- Vacancy Reference Number
- 135751
- Closing Date
- 28 Sep 2018
- Salary
- £46,336 - £62,219 per annum plus a College Housing Allowance of £8,628 per annum and other College benefits. An allowance of £2,700 p.a. would be made upon award of the title of Full Professor. Oxford
- Address
- Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics
(DPAG), Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PT
St Peter’s College, New Inn Hall Street, Oxford, OX1 2DL
- Duration
- Permanent upon completion of a successful review. The review is conducted during the first 5 years.
Applications are invited for the post of Associate Professor of Neuroscience to be held in theDepartment of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics (DPAG). This is a joint appointment with St Peter’s College and Oriel College. The successful candidate will be appointed to a Tutorial Fellowship in Pre-clinical Medicine at St Peter’s College and will also be appointed as a College Lecturer at Oriel College.
The University of Oxford uses the grade of Associate Professor for most of its senior academic appointments. Associate Professors are eligible for consideration through regular recognition of distinction exercises for award of the title of full professor. This promotion in status, which brings an enhanced salary, is dependent on merit and does not normally occur until some years after reappointment to retirement. In exceptional cases, where the candidate has previously established an academic standing at an appropriate level of distinction, the title of full professor may be awarded at the time of appointment.
DPAG plans to make an appointment in systems neuroscience to complement existing research in the department, as well as research in the Wellcome/Gatsby-funded Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour. The department is currently consolidating and expanding its research activities in the field of mammalian integrative neuroscience, with a focus on the formation, organisation, and plasticity of neural circuits that give rise to perception and behaviour. Research groups working in this area will be co-located within the east wing of the Sherrington Building as part of the newly established Centre for Integrative Neuroscience. The research programme of the previous post holder, Prof Jan Schnupp, was in auditory neuroscience and he helped to establish Oxford as one of the leading international centres for auditory research and contributed to the multidisciplinary study of mammalian cortical circuits within DPAG. The new post holder will complement existing world-leading expertise and help to maintain critical mass in the Department in this field of systems neuroscience. With the growing availability of transgenic animal models and sophisticated methods for monitoring and manipulating neural circuits, an appointment in mammalian in vivo neurophysiology is of strategic importance for neuroscience research both within DPAG and elsewhere in the Medical Sciences Division. While we do not wish to limit the candidates we attract to a particular subject area, the fit of candidates to the research profile of the Department and the opportunities for such synergies will be an important selection criterion. We therefore anticipate that the new appointment will be in an area of sensory neuroscience, which is the focus of several current research groups (King, Parker, Molnar, Butt, Krug, Walker, Kohl, Packer). Understanding the brain and mental health and wellbeing are currently among the major research challenges of both the Wellcome Trust and the MRC, while a systems approach to the biosciences is one of the BBSRC’s research priorities. The new appointment is therefore expected to generate valuable new grant income for the Department.
The successful candidate would get high quality space in the east end of the Sherrington Building/Centre for Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology given the realignment of this real estate into the area of neuroscience. The post holder will receive financial assistance in setting up new research activities, and have access to University research support funds (which must be bid for). The Department has a research administration team to help in seeking and applying for grants.
As a Tutorial Fellow of St Peter’s College, we are seeking to appoint a candidate who will be an excellent teacher, in the tutorial context, for medical students in the College.
Further Information
Professor David Paterson, Head of the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics
Professor Andrew King, Director, Centre for Integrative Neuroscience, DPAG
https://www.dpag.ox.ac.uk/work-with-us/current-vacancies
Contact Details
david.paterson@dpag.ox.ac.uk
andrew.king@dpag.ox.ac.uk
