29 Postdoctoral Fellowship at Lund University, Scania, Sweden

The tasks as a postdoctoral researcher mainly include conducting research. Teaching may be part of the work duties, but no more than a fifth of the working time. Within the framework of the employment, there must be an opportunity for three weeks of university pedagogical training.

You will have responsibility for sample preparation (including expression, purification, crystallization), data collection and analysis work as agreed during regular meetings. You will participate in regular laboratory tasks within the research group as part of normal day-to-day operations in a team-driven laboratory environment. The work may require travel to and studies at other institutes/centres  such as the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL) in France, and other centers as needed for the project. You may also be asked to participate in national and international conferences.  The work will also include at least one secondment outside Lund University.

Biological materials such as plant seeds, bone, and skin present a variability of microscopic structures, which in turn determine the complex functionality for life and health. The spatial variability of microscopic structure is of high importance to better understand how mechanical loads and chemical environments affect the materials in structure and function.

In this context, small- and wide-angle X-ray diffraction with a microfocus beam is an emerging technique with strong future prospects that allows to study the spatial distribution of specific nanoscopic structural patterns. In addition, simultaneous X-ray fluorescence allows to monitor the related chemical compositions in the different spots.

As central goal, this project supervised by Associate Professor Felix Roosen-Runge aims at the characterization of macromolecular microstructure in plant materials, and related implications for optimization of extraction protocols for more sustainable food products. Proteins from plant seeds present promising opportunities to replace animal-derived food proteins with a more sustainable, healthy and affordable protein source. However, plant seeds have been selected for efficient and long-lasting storage of proteins, so that an efficient non-destructive extraction of proteins presents a considerable challenge. In this context, microscopic structure is an essential information for novel extraction pathways.

The postdoctoral researcher will be part of a collaborative network of students and researchers at the division of Physical Chemistry (http://www.physchem.lu.se) at Lund University.

This post-doctoral position is also a part of the EU cofund research project AMBER, Advanced Multiscale Biological imaging using European Research infrastructures, will address scientific and sectoral gaps in biological imaging ranging from molecular, through cellular, to tissue, organ and organism levels of organisation, and is coordinated by LINXS Institute of advanced Neutron and X-ray Science. AMBER is funded by the EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie (MSCA) COFUND scheme. Around 15 postdocs will be recruited in the Second call 2024, with each fellowship lasting 36 months.

AMBER has six core partners: Lund University/MAX IV, Sweden, the European Spallation Source (ESS), Sweden, the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL), France, the International Institute of Molecular Mechanisms and Machines, (IMOL), Poland, and the Leicester Institute of Structural and Chemical Biology, United Kingdom.

Your work will include clinical and biomedical projects. It will also include technique development work aimed at combining imaging techniques and data analysis to provide a more integrated picture of life processes in the context of health and disease. To be a postdoc fellow at the AMBER programme you will get unprecedented medical, biological, and methodological capabilities, with a profound potential impact for Europe’s next generation of research and researchers. When you have completed the AMBER programme you will be extraordinarily well equipped to further your career in academia, at infrastructures, in the health and MedTech sectors, and beyond.

Ion channels are essential for life across organisms and a sophisticated understanding of their function is imperative for basic, biomedical and applied research. The overarching goal of the proposed project is to develop ion channel activators and inhibitors. Previously unmet specificity needs will be achieved by targeting subtype- and conformational-specific features, thereby limiting side effects. The focus will be on Kv7 channels linked to a range of severe neurological disorders, including epilepsy, sleep disorders and autism. This position is part of a larger multidisciplinary project recently funded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg (KAW) Foundation focusing on potassium ion channels, which will be conducted in Stockholm, Linköping, Gothenburg and Lund in Sweden by five separate research groups.

The postdoctoral fellow recruited for this position will focus on determining molecular structures of potassium ion channels using cryo-EM and will be supervised by Pontus Gourdon at Lund University. Sara Liin at Linköping University will serve as a co-supervisor. The recruited person will perform experimental research with a focus on cryo-EM, but also functional studies using electrophysiology. 

This post-doctoral position is part of the EU cofund research project AMBER, Advanced Multiscale Biological imaging using European Research infrastructures, will address scientific and sectoral gaps in biological imaging ranging from molecular, through cellular, to tissue, organ and organism levels of organisation, and is coordinated by LINXS Institute of advanced Neutron and X-ray Science.

AMBER is funded by the EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie (MSCA) COFUND scheme.

Around 15 postdocs will be recruited in the Second call 2024, with each fellowship lasting 36 months. 

AMBER has six core partners: Lund University/MAX IV, Sweden, the European Spallation Source (ESS), Sweden, the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL), France, the International Institute of Molecular Mechanisms and Machines, (IMOL), Poland, and the Leicester Institute of Structural and Chemical Biology, United Kingdom. 

Your work may include clinical and biomedical projects. It may also include technique development work aimed at combining imaging techniques and data analysis to provide a more integrated picture of life processes in the context of health and disease. To be a postdoc fellow at the AMBER programme you will get unprecedented medical, biological, and methodological capabilities, with a profound potential impact for Europe’s next generation of research and researchers. When you have completed the AMBER programme you will be extraordinarily well equipped to further your career in academia, at infrastructures, in the health and MedTech sectors, and beyond.

This post-doctoral position is part of the EU cofund research project AMBER, Advanced Multiscale Biological imaging using European Research infrastructures, will address scientific and sectoral gaps in biological imaging ranging from molecular, through cellular, to tissue, organ and organism levels of organisation, and is coordinated by LINXS Institute of advanced Neutron and X-ray Science.

AMBER is funded by the EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie (MSCA) COFUND scheme.

Around 15 postdocs will be recruited in the Second call 2024, with each fellowship lasting 36 months.

AMBER has six core partners: Lund University/MAX IV, Sweden, the European Spallation Source (ESS), Sweden, the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL), France, the International Institute of Molecular Mechanisms and Machines, (IMOL), Poland, and the Leicester Institute of Structural and Chemical Biology, United Kingdom.

Your work will include clinical and biomedical projects. It will also include technique development. Your work may include combining imaging techniques and data analysis to provide a more integrated picture of life processes in the context of health and disease. To be a postdoc fellow at the AMBER programme you will get unprecedented medical, biological, and methodological capabilities, with a profound potential impact for Europe’s next generation of research and researchers. When you have completed the AMBER programme you will be extraordinarily well equipped to further your career in academia, at infrastructures, in the health and MedTech sectors, and beyond.

The main duties involved in a post-doctoral posistion is to conduct research. Teaching may also be included, but up to no more than 20% of working hours. The position shall include the opportunity for three weeks of training in higher education teaching and learning.

We are looking for a candidate with a strong background in rheology, both in bulk and at interfaces. In this project, we want to answer the question what are the key characteristics that an individual soft colloid has to have in order to obtain the desired macroscopic properties of a material under flow? To determine the response of individual particles to the flow, i.e. if they change size, shape, internal architecture, and how this reflects on the structure formed by the colloids and on the flow properties of the material, we will combine rheology with in situ neutron reflectometry (NR), small-angle neutron (SANS) and x-ray scattering (SAXS). We will determine the structural reorganization due to flow. Small-angle scattering (SAS) and NR are experimental tools which allow us to investigate structures on the colloidal length scale, 1-300 nm. In particular the candidate, in collaboration with a PhD student, will investigate the behaviour of soft colloids at interfaces. To do so, one the main work task of the candidate will be the realization of a customised double wall ring (DWR) interfacial rheometer combined with a Langmuir trough to study the flow properties of soft colloids at the interface. This will also involve visits to our collaborator at the Institute Laue Langevin (ILL, FR) RWTH Aachen (DE), ETH Zürich (CH), and possibly University of Delaware (US).

Lund University announces a two-year fulltime research position at the postdoctoral level with a specialisation in second language acquisition with a focus on language learning motivation, in particular the relationship between motivation and Self Regulated Learning (SRL). The position is connected to the research platform Language Acquisition, Multilingualism, and Teaching (LAMiNATE), and is located at the Centre for Languages and Literature, division of English, Lund University.

LAMiNATE (Laminate | LAMiNATE (lu.se) is a cross-disciplinary interdepartmental research platform dedicated to all areas of language acquisition, multilingualism, and language teaching/assessment. It brings together approximately 40 researchers. Research in the platform covers language acquisition and language processing (first, second and multilingual); multimodal language processing and learning; developmental language disorders; educational linguistics and language teaching, testing and assessment; and language, learning and the brain.

The division of English, located within the Centre for Languages and Literature is an international workplace with expertise in and ongoing research on a range of topics and linguistic domains

The position is part of the 4-year research project ‘Multi-use forestry, private forest ownerships, and social learning networks: Approaching family forest owners as grassroots agents for alternative forest management’ – MultiForSe (https://www.slu.se/en/faculties/s/about-the-faculty/alternative-forest-management-methods/multiforse/).

Methodologically, the project combines qualitative interviews, a national survey, and agent-based modelling to capture how networked, bottom-up innovation processes change existing forestry practices. The MultiForSe project aims at understanding which multifunctional forestry practices are applied today and could be relevant in the future, as well as providing suggestions for policy measures that support the use of alternative forest management.

The position is part of the work package in which insights from both qualitative interviews and a national survey will be operationalized in an agent-based model. Here, the focus is on capturing the social dynamics and networked learning processes that emerge in interaction between users.

You will work in an interdisciplinary environment that is focused on applied and solution-oriented research of strategic relevance to help societal transformation.

The postdoctoral researcher will be placed within the Quantitative Immunobiology research group. The research group conducts high-tech medical research focused on immunology, infection, and cancer and consists of a mix of doctoral students, postdocs, and technical and administrative staff.

Within the research group, we cherish a good work environment with respect and care in our relationships with each other. We constantly strive to create conditions for job satisfaction, development, and participation for all employees.

Solution-processed nanomaterials, such as nanoparticles and mesocrystals, offer remarkable tunability of light-generating properties for various applications. Within this landscape, inorganic and hybrid metal halides hold a special place due to their diverse photophysics and structure-property tunability, resulting in bright photoluminescence phenomena. The next generation of optoelectronic devices requires the development of luminescence characteristics beyond simply optimized quantum yield, aiming for efficient performance in other degrees of freedom for emitted light, such as linear and circular polarizations and deterministic and pure photon statistics.

The Nanochemistry and Spectroscopy research group (Asst. Prof. Dmitry Baranov) at the Division of Chemical Physics is seeking a post-doctoral fellow to conduct research in the areas of chemistry, spectroscopy, and the collective properties of metal halide perovskite nanomaterials. This post-doctoral position will focus on developing and enhancing the polarized photoluminescence of halide perovskites to create advanced next-generation light sources, including light-emitting diodes, color converters, micro-lasers, and superfluorescent emitters. The position is supported by the European Innovation Council (EIC) and the recruited postdoctoral researcher will have the opportunity to develop interdisciplinary expertise in nanochemistry, spectroscopy, and nanofabrication. The Division of Chemical Physics offers an intellectually stimulating, international environment with research groups specializing in ultrafast spectroscopy, photocatalysis, inorganic chemistry, materials science, and nanotechnology.

The synthesis of highest efficiency metal-halide perovskites (MHPs) for solar cell applications is a fine tuned, sensitive and complex process with small processing windows. The complex interaction of solvents, additives, precursors, substrates with intermediates and atmosphere determine the morphology, optoelectronic quality and to some extent the stability of the produced films in an almost “black box” process. A thorough understanding of the synthesis process, its processing windows and how they can be tuned is mandatory for up-scaled production.

At the Balder beamline, we investigate processes in-situ with simultaneously combined complementary techniques using the high-brilliance X-rays of the 4th generation MAX IV synchrotron. Combining X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS), X-ray diffraction (XRD) / GIWAXS and X-ray excited optical luminescence (XEOL) simultaneously, with a sub-second time resolution, gives us the unique ability to follow complex processes from multiple perspectives. With just one experiment we get insight into the evolution of the chemical, structural and optoelectronic properties allowing us to identify intermediates and unravel synthesis pathways. We recently developed a robotic roll-to-roll coating and in-situ processing platform with full beamline integration. This allows us to investigate larger parameter spaces than ever before.

The research area is Critical Infrastructure Resilience, which includes understanding, analysing, managing, and reducing risk and vulnerabilities of physical and cyber infrastructures from a cross-sector perspective. This includes aspects of modelling, simulation, data classification, confidentiality concerns, and analysis capability in relation to conceptual areas such as critical infrastructure, complexity, systemic risks, decision making, interdependencies, and cascading effects.

A considerable part of the research in the division is in the field of nanobiotechnology where we develop new methods to investigate biological systems, or to exploit biomolecules within nanocomponents. The Division is leading a project to develop nanowire-based platforms for rapid analysis of single molecules based on immunofluorescence. The ultimate goal is to detect markers for e.g. cancer directly in samples derived from clinical work without the need for chemical reprocessing with much higher sensitivity than is possible today. This includes biomarker detection from biological fluids and direct cell interrogation using nanowires and nanotubes. 

New pathways are needed for an efficient alignment of the financial system with the needs of biodiversity. This postdoc links efforts of the research project BIOPATH to assess, co-develop and test existing and novel approaches for integration of biodiversity considerations into financial decision- making with financial actors, and analyse the institutional and policy implications of potential transition pathways. The postdoc will focus on characterizing and assessing current approaches used to link biodiversity to business decisions to evaluate their usability and validity. The results will be used to produce a roadmap for development of assessment tools. The work requires an understanding of how the use of biomass in green sectors may affect multivariate biodiversity and associated values, as well as an understanding of how business decision in the green sector may translate into impact on land-use. Work is carried out in close collaboration with stakeholders.

 

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Postdoc Fellowship Position summary/title: Researcher in Structural Mechanics, temporary position

Deadline : 15.Aug.2024

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More than a decade has passed since the war in Syria began in 2011. In the midst of this turmoil, a new venture has emerged in the form of the Autonomous Administration of Northern and Eastern Syria (NES), commonly known as Rojava. ECO-Syria is an interdisciplinary project where we study changes in vegetation dynamics and land use/land cover in the Rojava region as well as in neighbouring areas, linking these changes to political and socioeconomic factors through spatio-temporal analysis.

The Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science and the Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) announce one vacant position as a 2-year postdoctoral fellow with an orientation towards earth observation of land cover and vegetation dynamics, within the above described project.

The Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) supports research on the Middle East at Lund University. CMES coordinates the Strategic Research Area (SRA) “The Middle East in the Contemporary World” (MECW). The Strategic Research Area includes more than thirty-five scholars from five different faculties at Lund University. The research program consists of four research themes: 1) Environment and sustainable development; 2) Security and sustainable peace; 3) Democratization, migration and sustainable socio-economic development; and 4) Religion, identity

Half of the working time is available for a research line within ATLAS of the candidate’s choosing. The successful candidate should expect to spend roughtly the other half of their time on track reconstruction. ATLAS expects to move track reconstruction entirely to the ACTS (A Common Tracking Software) framework to cope with the intense environment of the HL-LHC. The candidate could expect to help co-supervise PhD students on ATLAS and have the opportunity to supervise masters and bachelors projects. The research activities are located at the Department of Physics at Lund University, with regular travel to CERN, ACTS Collaboration workshops, and conferences expected.

The Lund ATLAS group currently has six faculty members (Vincent Hedberg, Hannah Herde, Else Lytken, Ruth Pöttgen, Oxana Smirnova, and Torsten Åkesson) and three PhD students. Our active research areas include physics data analysis, reconstruction and combined performance, instrumentation development, and high-performance computing. More information is available on the Division of Particle and Nuclear Physics website, https://www.particle-nuclear.lu.se/.

The position is co-funded by the Division of Synchrotron Radiation Research (SLjus), Department of Physics, Lund University, and you will be a part of the APXPS teams at both places. The main workplace for the position will be MAX IV Laboratory.

The SPECIES beamline, together with the HIPPIE beamline, forms the APXPS team, which is dedicated to the development of the ambient pressure x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy programme at MAX IV. The beamline provides a wide range of sample environments for in situ and operando XPS measurements for the user community. The SPECIES beamline team consists of four members who are actively driving multiple in-house research programmes, among which are time-resolved photoemission, atomic layer deposition, high-temperature catalysis, and photocatalysis.

The APXPS team at the SLjus works tightly with the APXPS team of MAX IV. Much of the experimental work is carried out at the MAX IV Laboratory and other synchrotron light sources. It also uses a new home laboratory-based instrument for time-resolved ambient pressure ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy. Strong collaborations on the surface chemistry of ALD exist not only with the MAX IV APXPS team, but also with other researchers at the Department of Physics, other departments of Lund University and at Swedish as well as international universities.

The position is located at the Division of Mathematical Physics, which is a common division between both the Natural Science and Engineering (LTH) faculty, and it is part of the Department of Physics. Presently, the Division of  Mathematical Physics  hosts five full professors and six lecturers. Research is conducted primarily in the field of quantum mechanical many-particle physics. Specifically, the research areas at the Division include ultra-cold atomic quantum gases, theoretical nuclear structure physics, nanostructure physics, quantum information theory, atomic theory and materials modeling.  The division has numerous collaborations both internationally and within Lund University. The team where this position is located  was recently assosciated with the Wallenberg Centre for Quantum Technology (WACQT) and is part of the strategic research priority areas of NanoLund as well as Light and Materials at Lund University.

Specifically, the work will be carried out in the cold-atom theory group lead by Prof. Stephanie M. Reimann which belongs to the Engineering faculty (LTH) side at Mathematical Physics.  Synergy effects through our existing collaboration networks provide a strong link between experimental and theoretical work on cold atoms, particularly in dipolar condensates and supersolids, as well as few-fermion systems.  

This position is supported by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. The research team on ultra-cold quantum gases is presently expanding in personnel and the new postdoc position shall further strengthen ongoing activities in the ab-initio description of ultra-cold atom systems. We are committed to promoting career development, diversity, and gender equality through networking and supporting activities. 

The position is located at the Division of Mathematical Physics, which is a common division between both the Natural Science and Engineering (LTH) faculty, and it is part of the Department of Physics. Presently, the Division of  Mathematical Physics  hosts five full professors and six lecturers. Research is conducted primarily in the field of quantum mechanical many-particle physics. Specifically, the research areas at the Division include ultra-cold atomic quantum gases, theoretical nuclear structure physics, nanostructure physics, quantum information theory, atomic theory and materials modeling.  The division has numerous collaborations both internationally and within Lund University. The team where this position is located  was recently assosciated with the Wallenberg Centre for Quantum Technology (WACQT) and is part of the strategic research priority areas of NanoLund as well as Light and Materials at Lund University.

Specifically, the work will be carried out in the cold-atom theory group lead by Prof. Stephanie M. Reimann which belongs to the Engineering faculty (LTH) side at Mathematical Physics.  Synergy effects through our existing collaboration networks provide a strong link between experimental and theoretical work on cold atoms, particularly in dipolar condensates and supersolids, as well as few-fermion systems. 

This position is supported by the Wallenberg Centre for Quantum Technology (WACQT), which receives funding from Knut & Alice Wallenberg Foundation. WACQT is a 12-year, billion-SEK initiative with the purpose of advancing Swedish academia and industry to the forefront of quantum technology, and to build a Swedish quantum computer. WACQT is committed to promoting career development, diversity, and gender equality through networking and supporting activities.

We as the Division of Structural Engineering strive for a safe, economically efficient, and sustainable design and integrity management of load bearing structures in buildings and infrastructures throughout their life cycle. Climate change and urbanization are phenomena raising a number of challenges, yet also creating opportunities for climate change adaptation innovations. Buildings and infrastructure are to withstand more intensive storms, more precipitation, flooding and increased atmospheric loads. Urbanization and an increasing population create demands for more housing and further extension of the infrastructure. At the same time, requirements on limiting the climate and environmental effects of construction point at the need of more rational use of construction materials and structural health information. We are focussed on contributing to safe, sustainable, cost-efficient structures, building systems and production methods.

At the division we are about 15 researching staff working within different research areas (wood and biobased materials, concrete, masonry, risk & reliability & value of information). You will be part of the research group that works with different questions regarding biobased materials, wood, and timber construction. We run a large laboratory and have access to the civil engineering laboratory in V-building at LTH.

The subject addresses energy and environmental building design towards low climate impact and healthy built environment during the whole life cycle in cold climates. Special focus will be given to simulation and calculation methodologies of energy use and production, and carbon calculations along the whole life cycle. The scope includes buildings and urban areas, both new and existing. Technical facilities surrounding buildings are also to be considered such as roads, inner gardens, and other type of infrastructure.

The postdoctoral fellow will work in the Cardiac MR Group, Clinical Physiology, Department of Clinical Sciences Lund. This multidisciplinary group of about 40 researchers consists of medical doctors, engineers, physicists, technologists, and physiotherapists.

The successful candidate will join the LDM team at MAX IV. The LDM team is a cross-beamline team of scientists and researchers with specific focus on supporting and developing gas phase, liquid phase, aerosol and cluster research at MAX IV Laboratory. The team is responsible for various instruments at the lab, many of which can be used on a number of different beamlines, including an aerodynamic lens setup, other sample delivery systems, XPS instruments, coincidence spectroscopy setups and a new ion trap setup.   

Fire safety research relates to physical and chemical processes associated with the origin, growth, spread and extinguishing of fires, interactions between fire and buildings/facilities, systems for preventing or detecting fire or limiting its consequences, and evacuation and human behavior in fire. The term fire refers to both fire and explosion and includes fire indoors and outdoors. Research on impact models also considers unwanted emissions of flammable, explosive and/or toxic compounds in industry and transport. Focus for this position is on fire development and material behaviour during fire.

The subject of Applied Microbiology concerns basic and applied research with applications in the chemical, food, material, pharmaceutical, and water industries. The research involves work in microbial strain development, bioanalysis, biochemistry and fermentation technology. Synthetic biology applications are of particular interest, such as genetic modification of the metabolism of microorganisms in industrial processes. The current project focuses on the development of microorganisms for bioproduction of bulk chemicals.