13 Postdoctoral Fellowship at Lund University, Scania, Sweden

Clay is an environmentally friendly, sustainable, and very old material. The purpose of this project is to study clay in solution and how its state diagram is affected by additions of different kinds of salts and the variation of the physicochemical properties of the solution. The focus will be on swelling, adsorption, desorption, and inter- and intramolecular interactions. We anticipate that our results will be of great interest to society, agriculture, and industry. To this end, we will combine experiments such as SAXS, NMR and osmotic stress with atomistic and coarse-grained molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo simulations. At least 50% of the time is estimated to be spent on computer simulations. The project is suitable for a postdoc with experience of independent work and project management, who can work with several tasks in parallel. If it is promising and funding is available, the project can be extended to three years.

Neurolinguistics at the Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University, is a highly productive research environment where researchers, doctoral students, and assistants regularly meet for constructive discussion about their research. The team also has a central role in the national network Neurolinguistics in Sweden and the Lund University group for cognitive neuroscience. It has close collaborations with Lund University Bioimaging Centre (LBIC). The Centre for Languages and Literature offers a dynamic environment where researchers from different language-related subjects interact. The main task of the researcher will be to use magnetic resonance imaging to investigate how the brain combines prosodic and segmental phonemes. The position is placed at the Centre for Languages and Literature, the Joint Faculty of Humanities and Theology, at Lund University, but the work also implies collaboration with LBIC, which hosts the magnetic resonance imaging scanners.

The researcher will work in collaboration with Dr. Oscar Agertz and the galaxy formation group in Lund. Applicants are encouraged to define their own research, but will also get the opportunity to participate in projects on a wide range of topics, including cosmological zoom simulations of galaxy formation, the origin of the Milky Way, dwarf galaxy formation, galactic scale models of the turbulent interstellar medium, and simulations of star formation using radiation-hydrodynamical methods. The group has allocations on domestic supercomputer facilities, which the researcher will get access to. Teaching may also be included. 

At the research group for Neural plasticity and repair, research is conducted in neuroscience. The research has been at the forefront of the field for years. The group is led by Professor Jia-Yi Li and consists of both research and technical staff. The business is located at the Biomedical Center in Lund. Within the research group, we care for a workplace that is experienced as developing and stimulating for all employees. We are hereby looking for a driven associate researcher for work within Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s. The employment is for 20%, limited in time with the desired entry date in January, 2023 or as agreed.

We are recruiting a post-doctoral fellow for 2 years to the ERC-funded project “Hybridization derived novel patterns of gene expression”. This project addresses the role of gene expression in how adaptive variation can arise from hybridization. Two specific questions that will be addressed are 1) to which extent alterations to genomic architecture, including indels and inversions contributes to altered gene expression in a hybrid taxon, the Italian sparrow Passer italiae in comparison to its parental species. 2) the role of altered methylation in altered patterns of gene expression in the hybrid Italian sparrow. To understand which patterns are general, four independent lineages of hybrid Italian sparrows on different Mediterranean islands will be used as a study system. Extraction of long read DNA and de novo assembly of top quality reference genomes from long read data for all these hybrid lineages and annotation will be crucial for achiving these research goals. The post doctoral fellow will perform gene expression analyses, help inform study design and contribute to field work, synthesize and write up the work for publication and work with the HybridExpress team consisting of a lab manager, a PhD-student and a researcher. There will be opportunities for mentorship. The project is led by Associate Senior Lecturer Anna Runemark, and set within the SPeciation, Adaptation and Co-Evolution lab in the biodiversity unit. 

A postdoctoral position is a position that shall provide opportunities for research and teaching qualifications. The position shall first and foremost provide scope for developing research qualifications.The Postdoctoral fellow is expected to create data linkage strategies and link the various sources in the Cape of Good Hope Panel Project. S/he is also expected to produce research papers broadly related to themes such as economic development, living standards, and inequality.

The Mathematics Center has approxomately 160 employees, of which around 25 are in the Department of Mathematical Statistics (joint for the Faculty of Science and Technology) where the position is located. Other departments are Mathematics N and Mathematics LTH with numerical analysis. At the Mathematics Center, research is conducted in probability theory, statistical theory, statistical signal processing, financial mathematics, computational statistics, environmental statistics, computational mathematics and numerical analysis, algebra, analysis, image analysis and computer vision, as well as mathematics didactics.

The thoracic surgery-bioinformatics research group conducts several large national and international projects, focusing on increasing our understanding of the development of chronic rejection after heart transplantation and the immunological and non-immunological factors that play a decisive role. The aim is to reduce the risk of rejection through individually tailored treatment. The group uses artificial intelligence (AI) for analysis and modeling. The unit is led by Senior Lecturer Johan Nilsson and consists of assistant researchers and several Ph.D. students. The group is located at BMC in Lund but belongs to the Department of Translational Medicine, Malmö. We are now looking for a skilled, ambitious, and motivated bioinformatitican to be employed as a postdoc. 

This post-doctoral position is open in conjunction to two European Projects at the Transport and Roads Division connected to traffic safety. Transport and Roads has a dynamic and stimulating environment with a large international exposure. You will work in a research group made up by five Senior researchers and four among PhD students and technical staff. However, the group is still expanding with new opportunity for research and international collaborations. We work in the V building on LTH campus, in newly refurbished offices.

We are seeking to recruit a highly motivated post-doctoral fellow for an interdisciplinary project in microbial ecology at the Department of Biology, Lund University.  The project focuses on performing experiments in microfluidic models for the physical and chemical heterogeneity simulating soil microhabitats. The project will be conducted in close collaboration with microfluidic engineers, and microspectroscopists. You will be part of an active research group at the Department of Biology https://www.biology.lu.se/research/research-groups/microbial-ecology and collaborate with engineers at the Department of Biomedical Engineering http://bme.lth.se/research-pages/nanobiotechnology-and-lab-on-a-chip/. The cross-disciplinary environment will provide the candidate with ample possibilities to learn new skills and methods ranging from biology to engineering.

The fellow will be expected to lead/contribute to research on the topic of tropical forest dynamics, with a focus on forest functional composition, response to drought and tree mortality. The core component of the work is anticipated to be developing and applying a new version of the LPJ-GUESS dynamic global vegetation model which includes a state-of-the-art treatment of plant hydraulics. This will require programming of the LPJ-GUESS model, as well as conducting simulations and analysing both model and field data. The fellow will also contribute more broadly to on-going model development work, particularly related to the simulation of tree mortality and forest dynamics. Tasks will include the development of experimental protocols, carrying out the related simulations and analysis, and leading writing of peer-reviewed papers based on the results. Exact topics and work plans will be agreed in discussion with their supervisor, but the staff member is expected to contribute substantially to the intellectual development of the work. The staff member will also be expected to contribute to or lead applications for external funding as necessary. Only a minor component of teaching is envisaged. Participation in, and/or organisation of, national and international meetings and workshops related to the above is expected, as is carrying out related administration and communication activities.