Postdoctoral Fellowship (11) at Lund University, Scania, Sweden

We are recruiting a postdoctoral fellow in rhetoric with a focus on teaching-materials studies from a cross-cultural perspective. The position is intended for applicants with a background in rhetoric or another relevant discipline that includes knowledge of rhetorical theory and practice, such as language studies, media and communication studies, didactics, and/or pedagogy.

The position provides an opportunity for an early-career researcher to spend two years developing their individual research agenda and leading their own research initiatives within a multidisciplinary research environment.

The Department of Business Administration brings together scholars from a range of research areas within business administration, including business finance, entrepreneurship and innovation studies, financial and management accounting, management, marketing, organization studies, and strategic management, studying organizations in a broad societal perspective. The Department reflects the multidisciplinarity of business administration and the diversity of research traditions characterizing the academic field. You can read more about the Department and our research on our website.

The postdoctoral position first and foremost provides opportunities to further develop your research skills, expand your expertise, and gain additional experience in your field of study. It also allows for educational merit through teaching, up to 20% of working hours, and higher education pedagogical training.

The postdoctoral position is a non-tenured full-time position with research obligation, based in Lund, Sweden. To fulfil the research requirements of the position, you are expected to be physically present on a regular basis and actively participate in the research activities of the Department.

The project concerns the development of computational methods for processing and analysing HD-sEMG recordings in order to extract detailed information about neural control of movement. The long-term goal is to advance techniques for neuromuscular diagnostics, prosthetic control, and rehabilitation.

The work will focus on large-scale inverse modelling and data-driven analysis of complex biosignals, implemented using high-performance computing infrastructure. The project is carried out in close collaboration with national and international partners and includes development of open-source research software.

The project What’s Next for Frontier Particle Physics? is a five-year research project conducted at Lund University, Sweden, with Principal investigator (PI) Adam Koberinski. Particle physics is at a crossroads: on the one hand, the Standard Model of particle physics has withstood decades of stringent tests, and boasts some of the most precisely confirmed predictions in the history of science. On the other hand, the Standard Model seems to tell us that it shouldn’t keep working as well as it does, and physicists expect that it is incomplete. This means that something is wrong with our current understanding of the Standard Model, but what could it be? Conceptual issues like this are a prime place for philosophers of science to weigh in.

This project is a three-pronged philosophical investigation into contemporary particle physics, aimed at diagnosing the theoretical and experimental challenges facing the Standard Model. It involves (1) a close study of the foundations of theoretical particle physics, (2) a big picture study of how and why particle physics was so successful over the last several decades, and (3) an analysis of experiments in particle physics that search for new, currently unknown physics. The project will involve embedded collaboration of philosophers directly within Lund University’s particle physics division, allowing for a close exchange of ideas and direct philosophical engagement with physics. Particularattention will be given to experiments conducted at the new European Spallation Source, located in Lund.

The project concerns the development of a novel asymmetric flow field-flow fractionation (AF4) coupling with small angle neutron scattering (SANS) as a sample environment at the European Spallation Source (ESS) in Lund. The project is financed by the Swedish Research Council (VR) and is in close collaboration with ESS and the ISIS Neutron and Muon Source in the UK. The purpose of AF4-SANS is to obtain size-resolved characterization, enabling more detailed characterization of polydisperse samples as well as being able to investigate specific subpopulations in a sample. The project is also supported by several international partners which have expressed interest in having AF4-SANS established at ESS. The partners can also provide research questions for collaborative projects on AF4-SANS application.

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%).

The research will be in algebraic topology, as part of the project “Local to global principles for topological quantum field theory” funded by the Swedish Research Council. The position shall include the opportunity for three weeks of training in higher education teaching and learning.

Detailed description of work duties:

• research within the subject area;
• teaching (max. 20%);
• supervision of degree projects and doctoral students.

The Light Dark Matter eXperiment is a fixed-target experiment planned at SLAC with the main purpose of searching for sub-GeV thermal-relic dark matter particles produced from an 8 GeV electron beam impinging on a thin target. The Lund LDMX group (LunDMX) contributes to physics analysis, detector development and performance studies as well as software development and computing. In addition, we are active in addressing sustainability questions related to developing a new particle physics experiment.

The overarching theme of this project is to get ready for LDMX data, and the work will be conducted in close connection with the international LDMX collaboration, in which Lund University is currently the only non-US participant. The main priority in this project will be to study the capabilities of LDMX to handle pile-up (multiple electrons hitting the target at the same time) in more detail. This will be based on simulation studies of potential backgrounds, detector performance, and physics sensitivities. One concrete example is the use of different codes for simulating critical backgrounds, comparing these predictions and developing methods for how to measure these backgrounds in data. The project also aims to explore to which extent machine learning methods can help with these tasks, e.g. object reconstruction and signal/background discrimination. This will be a focus in the project.

One exciting milestone for LDMX is the detector prototype system test with cosmic muons planned at SLAC in 2026. If the candidate is interested, there will be the opportunity to contribute to the analysis of this test data, mainly from the prototype of the hadronic calorimeter. Closely related to this, there is also the possibility to contribute to the characterisation of the HCal electronics with a test stand locally in Lund.

There is some flexibility in the research programme for this position, and details can be tailored to your specific interests and expertise. There will also be the opportunity to work with questions of climate sustainability in LDMX/HEP.   

The subject area is economic history.

The duties consist primarily of research but also include teaching and certain administrative tasks. The position is tied to a project that examines women inventors in Sweden and France from the establishment of the modern patent systems to 1930. The project builds a database linking patent records to information from civil registers and census data, and analyses how social background, institutional conditions, and life-course events such as marriage, childbearing, and widowhood shaped women’s patenting over the life course.

Democratizing Refugee Camps is a project that has been awarded a Swedish Foundations’ Starting Grant and is funded by the Riksbankens Jubileumsfond. The PI of the project is Felix Bender.

DEMCAMP asks what an applied ethics has to say with regards to the many refugees who do not live in the Global North, but remain in the Global South and, specifically, in refugee camps. It asks how we can understand and properly react to the vulnerabilities refugees experience in the camps. The project develops 1) a theory that better captures the vulnerabilities experienced by refugees in refugee camps and 2) a normative democratic theory that is capable of responding to these vulnerabilities. DEMCAMP demonstrates that what we can observe in refugee camps is the emergence of economic, legal and political systems that each function according to their own rules and logics and that result in refugees experiencing a set of vulnerabilities that remain unseen if refugees’ vulnerability is externally defined by humanitarian agencies such as UNHCR and only applied to refugee camps thereafter. To properly react to the vulnerabilities that refugees experience, refugee camps need to be democratized. For more information on the project, please visit https://startinggrant.se/researcher/felix-bender/ .