Postdoctoral Fellowship (08) at NTNU, Norway

Stillingen er knyttet til prosjektet Refugeesʼ Belonging and Participation for Inclusive Rural Areas (REMAIN) som er finansiert av Norges Forskningsråd (2026-2030). Prosjektet skal belyse flyktningers deltakelse og tilhørighet i rurale områder i Norge, med tanke på å opprettholde bærekraftige lokalsamfunn over hele landet. Prosjektet tar utgangspunkt i regjeringens politikk for desentralisert bosetting av flyktninger, samt i målet om at bosatte flyktninger skal bli værende i distriktskommuner. Prosjektets overordnede spørsmål er: Hva skal til for at flyktninger skal trives og delta i distriktskommuner, og hvilke strategier og politiske tiltak kan utvikles for å øke sannsynligheten for at de blir værende? Prosjektet skal gjennomføres av en forskergruppe på ni forskere ved flere universitet og forskningsinstitutter, og datainnsamlingen vil hovedsakelig bestå av feltarbeid med kvalitative intervjuer og observasjon i fire case-kommuner. Prosjektet skal samarbeide med flyktninger som bor i distriktsområder, kommunale velferdstjenester, arbeidsgivere og beslutningstakere for å utvikle forslag til nye politiske tiltak. 

Migrants’ uneven access to social welfare is one of the most pressing concerns in today’s European Union. InternalFortress investigates the historical roots of this issue in the early European Economic Community (EEC). The project examines how debates concerning migrants’ rights to social security, trade unions, skill development, and family reunification shaped the social impact of European integration inside the individual member states. 

The project is thus squarely focused on implementation, tracing how “free movement” was inserted into existing systems social protection. Within the EEC, mobility came with a raft of new social rights: access to pensions, to professional development, and family support, for example. Yet, crucially, these kinds of broad-based rights could only be realized with support from non-state actors on the ground: NGOs, trade unions, employers, and migrants’ mutual aid associations. These organizations fundamentally shaped the way that European migration policy played out in practice, but in doing so, they often pursued their own distinctive political and ideological programs that diverged in important ways from official priorities. Tensions intensified in the 1970s, as governments sought to restrict migration from outside the EEC while deepening transnational social rights within the bloc. These changes in migration policy intersected with the broader transformation of labour markets towards less concentrated and more flexible patterns of work, allowing local organizations to take on more authority. 

The relations between state and non-state actors in the migration sector will form the thematic core of this research position. You are encouraged to develop your own approach to this question in line with your research interests. European integration should be a key theme in your personal research agenda, although it need not be the exclusive focus. Alongside your individual research, the position will involve collaborating with the principal investigator to organize a conference and a journal special issue on the transformation of the European migration landscape in the 1970s, with a particular focus on the changing roles of governments, unions, employers, and migrant associations. 

Postdoktorstillingen er en sentral del av «Kidney CAG Trondheim: Implementing Kidney Guidelines and Exploring Tubular Functions – A New Dimension of Kidney Health». CAG-aktiviteten følger to hovedlinjer: 

Den første er å jobbe mot fastleger og sykehusspesialister for å bedre diagnostikk og behandling av nyrepasienter i Midt-Norge ved å systematisk ta i bruk gjeldende kliniske retningslinjer. Automatisert identifisering av nyrepasienter fra laboratorieprøver, digitale påminnelser til pasienter og fastleger, og informasjon og oppfrisking av kunnskap om nyresjukdom til fastlege-korpset, er eksempler på metoder vi vil iverksette slik at flere nyrepasienter skal få nyrebeskyttende medisiner. 

Den andre hovedlinja er å fortsette vår forskning på nyre-tubulus funksjoner. Dette inkluderer utvikling og validering av nye tubulære markører for kronisk nyresjukdom i blod, urin og nyrebiopsier. Dette inkluderer både tradisjonell epidemiologisk statistisk metode og nye kunstig intelligens-støttede metoder. 

CAG prosjektet har 3-årig driftsmidler fra Samarbeidsorganet med mulighet til forlengelse i ytterligere 3 år. Vi har et bredt nettverk av samarbeidspartnere nasjonalt (fastleger og alle nyreseksjonene i Helse Midt, samt nyreforskningsgruppene i Bergen og Tromsø) og internasjonalt (San Diego, California og Aachen, Tyskland). Du vil være en meget sentral del av vårt CAG kjerneteam (professor, forsker, postdoktor og 1-2 PhD-kandidater, alle i 50% stillinger).

To limit climate impact, future gas turbine technology must be capable of operating using alternative low or zero carbon fuels and fuel blends to support the emergence of zero net CO2 emission energy systems. However, significant technical challenges must be overcome when operating with new fuels or fuel-blends. New and existing engines must be designed to prevent combustion instabilities, flashback, and maintain low NOx emissions during operation. 

The current project will focus on the fuel flexible operation of a simple lab-scale axially staged combustor using H2/NH3 fuel blends, with the aim of better understanding the thermoacoustic stability of the system. The project will involve conducting a series of laboratory experiments using state-of-the-art measurement methods such as high-speed imaging, and acoustic measurements using dynamic pressure sensors to measure the flame response. In particular, the project will focus on novel methods of introducing flow perturbations, to rapidly and accurately characterise the acoustic response of the flame. Such characterisation will help improve our understanding of the dynamic response and stability of a practically relevant configuration, and help identify beneficial fuel splits and operating states, aiding the rapid development of zero carbon gas turbine technology.

The department of Electronic Systems at NTNU has a vacancy for a Post doc position in the field of Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS). The post doc will work in the CLIMIT DEMO project “Use of Fiber Optic Cables deployed at Seabed for Passive Seismic Monitoring of Northern Lights CO2 Project”. The project is lead by NORSAR and NTNU is one of 10 partners. Some of the project partners are industrial partners that are directly involved in the Northern Lights project (Equinor, Shell and Total). An overall objective for this project is to develop and test to what degree seabed fibre optic cables can be used to monitor earthquakes and microseismic events before, during and after CO2 storage operations offshore Norway. We will use conventional seismometers located onshore Norway and investigate to what extent a DAS-fibre can give more precise information about such events. In the project we will focus on characterization of offshore noise that might impact the DAS data and develop methods for reducing the impact of such noise. Mathematical methods to enhance and ease detection of minor events that might have implications for the management and handling of the CO2 storage project will be crucial. The post doc will work in close cooperation with The Centre for Geophysical Forecasting (CGF) at NTNU. CGF is a centre for research-driven innovation and is funded by the Research Council of Norway and industry partners.

At the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture, NTNU, a three-year position is available as a postdoctoral fellow (postdoc) exploring a sustainable, just and healthy urban food system in a Norwegian context. The work is funded by the Research Council of Norway project ‘Exploring planetary boundaries and social foundations for just urban food systems in Norway’ (LimEATS).

The LimEATS project addresses sustainability challenges in urban food systems, aiming to develop useful solutions for sustainable and equitable food provision in Norway. By employing interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary frameworks to explore the interconnections between planetary boundaries and social foundations, the project investigates the socio-spatial and distributional dimensions of Norwegian urban areas to better understand the intricate interrelations between increased urbanisation, social inequality, and welfare, as well as the environmental impacts of related food systems, and to envision ways to make more sustainable and equitable decisions. To strengthen the policy relevance and global applicability of the project’s findings, LimEATS will include a comparative component with urban areas in China through the ERC project ‘A Middle Way? Probing Sufficiency through Meat and Milk in China’ (MidWay), enabling cross-contextual learning and refinement of policy recommendations.

A postdoc with expertise in urban built environment studies and qualitative social sciences will play an important role in the LimEATS project, helping analyse the socioeconomic, cultural, and spatial factors influencing food inequities, and identifying key variables affecting the ‘social foundation’ of urban food systems in Norway. In particular, the postdoc will conduct comparative analysis of selected urban areas to identify similarities, differences, and potential policy solutions through the systematic mapping of urban food environments and socioeconomic disparities. The postdoc will also participate in co-designing a research framework for transformative interventions, including urban planning strategies and model simulations, and collaborate closely with research and societal partners domestically and internationally to develop a transdisciplinary approach to addressing urban food inequalities.

One Researcher position, funded for six years, is available in the Hamann research group in the STRAWBERRYWALLS project funded by the research council of Norway at the Department of Biology in Trondheim (tentative starting date: 04/2026). The project involves research groups at NTNU (Hamann, Vandegehuchte and Stokke) and the University of Tromsø (Krause). The project will investigate the role of mechanical properties of cells and tissues in the interactions between host plants (Arabidopsis, Strawberry) and parasites (the parasitic plant Cuscuta and the nematode Meloidogyne). This work will involve standard biochemical and molecular research methods as well as microscopy methods such as Brillouin microscopy, molecular rotors and custom biosensors. Further information about the research activities of the Hamann group can be found in the following publications: Bacete et al., PNAS 2021; Vaahtera et al., Nature Plants 2019. 

The newly hired Researcher will join an international research group with members coming from seven different countries on three continents. The Hamann research group is part of the organismal biology section, which consists of six research groups. Research in the section addresses topics in toxicology, animal and plant physiology as well as molecular biology.