13 Postdoctoral Fellowship at University of Southern Denmark, Denmark

The Center for War Studies (CWS), Department of Political Science and Public Management, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, wishes to appoint a Postdoctoral Fellow (100%) as part of the HuMach project funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark. The project is led by Professor Ingvild Bode. The starting date for the position is 1 January 2025. The position is available for a fixed term of two years and comes with a competitive, full-time salary.

The successful applicant will be examining the extent to which human-machine interaction figures as a core concern in the emerging so-called responsible AI agenda in the military domain. The ambition is for the postdoctoral researcher to do so through examining, in particular, policies and practices performed by three states: the US, the UK, and Switzerland. The postdoc will be embedded in the four-year HuMach project. HuMach examines the extent to which increasing instances of human-machine interaction may change the exercise of human agency in warfare in theoretical, empirical, and practical terms. HuMach works with collaborators at Georgetown University, Northeastern University, and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. As part of the position, the successful applicant will also complete a research stay at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).

We are seeking for an enthusiastic new colleague as a postdoc in the field of Power Electronics with strong interest in industrial applications and cooperation to join Centre for Industrial Electronics (CIE) at the SDU campus in Sønderborg. 

The aim of the position is to build strong knowledge and competencies within the field of power electronics especially in the fields of motor integrated drives, power to X, advanced power electronic simulation or control and reliability of modern power devices.

The postdoc position is part of the GrandSolutions project “LSP Ship Factory” spearheaded by the SDU Centre for Large Structure Production (LSP) and funded by Innovation Fund Denmark (IFD). The research considered within this postdoctoral position forms the core contribution from SDU Mechanical Engineering to the project and comprises a collaboration between the “Multiphysics Simulation and Optimisation (MSO)” and “Dynamics and Monitoring (DynaMo)” research groups. The goal of LSP Ship Factory is to jointly develop novel technologies for highly automated building, repair, and recycling of modular ship designs. Within this postdoctoral project, you will focus on developing efficient, accurate, and fast computational methods for evaluating the structural integrity of modules and the whole vessel, allowing for increased speed of modular vessel design. 

The Faculty of Engineering of the University of Southern Denmark (SDU) invites applications for a 2-year Research Assistant position within sustainable cooling and heating technologies. The candidate will be offered the exciting opportunity to make reversible CO₂ heat pumps “intelligent”. All the activities will be carried out within the ULTRA project in close collaboration with relevant Danish industrial partners.

IME covers innovation, research, and education spanning from fundamentals to applications of engineering science. All our courses are taught in English reflecting the fact that more than half our students and staff are internationals. The Cooling and Heating Research Group is located at SDU’s beautiful campus in Sønderborg, in the inspiring building of Alsion, which is a centre for science, culture and learning in the heart of Sønderborg and perched on the strait of water separating the island of Als from the mainland. The university has very close relations to the industry in Sønderborg, Southern Denmark and Northern Germany, among others. A significant fraction of the projects in the centre are conducted in close cooperation with the industry, which count world leading companies in crucial fields, such as e-mobility and energy efficiency.

The Software Engineering section at the Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute, University of Southern Denmark (SDU Odense Campus) invites applications for a 12-month full time postdoc position with the possibility of extension for the project Fast and Efficient Robotic Automation via Re-Use of Data (FERA). The start date is expected to be 1 July 2024 or as soon as possible thereafter and will be agreed upon with the successful candidate.

The successful candidate will be responsible for the daily operation and coordination of a regulator-mandated phase IV-study within the area of diabetes. This project has been running for several years and is nearing completion. You will be working closely with data managers as well as senior epidemiologists, international collaborators, and the marketing authorization holder. The main responsibility will be to implement the planned analysis in the Danish as well as the Norwegian and Swedish study site in collaboration with local data managers. Further, you will handle the day-to-day operations of the overall collaboration, keeping track of timelines, ensuring transparency via registration of protocols etc. and preparing the first sections of the final study report as well as related scientific publications.

The postdoc will work on the research and dissemination project ‘Moving Denmark’ (‘Danmark i Bevægelse’), in which data is collected about physical activity and movement habits of children, adolescents and adults in Denmark. Also, the project gathers systematic data about municipal movement policies and initiatives aiming at enhancing physical activity participation. Accumulated and analyzed information is disseminated to municipalities and organizations that work to promote physical activity participation.

In the project the postdoc will be one of three daily project managers that work closely together with the project owner to realize the goals of the research project. The postdoc will mainly be responsible for the survey studies that we will conduct in the fall of 2025 among large samples of Danish children, adolescents, and adults. The postdoc will be involved in both survey preparations, data collection and analysis as well as in dissemination – scientific as well as practice-oriented (e.g. in reports, articles and in the form of presentations in various contexts). Practice-oriented dissemination will predominantly be in Danish.

Applications are invited for the position of postdoc in Computational Biology in the laboratory of DNRF Chair and Novo Nordisk Faculty Professor Vijay Tiwari (https://www.tiwarilab.org/). Tiwari lab employ 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.

Applications are invited for a position of postdoctoral research fellow in Gene Regulation in the laboratory of DNRF Chair and Novo Nordisk Faculty Professor Vijay Tiwari (https://www.tiwarilab.org/). The postdoc  will lead research on gene regulatory mechanisms underlying cell-fate decisions during development and disease and will support Professor Tiwari in smooth running of the laboratory at various levels. The group employs cutting-edge molecular biology, epigenetics and genomics tools in combination with computational biology approaches to generate comprehensive models of gene regulation during embryonic development and its misregulation in disease including neurodevelopmental disorders and cancer.

Would you like to receive hands-on training and apply multimodal -OMICS like m(i)RNA Sequencing, utilize proprietary AAV vectors for perturbing miRNA function in selected cell types in obese mice, use computational approaches to predict microRNA-mRNA gene networks in these diseased cell types, and have access to novel transgenic mice for studying cellular crosstalk by secreted microRNAs? 

A position as postdoctoral fellow is available at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, with a flexible starting date (1st of July 2024 being the earliest time point possible). The position is initially funded for three years by the Novo Nordisk Foundation (NNF), with the possibility of extension. Beyond this project, you will get the chance to interact with the NNF-funded Center for Adipocyte Signaling (www.sdu.dk/en/adiposign) which has undertaking a holistic approach to understand adipocyte dysfunction using multimodal gene profiling in obese patients and rodent models. 

SDU UAS Center, part of the Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute, University of Southern Denmark (SDU), invites applications for an open position as research assistant to support our portfolio of ongoing and future research projects within Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS, Drones) and autonomous robotic systems in general. The position is a 2-year employment with the possibility of extension. The employment will take place from 1^st of August 2024 or as soon as possible thereafter.