27 Postdoctoral Fellowship at University of Copenhagen, Denmark

The LOBBYMETRY project addresses two types of imbalances in lobbying: 1) mobilisation asymmetries, which exclude some actors from the policy debate, and 2) information asymmetries, which empower specific groups in their exchanges with policymakers. The project analyses these asymmetries and their relationship with each other, as well as their effects on the ways in which sectional and public interests feed into policymaking.

The project studies these asymmetries across populations of interest organisations in twelve European countries and at European Union level, as well as within the climate and digital policy fields, which vary strongly in mobilisation asymmetries and constitute areas where well- or ill-informed policies have vast consequences for humanity at large. LOBBYMETRY strives to open the black-box of policymaker-lobbyist information exchange within these areas, develop measures of informational quality and accuracy in lobbying, and evaluate how and when lobbying pulls outcomes away from the public interest.

Methodologically, the project combines cross-country surveys, cross-venue data on at least 100 issues in climate and digital policy, and different forms of participant observation of the information exchanges between policymakers and interest organisations in i) natural and ii) researcher-controlled settings. This combination of methods will generate unprecedented quantitative and qualitative evidence on lobbyist-policymaker information exchange in varying contexts.

The Postdoc will be part of a project entitled Selection in Cognition funded by the Carlsberg Foundation and headed by Professor Søren Kyllingsbæk and Associate Professor Thor Grünbaum. The larger 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 (Grünbaum, Oren, & Kyllingsbæk, 2021; Oren, Kyllingsbæk, Dupont, & Grünbaum, 2024). Applicants are asked to situate and develop their research plan within the framework of the Selection in Cognition project.

The Postdoc should be a researcher with a strong background in mathematical modelling and is expected to be familiar with formals modelling frameworks such as linear ballistic accumulator models, diffusion models, biased competition models, or Bayesian models. During the employment, the candidate is expected to engage in the development of computational models, model selection, and contribute to the development of experimental paradigms. This will enable us to test and develop our theory of cognitive selection in the domains of task selection, planning, and decision making at both psychological and neurophysiological levels.

The Department of Food Science invites applicants for a 3-years Postdoctoral fellowship in Food Chemistry and Bioprocessing. The position is part of the Novo Nordisk Foundation funded project “Functionality-targeted isolation and modification of caseins from precision fermentation biomass (FUNCAS)”. The aim of the project is to identify, understand and predict the relationships between composition, structure and functionality of casein ingredients isolated from precision fermentation biomass and to develop post-process modification strategies to alleviate deficiencies in functionality compared to animal caseins.

Funding for three postdoctoral researcher positions working on the use of AI in medicine is available. The positions are focused on various aspects of cancer treatment, including AI-assisted diagnosis, treatment planning, and outcome prediction. Depending on the applicant’s qualifications, they may work on medical image analysis, clinical report analysis, or theoretical aspects of AI in medicine. The researchers are expected to work in close collaboration with the Department of Radiation Oncology and the Department of Radiology at Rigshospitalet. This project, led by Associate Professor Bulat Ibragimov.

This project is large in scale, offering considerable flexibility for each PhD to follow the track they prefer. These tracks include: a) Analysis of pre-RT medical images – Annotating patient organs, tumors, and anatomically relevant regions to measure radiation delivery and dose distribution across different areas; b) Analysis of dose delivery plans – Examining longitudinal RT treatments where radiation is delivered over multiple sessions; c) Analysis of clinical features – Investigating patient data as structured variables or processing clinical reports using NLP algorithms to assess their role in RT outcomes; d) Theoretical machine learning development – Designing new AI algorithms with broad applications, potentially extending beyond medicine. Our work includes explainable AI, AI in robotics, and geometrical modelling; e) Eye-tracking in cancer treatment planning – Exploring whether eye-tracking technology can serve as an optimal communication interface between physicians and computers during medical image annotation and treatment planning.

The Sections of Chemistry and Physics and Soil and Plant Sciences at the Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences invite applications for a postdoc position on the effects of biochar on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, nutrient fate and carbon sequestration in rewetted, cultivated peat soils. The position is open from 1. September 2025 or as soon as possible thereafter, and the position has a duration of 24 months.

This position is part of the RESTORE project funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark Thematic Call on Green Research, and aims to develop a new rewetting solution for drained, cultivated peat soils to help reach climate goals. Biochar, the highly stable carbon residue from biomass pyrolysis, has been shown to reduce GHG emissions from agricultural fields, and to sorb and store nutrients and pollutants, thus can potentially multiply the climate change mitigation effect of rewetting peatlands, while safeguarding the environment. Because of its recalcitrant nature, biochar soil amendment is also one of the few technologies that can sequester carbon in large quantities. However, to date biochar’s effects on GHG, nutrient, and C dynamics in peat soils and their microbiome under rewetted, anoxic conditions are poorly understood

Successful candidates will have the opportunity to take a leading role in research projects aimed at understanding the molecular and genetic basis of cardiometabolic disease. Projects include (but are not limited to);

1. Gaining insights into the deeper biological mechanisms that underlie body weight regulation, fat distribution, and their comorbidities through genetic studies and the development of refined phenotypes.
2. Identifying genetic variants and protein biomarkers that contribute to growth and maturation during childhood and adolescence, and to maternal health and weight gain/loss during and after pregnancy.
3. Using genetic and proteomics information to subtype individuals in the context of obesity and other cardiometabolic diseases.
4. Analyzing real-time data (continuous glucose monitoring, dietary intake, physical activity, and other relevant health metrics) related to cardiometabolic health and their value in prevention and impact on future health.

Candidates will leverage a wide range of (inter)national large-scale biobanks (e.g., UK Biobank, All of Us, Mount Sinai BioMe biobank, Project 10K, Danish National Biobank, COPSAC, Inter99, and the Danish Precision Health Initiative (DELPHI)).

The Cardiac Proteomics and Systems Biology Group at Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, is seeking to employ a Post Doctoral fellow. The successful candidate will investigate spatial- and cell type-resolved proteomes of heart samples across cardiac diseases as starting point for further investigations of cardiac disease mechanisms. The research fellow will focus on mass spectrometry based proteomics investigations of human heart samples in combination with experimental studies in iPSC derived cardiomyocytes.

Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies (EGR) at the University of Copenhagen is offering a 22-month postdoc position commencing 1 September 2025 or as soon as possible thereafter. We are looking for a candidate with a background in sociolinguistics, (linguistic) anthropology or related fields, with experience in ethnography and preferably also discourse and narrative analysis, who is motivated to undertake an independent research project as part of a three-year collaborative project on multilingualism and work migration in Danish agriculture (MiDAS) funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark.

We are seeking a highly motivated and skilled Postdoctoral Researcher to lead the bioinformatics analysis of ancient protein mass spectrometry data generated within the CODICUM project. This position will focus on analyzing ZooMS data from parchment to investigate the patterns and groups within the collection of medieval manuscript fragments in order to explore their origins, manufacturing and relationships within Northern Europe.

Although a number of computational tools exist for the analysis of population scale genome datasets, these are often computationally intensive. In response to this, a number of developments have recently been made in the use of k-mer based methods as a more resource-efficient tool (for example https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-019-1632-4). While such methods show promise when applied to in silico generated datasets, their performance on real datasets is less well understood. The 18 month postdoctoral position advertised here was created as part of the DIVERSEA consortium (https://www.ntnu.edu/diversea), to address this issue, through exploration of the potential of several recent k-mer based tools on real biological datasets, and in doing so identify future developments that are needed in the area. This position is based in the group of Prof Tom Gilbert at the Globe Institute, with additional collaboration with Assoc Prof Siavash Mirarab at the University of California San Diego.

As a postdoctoral researcher in the DFF/Inge Lehmann-funded research project ‘Infrastructural Power in Digital Societies’ (IP), you will join the Center for Tracking and Society (CTS) in the Department of Communication. CTS is an interdisciplinary center that undertakes critical and empirical research into digital tracking and its societal consequences.

Proposing a (re)turn to power in contemporary infrastructure studies, Infrastructural Power in Digital Societies links classic theories of power to state-of-the-art research on how Internet infrastructures are organized and controlled. In creating a conceptual backdrop for investigating the long-term societal consequences of historical shifts in infrastructural power (a)symmetries, the IP project’s fundamental question is: What forms of power are obtained and exerted through the ownership and control of internet technologies as critical infrastructures in and for digital societies? Read more about the project here.

The Postdoc is expected to develop and conduct an individual research project emphasizing concepts, frameworks, and/or empirical cases that help address ecological crises and transgressions of planetary boundaries. The proposed project must be relevant to the aims and activities of the center, specifically in terms of contributing to applied approaches for ecological transformations in Danish and International contexts. The Postdoc can employ concepts and methodologies from humanities disciplines working with climate, ecology, and the environment. Combinations with approaches from other related fields of research can also be considered. Along with other existing projects, CApE is looking to expand expertise in future imaginaries, climate justice, transformative political economy, ecological literacy and temporality. Insights from both conceptual and empirical work will be actively used in selected activities of the center, on which the permanent staff will collaborate with the Postdoc to develop formats on the basis of the research. Accordingly, the center director will be available for supervision, and the Postdoc can take on supporting responsibilities related to the center’s management. As part of the project, the Postdoc will also have the support of visiting leading European/Global research centers that experiment with applied ecological thinking in cultural and social contexts.

The postdoc will examine how the practices and resistance of those affected by climate crisis at “home” can shape law and legal processes. The postdoc will both support the work of the investigators and will design their own project that builds on the Empatheatre methodology to uncover and develop creative practices that are themselves processes of law-making and that can resist law’s injustices, including through the creation of legal outputs (which could be, among other things, reimagined case summaries, innovations for legislative drafting, and customary approaches to regulation).

With the support of their supervisors, the postdoc will hold a focus group in Denmark in 2025/2026 and be involved in the organization of a workshop in the UK in the beginning of 2027, as well as participate in processes of theatre-making in South Africa. The postdoc will contribute to at least two scholarly outputs, one broadly centred on approaches to legal reform rooted in the idea of arts-based retaking and making of law’s objects. The other examining the legal dimensions of home which are often overlooked in humanities scholarship, and, potentially, the implications of this for ideas of self, memory, and identity

The Postdoc will form a part of the XAI-CRED project team composed of both (socio-)legal scholars and computer scientists both the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen and the AI for the People Center at Aalborg University. The Postdoc will be responsible for securing a strong link to international refugee law, Nordic asylum law and evidence law within the project. Working together with data scientists, the Postdoc will be able to critically test different assumptions and explanatory factors and promote novel approaches to researching these areas of law more broadly. Methodologically, the Postdoc may engage with both formal-legal and socio-legal approaches to credibility in asylum decision-making. Empirically, the main part of the project will focus on a large dataset of Danish asylum case law; and the ability to read Danish and contextualise case law in relation to Danish law and international refugee law is thus important. The Postdoc will be able to help shape the research agenda within the project and also pursue own research ideas within the overarching scope of the project. The XAI-CRED project is further committed to ensuring onward career possibilities for early career scholars. After completion of the initial project period, the Postdoc will thus be enabled to apply for an extension of their employment as either Postdoc or Assistant Professor.

(18) Postdoctoral Fellowship Position

Postdoc Fellowship Position summary/title: Postdoc in Trustworthy AI

Deadline : 22 April 2025,

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We are looking for an enthusiastic Research Assistant who will be part of research projects where focus is global or targeted analyses of metabolites and lipids in various biological sample matrices.  An important part will be development and optimization of new LC- and GC-MS methods, developing strategies and methods for quantitative and qualitative analysis of specific metabolites in biological tissues and fluids. The work will include sample preparation, mass spectrometry (MS) and processing of MS-data, as well as performing basic statistical data evaluation of metabolomics data.  The candidate will have a great opportunity to advance her/his basic research skills.

We are offering two postdoc positions in molecular microbial ecology, metagenomics, and bioinformatics at the Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen. One position is for four years, and the other is for two years, both as part of the EMBARQ project (www.embarq.dk), a Center of Excellence funded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation.

We are looking a post doc to focus on ERK regulation of enhancer function as part of our projects tragetted at improving IVF treatment. As a post doc in the Brickman lab, you will be working in a field of stem cell and molecular biology. You will be part of an international interdisciplinary team of scientists focusing on understanding enhancer regulation, gene regulatory networks and exploiting these networks to develop new technologies for cell type specification in vitro.  We work with in vivo and in vitro systems in both mouse and human. For this project, you will primarily work with human stem cell culture models, three dimensional stem cell based embryo models for human development, human hypoblast stem cells and naïve human ESC culture.  You will also be expected to carry out your own bioinformatics analysis, focusing on understanding the means by which emergent gene regulatory networks interface with signaling to regulate competence for differentiation.   

The successful candidates will both become part of the project entitled Post-neutrality in Libraries, Archives and Museums, financed by VELUX FONDEN’s core group program (Project number VEL67752).

Libraries, archives and museums (LAMs) in Denmark, as well as in the rest of the Western world, are in the midst of a major transformation from being understood as neutral cultural institutions to undertaking a more distinct and active position on certain societal issues. Several LAM-institutions are concerned with contributing to a more inclusive society and drawing attention to past injustices. Simultaneously, LAMs are increasingly involved in solving new types of tasks in society, e.g. fighting climate change or engaging in issues of health and well-being. The research project “Post-neutrality in Libraries, Archives and Museums” examines the ongoing transformation from different perspectives in order to create a conceptual framework that enables society to engage in more productive discussions and evaluations of the practices of cultural institutions.

The two postdocs will be part of an interdisciplinary environment focused on advancing theoretical, methodological and empirical research on contemporary cultural institutions. The two postdocs will collaborate closely with the rest of the core group, which includes researchers with expertise in archives, libraries and museums, ethnology, cultural policy and cultural heritage. The rest of the core group consists of Associate professor Nanna Kann-Rasmussen (PI, Dept. of Communication), Associate professor Anne Folke Henningsen (Saxo Institute), Professor Hans Dam Christensen (Dept. of Communication) and one Ph.D. student (beginning 1 March 2025).

We are looking for a highly motivated and dynamic researcher for a 8-month post-doctoral position in cellular biology to start in the Galvagnion group “Protein-membrane interactions in health and disease” in  May 30, 2025 or shortly after. Preference will be given to candidates with a strong expertise in fibroblasts and stem cell culture maintenance and differentiation as well as biochemistry. The purpose of the postdoc is to analyze patients’ bio-samples to reveal a molecular signature that, together with clinical data, will enable to stratify high risk iRBD individuals for conversion into different types of alpha-synucleinopathies. This project is part of the interdisciplinary consortium DEEPEN-iRBD including the Luxembourg Parkinson’s study.

The nature of bacterial adaptation to the infectious microenvironment and its role for the efficacy of antibiotics remains poorly characterized. We propose to map the evolutionary trajectories of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in the infectious microenvironment and apply these insights to predict an optimal treatment strategy to limit development of AMR. The aims of the project: 1) To identify the genetic pathways of antimicrobial resistance development in the infectious microenvironment through experimental evolution in an animal infection model; 2) To investigate the dynamics of the host-pathogen interactions during evolution of antimicrobial resistance; 3) To develop a mathematical modeling framework to translate the experimental findings to potential clinical treatment strategies which limit antimicrobial resistance; 4) To test the potential of changing the infectious microenvironment by antioxidants to prevent antimicrobial resistance. The project focus on development of AMR in infections caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms, which represent a large burden for the society, causing a variety of difficult to treat infections. Your tasks will be: 1. to conduct AMR evolution experiments in a mouse model of biofilm lung infection developed in our lab; 2. to identify genes that alter antibiotic efficacy in the infectious microenvironment by genome-wide mutant fitness profiling using P. aeruginosa transposon (Tn) library and Tn sequencing; 3. to map changes in gene expression in both the pathogen and the host by dual RNA sequencing during in vivo evolution in the animal model. These experimental findings will be used by our international collaborator prof. Coen von Hasselt from Leiden University, The Netherlands, for mathematical modeling and will allow us to make predictions of the evolution of AMR in vivo and to design therapeutic interventions that target evolvability-modifying pathways that could be used in combination with antibiotics to block common mutational paths to resistance.

In this project you will analyse newly generated scRNA-Seq and 10X multiome data sets to reveal the molecular programmes that are active in human blood cells. You will employ cutting-edge single-cell computational approaches to chart and understand the gene regulatory networks that are active in blood cells in health and disease.

The successful candidates will have a PhD in Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Biostatistics or in a related quantitative field (e.g., Statistics, Mathematics, Physics). You will be passionate about science, hardworking, and excited to learn and improve skills in an outstanding research environment. You will be part of a multidisciplinary team and will be tasked with proactively seeking and maintaining appropriate collaborations. Your task would be to drive forward the project, working closely with biologists, clinicians and bioinformaticians within and outside the group to accomplish scientific objectives.

The project aims to develop patient-level foundation models (PLUMs) using EIR, our deep learning framework for integrative multi-modal data analysis. Working with large-scale genomics, multi-omics and health data from biobanks such as UK Biobank (UKB), Danish Blood Donor Study (DBDS), and Danish national health registries, you will develop supervised foundation models capable of learning biological patterns from diverse data types. These models will enable translation from genomics to molecular markers and health outcomes, focusing primarily on cardiometabolic diseases. By integrating multiple data modalities (genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, microbiome, etc.), the project will create embeddings that capture both genetic and environmental factors influencing disease. The approach will allow for knowledge transfer from deeply phenotyped international biobanks to Danish cohorts, enabling more precise patient stratification and risk prediction in both research and clinical settings.

We are looking to hire 2-3 postdocs within Gravitational Wave Physics.

The Postdoctoral Fellowships in gravitational wave physics are available for expert researchers in the field with experience in theory and data analysis concerning black hole spectroscopy. Particularly, we are looking for candidates with experience in LIGO data analysis for ringdown, or ringdown in extensions of General Relativity, or with experience in the Newman-Penrose formalism, and perturbations of black hole horizons.

The postdoc’s duties will include research within gravitational wave physics, and the problem of motion in General Relativity. The post may also include performance of other duties, specifically student co-supervision and teaching.