Postdoctoral Fellowship (16) at University of Oslo, Norway

The AutoWire project is based on our recent identification of novel HIF1A targets involved in autophagy. The project aims to mechanistically characterize these novel HIF1A targets in autophagy and their role in regulation of the Warburg effect and tumorigenesis in response to HIF1A activation. 

The successful candidate should have extensive experience from experimental laboratory work in biochemistry and/or molecular cell biology using techniques such as cell culture, CRISPR/Cas9 based genome editing, protein expression and interaction analysis, light microscopy and cancer assays. A solid background in data analysis, bioinformatics and presentation of results, as well as good communication and organizational skills will also be required. 

We are looking for a highly motivated individual with the personal prerequisites to work independently and carry out the project within the given timeframe. The candidate may also be involved in supervision of students. Emphasis will be attributed to team-working and personal skills. 

The primary objectives of the MiRMet project are to mechanistically decipher how dysfunctional mitochondria are recognized and targeted for lysosomal destruction under hypoxic and OXPHOS conditions and to characterize the role of mitophagy in the metabolic rewiring of tumor cells and cells of the TME during tumorigenesis.

The successful candidate should have extensive experience from experimental laboratory work in biochemistry and/or molecular cell biology (using techniques such as cell culture, CRISPR/Cas9 based genome editing, protein expression and interaction analysis, confocal and live cell microscopy), as well as bioinformatics knowledge. A strong background in data analysis and presentation of results, as well as good communication and organizational skills will also be required.

We are looking for a highly motivated individual with the personal prerequisites to work independently and carry out the project within the given timeframe. The candidate may also be involved in supervision of students. Emphasis will be attributed to team-working and personal skills. 

The Department of Political Science is recruiting a Postdoctoral Fellow (SKO 1352) with specialisation in public policy and administration, comparative politics or international relations. The successful applicant will work with the political science component of the interdisciplinary research project “Renewable energy-driven recycling of CO2 and H2O to consumer products and fuels, (CH-CYCLE)”. The appointment is a fulltime position for a period of three years. Depending on the candidate’s competence and the teaching needs of the department, the fellowship period can be extended up to four years for other types of qualification work including various teaching tasks and obligations.

The primary aim of CH-CYCLE is to understand how to overcome key technological, environmental and political obstacles to renewable energy driven recycling of CO2 and H2O to consumer products and fuels. The political science component of CH-CYCLE explores policies that influence the development of Carbon Removals, and particularly Carbon Capture and Usage. Three political science issues are crucial to CH-CYCLE. First, Europeanization of CCU policies, for instance studies of the relationship between national and EU-level policy developments in countries such as Germany and Norway. Second, examining science-policy relationships relating to CCU. This may include studies of how varying expert communities portray the role of Carbon Capture and Usage in the climate transition, for instance through modelling. Third, studies of CCU relevant policy developments at the national level, for instance explored through process-tracing or large-text assessments. The Postdoctoral Fellow is expected to contribute to cross-disciplinary publications in the CH-CYCLE project. See more information about the project here: Renewable energy-driven recycling of CO₂ and H₂O into consumer products and fuels (CH-CYCLE) – UiO:Energy and Environment

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.no for more information.

How can we design and implement real‐time AI systems for immersive, dynamic, and ethical human‐machine collaborations in artistic performances? MishMash Work Package 1 will address this challenge by emphasising AI systems that facilitate continuous interactions between humans and machine agents, potentially including multiple and embodied AI agents. Countering the current trends of very large models with hard-to-control outputs, we will focus on balancing data-based approaches with artists’ knowledge and search-based methods to achieve personalised and novel outputs.

This position will have a particular focus on developing fundamental AI algorithms and methods that can be used in systems for real-time creative and artistic settings. The candidate will be part of a team that creates algorithms, software, and potentially hardware and explores them in artistic contexts.

The successful applicant will work jointly with Professor Joseph LaCasce, who recently became head of department. Various research topics can be explored, depending on the applicant’s interests. Possible themes include:

1) the changing Meridional Overturning Circulation, from models and in situ data
2) using Lagrangian measurements to study ocean dynamics, for example transport and spectral characteristics
3) ocean-bathymetry interactions

Other topics are also of interest. We have active collaborations with others in the department and at the Norwegian Meteorological Institute, and it will be possible to design collaborative projects as well. The exact plan will be worked out with the successful applicant on arrival in Oslo.

The main purpose of a postdoctoral fellowship is to provide the candidates with enhanced skills to pursue a scientific position in or outside academia. To promote a strategic career path, all postdoctoral research fellows submit a professional development plan, within one month after commencement of the postdoctoral period.

Global climate change and pollution are major threats to ecosystem integrity and biodiversity, and challenge a sustainable future. Climate change affects the accumulation and effects of pollutants in organisms, so-called climate-induced toxicant sensitivity. In the SoilStress project funded by the Research Council of Norway (project number 358314), we address mechanisms underlying cumulative effects, recovery, and ecophysiological tipping points from multiple stressor disturbances (climate change and pollution). We will study complex questions of WHY key biological responses to multiple stressors (climatic stress and agricultural used pesticides) differ between populations, micro-climate, and climatic regions; WHY tolerance to pesticide exposure decreases with temperature stress; and IF the tipping point to disturbance by temperature and pesticides, and recovery from disturbance removal, depends on the populations phenotypic plasticity and/or genetic adaptation. As our model system, we study springtails (Collembola), key terrestrial ectothermic invertebrates of the soil community.

The postdoc will be mainly responsible for conducting long-term laboratory experiments investigating why pesticides exhibit increased toxicity to springtails at higher temperatures, exploring mechanisms such as enhanced bioaccumulation leading to elevated internal concentrations, metabolic scaling effects, and the rising costs of repair and homeostasis maintenance under pesticide-induced stress. This involves analyzing toxicokinetic processes in the ecologically relevant species Hypogastrura viatica and its diet across varying temperatures and exposure concentrations, while considering how temperature influences uptake, elimination, biotransformation, and the formation of potentially more toxic metabolites. The role emphasizes sublethal effects on fitness, using demographic modeling to assess impacts from genes to populations, and testing hypotheses related to metabolic rate increases, energy allocation shifts, temperature-dependent bioaccumulation, and varying toxicity across biological levels. 

We seek a highly motivated, enthusiastic candidate who has completed a PhD degree (or other corresponding education equivalent to a Norwegian doctoral degree) in ecotoxicology or related fields. Candidates with experience in experiments with soil invertebrates, especially springtails, and publishing papers in leading journals are highly encouraged to apply. 

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.

We seek a PhD-holding research enthusiast, with an interest in developing high-impact research modeling future electricity systems in Norway and Europe. The successful candidate will work on the recently funded Research Council of Norway project NORBAT (“Batteries as flexibility providers for the Norwegian electric power system – drivers, opportunities, and challenges”) in close collaboration with the Fridtjof Nansen Institute (FNI). The position will also contribute to the UiO Convergence Environment EMPOWER, which examines the role of battery production and use in electric vehicles in Norway. The candidate will be part of the Energy Systems Modelling Group of ITS which has a number of projects integrating socio-ecological factors into energy system modelling to support more robust decision-making. This provides the candidate with several exciting collaboration opportunities, including the Marie Skłodowska-Curie project SAMVIND, FME Solar and the recently awarded NFR Toppforsk project FEASIBILITY in collaboration with FNI and NTNU.

The role involves close collaboration with FNI, other departments across the University of Oslo, industry partners and University College London (UCL). The successful candidate will work with and further develop the electricity system model highRES to analyse the role of batteries in future electricity systems, with a particular focus on Norway within an interconnected European context, including crosscountry comparisons and spatial co-benefits and trade-offs. Please contact the project lead if you have further questions about the project.

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. 

A Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (SKO 1352) in the computational analysis of gesture-vocalization interactions is available in connection with the research project, SongGesture: Co-singing gesture and vocal performance across three musical traditions, funded by the Research Council of Norway. The project is affiliated with RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion at the University of Oslo

All RITMO researchers are co-located and work in a unique interdisciplinary constellation, with world-leading competence in musicology, psychology and informatics. It is expected that all members of the centre contribute to the general activities and collaborations within RITMO. 

One or two three-year Postdoctoral Research Fellowship is available at the Department of Mathematics in the research group of Prof. Andreas Carlson at the University of Oslo (UiO). 

The positions are part of two projects funded by the Research Council of Norway for the development of a soft hairy surfaces for droplet flow control and vibration-based soft robot. The project has an ambitious aim to demonstrate how physical principles from a new understanding of the coupling between viscous flow and elastic deformation of solids to inspire new technological developments. 

The project will provide a fundamental understanding of the physical processes at play when droplets interact with soft hairy surfaces and when actively driving a soft sheet near a wall. Essential to the projects is developing a new understanding of the fluid-structure interactions, that is to say, the coupling between hair’s/sheet’s elastic deformations and the fluid flow. The project aims to develop a contactless soft robot relying on these operating principles (guided by our physical understanding of the processes) and using hairy surfaces for flow control. The projects requires detailed measurements of the dynamic soft elastic interface and the fluid flow, as well as theoretical and numerical developments. 

The project provides oportunities to collaborate with both national and international collaborators, as well as exploring sustainability aspects of the technology. This is the right position if you are highly motivated about fundamental science and excited about questions related to fluid-structure interactions (elastohydrodynamics) and interfacial fluid mechanics in the context of soft robotics. The Postdoctoral Research Fellowship will join an international and interdisciplinary research group lead by Prof. Andreas Carlson, which hosts other projects including an ERC Consolidator Grant. 

The position is part of the RESPIRE project funded by the Research Council of Norway (https://www.mn.uio.no/ifi/english/research/projects/respire/index.html). Respire is an interdisciplinary research project with partners in medicine (Institute of Clinical Medicine (UiO), Oslo University Hospital, Lovisenberg Diakonale Sykehus), ethics (Centre for Medical Ethics (UiO), law (Department of Private Law (UiO), and computer science (Department of Informatics (UiO), Department of Computer Science (National University of Singapore). 

The goal of RESPIRE is to develop Machine Learning (ML) solutions for sleep-related disorders of infants and patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease that receive mechanical ventilation treatment. These solutions should be (1) explainable to the different users, including patients, health professionals, and ML developers, and (2) responsible with respect ethical and legal considerations. So far the project has collected sleep monitoring data from more than 200 infants with the polysomnography and at the same time with a short range ultra-wideband radar called Somnofy (https://vitalthings.com). Furthermore, the project produces currently extensive amounts of synthetic data with a lung/breathing/ventilation workbench