If you’re a PhD degree holder and seeking postdoctoral fellowships, University of Bergen, Norway has several online applications open. Explore the opportunities across diverse research areas and submit your application soon.
1. Postdoctoral Job
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
5-D is part of an innovative, active, and multidisciplinary research group: The Centre for Elderly and Nursing Home Medicine (SEFAS), which has several ongoing studies in which sensor data from wearables and radar installation are used to monitor symptoms, intervention effects, and disease course in older adults and people with neurological diseases such as dementia and Parkinson’s disease. Professor Bettina S. Husebø is the head of SEFAS. The centre has approximately 15 employees, and a large network both nationally and internationally. SEFAS is a partner for the Alrek Health Cluster, Årstadveien, Bergen, and is supported by the Trond Mohn Foundation related to Complex Conditions and Ageing (CC.AGE).
Application Deadline: 15th August 2024
2. Postdoctoral Job
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
We are looking for a postdoctoral research fellow to complement our team. We encourage innovative proposals from across disciplines. Relevant topics include digital media in everyday life, political engagement, and theories that address the roles of citizens in democracy. Applicants should propose a sketch for a postdoctoral project, to be further developed in collaboration with the project leader upon hiring. The postdoctoral fellow is expected to suggest one or more relevant social groups to study in Norway or similar societies, and also suggest how to conduct an analysis. We don’t require the successful applicant to speak Norwegian but expect them to join our team here in Bergen.
Application Deadline: 15th August 2024
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3. Postdoctoral Job
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
The Faculty of Law is recruiting to a full-time tenure-track position. This is a 6-year fixed-term postdoctoral position, with a right to permanent employment as associate professor following a successful completion of the tenure track. The research and teaching area of the position is labour law / social security law. Applicants are required to have an interest in this field of law, and to have prior knowledge of either Norwegian law in general or EU/EEA labour law.
Application Deadline: 15th August 2024
4. Postdoctoral Job
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
There is a vacancy for a position as Researcher in Sensory Neurobiology: Sensory basis of zooplankton settlement and metamorphosis at the Michael Sars Centre in the research group headed by Dr. Marios Chatzigeorgiou. The position is for a period of 2 years and is associated with an external grant from the Norwegian Research Council. The Michael Sars Centre belongs to the University of Bergen and is partner of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL). The place of work will be at the Michael Sars Centre. The preferred but negotiable starting date is October 2024.
Application Deadline: 14th August 2024
5. Postdoctoral Job
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
People of Norway is an unprecedented initiative combining large-scale genomic data with highly interdisciplinary analysis to reveal the fine-scale genetic and cultural history of the Norwegian population. Due to the influence of Norwegian migration throughout history, its findings will provide insights across both national and international scopes.
Application Deadline: 12th August 2024
6. Postdoctoral Job
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
MediaFutures is a centre for research-based innovation at the Department for Information Science and Media Studies at the University of Bergen and is located at Media City Bergen. The centre is a part of the Norwegian Research Council’s Research-based Innovation scheme. MediaFutures is cooperating with industry partners from news media and media technology research topics like media experiences, recommender technology, content production and analysis, content interaction and availability, and Norwegian language technology. The goal is to develop responsible technological solutions to societal challenges like AI, fake news, echo chambers, and political polarisation.
Application Deadline: 5th August 2024
7. Postdoctoral Job
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
This collaboration is now extended with the employment of a temporary researcher. It is expected that the researcher focuses on research related to geological processes in the deep sea, and research questions of relevance for the Norwegian Offshore Directorate. The researcher shall participate with scientific understanding of the development of the Norwegian Sea based on newly collected 2D seismic data. Further, the researcher will be involved in the geological work at the Norwegian Offshore Directorate, and it is expected that the researcher works from the directorate’s office when relevant. The researcher is expected to participate in the planning and execution of research cruises led by the Center for Deep Sea Research or the Norwegian Offshore Directorate. The directorate need archiving of manganese crusts collected on joint cruises in 2018, 2019, 2021 and 2022.
Application Deadline: 4th August 2024
8. Postdoctoral Job
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
The “Hard Radiation from Thunderclouds” team within the space physics group is focusing on atmospheric electricity and especially the production of relativistic electrons and gamma-ray emission related to thunderclouds and electrical discharges. The team is playing a leading role in Atmosphere Space Interaction Monitor (ASIM) currently operating at the International Space Station (ISS) and was leading the Airborne Lightning Observatory for FEGS and TGFs (ALOFT) aircraft campaign which was carried out in the summer of 2023. The unprecedented data from these two missions have already led to several discoveries published in prestigious journals as Science and Nature. The project for this postdoc position will further utilize these data and take part in future aircraft campaign, which the group is planning for. All available relevant data for this research will be used in this project, including electric field-, optical-, radar- and ground-based radio measurements.
Application Deadline: 1st August 2024
9. Postdoctoral Job
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
The Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies invites applications for a postdoctoral position in Narrative Theory and Generative AI with a focus on Non-Western Narratives starting from November 1st, 2024, or as agreed upon. The position is for a fixed-term period of four years. This is one of two postdoctoral positions recently advertised connected to the AI STORIES project. You will become a part of a large and dynamic research environment developing narrative theory that is useful for researching generative artificial intelligence (AI). You will also lead a subproject studying generative AI trained on narratives from a non-Western culture where English is an official or commonly used language, e.g. India or Nigeria.
Application Deadline: 1st August 2024
10. Postdoctoral Job
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
The Department offers research-based teaching within a wide span of study programs, including Digital Culture, Art History, Theatre Studies, Comparative Literature, Linguistics, Scandinavian Languages and Literature, Old Norse Studies, and Norwegian as a Second Language and Norwegian Languages Courses for international students and employees at the University of Bergen. The Department is proud host to the Center for Digital Narrative (CDN), a Norwegian Center of Excellence. In 2025 the Center for Digital Narrative will have more than 30 researchers and staff members. The Center is in its own building in the heart of the University of Bergen’s campus.
Application Deadline: 1st August 2024
11. Postdoctoral Job
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
In the Hartveit-Veruki group (Neural Networks / Retinal Microcircuits) at the Department of Biomedicine, Faculty of Medicine, a full-time (100 %) position as Postdoctoral Research Fellow is available for a period of two (2) years and six (6) months. The position is linked to the consortium project ”Understanding plasticity and neural circuit dynamics in the brain” (TMS Brain Research Initiative), financed by the “Trond Mohn Stiftelse” (TMS) and the University of Bergen. The main research interest of the lab is the study of neural circuits in the mammalian retina and the project will address mechanisms of circuit plasticity related to sensory adaptation. Expected starting date is September 2024.
Application Deadline: 1st August 2024
12. Postdoctoral Job
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
The postdoctoral research fellow will be responsible for developing the isotope-enabled regional climate model capabilities at the Geophysical Institute and Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research. Specific focus will be on comparing observations and model simulations of the water stable isotopic composition in the hydrological cycle over the North Atlantic, Greenland, Antarctica, and the Tibetan Plateau. The research fellow will be utilizing a growing set of water vapor and precipitation isotope observations from year-round tower measurements, isotope-flux measurements, and vertical profiles obtained from drones and balloons.
Application Deadline: 31st July 2024
13. Postdoctoral Job
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
The position will provide the opportunity to gain insight into scientific work and methodology by working for an experienced PI and to be a team member in an ambitious research team of young researchers. The candidate´s work task will be related to ongoing research projects in collaboration with PI for the projects Professor Marit Skivenes, and especially collecting legal data from countries in all continents, as well as work with collected data at the DIPA-Centre. Working place will be Christies gate 17, 5007 Bergen.
Application Deadline: 25th July 2024
14. Postdoctoral Job
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
The main objective of the project is to further develop the Local Mapping of Polar Ionospheric Electrodynamics (Lompe) technique for use in Observation System Simulation Experiments (OSSEs) and demonstrate its capabilities in various scenarios related to potential and upcoming ESA missions. The researcher will work with Python code to perform Lompe analyses and develop new analysis and visualization tools. Additionally, writing reports and presenting the work to the scientific community is important.
Application Deadline: 24th July 2024
15. Postdoctoral Job
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
There is an ongoing project in the Lynagh group to establish the molecular basis by which ionotropic glutamate receptors evolved into different types of receptors. We characterize the biophysical properties of these receptors using biochemistry and electrophysiology together with molecular phylogenetics. Along these lines, this researcher position will involve mutagenesis, heterologous expression of receptors from marine invertebrates, and two-electrode voltage clamp, with a view to finish this project.
Application Deadline: 24th July 2024
