15 Postdoctoral Fellowship at Linkoping University, Sweden

Employment as a postdoctoral researcher in economics is available at the Division of Economics in the Department of Management and Engineering. This position is funded by the Catharina Högbom and Michael Cocozza Foundation for Research and Cultural Purposes in Linköping Municipality. While the research direction for the position is open and encompasses all areas in economics, including financial economics, it should be related to at least one goal in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The specific focus will be determined through consultation between the hired candidate and the division. Your tasks will include:

As postdoc, you will principally carry out research. A certain amount of teaching may be part of your duties, up to a maximum of 20% of working hours.

AIR² is a five-year multidisciplinary national project financed by the Wallenberg AI, Autonomous systems, and Software (WASP) whereby the postdoc will  have the opportunity of collaboration with top researchers within cybersecurity, networking, AI planning, and cloud computing, within the renowned AI group at our department as well as two other universities in Sweden (KTH and Umeå University). The project will be coordinated by Professor Simin Nadjm-Tehrani at the Real-time systems Laboratory at Linköping University, and aims to understand the cybersecurity challenges in software-intensive and high-performance communication networks with an emphasis on AI-powered methods for:

• prevention of cyberthreats by anticipating and mitigating them,
• accurate detection of ongoing attacks with well-understood AI methods used for system and network monitoring,
• (partially) autonomous and explainable reaction to attacks in presence of resource trade-offs and complex potential changes over time (concept drift).

The research focuses on 6G wireless technology, including dual-frequency distributed MIMO, distributed sensing and localization, hardware-efficient signal processing, synchronization and calibration, robustness to jamming and spoofing attacks, and communication-efficient distributed machine learning.

As postdoc, you will principally carry out research. A certain amount of teaching may be part of your duties, up to a maximum of 20% of working hours.

The Soft Electronics group is an international team led by Senior Associate Prof. Klas Tybrandt and is part of the Laboratory of Organic Electronics (LOE). We develop composite materials, design concepts and devices for soft and deformable electronic systems. Areas of special interest are bioelectronics and neural interfaces, stretchable (semi)conductors, energy harvesting/storage, and actuators. Many of our projects are based on national and international collaborations including a variety of competences. Prof. Tybrandt is the recipient of the ERC CoG 2022 and Wallenberg Academy Fellow 2021. Read more at: https://liu.se/en/research/soft-electronics

The Soft Electronics group is an international team led by Senior Associate Prof. Klas Tybrandt and is part of the Laboratory of Organic Electronics (LOE). We develop composite materials, design concepts and devices for soft and deformable electronic systems. Areas of special interest are bioelectronics and neural interfaces, stretchable (semi)conductors, energy harvesting/storage, and actuators. Many of our projects are based on national and international collaborations including a variety of competences. Prof. Tybrandt is the recipient of the ERC CoG 2022 and Wallenberg Academy Fellow 2021. Read more at: https://liu.se/en/research/soft-electronics

This is an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated researcher to work on novel “iontronic” drug delivery systems to develop the next generation of cancer therapies. The position is within the Organic Bioelectronics group at Linköping University’s Laboratory of Organic Electronics (LOE, www.liu.se/loe) as part of the EU Pathfinder project “bioSWITCH” (bioswitch-project.eu). bioSWITCH aims “to deliver the right dose at the right place at the right time, unlocking the 5th dimension in medicine”. Activities are thus at the interface of bioelectronic devices, bioorthogonal click-chemistry, and biological models.

This position is part of the “Operationalizing Ethics for AI: Implementation, translation and accountability challenges” project ( https://liu.se/en/research/operationlising-ethics-for-ai ) which is funded by the research program The Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program – Humanities and Society (WASP-HS: https://wasp-hs.org/ ).

“Operationalizing Ethics for AI” is an interdisciplinary project bringing together critical feminist and computer science perspectives. This postdoc project will engage an intersectional perspective on synthetic data for algorithm development with a theoretical base in feminist technoscience studies, critical studies of AI, HCI, design, and data science. It will critically interrogate synthetic data as an object (to be, for example, regulated and discussed by industry and policy) and as a process (of creating a representation of the world used for a range of technical goals). The work will be conducted in close collaboration with The Bodies Hub at Tema Genus.

The Soft Electronics group is an international team led by Senior Associate Prof. Klas Tybrandt and is part of the Laboratory of Organic Electronics (LOE). We develop composite materials, design concepts and devices for soft and deformable electronic systems. Areas of special interest are bioelectronics and neural interfaces, stretchable (semi)conductors, energy harvesting/storage, and actuators. Many of our projects are based on national and international collaborations including a variety of competences. Prof. Tybrandt is the recipient of the ERC CoG 2022 and Wallenberg Academy Fellow 2021. The postdoc position is in in collaboration with Prof. Simon Farnebo at the Linköping University Hospital. Read more at: https://liu.se/en/research/soft-electronics

The project’s main goal is to develop organic bioelectronic technologies for monitoring and influencing plant physiology to enable new discoveries in plant science. The Postdoc will fabricate devices using standard microfabrication techniques and additive manufacturing and will integrate the devices into plant model systems and perform studies related to plant responses on environmental stress. The Postdoc will be responsible for growing and taking care of plants in our controlled growth facilities.  The research has interdisciplinary character including material-device characterization and plants integration. The postdoc will work closely with collaborators specialized in plant biology.

The postdoc position is part of a project in which topological methods are used to analyze and visualize ensemble data from scalar fields, such as e.g. electron density fields, from material design simulations. Most important to these efforts is the development of practical concepts and algorithms targeting specific physical and chemical applications. A central task of the postdoc will be to close the gap between basic research in visualization and topological data analysis and its use in the desired applications in material design. The candidate should have experience in both visualization and topological data analysis.

The position is for a research project in the Swedish e-science Research Centre (SeRC) through the Method development for Materials Design project MD2 and will be conducted in close collaboration with experiments and industrial R&D staff from the Funmat-II competence center, https://liu.se/en/research/funmat-ii. The focus is on computational materials design of novel hard coating alloys operating at extreme conditions of high temperature and large stresses. Work tasks include the development of theoretical methods for the computational prediction of materials properties, execution of high-throughout calculations on supercomputers, development of software workflows for automated computation, analysis, and data curation in large scale databases, and the use of informatics and machine learning/AI-based methods on materials data.

The postdoctoral position is in Physiotherapy, Sports Medicine, and specifically in the project “BAck iN the Game (BANG): A smartphone application that facilitates the return to sports after anterior cruciate ligament injury”. The BANG-study aims to test whether an Internet-delivered cognitive-behavioural therapy intervention that address confidence for returning to sport, is effective for improving the number of people who return to their preinjury sport and level following ACL reconstruction.

Organic luminescent radicals (OLRs) are quite rare emitters demonstrating doublet-doublet fluorescence and having a number of advantages towards practical applications in organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs), ratiometric fluorescence sensors and anti-counterfeiting labelling. The doublet-doublet fluorescence by OLRs is a spin-allowed process similar to the common singlet-singlet fluorescence. However, in contrast to closed-shell molecules for which “bright” excited singlet states are higher in energy than “dark” triplet states, the doublet excited states of OLRs are always lower in energy than the quartet states. That is why the theoretical limit for internal quantum efficiency of OLR-based OLEDs is expected to be 100%. This research project focuses on rational design and synthesis of polyaromatic macroheterocycles called hetero[8]circulenes as precursors for novel class of OLRs. Among expected advantages of hetero[8]circulene-based OLRs there are colour tunability (incl. blue emission), high chemicals, thermal and electrical stability, sustainability of reagents and low cost price.