11 Postdoctoral Fellowship at Lund University, Scania, Sweden

The discipline of environmental law encompasses those parts of the legal system (international, regional, and national) that aim to prevent environmental degradation, ,and pursue ecologically sustainable development in a broad sense. This includes, inter alia, protection of (parts of) ecosystems (ocean, water, air, land, species, biodiversity etc.), the production, use and disposal of chemicals, goods, waste management and transport, mitigation and adaption measures in the context of climate change, as well as a host of procedural and institutional issues that directly affect the effectiveness of environmental law. Further, the topic includes issues concerning the efficiency and adequacy of the legislation in relation to the purpose of environmental protection, including control, sanctions and instruments for voluntary action, the balancing between the need for environmental protection and competing interests, access to justice and the design of legal proceedings.

The post-doctoral position is situated within the project titled “Sustainable Carbon Capture Transportation and Storage: Liability and Governance in Light of International and EU Law.” It addresses the emerging practise of mitigating greenhouse gas emissions through innovative carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies. With a special focus on the sub-seabed storage of CO2, this project explores the legal frameworks and governance structures necessary to manage risks and long-term environmental liability of carbon storage in the sub-seabed. Identified risks include, for example, leakages during transportation and injection phases as well as migration and releases from sub-seabed geological formations, and risks associated with site closures and post-closure management.

The goal is to develop AI-based multi-modal prediction models for breast cancer, using both medical images (X-ray, pathology) and clinical and tumor genomic data. The project AID4BC (AI-based Precision Diagnostics and Decision Support for Breast Cancer) is a so-called NEST(Novelty, Excellence, Synergy, and Teams) project lead by Karolinska Institutet and Linköping University together with Lund University and Uppsala University as partners, and is financed by SciLifeLab and the Wallenberg National Program for Data-Driven Life Science (DDLS) and the Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program (WASP).

At Lund University, a postdoctoral position should provide opportunities for scientific and pedagogical qualifications. Primarily, there is scope for qualifications in research, but also for some higher education pedagogy training. Teaching may also be part of the duties (max. 20%).

You will work on the extension of the DUNE-FEM package to support computations on GPU hardware with various types of Finite Element methods. This work is embedded in a research project considering structure preserving Finite Element methods for multiphase flows with applications in X-ray tomography.

This postdoctoral position focuses on a project aimed at developing a sustainable, energy-efficient process for lithium recovery from spent batteries with membrane technologies. The approach combines biodegradable oxalic acid leaching with advanced membrane technologies—nanofiltration (NF), electrodialysis (ED), bipolar membrane electrodialysis (BMED), and membrane distillation (MD). This integrated method minimizes chemical consumption, reduces energy demand, and lowers environmental impact while enabling continuous operation and faster separation. The project includes collaboration with international partners, is connected to the Swedish COMPEL platform, and involves key industrial stakeholders.

The MIAO research group has a unique profile in that we are doing cutting-edge research both on the mathematical foundations of efficient computation and on state-of-the-art practical algorithms for real-world problems. This creates a very special environment, where we do not only conduct in-depth research on different theoretical and applied topics, but where different lines of research cross-fertilize each other and unexpected and exciting synergies often arise. Much of the activities of the group revolve around powerful algorithmic paradigms such as, e.g., Boolean satisfiability (SAT) solving, Gröbner basis computations, integer linear programming, and constraint programming. This leads to classical questions in computational complexity theory—though often with new, fascinating twists—but also involves work on devising clever algorithms that can exploit the power of such paradigms in practice.

Our most recent new line of research is on how to verify the correctness of state-of-the-art algorithms for combinatorial optimization. Such algorithms are often highly complex, and even mature commercial solvers are known to sometimes produce wrong results. Our work on designing a new generation of certifying combinatorial solvers, which output not only a solution but also a machine-verifiable mathematical proof that this solution is correct, has already led to several prestigious international awards, but many more exciting problems are still waiting to be solved!

The position is based in Dr. Anna Munke’s research group. The group focuses on structural studies of viruses, primarily using electron microscopy, complemented by other methods to understand structure and function.

The project involves structural studies of diatom viruses with the aim of increasing knowledge about the virus factories formed inside diatoms. The work includes cultivation of diatoms for virus infection, characterization of infection (e.g., using electron microscopy and determination of virus titers), purification of viruses and cellular components, and structure determination using cryo-electron microscopy. You are also expected to take an active role in the group’s overall research activities, including general laboratory tasks, responsibility for equipment, and assisting in the supervision of PhD students and project students.

This postdoctoral position in migration studies is connected to the project “Faith-Based Refugee Relief in Europe: Connecting the Empirical and the Ethical (FABRIC)”, funded by a Starting Grant from the European Research Council.

FABRIC investigates the role of faith-based organisations in refugee relief across Europe. The aim is to understand the moral ideas and the moral insights that Jewish, Christian, and Muslim faith-based organisations develop when working with people on the move who have been forced to flee. FABRIC compares how faith-based organisations work both in mono- and in multi-religious settings. By studying their practical work, FABRIC aims to bridge the gap between empirical and ethical perspectives in research on forced migration. A central question is how faith-based organisations practice justice, i.e. what are the conditions, constraints and consequences of their work. FABRIC aims to conceptualise a new understanding of justice that considers cross-connections between social, racial, and climate justice on regional, national, and global scales.

Batteries play an important role in the energy transition, especially in transport and grid applications. To accelerate the transition to fossil-free societies, it is crucial to understand battery lifetime in different contexts.

In this position, you’ll be part of a new research team, including senior researchers and PhD students, combining expertise to advance battery research. You’ll draw on advanced models that assess how charging, temperature, and balancing influence battery state-of-health—and bring these insights to life through experimental validation in a unique battery pack testing facility. The position will be funded by COMPEL and collaboration within the framework is strongly encouraged.

Over the past century, climate and land-use transformations have significantly altered ecosystems, shifted species distributions toward higher latitudes and altitudes, and affected species’ phenology and morphology. This project investigates how bumblebee communities respond to climate warming and land-use change, focusing on shifts in body size and their implications for pollination services.

We aim to:

(i) analyse temporal and spatial shifts in body size among bumblebee species in Sweden, and assess whether these shifts are linked to species resilience to changing landscapes and climates,

(ii) determine the underlying mechanisms of body size changes – whether they are driven by genetic adaptation or phenotypic plasticity, and

(iii) evaluate farm landscape management strategies to sustain pollination services in light of changes in bumblebee community composition and body sizes.

The project will integrate data from historical bumblebee specimens housed in Swedish natural history museums with contemporary field sampling and advanced genomic techniques.

The research is funded by the BECC (Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate) Incubator Grant “The role of bumblebee body size variation in resilience of populations and crop pollination to global changes” awarded to Prof. Bengt Hansson, Dr. Anna Persson, Dr. Romain Carrié and Dr. William Sidemo Holm at Lund University (LU) and Dr. Christine Bacon at University of Gothenburg (UGOT).