Join us!

Interested in our work? joins us!

We are a very international team, with scientists from all over the world – Japan, US, Brazil, Saudi Arabia, China, Nigeria, Australia, Brunei, Canada, Nepal, Colombia, India, UAE and many countries in Europe –  joining us to investigate nervous system development, plasticity, neurodegeneration, regeneration and repair using fruit-flies. If you’re keen on our research, we’d love to hear from you.

For Post-doctoral, PhD, Masters, short-stay visits, summer projects, and work experience, just write directly to Professor Alicia Hidalgo via email.

Want to collaborate? Contact me too.

The Group Behaving Like Flies

We are here:

Professor Alicia Hidalgo

Birmingham Centre for Neurogenetics, School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham,

Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT

United Kingdom

PROSPECTIVE POST-DOC APPLICANTS:

Post-doc opportunity currently available: Wellcome funded for 3 years.

Apply here: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/jobs

Application deadline 19 March 2025

Please contact me through email.
Here are also some fellowships you could apply for:

  • L’Oreal-UNESCO For Women in Science ProgrammeLine
  • Royal Society Newton International FellowshipLine
  • Human Frontiers Science Programme Postdoctoral FellowshipLine
  • FEBS Long-Term Fellowships.
  • E.U. Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions
  • EMBO Long-Term Postdoctoral Fellowship
  • Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowship

PHD STUDENTS

LOOKING FOR AN ENTHUSIASTIC, CURIOUS, KEEN PhD STUDENT: hey there, is it you?

You can join us to do your PhD via various routes:

  1. Self-funded, contact me please
  2. PhD studentship from your own country: please find out the deadlines and scholarships and contact me
  3. PhD studentship concerted between other countries and University of Birmingham (e.g. Chinese Scholarship Council)
  4. BBSRC funded Midlands Integrated Doctoral Training Programme (MIBTP): deadline now gone for 2025

For other non-MIBTP applicants: apply any time online to “PhD, research, School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham” APPLY HERE:

https://sits.bham.ac.uk/lpages/LES025.htm

Please contact me at a.hidalgo@bham.ac.uk