04 Postdoctoral Fellowship at University of Oulu, Finland

We are now looking for a Postdoctoral researcher who will focus on Arctic Atmosphere-Cryosphere-Hydrosphere Interactions (ACHI) as part of the Digital Water Flagship program headquartered at the University of Oulu.

This postdoctoral researcher will join an interdisciplinary research team carrying out ACHI research in Finland, Scandinavia, Greenland and across the Arctic. Our Arctic Basin-wide program uses a network of year-round international research stations and data collection capabilities, and icebreaker-based measurements during expeditions in the eastern, central and western Arctic. Our studies are complemented by an entire cast of ancillary measurements from other agencies such as the Finnish Meteorological Institute, ship-based ocean and atmospheric properties, remote sensing via NASA and ESA as well as stream, river and lake properties in small and large watersheds across the north.

We are now looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join us in the Mathematical Sciences Research unit at the Faculty of Science. The Mathematics Research Group in Oulu carries out active research in the themes of fractal geometry, dynamical systems, geometric measure theory, geometric analysis, and harmonic analysis. It continues the strong tradition of Finnish mathematical analysis. The group is well recognized internationally.

We are now looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join the interdisciplinary research project “Insects of the North”.

The Postdoctoral Researcher will be based in the Faculty of Humanities, Unit of History, Culture and Communications, and will be part of a new international consortium research project, “Insects of the North”, funded by the EU program Interreg Aurora. Insects of the North is a cross-border collaboration between northern Finland, Sweden, and Norway that aims to better understand human relations to blood-sucking insects and to develop methods adapted to northern conditions for monitoring and predicting populations of insects. The three year project seeks to fill critical knowledge gaps about insect biodiversity and ecosystem dynamics in the northernmost parts of Europe. By combining scientific research with traditional ecological knowledge, the project will inform conservation strategies and enhance public understanding of the ecological significance of insects in Arctic and sub-Arctic regions.

The University of Oulu’s component of this project involves important ethnographic research (qualitative data collection and analysis), and seeks to involve environmental social science and environmental humanities perspectives. The qualitative research is led by Prof Vesa-Pekka Herva and Dr Roger Norum, University of Oulu. In principle we are looking to hire a researcher for 50% part-time over 24 months. However, alternative arrangements, such as a 100% full-time position for a total of 12 months, or some other permutation of percentage and duration, may also be possible. The project funding is fixed, however, and project work cannot be extended beyond December 2027.

This project benefits from a close affiliation to two large PROFI research programmes, Biodiverse Anthropocenes, focused on biodiversity loss, and SAFIRE, focused on ecosystem restoration. These innovative, transdisciplinary initiatives coalesce researchers from across the social and natural sciences to collaboratively investigate environmental relations and action. The postdoctoral researcher will be encouraged to become a core member of both and take part in the programmes’ active calendar of interdisciplinary activities and events.

Located on the coast of the Gulf of Bothnia in Northern Finland with 13,900 students and 3,800 employees, the University of Oulu is one of the Nordic countries’ largest universities and a global leader in studies of Arctic environments and peoples. The research unit of History, Culture and Communications, in which the position will be based, combines cutting-edge expertise of archaeology, cultural anthropology, information studies, history, and the history of science and ideas.

The project “Impact of climate change on respiratory health over four decades” includes one position for a research assistant with a degree of Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Health Sciences, Bachelor of Health Care, Bachelor of Science (Biology, Geography), or in a relevant field.

The activities to be carried out in this project are mainly related to the follow-up of three Finnish cohorts. The tasks will be carried out together with the research team: (1) design and development a questionnaire (online and on paper) based on the previous cohorts’ surveys; (2) write and prepare the documents (i.e., information about the project and follow-up, informed consent, and questionnaires); (3) being in contact with the study participants; (4) and collaborate in the statistical analysis and writing of scientific manuscripts resulting from the project.

The workplace is located at the Center for Environmental and Respiratory Health Research (CERH), Research Unit of Population Health (PopH) at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland, and carried out under the supervision of the project’s principal investigator Inês Paciência.