10 Postdoctoral Fellowship at Stockholm University, Sweden

This postdoctoral position will focus on assessing and valuing ecosystem services and integrating them into environmental-economic accounting. This work will contribute to the development, advancement, and translation of the concept of Gross Ecosystem Product (GEP) (e.g. https://doi.org /10.1007/s13280-023-01948-8).

This postdoctoral position is part of the Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation-funded strategic research collaboration and postdoc program between the Stockholm Resilience Centre (SRC), Stockholm University, and the Natural Capital Project (NatCap), Stanford University, “Advancing the research frontier of biosphere stewardship.” This program aims to generate high quality scientific outputs and understanding, accelerating science-based insights as guidance for transformations towards biosphere stewardship and a sustainable future. The collaboration between SRC and NatCap bridges the complementary scientific expertise, approaches, and networks of the two institutions to make sense of highly complex, ever shifting, and globally connected human-nature interactions, and how stewardship of our Anthropocene biosphere can be cultivated, ever more strengthened, and sustained.

The post-doctoral researcher position is part of the Mistra-funded research programme Finance to Revive Biodiversity (https://finbio.org/). FinBios overarching aim is to deliver research that can facilitate and speed up the consideration of biodiversity and nature-related risks as a key aspect of decision-making across the financial sector, from regulation to investment decisions.

This post-doctoral position focuses on identifying the channels through which biodiversity (nature-related) shocks are likely transmitted to the financial system.  The research will do this by analyzing the forestry and agricultural sectors of Sweden, using detailed company level data to map biodiversity dependencies, company size and international trade linkages. This analysis will produce an assessment of how firms are connected to hazards, each other, and trade.  While this work will be focused on Sweden, it aims to develop approaches and methods that are generally useful.

The project aims to explore the quantum dynamics of many-body-quantum systems, and their thermodynamics in the quantum regime from a quantum information perspective. The research will focus on both theoretical and computational approaches to exploring the fundamental limits thermodynamics and quantum mechanics impose on the emergence of time periodic behaviors in many-body-quantum condensates, and the limits on achievable cooling in many-body-quantum systems. The project requires expertise in quantum measurement and control, quantum thermodynamics, as well as familiarity to the theory of quantum condensates.

To further broaden our research profile and strengthen our research environment, the Contaminant Chemistry Unit within the Department of Environmental Science is recruiting a Postdoctoral Fellow in Environmental Chemistry with an open research focus. We invite young scientists interested in a postdoctoral career development opportunity to submit proposals for a 2-year research project. The project should build on the existing strengths in the Department of Environmental Science while introducing new research questions or methods. The Contaminant Chemistry Unit currently consists of 6 research groups (MacLeod, McLachlan, Cousins, Posselt, Sobek, and Benskin). Our research programs examine the occurrence and behavior of pollutants in the environment and in the technosphere. Areas of particular interest include the discovery of new contaminants, understanding the physical, chemical, and biological pathways that contaminants follow, and the development of novel tools and techniques for sampling and analysis. We strive to synthesize our scientific understanding about the sources, transport, transformation, bioaccumulation and pharmacokinetics of environmental contaminants into mathematical models that inspire new scientific hypotheses, and support environmental decision-making.

The postdoctoral postion will be part of the 4-year research project ”Corporate Accountability in Global Supply Chains? The Effectiveness of Human Rights and Environmental Due Diligence Regulations”, funded by the Wallenberg Foundation. The project focuses on a new trend wherein mainly European states have adopted regulations building on a human rights and environmental due diligence (HREDD) approach. These laws have often been portrayed as a groundbreaking opportunity to hold transnational companies responsible for different types of human rights and environmental problems that occur in production processes. However, there is little knowledge about the real prospects of such laws to effectively address corporate misconduct and provide victims with access to remedy.

The overarching aim of the project is to examine to what extent and under what circumstances HREDD regulations effectively contribute to enhance corporate accountability in global supply chains. The project focuses on the implementation and enforcement of four HREDD regulations that have entered into force to date: the French Duty of Vigilance law (2017); the German Supply Chain Act Due Diligence Law (2021); the Norwegian Transparency Act (2021); and the European Union Deforestation-Free Regulation (2023). The project is led by Maria-Therese Gustafsson at the Department of Political Science at Stockholms Universitet and Almut Schilling-Vacaflor at the Department of Business and Social Sciences at FAU University Erlangen-Nürnberg.

The Department of Economics at Stockholm University is looking to hire a full-time predoctoral research fellow for a period of 12 months to start from summer 2024 at the earliest, with the possibility to extend for another year.  There may be flexibility to work part-time.

The research fellow will support and collaborate on a series of new and ongoing projects related to development and the environment, with a particular focus on a unique dataset mapping human development and environmental change across the developing world since the 1940s, derived from recently-digitized historical aerial photographs.  The research fellow will work closely with an international team of researchers let at SU by Associate Professor Andreas Madestam and Assistant Professor Anna Tompsett.

The successful applicant will receive mentoring from the above-mentioned team of researchers. Research fellows are physically based at the Department of Economics at Stockholm University, Sweden, and will work closely with the research team. Prior research fellows at the Department of Economics have gone on to attend top-tier PhD programs in Economics.

The position is associated with the Digital Futures research pairs consolidator project Layering Trust in Intimate Digital Health Technologies: Learning from Challenging Experiences. In the project we have conducted a landmark, large-scale qualitative study of the first algorithmic contraceptive on the market, Natural Cycle. We are now examining what happens when trust in digital intimate health technologies breaks down and how we might co-design user experience mechanisms to re-establish trust when it has been challenged or lost. The main responsibilities of the research assistant will include empirical and design work related to intimate health technology. The successful candidate will work with Associate Professor Airi Lampinen at Stockholm University as well as in close collaboration with Professor Madeline Balaam at KTH. The work is situated in a multidisciplinary HCI research group with extensive international collaborations.

The position will be associated with Dan Petersen’s Wallenberg Scholarship. We invite applicants working at the interface of algebraic geometry and algebraic topology.

This project is connected to the group endeavour to increase the sustainability of organic bioelectronic materials and devices. The Postdoctoral Fellow will play a central role in the Team, by developing new materials, processes, and/or device configurations that provide the performance needed for applications and sustainable design. The new materials and concepts will have direct application within the bioelectronic devices developed in the group. Advanced characterization techniques will be used to understand their structure-property relationship of materials and the impact of fabrication on device performance.

This recruitment is connected to the Wallenberg Initiative Materials Science for Sustainability (WISE, wise-materials.org). WISE, funded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, is the largest-ever investment in materials science in Sweden and will encompass major efforts at Sweden’s foremost universities over the course of 10 years. The vision is a sustainable future through materials science. Read more: https://wise-materials.org.

The applicant’s main responsibilities will be to assist in data collection in a research project on the historical development of living standards in the British Caribbean region within the framework of the project “From bondage to the free labor market: wages, prices and living standards in the Caribbean for a century after emancipation”. The project is financed by the Swedish Research Council, is granted for four years (2024-2028).

The main tasks for the research assistant position include collection and registration of quantitative empirical data from historical, handwritten source material in English from the period 1830 to 1945. In addition, the applicant may assist in preliminary analysis of the compiled data. The applicant will be working closely with two members of the research project.