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

Post-doctoral fellow in quantum information with specialisation in foundations

The subject is correlations in quantum information theory with particular focus on how and to what extent classical models can explain superposition phenomena in quantum physics.

The main duties involved in a post-doctoral posistion is to conduct research. Teaching may also be included, but up to no more than 20% of working hours. The position shall include the opportunity for three weeks of training in higher education teaching and learning.

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, completed no more than three years before the date of employment decision. Under special circumstances, the doctoral degree can have been completed earlier.

Additional requirements:

• Very good oral and written proficiency in English.
• ability to conduct research of good quality.
• Significant experience and skill in quantum information and quantum correlations.

Group leader: Armin Tavakoli

Read complete vacancy and apply online before 9 February 2026

Researcher in Biomarker detection by optical sensing with nanowires

The focus of the project is analysis of fluorescence microscopy images of nanostructured surfaces in the context of single-molecule biomarker detection. This requires the use of machine learning techniques including the production of training data by simulation of optical fields. The project also includes guidance of experiments aiming to detect biomarkers in turbid fluids, such as milk or blood, using optical signals. Specific research questions include:

• To what degree is it possible to obtain 3D position information of single molecules bound to freestanding semiconductor nanowires, using machine learning techniques?
• What is the lowest detectable concentration – is it possible to achieve single-molecule sensitivity even in blood?
• Can this nanowire-based method be translated into a practical, portable device for point-of-care blood analysis?
• Can the system be used to monitor molecular binding events and study time-resolved dynamics in real time?

Appointment to a position as a researcher requires that the applicant has a PhD.

Required qualifications

• a PhD in relevant subject area
• experience of working with single-molecule image analysis, including the use of machine learning techniques
• very good oral and written proficiency in English

Additional requirements:

• experience of experimental optics
• experience working with microfluidics
• experience working with light-guiding semiconductor nanostructures
• experience of collaboration between academia and industry

The position is a fixed term position from 17th February 2026 until 31st July 2026 at 100 per cent of full time

Group leader: Heiner Linke

Read complete vacancy and apply online before 9 February 2026

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