19 Postdoctoral Fellowship at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

We invite applications for post-doctoral research positions with the Networked Systems Security (NSS) group at EECS/SCS. We are looking for highly motivated individuals with a very strong background and interest in networked systems security and privacy. Successful candidates will contribute to one of our research areas. The work will be supervised by Prof. Panos Papadimitratos.

The NSS group designs and builds trustworthy networked systems. Our research agenda covers a gamut of security and privacy problems. We have had numerous projects, including European ones, with a large network of industrial and academic collaborators.  Our activities are summarized here: https://www.eecs.kth.se/nss.

Cellulose papers and pressboards are widely used as insulators in power transformers and high voltage electrical equipment due of their good electrical properties, availability, and price. Critically, these materials must maintain both their mechanical and electrical properties at elevated temperatures in an oil filled environment for 30-40 years. With aging electrical equipment and ever-increasing energy demands, understanding cellulose degradation is a critical aspect in the manufacturing and maintenance of our electrical infrastructure.

Despite cellulose being used as electrical insulation for more than 100 years, its degradation under transformer operating conditions is not yet completely understood. Oxidative, acid-catalyzed hydrolysis, and thermal degradation all occur simultaneously over the lifetime of the transformer, each of which produce residues and water that cause corrosion and decreased mechanical and dielectric performance. This project aims to develop a deeper understanding of chemical and supramolecular structural changes that occur during cellulose degradation in power transformers, and to investigate modifications and/or additives that can increase the lifespan of electrical equipment.

This postdoc position provides a unique opportunity and environment as the candidate will work at both KTH, the Swedish research institutes RISE, and importantly in direct collaboration with the world leading provider of power transformers Hitachi Energy with access to their state of the art labs and equipment.

Graph generative models are recently gaining significant interest in current application domains. They are commonly used to model social networks, knowledge graphs, and protein-protein interaction networks. The research to be conducted during this project will capitalize on current results on generative models for proteins and graphs[1][2]. We will investigate the challenges of multi modality in the context of defining architectures for graph generation under the proper prompt. We expect our designed architectures to be useful in different areas including molecule design, medical data generation, bio related data.

Are you looking for a postdoc combining academic research in machine learning with close collaboration with the industry? Do you want to join our research group at KTH developing fundamental machine learning times series algorithms and the team at Getinge producing the next generation ventilators for the intensive care? Are you passionate about physical simulation and proficient in parameter estimation? If so, we believe you will find our project developing a digital twin of the respiratory system a perfect match.

This project is co-funded by Vinnova, within the program Advanced Digitalization, and Getinge. Getinge is a world leading MedTech provider with 12.000 employees worldwide. The company has a long tradition of creating innovations that save lives. Their Critical Care Product Area is based in Stockholm, Sweden, and you will interact with its Innovation team regularly during this project. The close collaboration with this multi-disciplinary team of experts is a valuable opportunity for you to create a bridge between academia and industry, in an open and collaborative way. This is also a unique chance that will open multiple future career paths for you.

This position will work on distributed quantum computing, focusing on its integration with high-performance computing and applications in real-world scenarios. You are expected to work on modeling distributed hybrid classical-quantum systems, development on either quantum simulators or hardware, and project management tasks.  You will have opportunities to collaborate with international top researchers and industries. The position will be hosted by the Department of Computer Science.

The BioGlue Center is a network of excellence in the field of bio-based wood glues, in collaboration with 3 universities (SLU, KTH and LnU) and 12 companies from different industrial sectors that all share the same research questions regarding glue and gluing. The centre’s vision is to become a world-leading research environment through the development of paradigm-shifting knowledge about bio-based wood adhesives in three research areas: raw materials and formulations, aspects of adhesives, as well as end-use requirements and sustainability.

This project aims to create molecular understanding of adhesion mechanisms in bio-based wood adhesives. Anyone applying for this postdoc position should have good knowledge of organic chemistry, polymer chemistry and documented experience in surface chemistry. It is an advantage if you have knowledge of biopolymers and/or pulp/paper technology and experience in processing of soft materials. Suitable background for this position is a doctoral degree in surface chemistry, organic chemistry or polymer chemistry, polymer technology, macromolecular materials, soft materials or equivalent. The work in the project will consist of adhesion measurements at different length scales, from molecular interactions to evaluation of glue joints between different wood-based materials. The work will also contain synthesis and modification of different molecules. The work is supported by a large amount of advanced lab equipment and instruments and many qualified colleagues.

We are looking for a highly motivated candidate who wants to be at the forefront of research and create new technology for biobased wood adhesives for a sustainable future.

G-protein coupled receptors are membrane proteins that convert binding of chemicals in the extracellular domain into cellular signals that alter the cell’s function. Their dysfunction underlies many diseases and these receptors are thus one of the main classes of drug targets. Dopamine receptors, in particular, are implicated in Parkinson’s disease. 

The postdoc candidate will participate in a project aiming to design dopamine receptors that can signal in response to the binding of dopamine metabolites. The postdoc will carry out molecular dynamics simulations, including enhanced sampling, which will support the experimental work carried out in Uppsala University and Karolinska Institute.

The Chemical Sensing Group is a large initiative at KTH, with approximately 20 researchers. We develop fundamental electrochemical and optical concepts to be integrated into ‘chemical sensors’ aiming to solve current problems in healthcare, environment, wellness, food among others. The objective of the postdoctoral positions is to strengthen the research on electroanalytical concepts and fundaments at the Chemical Sensing group.

We are looking for a postdoc focusing on analysis and modeling of the transformation of socio-technical systems, and specifically how different electrification strategies (battery-electric, fuel cells, electric roads, battery swaps etc) can compete with and complement each other. Previous studies have made techno-economic analyses of how the technologies stand against each other, but to understand how the technologies complement and compete with each other in a scale-up, a broader system approach is needed. Such a system approach needs to include supply and demand for green electricity and other fuels, the link to the expansion of electricity grids, the rate of expansion of infrastructure, the rate of development of technical solutions, and the possibility of ramping up in the manufacture of vehicles and technical components. Questions include, for example: Which technology fits where? What factors have the greatest impact on scaling up? What policies are useful to guide scale-up?

The task is to create a simulation model that illustrates the transition and competition between technologies. The simulation model will then be used to explore different scenarios and the competition between different technologies.

You will also be an active part of a growing team of researchers focused on modeling and analyzing complex socio-technical systems, and are expected to collaborate effectively with colleagues and jointly develop ideas for projects and project applications.

Porous lightweight materials are key structures used today in liquid absorption and greenhouse gas encapsulation applications, traditionally relying on petroleum-based plastics or energy-intensive production methods. Among the different environmental impacts caused today by the use of petroleum-based plastics in these applications, it is worth mentioning the huge generation of microplastics when the products degrade in nature and even release toxic molecules like PFAS. To comply with a circular bio-economy, new materials must rely on the use of renewable resources, industrially scalable techniques and safe products for nature and humans ((the scope of this project). 

The selected postdoc will work for two years as a part of an EU Project (M.era-net – POR-BioSORB), a collaboration between European Universities, SMEs, and Research Institutes representing three countries (Sweden, Spain and Turkey). The main goal of the consortium is to explore if cost-effective biopolymers
extracted with green technology from biomass can be used to develop formulations with tailored porosity for liquid and gas ab(d)sorbents. The tasks also include understanding how the interaction between the different biopolymers and additives correlates with the processing parameters and the 3D micro/macrostructure of the materials. Further, the postdoc will be involved in supervising master and bachelor students within the project, presenting his/her work at international conferences and giving workshops aimed at results dissemination among the general society. 

The research project concerns the development and use of MINFLUX microscopy for cellular imaging and dynamic studies on the nanoscale. The project is conducted at the Advanced Light Microscopy facility (ALM, Integrated Microscopy Technologies – SciLifeLab) at Science for Life laboratory. The project takes place in collaboration with researchers from KTH, KI and SU with the goal of analysing cellular processes on the nanoscale, especially in the compact three-dimensional cell nucleus. Project aims and tasks include development of adequate single-molecule labeling strategies, optimised use of high-precision MINFLUX microscopy, and establishing methods for data precision analysis. 

Gene therapies based on viral vectors are on the rise, and in recent years several new drugs based on adeno-associated viruses (AAV) have reached patient and market approvals. A challenge to realizing the availability of these life-changing advanced therapies is to simplify and improve their manufacturing process.

We are therefore currently looking for a researcher who will work with a team to lead, research and lead the development of refined mammalian cell lines for the production of biological drugs, such as AAV, protein and antibodies. The person we are looking for will have tasks that revolve around OMICS, genome changes with CRISPR/Cas9, protein and virus production in mammalian cells as well as their purification, quantification and analysis. The person will work with various methods such as NGS sequencing, molecular cloning, ELISA, protein expression and affinity determinations.

We are looking for 1-3 postdocs with a strong background and interest in networked control systems, mathematics, modeling, reinforcement learning, and machine learning. The successful candidates will join a project on developing novel mathematical and computational tools for the fundamental understanding and engineering design of emerging networked control systems, including learning complex decision-making dynamics from big data and modeling networked cyber-physical-human systems.

The Division of Decision and Control Systems conducts fundamental research in networked control systems, control of communication systems, and system identification. Industrial projects involve partners such as ABB, Ericsson, and Scania. A major part of the research is conducted in EU-projects in collaboration with European industry and universities. We have a large academic network and collaborate with researchers at Caltech, MIT, UC Berkeley, Stanford, among others. 

Sugar porters are membrane proteins whose role is to import sugar molecules into cells in a selective manner. Structure determination has revealed that they do so using an alternating access mechanism. However, the mechanisms behind their selectivity and the rate of transport remain to be fully understood. To achieve this, it is necessary to gain a full understanding of their dynamical behavior. Experimental (NMR, EPR, etc…) and computational (structure prediction, molecular dynamics simulations, etc…) techniques can be leveraged together to achieve a comprehensive picture of their structure/function relationship.
The researcher hired for this project will carry out a combination of computational and experimental work to further our understanding of the function of several members of the sugar porter family.

 

(18) Postdoctoral Fellowship Position

Postdoc Fellowship Position summary/title: Postdoc in Intelligent Wireless Systems

Deadline : 15.Aug.2024

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We seek a highly dedicated postdoc to join our lab at KTH (the Widengren lab) to be engaged within an ongoing high-profile EU research project (NanoVIB). You will work with super-resolution MINFLUX imaging, to expand this imaging technique into the near-IR, as well as with other fluorescence fluctuation techniques developed in our lab at KTH. As a lead application for this development, we will image surface proteins of pneumococci at molecular resolution and follow the metabolic regulation of cells by complementary fluorescence methods. This highly interdisciplinary project is performed in close collaboration with partners in Sweden (Karolinska Institutet), Germany (Abberior Instruments, Inst Nanophotonics, APE) and Switzerland (PI imaging). Together with researchers and PhD students in the KTH research group (10 persons), you will work on optimization of excitation and labeling schemes for MINFLUX, combine this with stimulated Raman and/or other fluorescence imaging techniques (prototype instruments on place in the lab), and then demonstrate the combined use for bacterial imaging. We expect this work to lead to several high-impact publications.