29 Postdoctoral Fellowship at University of Copenhagen, Denmark

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.

One postdoc position is available in the theoretical quantum optics group at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen. The position will be part of the quantum internet alliance which is a European project aiming at building large-scale quantum networks. The postdoc will participate in designing and modelling the prototype quantum internet that is scheduled to be built at the end of the project. Additionally, the successful candidate may work on other activities within the area of theoretical quantum optics, quantum networks and quantum information.

The successful applicant will be part of the theoretical quantum optics group and the center of excellence for Hybrid Quantum Networks (Hy-Q) funded by the Danish National Research Foundation. The group focus on developing theories for the physical implementation of quantum information processing and has a very close collaboration with the experimental activities within Hy-Q, which include optomechanics, single photon emitters and nanophotonics. The center has approximately 50 researchers within quantum networks and is characterized by close daily interactions between the members of the center, both socially and scientifically.   

A special family of the single celled dinoflagellates, the warnowiaceans, possesses an organelle, which structurally resembles a camera-type eye. This organelle called the ocelloid is a modified chloroplast and contains a lens-like hyalosome and a retinula flanked by screening pigment. Our optical measurements show that the hyalosome does form an image on the retinula with a spatial resolution of approximately 10 degrees, which will likely allow the mixo-trophic dinoflagellate to detect potential prey items at distances up to 0.5 mm. The project thus seeks to finally prove that the image information is used to control the behavior of the dinoflagellates. It will be a comparative study including several species of warnowiaceans. The project will also examine how a single cell can process the image information putatively coming from the ocelloid. The work will happen in collaboration with the vision group at Lund University and the UAS center at University of Southern Denmark.           

We are looking for a Postdoc in Spin Qubit Design & Control with experience in the field of quantum computing or semiconductor physics to join the Spin Qubit Team at NQCP.  The team is led by Assist. Prof. Francesco Borsoi and focuses on achieving a quantum advantage to solve life science problems exploiting the unique properties of semiconductor quantum dots processors. To reach this ambitious goal, we are building a world-class research group and developing state-of-the-art infrastructure.

The Spin Qubit group is a newly established pilot line at NQCP, and we are seeking an entrepreneurial, passionate, and innovative individual who can work independently across a wide range of topics. Due to the broad scope of this position, the role can be tailored to the candidate. We highly encourage applications from underrepresented groups in the field.

This is a unique opportunity to work in a multidisciplinary data-driven environment, collaborating with teams specializing in nanofabrication, material characterization, quantum device simulation, and quantum algorithms. The candidate will lead critical developments in quantum hardware and contribute to cutting-edge research and engineering.

We are looking for a highly motivated and dynamic postdoctoral researcher for a 3-year [36 month] position starting 1 June 2025 or as soon as possible after. Join us in advancing the field of Citizen Science and contributing to meaningful, impactful research that connects society and science.

As a postdoc in the Science & Society research section at the Natural History Museum Denmark, you will engage in cutting-edge research in Citizen Science, both in theory and application. Our work spans various fields, including Zoology, Botany, Geology, and Archaeology, and involves close interdisciplinary collaboration with partners inside and outside the museum. Our research contributes to the novel development of Citizen Science as a research tool and we apply our knowledge in our current long-term projects and new initiatives, connecting people of all ages and contexts to nature and empowering them with scientific knowledge, experiences and skills.

We aim to perform high-standard, internationally recognized research while fostering practical application and societal value. Our work involves close partnerships with natural history societies, educational partners, conservation practitioners, social scientists and individuals conducting Citizen Science. Hereby, we aim to bridge the society-science interface to improve research projects, ensure practical use of results, and increase societal value. With this position, we aim to further increase the scientific value of our citizen science projects and thus strengthen our impact to science as well as society. Our supportive and inclusive group culture emphasizes teamwork and collaboration, both within the University of Copenhagen and with our global network of partners. We strive to maintain a supportive and inclusive group where the experiences and skills of everyone help to build a productive, synergetic, and friendly culture and working environment.

Two senior postdoc positions are available within experimental quantum optics at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen. The position(s) will be part of the experimental quantum photonics group and the Center for Hybrid Quantum Networks (Hy-Q) headed by Profs. Peter Lodahl and Anders. S. Sørensen. The successful candidates will be responsible for leading and developing the existing activities within coupled quantum emitters and spin-photon interfaces and will be the daily supervisor of the Ph.D. students working on the projects. For experienced applicants the position can potentially be upgraded to a (non-tenure track) assistant professor position after a short time.

The Niels Bohr Institute, Faculty of Science at University of Copenhagen is offering a 2-year postdoc position in Physics of Ice, Climate and Earth (PICE) commencing June 1, 2025 or as soon as possible thereafter.

The Green2Ice project is funded by the ERC and aims to determine when Greenland was last green. A key part of this research involves analysing basal ice samples from the Greenland ice sheet and dating them. The postdoc project, which is fully funded, primarily focuses on dating trapped air using Ar/Ar dating. Since ⁴⁰Ar accumulates in the atmosphere due to the decay of ⁴⁰K, this method allows us to determine the age of the entrapped air.

The postdoctoral researcher will work closely with a technician on this project, which has a significant experimental component. This includes developing and modifying parts of the existing measurement system. We are therefore seeking experimentally skilled applicants with expertise in mass spectrometry.

Modifications to RNA play central roles in many cellular processes, yet the specific mechanisms by which they influence RNA fate remain unclear. In this project, we aim to develop, test, and apply new computational methodologies for analysing RNA modification readouts from large transcriptomic datasets. This position will focus on developing probabilistic deep learning frameworks to identify molecular determinants underlying modification patterns from short- and long-read datasets.

We are looking for a highly motivated and dynamic postdoc for a 3 year position to start in the Galvagnion group “Protein-membrane interactions in health and disease” from 1 June 2025, or shortly after. Preference will be given to candidates with a strong expertise in biochemistry and ex-vivo sample characterisation as well as proteomics and big data analyses. The purpose of the postdoc is to perform proteomic analyses of post-mortem brain samples from patients with Parkinson’s Disease to identify protein changes associated with the disease as well as proteins that form toxic aggregates in the brain of patients. This project is founded by the Novo Nordisk foundation and involves a collaboration with the laboratory of Erwin Schoof at the Technical University of Denmark.

The Pers Group is seeking a highly motivated postdoctoral fellow to investigate the mechanisms by which human genetic variants associated with obesity influence hypothalamic circuits. This project aims to uncover molecular pathways regulating metabolic homeostasis using a CRISPR-based Perturb-seq system in transgenic animal models, where Cas9 is specifically expressed in reporter animals, enabling targeted gene perturbations in defined hypothalamic and hindbrain cell populations. This Perturb-seq system is currently being established in vivo, providing a strong foundation for immediate experimental work.

This setup allows for single-cell resolution screening of gene expression networks, identifying molecular pathways through which obesity-associated genetic variants impact neuronal function and metabolic regulation. In addition to coupling perturbations to cellular phenotypes, the successfull applicant will integrate these approaches with circuit-level readouts, including neuronal activity measurements, and behavioral phenotyping through advanced rodent metabolic phenotyping techniques, both of which are implemented in core facilities at our center.

The position is part of an ambitious project titled “Nature-based solutions for biodiversity, human well-being and transformative change” as part of a EU-consortia spanning 14 partners (Biodiversity2Drugs) funded by the EU and the Innovation Foundation Denmark.

The overall Biodiversity2Drugs project aims to unlock the untapped potential of nature-derived drug discovery, enhancing European and global competitiveness through a sustainable and eco-friendly platform. By integrating advanced genomics, transcriptomics, peptidomics, AI/ML, green chemistry, and translational pharmacology, the project will efficiently discover and characterize novel pharmacological tools and therapeutic leads for various diseases. Its vision includes generating extensive sequence libraries of hundreds of thousands of nature-derived peptides from genomic and transcriptomic data. These peptides will be explored as novel GPCR ligands to improve drug discovery and study disease-related receptor signaling.

We are looking for an excellent and enthusiastic candidate. You will be highly dedicated, work with great excitement and be a key person in the project essential for obtaining successful results. You will work in across-disciplinary environment and collaborate with other researchers internally in the group and with the collaborating group. You will be highly dedicated, work with great excitement and be a key person in the project essential for obtaining successful results.

Postdoc Position 1:
The postdoc will be in charge of subproject 2. In subproject 2, ‘Tracing narratives and testimonies’, the Postdoc will explore narratives of irregular migration and migrant death through the stories of migrants, relatives and humanitarian workers at the transit point of Morocco and through the testimonies extracted from dead migrant bodies at the Laboratorio de Medicina legal de la Universidad de Malaga in Spain. These testimonies, based on physical marks on the dead bodies, reveal evidence of poverty in the country of origin, abuse or torture en route or at transit points and ultimately of harmful death in or close to Europe. In other words, the autopsies use the physical footprints of the world on the body to trace the footprints of the body in the world.

In contrast, the narratives explored in Morocco will be created in the absence of a physical body. Essentially, family members and humanitarian organisations employ practices of determination to trace the missing migrant body through social, physical and economic footprints left behind at the transit points. These footprints can take the form of stories from co-travellers, specifying the last known whereabouts of specific individuals, of migrant smugglers in search of family members to pay off the debt left unpaid, or other types of narratives, as well as messages sent from specific places or personal belongings left behind. The Postdoc will look specifically at how humanitarian organisations are used and get involved in the search for missing migrants, and at how some family members may engage in a form of secondary migration practices, where they physically follow in the footsteps of their missing loved ones, as they uncover fragmented narratives and clues to their whereabouts.

Postdoc Position 2:
The Postdoc will be in charge of subproject 3. In subproject 3, ‘Exploring political decision-making and generative collaborations’, the Postdoc will conduct fieldwork among Spanish and Greek politicians to explore how national and European policies on migration and migrant deaths are developed and implemented, and how statistical information and recurring images of anonymous dead migrant bodies impact the political decision-making process. This project will focus on the practices of determination employed by European politicians and uncover the underlying uncertainties in society and among the political actors.

In addition, the generative collaborations workshops will form a meta-site for the Postdoc, where the conversations and discussions from the workshops will produce a unique type of meta-data on how the fragmented and conflictive narratives can be used in the search for common ground and ‘best practice’ approaches. Thus, the workshops and the unique data they produce will add an extra layer of knowledge generation to the SOLID project.

Finally, the narratives collected throughout the project will be used to develop a website where all the different perspectives and contradictive views captured through the social anatomy of migrant deaths will be presented and shared. The website will tell the stories of migrants and their families, of forensic scientists, policy and law makers and humanitarian workers and of their individual and collective efforts to address the problems of irregular migration as they see them. Thus, through written material and recorded audio and video bites, the website will bring the fragmented and contradictive narratives as well as the generative collaborations to a broader audience. While all research team members, as well as participants at the generative collaboration workshops will contribute to creating content for the website, the main responsibility for the website will be held by the Postdoc.

Postdoctoral position 1: The Study of Anti-female Anger and Activism in the US
This position is specifically part of a wider work-package (WP) entitled ‘Fury’, looking at contemporary manifestations, linkages, and globalization of gendered anger. This WP is coordinated by the PI, Dr Atreyee Sen. The successful candidate will be expected to conduct individual research into the currents, logics and expressions of anti-female anger in the US, that coalesces into political groups, ‘manospheres’, homosocial spaces, and social movements. E.g. the latter could include Incels, Trump supporters, and men’s rights activists.

Postdoctoral position 2: The Study of Postimperial Anger in Georgia, Europe
This position is specifically part of a WP entitled ‘Venom’, looking at embittered anger and ressentiment directed towards former colonial and imperial powers. This WP is coordinated by Dr Matthew Carey, Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen. The successful candidate will be expected to conduct individual research into the dynamics of postimperial anger in Georgia directed towards the former imperial power, Russia, and its citizens, both in the present-day context of immigration and potentially with regard to the recent past.

The postdocs will be responsible for designing and conducting their own sub-project within the broader context of the work package and the project as a whole. The research will rely primarily on fieldwork and the collection and analysis of qualitative data (both offline and online), and outputs will be primarily in the form of single- or co-authored academic publications, as well as more popular forms of dissemination (podcasts, media articles and interviews, public talks, exhibitions, etc.). Participation in academic conferences and/or workshops is expected.

 

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Postdoc Fellowship Position summary/title: Postdoc in Metabolic Modelling and Fluxomics

Deadline : 27 februar, 2025

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Faculty of Science, Department of Food Science is looking for a dedicated candidate for a 2-year postdoc position within the section Design and Consumer Behavior. The research will concern identification and quantification of the molecular characteristics, including protein-protein interactions, and the relationship to protein functional properties and nutritional parameters of proteins and protein ingredients derived from legume grasses and green leaves. An important part will be to establish the applicability of grass and leaf protein fractions as food ingredients to produce healthy and sustainable food products. Development of food prototypes with grass and leaf protein ingredients is included in the research. The candidate must have qualifications and experience in food related grass and/or leaf proteins, protein physico-chemical characteristics and methodologies, as well as protein techno-functional properties and food prototyping.

The project aims to understand the impact of energetic stressors such as exercise on systemic metabolism, particularly in the setting of type 2 diabetes. The research will involve the use of multiple pre-clinical models combined with in vivo physiology and metabolic phenotyping. Furthermore, multi-omic approaches will be utilized to develop novel targets for further exploration via molecular biology approaches. This approach will aim to provide novel targets in peripheral insulin sensitivity.

We are looking for a researcher to focus on ERK regulation of enhancer function as part of the SENCE project. As a researcher 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 either mouse embryos and mouse embryonic stem cell (ESCs), but may also probe the conservation of important findings in three dimensional synthetic models for human development, human hypoblast stem cells and naïve human ESC culture. 

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.

We are seeking a highly motivated Postdoctoral Fellow for a project focused on developing BrainSTEM. BrainSTEM is a structured electronic lab notebook for describing neurophysiological experiments, as well as a collaboration and data-sharing platform for the community. The research will take place at the Department of Neuroscience at the University of Copenhagen in the lab of Dr. Peter C. Petersen (PetersenLab.org), in collaboration with NYULH Neuroscience Institute. You will be part of a diverse, interdisciplinary team of neuroscientists and work with software developers and data scientists to push the boundaries of open science and neuroscience research.

We strive for excellence in our field, aiming to achieve outstanding collective milestones. The participating women are recruited through the interdisciplinary KISO cohort. In close collaboration with the PI your responsibilities and research tasks include:

• Planning, organizing, and conducting focus groups and individual interviews with women at various stages of the menopausal transition.
• Qualitative analysis of empirical material including transcription, coding and framing.
• Completing literature reviews and writing and co-authoring research articles in top-level journals.
• Project presentations at national and international conferences and seminars.
• Contribution to the development and progression of the Women in Healthy Transition Initiative, including establishing relevant research network in collaboration with other researchers.
• Administration tasks such as data management (organising and archiving of data, sharing of data with research group members), reports preparation, contribution to project website, organizing of and participation in research group activities such as seminars, workshops and meetings.
• Public dissemination and sharing of knowledge into public domains.

Department of Public Health invites applicants for a Postdoc fellowship in the complexities of women’s menopausal transitions. The project is part of the interdisciplinary research initiative Women in Healthy Transition (KISO).

We are looking for a highly motivated and dynamic postdoctoral researcher for a one-year position. The starting date is as soon as possible, preferable no later than May 1, 2025.

Through a qualitative research approach, this postdoctoral position focuses on exploring how consultations in general practice addressing the menopausal transition are experienced by both menopausal women and health professionals. The aim is to develop best practice guidelines. The role involves conducting in-depth interviews and focus groups, and you will be part of a highly interdisciplinary milieu.

We use ultra-cold atoms in optical traps to realize novel interaction-types that are useful in quantum simulation, computing and for the quantum sensing world.

You will lead the design and construction of a new experiment focused on the generation of atomic entanglement through high-cooperativity cavities.

As a postdoc in our research group you will become part of an ambitious and fast-moving research environment that wants to push the hardware architecture of neutral atom quantum computation to new levels and apply that understanding to the development of computational capability.

You will join the Conservation Palaeogenetics & Palaeoecology Group at the Center for GeoGenetics led by Assistant Professor Ana Prohaska. We work at the interface of palaeoecology, ancient genetics, evolutionary biology, and conservation science to understand how species and ecosystems responded to past environmental change and how this understanding can inform conservation decision-making today. Our focus is on recovering genetic diversity relevant for the preservation of Earth’s contemporary biodiversity into the future. To achieve this, we also actively develop experimental techniques to access previously unavailable information about ancient populations and ecosystems. For more information about the group and our research, please see: globe.ku.dk/research/geogenetics/prohaska-group/

You will also be part of the newly established Centre for Ancient Environmental Genomics. This is an interdisciplinary research centre committed to unlocking the vast, yet largely untapped research potential of ancient environmental genomics by enhancing key experimental and computational capabilities. The goal is to study community-wide and population-level processes on an unprecedented temporal and spatial scale to help resolve fundamental questions about the history of life on Earth. The centre brings together a diverse team of researchers with backgrounds in geology, chemistry, genetics, ecology, evolutionary biology, computer science, statistics, and more.

Our group works in the broad area of proteomics, genomics, and cell signaling. In this project, we are interested in understanding the scope and function of lysine acetylation in gene regulation, as well as to understand the mechanisms of gene activation by cis-regulatory enhancers. The project will use quantitative proteomics and genomics to further understand the role of acetylation and other chromatin modifications in gene regulation. The project will combine CRISPR-based genome editing with NGS-based approaches (i.e. RNA-seq, ChIP-seq, ATAC-seq) and cell biological approaches to uncover new regulatory pathways and decipher underlying mechanisms.

The postdoc candidate will perform wet laboratory experiments involving cultured mammalian cells, creating CRISPR engineered cell lines, and generating NGS data, including high-quality ChIP-seq data. The candidates with experience in both wet lab and bioinformatics will be able to do both (i.e. work in the wet lab and perform bioinformatics analyses).

We are looking for candidates within the field(s) of data science, experimental electrochemistry, physical chemistry, catalysis, and/or spectroscopy. Applicants can have a background from Computer Science, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Physics, Nanotechnology, Materials Science and Engineering or Renewable Energy. Applicants should have experience with data science using python and/or SQL, be comfortable thinking quantitatively, and work well in a group setting. A solid grasp of thermodynamics and experience in experimental materials sciences or energy sciences are a plus.