22 Postdoctoral Fellowship at Lund University, Scania, Sweden

This post-doctoral position is part of the EU cofund research project AMBER, Advanced Multiscale Biological imaging using European Research infrastructures, will address scientific and sectoral gaps in biological imaging ranging from molecular, through cellular, to tissue, organ and organism levels of organisation, and is coordinated by LINXS Institute of advanced Neutron and X-ray Science.

AMBER is funded by the EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie (MSCA) COFUND scheme.

Around 20 postdocs will be recruited in the fourth call 2025, with each fellowship lasting 36 months.

AMBER has six core partners: Lund University/MAX IV, Sweden, the European Spallation Source (ESS), Sweden, the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL), France, the International Institute of Molecular Mechanisms and Machines, (IMOL), Poland, and the Leicester Institute of Structural and Chemical Biology, United Kingdom.

Your work may include clinical and biomedical projects. It may also include technique development work aimed at combining imaging techniques and data analysis to provide a more integrated picture of life processes in the context of health and disease. To be a postdoc fellow at the AMBER programme you will get unprecedented medical, biological, and methodological capabilities, with a profound potential impact for Europe’s next generation of research and researchers. When you have completed the AMBER programme you will be extraordinarily well equipped to further your career in academia, at infrastructures, in the health and MedTech sectors, and beyond.

Within AMBER your work will include clinical and biomedical projects. It will also include technique development work aimed at combining imaging techniques and data analysis to provide a more integrated picture of life processes in the context of health and disease. To be a postdoc fellow at the AMBER programme you will get unprecedented medical, biological, and methodological capabilities, with a profound potential impact for Europe’s next generation of research and researchers. When you have completed the AMBER programme you will be extraordinarily well equipped to further your career in academia, at infrastructures, in the health and MedTech sectors, and beyond.

Tendons like most musculoskeletal tissues are mechanosensitive, meaning that they adapt to the local mechanical loading. We have earlier shown that the collagen fiber structure is affected by unloading of the tendon in a small animal model. However, small animal model findings are not always transferable to larger mammals or humans.  The goal for the post-doc is to investigate how the tendon structure and mechanical function develops over time, and how this development is affected by lack of mechanical stimulation, using a large animal model. The technical goal includes to develop, perform and analyse data from high resolution experimental imaging of large animal tendon tissue, using mainly synchrotron phase contrast X-ray tomography, but also other imaging modalities and linking it to mechanical and compositional properties. Fundamental understanding of these relationships may benefit development of better rehabilitation strategies to promote tendon repair after rupture. 

Your project will include clinical and biomedical samples. It should also include technique development work aimed at combining imaging techniques and data analysis to provide a more integrated picture of life processes in the context of health and disease. To be a postdoc fellow at the AMBER programme you will get unprecedented medical, biological, and methodological capabilities, with a profound potential impact for Europe’s next generation of research and researchers. When you have completed the AMBER programme you will be extraordinarily well equipped to further your career in academia, at infrastructures, in the health and MedTech sectors, and beyond.

This 3-year full time post doc project will focus on synchrotron-based x-ray imaging, in particular phase-contrast micro- and nano-tomography. At the MAX IV synchrotron there are several beamlines available with relevance for this project: NanoMAX (nano-probe and coherent imaging), ForMAX (micro-probe SWAXS and full-field imaging) and DanMAX (micro-probe XRD and micro-tomography).

Your research will include data collection, data processing and data interpretation in close collaboration with the medical partner(s) providing your samples. Current studies in our group involve both human and animal tissues, for research on nerves, lung, heart, bowels and carotid arteries. We aim to bridge the gap between classical microscopy (histology) and clinical imaging modalities such as CT and MRI. Participation during beamtimes at synchrotrons in different countries in Europe is expected (including shifts during the night).

The membrane protein structural biology group at the Department of Experimental Medical Science is led by Associate Professor Pontus Gourdon and is at the forefront of its field. With this position, we aim to deepen our work on understanding how various ion channels function at the molecular level. The research will be conducted in close collaboration with Peter Zygmunt (at Lund University) and Sara Liin (at Linköping University). Below is a selection of articles published by the groups over the past three years (see also rb.gy/j6ajo):

• Li et al (2025) Nature Structural & Molecular Biology 32:491-501
• Li et al (2024) Nature Communications 15(1):9605
• Augestad et al (2024) Nature 633:704
• Guo et al (2024) Nature Communications 15(1):2690
• Erlandsdotter et al (2023) Science Advances 17;9:eade7109
• Moparthi et al (2022) Nature Communications 17(1):6113
• Salustros et al (2022) Nature Communications 13(1):5121
• Zhang et al (2022) Nature Communications 13(1):7483
• Li et al (2022) Nature Communications 13(1):4339
• Wiuf et al (2022) Science Advances 8, eabn4331 

The position is based at Lund University’s Faculty of Medicine, within the Department of Experimental Medical Sciences, specifically the Medical Structural Biology research unit. The division focuses on uncovering molecular mechanisms of health and disease through advanced imaging and biophysical approaches.

The research group hosting this position studies Contractile Injection Systems (CIS) — natural protein machines used by bacteria to deliver molecular cargo. The group’s mission is to understand the structure, function, and application of CIS for use in both biopesticide development and targeted antimicrobial delivery. The team is interdisciplinary, with expertise in molecular microbiology, structural biology, bioinformatics, and protein engineering, and currently includes the PI, a PhD student, and a research expert in bioinformatics.

The workplace fosters strong international collaboration, with close integration with the Halberg Group at Copenhagen University (Insect neuroendocrinology and physiology) and the Collin Group (immune-relevant enzymology and translational infection research) at Lund University. The postdoctoral researcher will work primarily in Lund but is expected to engage in frequent collaborative work across the Öresund region, including regular experimental coordination with Copenhagen-based researchers and data collection at national facilities such as MAX IV (Lund), SciLifeLab (Stockholm), and CFIM (Copenhagen), where cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) and tomography (cryo-ET) are performed.

Our research group is working towards unravelling the neurobiology behind psychiatric symptoms in neurodegenerative diseases, primarily Parkinson’s disease, with a focus on emotions, including depression. The subthalamic nucleus (STN), which regulates motor function, cognition, and emotions, exhibits pathology in Parkinson’s disease, and is an important target area for the treatment of the disease´s motor symptoms with Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS). Our goal is to find out how the STN functions in the normal state and in Parkinson’s models, to find out what goes wrong in Parkinson’s disease, and how Parkinson’s symptoms can be better treated with precision stimulation, such as DBS. We are particularly interested in the neuropsychiatric symptom picture in Parkinson’s disease and in developing better treatment. We have a specific interest in the anatomical-functional association within the STN, and in structures in its vicinity.

In order to obtain high neuroanatomical selectivity, we use transgenic mice with a focus on the Cre-Lox system, and specific promoters as well as viral vectors for optogenetic control of neuronal activity and models of Parkinson’s disease. This postdoc project will investigate how different compositions of neurons in the relevant brain area respond to different types of stimulation, how this affects behavior and signaling in neuronal circuits. By comparing spatially selective signaling, for example through optogenetics, with the clinical treatment method DBS, the goal is to identify the optimal neurons for therapeutical stimulation leading to alleviation of non-motor symptoms, such as depression.

This position is part of NextG2Com – a Vinnova Competence Center coordinated by Lund University. NextG2Com is a competence center focused on future advanced communication systems that integrate wireless communication technology and networks, software, data, and security through relevant application areas (advanced digitalization). In NextG2Com, Lund University collaborates with industry and public-sector actors with support from Vinnova. 
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You will have access to world-leading facilities such as the LISA 6G test bed and Lund University’s 5G lab and work together with leading experts in both academia and industry, including external partners.
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As a postdoctoral researcher, you will play a central role in designing and implementing a cloud-native platform for scalable, low-latency XR/VR offloading and migration in 6G networks. This is a hands-on, system-building role with a clear focus on real-world deployment and performance, targeting constrained edge hardware such as the Xilinx RFSoC platform within the LISA 6G testbed.

A position is available in the research group for Cell, Tissue, and Organ Engineering (www.bourginelab.com), led by Dr. Paul Bourgine. The group specializes in the production of ossicles/bone tissue that recapitulate the structure and function of skeletal bone and bone marrow.
In the long term, the group aims to compile human-specific knowledge on how tissues are established and regenerated in order to develop innovative therapeutic approaches.
The group is part of the Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine and the Lund Stem Cell Center.

The project will be conducted in collaboration with Dr. Charlotta Böiers, whose research group focuses on understanding the origins of childhood leukemia and the molecular changes caused by the first mutation (“first hit”). Her team uses human pluripotent stem cells to model the early stages of the disease.
As a postdoctoral researcher in the lab, you will be a key member of an interactive research team with access to cutting-edge technologies.

We are have recently discovered that thermal gradients combined with an acoustic field can generate rapid thermoacoustic streaming in liquids inside microcavities, read more here. We are now exploring this new physics with the long-term goal of translating the technology into practical applications. The project aims to develop new methods to better understand and exploit laser-induced thermoacoustic streaming. To achieve this, we will study fundamental interactions and transport phenomena related to thermal fields and ultrasound resonances at the microscale. In another project, we are measuring mechanical properties of blood cells and cancer cells with the long-term goal of isolating so-called circulating tumor cells from cancer patients, with relevance for cancer biology.

The project aims to develop elastic and inelastic hyperspectral lidars for biological targets in marine, forest and aerospace environments. The goal of the project is to develop and demonstrate hyperspectral lidar applications to monitor biotargets such as pollen, lichen, zooplankton and disease vectors. In particular relating spectral characteristics of micro and nanofeatures on the targets and validating this through conventional methods such as electron microscopy. Field observational data constitute high volumes and require data reduction and development of data pipelines. The highly dimensional data will be treated and analyzed by advanced clustering algorithms.

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Postdoc Fellowship Position summary/title: Postdoctoral Researcher in Sustainability Science: Social Justice and Extreme Climate Events

Deadline : 28.Jul.2025

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The situation of cod stocks in all Swedish waters is critical. Despite several years of closed fishery, there has been no significant improvement in cod stock status. has been closed several years without any improvements of the status. The decline is likely due to a combination of historical overfishing, degraded environmental conditions, and increased populations of cod predators such as seals and cormorants.

One possible measure to support cod recovery, particularly the survival of large reproductively important individuals, is the use of artificial reefs. These structures provide shelter from predators and may enhance local resource availability. The Hanö cod reef association has placed 35 artificial reefs near the island of Hanö. The area has been monitored with respect to physical conditions and biological activity, using video recordings from both reef sites and comparable control areas. Within this position as post-doc you will be responsible for developing tools of analysing the recordings already executed as well as collecting new recordings. The development of analytical tools will be performed in co-operation with InfraVis (https://infravis.se), which are experts on machine learning solutions and data visualisation. In addition will some cod individuals be tagged, and their behaviour be monitored using acoustic telemetry. The cod behaviour could also be correlated with continuous monitoring of different environmental variables.

As a post doc you will have the opportunity to shape the research direction in collaboration with the research group, with members representing Marint centrum, Simrishamn, Department of Geology at Lund university, Swedish university of agricultural sciences and Hanö cod reef association. You will be affiliated with the Unit for Functional Ecology at the Department of Biology, Lund university (https://www.biology.lu.se/research/functional-ecology).

A motivated postdoctoral researcher is sought to work on the molecular mechanisms underlying amyloid formation from the protein transthyretin. Transthyretin normally functions as a transporter protein of thyroxine and retinol-binding protein (RBP) in the serum and cerebrospinal fluid. However the folded protein is prone to instability and the formation of amyloid fibrils in tissues such as the heart and nervous system, invariably with fatal consequences. The project will focus on probing the molecular factors underlying this instability (see for example https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-08609-z/), and in understanding the pathway that link the functional and pathological forms of the protein. Techniques involved will include X-ray and neutron crystallography, small-angle scattering (SAXS & SANS), and cryo-EM.

The work will involve the study of wild-type TTR (which is intrinsically amyloidogenic) and also a range of other mutants that are typically associated with early onset amyloidosis in various tissues. The work may involve comparative studies with amyloid material derived from ex vivo sources.

• You will work together with the beamline team helping with the everyday operation and participating in various development projects at the Surface and Material branch. These projects can include design of new experiments/sample environments, integration of new equipment, automation of experiments, development of control systems, etc. 
• You are expected to participate in giving support to the user groups, with the chance to get involved in collaborations with various users and beamline staff, and pursue your own research and/or development projects.
• You will have an opportunity to conduct your own research with the STM system available at MAX IV, and may participate in beamtimes at other beamlines and other synchrotron facilities.

You are expected to have and demonstrate strong interest and sufficient skills in driving first of all scientific projects, from proposal writing to data analysis and preparing publications. Interest in developing new experimental setups, sample environments and detection schemes, which can advance experimental capabilities at the beamline, is also considered as a merit.