14 Postdoctoral Fellowship at Lund University, Scania, Sweden

We study the biological processes behind Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and other neurodegenerative diseases. We work with cohorts of patients and cognitively healthy volunteers, who undergo extensive testing with brain imaging, biomarker measurements and neuropsychological testing, as well as animal and cell biology experiments. You can read more about the research here. The research group is led by Professor Oskar Hansson. The position is located at BMC in Lund.

Neurodegenerative diseases are complex and multifaceted. The overarching goal of the project is to develop advanced statistical models and deep architectures that can contribute to improved ability to diagnose, prognosticate, and stratify neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease. Specifically, the project will focus on generation and validation of synthetic multimodal datasets, which can be used to facilitate sharing of data, train predictive models, and enable new discoveries of complex relationships in high-dimensional feature spaces.

The research will be conducted under the leadership of senior lecturer Niklas Mattsson-Carlgren, Professor Oskar Hansson and associate senior lecturer Jacob Vogel.

We seek a candidate interested in developing this line of research with a deep interest and specialization in sustainability reporting and business transformation. The position is open to candidates who prefer qualitative as well as quantitative and mixed-methods research.

The postdoctoral position first and foremost provides opportunities to further develop your research skills, expand your expertise, and gain additional experience in your field of study. It also allows for educational merit through teaching, up to 20% of working hours, and higher education pedagogical training.

The postdoctoral position is a non-tenured full-time position with research obligation, based in Lund, Sweden. To fulfill the research requirements of the position, you are expected to be physically present on a regular basis and actively participate in the research activities of the department. The position is financed by Alfa Laval AB and allows for the possibility of spending part of the working time at Alfa Laval in Lund.

We study the biological processes behind Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and other neurodegenerative diseases. We work with cohorts of patients and cognitively healthy volunteers, who undergo extensive testing with brain imaging, biomarker measurements and neuropsychological testing, as well as animal and cell biology experiments. You can read more about the research here. The research group is led by Professor Oskar Hansson. The position is located at BMC in Lund.

Neurodegenerative diseases are complex and multifaceted. The overarching goal of the project is to contribute to improved ability to diagnose, prognosticate, and stratify various neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, and frontotemporal dementia. The project also aims to provide new insights into disease mechanisms and relevant molecular signaling pathways in different conditions. We plan to achieve the project’s objectives through proteomics, investigating a large number of proteins in blood and cerebrospinal fluid from patients and healthy controls.

The research will be conducted under the leadership of Professor Oskar Hansson, university lecturer Niklas Mattsson-Carlgren, and assistant university lecturer Jacob Vogel.

We care about creating a positive, respectful, and stimulating environment. We value communication and collaboration and a workplace that promotes learning and development for all employees. We are also committed to building a safe and positive environment for all employees through mutual respect and tolerance.

Lund University was founded in 1666 and is repeatedly ranked among the world’s top universities. The University has around 47 000 students and more than 8 800 staff based in Lund, Helsingborg and Malmö. We are united in our efforts to understand, explain and improve our world and the human condition.

The position is part of the 4-year research programme Mistra Biopath (https://www.mistrabiopath.se/) and in particular the work package “Mainstreaming biodiversity through governance innovations”.

Mistra Biopath is an interdisciplinary research programme that aims to identify, assess, co-develop and test existing and new approaches to integrating biodiversity considerations into financial decision-making, as well as analysing the institutional and political consequences of potential changes.

The current position is based on a partnership with the Basque Center for Climate Change (BC3) at which they are developing artificial intelligence to integrate modeling of coupled human-natural systems. BC3 is specifically developing ARIES (Artificial Intelligence for Environment and Sustainability; https://aries.integratedmodelling.org/) to better integrate ecosystem services into the UN system of national accounts.

You will work in an interdisciplinary environment that is particularly focused on applied and solution-oriented research of strategic relevance to the transition to a better integration of biodiversity into decision-making.

Soil microorganisms play a crucial role in the decomposition of organic matter, contributing to the release of CO2 into the atmosphere. The marked temporal variability of hydro-climatic conditions, where extended periods of drought are followed by rainfall events, drives pronounced fluctuations in these carbon emissions. Over the last 20 years, substantial progress has been achieved in comprehending this complex system. However, current models still utilize outdated descriptions of compounds and processes in soils and lack a mechanistic representation of microbial responses to cycles of drying and rewetting.

This project aims to unravel the impact of climate on soil organic carbon dynamics, focussing on the integration of recently uncovered insights into modelling regarding the increased frequency of droughts, more extreme drying and rewetting events, and elevated temperatures. A key task involves the integration of key microbial and carbon compartments from the models ECOSMMARTS and RothC into the hydro-biogeochemical model HYDRUS to provide a more accurate representation of microbial processes and their influence on emission/sequestration across soil vertical profiles.

We are looking for 2 researchers in history of knowledge, each 75 %. You will be part of LUCK and work within the project “The Europeanization of the Universities: Transforming Knowledge Institutions from within, c. 1985–2010” under the direction of Professor Johan Östling. Link:

The Europeanisation of the Universities: Transforming Knowledge Institutions from within, c. 1985–2010 — Lund University

The research group is dedicated to translational research on prostate cancer to improve the outcomes for our patients. The research includes identification of molecular targets for development of new therapies in chemo- and hormone resistant prostate cancer, in vitro studies and animal models, and clinical studies on imaging biomarkers for prognosis, prediction and monitoring and clinical studies on robotic surgery. The group is further focused on the development and validation of biomarkers in tissue, blood and urine including circulating tumor cells and cell-free DNA and we are looking to expand our group with additional expertise in bioinformatics and computational biology. The successful applicant will be an integral part of developing the next generation of precision medicine tools for prostate cancer. The position will be based in Lund. More information about the research group can be found here.

Incorrect use or inappropriate recycling of millions of tons of waste such as incineration residues and construction and demolition wastes threaten to create new pathways for pollutants and raise background levels. Robust risk assessment methodologies and guidance tailored to circular use are needed to prevent this. In our interdisciplinary research and development project at Lund University we aim to develop these together with partners from Linné university, Rise and stakeholders. The project covers studying chemical properties of waste, mobility of metals and PAH, as well as environmental exposure, ecotoxicity and bioavailability of these contaminants. In consultation with authorities, we adapt or revise existing risk assessment models and guidelines that the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, County Administrative Boards and relevant industries have developed for recycling of waste in construction in the past.

The postdoc project will develop nanoscale X-ray diffraction (XRD) methods to image domain dynamics in ferroelectric materials. These are characterized by the existence of domains in which there is an aligned polarization, similar to the aligned magnetic domains in ferromagnetics. Ferroelectric materials are used and developed for a wide range of applications, such as memories and computations. The ferroelectric behavior is largely governed by the dynamics of the domains, which have a size in the range of tens of nm to several micron.

  In recent years, the spatial resolution of nanoscale X-ray diffraction methods has become sufficient to image individual domains, giving a unique possibility to study their dynamics for instance during switching. The NanoMAX beamline at the MAX IV synchrotron, the world’s first fourth-generation synchrotron, offers a unique combination of high flux and spatial resolution with excellent facilities for in situ studies.

  The position is a collaboration between the NanoLund, the division of Synchrotron Radiation Research (SRR) and the NanoMAX beamline at MAX IV. The postdoc will spend 50% of the time at NanoLund & SRR performing research within the project, and 50% at NanoMAX working with beamline development and user support.

  The postdoc will collaborate with various groups synthesizing ferroelectric materials and devices, primarily within the NanoLund research center. In particular, the postdoc will develop methods and beamline instrumentation for in situ imaging of the ferroelectric domains during switching. The candidate will have significant freedom to influence the direction of the project, and is expected to take initiatives and drive the project quite independently.

A growing group of researchers at Lund University (LU) are using cryo-electron microscopy. We work closely with the national facility for cryo-EM at SciLifeLab. LU has procured a 200 kV Glacios2 cryo-TEM. A well-equipped sample preparation laboratory has been established. Data processing is done either on in-house GPU-assisted workstations or at LU´s computing cluster LUNARC. We are currently seeking a service-focused assistant researcher to support the researchers interested in cryo-EM.

The postdoctoral position is connected to the project “Faith-Based Refugee Relief in Europe: Connecting the Empirical and the Ethical (FABRIC)”, funded by a European Research Council Starting Grant. FABRIC aims to understand and utilize the moral insights and the moral ideas that faith-based refugee relief organizations develop in practice for the cross-disciplinary debate about the ethics of forced migration in Europe. Faith-based organizations (FBOs) have been at the forefront of the challenge of forced migration, preventing the collapse of the infrastructures of care, combatting racist discourse and religious discrimination. Yet there is very little knowledge about the refugee relief of these FBOs so their significance for the ethics of migration has been neither analyzed nor assessed.

FABRIC addresses this lack by conducting a comprehensive and comparative empirical exploration of FBOs, covering activities by FBOs from all three Abrahamic faiths in mono- and multi-religious settings across Europe. Countering the lack of interaction between empirical and evaluative approaches so characteristic of the study of forced migration, this exploration enquires into the conditions, constraints, and consequences of practicing justice. It offers a concrete account of faith-based refugee relief in order to formulate a concept of mobility justice that considers cross-connections between social, racial, and climate justice on regional, national, and global scales.