PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in Chemistry in Finland

Aalto University’s Department of Energy and Mechanical Engineering, within the School of Engineering, is seeking a Master’s thesis worker for the Energy Conversion and Systems research group. The project focuses on optimizing an SO2-depolarized electrolyser (SDE) stack for renewable hydrogen production. SDE technology is a polymer electrolyte membrane electrolyser that uses electricity to produce hydrogen with sulfuric acid as a by-product. Compared with conventional electrolysis, the system off...

This postdoctoral project sits at the intersection of semiconductor physics, thin-film metrology, and prototype instrumentation for the semiconductor industry. It is part of the ATOMEL initiative, a Business Finland Research-to-Business commercialization project aimed at turning an academic innovation in scanning-probe-based thin-film characterization and electrical metrology into a new deep-tech venture. The successful researcher will take primary scientific and experimental ownership of the se...

This doctoral project is part of the European Commission’s PANDORA Doctoral Network and is hosted by the School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Eastern Finland in Kuopio. The researcher will work on pathomechanisms and novel drug optimization for age-related macular degeneration (AMD) , with a strong emphasis on ophthalmic drug delivery to the retina. The core research task is to develop and test intravitreal drug formulations designed for targeted retinal delivery. ...

A fully funded doctoral researcher position at the University of Helsinki invites applications to study protein synthesis in the lab of Sarah O’Keefe , with co-supervision from Brendan Battersby . The project, Inhibiting Protein Synthesis – Old, New, Borrowed, Blue , is based at the Viikki Campus in Helsinki and sits within the Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences. The project brings together cellular and chemical biology to investigate how protein synthesis works and how it can be d...

The Barrett lab at the University of Helsinki is recruiting a post-doctoral researcher to work at the intersection of computational genomics, multiomic data analysis, and predictive medicine. The project aims to discover, understand, and measure mechanistically meaningful subtypes of complex human diseases, with a strong emphasis on moving beyond clinical phenotype to molecular and biological endotypes. The lab is newly established and sits within a rich research environment spanning the Univers...

The Barrett lab at the University of Helsinki is recruiting a doctoral researcher to work on computational genomics for predictive medicine . The project sits at the intersection of genomics, multiomic data analysis, and machine learning, with a scientific goal of identifying mechanistically meaningful subtypes of complex human diseases. Rather than focusing only on observed clinical phenotypes, the lab aims to characterize diseases through molecular and biological endotypes that can better supp...

This doctoral position sits within the FAroGels MSCA Doctoral Network and the Department of Food and Nutrition at the University of Helsinki’s Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry. The project, “Aerogels for Oral Lubrication,” explores how dietary-fibre aerogels and cryogels can be designed as functional porous, moisture-responsive materials for food applications, with a particular focus on texture, mouthfeel, and oral processing. The doctoral researcher will investigate how fibre-network organis...

The University of Helsinki’s Faculty of Arts is offering a full-time, three-year doctoral researcher position in archaeology, with the work located in the Department of Cultures. The position is linked to the Academy of Finland–funded SRTOOL project, led by Academy Research Fellow Maria Lahtinen, and places the doctoral researcher in a strongly international, interdisciplinary setting. The project focuses on strontium isotope tools for tracing mobility connected to aquatic diets across the past,...

This postdoctoral opening is based in the Department of Physics at the University of Jyväskylä, a dynamic and internationally recognized research community. The position sits within a strong materials-physics environment that spans nanomaterials and thin films, quantum materials and quantum technologies, light-matter interaction, and the properties of nanoparticles. The department supports experimental research through its accelerator laboratory and nanoscience center, and it is connected to bro...