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JOB DESCRIPTION Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Chemistry Imperial College London, one of the world’s most important centres for research and teaching in the Natural and Physical Sciences, Medicine, Engineering, and Business, seeks lecturers to join the Department of Chemistry within the Faculty of Natural Sciences. Imperial College London is consistently rated amongst the world's best universities. Imperial is committed to developing the next generation of researchers, scientists and academics through collaboration across disciplines. Located in the heart of London, Imperial is a multidisciplinary space for education, research, translation and commercialisation, harnessing science and innovation to tackle global challenges. Imperial has three academic faculties – Engineering, Medicine, and Natural Sciences – and the Imperial College Business School, as well as a significant number of interdisciplinary research centres focusing on challenging world problems. Imperial has a leadership model comprising the President, Professor Alice Gast, and the Provost, Professor Ian Walmsley FRS. Please refer to further particulars for more information about the College 1. The Post Job Title: Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Chemistry (x6) Department/Division Chemistry Faculty: Natural Sciences Campus location: White City/South Kensington Campuses Job Family/Level: Academic Job Family, Lecturer/ Senior Lecturer level Accountable to: Professor Oscar Ces Key working relationship (Internal): Other academics, college support staff and students Key working relationship (external): Academic staff from other Universities, collaborators, funders’ representatives and industry and network partners Working hours: As reasonably necessary but normally not less than 35 hour per week Contract type: Full-time Open-ended 2. Background of the post The post holder will work in the area of the chemical sciences within the Department of Chemistry, which is led by Professor Oscar Ces. The post holder will contribute to the academic mission of Imperial College London to deliver world class scholarship, education and research. In addition, the post holder will be required to contribute to administration within the Department. 3. Information about the Faculty of Natural Sciences The Faculty of Natural Sciences enjoys an outstanding reputation for high-quality research and education. Employing over 1,200 staff, with approximately 4,600 students and with a research income in excess of £70 million, it is home to the departments of Chemistry, Mathematics, Physics, Life Sciences, as well as the Centre for Environmental Policy and the Grantham Institute – Climate Change and the Environment. P a g e 1 | 10 The College offers significant opportunities for cross-disciplinary collaborations and, in pursuing a truly multidisciplinary approach, the Faculty addresses some of the world’s most challenging problems. Research and education take place in a diverse and stimulating academic environment, located across three College campuses: South Kensington (central London), White City (west London) and Silwood Park (near Ascot in Berkshire). The Faculty is led by the Dean, Professor Richard Craster, and is committed to continuing to attract and develop the highest quality students and staff for its successful undergraduate and postgraduate courses. The Faculty’s academics are highly regarded for their commitment to research-led learning and teaching and the volume and quality of their research. Cross-College interdisciplinary and inter-Faculty activities flourish, and enormous mutual benefit is gained from national and international alliances and collaborations with industry and with other institutions and organisations. Further information about the Faculty’s structure and activities can be found on Natural Sciences website. 4. The Department of Chemistry The Chemistry Department is currently led by Head of Department Professor Oscar Ces and has been at the forefront of molecular research since its foundation over 150 years ago. The Department can trace its roots back to 1845 and the creation of the Royal College of Chemistry, which after moving to South Kensington in 1872, went on to become one of the founding pillars of the newly established Imperial College of Science and Technology in 1907. Today we are rated at the highest levels of international excellence in our teaching and research. The Department ranked twelfth globally in the 2021 QS World University subject rankings, and third in the UK. We are active both in pushing the frontiers of core chemical understanding and in applying cutting edge knowledge to diverse areas of modern molecular science. In 2019 the Department of Chemistry relocated to a brand new £170M state of the art world- class research facility, the Molecular Sciences Research Hub at Imperial White City, the College’s new research and translation campus in West London. Chemistry’s move to Imperial White City offers a tremendous opportunity, not just for the Department to grow in terms of staff numbers, research capacity and student intake, but more significantly, for the Department to pioneer a new way of doing chemistry that transcends disciplinary and institutional boundaries in the search for solutions to some of the great challenges facing humanity. By moving to new facilities, designed and built to meet the needs of modern chemistry, we will advance research across seven research themes, foster innovation and entrepreneurship, and engage with academic and public audiences about the remarkable discoveries being made in today’s chemical sciences. Our long-term ambition is that Chemistry at Imperial White City becomes an international beacon for new approaches to molecular and chemical science. The Department receives generous funding for both research and teaching and has exceptionally strong links with industry around the world. Undergraduates can take a variety of three, four and five-year programmes and for postgraduates we offer Masters’ programmes in eight areas of modern molecular science (with a further two due to start in Octo 2022), as well as being heavily involved in another two programmes held in other departments. The Department has strong links with industry reflected by generous funding of both research and teaching. 4.1 Staffing and size of the Department We have 64 academic staff, 16 Research Fellows, 7 Teaching Fellows, 105 postdoctoral associates, around 522 undergraduate students, and 315 postgraduates. (ER) Five Nobel laureates have served on the Department’s staff. P a g e 2 | 10 4.2 Research The Chemistry Department has an outstanding reputation for research. Its activities are clustered around seven outward-facing research themes which emphasize the role that Chemistry can play in tackling societal problems: Synthesis and Catalysis; Chemical Biology and Healthcare; Environmental and Green Chemistry; Energy; Imaging, Sensing and Analytical Chemistry; Materials and Molecular Design and Theoretical, Computational and Data-driven Chemistry. 4.3 Education Undergraduate courses The Department offers three, four and five year courses based on a common first two years of chemistry content with approximately 520 undergraduates. All lead to the BSc or MSci degree of imperial College London and to the Associateship of the Royal College of Science (ARCS). Students may study entirely in the Department or may take an extra year either undertaking research at another research institute overseas, or in industry. The Chemistry degrees can also be taken in combination with a Language or Management. The final year for all Chemistry students contains a significant research project. Further details are available on the Department’s Undergraduate Admissions web pages: http://www.imperial.ac.uk/chemistry/undergraduate/admissions/ Postgraduate courses The Department typically admits 65-70 MPhil/PhD and 110-130 MRes students each year. Funding for these students comes from a diverse range of sources, including the EPSRC, industry, scholarships and self-funded students. The Department currently runs three EPSRC Centres for Doctoral Training in Chemical Biology, Medical Imaging and Next Generation Synthesis and Reaction Technology and a Leverhulme Centre for Doctoral Training in Cellular Bionics. Further details are available on the Department’s PG web pages: http://www.imperial.ac.uk/chemistry/postgraduate/ 4.4 Relationship with other departments and faculties Much of the research of the department is multidisciplinary with strong links to colleagues in the Faculty of Medicine, Biological Sciences, Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering, Physics, Maths and Materials Departments. Many of these collaborations are supported through leadership and involvement in Imperial College Global Challenge Institutes and Imperial College Centres and Networks of Excellence. Details of these can be found at: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/multidisciplinary-research/ Further details on research in the Department are available at: http://www.imperial.ac.uk/chemistry/research/ 4.5 Equality, diversity and inclusivity The Department is proud to hold an Athena Swan Gold Award which recognises the good practices in place for supporting women at all stages, including undergraduate, post graduate, post doctoral, and early career academic through to professional level. The Department of Chemistry values and celebrates its diverse workforce and we are committed to creating a truly open and inclusive culture where every individual is free to reach their full potential. Dr. Kim Jelfs and Dr.