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The Royal Society invites applications for its research professorships. These provide long-term support to scientists, enabling them to be relieved from teaching and administration duties in order to focus on research. Two types of professorships are available:

•four royal society professorships supporting research in any of the natural sciences, including biological research, chemistry, engineering, mathematics and physics;

•one Noreen Murray research professorship supporting research specifically in neurological sciences.

Applicants may be of any nationality, and applications from scientists currently residing outside of the UK are particularly welcomed. Awards must be held at a UK university or non-profit research institute.

Professorships are tenable for up to 10 years and cover salary costs of £82,600 per year, research expenses of up to £100,000 per year until the end of March 2021 and £16,000 per year for the remainder of the award, and start-up costs of up to £500,000 for the first three financial years. Research expenses are covered at 100 per cent of the full economic costs, and staff costs at 80 per cent of the full economic costs.