19 Postdoctoral Fellowship at University of Oslo, Norway

Deep space exploration and especially settling humans on extraterrestrial bodies, such as the Moon and Mars, depend among others on the capability to utilize locally available resources, such as water, oxygen, and methane. To identify, localize and characterize the quantity and quality of these resources, different sensors, both spaceborne and on ground are required.

To map resources several different technologies may be used.

ITS hosts the Centre for Space Sensors and Systems (CENSSS), which incorporates operation of an instrument on the NASA Perseverance rover on Mars. One of the CENSSS activities focuses on neutron and gamma ray detection (GRND) to determine compositions of materials and search for water.

The main task of the researcher will be to derive new applications of the GRND on Earth or Earth orbit. This includes environmental analysis as well as support of the design adaption for a CubeSat and terrestrial rover deployment. Terrestrial deployment serves as a steppingstone for the GRND to other bodies.

In the NFR-funded Norwegian Center of Excellence ‘CanCell’ we are interested in developing new methods to reprogram cancer cells. To better understand how the immune system is affected by Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML), we are currently developing a multiparameter flow cytometry method to be able to identify the various types of immune cells and cancer cells that are present in bone marrow and peripheral blood of AML patients. The candidate will contribute to the project by developing routines for analysis of large datasets obtained with multiparameter flow cytometry (over 40 cell surface markers). In the second stage of the project, the candidate will use these methods to analyze complex datasets obtained from multiple patients, and correlate this information with various patient characteristics to determine disease progression and outcome.

The work will be conducted in the Cancer Molecular Medicine group headed by Dr. Enserink, which is physically located at the Radium Hospital.

The positions are associated with the European Research Council-funded Consolidator project ECOART – An Ecological History of Eurasian Art: Natural Resources, Aesthetic Practices, and Early Modern Globalization, which will consist of a team of Principal Investigator Anna Grasskamp, three doctoral research fellows and two post-doctoral research fellows. The project investigates the artistic use and visual representation of geographical, geological, botanical, zoological, and climatic resources in Eurasia, a space dominated by European and Chinese economic spheres of influence, in an era of early modern globalization from 1500 to 1800. Funding for fieldwork, archival research, conference attendance and publications will be available to all members of the project.

A Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship (SKO 1352) is available at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages (IKOS), University of Oslo (UiO).

The Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages consists of 120 employees, including about 40 doctoral and post-doctoral fellows.

Its ongoing research covers a wide range of topics under the broad rubrics of religious studies; cultural history; and culture, politics, and history of Asia and the Middle East and North Africa.

Candidates apply with an individual research project. This project must be thematically relevant to IKOS and the cross-departmental research network Oslo Centre for Environmental Humanities (OCEH), which starts in August 2024. Read the description of the Centre and its goals here: Oslo Center for Environmental Humanities (OCEH) – Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages 

The postdoctoral fellow is expected to pursue a research project within this framework focusing either on paleo climate modelling and/or on paleo proxies (f.e., lake sediments, tree rings, ice cores). As the candidate will be working closely with the second NORCLI postdoc based in historical sciences, we ask for potential areas of collaboration to be highlighted in the application. During the first year the position is connected to an international research group on Nordic Climate history at the Center for Advanced Study (CAS) in Oslo (cas-nor.no/project/nordic-little-ice-age-1300-1900-norlia). Previous documented experience with paleo climate modelling or paleo climate proxies, interdisciplinary designs and the historical archives on climate is appreciated. The prospective candidates are welcome to contact the NORCLI project leaders ahead of submission of the job application. 

The main purpose of a postdoctoral fellowship is to provide the candidates with enhanced skills to pursue a scientific top position within or beyond academia. To promote a strategic career path, all postdoctoral research fellows are required to submit a professional development plan no later than one month after commencement of the postdoctoral period.

The GroundedExtremes project is a European funded research project that aims to investigate key processes controlling the development of hydrological extremes and the potential for improved groundwater management as a powerful adaptation strategy to both droughts and floods. In GroundedExtremes six postdoctoral researchers will study and compare groundwater dynamics, management and governance across four case studies: Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Sweden. 

At the University of Oslo, we are now searching for a postdoctoral researcher with a groundwater data and statistical/physically-based modelling background to join our team. The postdoc will analyse groundwater level observations and related climate and site-specific data to assess the development, duration and recovery of groundwater droughts, their climate drivers, subsurface characteristics, vegetation and water use, as well as effects of ongoing and future global changes. Focus is on drought, but include situations of high groundwater table/head as groundwater can act as a buffer to both flood and drought. We will analyse and compare groundwater dynamics in the four case studies, with a specific focus on Sweden. Emphasis will be on (compound) drivers of groundwater drought across the case studies, including large-scale climate drivers and local scale characteristics, taking into account the importance of wet extremes in the development and recovery of groundwater drought.

We are looking for a person who is interested in interdisciplinary research and enjoys working collaborative within a diverse international group. Additionally, we are seeking a person who is positive to support the project administration and management and engage in joint project activities. The postdoc will be based at the Section for Geography and Hydrology at the Department of Geosciences and will collaborate closely with the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Gothenburg on the Swedish case study.

A two-year Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (SKO 1352) is available at the Department of Archaelogy, Conservation and History, University of Oslo.

The position is associated with NORCLI (Nordic Climate History. Using the past to envision the future). The candidate is expected to present a research project closely connected to the main project.

A 3 year postdoctoral position is available at the Department of Medical Genetics, Division of Laboratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Oslo. The project is anchored in the research group Genetics of Autoimmunity led by Professor Benedicte A. Lie (https://www.med.uio.no/klinmed/english/research/groups/autoimmunity-cancer/index.html), and is also connected to Center for treatment of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Diseases (REMEDY) (https://www.remedy-senter.no/ ).

The position is funded by the University of Oslo under the project “SCULPTING of cellular membranes by capillary forces”, an interdisciplinary project aimed at understanding molecular and biophysical mechanisms that shape double cellular membranes, with emphasis on autophagosome biogenesis.

The position is central within an interdisciplinary Thematic Research Group (TRG), UNRULY SUSTAINABILITY: Unruly Sustainability Challenges: addressing uncertainty in governing energy transitions, funded by UiO:Energy and the Environment. Theoretically, the UNRULY SUSTAINABILITY project examines ‘chaotic’ processes, those without stable probability patterns, to probe material and epistemic uncertainties, or what the project defines as ‘unruly’ processes. Dynamics that underpin energy justice concerns rarely exhibit stable probability patterns. Assuming they do can lead to failed outcomes—like dams bursting or further marginalising vulnerable people. The project aims to generate new methodologies for evaluating how uncertainty shapes energy justice concerns and outcomes of renewable energy projects.

UiO:Energy’s TRGs contribute to their goals of addressing challenges related to energy, climate and environment. The UNRULY SUSTAINABILITY TRG team is comprised of colleagues from University of Oslo representing three different faculties (Social Science, Mathematics, Humanities), along with international affiliate researchers, and an advisory board of international academic leaders.

 

(18) Postdoctoral Fellowship Position

Postdoc Fellowship Position summary/title: Postdoc in computational biology on tumor heterogeneity

Deadline : 23rd April 2024

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A two-year extendable post-doc/researcher position funded by the Norwegian Cancer Society is available in the group of Dr. Biswajyoti Sahu at the Centre for Molecular Medicine (NCMM, Nordic EMBL partnership institute), Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Norway. We are seeking a highly motivated and talented experimental wet-lab scientist for working in the field of cancer epigenomics and transcriptional regulation.

Our group investigates the role of transcription factors in human diseases using modern genome-wide methods for regulatory genomic features and chromatin architecture. The project involves working with mammalian cell lines, 3D organoid cultures and stem cell-based methods. We utilize a wide range of cutting-edge genome-wide approaches, from ChIP-seq, CUT&RUN and HiChIP to single-nuclei multiome RNA-seq and ATAC-seq assays, epigenetics analysis using Illumina and single-molecule nanopore sequencing, as well as CRISPR-based approaches for genome editing. We offer a position in an ambitious and inter-disciplinary team and an exciting project focusing on the role of transcription factors and enhancer malfunction in development of enhanceropathies such as cancer.