Job Description

Job number

ENG03724

Faculties

Faculty of Engineering

Departments

Department of Chemical Engineering

Salary or Salary range

Competitive

Location/campus

South Kensington Campus - On site only

Contract type work pattern

Full time - Fixed term

Posting End Date

10 Nov 2025

About the role

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The Ceroni group at Imperial College is seeking a

Lab Manager

to support the research activities ongoing in the group related to the EEBio Programme Grant in collaboration with Oxford and Bristol. The EEBio programme grant has been funded by EPSRC to carry out a 6-year long research work that can enable the development of the foundational technologies necessary for a mature end-to-end engineering process for biological systems within biomedicine, agriculture and environment.

What you would be doing

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Within this framework, the Lab manager will closely work with the PDRA at the Ceroni lab and will be in charge of supporting activities in the bacterial and mammalian labs.



The main role of the post holder will be to carry out research in synthetic and molecular biology, undertake project management, ensuring safety regulations are followed throughout research activities, writing of reports, research papers and applications.

What we are looking for

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Given the interdisciplinarity of this project, this post is targeted at applicants with a biotechnology/biology/molecular or synthetic biology/bioengineering background. Experience with the field of synthetic biology, bacterial and eukaryotic cell engineering and familiarity with multi-group collaborations.

What we can offer you

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This is a full-time post, fixed term for 12 months.

Further information

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Informal enquiries about the post can be made to Dr Francesca Ceroni (

f.ceroni@imperial.ac.uk

)






As this post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, at the appropriate level, will be required for the successful candidate.

Please note that job descriptions are not exhaustive and you may be asked to take on additional duties that align with the key responsibilities mentioned above.

Available documents

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Please note that job descriptions are not exhaustive, and you may be asked to take on additional duties that align with the key responsibilities mentioned above.

We reserve the right to close the advert prior to the closing date stated should we receive a high volume of applications. It is therefore advisable that you submit your application as early as possible to avoid disappointment.



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