Overview

We are always looking for enthusiastic, intelligent and motivated researchers who enjoy taking things apart and putting them back together again (with the excessive use of tape!) to join the TheLeeLab. Research in our group is highly multidisciplinary involving, physical chemistry, optical physics, synthetic chemistry, image analysis and bespoke coding.

If you are interested in joining the group, either as a Part III, Masters student, PhD student, or as a Postdoctoral researcher, please contact Steven F. Lee directly at sl591@cam.ac.uk. Applications should include:

  • a cover letter highlighting your research interests
  • a full CV
  • names and addresses of two referees

Funded PhD projects and postdoctoral positions will be advertised when available.

Resources

Graduate Students

Information on applying for graduate studies at Cambridge is available from the board of graduate studies.

Postdoctoral Researchers

Likely sources of funding for post-doctoral fellowships include: 

  • Marie Curie Actions 
  • EMBO Fellowships 
  • Swiss National Foundation
  • Human Science Frontier Programme
  • Royal Society Newton International Fellowship 

 

Europe:

Marie Curie Career Development Fellowships (1-2 year fellowships) 

EMBO Fellowships (2 year fellowships) 

EPSRC (particularly cross-disciplinary)

United States:

National Science Foundation (U.S. citizens) 

Internally funded studentships and post-doctoral positions will be advertised here as they become available.

 

Find us:

PD-1 signaling and PD-1 blockade–mediated tumor control are established at microvillar T cell contacts
E Jenkins, M Fellermeyer, DF Heraghty, S Sharma, T Mitra, M Kotowski, J Clarke, Y Lui, S Daly, Z Marin, D Banik, M Körbel, EZQ Ng, T Lister, AM Santos, SF Lee, ML Dustin, SJ Davis, D Klenerman
Sci Immunol
(2026)
11
Spatially patterned, spectral single-molecule microscopy
JS Beckwith, B Cullinane, DF Heraghty, S Krokowski, CL Jones, S Yang, RC Gregory, RA Floto, AM Santos, SJ Davis, M Vendruscolo, D Klenerman, V Lindo, PK Sankaran, SF Lee
(2026)
Single-molecule microfluidic diffusional sizing
JJ Fan, R Jacquat, G Krainer, TPJ Knowles, SF Lee
BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL
(2026)
125
BPS2026 – Single-molecule microfluidic diffusional sizing
JJ Fan, R Jacquat, G Krainer, TPJ Knowles, SF Lee
Biophysical Journal
(2026)
125
Microglial Activation and Alpha-Synuclein Oligomers Drive the Early Inflammatory Phase of Parkinson's Disease
C Toomey, J Evans, M Grant-Peters, J Beckwith, R Popovic, J Breiter, J Brenton, A Fairbrother-Browne, S Strohbuecker, J Lachica, M Rodriguez-Lopez, E Brock, B Fu, L Nahidiazar, P Lopez-Garcia, R Ferguson, R Saleeb, H Lucas-Clarke, A Penverne, K D'sa, CW Pang, M Horrocks, M Vendruscolo, N Wood, S Lee, M Ryten, S Gandhi
NEUROPATHOLOGY AND APPLIED NEUROBIOLOGY
(2026)
52