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CureAge Therapeutics · London

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Materials Scientist/Engineer - Plasma Facing Components

United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority · Abingdon · £57,117 pa

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Research Associate in Physics-Informed Machine Learning for Polymer Science

University of Sheffield · Sheffield · £39,560 – £41,885 pa

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FSE PhD President's Doctoral Scholarship - Synthetic Polymers to Stabilise Sensing Proteins into Membrane Nanodiscs

The University of Manchester · Manchester · £21,805 pa

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