Postdoctoral Researcher

Updated: about 1 month ago
Location: Oxford, ENGLAND
Job Type: FullTime
Deadline: 28 Apr 2025

Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences (NDCN), John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, Oxford, OX3 9DU


We are seeking a 

Postdoctoral Research Assistant

 to run exercise studies on healthy volunteers and on patients with breathing difficulties.  We are using immersive virtual reality to manipulate the cycling experience.  The post is based in Oxford, and would be suitable for someone who is happy to be physically present in the laboratory for most of the week. The studies are a continuation of those described in this manuscript: 

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.06.16.496494v1

Your duties will include managing your own research, running research experiments, contributing to the design of research materials and analysing and presenting qualitative and/or quantitative data from a variety of sources.

The successful candidate will hold a PhD degree in a relevant topic (e.g. Biomedical sciences), have good organisational and communication skills and have experience running research studies in humans. Experience with data analysis and basic experience using programming languages (e.g. R, Python, Unity, Matlab) is desirable.

The post is full time for a fixed term of 12 months in the first instance.

Only applications received before 12.00 midday on Monday 28th April will be considered. 

Interviews will be held Wednesday 21st May. 



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