Postdoc Position 1:
The postdoc will be in charge of subproject 2. In subproject 2, ‘Tracing narratives and testimonies’, the Postdoc will explore narratives of irregular migration and migrant death through the stories of migrants, relatives and humanitarian workers at the transit point of Morocco and through the testimonies extracted from dead migrant bodies at the Laboratorio de Medicina legal de la Universidad de Malaga in Spain. These testimonies, based on physical marks on the dead bodies, reveal evidence of poverty in the country of origin, abuse or torture en route or at transit points and ultimately of harmful death in or close to Europe. In other words, the autopsies use the physical footprints of the world on the body to trace the footprints of the body in the world.

In contrast, the narratives explored in Morocco will be created in the absence of a physical body. Essentially, family members and humanitarian organisations employ practices of determination to trace the missing migrant body through social, physical and economic footprints left behind at the transit points. These footprints can take the form of stories from co-travellers, specifying the last known whereabouts of specific individuals, of migrant smugglers in search of family members to pay off the debt left unpaid, or other types of narratives, as well as messages sent from specific places or personal belongings left behind. The Postdoc will look specifically at how humanitarian organisations are used and get involved in the search for missing migrants, and at how some family members may engage in a form of secondary migration practices, where they physically follow in the footsteps of their missing loved ones, as they uncover fragmented narratives and clues to their whereabouts.

Postdoc Position 2:
The Postdoc will be in charge of subproject 3. In subproject 3, ‘Exploring political decision-making and generative collaborations’, the Postdoc will conduct fieldwork among Spanish and Greek politicians to explore how national and European policies on migration and migrant deaths are developed and implemented, and how statistical information and recurring images of anonymous dead migrant bodies impact the political decision-making process. This project will focus on the practices of determination employed by European politicians and uncover the underlying uncertainties in society and among the political actors.

In addition, the generative collaborations workshops will form a meta-site for the Postdoc, where the conversations and discussions from the workshops will produce a unique type of meta-data on how the fragmented and conflictive narratives can be used in the search for common ground and ‘best practice’ approaches. Thus, the workshops and the unique data they produce will add an extra layer of knowledge generation to the SOLID project.

Finally, the narratives collected throughout the project will be used to develop a website where all the different perspectives and contradictive views captured through the social anatomy of migrant deaths will be presented and shared. The website will tell the stories of migrants and their families, of forensic scientists, policy and law makers and humanitarian workers and of their individual and collective efforts to address the problems of irregular migration as they see them. Thus, through written material and recorded audio and video bites, the website will bring the fragmented and contradictive narratives as well as the generative collaborations to a broader audience. While all research team members, as well as participants at the generative collaboration workshops will contribute to creating content for the website, the main responsibility for the website will be held by the Postdoc.

Postdoctoral position 1: The Study of Anti-female Anger and Activism in the US
This position is specifically part of a wider work-package (WP) entitled ‘Fury’, looking at contemporary manifestations, linkages, and globalization of gendered anger. This WP is coordinated by the PI, Dr Atreyee Sen. The successful candidate will be expected to conduct individual research into the currents, logics and expressions of anti-female anger in the US, that coalesces into political groups, ‘manospheres’, homosocial spaces, and social movements. E.g. the latter could include Incels, Trump supporters, and men’s rights activists.

Postdoctoral position 2: The Study of Postimperial Anger in Georgia, Europe
This position is specifically part of a WP entitled ‘Venom’, looking at embittered anger and ressentiment directed towards former colonial and imperial powers. This WP is coordinated by Dr Matthew Carey, Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen. The successful candidate will be expected to conduct individual research into the dynamics of postimperial anger in Georgia directed towards the former imperial power, Russia, and its citizens, both in the present-day context of immigration and potentially with regard to the recent past.

The postdocs will be responsible for designing and conducting their own sub-project within the broader context of the work package and the project as a whole. The research will rely primarily on fieldwork and the collection and analysis of qualitative data (both offline and online), and outputs will be primarily in the form of single- or co-authored academic publications, as well as more popular forms of dissemination (podcasts, media articles and interviews, public talks, exhibitions, etc.). Participation in academic conferences and/or workshops is expected.

The Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences (SUND) at the University of Copenhagen is seeking 14 highly motivated and dynamic postdoc fellows to commence the BRIDGE – Translational Excellence Programme on 1 September 2025.

The BRIDGE – Translational Excellence Programme is financed by the Novo Nordisk Foundation with the ambition to train fellows in translational medicine, mentored by fully committed and top-level professionals in basic biomedical research, a clinical environment and the life science industry. The programme constitutes a clear career path for candidates whose ambition is to bridge the gap between research, patient care and the life science industry and for those wishing to become pioneering leaders in the field of translational medicine.

A postdoctoral position is available to support the work of the  “Maarifa” project, funded by Danida https://drp.dfcentre.com/project/transformative-knowledge-for-people-forests-and-climate-in-tanzania-mageuzi-ya-maarifa/, and the Horizon Europe funded “more4nature” project https://www.more4nature.eu/.  It is expected that the job would require an approximate 50% split of time for each of the two projects.

Both projects explore how citizens’ use of digital technology can support transformative knowledge systems, improve forest governance and empower Indigenous and local communities in collaborative approaches towards environmental compliance assurance.

The project will develop a toolbox for the analysis of genomic sequencing data taking into account variance, phylogeny, viral transmission pathways, and generation of viral vaccine candidates. Furthermore, an analysis of host-virus interactions and genome-wide RNA virus structures will be conducted.

We invite applications for a 2-year Postdoctoral position broadly in the field of Game Theory. Knowledge of Blockchains and/or Environmental Economics is prioritized. The position is part of the research project Achieving Centralized Objectives in a Decentralized Economy (CODE), funded by Independent Research Fund Denmark.

The CODE project explores how to realize societal, centralized goals in a decentralized economy. Focus is on the interplay between blockchain-based smart contracts and the theories of market design. A particular emphasis is given to decentralized environmental governance as well as to manage dynamic contractual relations. Promising prototypes highlight blockchain technology as a potential solution to these challenges, yet CODE’s core assertion is that technology alone is not enough. The technology provides a toolkit, but it does not dictate the best way to use it. It is vital to also “set the rules of the game” to ensure individual efforts align with overarching goals. This calls for an approach grounded in game theory and market design. The CODE project is a collaboration between researchers at IFRO, the Department of Economics at Copenhagen Business School, and a number of international partners.

The present research project takes point in our recent discovery of an unpresented functional group transformation. This synthetic transformation has the potential to impact medicinal chemistry research in several ways. Your tasks will be to investigate scope and limitation including studies of additional functional group transformations, chemo-selectivity, expedite access to structural diversity and mechanistic studies. Supervision of MSc students as well as other teaching obligations amounts up to approximately 10 percent of the workload.

The Department of Food and Resource Economics (IFRO) at the University of Copenhagen invites applications for 1 to 3 post doc positions with a fixed-term duration of 4 years. The positions are placed in the Section for Environment and Natural Resources, and are open from the 1st April 2025 or as soon as possible thereafter.

Integrated economic and ecological modelling is an increasingly important field of research to disentangle sustainability challenges and support policy development to achieve environmental, social and economic goals. With this opening for 1-3 positions in environmental-economic modelling related to agriculture, we seek to strengthen the Departments capacity in integrated modelling of land use policies and environmentally and economically sustainable agricultural production. Join us and contribute to strengthen and develop our team as a Postdoc in environmental-economic modelling related agri-environmental land use policy, with focus on climate, water quality, biodiversity, recreation and food/forest production. In this position, you will contribute to the further development of existing environmental-economic models and develop new modelling platforms at IFRO. The emphasis of the modelling is to identify possible pathways for effective and economically efficient regulation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and environmental impact of agriculture. We aim to develop the models further beyond state of the art, allowing for inclusion of new environmental themes at relevant spatial scale, to include linkages between agricultural sectors etc. Development of the models to allow for predictions of the effects of incentives and regulations at the relevant spatial and temporal scales is considered a particularly promising avenue for future research development

The Department of Plant & Environmental Sciences (PLEN), Section of Plant Glyco Biology, Faculty of Science, at University of Copenhagen offer 3 two-year Postdoc positions in general molecular and cell biology. The work aims to deduce various aspects of cell wall synthesis and development in plants. The research will largely revolve around all types of molecular and cell biology, including a wide range of bioimaging. It is therefore expected that the successful candidates have a strong background in either different aspects of plant growth and development or in cell biology and microscopy.

The successful candidates will work in a highly cross-disciplinary research group lead by Prof. Staffan Persson that routinely uses the full range of computational biology, microscopy, molecular & evolutionary biology and biochemistry. It is expected that the candidates actively apply for funding associated with the research outlined above, and that the candidates has documented experiences in leading students in research projects. The successful candidates will be part of an exciting team to understand mechanisms that underpin cell wall biology, plant growth and evolution. The candidate is also be expected to engage in teaching, supervision of students and lab technicians.

The successful candidate will apply cutting edge gene editing by CRISPR/Cas, super-resolution microscopy and AI-aided image analysis to study the mechanisms of genome stability maintenance by the cohesin complex. The projects will benefit from access to cutting-edge microscopy equipment, mass spectrometry, screening and computational biology infrastructure at BRIC and the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences. Collaborations are in place locally and internationally to access additional facilities and techniques including Hi-C/Micro-Capture C and polymer modelling.

The Niels Bohr Institute is strongly involved in the construction of the European Spallation Source; one of the largest science and technology infrastructure projects being built today. The ESS is at an exciting turning point. It is in transition from being a construction site, to being an operating facility. To help us realise our goal of having the most powerful neutron source in the world, we are seeking to appoint a Post doc (Instrument Scientist) at the BIFROST instrument, an extreme environment cold spectrometer. You will join the Spectroscopy Division of ESS.

Human-AI interaction in digital health presents unique challenges related to the responsible design, development, and deployment of systems based on machine learning and generative AI. This 3-year postdoctoral position is open to applicants holding a PhD in human-computer interaction, computer science, information technology, or a related field. The ideal candidate will be interested in advancing research and teaching in digital health, with a particular focus on human-computer interaction and patient- and clinician-facing AI.

The position is associated with two projects, which the candiate is expected to lead: 1) Conduciting a near-live evaluation of a deep learning model designed for radiologists to detect findings in chest X-rays, and 2) Assessing a real-time, ML-based colonoscopy decision-support system currently undergoing pilot implementation.

We are looking for a highly motivated and dynamic postdoc for a 2-year position, who is to commence on 1 May 2025 or after agreement.

The successful candidate will work on a project investigating the mucin-binding properties of intestinal pathogenic bacteria in pigs, with a focus on bacterial interactions with O-glycans.

The project aims to advance our knowledge for combating viral pathogens that have a high potential for causing the next pandemic. The ambition of the SHIELD consortium is to bring a paradigm shift in therapeutic strategies for targeting devastating virus families such as Arenaviridae (Lassa virus), Paramyxoviridae (Nipah virus, Hendra virus) and Flaviviridae (West Nile virus, Zika virus, Dengue virus, and Yellow Fever virus) that are responsible for millions of infections globally. Our current ability to predict, monitor and combat a potential pandemic outbreak of these viruses is very limited and our understanding of host factors required for efficient viral transmission and replication is incomplete. You will be part of a team of scientists from eight European countries studying different virus families and working on various aspects of tacling viral infections. The sub-program that you will be heading has the goal of characterizing the glycan structures and glycan attachment sites on different viral envelope proteins by mass spectrometry-based workflows, as well as creating glycoengineered cell lines for functional studies and production of immunogens and viruses with defined homogeneous glycosylation. In collaboration with the consortium partners the glycoengineered production platform will be used to investigate the importance of different host and viral glycan structures for the viral infectious cycle, as well as to define the role of glycosylation in shaping immune responses. You will also work on setting up viral replication assays for Zika virus in an established organotypic human 3D skin model built with glycoengineered cells and investigating the host responses. The research will advance our understanding of the importance of glycans for viral infections and pave new avenues for development of effective treatments and vaccines.

The project aims to understand how time-of-day affects the impact of energetic stressors on systemic metabolism, particularly in the setting of type 2 diabetes. This research will involve the development and use of suitable animal models to conduct various in-vivo techniques, such as metabolic assessments and phenotyping, integrated with multi-omics analysis. This approach will provide a deeper understanding of the relationship between time-of-day energetic stressors and insulin sensitivity.

You will be investigating sleep and CSF dynamics in various mouse models of chronic pain. As a postdoc in the Neergaard lab, you will be working with in vivo fluorescent imaging and modulation, attempting to decipher the brain mechanisms involved in pain-associated sleep disturbances and their effects on glymphatic system function. For this project, you will work with several brain imaging techniques as well as optogenetic modulation to manipulate both pain circuitry and sleep. You will also perform behavioral assessments to determine cognitive effects. Your tasks will include the design and implementation of experimental workflows, which allow the visualization and manipulation of neuronal circuits during pain and sleep. Also, you are expected to train and mentor students at master level.

We are seeking a highly motivated, creative, and collaborative colleague who is passionate and dedicated to make impactful contributions to understand how herpes viruses sustain and propagate their genetic information in the human population. Herpes viruses are one of the most widespread infections worldwide and almost everyone carries at least one type of herpes virus. However, it remains poorly understand how this highly successful virus propagates its genetic information.

Predictions of the impacts of future micro- and nanoplastics are hampered by knowledge of the past. This groundbreaking project combines state-of-the-art vibrational spectroscopy methods with sediments and agglutinated foraminifera collected during famous historical expeditions, such as Galathea 2, to create the first geographically broad record of early micro- and nanoplastic levels in the oceans between the 1920s and 1970s. This data is essential for understanding and predicting long-term micro and nanoplastic behaviour and impact.

We are looking for a creative researcher keen to push the boundaries of micro- and nanoplastic research. Working with historical samples presents many opportunities for exciting new data but also challenges related to collection and storage and distribution. You, therefore, should be flexible and innovative in your approach to working on and shaping this project. You will have the opportunity to lead publications with potentially very high impact results, with support from the research team. As the position is based within the Natural History Museum there are also excellent opportunities to participate in outreach activities as the museum provides an excellent public facing platform for this, and for co-supervision of student projects.

The Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Copenhagen (UCPH) invites candidates for a full time two-year postdoctoral position at the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Copenhagen. The chosen candidate will primarily work in the “Effectiveness of Psychological Interventions for Common mental disorder” (EPIC) trial together with Professor Stig Poulsen (PI). EPIC is funded by the Quality and Continuing Education Foundation for Psychological Treatment under the Danish Regions.

The Post doc will work on a project that aims to advance quantum materials growth with unprecedented precision, cleanliness, and purity. Leveraging the latest advancements in quantum optics and atomic manipulation, this project pushes crystal growth processes to new heights. Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) and ultra-high vacuum (UHV) technology will be utilized to fabricate quantum circuits under tightly controlled conditions, bringing atoms into play at the single-atom level for an unprecedented approach to crystal growth.

The position offers collaboration with all other teams at NQCP, including the Tools Development Team, Platform Integration Teams, Characterization Team, the Quantum Foundry together with international research partners. The post doc will design UHV apparatuses and control systems for sophisticated crystal growth, incorporating quantum optics and atomic physics techniques to pioneer a new field in physics. Given the sensitive and high-impact nature of this work, please contact us directly for further project details.

The postdoc position aims to use state of the art nanopore sequencing methods developed in the group, and CRISPR-based gene editing techniques (prime editors or base editors) to decipher and validate RNA degradation mechanisms, aided by computational biology and machine learning experts in the group. The work will take place in our laboratory in central Copenhagen, Denmark and will be in close collaboration with the Auxillos group at University of Copenhagen and the Heick-Jensen group at University of Aarhus: a short secondment to the Aarhus group is an option. 

Recent advances in satellite sensors enable the mapping of vegetation properties at both high spatial and temporal resolution. In particular the PlanetScope constellation can been utilized to map tree canopy cover, tree height, and tree biomass at large scale.

The postdoc’s duties will be to produce annual biomass maps from PlanetScope for Europe for 2018-2023. Furthermore, the candidate will produce a biomass map for Siberia for a single year. The candidate will also conduct a test study how PlanetScope based biomass estimates can be used to track biomass losses via wildfires. The work will be part of the ESA projects RECCAP2 and Fire CCI. Beyond this, the candidate will work on a global tree canopy height and biomass map based on PlanetScope data.

Are you interested in learning about your inner Neanderthal and Denisova? Are you passionate about understanding human history? Then this Postdoc is for you!

We are looking for two highly motivated and dynamic postdocs for 2 positions each with duration of 2 years, to commence 1 April 2025 or as soon as possible afterwards. The positions is part of a Novo Nordisk funded project which aims to understand the impact of Neanderthals and Denisovan DNA which survives in modern human genomes and how this DNA can inform us about Neanderthal and Denisovan population history. The position is based in a research center composed of evolutionary and molecular biologists, palaeoanthropologists and archaeologists with a fascination for human evolution research.

Applicants are invited for a postdoctoral research position in modeling of gas flows near black holes in active galactic nuclei (AGN) in Prof. Marianne Vestergaard’s group at research section DARK at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen. The position is part of a larger project to model observational data with the aim to constrain the physics and dynamics of ionized gas in AGN. There will be opportunity to also pursue independent research that may or may not be aligned with the project.

The project is a collaboration between two co-PIs: Barry Brown from the Department of Computer Science (DIKU) and Brian Due from the Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics. The project will employ a total of two postdocs. One employed at NorS with competencies in interactional research, and one at the Department of Computer Science (DIKU), Faculty of Science, with technical and computer science competencies.  

The project addresses recent advances in AI and robotics, which have enabled new assistive technologies for visually impaired persons. In this project, our approach combines sensory inputs with new actions and abilities rather than ‘simulating sight’ with technology. For instance, a robot guide dog can act as a hybrid sense, with the visually impaired person sensing the environment through the robot’s movements, but they can also move with the dog’s guidance. Technically, this combines computer vision, haptics, new interfaces, and robotics to explore new ways of sensing and acting. In the project, we will study the current uses of sensing technologies, build new prototypes, and explore their usage.

The position is available to join the “Silva Nova project – Restoring soil biology and soil functions to gain multiple benefits in new forests”, funded by the Novo Nordisk Challenge Program https://ign.ku.dk/english/silvanova/.

Planting new forests is proposed as an effective solution to mitigate the climate and biodiversity crises. However, the agricultural legacy can constrain the development of forest-adapted species and delay environmental benefits from afforestation. Silva Nova aims to provide new perspectives on the restoration of post-agricultural forest soils to accelerate the development of new forests into a more natural state.