"EPSRC MediForge Hub: Digital Research Fellow (766904)"

Applications are invited for a Platform Research Fellow (grade 8) to work in the EPSRC MediForge: Industry 5.0 Medicines Manufacturing Research Hub (www.cmac.ac.uk) delivered by CMAC.

FTE:1 FTE
Term: fixed (until 30/09/2028)

CMAC is a world-leading medicines manufacturing research centre based in the Technology and Innovation Centre (TIC) at the University of Strathclyde. The centre works closely with leading pharmaceutical companies to transform the way medicines are developed and made and supports a portfolio of research programmes to deliver our shared vision.

Applications are invited for a Platform Research Fellow (grade 8) to work in the EPSRC MediForge: Industry 5.0 Medicines Manufacturing Research Hub (www.cmac.ac.uk) delivered by CMAC. The Hub comprises a multidisciplinary team of academics and researchers located across five leading UK Universities (Strathclyde, Leeds, Sheffield, Imperial College and Glasgow School of Art), providing a platform for collaborative research, training and knowledge exchange in the area of advanced pharmaceutical manufacturing. The MediForge Hub was awarded under EPSRC’s Manufacturing Hubs for A Sustainable Future (Round 2) call and aims to develop a systems-level approach for predictive design of sustainable, resilient and human-centric future medicines manufacturing covering multiple stages across drug substance and drug product processing. The CMAC Hub has a large and vibrant programme with key Industry partners, including AZ, Chiesi, Lilly, Pfizer, Roche, Sanofi, Takeda and UCB, with a broad range of technology companies. The Hub also benefits from significant recent capital investments through our £33M UK RPIF Data Lab partnership, creating a world-class suite of advanced processing, automation, analysis, digital technologies and computational infrastructure to support MediForge research.

This post, Digital Research Fellow in Platform 2, reports to the Platform Lead, Prof Blair Johnston, and will work closely with a multidisciplinary team of academics, PDRAs and PhDs. Within the multidisciplinary team, this post will be principally responsible for delivering a new system-level manufacturing knowledge model for CMC with a real-time digital twin to model, optimise and accelerate E2E process selection and design with embedded sustainability objectives.

The post holder will be responsible for undertaking original computational research, reporting on project progress and preparing and submitting research papers from these and related studies in the group.

You hold a PhD in a relevant discipline (e.g. Chemical, Pharmaceutical Engineering or Computer Science) or a related area reinforced with several years’ experience in pharmaceutical process development, process systems modelling and optimisation. Ideally you will possess experience in up and downstream processes for pharmaceutical manufacturing, process analysis, scale up/down approaches.

Formal interviews for this post will be held on Thursday, 15 January 2026.

Informal enquiries about the post can be directed to: Blair Johnston, Associate Director, CMAC blair.johnston@strath.ac.uk.