Innovation Lead - Materials

Main duties and responsibilities De Montfort University De Montfort University is a university of quality and distinctiveness, distinguished by our life-changing research, dynamic international partnerships, vibrant links with business and our commitment to excellence in learning, teaching and the student experience. We offer more than 300 courses at foundation, undergraduate and postgraduate, many of which offer professional accreditations, and links to industry or work experience.

DMU undergraduate and postgraduate courses receive continual input from leading employers and professional bodies and are underpinned by world-leading research. This ensures they remain relevant and up-to-date and provide students with the skills and experience employers expect from candidates in a competitive job market.

Faculty/ Directorate The Faculty of Health and Life Sciences (HLS) at De Montfort University (DMU) is home to a wide range of laboratory based, pharmaceutical, healthcare, and social science courses. The faculty educates and develops professionals who make a significant difference to lives, health, wellbeing, communities and society.

The Leicester School of Allied Health Sciences, within the faculty of HLS, offers a number UG and PG provisions including BSc (Hons) Biomedical Science and MSc Advanced Biomedical Science (accredited by the Institute of Biomedical Science). The Role We are seeking to appoint a self-motivated and team orientated, technically skilled materials scientist at research assistant level.

In this role, you will lead the development of novel formulations and physical delivery methods underpinning the core technology of a developing DMU spin out. You will be at the forefront of multidisciplinary scientific innovation, customising existing formulation parameters to fit new and evolving commercial parameters.

Your work will support the developing spin out to broaden market application and establish prototypes for its core technologies. You will report to the CEO and CSO of the spin out, both Associate Professors in the schools of Allied Health and Pharmacy, respectively. You’ll work closely with other group members, our external commercial partners, where required, and UG/PG project students.

Ideal Candidate You should have a degree and relevant proven experience in materials chemistry, materials and chemical analysis techniques, and specifically in electrospinning. We are looking for a person with excellent record keeping, attention to detail, and expertise in innovation projects specifically, with UG/PG supervisory experience.

You will be an independent worker as well as a team player, with a solutions-orientated mindset, someone who can drive effective outcomes whilst identifying and adapting to challenges in a proactive and rational manner. If you display a commitment to target-driven achievements, whilst operating to challenging time constraints, we’d love to hear from you.

To view the job description and person specification, please click here Contact For further information please contact Dr Chris Young, Associate Professor, Research & Innovation by email: chris.young@dmu.ac.uk or Dr Omar Qutachi, Associate Professor, Tissue Engineering and Drug Discovery: omar.qutachi@dmu.ac.uk