Transfer Officer

The Knowledge Transfer (KT) group (kt.cern) is in charge of seeking and realising opportunities for the application of CERN technologies in domains such as healthcare, environmental applications, quantum technologies, and aerospace. You will be part of KT’s Business Development section, working with CERN’s Medical Applications Adviser and colleagues in KT and across CERN.

You will be responsible for the financial and administrative management of an internal seed funding programme that bridges the gap between research and societal applications, and for the processing of licensing requests for mainly software and electronics technologies. You will also help optimise and implement procedures in the transition to a new Intellectual Property and Customer Relationship Management system.

• You are a national of aCERN Member State or Associate Member State . Currently, we cannot consider applications from Pakistani and Lithuanian nationals for positions with a 2026 start date, as the ceiling defined under Article II.5 of the Associate Membership Agreement has been reached.
• By the Final date to receive applications, you have a master’s degree with 2 to 6 years of professional experience since graduation or a PhD with a maximum of 3 years of professional experience since graduation. You are not eligible with only a bachelor’s degree.
• You have never had a CERN fellow or graduate contract before.
• Please pay attention to the additional criteria and requirements for this specific position and mentioned above.