08 Postdoctoral Fellowship at Tampere University, Finland

As a university-level initiative to boost scientific excellence, Tampere University launched the Tampere Institute for Advanced Study in 2021. The purpose of the Institute is to provide its Fellows an opportunity to concentrate on conducting research of highest quality and thus advance to their next career stage. To this end, the Institute grants fixed-term Postdoctoral, Senior and Professorial Research Fellowships. The Institute grants Fellowships to researchers in all scientific fields represented at Tampere University. The Institute also invites leading international researchers for short visits, collaborates with similar institutes and organizes scientific events. Its activities are tightly connected with the research conducted in the faculties of Tampere University.

As a university-level initiative to boost scientific excellence, Tampere University launched the Tampere Institute for Advanced Study in 2021. The purpose of the Institute is to provide its Fellows an opportunity to concentrate on conducting research of highest quality and thus advance to their next career stage. To this end, the Institute grants fixed-term Postdoctoral, Senior and Professorial Research Fellowships. The Institute grants Fellowships to researchers in all scientific fields represented at Tampere University. The Institute also invites leading international researchers for short visits, collaborates with similar institutes and organizes scientific events. Its activities are tightly connected with the research conducted in the faculties of Tampere University.

We offer a research-inspiring work environment with an excellent up-to-date infrastructure and a collaborative work community in three modern campuses, as well as high-quality support services for researchers. We also offer a wide range of staff benefits, such as occupational health care, flexible working hours, excellent sports facilities and several restaurants and cafés on campuses. Please read more about Working at Tampere Universities.

The salary is based on job demands and employees’ personal performance in accordance with Finnish University Salary System. The position of Senior Research Fellow is initially placed at levels 6–7 in the salary system. In addition, employees receive performance-based salary. A typical starting salary of a Senior Research Fellow at the Tampere Institute for Advanced Study is between €4600–4800 per month. Higher salary may be agreed dependent upon experience and/or performance

We offer a research-inspiring work environment with an excellent up-to-date infrastructure and a collaborative work community in three modern campuses, as well as high-quality support services for researchers. We also offer a wide range of staff benefits, such as occupational health care, flexible working hours, excellent sports facilities and several restaurants and cafés on campuses. Please read more about Working at Tampere Universities.

We are also calling for applications for two-year Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in separate job postings. There are altogether six job postings – one Postdoctoral Fellow and one Senior Fellow posting for each of the three focus areas (technology, health or society) separately. Please note that you are allowed to submit only one (1) application either for the Postdoctoral Research Fellowship or the Senior Research Fellowship after choosing the one that best fits your current academic career stage, and in one (1) focus area (technology, health or society) only. 

We are looking for one Postdoctoral Researcher  to work on “From light fueled self-oscillators to light communicating material networks”. 

Our group is seeking for one Postdoctoral Researchers with strong background and interest in one of the following fields, optics, shape-deformable polymers, micro-fabrication and/or micro-robotics. 

Dynamic smart materials that can sense changes in their surroundings and respond in functional way could greatly benefit science and engineering. The ERC-StG ONLINE project seeks to develop life-like material structures that communicate with each other via physical contact, fluidic media or optical beams. These artificial materials will be able to sustain their mechanical oscillation when they are not in thermodynamic equilibrium. Leveraging this self-oscillation concept, ONLINE’s goal is to design microscopic scale soft robots, i.e. walker swarms, cilia array and material network that sustain their own movements, make their own decisions and adapt to their environmental conditions, without human control. 

We are looking for a highly motivated postdoctoral researcher to work in the Program in the Study of Mysticism (PRISM) in the Faculty of Social Sciences. The position involves conducting desk and field research under supervision for an embedded study on Mysticism and Human Flourishing, publishing articles and joining in on publishing a co-authored volume, attending relevant conferences and presenting research, assisting in organizing project meetings and conferences and communicating about the study, as well as assisting in some coordination tasks related to PRISM.

The position requires close collaboration with the PRISM team, led by Sociology Professor Ali Qadir in Tampere University, Finland. PRISM is a five-year program supported by the global philanthropy, Templeton Religion Trust, to galvanize the study of mysticism by making sub-grants to universities worldwide to develop the field, coordinating program activities like new conceptualization and communication, and conducting research in the embedded study.

The main topic of research in this embedded study will be to help develop a theory of mystical consciousness that can explain the ways in which mystics are embedded in society. The project will involve historical case studies of mystics as well as field research on and around recent or contemporary mystics, mapping how they affect various dimensions of human flourishing in their social environments. The position is from March 1, 2025 through December 31, 2029, and the exact research dimensions and outputs will be established collaboratively in the PRISM team.