[DMANET] Imperial Research Fellowships (IRF) 2026 – Theory of Computing

Dear all, Imperial College London has opened the 2026 Imperial Research Fellowships (IRF): a 4-year fellowship for outstanding early-career researchers to establish research independence. The scheme provides a competitive salary, and additional up to £45,000 for research and travel, with no obligatory teaching. The fellowship is a prestigious route to research independence, with strong potential to lead to a permanent lectureship. Applicants can be UK-based or international, and should normally be at most PhD + 5 years, counted from the PhD award date to the proposed start date. The call is open across research areas in participating departments. I am particularly keen to encourage strong applications in theoretical computer science, especially in complexity and algorithms. Applicants in Theory of Computing will need a departmental sponsor at Imperial. If you are considering applying for an IRF in this area and would like to discuss possible sponsorship, please email me and we can discuss fit and timing. Please note that each academic can sponsor only one applicant. Please contact me (iddo.tzameret@gmail.com) by *1 June 2026 *to be considered for sponsorship. Earlier is better. Computing internal deadline to confirm a sponsor and submit an outline: 22 June 2026. Imperial closing date: 23 July 2026. Details: Imperial Research Fellowships (IRF): https://www.imperial.ac.uk/research-and-innovation/research-office/funder-information/research-fellowships/irf/ Computing contacts page: Departments and key contacts: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/research-and-innovation/support-for-staff/research-office/funder-information/research-fellowships/irf/information-for-applicants/departments-and-key-contacts/ Best regards, Iddo Tzameret -- Professor Iddo Tzameret Chair in Computational Complexity Department of Computing Imperial College London iddo.tzameret@gmail.com https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~itzamere/ ********************************************************** * * Contributions to be spread via DMANET are submitted to * * DMANET@zpr.uni-koeln.de * * Replies to a message carried on DMANET should NOT be * addressed to DMANET but to the original sender. The * original sender, however, is invited to prepare an * update of the replies received and to communicate it * via DMANET. * * DISCRETE MATHEMATICS AND ALGORITHMS NETWORK (DMANET) * http://www.zaik.uni-koeln.de/AFS/publications/dmanet/ * **********************************************************