Postdoctoral Fellowship (16) at University of Oslo, Norway

The project aims to show why and how Plato conceived of the natural world as mathematically structured. It will investigate how Plato adopted Pythagorean principles and harmonic theory to explain the basic properties of material bodies, including change and materiality. The project will also demonstrate the general scope of mathematical structure in the natural world in Plato’s Timaeus, and shed light on the metaphysical underpinnings of Plato’s mathematical physics. The evidence of Plato’s Early Academy will be used to generate new readings of the Timaeus, and related Platonic dialogues. The research team will consist of three post-docs, two PhD students, the PI, and 
associated international experts.

The appointed post-doc will work along the three axes of the project, the early Pythagoreans, the Timaeus, and Plato’s Early Academy. While each of the post-docs may specialize in one of the axes they will also collaborate with the whole team to achieve the collective goals of the project.

Applicants are invited for a three to four year fulltime position as Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Research on Equality in Education (CREATE), Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Oslo, Norway. The position has a double affiliation with the Centre for Educational Measurement (CEMO). 

CREATE is an interdisciplinary Centre of Excellence funded by the Research Council of Norway with the objective to generate novel knowledge about how to reduce inequalities in education. The interdisciplinary center integrates researchers with substantive expertise from education, psychology, sociology, economics, and genetics, and methodological expertise from educational measurement, psychometrics, econometrics, statistics, and biostatistics. The Postdoctoral fellowship is affiliated with CREATE’s research strand 3 «Addressing key methodological challenges».  

CEMO provides a stimulating research environment by bringing internationally renowned substantive and methodological experts together. Research at CEMO combines basic research and applications of advanced measurement techniques to solve core educational problems. CEMO also contributes to the development of measurement competence through teaching and outreach.

A three-year postdoctoral position is available at the University of Oslo under a project devoted to developing an innovative microfluidic platform for human iPS cell-based neurodegenerative disease modeling. The project focuses on differentiating iPS cells to neurons, glia and other cell types involved in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and Parkinson’s disease (PD), and on manipulating these cell types in the in vitro platform. The postdoctoral fellow will work with two research groups, one specializing in ALS, the other in PD, but with similar utilization of the in vitro platform. The project includes strong collaboration with technology partners that are developing a powerful, versatile, multi-functionalized in vitro platform that can accelerate research into neurodegenerative disease mechanisms and drug screening. 

Applicants should have prior expertise with iPS cell culturing and differentiation protocols. Experience with gene editing, electrophysiology and/or optical recording techniques is also valuable, but not strictly necessary. We are looking for candidates who are strongly motivated to advance and implement the cellular components of the platform and to interact with the various technology partners to test platform functionalities such as optical and electrical measurements of cell function, miniaturized molecular delivery and sampling, mechanical stimulation and sensing, and functionalized surfaces. The project is funded by the Norwegian Research Council’s Convergent Technology program. 

Do you want to develop new technology for interpretation of images in the field of geoscience? Improve deep learning methods for multi-modal image data applied to industrial challenges in the energy sector? Advance the use of seismic tiles for extracting information about geological layers? Contribute to a deeper understanding of the composition of the crust of the earth? Explore how to benefit from recent research in foundational neural models that learn from large unlabeled image datasets, also incorporating context from additional data such as wireline logs or well reports.

You are suited for this position if you are highly motivated, have interests in computer vision and neural networks, and want to both contribute to new advances in a field with real world applications.

Your research focus will be on challenges related to computer vision for geophysical image data. You will investigate and develop robust methods for training models, exploring/developing approaches for multimodal data, utilize context beyond pixel level, and efficiently use self-supervision for large unlabeled data sets. You will transfer the methods to innovations in close collaboration with Aker BP and/or Equinor.

Position as Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Optically Detected Magnetic Resonance Measurements is available at Department of Physics. Starting date as soon as possible, but no later than October 1, 2026. 

The fellowship period is three years. A fourth year may be considered with a workload of 25 % which is devoted to career promoting work, usually in the form of teaching. This is dependent upon the qualification of the applicant and the current needs of the department.

The research focus of the position is on aerosol-cloud and aerosol-radiation in-teractions, with an emphasis on observational and modeling studies of how natural aerosol (e.g. emitted from volcanoes) and anthropogenic aerosols (from inadvertent or intentional emissions) affect clouds, radiation, and climate. The main research tools will be the Norwegian Earth System Model (NorESM), and meteorological reanalyses, satellite data and other observations will be used mainly for the purpose of model evaluation.

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.

A Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (SKO 1352) is available at the Department of Musicology, University of Oslo.

The position is part of MishMash Centre for AI and Creativity, which is a Norwegian AI centre funded by the Research Council of Norway (2025-2030). It comprises more than 200 faculty members from many higher education institutions in Norway, in collaboration with numerous public and private sector partners. The primary objective of MishMash is to create, explore, and reflect on AI for, through, and in creative practices. MishMash researchers will investigate AI’s impact on creative processes, develop innovative CoCreative AI systems and educational strategies, and address AI’s ethical, cultural, legal, and societal implications in creative domains. See MishMash Centre for AI and Creativity | A Norwegian AI centre funded by the Research Council of Norway (2025-2030) for more information. 

The project, SongGesture, aims to significantly advance knowledge on how expert vocalists use gesture in support of their performance goals. Building on recent research showing an effect of gesture on co-occurring vocalization, SongGesture will advance the theorization of gesture-vocalization relations in musical contexts by considering also the physical interactions between gesture and vocal production movements (e.g., breathing and articulation). The project looks at co-singing gesturing practices in three different vocal performance traditions: beatboxing, European art song, and karnatak vocal music from South India. The candidate is not expected to have previous experience with these musical traditions, as this is covered by other project personnel. 

The successful candidate for this position is expected to investigate physical interactions between co-singing body movements (gestures) and vocalization. This will involve exploring how vocalists’ gestures affect their own vocal performance (both sound produced and vocal production movements), as well as how vocalists physically adjust to achieve their performance goals when their gesturing or vocalization is manipulated. Tasks will include contributing to project theory and methods development on multimodal communication in song performance; using experimental methods that involve the manipulation of performers’ gestures and/or vocalizations to examine interactions between the two; making either motion capture or multi-camera video recordings (for pose tracking) of human movement; preparing human movement data for analysis; audio feature extraction; the computational analysis of human movement, biomechanics and vocalization; and co-writing articles.

Applicants are invited for a two-year, full time position as Researcher (position code 1108) in the project “Mapping of Longitudinal data of Inequalities in Education” (MapIE) to be based at the Centre for Educational Measurement (CEMO), Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Oslo. The appointment is funded by a European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation grant. The work will be conducted in close collaboration with partners in several other European countries (Finland, Sweden, Germany, and Hungary). The project is coordinated by Tampere University in Finland. 

The MapIE project aims to identify mechanisms causing educational inequalities and policies or interventions compensating for them. The project has several interrelated work packages: (1) to conduct a systematic review of how educational inequalities have been studied internationally using longitudinal designs; (2) to map existing longitudinal data and describe this pool of data in a publicly available metadata database; (3) to analyse the identified data to describe the mechanisms of inequalities with the aim to identify effective policies and interventions in different local contexts; (4) to establish a public framework for studying educational inequalities longitudinally in future studies, acknowledging the role of local contexts but aiming for comparability at the European level. The project focuses on the contextual differences between the Nordic and Central European countries that have structurally different education systems. Within national contexts and using comparative research designs, the aim is to describe and account for how features at system-, regional- and school-level (policies, practices, and individual-level factors) are associated with the development of educational inequalities and the successful prevention of achievement gaps.

The ERC-funded project “Amber Worlds: A Geological Anthropology for the Anthropocene (AMBER)” considers the multiple and entangled worlds of amber through ethnographic research in different sites of extraction, trade, and science. 

Amber is a fossil resin with growing commercial value and scientific importance. It animates a global market, too: its extraction fuels mining economies from Myanmar to Russia, Ukraine and Mexico, and its consumptions is largely driven by demand in China and the Middle East. Following the multiple facets of this global network of commercial and scientific actors, and paying attention to the very materiality of amber, the AMBER project aims to pay closer ethnographic attention to the geological, to what often continues to be understood as inert, passive, lifeless. Amber is for us an entrypoint to study key Anthropocene dynamics and how humans relate to the Earth more broadly. 

The induction of cancer cell death is a pivotal aspect of effective cancer treatment. Our immune system harbors cytotoxic immune cells, notably cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs), capable of recognizing and eliminating malignant cells expressing cognate tumour antigens. Historically, CTL-induced cancer cell death has been primarily attributed to the programmed form known as apoptosis. However, accumulating evidence indicates that cell death events previously considered ‘non-programmed’, such as necrosis, may also be intricately regulated and have profound biological implications. To fully harness the therapeutic potential of CTLs, it is crucial to gain a deeper understanding of these less-characterized modes of cell death.

We are seeking an exceptional and motivated researcher to lead a project aimed at dissecting the molecular determinants of previously undefined forms of CTL-induced cancer cell death and evaluating the physiological relevance of these novel death mediators using in vivo mouse models. The position has a duration of two years.

The project group is part of a vibrant and inclusive research environment (https://www.ous-research.no/kt/) at the Department of Cancer Immunology, Institute for Cancer Research (ICR), Oslo University Hospital. The group has extensive expertise in T cell biology, tumour immune evasion, CRISPR technology, chemical screening platforms, and precision oncology. 

Hydrogen compression is a key technology to drive the development of inte-grated hydrogen systems across the mobility, transport, industry, and energy sectors. Sustainable, efficient, reliable, and cost-effective hydrogen compres-sion solutions are essential to ensure hydrogen can be delivered at the required pressures for real-world applications. In this context, the candidate will perform the design, synthesis and characterization of multicomponent alloys aiming to obtain a non-toxic, safe, and sustainable metal hydride for hydrogen compres-sion. A close interaction with other European industry and research partners will upscale the compression solution based on the compositions designed and test-ed at the laboratory scale. The position is funded by the EU funded project Hy-CO2 which focuses on upscaling of a metal hydride compressor for flexible appli-cation ranges.
The research fellow will conduct research on topics such as:
•    Design of metal hydrides via thermodynamic computational tools such as the CALPHAD (Calculation of Phase Diagrams) method.
•    Synthesis of multicomponent alloys using different feedstocks with focus on performances, and sustainability of the metal hydrides. 
•    Structural characterization and hydrogen sorption analyses of alloys over a wide range of pressure conditions.

The candidate will be member of the group Materials and Technologies for Sus-tainable Energy at ITS, which conducts research in several national and EU pro-jects (e.g. HYDROGENi, HySchool, FAIR, SOLAR, AtLAST) addressing key chal-lenges related to, among other, the synthesis and characterization of materials for hydrogen-based stationary applications.