24 Postdoctoral Fellowship at University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Your research project must cover the early translational stages T₀ (Disease modelling, Omics studies, Basic Research) -T₁ (Biomarker discovery, Target development, Preclinical development) and should bridge a basic biomedical research environment and a clinical research environment, making the research project interdisciplinary in its nature. The project may also cover early T2 (First in human, phase 1 clinical trials, phase 2 clinical trials, phase 2b clinical trials), but this is not a requirement.

Your project must be at the postdoctoral level, should address a relevant medical challenge and should be ambitious yet feasible within the timeframe of two years. Your research project must be developed in collaboration with your Mentor Team and is an important part of the recruitment process to become a BRIDGE Fellow.

Appointed fellows spend 80% of their time on individual translational research projects mentored by a Mentor Team consisting of a basic biomedical scientist from a SUND or SCIENCE Department or Centre, and a clinical scientist from a hospital in the Capital Region of Denmark or Region Zealand and/or from the life science industry. Additional mentors from other departments and universities in Denmark are encouraged if relevant.

The Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Copenhagen is seeking top early-career researchers for a number of attractive one- to three-year postdoctoral positions.

The salary is very competitive and researchers from outside Denmark may qualify for a reduced tax rate (see terms below).

The Department of Mathematical Sciences has strong research groups in many areas of mathematics, and has an active postdoc and visitors’ program. Applicants in all areas of mathematics covered by the research groups of the department will be considered. In particular, there will be postdoc stipends in the following specific areas/centers of the department:

• Algebraic and arithmetic geometry, applied algebra, geometric group theory, combinatorics, geometry and geometric analysis, Lie theory, representation theory, number theory, and topology, as covered by the Section for Algebra & Geometry and the Copenhagen Centre for Geometry & Topology (GeoTop).
• Functional analysis, operator algebras, geometric group theory, descriptive set theory, harmonic and classical analysis, history of mathematics, mathematical physics, partial differential equations, quantum information and quantum computing, as covered by the section Analysis and Quantum, the Center for the Mathematics of Quantum Theory (QMATH), and the Quantum for Life Center.

The Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Copenhagen is seeking top early-career researchers for a number of attractive one- to three-year postdoctoral positions.

The salary is very competitive and researchers from outside Denmark may qualify for a reduced tax rate (see terms below).

The Department of Mathematical Sciences has strong research groups in many areas of applied mathematics, and has an active postdoc and visitors’ program. Applicants in all areas of mathematics covered by the research groups of the department will be considered. In particular, there will be postdoc stipends in the following specific areas:

• Insurance mathematics, mathematical finance, econometrics and financial economics, applied probability theory, and operations research, as covered by the Section for Insurance and Economics.
• Probability theory and mathematical statistics to applied statistics, as covered by the Section for Statistics and Probability Theory.

Climate change and biodiversity loss are widely recognized as the twin environmental crises of our time. While climate science benefits from clear, globally agreed metrics—such as mean global temperature and atmospheric CO2 concentration—that can serve as proxies for monitoring change, biodiversity science relies on a proliferation of competing indicators, baselines, and indices. These metrics are not just shaped by ecological facts, but also by human variables: values, priorities, aims, and interests.

The HUMAN_BIAS project investigates how such human variables influence the development and use of biodiversity metrics, and how their impact can be understood, managed, and, where appropriate, embraced. The project focuses on three critical decision points in biodiversity assessment: (1) setting baselines and boundaries for measurement, (2) categorizing and classifying extinction and ecosystem risks, and (3) compiling global biodiversity indices from local data.

Across these domains, the project combines epistemic, ethical, ontological, and historical-philosophical perspectives. It asks, for example: How do choices about data standards affect the robustness of biodiversity evidence? Whose values should be represented in biodiversity measurement? When do metrics become “performative,” shaping the very realities they aim to measure? And how have past decisions shaped present-day extinction risk assessments?

Situated in the Philosophy of Science in Practice, HUMAN_BIAS integrates conceptual analysis with qualitative methods such as stakeholder interviews and archival research on the development of extinction risk metrics and categorization schemes. The ultimate aim is to provide a deeper philosophical understanding of biodiversity metrics that supports responsible, reliable, and actionable science.

The research questions, methodology, and project plan for the Post-doc project will be developed together with the supervisor (Joeri Witteveen) in the project’s initial phase. Candidates are requested to suggest a focus area and two or three key research questions of specific interest at the application stage. This preliminary research proposal should be included in the motivation letter (see ‘Application and Assessment Procedure’ below). Proposals should preferably fall within the scope of the work package ‘Human variables and the promise of robust knowledge’, ‘Human variables and the diversity of interests’, or ‘Human variables and the making of extinction risk’. For a more detailed description of the overall project, including these work packages, applicants are encouraged to contact Joeri Witteveen ([email protected]).

The successful applicant will be employed in the project FINFLUENCE, funded by Independent Research Fund Denmark (Sapere Aude Research Leader program). The project examines how young adults navigate the range of new actors in the financial space – from influencers and digital platforms to online communities – that has emerged over the past few years.

In just a few years, trading with financial assets – such as stocks, cryptocurrencies and derivatives – has become much more available to ordinary people through the spread of digital trading apps. Especially young adults have taken these opportunities to heart and have started investing money on their own on an unprecedented scale. Building on this trend, popular influencers and online communities sell investing as a way to achieve the dream of economic independence or a shortcut to riches. FINFLUENCE seeks to understand in which ways these new financial actors appeal to the young investors compared to more traditional opinion leaders such as family, friends, celebrities and experts.

The postdoctoral position is part of a 2.5-year project “Is moss the boss? Deciphering war and peace between moss and colonizing cyanobacteria” funded by the Danish Independent Research Fund, Dff, led by Kathrin Rousk.

For the postdoctoral project, the main goal is to elucidate the relationship mosses and colonizing, nitrogen (N) -fixing cyanobacteria share. The first step will be to identify and quantify nutrient exchange between moss and associated cyanobacteria using labelled (i.e. stable isotope 15N and radioactive isotope 35S) macronutrients into proteins of both partners. For this, we will use the model moss Physcomitrella patens. In another set of experiments, we will assess whether modulation of immune responses in mosses via N availability governs cyanobacterial colonization.

The postdoctoral researcher will co-supervise BSc and MSc students within the project.

We are looking for a talented postdoctoral researcher to be the driving force of a project initiated through a Novo Nordic Foundation project grant titled Time-resolved studies studies of the Lytic Polysaccharide MonoOxygenase reactions.

Lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases are copper metalloenzymes able to cleave saccharide linkages. Initially discovered due to their biotechnological potential in saccharification of recalcitrant biomass, many biological roles are recognized nowadays. A number of mechanistic questions remain unsolved and in this project we will particularly apply cutting edge serial crystallography as a main technique, to probe various aspects of the catalytic reaction in a time-resolved fashion and near-atomic resolution. The successful applicant will implement novel methodologies in the group and have a close collaboration with a PhD student also involved in the project, and synchrotron beamlines, particularly Micromax and Biomax in Lund, but also other European facilities. A certain amount of travel to the facilities and/or a longer stay of some months is expected for the successful candidate.

The project will be carried out in the group of Prof Lo Leggio ([email protected]) at the Department of Chemistry, who has many years of expertise in the structure and function of carbohydrate modifying enzymes, in particularly LPMOs. Here we have for several years focused on a model system where we have applied a number of non-standard advanced crystallographic techniques e.g. in dose resolved studies.

We seek a highly motivated and dynamic postdoctoral researcher with strong skills in epidemiology and statistics for a 4-year position commencing 1st Feb 2026. The researcher will join a new research group focusing on cardiometabolic diseases (CMD) affecting pregnancy, fetal development & women’s health,  based at the Global Health Section, Department of Public Health. Our aim is to accelerate research by generating new evidence on the life-course and transgenerational effects within cardiometabolic diseases affecting pregnancy, fetal development and women’s health. The work will be delivered through interdisciplinary cross-departmental collaborations and will also bring together the unique strengths of research environments in India and the University of Oxford, UK. In addition to generating evidence to improve the health of women and babies, we aim to decrease social inequality in health, build capacity, and promote bidirectional knowledge transfer. The research platform, MaatHRI (Maternal and perinatal Health Research collaboration, India, https://www.npeu.ox.ac.uk/maathri) will be a part of this group, and new projects will build on the successful research pipeline which MaatHRI has established.

The successful candidate will be based in the Global Health Section, Department of Public Health, Copenhagen, Denmark and will work closely with MaatHRI collaborators and staff in India.

We are looking for a highly motivated and dynamic postdoc for a 2.5-year position. As postdoc you will investigate the signalling pathways driving the migraine phenotype in a rodent model. The position will start on the 1st of February 2026, and the job is in the Kaag Rasmussen lab at Center for Translational Neuromedicine, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

The Department of Public Health provides the scientific foundation for researchers and educators who aim to improve public health, both nationally and globally, and to create greater insight into the links between health, the individual, and society as well as the ethical, equity, and political implications. This is achieved through research, education, and engagement with stakeholders and the general public along with a broad multidisciplinary research agenda that addresses most aspects of public health at a high international level. More information about the Department of Public Health is available here.

The project aims to study fundamental molecular mechanisms of how phages interact with host bacteria during infections, particularly focusing on the use of E. coli and its related phages as model organisms. However, the results may be applied in pathogenic bacteria related to E. coli, addressing the pressing issue of global antibiotic-resistant superbugs by studying phage-bacteria interactions. This project involves molecular, physiological and systematic study of E. coli– phage interaction mechanisms, with potential mechanistic studies of phage and bacteria protein interactions. The candidate will have the chance to be trained with multidisciplinary tools including molecular biology, biochemistry, deep sequencing, omics, genetics, phage engineering etc. Besides, academic exchanges to China (and/or Switzerland, Germany) are possible depending on the project progress.

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We are looking for two dynamic and ambitious researchers for two 4-year postdoc positions, commencing 1 January 2026. The positions are offered within the research and capacity strengthening project Partnership for Education of Health Professionals (PEP) at the Department of Public Health’s Section of Global Health. The focus of the PEP project lies in the intersection of 1) health professions education, 2) digital teaching and learning, and 3) low-resource settings. The positions entail close collaboration with Danish, Indian and Kenyan project partners.

The successful candidates will be working at the Global Health Section, Department of Public Health in Copenhagen and likely engage in data collection in India and/or Kenya.

We are looking for a highly motivated and dynamic postdoc for a 2 year position, to commence February 2026.

We are seeking a highly motivated postdoctoral researcher in bioinformatics to lead spatial transcriptomics analyses across diverse projects at the LEO Foundation Skin Immunology Research Center. Embedded in the Immunological Bioinformatics Group, this role offers a central position in collaborative research with substantial scope for methodological innovation and scientific leadership.

Information on the center and department can be found at: https://sic.ku.dk/ and https://isim.ku.dk/

The Skin Health project explores current skin health practices between everyday life, medical knowledge, industrial interests and aesthetic norms. The skin is our largest organ, a key player in health, and a vital part of our cultural, social, and political fabric. A damaged or ill skin can produce serious social stigma and personal trauma and activate mechanisms of exclusion. Engaging with these issues, the projects overall aim is to advance a more nuanced understanding of skin health focusing on the crucial relations between scientific, commercial and everyday skin practices. Skin health and skin care practices will be investigated by means of historical analysis and ethnographic fieldwork, and explore the prevailing discourses, medical, technological and everyday practices that define our cultural understanding and engagement with skin health.

The postdoc project is specifically expected to contribute to the Skin Health project by ethnographically investigating the troubled and ill skin and how skin is more than just a passive object of medicalization and treatment, but also an active sign and signal system that affords continued action and attention and may evoke processes of shame and stigma. The research should pay attention to the detailed emotional and time-consuming practices entailed in living with and treating a troubled skin and explore the socio-material daily handlings of skin diseases with a focus on how everyday life becomes an intersection of medical, social, and cultural skin practices. Applicants may suggest which skin diseases they wish to address and explore, but this can also be done in collaboration with the PI. It is expected that the ethnographic fieldwork will be with actors such as patients and relatives, healthcare professionals, pharmaceutical companies, and patient-organizations.

The Department of Computer Science invites applications for multiple research positions at both postdoctoral level (for PhD holders) and research assistant level (for MSc graduates). The successful candidates will engage in developing novel robot automation and perception techniques using simulation and machine learning methods, focusing on data-driven industrial manipulation and robot colonoscopy respectively.

The positions are hosted by the IMAGE section at the Department of Computer Science, with research themes spanning computer simulation, robotics, biomedical imaging, computer vision, geometry and numerical methods. The projects are part of two larger innovation and EU Horizon consortiums, networking academic researchers and industrial professionals inside and outside Denmark. The other partners include world-class tech leaders on the frontiers of collaborative robots, biomedical manufacturing and automation solution, who will be sharing best practices and staying abreast of the latest developments in the scope of the projects.

The Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences conducts basic and applied research to solve agri-environmental challenges within plant, soil and environmental sciences. Research and teaching encompass natural resources, agriculture, and biotechnology from the molecular to landscape scales. The post is based within the Crop Sciences section at the Tåstrup campus, at the university’s experimental farm platform.

The weed ecology and evolution group investigates the ecological and evolutionary processes that dictate the distribution, adaptation and impacts of weeds in agroecosystems. Our basic research uses weeds as excellent models for studying rapid plant adaptation in human-influenced environments. We apply these insights to develop sustainable weed management strategies. In the One Crop Health project, we take an integrated agroecological approach to explore the biological, environmental and management (GxExM) drivers of invertebrate pest, weed, pathogen populations, and functional biodiversity.

The postdoc will be part of a project entitled Selection in Cognition funded by the Carlsberg Foundation and headed by Professor Søren Kyllingsbæk and Professor Thor Grünbaum.

The Selection in Cognition project develops and tests a new theory of basic cognitive selection mechanisms by combining methods and perspectives from experimental psychology, cognitive neuroscience, mathematical modelling, and philosophy. The core idea is that selection in cognition may be understood as a biased competition between representations in a stochastic race (Grünbaum, Oren, & Kyllingsbæk, 2021; Oren et al., 2024; Kyllingsbæk et al., 2025). A successful applicant is expected to familiarize themselves with recent work by Prof. Thor Grünbaum and situate their research plan within the framework of the Selection in Cognition project. For more information about the project, please contact Prof Thor Grünbaum ([email protected]).

The postdoc should be a philosopher with expertise in philosophy of psychology broadly conceived (incl. relevant epistemology, confirmation theory, philosophy of statistics, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of the cognitive sciences). Possible topics include the role of memory in temporally extended agency, recent discussions of reinforcement learning, or recent methodological discussions of construct validity and replication.

The postdoc is for 2 1/2 years, of which 2 years are dedicated to research and 1/2 year is dedicated to teaching. The teaching duties will be placed throughout the period of employment. The teaching will primarily be in philosophy of science and philosophy of cognitive science (for students in the cognitive science programme: https://studier.ku.dk/bachelor/kognitions-og-datavidenskab/) as part of team of teachers including Thor Grünbaum. The successful candidate will be able to document relevant teaching experience. Classes can be taught in English.

The successful candidate will be working in close collaboration with philosophers, cognitive psychologists, and other cognitive scientists and should be interested in theory development and testing. The postdoc is not expected to conduct new independent empirical research during the period of employment. It is expected that the successful candidate will be present, part of the team, and partake in the activities at CoInAct on a daily basis. The postdoc will be physically located at the Section for Philosophy (https://comm.ku.dk/research/philosophy/), Department of Communication, University of Copenhagen.