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 semiconductor photonics

The subject concerns experimental semiconductor physics and should be interpreted broadly in the field of quantum mechanical interaction of light and charge carriers in semiconductor-based nanostructures. Examples of possible research topics include:

• Photonics based on (ultra-)wide bandgap semiconductors such as GaN, GaOx, and AlN, including UV LEDs and/or lasers.
• On-chip photonics based on III-V semiconductors on Si.
• Quantum technology applications, including single-photon sources as well as qubits or sensors based on defects or heterostructures in (ultra-)wide bandgap semiconductors.
• Broadly optoelectronics and photonics based on novel and hybrid materials.

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. 

Application deadline: 11 August 2025
This position is part of a major investment in international recruitments by Lund University. This position replaces a previously announced position.

More information about the position

Assistant Professor in physics with a focus on neutron scattering from correlated electron systems

At the Department of Physics you will mainly work on developing a strong research programme in neutron scattering from correlated electron systems, as a part of the growing magnetic materials research activity.  The research should be primarily of an experimental nature, but may be complemented by theoretical or computational work through your own efforts or by collaboration with other research groups.  The specific area of research is open within this wide field, but the proposed research programme must indicate potential future connections to the instrument suite at the European Spallation Source.

You will work closely with the magnetic materials group, led by Prof. Elizabeth Blackburn, within the Division of Synchrotron Radiation Research.  

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. 

Application deadline: 10 August 2025
This position is part of a major investment in international recruitments by Lund University. 

Read complete vacancy and apply online before 10 August 2025

Assistant Professor in semiconductor technology

The position is located at the Department of Electrical and Information Technology, within the Division of Electromagnetism and Nanoelectronics. Within the division, we work across a broad field ranging from electromagnetic theory to physical electronics and semiconductor devices. 

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. The position includes the opportunity to undertake five weeks of training in teaching and learning in higher education.

For this position, we are specifically seeking expertise in the fabrication, characterization, and implementation of semiconductor components and circuits for electronic applications. Relevant backgrounds include fabrication, characterization (DC and RF), and integration of III-V technologies. We are particularly interested in candidates with a documented interest in research and contributions toward development at higher Technology Readiness Levels (TRLs 3–5). One possible focus of the position may be packaging and assembly, i.e., the heterogeneous integration of III-V technology with other types of semiconductor components and materials.

Work duties include:

• Research within the subject area.
• Teaching in the first, second and third cycles of studies.
• Supervision of degree projects and doctoral students.
• Actively seeking external research funding.
• Collaboration with industry and wider society.
• Operation of advanced measurement equipment
• Active participation in competence center.
• Administration related to the work duties listed above.

Read complete vacancy and apply online before 15 August 2025

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. 

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. 

Application deadline: The position will open for applications in early September and close in late October. Link for application will be published here when available. 

More information about the position

Doctoral student in materials chemistry: In situ LC-TEM & Operando Electrochemistry

This position will be part of the Inorganic Nanomaterials research group within the Centre for Analysis and Synthesis (CAS) at the Department of Chemistry. 

The focus of the project is to investigate and understand the fundamental processes related to charging and discharging batteries. Specifically, the project involves probing the charge storage/release processes occurring during the operation of a battery – from the very beginning to the ultimate end – via an in situ and in operando approach. The project aims to utilize the in situ capabilities available through liquid cell transmission electron microscopy (LC-TEM) to understand and visualize the operando electrochemical processes occurring in a battery.

The PhD project involves both the synthesis and structural characterization of cathode and anode battery materials. With the recent addition of LC-TEM capabilities at CAS, the PhD student will play a key role in developing this technique. Responsibilities include planning and conducting experiments, using multiple characterisation techniques, as well as analyzing and interpreting data.

Supervisor: Kimberly Dick Thelander, professor, Centre for Analysis and Synthesis

Read complete vacancy and apply online before 2 July 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 8 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 8 September 2025

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