Research Assistant / Research Associate / Research Fellow in Phage Biology

The Hub for Biotechnology in the Built Environment (HBBE) is a £8M initiative between Northumbria and Newcastle Universities. HBBE will develop biotechnologies to create a new generation of buildings which are responsive to their environment, grown using engineered living materials, metabolise their own waste, and modulate their microbiome to benefit human health.

We are now seeking to appoint a highly committed, motivated and creative scientist to join the research team under ‘Microbial Environments’ theme. The research will see development of techniques to sense, predict and then modulate bacterial communities using bacteriophages in a built environment setting. The post is a fixed term for 36 months. The successful candidate will work closely with computational biologists, microbial ecologists, architects, material scientists and civil engineers.