Openings on Shreyas Mandre

MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2026

Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Applications close on 9 September 2026. I can act as the Cambridge supervisor or host this scheme requires — write to me before the deadline if you intend to apply.

MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2027

Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Applications close on 8 September 2027. I can act as the Cambridge supervisor or host this scheme requires — write to me before the deadline if you intend to apply.

Newnham College Research Fellowship (Science, Mathematics, Engineering or Psychology)

Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A three-year stipendiary Research Fellowship at Newnham College, open across science, mathematics, engineering and psychology. Applications close 23:59 on Thursday 3 September 2026, for a Fellowship starting 1 October 2027.

Summer internships I can host

Sat, 22 Aug 2026 09:02:00 +0100

Most summer research schemes — departmental, national, or run by your own university — require a host who agrees to take you before you can apply. I am available to act as that host. If you are applying to a scheme that funds a summer research placement and need a supervisor at Cambridge, write to me.

Postdoctoral fellowships I can host

Sat, 22 Aug 2026 09:01:00 +0100

Every postdoctoral fellowship below requires a host institution and a named supervisor who commits to the application before it can be submitted. I am available to act as host and supervisor for applications in my areas. If you are planning to apply to one of these schemes and need a Cambridge host, write to me.

PhD scholarships I can supervise

Sat, 22 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0100

The scholarships below fund PhD study at Cambridge. Most of them you apply for yourself, alongside your application for admission — they are not awarded on a supervisor’s nomination, and nobody can put you forward for them. What a supervisor does is agree to take you, and an application backed by a supervisor who has already discussed the research with you is a materially stronger one. I am available to be that supervisor.

EPSRC Doctoral Prize

Fri, 01 Mar 2024 14:36:56 +0100

EPSRC funds this prize for PhD students currently funded through EPSRC, who are near completion. Visit the link to see if you meet the eligibility criteria and to decide whether you want to pursue this opportunity. If you do, then the first step to take immediately is to identify a supervisor. (If my research interests you, write to me right-away. I have numerous research interests, so check my publications to determine if there is an overlap.)

Germ granule transport during early zebrafish embryogenesis

Mon, 04 Sep 2023 14:36:56 +0100

Apply here.

In some living organisms (e.g. zebrafish), the gametes carry a substance called the germplasm made of RNA and other proteins. This germplasm is present in the organism since its unicellular embryonic stage, and is transported through development to the adult reproductive cells. In the unicellular embryo, the germplasm phase-separates into granules called germ granules, and when the cell divides, the granules concentrate along the cell-division furrows. In this project, we investigate the first few steps of this transport starting from the unicellular stage through a few cell-division cycles.

Systematic control of wind turbine wakes and interaction between wind turbines

Thu, 05 Jan 2023 15:20:38 +0000

This project is supported by the EPSRC DTP awarded to Cambridge Department of Engineering.

A wind turbine converts the kinetic energy of incident wind to electricity, and thus by design causes a wake with a deficit of energy (see Figure 1). Any turbines operating in the wake thus underperform severely, causing the windfarm to generate between 30-60% of installed capacity. Naturally, mechanisms for redirecting wakes are sought but no effective candidates are known.

In this project, we pursue a systematic approach to understand the possibility and nature of the control the windfarm has on the collective wake of turbines.