06 Postdoctoral Fellowship at Aalborg University, Denmark

The position involves co-developing a digital toolkit for listening to urban publics and visualizing their concerns around the future of tourism in Copenhagen. The toolkit will be developed on the basis of the award-winning Urban Belonging app and the postdoc is expected to source design specifications for relevant stakeholders. The project is funded bythe European Urban Initiative and will be conducted in partnership with the municipality of Copenhagen, the National Museum and private-public companies such as Wonderful Copenhagen, StoryHunt ApS, and We Do Democracy. The postdoc will be anchored in the TANTLab research group and have strong ties to the RECAST research group.

The postdoc position is part of the CULTIGEN project, which takes its outset in current controversies around overtourism across Europe. CULTIGEN will pioneer a data-driven and community-focused tourism governance fed by local communities and tourists, to better understand their grievances and better inform decision-making. As backbone of the solution, the project will develop a participatory‘Urban listening toolkit’ to engage, collect and analyze users’ data on their urban experience. The tool will merge quantitative and qualitative dimensions to offer new modes of empirical understanding of urban tourism and its impacts.

The postdoc is expected to contribute to this development with an outset in digital methods, digital humanities, and participatory design. While the postdoc will not be expected to write the code underlying the tool, the candidate should have the competence to mediate between stakeholder inputs to the functionalities of the tool and the programmer building it. This involves facilitating design sprints to scoping the analytical functionalities and design specifications in conversation with the future users. The research questions, methodology, and project plan for the postdoc will be developed in conversation with Professor Anders Koed Madsen and Associate professor Martin Trandberg Jensen. The full project team will also comprise a PhD student, a research assistant and a programmer assisting with the tool development.

Calmodulinopathies were first described, when we in 2012 first coupled human genetic variants in calmodulin to cardiac arrhythmia. Since then, a major research focus for us has been to understand the molecular consequences of these variants on protein structure and function, on calmodulin’s interaction with other proteins, and how this translates to disease phenotype. To this end, we have implemented several advanced biophysical assays to measure effects on protein interactions. Today, we are a meta-group of complementing research fields, where we study calmodulin variants across genetics, protein structure, protein biophysics, cell biology and inC. elegans model animals.

In this postdoc position, you will study effects of calmodulin variants in model systems based on cultured cells. There are two major components of the project: First you will study calmodulin’s regulation of other proteins in immortalized cell lines, such as HEK and SH-SY5Y. This includes studying the regulation of the calcium channel ryanodine receptor type 2. There will be a focus on microscopy-based methods, and you will participate in designing and/or implementing new assays. The second part of the project focuses on the effects of calmodulin variants on cardiomyocytes differentiated from patient-derived induced pluripotent stem cells. This research is currently based in Milan, and you will participate in the project there and implement some of the technology at our research facilities in Aalborg.

The project is headed by Professor Michael Toft Overgaard and Assistant Professor Helene Halkjær Jensen. You may obtain further information about the project by e-mail:mto@bio.aau.dk orhhj@bio.aau.dk. The primary workplace is at the Medical Biotechnology section, Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg University, Aalborg East, Denmark. The position also involves one or more research stays at Istituto Auxologico, Milan, Italy.

This two-year position involves process simulation and integration of a carbon capture process using solid adsorbents. The aim is to reduce energy consumption during the desorption phase through simulation, integration, and optimization. Additionally, the project will explore optimal methods for storing and transporting the captured CO₂.

Aalborg University contributes to the knowledge building of the global society as well as the development of prosperity, welfare and culture of Danish society. This is accomplished through research, research-based
education, public sector services and knowledge collaboration. Aalborg University educates students for the future and activities are based on a dynamic and transformative collaboration with the surrounding
community.

AAU Energy is a dynamic engineering research department in continuous growth and inspiring surroundings. AAU Energy has a very international environment and covers all areas of clean and sustainable energy
systems of the future within electrical, thermal and mechatronic energy technology. AAU Energy has campuses in both Aalborg and Esbjerg, this position is located in Aalborg.

The mission is to be world leading in both research and research-based education of the energy engineers of the future. AAU Energy has approx. 300 employees of many nationalities, of which 25 are administrative staff. In addition, AAU Energy constantly has approx. 50-70 guest researchers from around the world.

Aalborg University contributes to the knowledge building of the global society as well as the development ofprosperity, welfare and culture of Danish society. This is accomplished through research, research-based
education, public sector services and knowledge collaboration. Aalborg University educates students for the future and activities are based on a dynamic and transformative collaboration with the surrounding
community.

AAU Energy is a dynamic engineering research department in continuous growth and inspiring surroundings. AAU Energy has a very international environment and covers all areas of clean and sustainable energy
systems of the future within electrical, thermal and mechatronic energy technology. AAU Energy has campuses in both Aalborg and Esbjerg, this position is located in Aalborg.

The mission is to be world leading in both research and research-based education of the energy engineers of the future. AAU Energy has approx. 300 employees of many nationalities, of which 25 are administrative staff. In addition, AAU Energy constantly has approx. 50-70 guest researchers from around the world.

Research and teaching are in the absolute world elite in the field of energy, and we have extensive and leading workshop and laboratory facilities, where research and innovation are carried out in direct collaboration with industry to a great extent.

Aalborg University contributes to the knowledge building of the global society as well as the development of prosperity, welfare and culture of Danish society. This is accomplished through research, research-based
education, public sector services and knowledge collaboration. Aalborg University educates students for the future and activities are based on a dynamic and transformative collaboration with the surrounding
community.

AAU Energy is a dynamic engineering research department in continuous growth and inspiring surroundings. AAU Energy has a very international environment and covers all areas of clean and sustainable energy
systems of the future within electrical, thermal and mechatronic energy technology. AAU Energy has campuses in both Aalborg and Esbjerg, this position is in Esbjerg.

The mission is to be world leading in both research and research-based education of the energy engineers of the future. AAU Energy has approx. 300 employees of many nationalities, of which 25 are administrative
staff. In addition, AAU Energy constantly has approx. 50-70 guest researchers from around the world.

Research and teaching are in the absolute world elite in the field of energy, and we have extensive and leading workshop and laboratory facilities, where research and innovation are carried out in direct collaboration with industry to a great extent.

The position is offered in relation to the research program”Offshore Drones and Robotics(Robotics),” and the Postdoc will be positioned in the Esbjerg Section.