Lecturer​/Associate Professor in NeuroAI and Computational Neuroscience

Lecturer/Associate Professor in Neuro

AI and Computational Neuroscience

The Division of Biosciences has one of the UK's broadest computational and AI-driven life-science programmes . Modern machine learning, generative modelling, and statistical inference are applied to fundamental questions across the Division's full scope: from genome and protein modelling to cellular imaging, neural circuit dynamics, and planetary-scale biodiversity. Sustained recruitment at the computational/biological interface has built a community where theory, code, and experiment sit alongside each other, and that work is now being consolidated under a single AI for Life framework, with coordinated investment in academic posts, computational infrastructure, and training.

Within the Division of Biosciences, the Research Departments of Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) and Neuroscience, Physiology & Pharmacology (NPP) have consistently been rated as world-leading. CDB is an internationally renowned centre for interdisciplinary research, spanning animal development, stem cell biology, functional and evolutionary morphology, neuroscience, organelle biology, and cell signalling. In NPP, research groups are exploring nervous system function across a range of scales that span from the biophysical operation of ion channels through to network dynamics and whole animal behaviour.

Both departments have significant and growing strength in Neuro

AI and computational neuroscience and this is captured by our divisional “Neuro

AI” centre which brings together computational and experimental expertise. The new appointees will join a uniquely strong UCL neuroscience ecosystem — alongside the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre and the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit within the Faculty, and a longstanding UCL tradition in systems and computational neuroscience that includes the 2014 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. The two posts will also form a complementary strand of UCL's wider Neuro

AI initiative.

NPP and CDB are seeking to make two new Lecturer / Associate Professor appointments. One post will be based in CDB and one in NPP. In your application, please state your preferred department. The successful candidates will be integral members of the Neuro

AI centre, establish internationally competitive research programmes, deliver innovative teaching to our diverse student body, and advance our mission to create meaningful impact within academia and society at large.

NPP and CDB are expanding their research programmes at the interface of neuroscience, AI, and computational biology through a coordinated initiative formalised within the Biosciences Neuro

AI centre. These appointments are also part of a Faculty-wide computational biology initiative and the successful applicants will join a growing community of researchers working at the forefront of computational neuroscience and data-driven biological discovery.

As a new Lecturer / Associate Professor, you will:

• Develop an internationally competitive research programme that advances the frontiers of Neuro
  
  AI and computational neuroscience, with opportunities for substantial grant funding and access to UCL's world-class computational infrastructure.
• Inspire the next generation of scientists through innovative teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, particularly developing curriculum in computational modelling, machine learning applications, and data science approaches to neuroscience.
• Mentor and supervise research students, fostering the development of future leaders in the field while building your own research group.
• Forge interdisciplinary collaborations across UCL's extensive network of computational and neuroscience researchers, including potential partnerships with the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, the Centre for Artificial Intelligence, the SWC, and the growing computational biology community within Biosciences.
• Contribute to departmental initiatives, knowledge exchange activities, and public engagement.

As part of your application,
you are required to submit as a cover letter, a two-page Vision Statement outlining your innovative ideas for advancing Neuro

AI or Computational Neuroscience in both research and teaching contexts
. This statement should articulate your unique perspective on the field's future and how your work would contribute to its development at UCL.

Detailed job description and person specification can be found at the bottom of this page.

If you require reasonable adjustments or an accessible application format, please contact the Faculty Human Resources team on

We are seeking an innovative researcher and educator at the intersection of neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and computational biology. The role is well suited to candidates who are primarily computational, but we strongly welcome applicants who combine computational and experimental approaches. We welcome candidates at different career stages, including those with non-traditional…