17 Postdoctoral Fellowship at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States
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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States invites online Application for various Postdoctoral Fellowship in their different Departments. We are providing a list of Postdoc Fellowship positions available at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States.
Eligible candidate may Apply as soon as possible.
(01) Postdoctoral Fellowship Position
Postdoc Fellowship Position summary/title: Postdoctoral Research Associate
The Department of Mathematics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill invites applications for a Postdoctoral Research Associate position in the fields of algebra, geometry, topology, representation theory and mathematical physics. This position is for one year and is renewable for at least an additional year, pending satisfactory performance and the availability of funding. The proposed start date is July 1, 2025. Applications received by December 9, 2024 are assured complete consideration. After that, applications will be reviewed on a continuing basis until the position is filled.
A global higher education leader in innovative teaching, research and public service, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill consistently ranks as one of the nation’s top public universities and is among is the top ten research universities in the nation for federal research expenditures as well as for federally funded social and behavioral sciences research and development. Here at Carolina, our highly skilled postdocs play a vital role in our research enterprise and towards our overall commitment to research excellence. Across many disciplines, postdocs contribute to the intellectual vitality of the University. They provide innovative ideas and perspectives, foster a stimulating research environment and advance knowledge within their fields. Postdocs are crucial members of our scientific research workforce, contributors to our research outputs and an important reason why Carolina is one of the leading public research institutions in the country.
The School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is seeking a Postdoctoral Scholar under the supervision of the Vice Dean. The postdoctoral scholar will primarily assist with implementing and managing a multi-year project aimed at using financial capability strategies to address labor trafficking. The Postdoctoral Scholar will also assist with other economic development research projects.The Postdoctoral Scholar will primarily assist the Vice Dean in the development and implementation of two new research projects. One still developing project focuses on intercultural communication and social capital usage in teens and young adults from under resourced communities. The other is an investigation of the impact of mindfulness-focused virtual reality (VR) simulations and social capital-related activities on the mental well-being of international students. The second project is in collaboration with Nagoya University in Japan. In addition, the Postdoctoral Scholar will assist the Vice Dean in advancing ongoing research and publications largely related to poverty reduction, social capital, and cultural identity in the U.S. and the Philippines. The Postdoctoral Scholar will be engaged in specific substantive research topics: cross-cultural communications, social capital development, socioeconomic vulnerabilities, poverty alleviation, resilience, gender issues, and assessment and implementation science. Postdoctoral Scholar will be engaged in developing research frameworks, methodologies, and instruments to address multiple exploratory research questions. They will be engaged in project design and implementation, data collection, data analysis, interpreting results, and contributing to the development of actionable insights and recommendations as the projects expand. The Postdoctoral Scholar will also be expected to engage with external partners, including community organizations, academic institutions, and pothers as needed at every stage of the projects. The Postdoctoral Scholar will contribute to the writing and editing of scholarly publications and presentations and be involved in proposal development, systematic reviews, content analysis, meta-analysis, and manuscript preparation.The successful candidate will be provided with a supportive, multidisciplinary environment in which they can function to contribute to successfully achieving the goals of the projects on which they work. Additionally, the candidate will have the opportunity to develop skills in both quantitative and qualitative research methodologies, and program evaluation. In addition to working with the Vice Dean, the candidate may work with other faculty members and students in the School of Social Work as deemed necessary in the course of the projects.
Postdoc Fellowship Position summary/title: Post-Doc Trainee
The Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill invites applications for a Postdoctoral Scholar position with the NICHD-funded T32 training program, ‘From Biological to Social Processes: Interdisciplinary Training in Life Course Research’. This program aims to promote and support interdisciplinary training of PhD students and postdoctoral scholars from both the social sciences and biological/health sciences.
The goal of this program is to train scientists to move across disciplinary boundaries and employ creative and integrative approaches to understanding the complex factors that influence health and health disparities across the life course. Trainees will have the opportunity to receive interdisciplinary mentorship and training in a wide array of methods and content areas, ranging from social inequalities to biological processes. Trainees will identify a co-preceptor team comprised of a mentor from their home discipline and another representing their new interdisciplinary interest area from among the current training faculty.
The initial term of appointment is one year, with a preferred start date of August 2025. Reappointment for a second year is expected. Applications must be submitted by Wednesday, December 18th, to be considered.
Postdoc Fellowship Position summary/title: Post-Doc Trainee
The Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is inviting applications for a postdoctoral position funded as part of its NICHD-funded T32 population science training program. The overall goal of the program is to create a cadre of future leaders in social science and public health disciplines with the subject matter expertise, interdisciplinary orientation, population perspective, and data skills to address and have an impact on pressing issues in demography, population health, and reproductive health.
The initial term of appointment is one year, with a preferred start date of August 2025. Reappointment for a second (final) year of T32 support is expected. Applications must be submitted by Wednesday, December 18th to be considered.
Postdoc Fellowship Position summary/title: Post-Doc Research Associate
The primary responsibility of this role is to synthesize and integrate a vast array of data sources, including imaging, genetic, and clinical data from real-world datasets, alongside extensive literature and other resources. The candidate will be crucial in developing and applying specialized knowledge graphs such as Alzheimer’s Disease-related Knowledge Graphs (AD-KG), Omics Knowledge Graphs (OKG), Neuroimaging Knowledge Graphs (NKG), and Neuroimaging Omics Knowledge Graphs (NOKG).
A significant part of this role involves the clinical translation of these knowledge graphs to ensure the research findings can be directly applied to improve patient outcomes. This will include the embedding of these knowledge graphs to facilitate the extraction of actionable insights and enable advanced analyses that can lead directly to enhanced clinical practices and therapies. The successful candidate will also develop and refine large language models (LLMs) that enhance our understanding of complex datasets, with a focus on implementing KG embedding techniques and performing downstream analysis to measure their impact on predictive accuracy and clinical decision-making.
Furthermore, the role involves designing sophisticated artificial intelligence (AI) agents aimed at advancing analytics in clinical settings and improving decision-making processes in healthcare. This position offers the opportunity to work at the cutting edge of AI, data integration, and knowledge graph technologies, contributing significantly to advancements in medical research and directly influencing the evolution of clinical practices and patient care.
Postdoc Fellowship Position summary/title: Postdoctoral Research Associate
The mission of the Department of Mathematics is to extend the frontiers of mathematical knowledge and the ways it is used in the real world, to disseminate that knowledge and train the next generation of teachers and researchers, as well as those choosing careers with industry or government. The department is committed to building and nourishing interaction with other units across campus using mathematics, institutes and industries in the research triangle, across the state and the nation. The department maintains a strong research program as well as a comprehensive educational program. An active, healthy research environment is essential for the training of graduate students and enlivens the teaching of undergraduate courses, bringing students into contact with new and relevant mathematics and creating a population with the necessary mathematical skills and appreciation, encouraging some to join the next generation of researchers and educators. The fundamental importance of education in mathematics is reflected in the General College curriculum’s foundations and connections requirements in quantitative methods. The department is strongly committed to making its program open and accessible to members of groups historically underrepresented in the sciences.
Postdoc Fellowship Position summary/title: Post-Doc Research Associate
The De Paris Laboratory in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology is seeking a Postdoctoral Fellows with interest in HIV pathogenesis and vaccine studies and in infant immune development. We are pursuing preclinical studies in nonhuman primate models and are conducting studies with human patient samples.
Postdoc Fellowship Position summary/title: Post-Doc Trainee
We are seeking a candidate with doctoral training in an environmental health-related discipline such as exposure assessment, molecular or computational toxicology and biology, environmental chemistry, statistics, bioinformatics, geography, or epidemiology for an NIEHS funded T32 postdoctoral fellowship in Environmental Science and Engineering. The initial appointment period is 1 year with a maximum of 2 years of support. This fellowship is part of a robust training program, encompassing epidemiology, biostatistics and environmental sciences and affords the fellow the opportunity to pursue mentored research in their areas of interest. Fellows are encouraged to collaborate with UNC Investigators as well as adjunct training faculty at the NIEHS and EPA. This training program will prepare environmental health scientists to be future leaders in environmental health science collaborations.
Postdoc Fellowship Position summary/title: Post-Doc Research Associate
The selected candidate will engage in a combination of clinical research activities aligned with a NIMH funded R01 within the Child and Adolescent Anxiety and Mood Disorders Program (CHAAMP). Clinical opportunities include diagnostic evaluations, assessing and monitoring risk for child maltreatment and suicide following well-established protocols, and supervision of research coordinators in these areas. Research opportunities include the following: co-writing and submitting a diversity supplement to the existing R01 infrastructure, analyses and manuscript submission analyzing and publishing multimodal data from the R01 aligned this position and several other NIH funded projects. Data for analyses and manuscripts will come from studies focused on adversity, social behavior, psychopathology, and functional neuroimaging in adolescents. The exact combination of clinical, supervision, and research activities will depend on the successful candidate’s expertise and career interests.
Applicants will have completed their clinical internship prior to starting this position. The starting date for this two-year fellowship is flexible but no sooner than July 1st, 2025.
Postdoc Fellowship Position summary/title: Post-Doc Research Associate
This is a postdoctoral position that provides training for the next generation of scientists in environmental health and toxicology. There is a large and diverse inventory of inhalable chemicals with little to no data available for safety evaluation; however, addressing these data gaps using traditional in vivo animal studies is impractical due to their high cost, low throughput, and concerns regarding their biological relevance.
This research project will combine in vitro exposure technology (aerosol-compatible cell culture exposure system [ACCES]), organotypic in vitro models of the human respiratory tract, and an assay battery that will evaluate endpoints representing AOP-driven key events such as cytotoxicity, cell metabolism, epithelial barrier function, and cytokine production. In addition, the project aims accomplish benchmark dose (BMD) modeling of transcriptomic changes to determine portal of entry points of departure. There will also be opportunities for the research participant to contribute to the development high-resolution mass spectrometry methods to quantify dose deposition, cellular uptake, and metabolism to provide missing dose-metrics for ALI exposures. The research participant will have the opportunity to collaborate with a multi-disciplinary team of toxicologists, biologists, chemists, and engineers and will utilize molecular, analytical, and computational approaches for in vitro assay development. With guidance from the mentor, the research participant will contribute to developing methods, executing lab-based experiments, and generating, analyzing, and reporting data. Preferred areas of specialized training or experience include: ALI cell culture, cell-based assay development, and pathway analysis of transcriptomic datasets.
Postdoc Fellowship Position summary/title: Post-Doc Research Associate – Dr. Brudno’s lab – DPMP
The UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy (www.pharmacy.unc.edu) is one of six health science schools (Pharmacy, Nursing, Dentistry, Social Work, Public Health, Medicine) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is one of the oldest health science academic programs at Chapel Hill. The School teaches approximately 600 PharmD students and 145 graduate students. The School has built a reputation for its continued pursuit of excellence, rigorous education and training programs, cutting-edge multidisciplinary research, progressive pharmacy practices, efficient business operations, and its outstanding faculty, staff, and students. The School was named the number one School of Pharmacy in the U.S. by the U.S. News and World Report. The School has experienced unprecedented growth and success and continues to strategically position itself for sustained impact, as articulated in the School’s Strategic Plan (https://pharmacy.unc.edu/about/oe/strategic-plan/).
Our Vision is to be the global leader in pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences. Our Mission is to prepare leaders and innovators to solve the world’s most pressing health care challenges. We are Advancing Medicine for Life through innovation and collaboration in pharmacy practice, education, research, and public service.
Postdoc Fellowship Position summary/title: Post-Doc Research Associate – Dr. Hingtgen’s lab – DPMP
We are seeking a highly motivated post-doctoral fellow to join our team for a project focused on neural stem cells, 3D bioprinting, and developing advanced cancer models for brain and ovarian cancer. This project will focus on exploring and developing new treatments for cancer. A key part of this work will be the development of novel biomaterial matrices and treatment of post-surgical disease.
Postdoc Fellowship Position summary/title: Research Associate – Biocurator 2
The Department of Genetics is seeking a Research Associate (Biocurator) in the Translational and Integrative Sciences Laboratory (TISLab.org), led by Dr. Melissa Haendel. TISLab focuses on areas such as automated and manual bio data curation, knowledge representation, semantic engineering, automated reasoning, and the development and evaluation of algorithms and software systems that advance these practices in support of artificial intelligence. The Biocurator will join a highly interactive, supportive, and interdisciplinary group of faculty, staff scientists, postdoctoral fellows, and students. The Biocurator position includes learning ontology development and annotation, as well as data quality assurance and consistency methods. The Biocurator will work on programs aiming to integrate genotype-phenotype knowledge for the purposes of rare disease diagnostics and mechanism discovery. This position will also gather research for toxicological parameters experiments and the phenotypic outcomes as documented within imaging data. The Biocurator will assist with data annotation and analysis from the literature and user data submission. The Biocurator will participate in meetings with the ontology development teams and calls with local and international domain experts. Successful job performance will require learning and implementing the curation framework and protocols developed in research projects assigned. The Biocurator will track the progress of their curation projects and will also provide feedback on curation tools and protocols. Major responsibilities of this position include supporting image and other data annotations using ontology terms and other standards for metadata. They will also work to expand the ontologies and standards as needed. Other responsibilities include technical contribution to research publications and preliminary work for grants and funding applications, as well as collaborations with community-wide efforts aimed at promoting open, integrated, and rigorous practices in research, data curation, and scholarly communication. The Biocurator will also contribute to the overall mentorship of trainees within the TISLab. Flexible work arrangements, including virtual/hybrid work locations, are an integral part of the School of Medicine’s Working Forward initiative. As such, this position’s work location is designated as virtual. Please note that the designated work location is subject to change based on the unit’s business needs.
Postdoc Fellowship Position summary/title: Post-Doc Research Associate
The Carmichael lab (https://idc9.github.io/) is looking for a postdoctoral fellow interested in developing either machine learning algorithms for high-resolution histopathology imaging/spatial-profiling data in combination with other modalities (e.g. radiology, sequencing, or text) or large language model-based approaches for extracting information from clinical notes at scale. The lab’s goal is to address the key technical challenges holding back the impact of AI in Pathology/Oncology in order to improve diagnostic precision, increase access to state-of-the-art care for patients around the world, uncover novel biomarkers for disease prognosis/therapeutic response, and advance basic scientific investigation into disease processes. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in both the mathematical and software sides of machine learning, with the ability to design and implement novel artificial intelligence algorithms. Examples of research directions could include: multimodal foundational models for biomedical data, deep-learning architectures for high-resolution (e.g. gigapixel) imaging, or high-dimensional statistical approaches for analyzing spatial transcriptomic data.
This role involves close collaboration with an interdisciplinary team of data scientists/clinicians and working with unique datasets from multiple academic medical centers (e.g. UNC, UCSF, Mayo Clinic, Memorial Sloan Kettering, etc). Lab dedicated GPU workstations/servers and cloud compute credits are available along with CPU/GPU nodes provided by the university. The expected outcomes of the position are: lead 1-2 major projects, contribute to other projects, collaborate with trainees (computational undergrad/masters/PhD students + clinical residents/fellows), write publications, and release open-source software. Projects may be focused on disease-specific translational research or core machine learning methodology development. This role is well suited for candidates aiming to launch an ambitious career at the intersection of machine learning and biomedical research in academia or industry.
Postdoc Fellowship Position summary/title: Postdoctoral Research Associate
We are seeking an energetic and highly motivated Postdoctoral Research Associate to conduct experiments involving in vivo electrophysiology, immunohistochemistry, neuroimmune signaling pathway analysis, reward-learning tasks, binge-like alcohol exposure on adolescent development and alterations in brain and behavior.
Postdoc Fellowship Position summary/title: Postdoctoral Trainee
This Postdoctoral Trainee position is available through a NIH T32 training program, designed to train promising early career investigators. The Postdoctoral Trainee will investigate the kinetics and function of neutrophils and macrophage subpopulations in developing and resolving pneumonia. One active focus is on the expression and function of ICAM-1 on alveolar epithelial cells, endothelial cells and immune cells. Studies also focus on neutrophil heterogeneity, its regulation and function. Studying these processes in acute lung injury and in injury caused by inhalation of toxicants is also a component of this position. The studies utilize molecular and cell biological technologies including single cell RNAseq/CITEseq, bulk RNA profiling and qPCR, cell culture, flow cytometry, mass cytometry, cell sorting, ELISAs, immunoblotting, murine experimentation, and histology, as well as translational science technologies.
Postdoc Fellowship Position summary/title: Post-Doc Research Associate
The primary responsibility of this role is to support the research of Mehul Patel, PhD on optimizing regional systems of emergency medical care for acute illness and injury. Responsibilities include data cleaning, management and analysis; computer programming; literature reviews; and preparation of abstracts, manuscripts, and other dissemination materials. S The postdoc will work closely with Dr. Patel and research staff and students in the Department of Emergency Medicine.
About University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States – Official Website
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC, UNC-Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Chapel Hill, or simply Carolina) is a public research university in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Chartered in 1789, the university first began enrolling students in 1795, making it one of the oldest public universities in the United States.
The university offers degrees in over 70 courses of study and is administratively divided into 13 separate professional schools and a primary unit, the College of Arts & Sciences. It is classified among “R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity” and is a member of the Association of American Universities (AAU).The National Science Foundation ranked UNC–Chapel Hill 13th among American universities for research and development expenditures in 2021 with $1.2 billion. As a highly ranked public university, it is also considered a public ivy.
The campus covers 760 acres (310 ha), encompassing the Morehead Planetarium and the many stores and shops located on Franklin Street. Students can participate in over 550 officially recognized student organizations. UNC Chapel Hill is one of the charter members of the Atlantic Coast Conference, which was founded on June 14, 1953. The university’s athletic teams compete as the Tar Heels.
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