Postdoctoral Fellowship (18) at University of Copenhagen, Denmark

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 to recruit a postdoctoral researcher within Natural Language Processing to work on the project “A Mechanistic Framework for Mitigating the Susceptibility of LLMs to Learning False Information” funded by Independent Research Foundation Denmark, led by Isabelle Augenstein and Pepa Atanasova. The project goal’s will be to develop a novel theoretical frameworks for LLM security, new mechanistic interpretability methods, and new evaluation protocols, developed through research at the intersection of Natural Language Processing, LLM Security, and Explainable AI. The postdoc’s duties will be to characterise the spectrum of false information used by LLMs at different stages of their life cycle, in order to develop mitigation methods and prevent false information attacks on LLMs. In addition to the PIs and the postdoctoral researcher, the team also includes a postdoctoral researcher, as well as the opportunity to apply as an academic collaborator with NVIDIA as part of an existing relationship.

We invite applications for a four-year Postdoc position in Human-Centred AI at the Department of Computer Science (DIKU). We are looking for candidates who will lead research in an innovative project aimed at improving citizens’ encounters with medical services through AI. The project leverages public data and explores new approaches to human-AI alignment. As part of an interdisciplinary team, you will work closely with both technical and medical experts across research and the public and private sector. Your primary responsibilities include:

• Planning and facilitating co-design workshops with citizens, medical professionals, and relevant stakeholders, including collaboration with AI developers 
• Designing and prototyping responsible human-AI alignment solutions
• Conducting human-centred evaluations of AI (including LLM-based) prototypes

The position includes contributing to and strengthening the Section for Software, Data, People and Society (SDPS) and the Human-Centred Computing section, including teaching and course responsibility for relevant BSc and MA courses. The SDPS Section’s research spans human-centred design to software and data management technologies, often in close collaboration with public and private partners. The HCC section‘s research spans collaborative technologies, human-centred AI, AR/ VR, health informatics, AI in education, and digital fabrication.  

The LOBBYMETRY project addresses two types of imbalances in lobbying: 1) mobilisation asymmetries, which exclude some actors from the policy debate, and 2) information asymmetries, which empower specific groups in their exchanges with policymakers. The project analyses these asymmetries and their relationship to each other, as well as their effects on the ways in which sectional and public interests feed into policymaking.

The project studies these asymmetries across populations of interest organisations in European countries and at European Union level, as well as within the climate, digital and health policy fields, that vary strongly in mobilisation asymmetries and constitute areas where well- or ill-informed policies have vast consequences for humanity at large. LOBBYMETRY strives to open the black-box of policymaker-lobbyist information exchange within these areas, develop measures of informational quality and accuracy in lobbying, and evaluate how and when lobbying pulls outcomes away from the public interest.

Methodologically, the project combines cross-country surveys, cross-venue textual data, and different forms of participant observation of the information exchanges between policymakers and interest organisations. This combination of methods will generate unprecedented quantitative and qualitative evidence on lobbyist-policymaker information exchange in varying contexts.

The objective of the research project is to develop a mGlu2 PET tracer of picomolar and super-selective mGlu2 agonist LBG30300 (J. Med. Chem. 2024, 67, 1314–1326). Your work is to revise the synthetic route to fit with radio-chemistry synthesis of the PET tracer and carry out the synthesis. While the cold synthetic work will be carried out at the Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology, the radio-chemistry work will be carried out at Herlev University Hospital in collaboration with Head of Radiochemistry Tri H. V. Huynh.

The position also requires supervision of MSc students as well as other teaching obligations which amounts up to approximately 10 percent of the workload.

The VILLUM Investigator project has focus on Plant Transportomics. Transport of metabolites across cellular borders is essential for plant fitness and survival and has proven important in controlling key quality traits in agriculture. Yet, the function of thousands of transporters is largely unknown. As a unconventional idea we use plant extract as substrates. The project aims at creating a first-of-its-kind transportomics database that includes substrate specificity of every transporter in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana, thale cress. Moreover, the chemical language of plants will be decoded by mapping the metabolites exuded and the transporters present at the root during stress conditions when intense communication occurs. The knowledge gained and molecular tools generated will have application in sustainable agriculture.

We are looking for a highly motivated and enthusiastic scientist with an interest in structural characterization of challenging membrane protein with the following competencies and experience:

• You have a PhD in structural biology.
• A first-author publication within the field of structural biology.
• Experience with membrane protein production and purification.
• Manage and coordinate various projects and stakeholders concurrently.
• Experience in data management and reporting.
• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to work independently and thrive working as part of a team.
• Proficiency in spoken and written English, with good interpersonal communication skills.
• High level of motivation, responsibility, and ability to work in a structured manner.
• Experience, or active interest in applying for research funding.

We seek someone with expertise in Crimean Tatar Studies and transnational migration who is able to design and implement a research project on the institutions, religious organisations, networks, and grassroots practices that have facilitated migration as well as Crimean Tatars’ quest for justice, in particular since the annexation of Crimea and the beginning of the Russian war in Ukraine (2014). Periods of fieldwork in diasporic locations of Crimean Tatars (e.g., Poland, Germany, Turkey) and in mainland Ukraine (depending on the security situation) are to be expected.

The researcher will work in the interdisciplinary research environment at the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies and must be willing and able to participate in regular research and outreach activities where the research team engage in cross-disciplinary discussions. Contribution to university courses (up to 20%) is expected but can be negotiated.

In this position, you will work on projects related to diagnostics and epidemiology of helminth infections in both in cattle on-farm (EU-project) and in other species (horses, bisons etc.) in different grazing systems. We are particularly interested in improved non-invasive monitoring of parasite status. The main role of the postdoc will involve field sampling, developing and performing diagnostic tests as well as extensive data analysis, with a view to developing better preventive strategies. Other projects related to veterinary parasitology may be included. Furthermore, your duties will include (co-)supervision of PhD and MSc students, supporting the overall research goals of the group, and contributing to a positive and supportive group environment that emphasizes teamwork, curiosity and positivity.

We are seeking three enthusiastic and outstanding postdoctoral candidates with strong research profiles in law and a clear interest in sustainability transitions. The successful candidates will join the wider research environment at CLIMA and will be expected to carry out independent research while contributing actively to collaborative research activities.

• SeaPact WP1 – Shipping, Climate and Ocean Law. The postdoctoral researcher will develop and carry out an independent research project within SeaPact WP1. The position focuses on the regulation of scrubbers and related problem-shifting between air and marine pollution. Tasks include mapping and analysing the interaction between overlapping legal regimes, including UNCLOS, MARPOL, the London Convention and Protocol, the international climate change regime, regional seas conventions and relevant EU law; examining implementation and ongoing law-making processes; conducting interviews with relevant actors such as coastal states, port authorities, industry and other stakeholders; collaborating closely with the PI, Co-PI and the wider SeaPact network.
• SeaPact WP2 – Marine Litter, Ocean and Biodiversity Law. The postdoctoral researcher will develop and carry out an independent research project within SeaPact WP2. The position focuses on vessel-based marine litter and the interaction between ocean and biodiversity regimes. Tasks include mapping and analysing the legal frameworks relevant to vessel-based marine litter, including UNCLOS, MARPOL, the London Convention and Protocol, the Convention on Biological Diversity, the proposed global plastics treaty and relevant regional frameworks; examining implementation initiatives and new law-making processes; conducting interviews with relevant actors such as industry representatives, environmental NGOs and international institutions; publishing in leading journals; contributing to policy briefs, workshops and the final conference; and collaborating closely with the PI, Co-PI and the wider SeaPact network.
• BETRUE – Law and Governance of True Pricing in the Protein Transition. The postdoctoral researcher will be based in Copenhagen and will contribute the legal perspective to the BETRUE consortium. The postdoc will develop and carry out an independent legal research project on the design, implementation and governance of true-pricing instruments and their role in advancing the transition to plant-based alternatives. Tasks include analysing relevant legal and regulatory frameworks at Danish, European and international level; contributing to interdisciplinary work packages and consortium deliverables; engaging with stakeholders and policy-oriented activities; publishing in leading journals and contributing to dissemination outputs; and collaborating closely with consortium partners across disciplines.

Funding for two postdoctoral researcher positions working on the use of AI in medicine is available. The positions are focused on various aspects of cancer treatment, including AI-assisted diagnosis, treatment planning, and outcome prediction. Depending on the applicant’s qualifications, they may work on medical image analysis, clinical report analysis, or theoretical aspects of AI in medicine. The researchers are expected to work in close collaboration with the Department of Radiation Oncology and the Department of Radiology at Rigshospitalet. This project, led by Associate Professor Bulat Ibragimov.

These positions are intended for candidates interested in advancing AI in medicine, with a primary focus on medical image analysis. The research spans multimodal data integration, combining imaging with clinical and treatment-related information. While the main application area is cancer diagnosis and treatment planning, the work also includes related domains such as modelling clinician behaviour (e.g., eye-tracking analysis) and methodological development in medical image analysis. The latter is designed to produce broadly applicable techniques that extend beyond specific tasks and contribute to general advances in AI for healthcare.

Natural hydrogen may have widespread occurrence in southwest Greenland as a combination of ancient and continuously producing resources, and large rock formations exist that may constitute hydrogen-generating sources. The potential hydrogen-generating rocks in the identified exploration areas will be described by their lithology and mineralogy to establish the pertinent mineral assemblages that should be tested to determine the possible reaction schemes and their kinetics. This Postdoc project will include mineralogical characterization of the various hydrogen source rocks from Greenland using micro-XRF, powder-XRD, and electron microscopy techniques. A key component of this project will focus on detailed Raman spectroscopic analyses in search of hydrogen-bearing fluid inclusions to trace evidence for natural hydrogen generation, as well as accompanying molecules such as methane. The candidate for this position should therefore have extensive knowledge and expertise with Raman spectroscopy. Fieldwork in Greenland will also be part of this project, and thus previous field experience in an alpine environment is mandatory for safety reasons. The postdoc’s duties will include research within geochemistry, and the post may also include performance of other duties.

We are looking for a driven and ambitious person who can work independently and in collaboration with other groups. The candidate should have a strong interest in the field of protein science with a focus on viral membrane proteins.

The project will address fundamental questions regarding the structure, oligomerization, and pore-forming and/or ion‑channel function of viroporins, a diverse family of small viral membrane proteins that form oligomeric pores essential for viral life cycle and pathogenesis. The goal is to define the molecular principles governing viroporin assembly, map intra- and intersubunit contacts, and study pore function, ion selectivity, and druggability via modulation by small‑molecule inhibitors. This includes establishing high‑throughput pipelines for heterologous expression, purification, and reconstitution of viral membrane proteins. Druggability will be assessed using a high-throughput fluorescence-based screening platform in a human cell line.

(18) Postdoctoral Fellowship Position

Postdoc Fellowship Position summary/title: Postdoc in Genetic and Molecular Mechanisms of Metabolic Regulation

Deadline : 14 May 2026

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