16 Postdoctoral Fellowship at Lund University, Scania, Sweden

The overarching goal of the project is to increase our understanding of AD and improve clinical patient management and clinical trials, by performing analyses of fluid (cerebrospinal fluid and blood) biomarkers in the continuum of Alzheimer’s disease, and their associations with neuroimaging, clinical, cognitive, and genetic data. The work relies on large cohorts managed at Lund University and BBRC. The research will be conducted under the leadership of Professor Oskar Hansson and university lecturer Niklas Mattsson-Carlgren at Lund University, and Dr Marc Suárez-Calvet at BBRC.

The world’s forests are changing rapidly around us. Rates of tree mortality are increasing in many regions, growth rates of trees are changing and the enormous sink of carbon that they provide may be under threat. Yet we currently lack consistent and reliable global-scale assessments of how the dynamics of tree growth and death are changing. In the Tree2Globe project, funded by the European Research Council, we are seeking to change this, developing new methodology to combine observational datasets, particularly from ground-based inventory plots, with dynamic global vegetation modelling.

The fellow will join this Tree2Globe team, working under the supervision of Thomas Pugh and alongside a wider group of researchers working on forest dynamics and ecosystem modelling at Lund University. They will develop new methodology utilizing the LPJ-GUESS dynamic vegetation model and applying it for assessment of dynamics and carbon cycling in forests around the world. They can expect opportunities to substantially build their professional network, interfacing with a large team of collaborators worldwide. The fellow will also become part of the BECC research platform, a collaboration between Lund University and the University of Gothenburg, which brings together over 250 researchers working on the topics related to biodiversity and ecosystem services under a changing climate.

The post-docs shall contribute to the research environment at CIRCLE. The overall aim of research at CIRCLE is to understand and explain how innovation can contribute to a good society and tackle societal challenges such as economic crises, climate change or the reorganization of the knowledge economy in a globalized world. This requires advanced insights into

• how knowledge is created and diffused in organizations, networks, regions, countries, and globally,
• how knowledge is turned into innovations,
• which societal conditions promote or hinder the creation and diffusion of innovation, and
• what are the intended and unintended societal consequences of innovation.

Research at CIRCLE has been fundamental to theorize and empirically study the knowledge economy, and in particular the processes, drivers and hinders, as well as governance of innovation. Recently, however, attention has turned to societal consequences of innovation and potential dark sides of innovation. 

Pressures on the knowledge economy have increased related to geopolitical conflicts, social and political tensions due to inequality, shocks like Covid-19 and the energy crunch, paired with the need to decarbonize the economy. This set of pressures is related to a revival of industrial policy with heavy consequences for the knowledge economy. 

The post-docs shall contribute to developing research actions to investigate, on the one hand, the consequences of such macro-changes on the knowledge economy and innovation and, on the other hand, the potential and limitations of innovation, and the governance thereof to address challenges related to the changes in the economic landscape. 

Over the coming decades changes in ecosystems due to climate change, land-use driven changes, as well as continued direct anthropogenic emissions will all play a role in the extent of global temperature rise. In 2023 the greenhouse gas (GHG) monitoring community was set a challenge through the approval by the World Meteorological Organisation’s Global Greenhouse Gas Watch (GGGW) to understand GHG fluxes at unprecedented resolution. This endeavour will require continued improvement of measurements, data processing and interpretation activities – making the most of existing infrastructure and data sources, while also trying to expand to geographical areas with currently limited coverage. We seek to support this area of work through employment of a postdoctoral scientist to bring the diverse measurement sets across different platforms in Sweden to enable the most efficient use of data across our combined monitoring infrastructure.

The research group in Magnetism and Superconductivity in the Division of Synchrotron Radiation Research is actively involved in using x-ray and neutron scattering techniques to investigate correlated electron materials, with a particular focus on magnetic materials and superconductors (https://www.sljus.lu.se/research/magnetism-and-superconductivity/).

This post-doctoral position is a collaboration between the Division of Synchrotron Radiation Research and the MAX-IV Laboratory, in particular the resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS) instrument VERITAS and the angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) instrument BLOCH, and will involve the use of one or both of these techniques to investigate correlated electron physics.

The research subject is the system reliability analysis of timber structures, addressing the complexities of multiple components, connections, and failure modes. Specifically, the role of joints in relation to the overall structural integrity and system failure probability will be investigated. Given the computational demands of system reliability analyses, it is essential to use computationally efficient methods such as meta-modeling and importance sampling. Based on the research results, recommendations for designing timber structures to enhance their reliability and safety will be developed. The research subject is related to a FORMAS project and is organized in close collaboration with the Technical University of Dresden, Germany, and the EMPA, Zurich, Switzerland.

The Research Group for Cardiovascular Research – Hypertension conducts research in Cardiology/Endocrinology and Diabetes/Medical Genetics/General Medicine and Physiology with the aim of finding new interventions for the prevention and treatment of diabetes-related cardiovascular disease. The research group is led by professor and senior physician Olle Melander and consists of both research and administrative staff. More about the research group and its research can be found here. The position is located in Malmö.

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.

New pathways are needed for an efficient alignment of the financial system with the needs of biodiversity. This postdoc links efforts of the research project BIOPATH to assess, co-develop and test existing and novel approaches for integration of biodiversity considerations into financial decision- making with financial actors, and analyse the institutional and policy implications of potential transition pathways. The postdoc will focus on characterizing and assessing current approaches used to link biodiversity to business decisions to evaluate their usability and validity. The results will be used to produce a roadmap for development of assessment tools. The work requires an understanding of how the use of biomass in green sectors may affect multivariate biodiversity and associated values, as well as an understanding of how business decision in the green sector may translate into impact on land-use. Work is carried out in close collaboration with stakeholders.

The discipline of environmental law encompasses those parts of legal system (international, regional and national) that aim to regulate the environment and pursue ecologically sustainable development in a broad sense. This includes, inter alia, protection of (parts of) ecosystems (ocean, water, air, land, species, biodiversity etc.), the production, use and disposal of chemicals, goods, waste management and transport, mitigation and adaption measures in the context of climate change, as well as a host of procedural and institutional issues that directly affect the effectiveness of environmental law. Further, the topic includes issues concerning the efficiency and adequacy of the legislation in relation to the purpose of environmental protection, including control, sanctions and instruments for voluntary action, the balancing between the need for environmental protection and competing interests, access to justice and the design of legal proceedings.

The post-doctoral position is situated within the project titled “Sustainable Carbon Capture Transportation and Storage: Liability and Governance in Light of International and EU Law.” It addresses the emerging practise of mitigating greenhouse gas emissions through innovative carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies. With a special focus on the sub-seabed storage of CO2, this project explores the legal frameworks and governance structures necessary to manage risks and long-term environmental liability of carbon storage in the sub-seabed. Identified risks include, for example, leakages during transportation and injection phases as well as migration and releases from sub-seabed geological formations, and risks associated with site closures and post-closure management.

The project is in the field of environmental law, more particularly marine environmental law, and therefore also involves issues of international law and EU law.

The position is placed at the Division of Solid State Physics at the Department of Physics, a division with around 100 employees where extensive research is carried out centered on various aspects of nanophysics, ranging from materials science to bio- and quantum physics to various applications. The division is a central part of NanoLund, Lund University’s large interdisciplinary research Centre on nanoscience and nanotechnology.

A significant part of the research at the division is in characterization of semiconductor materials. The department hosts the research group of Prof Vanya Darakchieva. Together with its co-operating partners, the group has developed in recent years THz ellipsometry and its applications in characterization of semiconductor materials and devices. The optical Hall effect is one of the advanced characterizations to access electronic transport properties. The method has been applied to two-dimensional semiconductor systems such as nitride-based high electron mobility transistors and graphene, but also to large band gap and low symmetry semiconductors such as Ga2O3. These materials and components lay the foundation for the next generation of high-frequency and high-power electronics being developed together with leading Swedish industrial partners.

The Department of Statistics at Lund University is seeking applicants for a postdoctoral position in the area of causal statistic through regularization methods with applications to economics and biomedicine.

A postdoctoral position is offered for a biotechnological project with the aim of producing and extracting insect pheromones in various plant-based production platforms.

The project is a sub-project in the larger research project (MÅSTE), funded by the Swedish Energy Agency, with a focus on sustainable energy supply using Gen IV reactors. The focus of the current sub-project is radiation protection and monitoring, and we intend to map the radiotoxicity of Gen IV nuclear fuel through modeling and dose calculations and the identification of necessary experimental studies, in combination with updating risk assessments and regulations. The work will take place in collaboration with colleagues at Uppsala University and Gothenburg University.