Research Fellow for the Development of a Sealant System for In Vivo Applications

Research Fellow for the Development of a Sealant System for In Vivo Applications

University of Limerick

Limerick, Ireland

The overall purpose of the job is to design and carry out experiments and protocols fusing the development and manufacture of biomaterials at scale with the properties to form an adequate seal with a range of tissue types for the project entitled 'Selio System'.

DESCRIPTION

Research Fellows will be expected to carry out the below responsibilities together with any additional duties requested by the Principal Investigator/Head of Academic Unit:

Research

• Conduct individual and/or collaborative research producing excellent research outputs to the highest ethical standards in a variety of settings;
• Carry out any administrative/management work associated with your programme of research;
• Proactively identify opportunities for external funding sources, prepare grant proposals and the assess research findings for potential routes to impact including commercial exploitation (as appropriate to the discipline) in collaboration with the PI;
• Engage in the dissemination of the results of the research in which you are engaged in for relevant research stakeholders in the appropriate form.

Contribution to Research Group and University

• Engage in the wider research and scholarly activities of your research group, centre or unit and contribute to its profile by participating in promotional activity;
• Participate in external/international/internal networks for the exchange of information and to form relationships for future research collaboration.

Mentoring

• Supervise and provide day-to-day advice, support, mentoring, and assistance to Post Doctoral Researchers, postgraduate students and other junior members associated with your research group, centre, or unit.

Personal Development

• Engage in appropriate professional training and development opportunities to develop own transferable skills, career, and reputation;
• May participate in limited teaching in furtherance of your own development and contribute to your unit’s teaching and tutoring approaches where appropriate. The extent of this must not adversely impact the primary research role and must be with the agreement of your manager and Head of Department/School.

Knowledge and Expertise

• Demonstrates knowledge of a research discipline and field;
• Demonstrates the ability to generate new ideas and link and build upon existing ideas to generate unique concepts and solutions with integrity;
• Demonstrates knowledge and understanding of the policy, practices and procedures that are relevant to the role. This will include knowledge and understanding of Good Research Practice (including but not limited to ethics, research integrity, data management), and may also include broader University, sector, and external sponsor or funder policies;
• Demonstrates an understanding of the operational and management requirements of a successful research project.

Research Environment

• Demonstrates evidence of excellent research outputs;
• Demonstrates a thorough understanding of the research environment both nationally and internationally and the ability to contribute substantially to grant applications. Demonstrates an understanding of research impact (including commercialisation) as relevant to their discipline.

Interpersonal Skills

• Demonstrates good communication, mentoring, and interpersonal skills with the capability of working within a project team to achieve results.

Personal Skills and Effectiveness

• Demonstrates an ability to manage self, time, resources, and people to enable a high level of personal effectiveness.

Career Development

• Demonstrates a commitment to develop own transferable skills, profile, and reputation to advance own career after the end of the contract period;
• The researcher will be responsible for engaging in and availing of appropriate professional training and development opportunities via the Researcher Career Development Programme to develop their own transferable skills, career, and reputation.

Essential Criteria

• A Doctoral Degree (level 10 NFQ) in materials or chemistry or related discipline;
• The appointed candidate will generally have 2-4 years Post Doctoral Research experience;
• Experience characterising polymers and particles used for pharmaceutical applications (at least 2 years);
• Experience in working with polymer based materials and characterising their properties (mechanical and strength testing, stability and degradation) (at least 2 years);
• Experience in identifying and characterising critical process parameters and critical quality attributes for materials to be used clinically (at least 1 year);
• Experience in scaling up of medical device production methods (at least 1 year).

Desirable Criteria

• Experience of using polymers in drug delivery or tissue engineering applications;
• Worked with industry and reported directly to industry (at least 2 years);
• Experience in working with a multi-disciplinary team of researchers including chemists, biologists, engineers and clinicians.

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