Postdoctoral Fellowship (24) at University of Oslo, Norway

The position is associated with the Centre for Planetary Habitability and linked to a project entitled “The Great Oxygenation Event and Planetary Habitability” (GOEPHAB) funded by the Research Council of Norway. GOE-PHAB is part of an international initiative (17 partner countries) GOE-DEEP (Gabon and Oxygenation of Earth – Drilling Early Earth Project), which aims to obtain 11 drill cores from an
exceptional archive of Paleoproterozoic time, the Franceville Basin in Gabon, Africa. Drill targets span the time interval of key events in the early Proterozoic (2.5-2.0 Ga), including the potential to deliver new insights about the initial rise of atmospheric oxygen. The cores will form new geobiological, geochronological, geochemical, paleomagnetic and sedimentological knowledge to reconstruct the
environmental conditions and resolve fundamental questions that remain about the emergence of Earth´s aerobic biosphere-hydrosphere-atmosphere system.

The prime objective for GOE-PHAB is to understand the environmental changes that enhanced planetary habitability during the early Proterozoic and the project will be carried out in close co-operation with project partners at the Geological Survey of
Norway (NGU, Trondheim), Tuffs University (USA), Helsinki University (Finland), Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK, Germany) and Carleton University (Canada). Eight GOE-DEEP cores have already been drilled and will be available for sub-sampling in early 2026 at the Geological Survey of Norway (NGU, Trondheim). The successful candidate will partly be involved in core sub-sampling

We are now seeking a Postdoctoral Fellow who will contribute to the analysis and publication of data that has not yet been fully utilized within the project. Applicants shall develop independent and relevant research ideas within the scope of the project and articulate these in a project description (see more information below). The Postdoctoral Fellow will collaborate closely with the project group and is expected to build and maintain productive relationships with ECEC leaders and teachers. 

Applicants should demonstrate strong motivation and relevant qualifications to participate in all stages of the research process—from data preparation and analysis to the dissemination of 
high‑quality scientific publications. In addition, we are particularly interested in candidates with documented experience in data management and processing, with specific emphasis on transcription and the analysis of interaction data. Most importantly, we especially encourage applicants who wish to investigate implementation processes and the longitudinal implications of the intervention for children’s language outcomes. In our assessment of applicants, we will emphasize experience with longitudinal analyses, knowledge about the Norwegian education system and the relevance of the applicants’ prior research for the Oslo Early Education Study. 

Applicants are invited for a three to four-year full-time position as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Research on Equality in Education (CREATE), University of Oslo, Norway.

CREATE is an interdisciplinary Centre of Excellence funded by the Research Council of Norway with the objective of generating novel knowledge about how to reduce social inequality. The interdisciplinary center integrates researchers with substantive expertise from sociology, psychology, education, economics, and genetics, and methodological expertise from educational measurement, psychometrics, econometrics, statistics, and biostatistics. The Postdoctoral Fellowship is affiliated with CREATE’s research strand 1 «Identifying the barriers to equality in education», aiming to disentangle the causal mechanisms that hinder equality and to understand for whom, how, and why these mechanisms operate over time and across the life course.

Position as Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Pharmacoepidemiology available at the Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Oslo, Norway. 

A 3-year position as Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Pharmacoepidemiology is available at the Department of Pharmacy, University of Oslo. The candidate will be part of the UiO:Life Science convergence environment “UiO:Real-World Evidence: Capitalizing on Norwegian Health Data for Rapid Generation of Real-World Evidence on Effectiveness and Safety of Pharmaceutical”, funded by UiO:Life Science. The appointment is a fulltime position for a period of three years, and includes 10% career-promoting work, which consists of teaching, dissemination, and contributions within the UiO:RWE convergence environment.

Starting date no later than 01.10.2026.

No one can be appointed for more than one Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the University of Oslo.

The place of work will be at the Department of Pharmacy’s premises on the Blindern campus. In 2026, the Department of Pharmacy will move into the new Life Sciences Building, which will offer modern teaching and research facilities.

Evidence-based medicine (EBM) has produced major advances, as exemplified by digital and trustworthy living guidelines and tools for shared decision-making (SDM) in an enhanced evidence ecosystem (www.magicevidence.org). Implementation barriers include clinicians and patients facing time pressure and increasingly complex treatment choices. The breakthrough for Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Large Language Models (LLMs) holds great potential, yet its trustworthiness and impact on care remains uncertain. Integration of EBM, behavioural science and technology holds potential to unlock key barriers along the road to kind and careful patient care.

Within this context, the project will investigate how evidence on treatment benefits, harms, burden and uncertainty is communicated and used and how this – through improved decision support tools and AI – affects decision-making in practice. The project is likely to primarily focus on drugs within selected clinical topics such as oncology, chronic pain and diabetes due to ongoing projects and opportunities.

This position offers a unique opportunity to conduct high-impact research embedded in global guideline development and evidence-to-practice initiatives. The fellow will work within an international network of leading researchers, clinicians, journals, and policy organisations and will have opportunities for high-impact publications and extensive networking.

The appointment is a full-time position for a period of three years (10% devoted to career-promoting work, usually teaching).

The main purpose of a postdoctoral fellowship is to qualify researchers for work in top academic positions. All postdoctoral fellows must submit a Career Development Plan within one month after starting.

The successful candidate will play a key role in establishing an experimental research line within Associate Professor Ainara Nova’s research group in the Section for Catalysis and Organic Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry. The group has extensive experience in computational modelling, reaction mechanisms, and machine learning for catalyst design and discovery. Nova is also a Principal Investigator at the Hylleraas Centre for Quantum Molecular Science, a Norwegian Centre of Excellence dedicated to the development and application of advanced computer simulations, including AI-based methods. 

The project associated with this position aims to take advantage of a virtual library of more than 1 million organometallic bifunctional catalysts, optimised for hydrogenation and dehydrogenation reactions. The successful candidate will select and synthesise ligands and organometallic complexes from the library, including pincer ligands, and evaluate their catalytic performance in hydrogenation, dehydrogenation, and hydrogen transfer reactions. Detailed characterization and kinetic studies will be performed to test computational predictions and microkinetic models, and to refine machine learning models. 

The successful candidate will collaborate with other groups in the Section for Catalysis and Organic Chemistry to incorporate these catalysts into solid networks (MOFs), taking advantage of the section’s expertise and facilities. In addition to conducting research, this position will involve laboratory management and supervision of MSc and PhD students conducting experimental work. The position will begin in the new Life Science Building, with access to state-of-the-art equipment and a large interdisciplinary environment spanning chemistry, pharmacy, bioscience, and medicine. 

The Section for Catalysis and Organic Chemistry comprises of approximately 35 members, divided into six groups, focusing on the synthesis, characterisation, and performance testing of homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysts, including metal-organic frameworks and zeolites.

The Section for Catalysis and Organic Chemistry is part of the Centre for Materials Science and Nanotechnology (SMN). The SMN is a highly interdisciplinary centre within the Faculty of Chemistry and Physics, focusing on renewable energy, materials science, and nanotechnology.

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 postdoctoral fellow will be one of four recruitment positions in BioM filled simultaneously (parallel hires: 2 PhD fellows, in population ecology and statistics, and a postdoctoral fellow in spatial ecological modeling). This position will be affiliated to philosophy at the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas (IFIKK) and the research group Science and Democracy (SciDem), led by Professor Cathrine Holst, and Centre for Philosophy and the Sciences (CPS). The postdoctoral fellow will carry out research on biodiversity modeling and nature governance, addressing the following aims (WP5 in BioM):

5.1 Critically assess the model-translation and device-making in contemporary nature governance. 

5.2 Understand the role of such models in democratic decision making.

5.3 Propose improvements to the current management regime, including modelling practices. 

The fellow will develop a more detailed plan for how to approach and achieve these aims in cooperation with Professor Cathrine Holst (SciDem/IFIKK) and the leader of BioM, Professor Olav Skarpaas (Natural History Museum).

During the 3-years period the postdoc will collaborate closely with the project team (PIs, PhDs and postdoc), project partners and stakeholders on demographic analysis (WP2), ecological analysis (WP3), and modelling methods (WP4). The postdoc is expected to co-organize project workshops and seminars, and write a synthesis paper, co-authored by recruitment positions and project partners. The successful candidate shall allocate 10 % of normal working hours to career-enhancing work, such as teaching, outreach, and project management and organization.

The postdoc will be based at IFIKK most of the time, with shorter secondments to other departments at the University of Oslo involved in the project and includes opportunities for international exchange.

The candidate will be part of a newly established Life Science Convergence Environment GENESIS: Gene–Epigenome–Active Matter Nexus in Early Embryogenesis, funded by UiO’s interdisciplinary strategic initiative UiO:Life Science. GENESIS brings together active matter physics, cell biology, and computational biology to address the fundamental processes guiding the earliest stages of mammalian embryo development. The project will combine experimental data obtained through advanced live imaging and spatially resolved molecular profiling with theoretical and computational modeling. 

The postdoctoral candidate will: 

• Analyze quantitative molecular and imaging data produced by other members of GENESIS. 
• Develop new machine learning models to identify gene regulatory mechanisms involved in the physical mechanisms of cellular self-organization during early mouse embryo. 
• Develop new machine learning models to learn minimal dynamic models of gene regulation from longitudinal molecular and imaging data. 
• Work closely with other members of GENESIS performing biological experiments, quantitative imaging and biophysical modeling to develop a unified multiscale framework connecting gene regulation, tissue mechanics and morphogenesis. 

The candidate will be employed at the Oslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology (OCBE) at the Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo. While the candidate will have a desk at OCBE premises at Domus Medica, the main physical working location will be the new Life Sciences Building, where the GENESIS convergence environment will be located. In addition, the candidate will be associated to the center of excellence Integreat, the Norwegian center for knowledge-driven machine learning, in which OCBE is a partner institution. 

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Postdoc Fellowship Position summary/title: Postdoctoral fellowship on nuclear integrity and mechano-resilience in glioblastoma cancer

Deadline : 10th April 2026

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As a post-doctoral fellow, you will be working on the NORCIE project alongside Professors Craig Parsons and Bent Sofus Tranøy at ARENA, as well as partners in the project at the Department of Economics, UiO, the Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI), and the Peace Research Institute Oslo. You will be expected to both assist with research tasks designed by the project leaders and to develop and implement your own research in related areas. The position is announced within the overall thematic focus of the NORCIE project, with a particular emphasis on NORCIE’s research regarding the evolving EU economic order. Given NORCIE’s mission to inform Norwegian policy discussions, it is desirable that candidates have an interest in issues of relevance to Norway.

The selected candidate should have research experience and interests that connect to some of the ARENA-led components of NORCIE. 

The largest part of ARENA’s involvement in NORCIE will be related to studying the evolving EU economic order. The concept of rules-based openness has always been at the core of EU economic principles, but major pressures are pushing the EU to develop more active and discretionary capabilities. We will study these processes of change from both inside the EU (with interview research on the EU’s evolving policies regarding tradable goods, financial services, and information technology) and in the EU’s key external relationships (researching the related policies of the US, China, Russia, India and Brazil and their consequences for interactions with the EU). 

The purpose of the project is to increase our knowledge of the complex interplay between genes and environments in shaping our health and the position we occupy on the social and economic ladder. More specifically, we use the quickly increasing availability of large-scale genotype data across Europe, along with detailed register and survey data from several countries, to map out how specific genetic factors covary with and interact with our environmental exposures in producing variation in outcomes like mental health and health behaviours, education, income, political participation, social trust and other prosocial behaviours. The project aims at continuing to develop a world-class interdisciplinary research environment at the forefront of social science genomics.

The project is now searching for three new postdoctoral fellows across three different research nodes – one at Uppsala university, one at the University of Oslo and one at Amsterdam UMC. The three postdoctoral fellows will work closely in collaboration with each other as well as with other project members across all three nodes. A full description of the project can be found here.

The successful candidates are expected to conduct research with a focus on one or more of the core questions of the project. To facilitate research collaboration, the candidates will also spend some amount of time at the other two nodes.

Genomics and Life Paths have three overall objectives: 
1: Conducting several comprehensive Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS) focusing on various life-course outcomes, with corresponding follow-ups and independent replications.
2: Cultivating and enhancing an international and interdisciplinary research setting by offering opportunities for a number of postdoctoral researchers to establish themselves in the field of social science genomics.
3: Lowering barriers of entry for researchers in the broader social science domain who are interested in integrating genomic data into their research endeavours. 

Genomics and Life Paths will integrate temporal, spatial, social, genetic, and individual levels of inference. Studying individuals with similar genetic profiles will allow to uncover the influences of time periods, places, schools, and families. This will allow us to jointly evaluate hypotheses on direct and indirect pathways into poor mental health, academic challenges, and workforce exclusion.

With Norwegian national registries giving full genealogy and year-by-year event data on place of residence, SES, mental health, and educational performance, the project will be in the position to consider the entire country since 1940. A population-based cohort study comprising 100 000 genotyped families with a wide array of survey data is nested within the population registry data. This investigation of the interplay between extended social arenas and family factors will help to grasp inequity in mental health and educational outcomes.

The project aims to explore novel RNA modifications and to elucidate their functions and underlying mechanisms in early embryonic development, leveraging our state-of-the-art epigenetic and epitranscriptomic methodologies (Nature, 2016; Nature Genetics, 2020; Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, 2023; Nature Biotechnology, 2024; The EMBO Journal, 2025). These advanced approaches promise groundbreaking insights into epitranscriptomic regulation in ultra-low-input samples, such as early embryos.

We are seeking a highly motivated Postdoctoral Fellow with strong expertise in RNA-seq and multi-omics data analysis. Candidates should be proficient in Python and/or R and have a solid background in Biology, Computational Biology, or Bioinformatics. The successful candidate will work in close collaboration with an interdisciplinary team including bioinformaticians, embryologists, molecular biologists, and clinicians. Prior experience in developmental biology is not required, but an interest in early embryo development is expected.

The position is associated with the Centre for Planetary Habitability and linked to the “Galactic Recipe for Exo-Planets” (GREP) project funded by the Research Council of Norway. GREP is to take exoplanet and exoplanetary system formation modelling to the next level.

Several thousands of exoplanets have been discovered in more than 5000 stellar systems, and several thousands more planets are pending confirmation. Although this high number allows for good statistical analyses of the known exoplanets and the systems they occur in, none of the systems resemble our solar system. and only a few hundreds of exoplanets can broadly be considered temperate and rocky. Consequently, the collection lacks typical inner solar system planets (i.e., Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars), and the systems are commonly very compact.

Despite the numerous numerical models that have been proposed and progressively refined by the observational constraints over the past decade(s), our understanding of the observed exoplanetary diversity remains incomplete. The upcoming PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars (PLATO) mission shall detect and characterise planets smaller than twice the Earthʼs size at high parameter accuracy for planet radius and mass and system age around bright stars. The anticipation of more extended systems, although they probably will not resemble the solar system either, is challenging our standard models of planet formation. Our goal is to predict and reproduce the architecture of these exoplanetary systems and the exoplanet properties, including composition, thereby testing currently competing planet formation models against observations.

The primary responsibilities of this position involve the implementation of chemical compositions for forming exoplanets, using PLATO stars as a compositional guide. This includes assessing the distribution of specific elements during condensation in the stellar nebula, gathering elemental availability for the major rock-forming and volatile elements across planet forming disks. It specifically entails tracing the chemical composition back to dynamical models of planet formation, focusing on the building blocks and feeding zones for each forming planet. This work will build upon our previous work and shall incorporate new disc models for N-body simulations of planet formation.