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:

α-Synuclein driven cell susceptibility in Parkinson’s disease
S Lee, J Breiter, J Beckwith, E Brock, J Lachica, C Toomey, B Fu, M Ryten, L Weiss, N Wood, S Gandhi, M Vendruscolo
(2025)
Large-scale visualisation of α-synuclein oligomers in Parkinson’s disease brain tissue
R Andrews, B Fu, CE Toomey, JC Breiter, J Lachica, JS Beckwith, R Tian, EE Brock, L-M Needham, GJ Chant, C Loiseau, A Deconfin, K Baspin, R Popovic, J Evans, Y Goh, B Kurt, L Senicar, M Edmonds, T Bartels, N Bengoa-Vergniory, PJ Magill, Z Jaunmuktane, OJ Freeman, BJM Taylor, J Hardy, T Lashley, M Ryten, M Vendruscolo, NW Wood, LE Weiss, S Gandhi, SF Lee
Nat Biomed Eng
(2025)
Nano-org, a functional resource for single-molecule localisation microscopy data
S Shirgill, DJ Nieves, JA Pike, MA Ahmed, H Abbott, MHH Baragilly, K Savoye, JD Worboys, KS Hazime, E Bruggeman, A Garcia, DJ Williamson, P Rubin-Delanchy, R Peters, DM Davis, R Henriques, SF Lee, DM Owen
Nat Commun
(2025)
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Neurodegeneration emerges at a cellular tipping point between aggregate accumulation and removal.
MW Cotton, S Venkatesan, JS Beckwith, D Böken, CK Xu, JC Breiter, LE Berkowicz, LS Salazar, A Von Schulze, EA Andrzejewska, EE Brock, HL Han, MM Schneider, DD Sahtoe, D Baker, JB Rowe, A Goriely, WA McEwan, TPJ Knowles, SF Lee, R Halfmann, D Klenerman, G Meisl
(2025)
Species-specific surface dwell times and accumulation of microbes investigated by holographic microscopy
EE Brock, SA Matthews, EJ Cohen, S Nakamura, LG Wilson
Philos Trans A Math Phys Eng Sci
(2025)
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