Prospective Postdocs and Fellows:

We are currently recruiting for three postdocs to start in September 2023. These positions cover the full spectrum of the group’s research activities: synthetic cells, microfluidics, BioHybrid engineering, and therapeutic applications. If you are interested in joining the team as a postdoc please email your CV to Yuval. 

The lab is accepting Fellows to work on independent projects. The following schemes may be relevant:

• Imperial College Research Fellowships

• BBSRC Discovery Fellowships

• EPSRC Postdoctoral Fellowships

• Marie Curie Fellowships

• 1851 Research Fellowships

• Royal Society Newton International Fellowship

Prospective Students:

We currently have two PhD studentships available for an October 2024 start. These studentships involve the development of new technologies to generate vesicle-based synthetic cells, and to engineer them to possess the behaviours that are the hallmarks of life: motility, energy generation, communication, replication, decision making, and self-repair. This will involve designing and working with novel bio-membranes, cell-free protein expression systems, gene circuits, as well as microfluidic platforms. These will be multi-disciplinary projects which, depending on the applicant’s background and research interests, will span across one or more of the research areas of molecular bioengineering, chemical biology, synthetic biology, soft matter, membrane biophysics, and microfluidics. If you are interested in applying, and if you would like to hear more about these projects, please send your CV to Yuval.

We may also have further internal departmental PhD funding for the right candidate. Get in touch for more details.

If you are a talented and dedicated scientist that is interested in joining the group as an MSci, MRes, UROP, or PhD student, please get in touch. When fully funded PhD positions become available, they will be displayed above. If you would like to apply for funding together with Yuval, do get in contact.

Prospective PhD students should be aware of the following funding schemes: 

• President's PhD Scholarship Scheme

• Imperial Chemical Engineering PhD Scholarship Scheme

• Schrödinger Scholarship Scheme

• China Scholarship Council

• Imperial Marshall Scholarship

The group accepts MRes students from the following Imperial College programmes: 

• MRes in Chemical Biology,

• MRes in Plant Chemical Biology 

• MRes in Nanomaterials

Recruitment Statement:

Our team members come from all walks of life. We recruit great people from a wide variety of backgrounds. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for doing great science, then you will find a home in our group. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to eliminating discrimination and to creating an inclusive working environment for all. We therefore encourage candidates to apply irrespective of age, disability, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion and belief, gender identity, sex, or sexual orientation.

Contact details:

Email: y.elani@imperial.ac.uk 

Phone: 0044 207 5941824

Twitter: @YuvalElani

Yuval's Imperial College Website: www.imperial.ac.uk/people/y.elani