Positions available

• EPSRC research grant on DNA nanotechnology
  A three-year is post-doctoral position is available associated with a recently-funded EPSRC grant. The project is in the field of DNA nanotechnology and aims to model the self-assembly of DNA multi-arm motifs into polyhedra and two-dimensional arrays. The position is for a period of three years. Details of how to apply can be found here.
  
  
• EPSRC critical mass grant on catalysis on nanoalloys
  This project is a multi-centre collaboration funded by the EPSRC under a Critical Mass Grant that will begin April 2012. There will be six post-doctoral positions available in the groups of Roy Johnston in Birmingham, Francesca Baletto at King's College, London, David Wales and Gabor Csanyi in Cambridge, Chris Pickard at UCL and myself in Oxford. The Oxford position will start in April 2013 and details of the application process for this position will be made available nearer that time.
  
  
• Postgraduate studentships
  • Here is a list of potential PhD projects.
  • Details of the admissions procedure can be found here.
  • Potential sources of funding for international students can be found here.
  
  
• Post-doctoral research
• There are a variety of sources of funding for research fellowships, e.g. EU Marie Curie Intra-European and International Incoming Fellowships, Newton International Fellowships, Junior Research Fellowships at the Oxford Colleges, the Royal Society, the Human Frontier Science Program, or the Violette and Samuel Glasstone Research Fellowships in Science.


• Undergraduate projects
• Projects are available for Oxford Part II Chemistry students. A list is available here.
• There is also the possibility of doing a summer internship in the group funded by NVIDIA as part of the Oxford NVIDIA CUDA Centre of Excellence.

Our work is interdisciplinary, on the border between theoretical chemistry, physics and biology and so we welcome applications from a variety of backgrounds. Interested candidates should contact Jonathan Doye.