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We invite applications from internationally competitive candidates to receive a research fellowship award of up to 200,000 SEK over two years to establish a novel research project on the topic of “Marine ecosystem resilience in a changing world”, to run until 2027. Next Fellowship round is planned for 2026. There is an active Internship round in spring 2025, see below.
Two-year Fellowships to support research projects at UMF.
Three month residential Internships to support each year of the Borealis UMF Fellowships.
Umeå University is one of Sweden’s largest institutions of research and higher education with over 37,000 students and 4,800 faculty and staff. We are characterised by world-leading research in several scientific fields and rank highly in international comparison. We are proud hosts of the transdisciplinary Arctic Center and are part of the University of the Arctic. Further, Umeå University is also the site of the pioneering discovery of the CRISPR-Cas9 genetic scissors - a revolution in genetic engineering that has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
