08 Postdoctoral Fellowship at University of Southern Denmark, Denmark

The Population Biology Group at the Department of Biology, University of Southern Denmark (SDU), invites applications for a 2-year position as a Postdoc in Woodland Phenology and Climate Change. This position is funded by a DFF Research Project grant led by Associate Professors Owen Jones and Johan Dahlgren.

The successful candidate will join an exciting research project to understand the ecological and genetic drivers of individual variation in woodland phenology across temperate and boreal habitats. This multidisciplinary project combines fieldwork, remote sensing (camera and drone-based imagery), and genetic analysis, aiming to elucidate the adaptive potential of species in the face of climate change.

Job Description (position 1: Design and development of power electronic converter)

• You will conduct research in the field of power electronics with focus on one of the fields mentioned above.
• You will do research on various power converter topologies suitable for electrolyzer applications using wide bandgap (SiC/GaN) devices.
• You will use advanced tools for power electronic system optimization.
• You will do research and development on hardware design striving for the highest power density by considering all related subsystems (gate driver, cooling, power semiconductors capacitors, load).
• You will apply simulation and design tools, build demonstrators, and verify your simulation by experimental measurements.
• You will do research on power electronic setups for optimizing the production of fuels from electrical sources.
• You will participate in planning, execution, and documentation of projects with industrial partner.
• You will be involved in the daily supervision of PhD, master’s and bachelor’s students that perform research on similar topic.
• You will publish and present your work both at international conferences and in scientific journals with high impact.
• You will assist in teaching activities.

Job Description (position 2: Control of BLDC/PMSM machines)

• You will conduct research in the field of power electronics with focus on one of the fields mentioned above.
• You will do research on various control of power converter for multiphase PMSM motor and/or BLDC motor 
• You will use advanced tools for controller design with high sampling frequency.
• You will do research and development on control algorithms (vector control, scalar control, six-step control, energy-based control, model predictive control).
• You will apply simulation and design tools, build demonstrators, and verify your simulation by experimental measurements.
• You will do research on power electronic setups for electric drives.
• You will participate in planning, execution, and documentation of projects with industrial partner.
• You will be involved in the daily supervision of PhD, master’s and bachelor’s students that perform research on similar topic.
• You will publish and present your work both at international conferences and in scientific journals with high impact.
• You will assist in teaching activities.

Job Description (position 3: Control of DC-DC converter)

• You will conduct research in the field of power electronics with focus on one of the fields mentioned above.
• You will do research on various control of DC-DC power converter 
• You will use advanced tools for controller design with high sampling frequency.
• You will do research and development on control algorithms (current mode control, voltage mode control, advanced model predictive control).
• You will apply simulation and design tools, build demonstrators, and verify your simulation by experimental measurements.
• You will do research on power electronic setups for testing converters.
• You will participate in planning, execution, and documentation of projects with industrial partner.
• You will be involved in the daily supervision of PhD, master’s and bachelor’s students that perform research on similar topic.
• You will publish and present your work both at international conferences and in scientific journals with high impact.
• You will assist in teaching activities.

The Department of Design, Media and Educational Studies (Philosophy) invites applications for a 1-year postdoc position. The postdoc will contribute to the subproject “Going all in”, a study of the experiences and attitudes of dedicated users of VRChat, an online virtual world platform allowing users to interact with others with user-created 3D avatars and worlds. 

The position is part of the collaborative research project Wellbeing and Virtual Worlds, funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark and is available from September 1., 2025, or as soon as possible thereafter. The project aims at examining the fundamental premises behind assessments of the quality of life in virtual worlds and contributing to a more nuanced understanding of life in virtual spaces. It comprises value theory and empirical studies of user experiences and the interplay between online and offline activities, combining philosophy, media studies (including game studies) and psychology. It is a collaborative project between SDU and the University of Aarhus (Department of Public Health).

In the subproject, dedicated platform users should be recruited and studied in depth, focusing on both their experiences and evaluations and their actual activities in- and outside VRChat. We welcome ideas and suggestions for sampling and recruitment and specific methodological and theoretical approaches. Apart from experience with qualitative research (preferably with a phenomenological orientation), qualifications in digital media research and methodology and wellbeing studies are particularly relevant. Ideas for specific subtopics or focuses can be submitted with the application, and the postdoc will have the opportunity to pursue their own special interests within the framework of the project. Applicants should, however, also be willing to develop their ideas in collaboration with the other project members and contribute to joint work within the project, including joint publications.

The position seeks an expert researcher to develop next-generation robotic systems capable of operating on high-voltage lines. Responsibilities include designing and testing EMI shielding for active powerline maintenance applications. The robotic system and its protection will be validated under different voltage levels (up to 400kV) and weather conditions. 

Metamaterials have been a promising solution to the light-weight and multifunctional designs of many engineering components in fields of airflights, vehicles and green energy, to reduce the energy consumption, greenhouse gas emission and harvest energy for the mission of green transition. This leads to the emergence of various metamaterials with high strength-to-density ratio, excellent energy absorption performance, energy harvesting and sensing functions and other multifunctionalities. However, design of metamaterials still relies on experience guided trial-and-error (or brainstorming) strategy. The main reason behind is that metamaterials are assemblies of numerous cells produced by additive manufacturing, and thus their macro-scale responses are dominated by meso-scale cells and micro-scale patterns. To overcome this challenge, the CoDeMeta project will establish an advanced computational design platform for metamaterials, whereby concurrent multiscale modelling and optimization methods will be further developed for applications to various types of multifunctional metamaterials.

You will lead a research project focused on dissecting the gene-regulatory mechanisms, whereby the oncoprotein MYC controls cancer cell biology. You will integrate loss- and gain-of-function tools (e.g., CRISPR/Cas and degron systems) with a range of advanced omics approaches (including single-cell technologies) in pre-clinical model systems such as cell lines and patient-derived tumor organoids as well as patient samples. The goal is to uncover key gene-regulatory mechanisms and transcriptional regulators supporting MYC action in breast cancer to understand how this critical oncoprotein controls cancer biology and potentially provide new therapeutic opportunities for the treatment of this disease. Expertise in functional genomics methods (e.g., single-cell and bulk RNA-seq, ATAC-seq and ChIP-seq) and omics data analysis is considered highly advantageous.

The Genome Biology Research Unit at the Department of Molecular Medicine (IMM) invites applications for a position as postdoc in Bioinformatics in the laboratory of DNRF Chair and Novo Nordisk Faculty Professor Vijay Tiwari (https://www.tiwarilab.org/).

The position is available – initially for six months – from May 1, 2025, or as soon as possible thereafter – with the possibility of extension for three years.

Tiwari lab employs cutting-edge single-cell and spatial omics technologies with bioinformatics and machine learning to decipher principles of gene regulation. In this project, the candidate will develop new computational strategies to identify human genetic variation linked to cell fate changes in neurodevelopmental disorders and cancer. The candidate can use and combine single-cell ATAC-seq, single-cell RNA-seq, spatial gene expression, and whole-genome sequencing (with long reads) data. The candidate will get the opportunity to explore new analysis methods using deep learning. Depending on the interest, it is also possible to be involved in the wet lab, to perform single-cell sequencing and other experiments.