24 Postdoctoral Fellowship at Uppsala University, Sweden

Are you interested in working with nuclear data and reactor analysis, with the support of competent and friendly colleagues in an international environment? Are you looking for an employer that invests in sustainable employeeship and offers safe, favourable working conditions? We welcome you to apply for a postdoc position at Uppsala University.

Uppsala University is seeking a highly motivated Postdoctoral Researcher to join our innovative research team focused on nuclear data evaluation. This project is dedicated to advancing the development of Generation IV reactors, particularly small modular reactors with molten salt or lead-cooled designs.

As a Postdoctoral Researcher, you will play a key role in enhancing the burnup of nuclear fuel and optimizing reactor operations by refining uncertainty propagation methods used in safety margin calculations. Your research will involve programming of a nuclear data evaluation pipeline, as well as models development and assessing uncertainties within nuclear data libraries.

The littoral zone is an extensive habitat at the land-water interface of lakes, four times longer than the global ocean shoreline, and characterised by abundant growth of aquatic plants. The very high growth rates of these plants drive high carbon turnover. Therefore, littoral zones of lakes can exhibit high carbon sequestration, but also high emission of greenhouse gases. Current understanding is however very limited, as littoral zones are spatially complex and difficult to study. Within the RELITORATE project, funded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, a team of experts in flux measurement, remote sensing and numerical modelling will use new and emerging methodologies in order to gain a comprehensive and quantitative understanding of littoral carbon and greenhouse gas fluxes, beyond the scale of individual lakes.

The research program in Chemical and Bio-Molecular Physics at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, focuses on understanding the fundamental properties and ultrafast processes of matter at the atomic length and time scales of Ångströms and femtoseconds. The program has a leading position in the use of X-ray radiation for probing atoms, molecules, chemical systems and biomolecules. The research addresses fundamental questions in chemistry, biology and physics with the aim to reveal how the properties of a system result from its electronic structure and dynamics with applications in biophysics, chemistry and catalysis.

The position is placed in the group of Prof. Philippe Wernet. Research will be carried out using experiments at synchrotron radiation facilities and x-ray free-electron lasers combined with femtosecond laser spectroscopy at Uppsala University.

Branch prediction is increasing in importance as processors have more in-flight instructions. Our hypothesis is that we can produce fundamentally better predictions by merging different prediction contexts rather than competing between different predictor outcomes. The reason to believe in this hypothesis is that the different contexts used by different predictors today are not independent: for example, loops and statistically predicted branches are intermixed and affect each other. Combining contextual information before finding patterns is fundamentally different from combining the final predictions after each predictor finds its own context-specific pattern. If we can combine different types of contextual information (e.g., loops and statistical counts and histories), we believe we can create a more sophisticated “meta-context” that allows us to recognize patterns from the combined context information, leading to better predictions. The flip side is that it may be correspondingly harder to recognize the right patterns, particularly at runtime. This project contains two parts: looking at the underlying potential by studying application behavior and looking at the tradeoffs to make a practical design. 

The Department of Information Technology holds a leading position in both research and education at all levels. We are currently Uppsala University’s third largest department, have around 350 employees, including 120 teachers and 120 PhD students. Approximately 5,000 undergraduate students take one or more courses at the department each year. You can find more information about us on the department of Information Technology website.

The Department of Information Technology is situated in the newly built Ångström House 10, which contains a visualization studio, a social robot lab, a maker space and 3D printing workshop. Researchers work in all areas of IT, from designing processers, through HCI and cybersecurity, to cancer research tools and methods for numerical analysis and machine learning.

This project focuses on developing autonomous workflows in a self-driving laboratory (SDL) for the exploration of new energy materials. The SDL integrates sputtering, reactive thermal processing, and hyperspectral imaging to fabricate and characterize combinatorial thin-film libraries across a broad chemical and thermodynamic space. The project’s core challenge is guiding exploration within the experimental space, to uncover synthesis–property relationships for targeted materials. This will involve combining materials science expertise with machine learning approaches, both existing and newly developed, to design and execute multi-stage experimental workflows with distinct objectives. A central outcome will be the demonstration of the first PVD-based SDL governed by knowledge-driven (not only data-driven) exploration strategies. The project will involve working closely with a team including PhD students in machine learning, automation and materials science, an environment of thin film science and engineering experts, and with collaborations in AI, data science and SDL development.

The position is funded through S och B Engströms stiftelse för medicinsk forskning (91052), Gunvor och Majvor Lundbergs stiftelse för medicinsk forskning (91141), Monica Sjöströms stiftelse för medicinsk forskning (91141) and E Wesslers stiftelse för medicinsk forskning (91264). The position will be placed at one of the departments of the Faculty of Medicine.

Those qualified for appointment as a postdoctoral fellow have been awarded a Degree of Doctor or an equivalent qualification awarded by a foreign higher education institution. The degree should have been awarded no more than three years before the deadline for applications. If special grounds exist, consideration may be given to applicants who were awarded a Degree of Doctor earlier. Special grounds may be parental leave, sick leave, elected office in a trade union, leave of absence to serve in the Swedish defence forces or similar circumstances, or a clinical position or other service/assignments of relevance to the position.

Those qualified for appointment as a postdoctoral fellow have been awarded a Degree of Doctor or an equivalent qualification awarded by a foreign higher education institution. The degree should have been awarded no more than three years before the deadline for applications. If special grounds exist, consideration may be given to applicants who were awarded a Degree of Doctor earlier. Special grounds may be parental leave, sick leave, elected office in a trade union, leave of absence to serve in the Swedish defence forces or similar circumstances, or a clinical position or other service/assignments of relevance to the position.

The Department of Information Technology holds a leading position in both research and education at all levels. We are currently Uppsala University’s third largest department, have around 350 employees, including 120 teachers and 120 PhD students. Approximately 5,000 undergraduate students take one or more courses at the department each year. You can find more information about us on the Department of Information Technology website.

We seek a postdoctoral fellow interested in advancing interdisciplinary research at the intersection of computing education and social data science.

The Agile Education in a Changing Landscape project aims to contribute to a better understanding of how societal trends in digitalization and computing influence the values, norms, and expectations of incoming university students. By exploring students’ information habits – especially their exposure to social media – and analyzing how they shape their attitudes toward computing, the project supports the agile development of responsible, ethical, and inclusive computing education.

The research conducted at the Department of Physics and Astronomy encompasses a wide range of physics topics, distributed over nine divisions. The department is located in the Ångström laboratory and employs nearly 400 people, 100 of whom are doctoral students. It offers a broad physics curriculum to undergraduate and graduate students, participation in nationally and internationally leading projects for researchers, and opportunities for partnership with industry and various outreach activities. Read more about the Department of Physics and Astronomy here.

The research within the division of Materials Physics, at Uppsala University, is centred around understanding the physical properties of materials by analysing their structure and composition across multiple length scales, from the atomic to the macroscopic, and linking them to functional properties. Core areas are magnetism, hydrogen, energy materials, soft matter and ion-solid interactions.

We are seeking a highly motivated researcher in analytical chemistry with expertise in global (untargeted) and targeted metabolomics to join the ADME of Therapeutics (ADMEoT) unit at the Department of Pharmacy, in collaboration with the Globisch Laboratory at the Department of Chemistry-BMC. Both departments are located at the Biomedical Centre (BMC), Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.

We are seeking a highly motivated and interdisciplinary postdoctoral researcher to join our team in exploring the complex interplay between food choice, nutrition behaviour, and environmental sustainability. This position offers a unique opportunity to contribute to research that addresses both individual and societal challenges related to healthy and sustainable eating, with a particular emphasis on populations at increased risk of health disparities at the intersection of nutrition science, psychology, pedagogy, and public health.

The research will highlight how food choices are shaped by sensory experiences, social contexts, and environmental considerations. A central focus will be on school meals and other communal eating settings, where food preferences and behaviours are influenced by both individual traits and shared environments. The project will pay special attention to children with neurodevelopmental disorders, while also considering other groups who may face challenges related to food acceptance and dietary diversity.

(18) Postdoctoral Fellowship Position

Postdoc Fellowship Position summary/title: Postdoctoral position in cancer epidemiology

Deadline : 11 August 2025

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Understanding the relationship between genetic variation and phenotypic variation is a fundamental goal in genome biology and genomic medicine. In the last 15 years, genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have detected numerous DNA regions that are associated with complex traits in humans. Translation to functional understanding is lagging, in part because >95% of human GWAS-identified loci are in non-coding, regulatory regions of the genome, and pinpointing causal genes and mechanisms is complex. In this project, we aim to understand the molecular mechanisms of species’ ability to adapt to their environment. The herring is an excellent system to study such adaptations. First, herring fertilize their eggs externally, which exposes them to considerable environmental variability throughout their life cycle. Secondly, there are ~10E12 herring on earth, which mate randomly. Hence, allele frequencies of gene variants in different locally adapted subpopulations are set by natural selection, while genetic noise (genetic drift) plays a minute role. GWAS in herring performed at Leif Andersson’s lab at Uppsala University have identified >100 genomic regions controlling adaptation to differences in salinity, temperature, timing of reproduction and light conditions. Unlike in humans, many associated DNA regions in herring include single base changes in protein coding sequence that clearly point to likely causal variants and genes. Funded by the Wallenberg Foundation and enabled by a new research infrastructure built by the BalticWaters Foundation, we now recruit a post-doc to be part of a team striving to unravel the molecular mechanisms through which some identified variants influence species adaptation. The post-doc will focus on base editing and functional experiments in zebrafish models, and possibly in herring as well. Throughout the project, the post-doc will interact with experts in the fields of evolutional biology and spatial transcriptomics, who will approach the challenge from complimentary angles. 

We are looking for a scientific researcher with a strong background in software development, or software developer with a strong interest in science. You will join a project, within which applied statistics and information theory is used to quantify the information content of neutron reflectivity datasets. Using this, we are able to optimize the design of experiments and to make previously impossible experiments possible, as well as to run existing experiments faster and better.

Participation and collaboration with all other parts of the project is strongly encouraged and if the candidate chooses, they can participate in the large-scale facility experiments.

Are you interested in working with urban fisheries and other types of small-scale fisheries in East Africa, with the support of competent and friendly colleagues in an international environment? Are you looking for an employer that invests in sustainable employeeship and offers safe, favourable working conditions? We welcome you to apply for a postdoctoral position in small-scale fisheries in East Africa position at Uppsala University.

Den postdoktorala forskaren kommer att ha ett centralt ansvar för planering, genomförande och rapportering av forskningsaktiviteter inom projektet. Arbetsuppgifterna innefattar att utforma och genomföra en studie om prevalensen av undernäring på äldreboenden i olika regioner i Sverige samt att använda innovativa metoder för att undersöka energi- och näringsintag hos äldre personer på dessa boenden. I rollen ingår även att etablera och upprätthålla samarbeten med äldreboenden och andra relevanta aktörer, liksom att tillsammans med projektets forskningsassistent ansvara för den dagliga driften och den praktiska samordningen av projektet.

Den anställde kommer att delta i planeringen och metodutvecklingen av två kliniska interventionsstudier i nära samarbete med forskare från såväl medicinska som teknisk-naturvetenskapliga fakulteten. En viktig del av uppdraget är också att, tillsammans med projektledarna, leda skrivandet och publiceringen av vetenskapliga artiklar i relevanta tidskrifter.

Institutionen för immunologi, genetik och patologi vid Uppsala universitet har en bred forskningsprofil med starka forskargrupper inriktade på bl. a cancer, genetiska och autoimmuna sjukdomar. En av de bärande tankarna vid institutionen är att stimulera translationell forskning och därmed främja en närmare samverkan mellan medicinsk forskning och sjukvården. Forskning bedrivs inom sex forskningsprogram: cancerprecisionsmedicin, cancerimmunterapi, genomik och neurobiologi, molekylära verktyg och funktionsgenomik, neuroonkologi och neurodegeneration samt vaskulärbiologi. Delar av verksamheten är även integrerad med avdelningarna för onkologi, klinisk genetik, klinisk immunologi, klinisk patologi och sjukhusfysik vid Akademiska sjukhuset. Institutionen har undervisningsuppdrag på ett antal programutbildningar, fristående kurser och internationella masterprogram inom den medicinska fakulteten. Institutionen omsätter omkring 550 miljoner kronor, varav ca två tredjedelar är externa forskningsbidrag. Antalet anställda är ca 400, varav ca 100 är doktorander, och det finns totalt över 850 verksamma i arbetsstyrkan. Läs gärna mer om institutionens verksamhet här: www.uu.se/medarbetare/institution/immunologi-genetik-och-patologi

Forskaren kommer att ha ett centralt ansvar för planering, genomförande och rapportering av forskningsaktiviteter inom projektet. Arbetsuppgifterna innefattar att utforma och genomföra en studie om prevalensen av undernäring på äldreboenden i olika regioner i Sverige samt att använda innovativa metoder för att undersöka energi- och näringsintag hos äldre personer på dessa boenden. I rollen ingår även att etablera och upprätthålla samarbeten med äldreboenden och andra relevanta aktörer, liksom att tillsammans med projektets forskningsassistent ansvara för den dagliga driften och den praktiska samordningen av projektet.

Den anställde kommer att delta i planeringen och metodutvecklingen av två kliniska interventionsstudier i nära samarbete med forskare från såväl medicinska som teknisk-naturvetenskapliga fakulteten. En viktig del av uppdraget är också att, tillsammans med projektledarna, leda skrivandet och publiceringen av vetenskapliga artiklar i relevanta tidskrifter.