Postdoctoral Fellowship (23) at University of Oslo, Norway

The appointment is for a period of 3 years, with the possibility of a one-year extension. All Ph.D. Research Fellows who submit their doctoral dissertation for assessment within 3 years after employment will be offered a 12-month Completion Grant. It will involve other career-promoting work consisting of pedagogical training, teaching, supervision, and research. This will depend on the candidate’s qualifications and the needs of the faculty.

Candidates will join and take an active part in and contribute to the work of the faculty’s research group(s) relevant to their field of study. Read more about the doctoral degree here. A research stay abroad for up to six months during the employment period is strongly encouraged.

Permanent residence in Oslo or within commuting distance from Oslo is expected during the appointment. Place of work is the Faculty of Theology at Blindern, Oslo.

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). 

Other and more specific areas of ARENA’s involvement in NORCIE will cover:

• Interactions of EU environmental policies and trade. In partnership with economists at the UiO Department of Economics, ARENA will study the politics of the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) and related issues, including interviews with firms, interest groups public officials at national and EU levels, with a focus on energy-intensive manufacturing sectors.       
• Energy firms and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) rules and norms. In partnership with economists at CMI, ARENA will study how large EU- and US-based companies in the energy sector (including fossil fuels and renewables) relate to ESG considerations. This work will include interviews with decision-makers at each step in firms’ supply chains and in sectoral associations as well as wider data on stakeholder attitudes.

The position is part of two projects funded by the Research Council of Norway, focusing on the development of soft hairy surfaces for flow control and vibration-based soft robots. The overarching goal is to develop a new understanding of fluid flows coupled to complex and actively driven surfaces. Specifically, the projects aim to uncover the fundamental physical principles that govern the coupling between active surfaces and their surrounding fluid environment, and to use this knowledge to inspire new technological applications. The physical designs will be partly bio-inspired and will emphasize sustainability.

This position is well suited to candidates who are highly motivated by fundamental science and excited about questions related to actively controlled or driven surfaces in the context of soft robotics, sensing, and flow control.
You should be strongly self-driven, genuinely interested in an academic career, and eager to develop independence in your research. The postdoctoral fellow will join an international and interdisciplinary research group.

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.

It is expected that the successful candidate will be able to complete the project in the course of the period of employment. There are some administrative duties associated with the position connected to the project and research group activities.

The Department of Political Science is recruiting up to two Postdoctoral Fellows (SKO 1352) with specialization in political data science or comparative politics. We are looking for an excellent candidate with the potential of pursuing a long-term career in academia. The successful applicant will be part of the research project, “Authoritarian Threats to Scientific Knowledge” (AutoKnow), which is funded by the European Research Council. 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 AutoKnow is to investigate how the production of scientific knowledge is affected by authoritarian regimes and politics. The project will look at how authoritarian rule affects the contents and research trajectories of scientific fields, and which fields are targeted for repression and co-optation by authoritarian rulers and movements. It will use computational text analysis to measure content-dimensions of published science and collect different data on attacks on academic freedom. It will study how authoritarian rule affects scientific progress, topic choice, political bias, idea novelty and other dimensions.

The Postdoctoral Research Fellow will broadly address exsolution of metal nanoparticles from oxide materials, which show great promise as electrocatalyst for energy conversion technologies. The Postdoctoral Research Fellow will design and characterize materials to elucidate the fundamentals of the exsolution process, including the role of point defects and their interactions, extended defects, strain and more. The primary technique will be scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) and electron energy-loss spectroscopy (EELS), using a newly installed state-of-the-art JEOL Mono ARM instrument. The research activities will also include the use of complimentary macroscopic techniques such as X-ray diffraction (XRD) and X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS at synchrotron beam-line facilities.

The Postdoctoral Research Fellow will be part of a team of experienced researchers working on related themes within the sections Semiconductor Physics and Quantum Technologies, and Electrochemistry, at the Centre for Materials Science and Nanotechnology (SMN).

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 successful candidate will join a multidisciplinary research group led by Professors Finn-Eirik Johansen (Department of Biosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences) and Shuo-Wang Qiao (Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine).

The group’s main research focus is the unique immune system of the Atlantic cod, which is characterized by the evolutionary loss of MHC class II molecules and CD4 T cells — components that are essential for immunocompetence in other vertebrates, including humans.

We combine classical molecular biology and experimental immunology with cutting-edge technologies, including modern high-throughput sequencing and bioinformatics. The project investigates the transcriptional profiles of Atlantic cod immune cells at the single-cell level and maps the immune receptor repertoires of cod B and T cells during homeostasis and in response to microbes, microbial products and vaccines.

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 three-year position as Postdoctoral Research Fellow in machine learning and artificial intelligence in epidemiology is available at the Department of Public Health and Interdisciplinary Health Science, Institute of Health and Society, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo.

The position is linked to the project LINDA-FAMILIA – Implementation of an Integrated Digital Health System for Infectious Diseases in Maternal and Child Health in East Africa, a Horizon Europe/Global Health EDCTP3 project. 

The postdoctoral fellow will contribute to a work package on clinical research co-led by the University of Oslo and the Uganda National Institute of Public Health.

Up to 10% of the position will be devoted to career-promoting work, primarily teaching and supervision in machine learning and artificial intelligence for master students in epidemiology.

The place of work is Department of mathematics at Blindern Campus, Oslo. The position is associated with the newly established Norwegian Maritime AI Centre (MAI), a national initiative for research, innovation, and education in artificial intelligence for the maritime sector. Here you will work together with students, PhD candidates and researchers, as well as world leading industry partners.

The candidate will be affiliated with the Statistics and Data Science Section. The section is active in many areas of applied and theoretical statistics and data science, and is heavily involved in research at the crossing of statistics and machine learning.

The focus of this postdoctoral fellowship is to conduct cutting-edge research on AI-based forecasting and analytics for shipbroking and maritime decision support. The aim is to develop and analyze advanced models that integrate heterogeneous maritime data sources – such as AIS, metocean, emissions, port, cargo, and business data – to improve predictions of costs, freight rates, delays, emissions, and port logistics. While strongly rooted in real-world industrial use cases, the position has a clear academic orientation to develop advanced models for data rich environments. 

The successful candidate is expected to contribute to the methodological foundations of maritime AI, publish in leading international journals and conferences, and collaborate closely with MAI’s academic and industrial partners to advance safe, transparent, and trustworthy AI in the maritime sector. 

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. In addition to the activities in MAI, the project will benefit from a large machine learning research environment in the Norwegian Center for Knowledge‑driven Machine Learning (Integreat) hosted by the Section for Statistics and Data Science at the Department of Mathematics.

The postdoctoral position is part of the QuantERA project ‘QM3L – Quantum protocols for Multimode Mechanics advanced by Machine Learning’, a European consortium combining theory, algorithms, and experiments on multimode mechanical quantum platforms (circuit quantum acoustodynamics with transmon–HBAR devices; HBAR arrays; microwave optomechanics).

The postdoc will work at UiO with Massel and Hjorth-Jensen, focusing on theoretical and algorithmic developments that enable machine-learning-assisted discovery, control, and certification of complex multimode quantum states. The work will interface closely with experimental partners (ETH Zürich, Aalto University) and theory partners (TU Darmstadt, Palacký University).

Main work tasks may include (depending on profile and project needs):

• Develop ML-assisted Hamiltonian discovery/engineering methods for multimode bosonic and hybrid quantum systems (including open-system and non-Hermitian effects).
• Design noise-resilient control and optimization strategies, including reinforcement learning (RL) and optimal control approaches for state preparation and measurement protocol design under hardware constraints.
• Develop open-source software and documented benchmarks.
• Co-author high-quality publications and contribute to consortium deliverables and reporting; participate in partner visits, workshops, and training activities.

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 TIDAL project concerns the legal preconditions for a well-functioning democracy in an age marked by increasing generation and dissemination of disinformation, misinformation, and other forms of information disorder (ID). Drawing upon cross-disciplinary insights and approaches, including a policy field study of stakeholder viewpoints in Norway and the United Kingdom, the project tackles the fundamental question of whether the law needs to be reformed in order to tackle ID more effectively and, if yes, what avenue(s) of reform would be most sensible. It does so in light of the vexing problem that measures to combat ID in the name of securing or promoting democracy can end up undermining democracyʼs bedrock by tightening various freedoms and accountability frameworks that help buttress democracy and the rule of law. 

The TIDAL project not only examines how best to overcome the latter problem, but elucidates a range of other related matters. These include: the effects of recent legal initiatives by the European Union (EU) to curb ID; the interaction of hard law and soft law codes in this regulatory domain; and current geopolitical tensions at the global level over appropriate legal-regulatory strategies for tackling ID. 

At a more fundamental jurisprudential level, the project interrogates the relationship between law and the promotion of truth, analysing the borderlines between when law penalizes the dissemination of lies, “untruths” and other false or misleading information and when it abstains from doing so, along with the rationale(s) for either course of action.

As part of elucidating the relationship of ID and the law with a view to identifying optimal regulatory strategies for reducing the deleterious effects of ID, the project pursues five main sub-objectives:

(1) to map the non-legal structural factors causing ID, drawing upon scholarship in the social sciences and information sciences;

(2) to develop an holistic understanding of ID that bridges insights from the social sciences and information sciences with insights from legal-regulatory scholarship;

(3) to assess how the law, in light of these insights, currently facilitates and impedes ID;

(4) to evaluate what role law should play to remedy ID in the future and to develop and assess new norms, legal concepts, and regulatory frameworks, innovating legal treatment of ID;

(5) to assess the legal innovations within the wider geopolitical situation which Norway finds herself in, with a view to minimizing jurisdictional “overreach”.

The postdoctoral fellow is expected to work closely with TIDAL team members in pursuing the above-listed objectives. The postdoctoral fellow is also expected to engage in international dissemination activities and collaborate with key scholars in the field, outside the project group. Part of these activities will involve participation in the collection, coding, and analysis of data from policy field studies, writing research articles and other publications (e.g. book chapters, blogposts), participating in the ongoing reporting from the project, and assisting the project leader in the daily operation of the project.

A Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (SKO 1352) is available at the Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo (UiO). 

The position is part of the project “EU Kids Online Norway”, and affiliated with the Centre for Studies of Children, Youth, and Media and the international interdisciplinary research network EU Kids Online and their studies. 

The successful candidate will develop and carry out an independent research project that is expected to generate significant value and new insights in the field of children, youth, and media.

The project must show clear relevance to EU Kids Online Norway. Relevant topics include but are not limited to children’s or young people’s digital media use, online risks, opportunities, rights, media regulation, wellbeing, or digital skills, and can focus on individual, social and/or national level factors. Projects with a comparative dimension are welcome.

The appointed candidate will work within the overarching goal of the project EcoArch to disentangle the drivers of landscape and climate change in the Afrotropics since the introduction of domesticated food economies. 

Candidates should propose a research project that provides, in one form or another, an examination of landscape transformation in the Afrotropics since the advent of agriculture using high-resolution dated sediment cores recovered from lakes or swamps as well as archaeological sites. The candidate will work in conjunction with the Tandem Laboratory at the University of Uppsala to apply state-of-the-art dating analyses coupled with compound-specific isotope analyses (CSIA) to be interpreted in tandem with biomarker analyses.

Applicants are required to upload/attach a research proposal (hf.uio.no) stating how they intend to address the central research questions and offer theoretical and methodological approaches to attend to the project’s objectives. Preference will be given to independent projects devoted to addressing one or more of these following possible themes: 

• The roles humans have had over the last 6000 years in shaping ecological baselines. 
• Landscape changes across the Afrotropics following the introduction of pastoralism and plant cultivation.
• Potential roles of fire, land clearance, grazing, plant selection and climate variability in shaping landscape complexion.
• Use of high-precision, dated sediment cores and CSIA to shape our understandings of ecosystem functionality over different time scales.

Proposals will be evaluated based on their relevance to EcoArch, feasibility and application of theoretical and practical knowledge to better understand how humans have changed ecological systems over the last 6000 years. 

The project, SongGesture, aims to significantly advance knowledge on how expert vocalists use gesture in support of their performance goals. Building on recent research showing an effect of gesture on co-occurring vocalization, SongGesture will advance the theorization of gesture-vocalization relations in musical contexts by considering also the physical interactions between gesture and vocal production movements (e.g., breathing and articulation). The project looks at co-singing gesturing practices in three different vocal performance traditions: beatboxing, European art song, and karnatak vocal music from South India. The candidate is not expected to have previous experience with these musical traditions, as this is covered by other project personnel.

The successful candidate for this position is expected to investigate multimodal correspondence between gesture, vocalization and vocal production movements through computational analysis and to explore the implications of the results for multimodal sense-making (how different modalities combine to create meaning). Tasks will include contributing to project theory and methods development for the analysis of multimodal communication in song performance; audio feature extraction; pose tracking from video and preparation of kinematic time-series data; dataset preparation; manual annotation of audiovisual data; pattern finding; computational multimodal analysis (including time series analysis); data visualization; exploration of multimodal sense-making; and co-writing articles.

The project’s overarching aim is to study the development of the epigraphic written culture in medieval Scandinavia, investigating the introduction and spread of Latin and the Latin alphabet in Scandinavian inscriptions, and their relationship to the vernacular languages and to runes.

During the high and late Middle Ages, Scandinavian epigraphy was characterized by sustained coexistence and interaction between different languages and writing systems. The simultaneous presence of Latin and the Latin alphabet, and various vernacular languages and the runic script, resulted in a written culture shaped by three overlapping processes: 1) the initial spread of Latin alongside the runic tradition; 2) increased Latinization and decline of the runes; 3) ‘re-vernacularization’, the increasing use of the Scandinavian languages but written in the Latin alphabet. EpiCentres aims to investigate these processes through the study of an extensive corpus of Scandinavian inscriptions and graffiti in the Latin alphabet – largely overlooked as a source for these far-reaching cultural transformations – together with the contemporaneous runic inscriptions.

The EpiCentres team is led by Associate Professor Alessandro Palumbo and will be comprised of one PhD candidate (3 years), two postdoctoral fellows (3 years), and Professor Anna Blennow. The postdoctoral fellow will be a full member of the team aiming at successfully completing the project’s goals. The project consists of three work packages, and the candidate will contribute in particular to work package 1 and work package 2.

Work package 1 aims to geographically and chronologically map the introduction and spread of the Latin alphabet in Scandinavian epigraphy. Through geospatial analyses, the team will investigate which hubs emerge as central for the production and display of epigraphic texts, and how their linguistic and alphabetic composition changed over time.

Work package 2 aims to investigate the intersections and interactions of epigraphic traditions in different languages and writing systems. Within this work package, the postdoc fellow will contribute to examining the evolution of epigraphy in the Latin alphabet in medieval Scandinavia, focusing in particular on the relationship between the development of writing practices in the vernacular languages and in Latin. Their research will focus on how textual composition, orthography, palaeography, and text display develop within traditions in different languages, and the extent to which such practices are shared or diverge across Latin-language and vernacular inscriptions.

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Postdoc Fellowship Position summary/title: Researcher

Deadline : 10th August 2026

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The proposed project aims to investigate the polyclonal humoral immune response to a model viral antigen in human samples from pre-exposed individuals. This research integrates advanced techniques, including antigen-specific B-cell sorting, B-cell receptor (BCR) sequencing, and LC-MS/MS-based identification of circulating antigen-specific antibodies. The goal is to link B-cell clonotypes to serum immunoglobulins and resolve functional proteoforms through an immunoproteogenomics approach. The project will involve developing de novo sequencing workflows for antigen-specific antibodies, building proteogenomic pipelines to assemble VH/VL sequences and identify clonotypes. Data will be integrated matching BCR repertoires of PBMCs, tonsil tissue, and matched sera from GSK human biological samples. Computational modeling and machine learning will be essential for antibody identification, epitope prioritization, and cross-cohort comparisons.

The project focuses on deconvoluting pathogen-specific humoral responses to a seasonal viral pathogen by combining paired BCR repertoire sequencing with antigen-resolved LC-MS/MS proteomics. The candidate’s responsibilities will encompass the development and analysis of mass spectrometry methods for antibody isolation and characterization, as well as designing and validating multiparameter flow cytometry panels for antigen-specific B-cell and plasma cell identification and sorting. The role demands rigorous data stewardship, collaboration with immunology, proteomics, and bioinformatics teams, primarily at GSK Siena, and contributing to the dissemination of research findings.

We are searching for a skilled, creative and ambitious researcher to join our scientific activities within the field of battery materials. The candidate will work in a dynamic team of approximately 10 PhD/MS students and researchers and, therefore, should be skilled to work in team as well as independently.

The successful candidate will be involved in two activities involving synthesis, electrode design and advanced characterization of the materials for Li-ion and Na-ion bat-teries under two projects funded by the Norwegian Research Council.

The candidate will focus on:

• Synthesis of materials
• Electrode development
• Optimization of materials, electrochemical evaluation and operando characterization, including 
  • data acquisition
  • development of electrochemical cells for X-ray based operando tech-niques
  • data treatment   
•  Experiments using synchrotron facilities are foreseen, depending on access and travel regulations.

The candidate will work closely with all group members, who are involved in similar research activities and should have knowledge and understanding of the electrochemical characterization of battery materials in addition to the advanced knowledge in X-ray based characterization techniques.

Two Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (SKO 1352) are available at the Department of Culture, Religion, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (IKOS), University of Oslo.

These positions are part of the project “Maritime Goddesses: Transnational Connections, Blue Environments, and Ritual Care in East- and Southeast Asia” (MARGO), funded by the European Research Council (ERC). MARGO studies some of the most popular deities in the world and the ways in which people relate to them: Guanyin, Mazu, Benzaiten, and several other goddesses to whom people pray for protection and support. These goddesses are often associated with bodies of water (seas, oceans, rivers, and deltas). They can move, change shape, and transcend political and ontological boundaries. Although these goddesses are central to the ritual lives of billions of people, there has been little research on the ways in which people relate to them in everyday life.