Group Leaders, Generative Biology Institute

Application Deadline: 6 Jan 2028

Organisation: Ellison Institute of Technology, Department Generative Biology Institute

Offer Description

Responsible for leading and managing an independent research group within the Generative Biology Institute (“GBI”), delivering a program of bold, ambitious and transformational research aligned with GBI’s vision of making biology engineerable and unlocking its potential for good.

Key Responsibilities

• Set the research direction for your group and ensure research activities align with GBI’s vision.
• Recruit and manage a group of outstanding researchers, including postdocs, doctoral students (through a partnership with the University of Oxford), research assistants, and other scientists.
• Mentor highly promising early‑career researchers to achieve the group’s goals and advance their careers.
• Collaborate with other groups within GBI and the broader EIT family to deliver bold, ambitious and transformational research.
• Help shape the facilities in GBI as part of the scientific strategy for delivering its vision.

Our Proposition for Group Leaders

• Research groups will be supported by substantial core funding for posts, consumables, and equipment.
• Additional posts may be made available for specific projects, especially collaborative projects across groups.
• Group leaders can supervise graduate students and participate in the doctoral programme in generative biology through the University of Oxford‑EIT alliance.
• Access to cutting‑edge facilities: mass‑spectrometry, flow cytometry, imaging, automation, and sequencing, with planned expansion.
• Access to significant compute capacity and capability in partnership with EIT’s AI team.
• Group leaders will be encouraged to publish work from their group.
• Opportunity to translate research into a commercial application with support from GBI’s translational team and EIT.
• Potential support for faculty appointments at Oxford University.

Requirements

Research Field: Biological sciences – Biological engineering

Education Level: PhD or equivalent

Skills & Qualifications

• A PhD in a relevant discipline such as synthetic biology, computational biology, AI, microbiology, plant or human cell biology, genomics, robotics, automation, or nucleic acid chemistry.
• A strong publication record, demonstrating bold, ambitious, and transformational advances.
• Track record of building and managing collaborations, internally and externally.
• Strong communication and leadership skills, engaging senior researchers, technical teams, and stakeholders.
• Experience running an independent group as a professor (or similar) or interest in a first independent position.
• Experience in a commercial setting, such as biotech or AI‑driven research companies.

Languages: English – Excellent

Eligibility Criteria

• Eligible to work in the UK with willingness to travel; sponsorship available on a case‑by‑case basis.
• Based in, or within commutable distance of, Oxford.
• Availability for increased working hours during peak periods and across multiple time zones as required.

Additional Information

• Globally competitive salary and bonus.
• Pension and travel allowance.
• Training and development opportunities.
• Additional benefits: enhanced holiday pay, life assurance, income protection, private medical insurance, hospital cash plan, therapy services, perk box.

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