Associate Professorship (or Professorship) of Materials

**Salary:** **£ 55,755 - £74,867 p.a plus additional benefits as detailed
below including a Housing Allowance £11,635 per annum. An additional allowance
of £3,155 p.a. would be payable upon award of Full Professor title**





Applications are invited for the post of Associate Professor or Professor of
Materials to be held in the Department of Materials and St. Anne’s College,
with effect from 1st September 2025 or soon thereafter. In exceptional cases,
the title of full Professor may be awarded on appointment.





The successful candidate will work at the Department of Materials and also
will be appointed to a Tutorial Fellowship at St Anne’s College. The
Department of Materials at Oxford University is a world leader bringing a
highly interdisciplinary approach to the development of materials with a
particular focus on materials for a sustainable future across a range of
materials systems and technologies including energy storage and conversion
materials. The work of the department is underpinned by excellence in the,
theory and modelling of materials, microstructural and nanoscale
characterisation of materials, and the processing and production of materials.





The postholder may specialise in any aspect of Materials Science, laboratory
based or modelling. Areas of particular interest for the current post include
but are not limited to: the development and application of atom-probe
tomography, biomaterials and materials for medical applications, quantum
materials, and materials processing. We are seeking an exceptional candidate
who will complement our existing activities in the Department of Materials,
and who will contribute to strengthening our teaching and research. The
successful candidate will have a doctorate in materials science or a closely
related subject, and will have a record of internationally excellent research
clearly centred on Materials Science, supported by strong publications
commensurate with their career stage.





The successful candidate will be required: to build an independent research
group, consistent with the department’s strategy that produces research
outputs of the highest international quality, to disseminate that research; to
engage in knowledge transfer activities; to teach, supervise and examine
undergraduate and postgraduate research students; and to participate in the
administration of the department and college.





Specifically in the College, you will be one of two Materials Scientists with
Tutorial Fellowships and you will help to manage a lively group of
undergraduate and graduate materials scientists, and play a full part in the
teaching of Materials Science at undergraduate level.





Queries about the post should be addressed to the Head of Department,
Professor Pete Nellist, at head.department@materials.ox.ac.uk, telephone: +44
(0) 1865 273737, or to the Senior Tutor at St Anne’s College, Dr Shannon
McKellar (senior.tutor@st-annes.ox.ac.uk). All enquiries will be treated in
strict confidence and will not form part of the selection decision.





**Note that this post is being advertised simultaneously with a similar one in
association with Trinity College. Unless applicants specify otherwise, all
candidates will be considered for both posts - you do not need to apply to
both vacancies. For further information on this arrangement, please contact
recruitment@materials.ox.ac.uk**





We are a Stonewall Top 100 Employer, Living Wage employer, holding an Athena
Swan Bronze Award and Race Equality Charter Bronze Award.





All applicants will be judged on merit, according to the selection criteria.





**The closing date for applications is 12 noon on 30 May 2025.**





**Interviews are expected to be held week commencing 7 July 2025.**