Postdoc Opportunities in Film Studies

The Turku Institute for Advanced Studies (TIAS) at the University of Turku in Finland invites applications for four Postdoctoral Fellow positions and four Collegium Fellow positions. Fellows will design and conduct an independent three-year research project within one of TIAS’s faculties: Economics, Education, Humanities, Law, or Social Sciences. The fellowship programme supports interdisciplinary research connected to digitalisation and new technologies, health and drug development, children an...

The Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz (Max Planck Institute) is inviting applications for fully funded postdoctoral fellowships in the collaborative research project Connected Teams , running from 2027 to 2029. The fellowship supports collaborative, transcultural research at the intersection of art history, ecology, and digital transformations . Placements are available through partner institutions in India, Colombia, and Italy, offering an international research environment focused on Globa...

The University of Manchester is seeking a full-time Research Fellow to join a Wellcome-funded project evaluating the impact of upcoming UK social media restrictions on young people’s mental health and wellbeing. Based in the School of Environment, Education & Development within the Education Division, the Research Fellow will coordinate participant recruitment and data collection for ecological momentary assessment and interviews, contribute to qualitative and quantitative analyses, prepare evid...

The University of Cambridge is recruiting a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Agentic AI for Cancer Care, based jointly in the Department of Radiology and the Early Cancer Institute and listed under the Department of Oncology. The successful researcher will join IMPACT-OC, a major European multi-centre project developing a multi-agent AI system for ovarian cancer. The project integrates medical imaging, genomics, histopathology, and clinical records, with privacy-preserving federated learning a...

Ghent University is recruiting a full-time Postdoctoral Fellow in formal semantics, pragmatics, information structure, and language change in the Department of Linguistics. The position is part of the ERC-funded CAUSALITY project, which investigates the causes of language change and conservativity through formal theoretical modeling, artificial-agent simulations, and empirical evidence from historical treebanks of West Germanic languages. The postdoctoral researcher will model information-struct...

Gunma University in Maebashi, Japan, invites applications for two fixed-term part-time research positions within an AMED project on brain aging models, digital twins and personalized disease prevention. The roles are based in the Center for Education and Research in Mathematical Data Science and are available as Assistant Professor-equivalent or Researcher/Postdoctoral-equivalent appointments. One position focuses on ELSI and social acceptability research. The researcher will study ethical, lega...

The University of Vienna is seeking a full-time postdoctoral University Assistant in the Department of Comparative Literature, Institute for European and Comparative Linguistics and Literature, Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies. The successful candidate will develop an independent research profile in comparative cultural studies, with a focus on the environmental humanities or literature and knowledge . The role also supports research in applied comparative studies, digital humanities...

Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore is recruiting a full-time Research Fellow (Postdoctoral) in Coral Reef Ecosystems at the Earth Observatory of Singapore. The initial appointment is for 12 months, with possible extension subject to project needs and funding. Working under Assistant Professor Kyle Morgan, the Fellow will integrate existing and newly collected photoquadrat, multiscale photogrammetry and environmental datasets to identify spatial patterns and temporal trends in ec...

The University of Warsaw’s MAB QLAB Centre is recruiting a full-time postdoctoral researcher (Young Doctor / research employment group) for Group 1: Quantum-secure communication. The position is part of the Center for Hybrid Quantum-Classical Information Technologies (QLAB), a joint initiative with Sorbonne Université, and is funded through the International Research Agendas (MAB) scheme under the European Funds for a Modern Economy 2021–2027 (FENG) programme. The selected researcher will contri...