28 Postdoctoral Fellowship at University of Oslo, Norway

How do groundwater extremes develop and recover as a result of complex and interacting physical and anthropogenic processes under ongoing and future global change, including climate and human influence? What are the key drivers of groundwater drought in different climate regions and hydrogeological settings? And how do cycles of wet and dry conditions of different durations impact drought development and recovery? At the department of Geosciences, University of Oslo (UiO), we aim to answer these questions as part of our role in the GroundedExtremes project.  

The GroundedExtremes project is a European funded research project that aims to investigate key processes controlling the development of hydrological extremes and the potential for improved groundwater management as a powerful adaptation strategy to both droughts and floods. In GroundedExtremes six postdoctoral and young researchers study and compare groundwater dynamics, management and governance across four case studies: Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Sweden.  

At the University of Oslo, we are seeking a researcher with statistical/physically-based modelling background and experience from groundwater studies to join our team. The person will analyse groundwater level observations and related climate and site-specific data to assess the development, duration and recovery of groundwater droughts, their climate drivers, subsurface characteristics, vegetation and water use, as well as effects of ongoing and future global changes. Focus is on drought, but includes situations of high groundwater table as groundwater can act as a buffer to both flood and drought. We will analyse and compare groundwater dynamics in the four case studies, with a specific focus on Sweden. Emphasis will be on (compound) drivers of groundwater drought across the case studies, including large-scale climate drivers and local scale characteristics, taking into account the importance of wet extremes in the development and recovery of groundwater drought. Key focus is analysis of time series, including climate and groundwater level observations, whereas physically-based groundwater modelling is the task of other project partners. Our role is, among other, to provide modelers in the four case studies with consistent large-scale forcing data, e.g. E-OBS or ERA5.  

We are looking for a person who is interested in interdisciplinary research and enjoys working collaborative within a diverse international group. Additionally, we are seeking a person who is positive to support the project administration and management and engage in joint project activities. The position will be based at the Section for Geography and Hydrology at the Department of Geosciences and will collaborate closely with the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Gothenburg on the Swedish case study. 

A 24­-month researcher position in neurosciences with a strong experience in rodent pup handling and electronics is available. Do you want to join an interdisciplinary research group at the University of Oslo at the intersection of system neuroscience, sleep research and neurobiological development? The successful applicant will join the group of Charlotte Boccara https://www.boccaralab.com at the Norwegian Centre for Molecular Biosciences and Medicine.

Boccara’s team is composed of young international researchers coming from different backgrounds and benefits from a very good academic and social environment. Boccara has experience from publishing in top journals (Nature Communication 2022, Science 2019, Science 2017, Nature Neuroscience 2010, Science 2008). The team already received prestigious grants from the Norwegian research council and the European commission for their project combining advanced techniques in in vivo electrophysiology with neurodevelopmental tools to investigate the role of sleep in cognitive development. 

The applicant technical tasks will encompass the followings: buildings small electronics and electrodes to monitor and manipulate sleep in rodent pups, taking care of rodents and rodent pups (husbandry, pre-handling, behaviour), histology and cell culture. In addition, the applicant will help with stock and animal inventories.

The VISTA Centre for CO2 Storage in Volcanic-Sedimentary Systems (VICCO) is funded by VISTA and the MN Faculty at the University of Oslo, from 2025 to 2030. The Centre will target research that will further understand carbon capture and storage in a context of climate change, and the overarching goal of VICCO is to explore the potential for large-scale permanent CO2 storage in volcanic-sedimentary systems on the Norwegian continental shelf. The Centre will specifically investigate carbonate-forming reactions – the process by which CO2 is trapped in solid minerals– in igneous rocks. Such carbonation may enhance seal integrity in the storage medium and reduce reservoir leakage risks in mixed volcanic-sedimentary systems. Carbonation processes can ensure permanent storage of CO2 by reducing the risk of reservoir leakage in the volcanic-sedimentary systems beneath the seabed.

The VICCO Centre is cross-disciplinary between geosciences and physics, and is hosted by the Department for Geosciences. The Researcher position will be part of a dynamic and inspiring team of students and researchers, where CCS is one of several core research activities.

The available Researcher position will thematically be related to further understanding the geological conditions required to carbonate volcanic rocks, with an emphasis on volcanic stratigraphy in sedimentary sequences. The project will include detailed fieldwork, core studies, and large scale synthesis of carbonate formation in relevant lithologies. VICCO has a range of international collaborators who will be part of the working group around the position. 

Are you a system engineer with experience with space hardware who is interested in joining the satellite development and integration phase of a space mission? This job will launch you into a career in space technology, working with a competent and enthusiastic team with strong industry connections, and gaining hands-on experience with building satellites.

One position as Researcher is available at the Centre for Space Sensors and Systems (CENSSS) at the Department of Technology Systems (ITS). CENSSS is a Centre for Research-based Innovation (SFI), funded by the Research Council of Norway (RCN) and UiO, and partnering with several industrial partners and research institutions in the space industry. CENSSS is located at Kjeller, Norway, where there is a long history of space science and technology dating back to the 1960s. 

CENSSS addresses challenges and opportunities in science, technology and business related to “New-Space” satellites and systems for Earth Observation, as well as Space Exploration, by focusing on novel sensors, systems and services. CENSSS is operating the RIMFAX ground penetrating radar on the NASA Perseverance Mars rover. 

CENSSS currently develops the CENSSAT-1 mission, which is an 8U CubeSat mission hosting different payloads. The appointment is for a full-time position to work on the CENSSAT-1 mission for a period of two years. The preferred starting date is in August 2025.

The position is part of Sicksoil, a cross-disciplinary and international research project aimed at understanding and mitigating Sick Soil Syndrome in fruit production. This syndrome has profound implications for agricultural productivity and environmental sustainability. The project’s overarching goal is to improve our understanding of soil health, with a particular focus on carbon sequestration, microbial biodiversity, and related challenges such as soil organic matter dynamics and microbial dysbiosis. 

The announced research position will focus on investigating microbial and viral communities and their roles in soil health and resilience, with the aim of developing sustainable solutions to enhance agricultural productivity. We are seeking a candidate capable of conducting microbial diversity and functional studies, covering the entire pipeline from molecular lab work to final statistical analyses, including bioinformatics. However, if necessary, we will prioritize applicants with strong expertise in bioinformatics and statistical analyses over molecular lab experience. 

Energy storage is a crucial tool for enabling the effective integration of renewable energy sources in the future energy system. The candidate will perform syn-thesis and characterisation of multicomponents alloys designed for hydrogen storage. The system will be designed to provide energy to a new generation telescope to be built near the ALMA site (Chile) and will include a combination of components outlined in the previous phase of the project. A close collaboration with an industrial partner will allow preliminary testing in a pilot stack. The position is funded by the EU-project AtLAST2 (Horizon 2020, GA number 101188037) which is consolidating the plans for the 50-meter Atacama Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope. This will be the first astronomical facility of this scale for which a full environmental sustainability study is implemented at the Design Study stage. The project is an effort from 20 partners and over hundreds of collaborators from 26 different countries. 

The research fellow will conduct research on topics such as:

• Solid-state synthesis of alloys with focus on performances, and environ-mental sustainability of the medium for hydrogen storage 
• Structural and hydrogenation characterization of alloys, including their feasibility under realistic conditions envisioned for AtLAST

The core activity of the ATLAST2 shall support several Researchers, PhD candidates and Postdocs. They work in close contact with the research and user partners of ATLAST2, and with other collaborators on the general topics of renewable energy systems, their sustainability and public acceptance. The candidate will work on a team at ITS comprising two other positions funded by AT-LAST2, and be member of the group Materials and Technologies for Sustainable Energy. We conduct research in a wide range of national and EU projects (e.g. HYDROGENi, HySchool, FAIR, SOLAR) addressing key challenges related to, among other, the synthesis and characterization of materials for hydrogen-based stationary applications.

The research and innovation environment of AtLAST2 will offer a unique opportunity to enable cross-disciplinary ideas towards sustainable introduction and use of hydrogen technologies. With this project the research fellow will expand competences in a growing field of global relevance and will be exposed to the development of new concepts, methods and technologies relevant to national and international stakeholders. 

We are looking for an enthusiastic and skilled experimental scientist to join our team at the Njord Centre, University of Oslo 
(https://www.mn.uio.no/njord/english/about/) for a 2-years Researcher position in the REACT project funded by the Research Council of Norway (FRIPRO Young Research Talent Grant). 

REACT investigates in-situ mineral growth within nano- and microscale volumes and aims to understand the causes and consequences of destructive and cohesive growth of minerals under spatial confinement. Our goal is to understand and control the cohesive and damaging growth of minerals in pores, which has consequences for many natural and anthropogenic environments such us built cultural heritage and modern infrastructure, geological CO2 storage sites and subsurface reservoirs, and mineral-based materials such as Portland cement. The experimental approach of the REACT project relies mainly on the surface forces apparatus (SFA). SFA is one of the few techniques, which can provide measurements of nano- to microscale, distance-resolved surface forces in a confined geometry. We will use these measurements to find links between surface forces acting during cohesive and damaging growth of minerals in pores in-situ.

Your tasks as a Researcher, preferably with a background in experimental surface science, will mainly include performing, analyzing, and interpreting surface forces apparatus experiments and complimentary atomic force microscopy experiments on reactive mineral surfaces, such as calcite, gypsum, calcium silicate hydrates, and magnesium oxide. You will also take part in designing the experimental 
setups and fabricating the appropriate surfaces for the experiments using various thin film deposition techniques in a close collaboration with other team members. The Researcher position is based at the interdisciplinary Njord Centre, where physicists and geoscientists interact on a daily basis. There will be also a possibility to apply for a short stay (maximum 3 months) hosted by the project’s 
collaborators at the University of Oxford, Department of Chemistry. 

We are looking for an enthusiastic and skilled experimental scientist to join our team at the Njord Centre, University of Oslo
(https://www.mn.uio.no/njord/english/about/) for a 2-years Researcher position in the VICCO project funded recently as a VISTA Centre (https://vista.no/).
The aim of the VICCO project is to understand the potential for large-scale permanent CO2 storage through carbonate mineral forming reactions and how carbonatization may reduce the risk of reservoir leakage by improved seal integrity in mixed volcanic-sedimentary systems. VICCO will use a multidisciplinary approach to target complex volcanic-sedimentary systems with highly reactive mafic and ultramafic rocks, with the ultimate goal of finding scientific solutions towards a robust technology, which may enable gigatons of CO2 storage offshore Norway.

The main goal of this Researcher position will be to provide fundamental insight into CO2 mineralization potential in volcanic-sedimentary deposits at the pore scale. You will experimentally investigate in-situ carbonatization mechanisms at the nanometer to micrometer scales using atomic force microscopy (AFM) and surface force apparatus (SFA). The experiments will investigate mechanisms of
carbonate precipitation on isolated (AFM) surfaces and in confined pore spaces (SFA), both under no-flow and flow conditions. Your specific tasks as a Researcher, preferably with a background in experimental surface science and experimental mineralogy, will mainly include performing, analyzing, and interpreting AFM and SFA experiments on in-situ CO2 mineralization using mineral surfaces relevant for the volcanic-sedimentary deposits and selected in collaboration with other VICCO team members. You will also take part in designing the experimental setups and fabricating the appropriate surfaces for the experiments. Experiments will be supported by ex-situ analyses with SEM, Xray diffraction (XRD), and Raman spectroscopy. The expected outcomes of this project will be to assess the reactivity and carbonate mineralization rate of the system, depending on the mineral and fluid composition. You will scrutinize the mechanisms of carbonate precipitation, identify its preferential sites, and estimate timescales for these reactions in volcanic-sedimentary reservoirs in
collaboration with other members of the VICCO project. 

VICCO brings together a world-leading interdisciplinary and international scientific team at the University of Oslo, with decades of experience in volcanicsedimentary systems. We are dedicated to finding scientific solutions towards a robust technology, which may enable gigatons of CO2 storage offshore Norway.
You will be an active member of this team and you will closely interact with the VICCO team members on a daily basis.

The selected candidate will engage in cutting-edge research focused on the simulation of spectroscopic properties to unravel the geometry and electronic structure of complex systems. Key areas of research include electronic spectra simulations (XPS, UV-Vis, and XANES) and magnetic-resonance spectra simulations (NMR, pNMR, and EPR). The research will primarily focus on solid nano-porous materials, including metal-organic frameworks and zeolites, with significant potential applications. The candidate will benefit from a strong network of collaborations with experimental research groups to support the interpretation and validation of computational results.

Additionally, the research fellow will participate in all research and professional development activities of the National Centre of Excellence – Hylleraas Centre for Quantum Molecular Sciences. The Hylleraas Centre is a joint effort between the University of Oslo and the UiT – The Arctic University of Norway in Tromsø, devoted to developing and applying computational methods to understand, interpret, and predict new chemistry, physics, and biology of molecules in complex and extreme environments.

Applications are invited for 1-2 fulltime positions as researcher (SKO 1109) at the Section for Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience (CCN) at the Department of Psychology, University of Oslo. The position(s) is affiliated with the environMENTAL project (www.environmental-project.org), which is funded through Horizon Europe throughout May 2027. The position(s) is for a period of 24 months and starting approximately in June 2025. Starting date is negotiable.

Through a close collaboration between several institutions worldwide, the project aims to build a data infrastructure to study the connection between environment, genes, and mental health. It will gather and organize large collections of data on people’s health, environment, and genetic information. Researchers will use this data to discover how factors such as COVID-19, climate changes or pollution might affect mental well-being. The goal is to find patterns and predict who is most at risk for mental health issues based on their genes and environment. The tools and data created will be shared to help other scientists study and address these important issues.

The candidate will make use of a rich linkage of register data on the whole Norwegian population and larger health studies, and may include research on how gender roles, parental leave, and traditional values in communities influence men’s life outcomes. The postdoctoral fellow will be part of an interdisciplinary team of researchers with backgrounds in demography, sociology, psychology, economics and health sciences. The candidate will work closely with researchers at other institutions, especially the Norwegian Institute of Public Health where the candidate will be offered part-time placement, and there are opportunities for collaboration and exchanges with international project partners in Europe and North America.

(18) Postdoctoral Fellowship Position

Postdoc Fellowship Position summary/title: Postdoctoral Fellow in bile duct immunology

Deadline : 28th April 2025

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The overriding idea for “Stakes of democracy” is that crises are key moments for understanding how democracies work and proceed. Crises are disruptions that let the ordinary and the everyday of democratic procedure come into view. Second, crises are key events for examining and understanding what is at stake in democracy, they are events where what we stand to lose if democratic procedures fail is articulated and made tangible. They show us the stakes of democracy.

“Stakes of democracy” is formed around three such vital stakes: trust, nature, and value. These three stakes are simultaneously analytical categories that conceptually and methodologically guide the group’s empirical research. In addition to the PI’s, the core research group includes Professor Dag Michalsen and Associate Professor Tone Huse. The group will work together and across all the three stakes, bringing their own materials and competences to bear on the research questions and the three stakes nature, value, trust around which the project is organized. 

The research group will develop the analytic lens of democracy and the crisis of trust, nature, and value through building a Nordic-based network of mid-career and younger scholars. Researcher- and PhD-training will be one of the means to build a democracy-research platform of engagement and excellence across the social sciences, humanities, and law. 

We are now seeking a skilled and ambitious co-worker to take on challenging projects in the context of the European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant “FatVersusBile”, which focuses on how the gut drives liver health in humans and mice, in particular in the setting of inflammatory bowel disease. The subprojects in this 3-year postdoctoral position will use exciting in vivo gnotobiotic models as a discovery tool to define the microbial contribution to and interaction between chronic inflammatory and steatotic hepatobiliary diseases. New leads will be pursued using in vivo and in vitro experiments (including the use of organoid systems) as well as validation in human materials, with the aim of identifying potential mechanisms and their clinical relevance. 

Applications are invited for two 3-year Postdoctoral Fellow positions at the Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Oslo, Norway.

The positions are funded by the Norwegian Cancer Society as part of a project titled Targeting Mono-ADP-ribosyltransferases in Breast Cancer to Enhance Antitumor Immunity. The purpose of this project is to investigate the ability of the mono-ADP-ribosyltransferase, Parp7 and Parp11, at improving check point inhibition therapy in intraductal mammary tumour models.

Applicants are invited for a three to four-year full-time position as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the project “Segregation of Opportunities: Pathways to Marginalization through Neighborhoods and Peers” (SEGOP), at the Department of Special Needs Education at the University of Oslo, Norway.

The Postdoctoral Fellow will have the office space located at the Center for Research on Equality in Education (CREATE) and will be working on the project “Segregation of Opportunities: Pathways to Marginalization through Neighborhoods and Peers” (SEGOP) funded by the European Research Council (ERC). The SEGOP project investigates how social and economic exclusion unfolds through interactions between family background, individual characteristics, and neighborhood and peer characteristics. The SEGOP project is an interdisciplinary project that integrates perspectives and methods from sociology, psychology, behavioral genetics, economics, and education.

A post-doctoral fellowship is available with the Global Health Politics research group at the at the University of Oslo’s Centre for Development and the Environment (from June 2025, the Centre for Global Sustainability).  

We welcome proposals for research that align closely with either or both of two externally funded projects that are starting in mid-2025. These are the Norwegian Research Council-funded project “Pandemic Funds, Public Goods for Health and the Future of Global Health Financing” (PANDFUND), and “Mega-philanthropy and democratic governance” (PHILOS) funded by the University of Oslo’s research initiative UiO:Democracy.  

ICONIC aims at understanding how iconicity, i.e. the perceived resemblance of form and meaning of words, evolves through cultural evolution over time. The project uses a combination of iterated learning experiments, acoustic analyses and iconicity rating experiments. Acoustic recordings of individual speech transmission outcomes allow us to measure which combinations of acoustic features speakers use to express size-based iconic relationships, including acoustic dimensions such as vowel quality, voice quality, and pitch. After defining the acoustic profile of iconicity, ICONIC will explore and quantify the (in)stability of iconic form-meaning pairs across generations to experimentally probe the hypothesis that iconic form-meaning pairs are robust to change. This empirical approach will not only shed new light on the evolution of words, but it will also serve as the first proof of concept of how we can harness experimental innovations to explore questions related to sound change in the laboratory.

The project is part of gigaCCS, where University of Oslo is one of the main aca-demic partners (Sintef lead). The gigaCCS Center will develop excellent research and innovative approaches for carbon capture and storage. The section for study of sedimentary basins at the department of Geosciences at the University of Oslo contributes to the storage work package of this large initiative in collaboration with many other national and international partners. The project is of strategic relevance for the CCS development in the North Continental Shelf as the project aims to provide new fault data and innovative workflows for fault seal analysis.

Applicants are invited to apply for a 3-year position as Postdoctoral Fellow in Fish Immunology to be based at the Department of Biosciences of the University of Oslo. This role contributes to the ERC-funded starting grant project “Fish-S.H.I.E.L.D.” starting on April 1st 2025, which aims to investigate the fish branchial cavity immune surveillance system and its importance for the fish defense against infectious diseases in aquaculture.

The successful applicant will join Julien Resseguier’s “Spatial Immunology & Nanomedicines” group and become a key member of the Comparative Immunology team at the Department of Biosciences.

The project “Fish-S.H.I.E.L.D.” builds on the recent discovery of a complex lymphoid organization in the fish branchial cavity, which includes the “Amphibranchial Lymphoid Tissues (ALT)” and the “Interbranchial Lymphoid Tissues (ILT)” in the gills, and the Nemausean Lymphoid organ (NELO), revealing the branchial cavity as an important region of the fish immune system.

The position is associated with the Pharmacokinetics group (PK group) at the Department of Pharmacy. The group works broadly within the field of pharmacokinetics, focusing on individualized drug therapy. The common goal for the projects is to characterize various factors significant for variation in drug response. This includes, among other things, genetic variation in drug-metabolizing enzymes and transport proteins, disease-related factors, drug interactions, and the gut microbiome. We collaborate closely with various clinical environments, particularly the departments of pharmacology and transplantation at Oslo University Hospital, Rikshospitalet. The project associated with this position will, in line with the research group’s main focus, study the bilateral effects between the gut microbiome and drugs, and the impact on drug dosing. Relevant methods include pharmacokinetic investigations in patients, shotgun sequencing, bioinformatics, HPLC-MS analysis of drug in different biological matrices, and population pharmacokinetic modelling. The projects are managed in a team with Master’s and PhD students.