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. 

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

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

Postdoctoral position in attosecond physics

We are looking for one to three postdocs to develop attosecond pulse sources and to study dynamic processes in atoms and molecules using electron spectrometers. The positions imply the development of ultra-short pulse technology at high repetition rate in new wavelength ranges, with the help of multipass cells or optical parametric amplifiers.

The postdoctoral positions are proposed around one of the following projects:

1. Manipulation of ultrashort laser pulses from an industrial ytterbium laser for high-order harmonic generation.
   The project involves pulse compression in a multipass cell, pulse shaping in both time and frequency domains, beam shaping using spatial light modulators (SLMs), and generation of new wavelengths via nonlinear optical processes. These pulses will be used to optimize high-order harmonic generation for applications.
2. Development of an attosecond pulse source in the X-ray region.
   The goal is to continue the development of a high-repetition-rate (200 kHz) short-pulse laser system in the infrared spectral region (1.8 μm), optimize the generation of attosecond pulses with high photon energy, and develop time-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy using these pulses.
3. Time-resolved studies of atoms and molecules.
   The project involves the generation of short attosecond pulse trains from a CEP-stabilized 200-kHz, 6-fs OPCPA laser system. By manipulating the pulses’ CEP, the number of attosecond pulses in the train can be controlled. We will study the interaction of these pulses with atomic and molecular gases using a three-dimensional photoelectron momentum spectrometer.

The tasks include:

• Operation and development of a femtosecond laser system,
• Generation of attosecond pulses by harmonic generation in a gas,
• Explore applications.

Duties also include supervision of master and doctoral students.

Group leader: Anne L'Huillier

Read complete vacancy and apply online before 12 September 2025

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