11 Postdoctoral Fellowship at University of Southern Denmark, Denmark

We search at the Mads Clausen Institute (MCI) of the University of Southern Denmark in Sønderborg, a highly motivated individual to support our team in materials characterization and related technology transfer. The position will commence on July 1, 2024, or as soon as possible thereafter and the application deadline is May 31, 2024. This is a full-time position for one year with the possibility for extension to two years if financing permits.

MCI is the leading institution in the new Danish national infrastructure cluster NANOCHEM (www.nanochem.dk), which specializes in micro- and nanoscale structural analysis and chemical mapping of materials. This infrastructure provides unique methods that enable fundamental new understandings of such diverse processes as failure of electronic components or the mechanism of transfer of chemical compounds through biological barriers. Such knowledge will enable us to design both the electronic products and the drugs of the future – to name two relevant areas. NANOCHEM is embedded in an environment that spans basic research to early innovation and is open to researchers and industrial stakeholders through outstanding service and consultancy.  

The successful candidate will work closely with the MCI researchers and external stakeholders to establish and strengthen new networks related to materials characterization. The candidate will also contribute to the identification of new technologies and innovations to unleash the full potential of the newly established NANOCHEM infrastructure. 

The Danish Centre for Welfare Studies (DaWS), University of Southern Denmark, Odense, seeks to appoint a Postdoctoral Fellow (100%) as part of the Horizon Europe project PROTEMO – a 3-year (2024-2026) interdisciplinary research project that investigates the emotional roots of protective policies and their emotional consequences for individuals, groups of citizens and non-citizens as well as for democracy, political participation, and mobilization. See more about the project here. Local PI and work package leader is Peter Starke (Professor mso at the Department of Political Science and Public Management, University of Southern Denmark). The starting date for the position is 1 August 2024. The position is available for a fixed term of 12 months and comes with a competitive, full-time salary.

Using appropriate qualitative methods (e.g. elite interviews and document analysis), the successful applicant will study the role of emotions in policies aimed at disadvantaged housing areas in Denmark (“udsatte boligområder”). Together with the PI, the postdoctoral fellow will engage in innovative research focusing especially 1) on how to conceptualize and operationalize empathy as a concept to be used in policy studies, and 2) on empirical research on the role of empathy in policymaking in the areas of, inter alia, social welfare and criminal justice. 

Successful candidate(s) must be able and willing to support DaWS in realizing its overarching strategic research objectives. Read the entire strategy here.

SDU UAS Center, part of Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute, invites applications for a postdoc position within computer vision for Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS, Drones). The position is a 3-year employment based in Odense and is available from June 2024 or as soon as possible.

The SDU FOODLAB at SDU Biotechnology, Department of Green Technology at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU) invites applicants for a 24-month postdoctoral research fellowship in advanced microscopy of foods with an expected starting date as soon as possible. 

The position is part of an interdisciplinary project aiming to combine food (micro)structure with deep-learning image analysis and is a collaborative effort between SDU FOODLAB and researchers from the Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen (UCPH). The project will investigate microstructures in food matrices using different advanced optical microscopy techniques to image protein and fat microstructures and their changes over time upon different processing conditions such as enzymatic, physicochemical, or heat. The project aims to adapt advanced optical microscopy for studying food to understand the microstructural origin of texture, and to develop better quantitative tools for describing macromolecular network assemblies in food systems. The postdoctoral researcher employed in this position will be working in close collaboration with the project partners at UCPH to exchange microscopy images (SDU) and image analysis tools (UCPH)

Applications are invited for a 3-year Postdoctoral fellowship to be based at the Department of Political Science and Public Management at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense. 

The position will be part of a newly funded research project entitled “Let the people rule, but let them talk first. How deliberative referendums can benefit representative government (DelibRef)”, led by Associate professor Davide Morisi and funded by the Carlsberg Foundation.

The planned starting date for the position is 1 September 2024. The position is available for a fixed term of 36 months and comes with a competitive, full-time salary.

The Mads Clausen Institute, Center for Advanced Photovoltaics and Thin-Film Energy Devices (SDU CAPE) invites applications for one or more fully-funded Postdoc position(s) in “Advanced thin films for high performance and scalable photovoltaics”. The starting date is May 15^th, 2024, or as soon as possible thereafter, for a 1-year period with the possibility of extension.

 Danish Molecular Biomedical Imaging Center (DaMBIC), Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Southern Denmark, Odense

The Danish Centre for Health Economics (DaCHE) and the Danish Institute for Advanced Study (DIAS), University of Southern Denmark, seek to appoint a postdoc (100% time) as part of the Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA) funded Cities of Youth project. The PI is Associate Professor Angela Chang. The starting date for the position is 1 January 2025 or earlier. The position is available for a fixed term of 24 months and comes with a competitive, full-time salary. Extension can be explored based on future funding opportunities. 

Uganda is increasingly experiencing large effects of climate change, which are contributing to internal climate migration. With more than 70% of its population engaging in crop agriculture or pastoralism, climate-related push and pull factors have encouraged rural-to-urban migration, especially among young people who are also seeking livelihood opportunities in urban centres. University of Southern Denmark (SDU), in collaboration with Makerere University and Tufts University, have been awarded a grant from DANIDA to study youth climate migration and their impacts in secondary cities in Uganda. The project, Cities of Youth: The gendered impact of climate migration on health and well-being of youth migration, and system capacity in secondary cities in Uganda, will start in April 2024 and be completed by late 2028. 

As part of Cities of Youth, we are seeking an experienced postdoc for two years to be based in Denmark. The postdoc will lead one of the key research areas of the project while providing both technical and administrative support for the larger team. Specifically, the project aims to empirically assess the relationships between different dimensions of climate variability and health and demographic outcomes in Uganda. On the health and demographic side, we will obtain secondary data from national surveys, such as Demographic and Health Survey, Uganda National Panel Survey, Living Standards Measurement Survey, and the United Nations’ World Population Prospects on levels and changes of mortality, morbidity, fertility, social and educational outcomes, and other variables of interest. We will also search for subnational and district-level data, such as local census and health information systems. In parallel, on the climate side, we will document the changes in climate indicators, such as temperature, precipitation, and extreme weather events using satellite data (ERA-5, global forest change, NASA’s Giovanni, PANGAEA, and EU’s Copernicus databases) and explore access to local weather stations era. We will link health and well-being data to the climate data and apply machine learning algorithms to leverage high-frequency climate, disease, and mortality time series.

The job entails leading research efforts in advancing hyperspectral camera technology to address the global challenge of plastic and textiles identification.
Leveraging cutting-edge short-wave infrared (SWIR) sensor array technology, the focus lies on optimizing optical systems, characterizing experimental setups, and implementing sensor arrays spanning the 400 nm to 1700 nm spectral range. Key responsibilities include developing efficient illumination methods to enhance signal-to-noise ratio and spectral sensitivity, as well as conducting hyperspectral image analysis techniques like principal component analysis (PCA).
This position, supported by Innovation Fund Denmark, involves collaboration with the University of Southern Denmark, Aarhus University, and Newtec Engineering, leading global industrial partner in hyperspectral camera technology.
Additionally, opportunities exist to disseminate research findings through presentations at conferences and workshops throughout the project duration.