Career Opportunities

We offer:

• a creative, world-class interdisciplinary research environment for fundamental and applied nanoscience
• state-of-the-art infrastructure for the fabrication and characterization of nanostructures
• a strong international nanoscience network
• a highly regarded scientific education
• internships in nanotechnology industry
• intellectual property training
• family-friendly living conditions and a high degree of social security
• a competitive salary and full employment contracts for doctoral students and postdocs

Current vacancies in NanoLund research groups

All positions are regularly posted in the Lund University recruitment system. 

Selected vacancy announcements within NanoLund are listed below. To apply for a position, click the Login and Apply button in the vacancy announcement, and you will be guided to the recruitment system.

Post-doctoral fellow in physical chemistry: liquid-liquid phase separation in complex environments

The subject includes experimental and theoretical studies of biological matter. We address molecular questions in biological systems, and study biological and designed proteins using a combination of classical and advanced techniques including optical and NMR spectroscopy, surface plasmon resonance, light and X-ray scattering, cryo-electron and fluorescence microscopy. The experimental and theoretical methods used often have their origins in physics. Significant work is devoted to protein self-assembly and co-assembly and interactions with other biomolecules.

The research project takes place within the COMMONS Center of Excellence (www.physchem.lu.se/commons). The overarching aim of COMMONS is to provide a multifaceted scientific environment focusing on unifying physicochemical processes of key importance for the interactions between biological membranes and biomacromolecules. The COMMONS center brings together methodological and theoretical expertise from Lund University, Chalmers and Copenhagen University.

The project is focused on biomolecular condensates in complex systems, including cells, with an aim to develop methods and methodologies to investigate liquid-liquid phase separation in complex environments. A key challenge is to establish techniques capable of probing very small condensates, determining whether they are liquid or solid, and assessing whether they and undergo phase transitions over time. The methods should enable to quantify diffusion rates inside condensates, discriminate between associative from segregative phase separation, and identify the molecular factors governing these phenomena. A central open question concerns why condensates in cells appear to halt and not grow (Ostwald ripening and coalescence should be expected for liquid phases). What molecular factors limit the size of such condensates? The methods may include advanced optical and cryo-electron microscopy, scattering and diffusion-based methods.

The postdoctoral researchers will be able to develop their scientific skills and knowledge within the interdisciplinary center, which will also impact on outcomes from the research projects. This post-doctoral position is also part of the EU cofund research project AMBER, Advanced Multiscale Biological imaging using European Research infrastructures, will address scientific and sectoral gaps in biological imaging ranging from molecular, through cellular, to tissue, organ and organism levels of organisation, and is coordinated by LINXS Institute of advanced Neutron and X-ray Science. AMBER is funded by the EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie (MSCA) COFUND scheme. Around 15 postdocs will be recruited in the fifth call 2026, with each fellowship lasting 36 months.

Your work may include clinical and biomedical projects. It may also include technique development work aimed at combining imaging techniques and data analysis to provide a more integrated picture of life processes in the context of health and disease. To be a postdoc fellow at the AMBER programme you will get unprecedented medical, biological, and methodological capabilities, with a profound potential impact for Europe’s next generation of research and researchers. When you have completed the AMBER programme you will be extraordinarily well equipped to further your career in academia, at infrastructures, in the health and MedTech sectors, and beyond.

The main duties involved in a post-doctoral position is to conduct research. Teaching may also be included, but up to no more than 20% of working hours. 

Appointment to a post-doctoral position requires that the applicant has a PhD, or an international degree deemed equivalent to a PhD, within the subject of the position. For furthewr requirements, see the full vacancy linked below. 

Group leaders: Emma Sparr and Sara Linse

Read complete vacancy and apply online before 2 March 2026

Doctoral student in Physics with a focus on the development of novel X-ray imaging methods with AI+Physics

The Division of Synchrotron Radiation Researchis a part of the Department of Physics and has more than 50 employees. The focus of the research is on experimental studies of electronic, structural, and chemical properties of materials. At the Division we use and develop a wide range of large facility- and lab-based techniques. We are additionally engaged in the development of the MAX IV Laboratory in the fields of beamlines, experimental stations, techniques for Synchrotron radiation and the accelerator systems. MAX IV is the first operational diffraction-limited storage ring in the world, offering new opportunities to develop novel X-ray imaging techniques that were not possible before.

This project aims to develop and demonstrate a novel X-ray imaging technique based on scattering to explore a new spatiotemporal frontier for hierarchical characterization. This technique will be commissioned at the ForMAX beamline at MAX IV by studying hierarchical self-assembly processes that have the potential to lead to the next generation of optimal bioinspired materials.

In particular, the candidate will work on: i) commissioning and establishing this novel technique, granting the opportunity to pioneer novel research opportunities enabled by one of the brightest sources in the world, ii) developing AI+Physics end-to-end reconstruction algorithms that will enable a new regime of spatiotemporal hierarchical characterization. The project is mainly computational with an experimental component. 

The main duties of doctoral students are to devote themselves to their research studies which includes participating in research projects and third cycle courses. The work duties can also include teaching and other departmental duties (no more than 20%).

A person meets the general admission requirements for third-cycle courses and study programmes if he or she:

• has been awarded a second-cycle qualification, or
• has satisfied the requirements for courses comprising at least 240 credits of which at least 60 credits were awarded in the second cycle, or
• has acquired substantially equivalent knowledge in some other way in Sweden or abroad.

A person meets the specific admission requirements for third-cycle studies in Physics if he or she has:

• passed an independent project (e.g.degree project) of at least 30 credits in a relevant subject

Equivalent knowledge acquired through corresponding programmes will be assessed individually. Finally, the student must be judged to have the potential to complete the programme.

Supervisor: Pablo Villanueva-Perez

Read complete vacancy and apply online before 23 January 2026

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