Postdoctoral Fellowship (34) at Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark

If you are planning to advance your career in the direction of electrochemical energy storage with 2D materials in focus, then this postdoc position at DTU Energy might be for you.

MXenes are a new class of two-dimensional materials discovered around 14 years ago. It is the graphene analogue for MAX phases. MAX phases are a class of ceramic materials with pseudo-ductility whereas MXenes are a special class of materials which offers versatile combination of properties from electrical conductivity, mechanical strength, electromagnetic shielding to energy conversion. As 2D materials, MXenes offer the possibility of tunable interlayer spacing, providing unique opportunities for design and functionalization. This feature enables tailored properties for specific applications. 

The field of MXene research is rapidly expanding, presenting researchers with numerous exciting opportunities to make groundbreaking discoveries and contribute to cutting-edge advancements. It offers the platform for inter-disciplinary research where materials scientists, physicists, chemists, engineers, and other specialists can contribute as a team.

As a postdoc in our group, you will drive your own project while contributing to the broader scientific output of the group, working closely with PhD students, fellow postdocs, and senior researchers in a highly collaborative international environment.

Your main responsibilities will include:

• Carrying out original research within your assigned project (A, B, C, or D), spanning theoretical modeling, numerical simulations, nanofabrication in our state-of-the-art cleanroom, and advanced optical, electromechanical, or quantum-optical characterization, as appropriate for the project
• Publishing your results in leading peer-reviewed journals and presenting them at international conferences
• Co-supervising PhD and MSc students and contributing to a positive, inclusive, and curiosity-driven research environment
• Engaging in collaborations with other groups at DTU and with our external academic and industrial partners
• Contributing to research proposals and to the dissemination of results to academic, industrial, and broader audiences

DTU Bioengineering is excited to announce an open postdoc position, as part of the new established WAVE consortium for saline effluents valorization into high-value compounds using non-conventional yeasts. This project turns the critical characteristics of dairy wastewater into interesting features and avoids the necessity of whey separation and drying considering it as a valuable stream to be converted into carbon sources. Hence, this project will apply microbial-based bioprocesses towards dairy WAstewater reuse and conVErsion into new bioplastics (WAVE). For this, WAVE aims to obtain low-salinity clean water ready to use in landscaping and bioplastics to be applied in several sectors.

In the proposed WAVE technology, dairy wastewater containing whey will be used as feedstock to produce short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs) in an anaerobic fermentation, then subsequently converted into single cell proteins (SCP) using the halophilic yeast Debaryomyces hansenii while reducing the salt content in the broth by engineering intake and compartmentalization cellular transport systems.

We are seeking a Postdoc with a background in engineering within food science or veterinary education highly skilled in large language modelling to be used in Generative/Agent AI modelling. The projects include cooperation with European partners, and case projects related to animal health and welfare. You might also take part in the development of the automatization of the National and European reporting of zoonoses and in relevant teaching at DTU National Food Institute.

You will plan the studies together with team colleagues. Moreover, you will conduct the analysis and disseminate the results to various stakeholders. You should enjoy a balance of practical work in the field, data analysis and writing up the results. You are highly motivated, solution-oriented, and unafraid to ask questions. Previous work experience with National food surveillance data is an advantage. It is a requirement to speak and write English fluently.  It is a strong advantage to speak and write Danish fluently since contact with the industry in the projects is necessary and since some department work (advisory work) will be expected. 

DTU Space is seeking a postdoc to engage in and strengthen its long-term airborne gravimetry activities. The position involves state-of-the-art research development in quantum technologies and involvement in the EU Horizon project EQUIP-G, aiming to strengthen the European community around quantum gravimetry.

The position is associated with the division of Geodesy and Earth Observation (GEO), which has a long history of research in geodesy and strong competencies in Arctic logistics and airborne geophysical observations. The gravity research group has conducted airborne gravimetry since the 1990’s and has an annual work program to maintain and develop the geodetic reference networks of Denmark and Greenland related to gravity and height systems.

Dit primære fokus vil være at stå for planlægning, koordinering, dataanalyse, kostmodellering og kommunikation i forbindelse med SustainLife‑projektet. Studiets mål er at udvikle nye, velsmagende, planterige måltider samt tilpassede kostplaner til både raske ældre og beboere på plejehjem. Dette skal ske i tæt samarbejde med relevante aktører og professionelle køkkener samt med udgangspunkt i brugernes eksisterende madvaner og præferencer.

Derudover vil du skulle indgå i nogle af gruppens øvrige opgaver, fx gennemførelse af undersøgelser af danskernes kost og fysiske aktivitet og deltagelse i forskningsprojekter, der har til formål at fremme planterige og bæredygtige kostvaner.

t DTU National Food Institute, we are offering a 1-year postdoc position on the project SayCheese. 

In SayCheese the focus is on testing solutions for speeding up the cheese ripening process. Does this sound interesting and do you have the right profile, then don’t hesitate to apply

If you are establishing your career as an experimental scientist and are motivated to work at the forefront of translational immunology and airway biology, this position offers a unique opportunity. As a postdoctoral researcher, you will investigate fundamental molecular mechanisms underlying virus-induced childhood asthma using advanced human airway cell models. Your work will contribute directly to developing future precision medicine strategies for severe asthma, within a highly collaborative and internationally recognised research environment.

If you wish to use your research capacity as a 3-year postdoc to enable faster implementation of new biobased building and construction materials, this is an option for you. 

For new types of biobased building and construction materials, there is inherently no empirical knowledge of their properties over long service lives based on experience. This is hindering adoption, which requires documentation of their safe use throughout their service life and within a circular economy across multiple service lives in different buildings. 

In this project, an entirely new experimental and computational methodology is developed to assess safe use with respect to structural safety, fire safety, possible content of hazardous components, and the provision of a healthy indoor environment throughout their entire service life. The methodology will include established methods for biobased materials, likely after modifications, and additional methods as needed and as systematization progresses. Accelerated tests and modeling of changes in characteristics in different environments are both highly important topics.

The successful candidates will be part of the DTU Sustain Section for Construction Materials and Durability. The postdoctoral research will be conducted in connection with the new, large research project Civil Engineering and the Green Transition in the Built Environment (CEBE).  As part of the section and the CEBE project, the successful candidate will join a highly ambitious work environment that involves extensive national and international collaboration with leading academic institutions and industry partners.

We invite applications for a Postdoctoral Researcher position within the area of stability, dynamics, and control of converter-based power systems, with a strong focus on future energy systems dominated by power electronics, offshore wind, and HVDC-connected grids.

The transition to renewable, converter-dominated power systems raises fundamental challenges in system stability, control interactions, and resilient operation. At DTU, you will work in a collaborative, interdisciplinary, and international research environment, contributing to solutions with real-world impact on the European energy transition.

The Division for Power and Energy Systems at DTU Wind and Energy Systems conducts cutting-edge research on sustainable, reliable, and cost-efficient energy systems for the benefit of society. At DTU Wind and Energy Systems, you will be part of a creative and inspiring work environment with about 400 highly skilled and motivated colleagues.

We are particularly committed to increasing gender diversity in power and energy systems research and strongly encourage women and other underrepresented groups to apply.

Your overall focus will be to advance our understanding of the ecological principles that govern the success of microbial bioinoculant consortia. Under the Lab2Field project, you will create a knowledge framework for the successful field application of microbial biostimulants and biopesticides. You will work closely with colleagues at DTU Bioengineering, farmers, industry partners, and regulatory bodies. You will contribute to generating knowledge that links insights from laboratory experiments with Synthetic Communities to field-level agronomic performance of multi-strain bioinoculants.

Your primary tasks will be to:

• Design and refine complex synthetic communities (SynComs) to simulate diverse soil microbial environments 
• Investigate bioinoculant colonization under varying soil, host & microbial factors  
• Track bioinoculant populations & community dynamics of the resident microbiome 
• Use multi-variate analysis to integrate microbiome & plant data to find ecological drivers of bioinoculant success 
• Contribute to supervision of PhD/MSc/BSc students and support project activities 
• Communicate across sectors with farmers, regulatory bodies, stakeholders & industry

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Postdoc Fellowship Position summary/title: Postdoc in Frequency Combs for Deep-Tissue Optical Coherence Tomography – DTU Health Tech

Deadline : 11 June 2026

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We are seeking a postdoctoral researcher to establish and develop a new research line on engineering methane monooxygenases for methane conversion at BRIGHT. If you are building your career as a scientist and want to work at the forefront of protein bioinformatics and synthetic biology, this is an opportunity to help define a new research direction. The position combines structure-based modelling of proteins and membrane environments with experimental validation in bacterial hosts and is ideally suited for candidates with experience in structural modelling, molecular simulations, and heterologous protein expression. The successful candidate will play a key role in building new workflows and experimental platforms within the group.

A postdoc position affiliated with the project Packing Frustration in ABC Starblock Polymers is available. The postdoc will primarily work at Roskilde University with small-angle x-ray scattering. An ABC-miktoarm star block copolymer is a material where distinct polymers A, B, and C are connected to a common junction point. This sets topological constraints on the packing of the polymer chains and thus on the nano-scale structures resulting from microphase separation.The overall focus of the project is to study how the detailed structure and chemistry of the individual blocks A, B and C influence the nano-scale self-organization behavior in thin films on a substrate. The project involves structural studies of thin films of specifically designed ABC-stars synthesized by a PhD student in the group of Kristoffer Almdal (position announced simultaneously) and studied using Grazing-Incidence Small-Angle X-ray Scattering (GISAXS) in the group of Dorthe Posselt, RUCSAXS, Roskilde University. The project has a fundamental research focus, but thin films with tailored nano-scale structures have potential applications in e.g. nano-lithography, photonics and membranes. 

The Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering invites applications for Postdoctoral Fellow positions for a European Research Council (ERC) funded project focusing on anaerobic microbiomes for biotechnological applications. The project aims to design and construct tailor‑made microbial communities for the valorisation of biowastes. 

Applicants should have a background in bioinformatics, synthetic microbial communities, microbial interactions, anaerobic microbiology, and fermentation.

The positions are:

• Postdoc in Bioinformatics, requiring a strong background in bioinformatics, experience in Oxford Nanopore Technologies sequencing and genome centric metagenomics, with focus on microbial metabolism and microbial interactions.
• Postdoc in Microbial Ecology, requiring a background in microbial ecology, with emphasis on genome mapping based on genomic information and metabolic modelling of the anaerobic microbiome. 

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major threat to global public health, causing millions of deaths each year. We are seeking a postdoctoral researcher to develop machine learning and generative modelling methods to design resistance-proof antibiotics.

You will join an interdisciplinary team, integrating machine learning, medicinal chemistry and microbiology. You will work with Asst. Prof. Eli N. Weinstein (DTU Chemistry) to develop novel molecular ML methods and use them to control, steer, and learn from large scale wetlab experiments. You will deploy these methods in collaboration with Prof. Katrine Qvortrup (DTU Chemistry) and Prof. Tim Tolker-Nielsen (UCPH Immunology & Microbiology). 

The goal is to create an integrated AI and experimental system capable of anticipating and preempting the evolution of antibiotic resistance. You will build generative protein models to predict plausible future resistance mutations, use these models to guide high-throughput experimental screens of millions of enzyme variants, and train deep learning models on the resulting data to design new antibiotic compounds that evade both current and likely future resistance mechanisms. Your computational work will directly steer wetlab experiments carried out by collaborators in chemistry and microbiology, and you will use their experimental results to iteratively refine your models.

Do you want to be involved in the green energy transition? Do you wish to contribute to the development of AI within power electronic converters and drives and are you looking for a career in R&D or academia? Then we have multiple opportunities!

We invite applications for multiple 2-year Postdoc positions that will contribute to the development of a new generation of embedded intelligence within grid-connected power converters and variable-frequency motor drives with edge computing and machine learning capabilities.

We offer a multidisciplinary, international, and friendly atmosphere, encouraging creativity, diversity, empathy, and teamwork. You will have a great opportunity to build strong networks with internationally known researchers at DTU and other universities as well as industrial partners.

You will be affiliated with the Power-to-X and Storage section in the Division of Power and Energy Systems at the Department of Wind and Energy Systems. Collaboration is encouraged with neighboring sections working on distributed energy systems, hybrid power plants, smart grids, power system flexibility, and market design and operation. The section undertakes internationally leading research and teaching in the field of flexibility, advanced power electronics, battery energy systems and microgrids. We are currently formed by 30 researchers from 15 different countries, which continuously provide us with different perspectives that is the foundation to find good solutions and solve real world problems. We hope that you wish to contribute to that.

The Postdoc positions address four exciting topics. For all positions, you will collaborate closely with a group of PhD students, postdocs and international leading scientists, all working at the technological edge of modern electron microscopy for advancing catalysis science. The four topics are:

(1) Designing Superior Catalytic Sites
You will explore nanoparticle surfaces and electrocatalysis using cutting-edge experimental tools to create catalysts for sustainable chemical reactions. The tasks can include: 

• Preparation of well-defined nanoparticles using e.g. size-selected cluster sources.
• Catalytic testing using ultra-sensitive chip-interfaced electrochemistry–mass spectrometry (EC–MS) and ultra-high-vacuum-compatible thermal catalytic setups.
• 3D atomic-resolution imaging and spectroscopy of nanoparticles using advanced broad- and focused-beam transmission electron microscopy (TEM) techniques.

(2) Structure–Catalysis Relationships at the Atomic Scale
You will use custom-fabricated nanoreactors and operando electron microscopy to reveal how single nanoparticles drive catalytic processes. The tasks can include:

• Preparation of nanoreactors with single and few nanoparticles for gas-phase catalysis.
• Development and application of ultrasensitive methods to probe gas–surface interactions by means of electron spectroscopy in the electron microscope.
• Operando studies of catalysts using low dose-rate and dose atomic-resolution TEM.
• Linking 3D atomic structure, dynamics, and catalytic function of individual nanoparticles.
• Identifying and stabilizing uniquely active nanoparticles to uncover atomistic mechanisms for sustainable catalysis.

(3) Visualizing Chemical Dynamics in Real Time
You will apply advanced atomic-resolution imaging and image analysis to uncover surface dynamics, reactivity and molecular interactions. The tasks can include:

• Visualization of single nanoparticles during thermal catalysis using time-resolved, atomic-resolution transmission electron microscopy. 
• Development of quantitative image analysis to extract information on atomic  vibrations and displacements from image series.
• Investigate molecular adsorption, surface reconstruction and site-dependent reactivity at the single-atom level
• Understanding of atomic mechanisms and kinetics to stabilize highly active but metastable surface motifs sustainable catalytic processes.

(4) Modeling Atomic Processes on Nanoparticles
You will develop atomistic models and machine-learning potentials to interpret experimental data and predict catalytic performance. The tasks can include:

• Advancing equivariant neural network potentials (ENNPs) to model nanoparticle energy surfaces.
• Building atom-explicit ground-state models of supported and unsupported nanoparticles.
• Modeling catalytic reaction kinetics to identify active sites and reaction barriers, integrating experimental TEM data.
• Comparing adsorbate-induced nanoparticle morphologies with ENNP-based simulated TEM data for coherent interpretation.