17 Postdoctoral Fellowship at University of Copenhagen, Denmark

The BRIDGE – Translational Excellence Programme is financed by the Novo Nordisk Foundation with the ambition to train fellows in the area of translational medicine, mentored by fully committed and top-level professionals in basic biomedical research, a clinical environment and the life science industry. The programme constitutes a clear career path for candidates whose ambition is to bridge the gap between research, patient care and the life science industry and for those wishing to become pioneering leaders in the field of translational medicine. The BRIDGE – Translational Excellence Programme expects to appoint 7 fellows with an MD background and 7 fellows with an MSc background.

Cell identity and functional outcomes are defined by gene expression programs. Parts of these are shaped by regulatory non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs), which reorganize the genome and modulate transcriptional output.  The Sandelin group with collaborators have a large experience in this area, defining enhancer RNAs, bidirectional RNAs at promoter and their biogenesis and decay, eg. Andersson (Nature 2014), Chen (Nature Genetics 2016), Lloret-Llinares (NAR 2018), Thieffry (Plant Cell 2020 and 2022). However an underexplored aspect of ncRNAs is their regulation via chemical modification of their bases and how these modulate RNA stability and localization. Using novel sequencing technologies, it is now possible to profile such modifications, but this has so far been restricted to mRNAs.  This postdoc position, as part of a Villum experiment grant, will aim to develop a method for capturing both protein coding RNAs and ncRNAs and assess their epitranscriptomic status using Nanopore sequencing. This method will then be used to assess different CRISPR engineered cells to dissect how chemical marks regulate RNA abundance across coding and ncRNAs. The candidate will be supervised by Dr. Jamie Auxillos and co-supervised by Prof. Albin Sandelin.

These are full-time research positions. Teaching of advanced courses is encouraged but not required. Travel funding is included, and the group also receives visitors on a regular basis. The University of Copenhagen is currently expanding strongly in computer science. We expect to have tenure-track openings in theoretical computer science in the near future, and welcome postdoctoral researchers interested in exploring such opportunities. The University wishes our staff to reflect the diversity of society and thus welcomes applications from all qualified candidates regardless of personal background.

Our research aims are to understand cardiac arrhythmias and structural heart diseases through genetics. In recent years we have also focused on the relationship between structural cardiac disease and vascular function.  In this project we will investigate the genetics behind such interactions. The ideal candidate has a strong interest in learning and applying new bioinformatics techniques, and has a strong publication record in within genetics and human disease in high-level international scientific journals. An interest in teaching and mentoring is also diseasble, as you will be expected to contribute towards the departments teaching activities  and supervision of BSc, MSs and PhD students within the group. We are thus looking for an ambitious and enthusiastic scientist with the following skills and experiences:

The Cosmic Dawn Center (DAWN) invites applications for the DAWN Post-doctoral Fellowships. The fellowships are intended for outstanding early career scientists whose research expertise falls within DAWN’s research themes: high-redshift galaxy evolution, epoch of re-ionization, first stars, black holes and galaxies, dust and ISM in the early universe, the formation and evolution of elements in explosive cosmic transients, and dark matter. DAWN Fellows are expected to pursue their own independent, cutting-edge research programs, either in theory or observations.  DAWN is a Center of Excellence funded by the Danish National Research Foundation (DNRF) and located at the Niels Bohr Institute (NBI), University of Copenhagen (UCPH) and at the Space division of the Danish Technical University (DTU-Space). Additionally, the center has a number of associate members at major research institutes across Europe, North America, and Australia. DAWN brings together experts in all aspects of early universe galaxy evolution and is deeply involved in major existing and upcoming surveys with e.g., HST, ALMA, Euclid and JWST, as well as cosmological and zoom in simulations. DAWN is also home to the HEAVYMETAL project, funded by the European Research Council, which aims to understand the nuclear and astrophysical origin of the heaviest elements in neutron star mergers.

Two year postdoctoral research position in the field of modelling Aerosol-Cloud interactions. Jointly the Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management (IGN) and Niels Bohr Institute (NBI) at the University of Copenhagen, seeks applicants for a Postdoctoral position under the supervision of Associate Professor Christian Bjerrum (IGN) and Professor Markus Jochum (NBI) in the area of modelling Aerosol-Cloud interactions. The motivation is to explore biosphere induced Aerosol-Cloud interactions through Earth history. The postdoctoral scholar’s interests as related to both present day and ancient systems can be used to design and tailor specific research questions.

We are seeking several postdoctoral fellows for a new comprehensive project on “Time in Astrophysics,” leveraging new facilities in transient astrophysics (notably LSST) and galaxy evolution (notably JWST), while also addressing fundamental theoretical questions, partly based on advances in computation. DARK is a research unit within the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen. DARK Fellowships are postdoc positions for scientists intending to conduct independent research in various areas, including the discovery of transients (with YSE, LSST) and follow-up observations (with MAAT, VLT, JWST), gravitational waves and kilonovae, supernova cosmology, cosmological tensions, high-redshift galaxies with JWST, gravitationally lensed transients, statistical mechanics of gravitational structures, and galaxy formation theory. DARK Fellows are also invited to participate in art and science projects and collaborate with other academic areas related to the concept of time. They are encouraged to work with faculty and junior professors at DARK and will have access to a range of international observing facilities, computing facilities, and an assortment of international collaborations.  Interaction with scientists at other research centers is also encouraged.

We are looking for a highly motivated postdoc, with a strong background in mass spectrometry applied to inorganic chemistry and ideally with experience in handling astromaterials, who is ready to commence for a 2-year position from 1 March 2024 or as soon as possible thereafter. The position will be based at the Centre for Star and Planet Formation (StarPlan) within the Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen. Information on the department can be found at: https://globe.ku.dk/research/starplan/ . The position is funded by the Villum Young Investigator grant “EXPRICE: Extraterrestrial proxies for icy pebble delivery towards a habitable Earth” awarded to Elishevah van Kooten. This project aims to understand the origin and evolution of pebble-sized astromaterials that contain a rich prebiotic inventory and bombarded the Hadean Earth during the era that was essential to set the stages for the origin of life. 

We seek candidates for a postdoc position titled “Synthetic spectra of exoplanet atmospheres with and without biological activity” at Centre for Exolife Sciences, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. The position is within the field of Exolife Science, i.e. the overlap field between astronomy, chemistry, biology, and physics. The fellowship is supported by the Novo Nordisk Foundation under the Synergy project “Effects of bacteria on atmospheres of Earth, Mars, and exoplanets”, which involve staff at University of Copenhagen from the Niels Bohr Institute, the Department of Chemistry and the Department of Biology. The successful candidate will join a highly interdisciplinary, international and collaborative environment with the common goal of deepening our understanding of the global interaction of life with its surroundings in terrestrial and extraterrestrial environments. The specific goal of the postdoc will be to include and understand non-equilibrium processes in the modelling and analysis of (exoplanetary) atmospheric structures and spectra caused by the existence of life forms, including the influence of gasses produced by micro-organisms in our lab experiments.

A two-year postdoc position is available at the Water Isotope Laboratory of the Ice and Climate group at the University of Copenhagen. The focus of the position will be the development of the next generation, high-precision and high-resolution instrumentation for the analysis of the water isotope composition of the upcoming Oldest Ice Core within the Beyond EPICA project Beyond EPICA is an EU-funded effort, consisting of 12 European research institutions with a goal to retrieve a continuous, high-resolution ice core record covering the Mid Pleistocene Transition, extending back to 1-1.5 million years. The successful candidate will work on the parallel development of two new techniques, one involving ultra-high resolution ice core sample preparation using high-power femtosecond IR lasers and a second one making use of state-of-the-art microfluidic devices for performing long integration water isotope analysis on discrete ice core samples. 

We are looking for a talented, highly motivated and creative scientist who is interested in exploring questions at the interface between physics and biology. The project aims at uncovering universal characteristics and laws in life systems, in particular in adaptation, development, and evolution with the spirit of theoretical physics, by focusing on consistency between hierarchical levels – molecules, cells, organisms, and ecosystem. The ideal candidate will have a strong theoretical physics background, in particular statistical physics and dynamical systems. Previous knowledge of biology is not necessarily required, although high motivation and passion to understand a life system with willingness to learn is needed. Our research project is theoretical, by taking also numerical, or data-driven approaches, with possible collaboration with experimental groups.

The standard approach in economics is to assume economic agents behave as if they perfectly solve a mathematical optimization problem derived directly from the environment the agents are assumed to live in and the objectives they are assumed to aim for. Even for pure technical reasons the assumption of perfect problem solving is problematic because solving the full model then requires solving the optimization problems each agent face. This becomes a central computational bottleneck for model builders, and implies that only rather simple environments are considered. The overarching hypothesis of the project is that modelling economic agents as imperfect problem solvers is the way forward to break the bottleneck. We are looking for an excellent candidate with a strong background in quantitative macroeconomics in particular and computational economics in general. We expect candidates to have recently completed, or be close to completing, their doctoral studies in one of the topics indicated above. The Postdoc position is part of a larger project financed by a Sapere Aude grant from the Independent Research Fund Denmark. The principal investigator is Jeppe Druedahl, and a PhD student has recently started on the project.