Centre for Eudaimonia & Human Flourishing, Stoke House, Oxford

Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry

Fixed-term: The funds for this post are available for 2 years in the first instance. The starting date is flexible but ideally around January 2025.

We are seeking an ambitious and talented postdoctoral researcher to join our team to develop and apply advanced computational approaches for atomistic simulation and big data analysis of biomolecular systems. This position contributes to our broader efforts to understand biomolecular self-organisation, condensates, and genome-related processes at high resolution.

Department of Zoology

A Research Associate post is available in the Drosophila Connectomics Group directed by Greg Jefferis and Matthias Landgraf in the Department of Zoology at the University of Cambridge.

Department of Architecture

The Cambridge Sustainable Design Group within the Department of Architecture invites applications for the role of Research Assistant/Associate in Thermal Infrared Remote Sensing for Decarbonisation of the Built Environment. The role holder will be working with Professor Ronita Bardhan and support an exciting and high-impact research project funded by the UK Space Agency's National Space Innovation Programme (NSIP). The position is full-time and fixed-term until 31 March 2027.

The AI for Collective Intelligence Research Hub is delighted to announce Phase 2 of its Rapid Response Fund. Phase 1 awarded £325k to seven exciting projects spanning diverse areas of research. We want to ensure that the Fund continues to build capacity, capability, and community in AI for Collective Intelligence research across the UK. To ensure that funding is targeted where it can have the greatest impact, we are looking for projects that:
•    Expand the Hub’s network of researchers.

Applications are now open for Cambridge Enterprise’s Translational Funding Ideas Incubator (TFII). 

Do you have a research result or prototype ready for real-world application? Want to learn more about how to move beyond the research phase? 

Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics

Founders at the University of Cambridge START 3.0 is a pre-seed/seed accelerator, providing capital and a global expert community to accelerate university-connected founders across strategy, markets, and investment. Our first two cohorts have raised £14M+ in follow-on funding and START 2.0 has an NPS of 100 – 100% of founders in the cohort would recommend START to a fellow entrepreneur. 

The Department for Science, Innovation & Technology are opening the first of a series of structured research calls offering 200,000 and 1,000,000 GPU hours compute access to AI for science researchers through the AI Research Resource (AIRR). They are supporting projects and programmes in the UK’s priority domains for AI-centred scientific research, as set out in their AI for Science strategy.

Deadline for applications is 16:00, 21 December 2025.

MRC Biostatistics Unit

Fixed-term: The funds for this post are available for 3 years in the first instance.

The MRC Biostatistics Unit is one of Europe's leading biostatistics research institutions. Our focus is to deliver new analytical and computational strategies based on sound statistical principles for the challenging tasks facing biomedicine and public health.

Funding opportunity from the CHAI (Causality in Healthcare AI) Hub

The CHAI Hub’s Events and Workshops Fund supports academic researchers to organise interdisciplinary events designed to drive collaboration and advance the application of causal AI in healthcare.

The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) are seeking evidence on a pioneering cross-economy sandbox, that would oversee the deployment of AI-enabled products and services that current regulation hinders. The AI Growth Lab would support growth and responsible AI innovation by making targeted regulatory modifications under robust safeguards and with careful monitoring. This call for evidence aims to collect essential information about people’s feedback on the proposed AI Growth Lab to help inform government policy development.

Cambridge Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction (CSIC) are joint organisers of a conference on Smart Buildings and Territories: designing trustworthy and sustainable futures, to be held in Paris in 2026.

data.org - The Activate AI: Economic Opportunity Challenge is a global call for innovative AI applications that empower people and communities, and that unlock economic opportunity for a resilient future.

With the launch of this challenge, data.org and Zoom are seeking out projects that drive AI workforce development and organizational capacity, develop pathways to create future friendly jobs leveraging data and AI, and build climate resilient communities for a green economy.

Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

The Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology at the University of Cambridge is seeking a Research Associate in Data Science to develop, maintain and analyse databases related to pregnancy studies.

About Obstetrics & Gynaecology:

Department of Clinical Neurosciences

Applications are invited for a fully-funded 3-year PhD studentship in the Department of Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Cambridge under the supervision of Dr Alexis Joannides starting April 2026 (Easter Term 26).

Funding opportunity from The AI Hub in Generative Models

Collaborations led by UK academic researchers can bid for up to £100,000 for dataset creation projects through this call, which aims to encourage development of new datasets supporting scientific advancement and technological innovation.

The availability of rich, diverse, and well-curated datasets is vital for advancing scientific and technological innovation. Dataset challenges serve as a mechanism for benchmarking algorithms, identifying novel solutions, and fostering collaborative research.  

The EPSRC has announced the Turing AI Global Fellowships. 

Open to UK and overseas students starting an MPhil in Advanced Computer Science at Cambridge University. This scholarship will cover full fees for a home student, or £25,000 of fees for an overseas student, and will be awarded at the discretion of the Admissions Tutor and the Senior Tutor.

The award holder must matriculate at Queens’ College. Details of the scholarship recipient will be shared with the donor.

This scholarship is possible thanks to the generosity of Jan Metzger (1995, MPhil).

Department of Psychology

CAM-DTP ESRC Studentship, 2026 PHD ENTRY

Supervisor-Led Topic Proposal: AI-Enhanced Assessment in Higher Education

DEPARTMENT/LOCATION: Department of Psychology, Institute for Technology and Humanity, Digital Education Futures Initiative (DEFI) Innovation Lab; University of Cambridge

The Cambridge ESRC Doctoral Training Partnership [CAM-DTP] is pleased to offer an interdisciplinary studentship available for admission in October 2026.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute

Dr Hana Aliee wishes to recruit a student to work on the project entitled: Generative Modelling for Foundational Discovery in Biomedicine.

For further information about the research group, please visit our website at https://www.cruk.cam.ac.uk/research-groups/aliee-group/