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.

Assistant Professor in sustainable semiconductors

The subject area of the position is broadly defined within circular and sustainable semiconductors, covering for instance novel semiconductor manufacturing methods with drastically reduced environmental footprint, the consideration of material recycling already at the design stage, and novel device designs and concepts to enhance component lifetime and lower energy consumption. 

The position is funded through the Mistra environmental research leaders program and includes a start-up package with funds to cover a doctoral studentship and other costs, as well as participation in a leadership program organized by Mistra.

Examples of research topics include, but are not limited to:

• Increase circularity and material recycling in fabrication of devices based on III-V and metal oxide semiconductors, one example being laser slicing to re-use substrates and reduce the use of the scarce element gallium in fabrication of GaN and Ga2O3 devices.
• Synthesis of new circular and sustainable semiconductor materials, use of earth-abundant materials, and hybrid organic-inorganic semiconductor materials. This could include highly innovative processes such as DNA-templated or protein-based synthesis, which essentially replaces highly advanced and resource demanding technology by wet-lab based bioprocesses.
• Enhance the lifetime and reduce the energy consumption of semiconductor components. This includes on-chip energy harvesting, heat management, and cooling to reduce thermal degradation, as well as technologies for computation with reduced energy consumption, such as low-dissipation wiring based on two-dimensional-, topological-, or superconductor-semiconductor materials, neuromorphic hardware, photonic chips, and other beyond-CMOS technologies.

The position in sustainable semiconductors is part of the Mistra Environmental Research Leaders program.

Employment as an assistant professor is a tenure track position, which aims for the holder to develop their independence as a researcher and educator. The work duties mainly involve research and teaching. 

More information about the position

Head of Department: Dan Hessman

Read complete vacancy and apply online before 10 November 2025

Associate Senior Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Biomolecular materials with a focus on de novo design and synthesis

This recruitment is connected to the Wallenberg Initiative Materials Science for Sustainability (WISE, wise-materials.org), funded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. Read more: https://wise-materials.org

The current position concerns research and teaching in Biomolecular materials with a focus on de novo design and synthesis. The appointment will be based at the Department of Chemistry at Lund University. The successful candidate will be appointed as a WISE Fellow and, in addition to salary support, will receive a generous start-up package including funding for two PhD students and two postdoctoral researchers. WISE Fellows will engage in collaboration, training, and activities within the WISE program both nationally and at Lund University. 

The subject of the position is the design of (non-natural) biomolecular materials using de novo methods and synthesis. This area of research lies at the interface of biochemistry, synthetic chemistry, and materials science, and draws on approaches from computational chemistry, physical chemistry, structural biology, and biotechnology. At the Department of Chemistry, we have strong research activities across all these areas, providing excellent conditions for further development of the field.

The aim is to design proteins or other biomacromolecules that spontaneously self-assemble into higher-order structures with tailored material properties. Both proteins and other (synthetic) biomacromolecules, such as DNA, offer the major advantage of being producible in a sustainable and environmentally friendly way using molecular biology methods.

Type of employment: Fixed-term position, 6 years, in accordance with Chapter 4, Section 12a of the Higher Education Ordinance, with the opportunity for promotion to senior lecturer.

Head of Department: Ola Wendt

Read complete vacancy and apply online before 3 November 2025

Post-doctoral researcher in phage-bacteria interactions

Bacteria are constantly predated by viruses, bacteriophages. To resist predation, bacteria employ numerous antiphage defence systems, with the most famous being CRISPR-Cas. In our lab we discover new systems with bioinformatics, validate them in microbiological assays and then characterise the mechanisms of defence on the molecular level. Currently the lab is working on many (>10) novel, as-yet-unpublished antiphage defence systems. The focus of this project would be to uncover their molecular workings through integrated structure-functional approach combining phage microbiology, biochemistry and structural biology. The project is supervised by Vasili Hauryliuk (PI) as well as Gemma Atkinson (co-PI, structural bioinformatics, Lund University) and Pontus Gourdon (co-PI, cryo-EM, Lund University and University of Copenhagen). 

This post-doctoral position is 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.

Group leader: Vasili Hauryliuk

Read complete vacancy and apply online before 28 September 2025

Post-doctoral fellow in biophysical chemistry

This post-doctoral position is 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.

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 project is initially focused cryo-Cage development on a molecular level, including protein design, expression, purification and validation of formed cages using microfluidics diffusional sizing, DLS, mass photometry and cryo-TEM imaging. One a functional design is at hand, the work will be focused on structure determination using cryo-EM of one test case of know structure, followed by a test case of partially know structure and finally some targets of fully unknown structure. The work will also include the writing of manuscripts as well as supervision of bachelor and master degree projects.

Group leader: Sara Linse 

Read complete vacancy and apply online before 28 September 2025

Post-doctoral fellow within Lung Bioengineering and Regeneration

Multi-drug resistant bacterial infections, such as Pseudomonas aeruginosa represent a significant global health care burden and disproportionately impact patients who are immunocomprised which make them more susceptible to opportunistic pathogens. These infections impact a broad range of patients including those with chronic diseases such as diabetes, cancer, organ transplant recipients, and those with chronic respiratory diseases. P. aeruginosa has been listed on the World Health Organization’s list of priority pathogens for at least a decade and was recently included as one of 15 pathogen families listed on the WHO’s Bacterial Priority Pathogens List (BPPL) 2024. There is an urgent need to increase research on P. aeruginosa to identify new therapies.

This project aims to develop a new humanized model of airway organoids which represent a more physiological path of infection. We will generate apical-out airway organoids (i.e. the upper layer of the epithelial cells will face out towards the media instead of inwards like conventional organoids). We will utilize induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) to derive proximal and/or distal airway progenitor cells and develop custom microfluidic devices for longer term culture with live bacteria. The use of iPSCs is particularly important in this proof-of-concept grant as it opens up future possibilities to study more diverse patient phenotypes, especially among those patients who have underlying comorbidities and who may not undergo invasive bronchoscopy procedures where primary airway cells could be sourced (e.g. diabetes, cancer patients, etc).

The holder of this position will mainly work on a research project pertaining to the development of a 3D lung on a chip to study lung and airway infection using a combination of biomaterials and manufacturing advances.

The main work responsibilities involve designing and conducting research pertaining to the project and includes obtaining, analysing and developing ways to manage and store data acquired for the project. Further, the holder of this position will be responsible for writing of high quality, academic papers to be submitted to international journals and submitting both independent grants and contributing to grant writing for the group. The majority of this work should be done independently and in collaboration with both internal and external members of the team. The position also entails some teaching and mentoring of doctoral, masters, bachelor and medical students.

Group leader: Darcy Wagner

Read complete vacancy and apply online before 6 October 2025

Doctoral student in Physics within characterization of semiconductor nanostructures

The division hosts a new research initiative that targets the protein-templated synthesis of semiconductor nanocomposites using biofabrication techniques.  Leveraging the recent advances in AI-driven protein design, the longterm vision is a fully circular manufacturing process for semiconductor nanostructures based on sustainable biofabrication. An important part of this effort is the electrooptical characterization of semiconductor nanostructures using contact-free techniques as well as techniques based on nanofabrication. The project is part of the InBio WISE-WASP NEST initiative. The PhD project will be jointly supervised by Prof. Heiner Linke and Prof. Vanya Darakchieva.

The goal of this PhD project is to develop characterization methods for protein templated semiconductor structures and to guide the protein design group in developing the templates. You are expected to work independently as well as in close collaboration with other researchers associated with the project.

The work duties include:

• Characterization of semiconductor nanostructures, including such fabricated by protein-templating. Methods comprise electrooptical and structural, contactless techniques (e.g. spectroscopic ellipsometry, SEM, TEM, AFM) as well as electric characterization of single nanostructures with nanofabricated contacts.
• The duties may also include participation in teaching and other departmental work (however, a maximum of 20% of working hours).

Group leaders: Heiner Linke  and Vanya Darakchieva

Read complete vacancy and apply online before 20 October 2025

Researcher in nanophotonic neuromorphic computing

This position will be linked to the project: Insect-Brain inspired Neuromorphic Nanophotonics (InsectNeuroNano). The long-term vision of this project is a novel on-chip hybrid nanostructure platform for energy-efficient, fast artificial neural networks and integrated sensor arrays. The project combines several different concepts: Progress in understanding insect neurobiology that provides proven circuit designs to solve significant problems such as autonomous navigation; Advanced III-V semiconductor nanowire technology that exploits light to obtain a large number of interconnects with extremely low power consumption; Optically efficient stable molecular dyes that can be used for novel memory components; Circuit technology developed for quantum computing. The long-term goal of the project is to develop nanophotonic on-chip devices for integrated sensing and neural computation, inspired by the insect brain. It will also be naturally connected to new efforts within NanoLund to build up a program within neuromorphic (and other types of non-von Neumann) computing.

The main task is to conduct research. Work in this field includes the design, modelling, realization, and characterization of nanophotonic neuromorphic components based on III-V nanowires and other nanostructures. It will also include work on developing concepts for the commercialization and use of the components in applications. Experimental work with the manufacture and characterization of components is expected. This applies to work with nanostructures developed for solar energy extraction, light emission, and transistors, which will now be used to build neural networks using light transmission for connections and interpretation of electrical signals for memory and signal analysis. It will also include the design of nanophotonic elements to tailor light absorption and light emission. The work will be carried out in collaboration with experts in nanoscale photonics/electronics, advanced lasers, nanoscale synthesis, and characterization. Teaching may also be included in the duties.

Applicants must have:

• A PhD within physics, electrical engineering or photonics.
• Very good oral and written proficiency in English.
• Experience with the development of new nanophotonic neuromorphic nanowire components and their applications en e.g. detectors.

Group leader: Anders Mikkelsen

Read complete vacancy and apply online before 29 September 2025

Researcher in Biomedical Engineering

Our group is well known within the field of acoustofluidics and fundamental experimental studies on ultrasonic resonances in microchannel to reveal how acoustic streaming and the acoustic radiation force can be utilised to manipulate microscale objects, cells and nanoparticles. Based on acoustofluidic principles we develop medical applications such as isolation of circulating tumorcells from cancer patient derived blood samples, or enrichment and biomarker analysis of extracellular vesicles in blood samples.

The work tasks are primarily to assist the research group in their research work, and there will also be some teaching and supervision. 

Required qualifications include:

• a PhD  within within the field of microscale acoustofluidics
• postdoctoral experience within the field of microchip based acoustofluidics
• documented experience of COMSOL-modelling within fluid mechanics, acoustofluidics and microfluidics
• documented experience of acoustofluidic based handling and separation of human blood
• documented experience of clinical chemistry blood diagnostics
• very good oral and written proficiency in English

Group leader: Thomas Laurell

Read complete vacancy and apply online before 3 October 2025

Laboratory technician at the Department of Physics

The position is placed at Lund Nano Lab, which belongs to the Department of Physics. Lund Nano Lab, which has approximately 20 employees and 140 users/ students, conducts extensive research in semiconductor physics, ranging from materials science to quantum physics. Lund Nano Lab is a central facility in a cleanroom environment for the production of materials and components on the nanoscale.

The main responsibility is to manage the daily needs of Lund Nano Lab, making it easier for users to conduct their research and development work. You will support the Director with purchasing and warehousing as well as handling process media, gases and supplies to and from the cleanroom environment, and some janitorial services may also be required.

We will place great emphasis on personal suitability. We are looking for someone who has a non-prestigious approach to your work tasks and a very good ability to collaborate with many parties. You are proactive, independent and service-oriented and have good collaboration skills. You are interested in working in an international and academic environment with great diversity and you have good communication skills.

Group leaders: Luke Hankin and Håkan Lapovski

Read complete vacancy and apply online before 7 October 2025

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