"Research Associate in Chemical Biology"

We seek to recruit an enthusiastic, highly motivated scientist with proven intellectual and technical abilities to work on an enzymology project. The project, funded by an industrial sponsor, seeks to develop a system for expressing a recombinant protease in Bacillus subtilis and to characterise the enzyme using a high-throughput assay. A library of protease variants will also be prepared and evaluated for use in a variety of applications.

Applicants must hold a postgraduate degree at PhD level (or nearing completion / submission) in a relevant area of Chemical Biology, Enzymology or relevant industrial experience.

Further information is available at the following group webpages:
Professor Graham Hutchings Professor Graham Hutchings - People - Cardiff University

For informal enquiries about the role and the Cardiff School of Chemistry, please contact Prof. Graham: e-mail Hutchingshutch@cardiff.ac.uk

For further details about working at Cardiff University, please contact: Ms Caroline Pasmore (ChemyHR@cardiff.ac.uk)

This position is full time (35 hours per week) and is available from 1 January 2026 for 1 year.

Salary: £41,064 - £46,049 per annum (Grade 6). It is not anticipated that an appointment be made above £41,064 per annum (Grade 6.32).

Important note: It is the University’s policy to use the person specification as a key tool for short-listing. Candidates should evidence that they meet ALL of the essential criteria as well as, where relevant, the desirable. As part of the application process you will be asked to provide this evidence via a supporting statement. Please ensure that the evidence you are providing corresponds with the numbered criteria outlined below. Your application will be considered based on the information you provide under each element.

When attaching the supporting statement to your application profile, please ensure that you name it with the vacancy reference number, e.g. Supporting Statement for 20913BR. Closing date: Tuesday, 25 November 2025

Cardiff University is committed to supporting and promoting equality and diversity and to creating an inclusive working environment. We believe this can be achieved through attracting, developing, and retaining a diverse range of staff from many different backgrounds who have the ambition to create a University which seeks to fulfil our social, cultural and economic obligation to Cardiff, Wales, and the world. In supporting our employees to achieve a balance between their work and their personal lives, we will also consider proposals for flexible working or job share arrangements.

Applications may be submitted in Welsh, and an application submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application submitted in English.

Cardiff University is a signatory to the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA), which means that in hiring and promotion decisions we will evaluate applicants on the quality of their research, not publication metrics or the identity of the journal in which the research is published. More information is available at: Responsible research assessment - Research - Cardiff University