22 Postdoctoral Fellowship at University of Oslo, Norway

The successful candidate is expected to play a leading role in distributed computing and data management, including software and middleware development and ATLAS distributed computing operations. This includes contributing to development and maintenance of software used to manage data processing across multiple data centres (the NorduGrid ARC middleware and ARC Control Tower), and liaising between the ATLAS computing team and data centre admins across Nordic countries to solve operational issues. The candidate will also support the ATLAS@Home volunteer computing project in both the technical infrastructure and communication with the public.

The position is available for a period of 4 years. There is a 25 % component of the position which is devoted to teaching and administrative duties. These duties include obtaining basic teaching qualifications. The successful candidate is expected to become part of the research environment/network of the department and contribute to its development. The main purpose of postdoctoral research fellowships is to qualify researchers for work in higher academic positions within their disciplines.

The fellow will work at the Hylleraas Centre, which is the Research Centre of Excellence for Chemistry in Norway. In addition to an excellent scientific community and working environment, the Centre offers a career development plan for future professional development. More information on the Hylleraas Centre can be found on this website: https://www.mn.uio.no/hylleraas/english

The Department of Geosciences seeks a highly motivated geoscientist that can enrich and strengthen the Department in analysis of salt-tectonic basins, with an emphasis on future subsurface CO2 storage sites. Focus is on identification and validation of large-scale, potential storage formations in the Southern North Sea (Central Graben region), and will cover work of reservoirs, top-seals, faults, and salt mobility. As salt-tectonics impacts the study area, this will be of high relevance. The work will cover seismic studies of subsurface depositional systems, impacted by vertical movements driven by salt and faults.

A postdoctoral Research Fellow position in (the intersection of) Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) and Automation is available at the Department of Informatics (IFI), University of Oslo. This fellowship is for a period of 2 years and 8 months (10% of which is devoted to teaching activities). Preferred starting date is as soon as possible.  To be eligible, candidates must not be a citizen of any other countries than European countries, NATO countries, and Five-Eyes countries. This is because cyber security research may involve collaboration with defence and national security organizations where security clearance may be needed.

A Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (SKO 1352) is available at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History, University of Oslo. The position is associated with the 5-year Starting Grant 101042034 “Before Copyright: Printing privileges and the politics of knowledge in early modern Europe” funded by the European Research Council and led by Principal Investigator Marius Buning, Associate Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Oslo.

The positions are part of large interdisciplinary projects funded by the Research Council, which focuses on the development of theoretical and computational models of cell membrane dynamics. More specifically, it will address the basic mechanochemical processes that regulate one of the most fundamental communication pathways in cell biology – the encapsulation and internalization of liquid and transmembrane cargo at intracellular membranes. The postdoctoral fellow will be part of the group of Prof. Andreas Carlson (https://acarlson-uio.github.io), where the work will be conducted in close collaboration with experimental cell biologists and bio-chemists at UiO and Oslo University Hospital.

The position will focus on conducting high quality research into processes of building and implementing digital antimicrobial resistance surveillance systems in the public health sector in India and Sri Lanka. The candidate will conduct extensive and extended ethnographic fieldwork in India and Sri Lanka and develop research questions and analyses that contribute to the interdisciplinary objectives of the EquityAMR project. 

Access to fresh water is the foundation for life on Earth that poses severe restrictions and requirements for life in regions that contended with water scarcity, a problem that will increase in the future with the growing effects of climate change. Water scarcity is not longer a distant problem. In 2022 Europe has been hit by a severe drought impacting agriculture and energy production. A fog net is a low cost, efficient and simple technology for harvesting water from the atmosphere. The goal of this project is to develop a new understanding of the fundamental fluid mechanics on and through fog nets to devise new designs to optimize their water yield. The planned work is experimental, to be performed in our brand new lab facilities, and is also expected to involve theoretical models of the complex flow. Field work is planned together with a non-profit organization in Morocco to give ways to test the concepts developed in the projects and there will be opportunities to work with international collaborators.

The candidate will work in association with the H2020 funded ERC synergy project: 4-Oceans: Human History of Marine Life: Extraction, Knowledge, Drivers & Consumption of Marine Resources, c.100 BCE to c.1860 CE, with partners in Ireland, Portugal, Norway, the UK and globally. The project investigates the role of marine harvests in global history. The Postdoctoral fellow will join an international team combining expertise in marine environmental history, climate history, natural history, geography, historical ecology, genomics and zooarchaeology. Specifically, the role of this position is to investigate the consequences of marine exploitation in a range of key taxonomic groups (including marine mammals and fish) using ancient DNA obtained from archaeological specimens and museum collections. These data will be interpreted in a multi-proxy framework including isotope data and zooarchaeological evidence. The candidate will closely collaborate with PhD/MSc candidates on the same project and other (inter)national partners.

The fellowship period is 2 years, and is devoted to carrying out a project on the role of aquaporin water channels in brain physiology and during disease processes. Aquaporins are channel-forming membrane proteins expressed throughout the body. Brain contains several aquaporins, where aquaporin-4 (AQP4) is the predominant aquaporin expressed in astrocytes. In this project we will study the effect of a mutation in the Aqp4 gene, on its various functions in vivo and in vitro. The project will focus on a mouse model with this mutation and will include behavioral tests combined with molecular biology and imaging techniques

A Postdoc Fellowship position (SKO 1352) in Computational Music and Dance Analysis is available in connection with the research project DJEMBEDANCE: Multimodal Rhythm in Music and Dance from West Africa, funded by the Research Council of Norway. The project is affiliated with RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion at the University of Oslo.  All RITMO researchers are co-located and work in a unique interdisciplinary constellation, with world-leading competence in musicology, psychology and informatics. It is expected that all members of the centre contribute to the general activities and collaborations within RITMO. The researchers have access to state-of-the-art facilities in sound/video recording, motion capture, eye tracking, physiological measurements, various types of brain imaging (EEG, fMRI), and rapid prototyping and robotics laboratories. 

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Postdoc Fellowship Position summary/title: Postdoctoral Fellow related to the Trends in Mathematics and Science Study – TIMSS

Deadline : 7th May 2023

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Applicants are invited for a two year position as Postdoctoral Fellow linked to the research project “Professional Actors’ Work to Retain Students in Secondary Education (ProAct) ” at the Departement of Teacher Educational and School Research, funded by the Norwegian Research Council. ProAct holds considerable potential for extensive scientific and societal impact in terms of generating knowledge on promising practices to retain students in upper secondary education in Norway and thereby decrease dropout rates. Generally, this work involves a collaboration among multiple actors that includes a range of actors: teachers, leaders on national, county, municipal and school levels; representatives from the Follow-up Service (Oppfølgingstjenesten), the Pedagogical-Psychological Service (PPT) and the Child Care Service (barnevern); police, other public services (e.g. social service, health service), etc. Since these actors come from multiple levels of the education system and represent different institutions and professions, their translation and understanding of problems will vary, as well as their way of handling problems regarding student dropout.

A 2-year postdoctoral position with flexible starting date is available in the Computational Biology and Systems Medicine group led by Marieke Kuijjer at the Centre for Molecular Medicine Norway (NCMM), Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Nordic EMBL partner (see https://www.kuijjerlab.org/ for more information). The group was established in 2018 and focuses on using computational approaches to understand the molecular mechanisms that drive cancer development, progression, and heterogeneity. The group’s driving hypothesis is that the complex clinical phenotypes we observe in cancer cannot be adequately defined by individual layers of molecular data. Instead, we must consider the underlying network of interactions between the different biological components that can drive cancer phenotypes. To do so, the group develops computational approaches that place genomic data into the context of large-scale, genome-wide regulatory networks, as well as approaches to analyze such networks for individual cancer patients.

The candidate will analyze long-term data from citizen science databases and bird observatories in Scandinavia, with the aim of understanding the causes of changes in bird population abundance, phenology and distributions. The candidate is also expected to take a leading role in developing a passive acoustic monitoring system for birds (during breeding and migration), in collaboration with colleagues at the Department of Technology Systems (DTS), University of Oslo. We seek candidates with a strong background in statistical modelling and may offer a joint affiliation with the Department of Mathematics (DM), University of Oslo. The candidate will work in close collaboration with Torbjørn Ergon (project PI at CEES), Ida Scheel (DM), Paal Englestad (DTS) and Øyvind Kure (DTS). The candidate is also encouraged to maintain and seek external collaboration.

Applicants are invited for a two year position as Postdoctoral Fellow in antibody biology and design to be based at the Laboratory of Adaptive Immunity and Homeostasis, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo. The position is also open for candidates who have completed a Postdoctoral Research Fellow period at UiO, and these candidates will be evaluated for a two year position as a Researcher (SKO 1109). The position is part of a project funded by the Norwegian Cancer Society, which is located in the research group of Professor Jan Terje Andersen, who is the head of the Laboratory of Adaptive Immunity and Homeostasis at Department of Immunology and Department of Pharmacology, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine.