14 Postdoctoral Fellowship at Lund University, Scania, Sweden

Microbial communities govern global biogeochemistry. They are the valve that rate regulate decomposition and nutrient mineralisation in soils, and simultaneously constitute the main pathway of atmospheric carbon (C) into soil fractions with long retention times. Climate change is recasting the environmental forcing that determine the microbial ecology that runs biogeochemistry, including warming, drought, thawing of frost, and the perturbations induced by extreme weather events. All this highlights that a fundamental understanding of microbial responses to environmental change is key to predict how biology will feedback to ongoing climate change. 

This postdoc position will investigate how warming, drought, thawing frost, and extreme weather will impact on soil microbial communities by resolving responses in growth rates and associated microbial biogeochemistry (C, N and P cycling). In it, we will functionally characterise key microbial trait distribution at community levels and link these to taxonomic composition to unearth links between microbial structure and ecosystem function (https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ecy.3594). Uncovered patterns will also be interfaced via conceptual models into ecosystem and global-scale models using e.g. LPJ GUESS / EC-Earth. You will be working closely with several researchers and PhD students to extend the breadth and cover of environmental factors. You work will include field work, the establishment of field experiments, laboratory experiments, and will be laboratory intensive.

The position is part of the 3-year research project “political party competition and the transnational cleavage in Europe” (https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/major-research-grant-awarded-professor-jonathan-polk-exploring-political-party-dynamics-europe).

The purpose of the project is to update our understanding of political party competition for the 21st century by examining and explaining the positioning of political parties on topics that make up a cleavage separating parties that support international integration and denationalisation from those that strive to preserve cultural distinctiveness and national autonomy.

Within this project, we will collect and analyze data on party positions surrounding political topics that relate to this transnational divide: immigration, the environment, Gender/LGBTQ+ politics and international trade. In connection with the Chapel Hill Expert Survey on party positioning (CHES), you will work with the project PI to develop and run a series highly-focused expert surveys with the purpose of unpacking and understanding the positions that political parties in Europe take on these four policy areas at the centre of the transnational cleavage.

At the heart of computational complexity theory is the quest to understand the nature of efficient computation. What makes a problem computationally hard or easy? How can we show that every algorithm that solves a certain problem must necessarily consume a large amount of resources (such as time or memory, say)? The study of the potential and limits of efficient computation is about foundational, mathematical, research, but research results in computational complexity theory have had major impact in other areas of computer science and other scientific disciplines, and have given rise to some of the most important open problems in modern mathematics.

The main topic is evaluating the drivers’/road users’ behaviour when interacting in actual or future mobility scenarios, using qualitative and quantitative analysis. The use of simulation and the set-up of simulation scenarios will be part of the research activities.

DISCo is an international project with a focus on digital platforms and sustainable consumption. The overall goal of DISCo is to produce knowledge about how sustainable consumption can be made possible through digital technology. The project is based on practice theory and uses several methods to systematically examine digital efforts to redirect, reorganize and reduce consumption. The focus is on the consumption of food and mobility services. These areas are of interest both because they are linked to significant carbon footprints and because of their central importance for everyday consumption (more information can be found here: https://uni.oslomet.no/disco-project/).

CARE is an EU project focusing on enabling circular consumption. CARE stands for “Circular consumption Activities to tRansform households towards material Efficiency”. It is a Horizon Europe project that runs from 2024 to 2027 and is run by a consortium of eleven dedicated partners across Europe. These partners bring together expertise in research, policy-making and community engagement to empower households in five European countries – Finland, Norway, Sweden, Germany and Estonia – to embrace circular lifestyles in their households. From reducing food waste to making smarter clothing choices, CARE provides tools and support to make living circular practical and fun. Together, we don’t just promote sustainability – we make it measurable, impactful and accessible, one household at a time (more information about CARE can be found here: https://www.circularhouseholds.eu).

The Department of Translational Medicine, at the Faculty of Medicine of Lund University, seeks 1-2 Postdoctoral Research Fellows with a focus in epidemiology, biostatistics, and computational science who will work within the Integrative Pancreatic Cancer Research (iPanCare) Lab led by Assistant Professor Wang, as part of the SciLifeLab & Wallenberg National Program for Data-Driven Life Science (DDLS) (https://www.scilifelab.se/data-driven/). 

iPanCare lab conducts research in the filed of precision diagnostics and medicine of pancreatic cancer. Members in iPanCare Lab will be automatically enrolled in the national programs of SciLifeLab and DDLS and have chance of attending national schools, various research activities and retreats, which will facilitate their nationwide network and multidisciplinary collaborations. Working with a new Principle Investigator, lab members will benefit from first-hand guidance and freedom of exploring exciting projects within the research area. Our team will be a hub with great young talents from different levels, e.g., postdocs, PhD students, master students and undergraduates, locating in the core Clinical Cancer Center at Malmö. 

The Division of Atomic Physics at the Physics Department, Faculty of Engineering (LTH), Lund University has a staff of about 50 researchers including guest researchers and graduate students. The research at the division is mainly based on the use of lasers, ranging from diode lasers to terawatt lasers at the High-Power Laser Facility. Research areas include interactions between intense laser fields and matter, attosecond science, quantum information, solid-state X-ray spectroscopy, laser applications in medicine and biology, and industrial applications. More information can be found at www.atomic.physics.lu.se.

The position is linked to the Attosecond Science Group at the division. The research of the group includes ultrafast optics and lasers, attosecond pulse generation, and applications to the study of ultrafast phenomena in different materials. The researcher is expected to use a laser system with short pulses and high repetition rate to generate attosecond pulses. These pulses will be used in time-resolved studies of atoms and molecules with the help of a three-dimensional electron momentum spectrometer. 

At the Division of Combustion Physics a postdoc is now recruited for the European Union Project CAIPIRINH3A. The main goal of the research performed at our Division within this project is to provide a detailed kinetic mechanism and perform reliable modeling studies for NOx prediction and control in NH3 combustion applications. Experimental results used to validate the numerical model will be based on flame structure measurements of NH3 flames at atmospheric pressure employing Raman spectroscopy arranged with multiple laser beam passages for high detection sensitivity, as well as time-resolved optical emission spectroscopy from ammonia flames after a single pulse nanosecond discharge. The validated mechanism will be incorporated in dedicated global solvers (incorporating plasma effects) which will be used to calculate fundamental combustion characteristics of ammonia/air mixture with and without plasma. The kinetic model will be tested against results from these experiments, other results obtained by the project partners and literature data and will output different characteristics of NH3 combustion including burning velocities, ignition delay times, species profiles in flames, chemiluminescence in thermal and plasma-affected flames.

Swedish National Infrastructure for Biological Mass Spectrometry – “BioMS” (https://www.bioms.se) supports research projects within life sciences with the latest high-end mass spectrometry analysis. The infrastructure works with a vast number of projects of varying fields, such as clinical analyses, biomarker discovery, detailed protein modification/interaction analyses, single cell proteomics and other exciting projects in the field of proteomics and biological mass spectrometry. The Clinical Proteomics Platform, a module within BioMS, supports specifically the analysis of large-scale clinical projects with cutting-edge instruments in sample preparation and mass spectrometry analysis. You will work in a scientifically stimulating environment consisting of BioMS, the SciLifeLab Structural Proteomics unit, and other strong research groups in proteomics that are all localized in the same department at the Biomedical Center in Lund.

The postdoctoral position is linked to a sub-project in a larger research project, funded by the Swedish Agency for Contingencies (MSB), with a focus on preventive measures against antagonistic use of radioactive substances in the public environment. In the project, special focus will be on the detectability of large scale exposures of members of the public by current retrospective dosimetry techniques. These techniques involve luminescent detectors such as TL/OSL sensitive materials, and to a limited extent also biodosimetric or computational methods. In collaboration with the Swedish Defence Research Agency, the postdoctoral researcher must develop methods to be able to demonstrate whether rescue staff members and the public in a suspected malevolent event have been exposed to ionizing radiation, as well as validating these techniques by real in-situ measurements. The detection methods are linked to what are internationally referred to as “citizen dosimeters”, and which have been applied in e.g. in Japan after the Fukushima accident in 2011.

When converting electricity to hydrogen through electrolysis, 30% of the energy go to heat losses. The EU’s goal of producing 10 million tonnes of hydrogen per year by 2030 means 230 TWh of residual heat, corresponding to four times Sweden’s total district heating energy. It shows the potential and importance of using the heat surplus in future investments. Hycogen 2 shows in how it can be implemented both at national and EU level. Hycogen 2 analyzes and proposes solutions for how hydrogen production, with sector connection to district heating and/or cooling, can be designed and controlled with respect to operating temperatures, cooling system design etc. to maximize overall system energy efficiency and benefit to the electrical system. Integrated hydrogen systems should be designed so the residual heat will be of larger use based on local conditions. The residual heat can thus enable a significant fuel substitution at the same time as the entire energy system becomes more robust.

This project aims to tackle the twin crises of biodiversity loss and climate change by targeting one of their most significant drivers: fire. The boreal region provides a substantial belowground carbon reservoir that is important for stabilizing Earth’s climate. However, global warming and associated increased wildfire activity threaten to release these stores as greenhouse gasses to the atmosphere, forming a positive feedback cycle with climate change. Warming has the potential to shift forests towards a more temperate structure with greater storage of carbon above ground to compensate for that lost from below.

By using prescribed fires as experiments, the study will provide highly-temporally resolved information about fire impact on carbon storage, microbial communities and nutrient cycling and their control over plant regrowth and biodiversity. The study will utilize both observational and experimental approaches to provide dual insight into natural and managed pathways of forest regrowth.

MAX IV is looking for a postdoc that will study the single particle dynamics in several candidate low-emittance lattices. Both the injection process and the stored beam properties need to be studied. A sound scientific approach with systematic simulation studies will be needed. Interaction with different technology teams like magnet and vacuum specialists need to be intense all through the lattice evaluation process. Experimental tests in some of these candidate lattices are also foreseen.

The position is placed at the Division of Astrophysics in the Department of Physics to work with Dr Thomas Bensby in the field of Galactic archaeology with particular focus on preparation for, and exploration of, first data coming from the 4MOST 4MIDABLE-HR survey. The initiation of a spectroscopic survey to explore the inner parts of the Milky Way bulge at infrared wavelengths is also envisioned. The position is for two years.