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Postdoctoral Scientist | Neurobiology | Dr Joergen Kornfeld | LMB 3011

UK Research and Innovation • Cambridge, Cambridgeshire

Salary

£33k – £33k

Posted

7 November 2026

Sponsor match

high

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Role overview

UK Research and Innovation is hiring a Postdoctoral Scientist | Neurobiology | Dr Joergen Kornfeld | LMB 3011 in Cambridge, a scientific & qa role. The advertised salary is £33k – £33k. UK Research and Innovation holds an active licence on the UK Home Office register of sponsors for the Skilled Worker route, which means it can sponsor a visa for this hire if it chooses to.

£42,694 per annum Overall purpose: To work within the group of Dr Joergen Kornfeld at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB), within a programme aimed at understanding how behaviours are encoded in the brain's synaptic networks. Specifically, to develop novel approaches for large-scale connectomics and to apply them to map and analyse the synaptic connections (connectome) within vertebrate and invertebrate brains. The ultimate goal is to link these synaptic networks to specific behaviour…

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Employer: UK Research and Innovation — confirmed licensed sponsor
Visa route: Skilled Worker
Advertised salary: £33k – £33k
How this salary compares: about 20% below the £40,820 median across 1,107 scientific & qa roles with published salaries on FindSponsorJobs
Location: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Similar roles nearby: 39 other live scientific & qa roles in Cambridge — browse them
Posted: 7 November 2026
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