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School of Aeronautical, Automotive, Chemical and Materials Engineering
Department of Materials
The Department of Materials is seeking to appoint a Professor of Biomaterials. The successful candidate will provide academic leadership for the activities of the School specifically in the area of Biomaterials, as well as adding to the School's international reputation in Advanced Materials and in Regenerative Medicine / Healthcare.
Loughborough is a top 20 UK University and the Department of Materials is consistently highly ranked in league tables with an excellent reputation for research, teaching and student experience. Staff and students also benefit from world class characterisation facilities and close industrial relationships with leading companies in the energy, defence, automotive, aerospace, healthcare, plastics and engineering ceramics sectors.
The School has a strategic vision to build on existing excellence and to further develop across the areas of Advanced Materials, Biological Engineering and Regenerative Medicine. The successful candidate would play a lead role in the development and communication of this strategic vision.
Activity within the School already makes a major contribution to the fully integrated 'innovation-to-product' Centre for Biological Engineering (CBE), which brings together world-class researchers in the fields of healthcare engineering and cell technologies. The CBE also leads the GBP 10.5m EPSRC/MRC Doctoral Training Centre in Regenerative Medicine.
The Department has a wealth of excellent research facilities, most notable being the Loughborough Materials Characterisation Centre (LMCC), which provides a world class service, both in terms of equipment and staff expertise, which greatly enhances our research activities.
We are interested in candidates who can pursue an 'internationally competitive' personal research programme and lead and strengthen our research capability consistent with the research priorities of the Advanced Materials and Healthcare Research Themes within the School and more generally within the Enabling Technologies and Healthcare and Wellbeing Challenge Themes across the university.
The successful candidate should be able to show a track record of significant achievement in research and project team leadership, including industrial collaborations and securing funding. A background in an appropriate Science / Engineering discipline with specific and current expertise relevant to Biomaterials is essential.
You would join one of the country's pre-eminent Materials Engineering Departments and work with a dedicated team of academic, technical and administrative staff and as with all roles in the Department of Materials we are seeking candidates who can demonstrate a commitment to maintaining the Department's excellent standards in research, teaching and learning.
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