Open positions at Umeå University

The Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Umeå University develops arts and humanities and invests in future Areas of Excellence.  In collaboration with Umeå School of Education, the Department of Language Studies is looking for a doctoral student in language teaching and learning. The Department of Language Studies is a creative and dynamic department offering inspiring education based on an academic foundation and pioneering research within a wide range of subjects. The department provides... Read more

The Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Umeå University develops arts and humanities and invests in future Areas of Excellence.  In collaboration with Umeå School of Education, the Department of Language Studies is looking for a doctoral student in educational work with focus on language. The Department of Language Studies is a creative and dynamic department offering inspiring education based on a academic foundation and pioneering research within a wide range of subjects. The department... Read more

The Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Umeå University develops arts and humanities and invests in future Areas of Excellence.  The Department of Language Studies invites applications for the doctoral training programme in English, Russian, French, or Spanish Literature  The Department of Language Studies is a creative and dynamic institution offering inspiring education based on a scientific foundation and pioneering research within a wide range of subjects. The department provides education... Read more

The Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Umeå University develops arts and humanities and invests in future Areas of Excellence.  The Department of Culture and Media studies invites applications for the doctoral training programme in media and communications studies. The Department of Culture and Media Studies is part of the Faculty of Arts at Umeå University and has about 60 employees. A unique combination of disciplines makes the department a creative milieu with an intersection of culture, ar... Read more

The Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Umeå University develops arts and humanities and invests in future Areas of Excellence.  The Department of Language Studies invites applications for the doctoral training programme in Linguistics (English, Linguistics, Russian or Swedish/Scandinavian languages) The Department of Language Studies is a creative and dynamic institution offering inspiring education based on a scientific foundation and pioneering research within a wide range of subjects. The... Read more

The Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Umeå University develops arts and humanities and invests in future Areas of Excellence.  The Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies invites applications for the doctoral training programme in history of Science and ideas. The Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies belongs to Umeå University's Faculty of Arts and Humanities and has about 110 employees. The department gathers researchers, teachers, and students ... Read more

The Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Umeå University develops arts and humanities and invests in future Areas of Excellence.  The Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies invites applications for the doctoral training programme in Archaeology. The Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies belongs to Umeå University's Faculty of Arts and Humanities and has about 110 employees. The department gathers researchers, teachers, and students in the fields of... Read more

The Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies together with Umeå School of Education invites applications for the doctoral training programme in History and Education.  The Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies conducts research and education within archeology, environmental archeology, history, history and education, history of science and ideas, religious studies, theology and philosophy. History and Education includes research in both history... Read more

Umeå Centre for Gender Studies (UCGS)  is announcing one PhD position in gender studies, in collaboration with Umeå School of Education. Gender studies is a broad and interdisciplinary field of knowledge, where gender in a wide sense is studied, often in relation to other aspects of power within a social or cultural context. Research in the field spans from the humanities and social sciences to medical and technical-natural sciences. Doctoral projects in gender studies can be both empirically... Read more

The Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Umeå University develops arts and humanities and invests in future Areas of Excellence.  The Department of Culture and Media studies invites applications for the doctoral training programme in ethnology. The Department of Culture and Media Studies is part of the Faculty of Arts at Umeå University and has about 60 employees. A unique combination of disciplines makes the department a creative milieu with an intersection of culture, art, literature and media... Read more

The Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Umeå University develops arts and humanities and invests in future Areas of Excellence.  The Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies invites applications for the doctoral training programme in history. The Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies belongs to Umeå University's Faculty of Arts and Humanities and has about 110 employees. The department gathers researchers, teachers, and students in the fields of... Read more

The Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Umeå University develops arts and humanities and invests in future Areas of Excellence.  The Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies invites applications for the doctoral training programme in Religious Studies/Theology. The Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies belongs to Umeå University's Faculty of Arts and Humanities and has about 110 employees. The department gathers researchers, teachers, and students in... Read more

The Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Umeå University develops arts and humanities and invests in future Areas of Excellence.  The Department of Language Studies invites applications for the doctoral training programme in Sámi (Language didactics) The Department of Language Studies is a creative and dynamic institution offering inspiring education based on a scientific foundation and pioneering research within a wide range of subjects. The department provides education and conducts research i... Read more

The Department of Medical and Translational Biology at the Faculty of Medicine is seeking a Staff Scientist in membrane biology, with a focus on investigating how viruses sculpt cellular lipid membranes into organelles for replication of their genetic material. The position is limited to 9 months. Description The aim of this project is to identify fundamental principles of how viral proteins transform cellular lipid membranes into organelles for replication of their genetic material. We study... Read more

The Department of Molecular Biology seeks a postdoctoral researcher who will work with gut microbial modulation of intestinal mucus function. The employment is full-time for two years with expected start 15 May, 2026 or by agreement. The application deadline is 10 March. Project description and working tasks  With the aim to better understand the interaction between gut microbiota and host, this research project aims to characterize how specific dietary supplements can affect the composition ... Read more

PhD position in plant science with a focus on plant complex trait genetics The Department of Plant Physiology (Umeå Plant Science Centre, Umeå University, Sweden) invites applicants for a PhD position in plant science. The expected starting date is around summer 2026 or according to agreement.  Umeå Plant Science Centre (UPSC) is one of the strongest research environments for basic plant research in Europe. Research at UPSC covers a wide range of disciplines in plant biology including ecology... Read more

Project Description This postdoctoral position is funded through a Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet) project investigating how major volcanic eruptions and their atmospheric consequences have shaped large-scale historical epidemic events. These include transformative pandemics such as the Plague of Justinian (6th–8th century), the Black Death (14th century), and later plague waves across Europe and Asia. The project adopts a strongly interdisciplinary and systems-oriented research... Read more

Staff scientist within fungal DNA metabarcoding and mycorrhizal ecology A staff scientist position is available at the Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå Plant Science Centre (www.upsc.se): a stimulating research environment at Umeå University. We are looking for a highly motivated candidate to work within an interdisciplinary project investigating the diversity, biogeography, and environmental drivers of mycorrhizal fungi across contrasting climates, vegetation types, and land-use historie... Read more

The Arctic Centre at Umeå University is a hub for transdisciplinary research and education at Umeå University. The Centre offers a unique environment that prioritises collaboration, networking, and strategic planning in order to address today’s societal challenges. Read more about the Arctic Centre at Umeå University. We work with new and existing cross-disciplinary activities with a focus on sustainability, climate, health, just transition, green industrialisation, Indigenous perspectives, a... Read more

The Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Umeå University develops arts and humanities and invests in future Areas of Excellence.  The Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies invites applications for the doctoral training programme in philosophy. The Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies belongs to Umeå University's Faculty of Arts and Humanities and has about 110 employees. The department gathers researchers, teachers, and students in the fields of... Read more

To our institution, which conducts research at the highest international level and offers several high-quality educational programs in Computing Science, we are now seeking a PhD student with focus on Software Lifecycle Security. The Department of Computing Science has been growing rapidly in recent years, with a focus on creating an inclusive and bottom-up driven research environment.  Our workplace consists of a diverse set of people from different nationalities, backgrounds and fields. As ... Read more

The Department of Computing Science at Umeå University is looking for a doctoral student in machine learning for software security. The position is for four years of full-time doctoral studies at the Department of Computing Science, where you will be able to work in a dynamic environment with 170 employees from more than 20 countries. The Department of Computing Science has been growing rapidly in recent years, with a focus on creating an inclusive and bottom-up driven research environment. O... Read more

We are announcing a postdoctoral position in community and ecosystem ecology to work on the long term globally distributed WaRM experiment (for details see here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.9396). The employment is fulltime for three years. The deadline for applications is March 26, 2026 and the position is expected to start in September/October 2026, or according to agreement. We welcome your application! Research description This project builds conceptually on our earli... Read more

The Department of Applied Physics and Electronics is looking for one to three doctoral students within the framework of the Research School for Excellence in Materials Science for Cement-Based Materials (RECEM) , which is funded by the Swedish Research Council. The postgraduate studies are expected to lead to a doctoral degree in Applied Physics . Starting date for the position is September 1st 2026 or according to agreement. Last day for submitting your application is March 29th 2026. About... Read more

The Department of Ecology and Environmental Science (EMG) at Umeå University invites applicants for a PhD position on carbon cycling in Arctic headwaters. The start date is flexible but ideally sometime between June and November 2026. Deadline for applications is 30 March 2026. Project descriptions and work tasks Northern high latitudes are subject to pronounced warming, with expected major impacts on the carbon cycle of coupled land and water ecosystems. This project aims to investigate... Read more

Description of work You will be working in the laboratory of Marta Bally ( https://ballylab.com/ ), in close collaboration with the laboratory of Anne-Marie Fors Connolly ( https://www.umu.se/en/research/groups/anne-marie-fors-connolly ) at the Department of Clinical Microbiology, at Umeå University ( https:// www.umu.se/en/department-of-clinical-microbiology/ ), the PhD candidate work in the Marie Skłodowska-Curie (MSCA) Doctoral Network GLYCOCALYX . About the Network:   GLYCOCALYX brings... Read more

Description of work You will be working in the laboratory of Marta Bally ( https://ballylab.com/ ) at the Department of Clinical Microbiology, at Umeå University ( https:// www.umu.se/en/department-of-clinical-microbiology/ ), the PhD candidate work in the Marie Skłodowska-Curie (MSCA) Doctoral Network GLYCOCALYX . About the Network:  GLYCOCALYX brings together 15 leading European partners in a transnational network, implementing a multidisciplinary and intersectorial research and training... Read more

PhD position in plant science with a focus on small proteins in tomato flower development The Department of Plant Physiology (Umeå University, Umeå Plant Science Centre, Sweden) invites applicants for PhD positions in plant science. The expected starting date is May 1st, 2026 or according to agreement.  Umeå Plant Science Centre (UPSC) is one of the strongest research environments for basic plant research in Europe. Research at UPSC covers a wide range of disciplines in plant biology includin... Read more

The Department of Molecular Biology seeks a postdoctoral researcher who will investigate the role of xenophagy in the host cellular defense against the obligate intracellular bacterial pathogen Chlamydia trachomatis . The employment is full-time for two years with access on 1 May, 2026 or by agreement. Last day to apply is 31 March, 2026. Research environment The postdoc will join the group of Dr. Barbara Sixt, a well-funded and highly international research team. The lab is based at Umeå... Read more

About the Department The Department of Political Science at Umeå University has about 70 employees. The department conducts undergraduate education and research in political science and peace and conflict studies. For more information, see https://www.umu.se/en/department-of-political-science/ . General description The Department of Political Science is seeking two doctoral students in political science for the project Forest Governance Dilemmas . The call is an initiative within the research... Read more

The Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies together with Umeå School of Education invites applications for the doctoral training programme in Philosophy, specialization in Ethics in Teacher Education. The Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies conducts research and education within archeology, environmental archeology, history, history and education, history of science and ideas, religious studies, theology and philosophy. The department offers... Read more

The Department of Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics is opening a PhD position in spatial statistics. The position covers four years of doctoral studies, including participation in research and doctoral courses. The last day to apply is April 30th, 2026. Project description and tasks Spatial data arise in several forms, including areal data, geostatistical measurements of continuous fields, and point pattern data. In point pattern data, the primary information consists of the locations o... Read more