32 jobs found in copenhagen

Department of Public Health Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences University of Copenhagen The University seeks to appoint an associate professor to the Department of Public Health to commence as soon as possible. Information on the Department can be found at: https://sund.ku.dk/. The Section of Biostatistics conducts general biostatistical research and methodological development in biostatistics, undertakes teaching of students at various educations, undergraduate as well as postgraduate, and offers biostatistical advice to staff and students in all disciplines of the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences. More iformation on the Section of Biostatistics can be found at: https://publichealth.ku.dk/about-the-department/biostat/. Job description The Associate Professors must participate in the interdisciplinary and dynamic research environment at the Section of Biostatistics. Here the main duties will be to conduct biostatistical research at an international...

The Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Copenhagen invites applications for an 18-month fixed-term postdoc position open from 1 August 2023 or as soon as possible thereafter. This is an exciting opportunity to join a new research team that will conduct a comprehensive study of late transition to parenthood in Denmark. Project description The research project "Late transition to parenthood in Denmark: normative timetables and real life experience" (LateTOP) is funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark (DFF) from 2023 to 2025. And the project is located in the Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen. The project aims to provide an updated knowledge on the presence and strength of age norms for parenthood in contemporary Denmark, in comparison with other European countries. The focus of this project is to uncover the life trajectories of couples who have late transition to parenthood, by examining what they experience before and...

Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences University of Copenhagen We are looking for a highly motivated and dynamic assistant professor for a fixed-term position limited for 3 years, who will join a team of molecular and cellular biologists and computational scientists studying human neurodevelopmental disorders to commence 8 July 2023. The candidate is expected to have background in molecular and cellular biology and will lead several projects with the focus on pathological mechanisms in neurodevelopmental disorders. Information on the department can be found at: bric.ku.dk/research-groups/Research/khodosevich-group Our research Our group studies mechanisms that are responsible for neuronal specification, positioning and circuit formation during prenatal and postnatal brain development, and how these mechanisms are impaired in neurodevelopmental disorders such as schizophrenia, epilepsy, autism. We analyse mouse models of neurodevelopmental...

Department of biology Faculty of Science University of Copenhagen The Knudsen laboratory in the Section for Cell biology and Physiology currently have an opening for a postdoctoral researcher with experience in obesity, metabolism and islet physiology. Our research and the Section We are interested in the fundamental mechanisms that control hormone secretion from pancreatic islets. We study these basic mechanisms using biochemical assays, advanced microscopy,  in situ  perfusion, cell culture, mouse and human islets as wells as genetically modified mouse models. We are a part of a diverse section formed by labs that are interested in the molecular underpinnings of physiology. The groups work in a wide array of fields such as cancer, exercise physiology, primary cilia, adipose tissue, metagenomics and purinergic signaling. This diversity offers access to a wide array of methods and expertise within cell biology and physiology. Your job Obesity is...

Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences University of Copenhagen We are looking for a highly motivated and dynamic postdoc for a 2-year position (with possibility of extension), to commence 1 July 2023 or as soon as possible thereafter. Information on the department can be found at: https://drug.ku.dk Our research Amino acid glutamine is a metabolic intermediary, a precursor of vital molecules such as neurotransmitters, and a key modulator of metabolism, cell growth and apoptosis. Disruption in glutamine transport and homeostasis is associated with human diseases including a broad range of cancers. We aim to provide a fundamental understanding of glutamine transport mechanisms mediated by lysosomal sodium-coupled neutral amino acid transporters, SNAT7 and SNAT9, in health and disease. The project will be built on an integrative approach of cryo-electron microscopy, cell-based, and in vitro studies. to uncover i) molecular mechanisms of function and regulation, ii)...

Professor of One Health Antimicrobial Resistance Department of Veterinary and Animal Science Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences University of Copenhage The University seeks to appoint a professor to the Department of Veterinary and Animal Science to commence as soon as possible. Information on the department can be found at: https://ivh.ku.dk/english/. Job description When considering applications for the professorship, the main emphasis will be on the applicant's ability to document a high level of original scientific work at an international level within the area of One Health Antimicrobial Resistance. In particular, the professorship includes national and international activities aimed at reducing resistance, improving diagnostics, optimize antimicrobial therapy of bacterial infections and promote prudent use of antimicrobials in veterinary medicine using a One Health approach. The professor’s responsibilities will primarily consist of:...

Clinical Research Associate Professor of Anaesthesiology (Fixed-term, 5 years) Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences University of Copenhagen The University seeks to appoint a clinical research associate professor of Anaesthesiology to the Department of Clinical Medicine to commence from as soon as possible. The clinical research associate professorship is combined with a clinical position at Zealand University Hospital, Department of Anaesthesiology. It is a requirement for appointment that the applicant is accepted for both the clinical research associate professorship and the clinical position. In order to be considered the applicant must send an application to both the Faculty (the clinical research associate professorship) and to the hospital (the clinical position) cf. the simultaneously advertised clinical position. This also applies to applicants who are already employed at the Hospital. Applicants should only apply for a clinical position at one of...

Postdoc   of   natural language processing, human-computer interaction, and haptics Department of Computer Science Faculty of Science University of Copenhagen From simple vibrations to touchable holograms in midair, haptic signals enable us to feel virtual or remote content and people. Past research has shown than people have a rich language for describing the feel of haptic signals. This project will explore the use of natural language processing techniques for predicting user descriptions of haptic signals and guiding haptic signal design. The project focuses on creating sensory language models and human-AI interaction for collecting data and updating the models.  The postdoc’s duties will include research within natural language processing, human-computer interaction, and haptic perception. The post may also include performance of other duties. The postdoctoral position is supervised by Dr. Hasti Seifi, and it involves a research stay at...

Department of Public Health (Section of General Practice) Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences University of Copenhagen The University seeks to appoint 4 associate professors to the Section of General Practice, Department of Public Health, for a period of 5 years to commence as soon as possible. Each position is full time employment, but it may be possible to reduce the employment to a 50% position. The 4 positions focus on four different themes namely: Weight and health in general practice Common medical conditions and interventions in general practice Implementation research in general practice Complex interventions in general practice Please indicate which position you are applying for. Please find information about the department at https://ifsv.ku.dk/. Job description The associate professor’s responsibilities will primarily consist of: Research, including publication/academic dissemination Research-based teaching,...

Associate Professor in Veterinary Diagnostic Imaging Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences University of Copenhagen The University seeks to appoint an associate professor within  Veterinary Diagnostic Imaging  to the Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences to commence 1 July 2023 or as soon as possible thereafter. About the Department and Section The Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences has strong and internationally recognized research areas in clinical veterinary sciences. Based on these, we want to set a new standard for cross-disciplinary research, education and innovation within animal health and disease and be among the best public workplaces in Denmark. Our research supports teaching in a manner and quality securing continued national and international bench marking. The culture of the department is typical Scandinavian: a flat structure with a tradition for close collaboration...

Department of Computer Science Faculty of Science University of Copenhagen We announce three post-doc positions in natural language processing and machine learning: one on fair speech recognition (for two years) and two on hand-written character recognition (for 18 months). All three postdocs will be part of the CoAStaL research group and work with Professors Anders Søgaard, Desmond Elliott, and Daniel Hershcovich. See https://coastalcph.github.io/ for group members. The postdoc on fair speech recognition will be part of a larger project funded by the Innovation Fund Denmark. The overall goal is to develop learning algorithms for inducing fair ASR models, i.e., models that are robust to dialectal and sociolectal variation. The two postdocs on hand-written character recognition will be part of a larger project funded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation. The overall goal there is to develop robust hand-writing recognition algorithms for parish records and other historical...

The Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences The University of Copenhagen We are looking for a highly motivated and ambitious post-doc for a three-year position in Chemical Biology. The position is available from 1 June 2023 or as soon as possible thereafter. Our research In the Strømgaard lab, we combine tools from chemistry and biology, and apply these in studies of therapeutic peptides and proteins. Our aims are to develop modulators for protein-protein interactions and to provide molecular-level insight herein. We are interested in protein-protein interactions that are therapeutically relevant, in particular between integral membrane proteins and their intracellular protein partners, also known as receptor complexes. Job description The position is part of a Lundbeck Foundation Collaborative Project (https://lundbeckfonden.com/en/proteiners-dynamik-syge-hjernes-biologi) with the aim to explore a recently discovered and exciting new biological...

Department of Clinical Medicine Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences  University of Copenhagen The University seeks to appoint a clinical professor of clinical pharmacology with special focus on rational medication use in multimorbidity to commence as soon as possible. The externally funded professorship is combined with a consultancy at Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospital, Department of Clinical Pharmacology in the Capital Region . It is a requirement for appointment that the applicant is accepted for both the professorship and the consultancy . In order to be considered for the position, the applicant must send two applications: one to the Faculty (the professorship) and one to the hospital (the consultancy/position as senior researcher)  cf. the simultaneously advertised position of the consultancy. This also applies to applicants who are already employed as consultants at Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospital. The advertisement for the consultancy is...

We have exciting new post doc position to work on satellite remote sensing and land-use modeling of grassland management in Europe. Therefore, we are looking for a highly motivated and enthusiastic postdoc for a two-year position starting from 1 May 2023 or as soon as possible thereafter. This position is linked to an international project, “ALPMEMA – Alpine Mountain Hay Meadows Management: Best practices to maintain their Favorable Conservation Status against underuse under different property right regimes.” Short description of the project https://ign.ku.dk/english/alpmema/ The postdoc will support the research team with the analysis of grassland land-use intensity with the aid of satellite imagery (Landsat, Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2, PlanetScope) across study areas in Austria, Armenia, Denmark, Germany and Sweden. Your job You will work on the development of approaches to monitor land management regimes in Nordic countries across the Alps and the...

Clinical Professor of Neurology with Special Focus Headache (Fixed-Term, 5 Years) Department of Clinical Medicine Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences  University of Copenhagen The University seeks to appoint a clinical professor of Neurology with special focus on Diagnosis and Treatment of Migraine and other types of Primary Headache to commence as soon as possible. The externally funded professorship is combined with a consultancy at Zealand University Hospital, Roskilde Hospital, Department of Neurology in the Zealand Region . It is a requirement for appointment that the applicant is accepted for both the professorship and the consultancy . In order to be considered for the position, the applicant must send two applications: one to the Faculty (the professorship) and one to the hospital (the consultancy)  cf. the simultaneously advertised position of the consultancy. This also applies to applicants who are already employed as consultants at the Hospital....

Department of Biology Faculty of Science University of Copenhagen Department of Biology, Section for Functional Genomics, invites applicants for a postdoc in Molecular   Cell Biology of DNA repair . The position is part of the research project “Genome integrity maintenance by liquid-liquid phase separation and oscillations”, which is financed by the Carlsberg Foundation. The aim of the project is to study the role of liquid-liquid phase separation in facilitating DNA repair processes in the cell nucleus as a model to establish a fundamental biological understanding of how biomolecular droplets allow the cell to orchestrate its biochemical processes. We will achieve this through a cross-disciplinary effort that combines molecular genetics and state-of-the-art microscopy with biophysical modelling and computational simulations. Our group and research Our group studies the cellular mechanisms responsible for maintaining genome integrity with special...

Department of Computer Science Faculty of Science University of Copenhagen The Natural Language Processing Section at the Department of Computer Science invites applicants for a Postdoctoral Researcher in Natural Language Processing. Project Description The overall goal of the project is to develop a new family of language models that can process any written language by rendering text as images, which allows the models to learn from the visual similarities between written languages. Realizing this goal includes creating and implementing tokenization-free multilingual language models, the collection and curation of visually diverse language data, the training of small-scale and large-scale models, developing techniques for effective model quantization and compression, and creating models that jointly process natural images and rendered text using a single interface. The position is funded by a VILLUM Young Investigator Grant held by the principal investigator,...

The Department  of Political Science , Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Copenhagen (UCPH), invites candidates for two postdoctoral positions (36 months). Supported by the Carlsberg Foundation, the chosen candidates will work in the Origins of Descriptive Representation (ODER) project alongside a research assistant and Associate Professor Frederik Hjorth (PI) as well as international collaborators. The preferred starting date is 1 September 2023. Your Duties and Responsibilities As the core research unit of the ODER project, the chosen candidates will cooperate in using machine learning to digitize historical Danish general election data at the candidate level. The ODER project then uses these data to study how the election of underrepresented candidates—specifically, women and working-class candidates—affects the behavior of voters, competing parties, and other elected officials. The chosen candidate will contribute to the project with their...

Clinical Professor of Rheumatology with Special Focus on Anthritis/Connective Disease (Fixed-Term, 5 Years) Department of Clinical Medicine Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences  University of Copenhagen The University seeks to appoint a clinical professor of Rheumatology with special focus on Anthritis/Connective Disease to commence as soon as possible. The externally funded professorship is combined with a consultancy at Zealand University Hospital, Department of Rheumatology in the Zealand Region . It is a requirement for appointment that the applicant is accepted for both the professorship and the consultancy . In order to be considered for the position, the applicant must send two applications: one to the Faculty (the professorship) and one to the hospital (the consultancy)  cf. the simultaneously advertised position of the consultancy. This also applies to applicants who are already employed as consultants at the Hospital. The advertisement for the...

Senior Researcher in Computational Biodiscovery at Globe Institute, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen The University seeks to appoint a highly motivated and dynamic senior researcher to the section of Hologenomics at Globe institute to commence as soon as possible. The interdisciplinary candidate will be responsible for the daily administration the local server infrastructure Mjolnir including maintenance and training of new users among other tasks. The candidate is also expected to have a special focus on developing new teaching courses and develop tools and methods to increase the knowledge within phage informatics. Information on the section can be found at https://globe.ku.dk/research/hologenomics/. Your job description Your duties will be split between administering our computational infrastructure Mjolnir, teaching within the subjects of bioinformatics, and doing independent research within phage informatics. You will be...