Postdoctoral Fellowship (20) at Uppsala University, Sweden

The Department of Cell and Molecular Biology is organized into seven research programs which all focus on different areas of cell and molecular biology: Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Microbiology and Immunology, Molecular Biology, Molecular Biophysics, Molecular Evolution, Molecular Systems Biology and Structural Biology. The scientific basis of what we do lies in biology, but our research overlaps with other areas such as medicine, computer science, mathematics, chemistry, engineering sciences and physics. In total, we are over 200 staff and ~60 Ph.D. students. Please read more about the department’s work at https://icm.uu.se.

The position is available in Johan Åqvist’s research group at the Program of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. The research is focused on computer simulations of enzyme reactions, with particular focus on enzyme evolution and adaptation, in collaboration with experimental groups.

The Department of Materials Science and Engineering aims to be an environment for successful and valuable research and education with a focus on materials science solutions for important societal challenges. Our department is an exciting workplace with research in a broad technology-related area, from basic research to large-scale applied research, and with close contact with students through the department’s involvement in engineering and master’s programs. Our research and teaching are conducted within seven divisions with different research focus.

The research project will focus on the development of fluorine-free electronically conductive polymer binders for silicon-based electrodes in lithium-ion batteries. The project will entail electrode preparation, cell assembly, electrochemical testing, characterization of interfaces (largely SEM and XPS, but could also include FTIR, XRD), and experimental/analysis methodology development. The postdoc is expected to perform high quality research, with the aim of disseminating resulting works through high impact peer-reviewed journals or at national and international conferences. Strong collaboration with Westra Materials as project partners and colleagues in the Ångström Advanced Battery Centre will be expected.

The main duties involved in a post-doctoral position is to conduct research. Teaching may also be included, but up to no more than 20% of working hours.

Uppsala University is seeking a highly motivated Postdoctoral Researcher to join our research team in applied nuclear physics. The position is connected to the research programme MÅSTE, Multidisciplinary Commitments for Sweden’s Gen IV Technology and Expertise, which addresses key scientific and technical challenges for future Generation IV reactor systems. More information about the programme is available at: https://www.maste.nu/

The postdoctoral project will focus on nuclear data uncertainty quantification for Generation IV reactor systems, with particular emphasis on neutron-noise-based core monitoring and spent nuclear fuel source terms for reprocessing and fuel fabrication.

We are seeking a candidate with a strong background in nuclear engineering, reactor physics, nuclear physics, computational physics, applied mathematics, data science, or a related field. Experience with uncertainty quantification, reactor physics simulations, neutron noise, nuclear data, machine learning, or surrogate modelling is highly relevant. 

The position offers an opportunity to contribute to the development of advanced methods for uncertainty propagation in future reactor systems, with applications ranging from reactor monitoring to the safe handling of the spent nuclear fuel.

This project focuses on developing, analyzing, and applying new methods in reinforcement learning and model predictive control (MPC), both stochastic and deterministic formulations. the focus will be on developing methods for robust reinforcement learning and/or MPC formulations. We are particularly interested in settings where the cost or reward function is non-ergodic. In these situations, the expected costs/rewards do not capture the behaviour of individual rollouts, which calls for new constructions. We will develop and analyze generally applicable algorithms and models together with our collaborators. The postdoctoral researcher will be jointly supervised by Assistant Professor Dominik Baumann (Aalto University) and when it comes to the MPC aspects, we will collaborate with Assistant Professor Johannes Köhler at Imperial College London.

The position is part of EU HORIZON project FEMVision – Fighting Everyday Misogyny in Visual Online Cultures, which addresses online misogyny through its visual dimension, focusing on mainstream digital environments frequented by young Europeans (18–30). The project addresses the urgency of countering misogyny as a “gateway” to radicalisation, polarisation, and hate speech, while reinforcing democratic resilience and promoting inclusive digital spaces for women, girls, and gender-diverse individuals. In doing so, FEMVision bridges technological innovation and critical reflection, turning AI into a resource that empowers educators, youth workers, policymakers, and civil society to prevent a pervasive form of digital hate. The consortium brings together leading universities and organisations from Italy, Denmark, Estonia, Sweden, Germany, Slovenia, and the Netherlands, ensuring a strong interdisciplinary and cross-cultural approach.

Organs-on-chip is a growing field of research with the ambition to eventually replace traditional animal experiments. A special focus in our research group is to develop microfluidic systems with integrated acoustics, so-called acoustofluidic systems, to manipulate and study cells in 3D environments reminiscent of human tissue. We are now recruiting a postdoctoral researcher who is driven by scientific curiosity and a desire to develop the acoustofluidic technology to build competence within the lab on acoustic holography.

Are you interested in working with organic synthesis and medicinal chemistry with the support of competent and friendly colleagues in an international environment? Are you looking for an employer that invests in sustainable employeeship and offers safe, favourable working conditions? We welcome you to apply for a postdoctoral position at Uppsala University.

Department of Medicinal Chemistry at Uppsala University is a strong and international research environment. The department has about 85 employees and here, doctoral students, teachers, researchers and administrators work closely together in a creative and open environment. 

The position will be based at the Drug Design and Discovery research group at Uppsala University. The research group’s research is primarily focused on the design and synthesis of molecules in early drug discovery and the development of new methods for organic synthesis. The research group is part of the Department of Medicinal Chemistry and consists of approximately fifteen senior researchers and doctoral students, many with international backgrounds. The project is a joint collaboration within the JPIAMR funded project FunHitDisco.

The project is focused on experimental studies to study light chemical elements such as H, He or O in different material systems relevant for fusion energy applications. More specifically, this will include:

• Experiments to detect light chemical elements in materials which have been exposed to different environments.
• Synthesis, preparation, modification and characterization of plasma facing materials.
• Handling and development of large-scale instrumentation for non-destructive materials analysis, in particular using ion beams for in-situ and in-operando analysis.
• Handling and analysis of complex experimental data, evaluation and simulation with e.g. Monte-Carlo and Molecular Dynamics approaches.

Are you interested in working with state-of-the-art machine learning methods with the support of competent and friendly colleagues in an international environment? Are you looking for an employer that invests in sustainable employeeship and offers safe, favorable working conditions? We welcome you to apply for a postdoctoral position at Uppsala University. 

This postdoctoral position is fully funded by the European Research Council (ERC) through the Consolidator Grant TRANSPHORM (Eliminating Leishmaniasis: Novel Strategies to Prevent Leishmania Transmission and Control Sand Flies through Pharmacological Treatment), in which novel pharmacological strategies will be developed for vector control and transmission prevention of the neglected tropical diseases visceral leishmaniasis (VL) and post-kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis (PKDL) in the context of the VL elimination programme in India.

This position combines elements of both design and coordination of clinical human challenge studies with sandflies (xenodiagnosis studies) in the field, including entomological & pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic studies; design and preparation of a cluster randomized trial on targeted mass drug administration for transmission prevention; as well as integrated pharmacometric modelling of (sandfly) pharmacokinetics, parasite dynamics, and entomological data. You will contribute to the clinical and operational aspects of multiple studies in India, working at the interface of clinical pharmacology, parasite transmission, and vector biology. The project will be performed in international collaboration with multi-disciplinary experts (entomology, clinicians, pharmacometrics, parasitologists). The candidate is expected to take a leading role in the collaborative project and will be involved in writing scientific publications and be part of the dissemination of research findings at international meetings and conferences. The position is based at Uppsala University, with the expectation of various field visits to our institutional partner in India.   

The project is a continuation of an ongoing PhD project on core and fuel optimisation for small modular reactors, SMRs, within the competence centre ANItA (Academic-industrial Nuclear technology Initiative to Achieve a sustainable energy future). The competence centre brings together academia and industry to strengthen Swedish nuclear engineering expertise and contribute to a sustainable energy transition. The previous PhD project has developed methods for equilibrium-cycle optimisation, where the aim is to identify recurring fuel management strategies that provide good fuel economy while satisfying reactor-physics safety margins. Particular focus has been placed on combining advanced optimisation algorithms with machine-learning-based surrogate models, including graph-based representations of core loading patterns.

You will further develop this research direction. The project may, for example, include cycle-to-cycle optimisation, development of new machine learning models, improved optimisation strategies, uncertainty quantification, more efficient handling of physical constraints, and extended analysis of fuel design, loading patterns and safety-related quantities. The aim is to develop methods that enable faster and more reliable exploration of large design spaces in core and fuel optimisation.

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Postdoc Fellowship Position summary/title: Postdoc position in quantum matter theory

Deadline : 31 July 2026

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Great progress is being made in the fields of molecular archaeology and palaeontology, with increasing evidence that labile biomolecules can be preserved in increasingly older fossil material. The mechanisms underlying such preservation, and the conditions that enable it, however, remain complex and poorly understood. Fossil samples from extensive field work in Skåne by Martin Qvarnström and Grzegorz Niedźwiedzki have been pre-selected based on extensive prior taphonomic studies. This project will investigate palaeontological material that has been shown to contain exceptionally well-preserved tissues at sub-cellular resolution, including soft-tissue-like structures of currently unresolved composition, which this project aims to characterize. In your role as a researcher, you will synthesize this work and work together with the research group and collaborators to develop protocols for sampling and demineralisation of fossil bones under clean conditions in specialized laboratories. You will apply methods to extract and concentrate soft tissue material under strict contamination controls, with a primary focus on proteins, and prepare samples for imaging and peptide sequencing, and interpret the results. DNA sequencing will be performed to identify recent environmental signals to be cross-referenced with the peptide data. The resulting data will be compared against reference databases and environmental controls to assess contamination, identify environmental signatures, and characterise endogenous vertebrate palaeobiomolecules, which in combination with microcopy and geochemical protocols be used to cast new light on the biology of early dinosaurs (and other sampled fossil animals).