Postdoctoral Fellowship (14) at Lund University, Scania, Sweden

The researcher will work within the research project Transformative Environmental Justice (EnJUSTICE), funded by NordForsk, together with a research group consisting of researchers from Lund University, Oslo University, IT University of Copenhagen, Mykolas Romeria University and Finnish Environment Institute.

A just transition by greening the Nordics in an equitable way through democratic engagement and citizen involvement has pushed its way into mainstream environmental debates, policy discourses, and is now a feature of Nordic strategies. However, policy debates have been criticized for framing the process in a techno-managerial manner. A legitimate and just decision-making process for the energy transition anticipates a representative system centering public engagement and the deliberation of all stakeholders, regionally, and across borders aligned with the Nordic-Baltic aspiration to include all citizens in the green transition. EnJUSTICE aspires to bring the voices of excluded /marginalized communities (including Indigenous and grassroots local communities) in Greenland, Lithuania, and Sápmi into the Nordic-Baltic green transition strategy debate. The project investigates forms of democratic engagement with the explicit aim of balancing the unequal distribution of power between Indigenous and grassroots local communities and powerful stakeholders in formulating key policies toward fossil-free energy production in the region.

The positions are linked to the attosecond group at the department. The group’s research includes ultrafast optics and lasers, generation of attosecond pulses and applications of these to the study of ultrafast phenomena in various systems.

We are looking for one to two postdocs to manipulate ultrashort laser pulses, develop attosecond pulse sources and to study ultrafast processes in semiconductor nanostructures using electron instrumentation. The position(s) imply the development of ultra-short pulse technology at high repetition rate in new wavelength ranges, with the help of multi-pass cells, novel nonlinear devices and pulse/beam shaping.

This two-year ERC-funded postdoctoral researcher position will involve establishing single-cell transcriptomic atlases for the eyes and optic lobes of three invertebrates with unique and elaborate colour and polarisation visual systems: mantis shrimp, water fleas, and firefly squid. These species have been chosen to probe the evolution of advanced visual capabilities such as colour and polarisation discrimination at a cellular and molecular scale. This project will connect with the broader project on these animals that will discover the organization of their visual circuits, how they are shaped by the environment, and how they control navigation, hunting, and communication behaviours.

The candidate will collect and process the retinal and optic lobe tissue from each animal. They will then work with colleagues at Lund and international collaborators to establish single-cell or single-nucleus RNA-seq transcriptomic sequencing pipelines. They will use bioinformatic approaches to analyse the resulting data and in situ hybridization (including HCR) to localise cell types of interest in the eyes and optic lobes. These data will be compared with related model species with less complex eyes.

The Breast Cancer Treatment research group is a multidisciplinary research group focusing on breast and prostate cancer. The group consists of three senior researchers, three associate researchers, one biomedical scientist, as well as PhD students and master’s students. Collaboration takes place locally, nationally, and internationally with clinical researchers and doctoral students.

At Medicon Village, there is a multidisciplinary research environment with several cancer research groups represented, including joint seminars and other collaborative activities. The group uses various data sources and modern techniques to improve predictive modelling, including prediction of treatment response in metastatic disease and disease staging.

Within the research group, we value a positive work environment characterized by respect and consideration in our interactions. We continuously strive to create conditions that promote job satisfaction, development, and participation for all employees.

We are now seeking a postdoctoral researcher for a fixed-term, full-time position starting on 15 June 2026 or as agreed.

The duties consist primarily of research, but also include teaching and certain administrative tasks. The position is linked to a project that examines longitudinal changes in income and occupations later in life among male-headed households in Stockholm between 1800 and 1880, using the existing Historical Linked Stockholm Sample dataset. The project also analyses the extent to which children may have supported their ageing parents in order to smooth variations in living standards over the life cycle.

The position is based in the Division of Combustion Physics at Lund University. The Aerosol Research Group studies atmospheric aerosol particles and their impacts on climate and air quality using in-situ and satellite measurements, process modelling, and global modelling. The group is part of the strategic research area MERGE (https://www.merge.lu.se), focused on climate modelling. Aerosol research has been conducted at Lund since the 1970s and is now a designated profile area at LTH (https://www.lth.se/english/research/profile-areas/aerosols/).  

The division has approximately 70 employees and is located in the Enoch Thulin Laboratory at the Department of Physics. We actively promote a friendly and supportive work environment, with a well-being group that organizes social activities such as board game nights and excursions.

The postdoctoral researcher will be connected to the ACTRIS and ICOS infrastructures for atmospheric and ecosystem science through the Hyltemossa and Norunda field sites in Sweden, working closely with station staff and colleagues that develop scientific projects.

The position is funded through a MERGE initiative to exploit these measurement data to clarify how different ecosystems influence aerosol particle properties and their climate effects. The project investigates how meteorological conditions and biosphere–atmosphere exchanges affect aerosol concentrations and climate, and whether these sensitivities are represented in aerosol process models, Earth system models, and dynamic vegetation models. The work is closely linked to the Horizon Europe project CLIMB-FOREST, which aims to better understand forest climate impacts through short-lived climate forcers (SLCFs).

This project is part of the Swedish in-kind contribution to ESS. The postdoctoral researcher at Lund University, seconded to ESS, will work on neutron and X-ray reflectometry from liquid surfaces and interfaces. They will lead the ongoing commissioning and support of a laboratory X-ray reflectometer for characterization of solid and liquid interfaces and will have the opportunity to contribute to commissioning tasks on the neutron reflectometer FREIA. The postdoc will also take direct responsibility for a research project involving neutron and X-ray reflectometry studies of polymer-lipid interactions.

Polymer-stabilized lipid nanodiscs are a recently developed system for extracting membrane proteins from cell membranes and stabilizing them in solution, in the presence of the native lipids that are extracted alongside the proteins. A range of different polymers are used but the protein extraction mechanism is not well understood. The interaction of nanodiscs with interfaces, e.g. to transfer membrane proteins from discs into supported membranes to make aligned protein arrays for biosensor development, also remains to be studied in detail. This project will optimize the experimental workflow to characterize lipid nanodiscs for membrane-protein studies and develop new knowledge about how polymer-stabilised nanodiscs can be self-assembled on surfaces. Pre-characterisation of such samples at liquid and solid interfaces using the new X-ray reflectometer is a pre-requisite for successful neutron experiments at ESS.

Measurements made at lipid monolayers will be complemented by bulk solution studies using fluorescence, SAXS and SANS measurements of polymers interacting with lipid vesicles. Other techniques such as DLS, SAXS, surface pressure, QCM-D and optical ellipsometry will provide additional information for beamtime applications and sample pre-screening.

This two-year postdoc will be part of the WASP-HS research cluster The AI ​​Welfare State. The research cluster is a cross-university and cross-disciplinary collaboration led by researchers at Lund University, Karlstad University and Södertörn University. 

This postdoc will primarily work in the research group for AI and society led by Stefan Larsson at LTH in Lund. The group focuses on social science-oriented but multidisciplinary issues linked to AI. The group collaborates e.g. over several faculties, including medicine, law, the social sciences and the humanities, as well as with research environments in for example Finland, Brazil, Italy and Japan. 

The postdoc position and the cluster is part of The Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program – Humanity and Society (WASP-HS), which is a national research program in Sweden. The vision of WASP-HS is to foster novel interdisciplinary knowledge in the humanities and social sciences about AI and autonomous systems and their impact on human and social development. WASP-HS enables cutting-edge research, expertise, and competence building in the humanities and social sciences.

This project investigates human-AI collaboration in decision-making from the perspective of dynamic emotional alignment. The overarching aim is to improve collaborative outcomes and the quality of individual human decisions.

As a researcher in this project, you will work on how theories of human affective processing can be implemented and tested in artificial agents. A central question is how systems consisting of one human and one or more artificial agents can communicate through bidirectional emotional signalling. For this to be possible, artificial agents must be able both to express and to model emotions in ways that are meaningfully aligned with human affective processing.

Domains of study may include personal preference-based decisions, such as buying a house; decisions and judgements within legal or other rule-based frameworks where due process is important; and decisions made under cognitive impairment or vulnerability, for example by elderly decision-makers.

This project is part of the Agentic AI Research Group within WASP-HS (see below for a description of WASP-HS). The group focuses specifically on agentic AI: systems capable of increasingly autonomous planning, coordination, and action. It studies such systems not only as a societal and scientific challenge, but also as potential collaborators in research itself. Its work therefore centres on human-AI collaboration, alignment, and the development of new research practices in which autonomous AI systems can contribute to the generation, testing, and evaluation of knowledge.