The Disrupt Dispatch - Jobs
15th May 2025
Hello,
It’s good to be back with the latest roles from across the industry and research. Take your time to review these roles and let me know if you have been successful through our newsletter.
Want to know where to study? The places I recommend are the Master’s programmes at UCL, specifically the MSc. Nature-inspired Solutions, Rheine-Waal University of Applied Sciences, MSc. Bionics (also available remotely), and Westfälishe Hochschule Westphalian University of Applied Sciences, BSc. Biomimetics.
All the best from a sunny York…
Richard
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#0X Research & Industry Roles
*New roles - all other roles are continuing to accept applications.
Industry
*Novobiom - various (Belgium)
*DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory - Bioinspired Devices and Sensors (USA)
*Leiden University - PhD Candidate on TATTOOS: paTtern formATion Through biO-inspired cOmputer viSion (Netherlands)
*NASA - Optical Instrumentation and NDE Technology (USA)
*HKS - Senior Regenerative Designer (USA)
*Data Annotation - Biology Expert (UK)
*OXMAN - various (USA)
*Oxford Nanopore Technologies - MEMs process development scientist (USA)
*The Biomimicry Institute - Chief Operating Officer (USA)
Anima - Head of Development (France)
Asteria - Data Scientist Engineer (France)
Asteria - UI/UX Designer (France)
Ametra Engineering - Doctor in Mechanics & Mechanical Materials of Fluids (France)
Opteran - Open Call (UK)
Radiant Matter - Bio-based Nanomaterials Specialist Scientist (UK)
Shellworks - various (UK)
The Allen Institute for AI - Scientist - Bio-inspired Machine Learning (USA)
Biome Renewables - Engineering Lead (Canada)
Seprify - various (Switzerland)
DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory - Bioinspired Devices and Sensors (USA)
Notpla - various (UK)
Anduril Industries - Low Observables Engineer (USA)
Bouygues Construction - various (France)
Bioga - various (Spain)
Brineworks - various (Netherlands)
Prophesee - various engineering roles (France)
Research
*Imperial College London - Reader/Professor of Bioengineering (UK)
*Luleå University of Technology - Associated Senior Lecturer in Robotics and AI (Sweden)
*University of Oslo - Researcher in chemistry related to computations-based design for C-H activation reactions (Norway)
*Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences - Research Assistant for Spinning Artificial Spider Silk (Sweden)
*VSB- Technical University of Ostrava - Postdoc: Machining, Engineering Metrology and Additive Technologies (Czechia)
*NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology - PhD: concrete airfields exposed to frost and impact (Norway)
*Nanyang Technological University - Research Fellow (Materials Generative Design and Testing Framework)(Singapore)
*Nanyang Technological University - Research Fellow (Flow Chemistry) (Singapore)
*Nanyang Technological University - Research Fellow (Biomass Conversion) (Singapore)
*Nanyang Technological University - Project Officer / Research Associate (Analytical Biochemistry) (Singapore)
*Nanyang Technological University - Project Officer / Research Associate (Analytical Biochemistry) (Singapore)
*Nanyang Technological University - Research Fellow (Cellular Agriculture) (Singapore)
*Syracuse University - Postdoctoral Researcher - Nature Inspired (USA)
*Max Born Institute - PhD: Environmental effects in time-resolved photoemission spectroscopy of biomimetic switches: polarity, proticity, temperature and interface (Germany)
*Villanova University - Postdoctoral Researcher: College of Engineering (USA)
*UCLA - Visiting Project Scientist Assistant Position (USA)
*University of California, Santa Barbara - Specialist (Assistant and Associate levels) in interdisciplinary biotechnology research (USA)
*IBEC - Postdoctoral researcher at the Bioinspired Interactive Materials and Protocellular Systems Research Group (Spain)
*University of Jyväskylä - PhD: Wood and plant cell wall structures (Finland)
*University of Jyväskylä - Postdoc: Wood and plant cell wall structures (Finland)
*ESA - PostDoc: Differentiable Programming/Intelligence (Netherlands)
*Queen's University - PhD: Circular Economy & Net zero cement (UK)
*University of Oxford - various (UK)
*University of Sheffield - Research Associate in Discontinuous Carbon Fibre Composites (UK)
*UCLA - Multiple Assistant Professor Positions in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (USA)
Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research - Urban Evolution (Austria)
Syracuse University - Postdoctoral Researcher - Nature Inspired (USA)
Martin-Luther University Halle - Scientist / doctoral researcher (m-w-d), Protein and membrane biophysics (Germany)
New York University - Postdoctoral Associate (USA)
University of Sheffield - State-of-the-art mechanically controlled bilayer membrane for periodontal regeneration (UK)
Internships + Placements
*Prophesee - Marketing Communication (France)
*Novobiom - lab interns (Belgium)
*Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft - Master's Thesis: Electrochemical Reduction of Disulfides in Peptides (Germany)
*Born Global - Urban restoration intern (USA)
IST-ID - Research Studentships (Portugal)
imec - Student project: Design of a bio-inspired sensing system for high-channel counter implantable neural (Netherlands)
Colorifix Limited - PIPS Placement (UK)
Thank you for reading,
Richard James MacCowan
Founder + Biofuturist
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