes
- Generous annual leave allowance with an additional 5 discretionary days so that you can enjoy a positive work life balance
- A wide range of personal and professional development opportunities including Apprenticeships, LinkedIn Learning and more
- Free entry to the Holburne Museum in Bath
- Local discounts and more
- A family-friendly workplace
- An excellent reward package that recognises the talents of our diverse workforce
- Relocation allowance
- Visa reimbursement and Interest-Free Loan to help with the cost of some immigration expenses
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Job Types: Full-time, Fixed term contract
Pay: £37,999.00-£45,163.00 per year
Work Location: In person
Reference ID: FM1239

The EPSRC funded Sustainable Manufacturing Hub ‘CARMA’ (Cellular Agriculture Manufacturing Hub) has the vision to transform food production, transitioning to an environmentally, economically, and socially sustainable model in which novel cellular agriculture (cell ag) manufacturing systems complement traditional food production.
Cell ag will enable the manufacture of staple foods, such as meat and palm oil, without the environmental and land impacts of traditional farming and associated ethical issues.
You will work on the tissue engineering-based aspect of work package 1: (Bioreactor technologies for high yield at scale) focussing on achieving high process yield with the desired quality. This will be achieved by increased cell densities, resource demand reduction (feedstocks and energy) and increased output per cell, all resulting from bioreactor design including enhanced mass transfer of nutrients and waste; novel gas exchange; continuous harvesting.
The purpose of this role is to:
- provide research expertise in the field of bioreactor design for culture of mammalian cells
- undertake specific research for Work Package 1 (Bioreactor technologies for high yield at scale)
- work with a range of bioreactor types in Prof Ellis’ lab to elucidate fluid dynamic and thermodynamic correlations and how these affect cell culture
- carry out interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary work across the other work packages
- develop research proposals, for research projects with academic and/or industrial partners
- develop and maintain relationships for delivery and dissemination of this research, across the UK and globally