Faculty and academic positions
There are four main types of academic positions at UCPH: postdoc, assistant professor, associate professor, and professor. The three core tasks of academic staff at UCPH are research, teaching and, dissemination.
We offer academic challenges in a dynamic and internationally oriented environment and strive to provide researchers at all levels with the opportunity to expand and develop their talent in a professionally driven organisation.
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| TITLE | FACULTY | LOCATION | DEADLINE |
|---|---|---|---|
| Assistant Professor in membrane protein structural biology | Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences | Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology | 21-05-2026 |
| Postdoc in membrane protein structural biology | Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences | Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology | 21-05-2026 |
| Assistant Professor of One Health Genomics | Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences | Department of Public Health | 21-05-2026 |
| Research Assistant in Bioinformatics | Faculty of Science | FOOD | 22-05-2026 |
| Assistant Professorship in Science of Science and Research Policy | Faculty of Social Sciences | Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science | 22-05-2026 |
| Research assistant position in glucosinolate transporter biology | Faculty of Science | PLEN | 25-05-2026 |
| Postdoc of Astrophysics and Planetary Science | Faculty of Science | Niels Bohr Institute | 26-05-2026 |
| Postdoctoral Researcher/Assistant Professor Position in Political Science as part of the ERC-funded Lobbying (A)symmetry Project | Faculty of Social Sciences | Institut for Statskundskab | 26-05-2026 |
| Postdoc Position in Development of a mGlu2 PET tracer | Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences | Institut for Lægemiddeldesign og Farmakologi | 26-05-2026 |
| Postdoc in membrane protein structural biology at Department of Biomedical Sciences | Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences | Department of Biomedical Sciences | 26-05-2026 |
| Assistant Professor in structural virology at Department of Biomedical Sciences | Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences | Department of Biomedical Sciences | 26-05-2026 |
| Postdoc in Vaccine Design and Mucosal Immunology | Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences | Department of Immunology and Microbiology (ISIM) | 26-05-2026 |
| 160330 Associate Professor of Clinical Growth and Development Trajectories | Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences | Department of Immunology and Microbiology | 27-05-2026 |
| Assistant professorship in West African mobility law at the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen | Faculty of Law | JUR Forskningsområdet | 28-05-2026 |
| 159172 Clinical professor of Neurology with special focus on dementia (fixed-term 5 years) | Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences | Department of Clinical Medicine | 31-05-2026 |
| Postdoc in LLM Factuality Detection | Faculty of Science | Department for Computer Science | 31-05-2026 |
| Postdoc in Human-Centred AI in Healthcare | Faculty of Science | Department of Computer Science | 31-05-2026 |
| Assistant Professor in Human-Centred AI in Healthcare | Faculty of Science | Department of Computer Science | 31-05-2026 |
| Researcher in leveraging plasma proteomics | Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences | Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research | 31-05-2026 |
| Assistant Professor of Comparative Pediatrics | Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences | Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences | 31-05-2026 |
| 159171 Clinical Professor of Pathology with special focus on translational breast pathology (Fixed-Term, 5 Years) | Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences | Department of Clinical Medicine | 01-06-2026 |
| 160195 Clinical professor of Internal medicine: Cardiology with special focus on digital solutions (fixed-term, 5 years) | Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences | Copenhagen University Hospital – North Zealand, Department of Cardiology in the Capital Region | 02-06-2026 |
| Postdoc in Computational Biology/Bioinformatics at BRIC | Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences | Biotech Research & Innovation Centre | 03-06-2026 |
| PhD fellowship in Machine Learning for Crystallography | Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences | Department of Pharmacy | 03-06-2026 |
| Clinical Professor of paediatrics with a special focus on sarcomas (Fixed-Term, 5 Years) | Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences | Department of Clinical Medicine | 04-06-2026 |
| Postdoctoral position in civic participation in design of AI systems as part of the National Center for AI in Society (CAISA) and based in Copenhagen | Faculty of Social Sciences | National Center for AI in Society | 04-06-2026 |
| Postdoc LNP Formulation - High Throughput Screening and Characterization – Automation – Upscaling – Targeting – Immunoassays - Organoids | Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences | Department of Immunology and Microbiology | 04-06-2026 |
| Postdoc in RNA & Cardiovascular Physiology at NEXS | Faculty of Science | Faculty of Science | 05-06-2026 |
| Postdoctoral Position in the Assembly of Metabolic Enzymes | Faculty of Science | Department of Biology | 07-06-2026 |
| Call for open-rank academic position in child and adolescent developmental psychology | Faculty of Social Sciences | Institut for Psykologi | 10-06-2026 |
| Tenure track assistant professorship in Language Technology and Natural Language Processing, Centre for Language Technology, Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, UCPH | Faculty of Humanities | Institut for Nordiske Studier og Sprogvidenskab | 10-06-2026 |
| Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Soil Biogeochemistry and Climate Change Mitigation through Enhanced Rock Weathering | Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences | GLOBE | 11-06-2026 |
| Two year postdoc in Experimental Psycholinguistics and Computational Language Modelling at the Centre for Language Technology, Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, UCPH | Faculty of Humanities | Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics | 11-06-2026 |
| Associate Professor of Space Exploration | Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences | Globe institute | 12-06-2026 |
| Postdoc in the Ethics and Epistemology of Algorithmic Prediction of Psychiatric Diagnoses | Faculty of Science | The Department of Food and Resource Economics | 15-06-2026 |
| Associate professor in Veterinary Clinical Neurology | Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences | Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen. | 16-06-2026 |
| Postdoc in electrocatalytic selective oxidation for sustainable synthesis | Faculty of Science | Department of Chemistry | 21-06-2026 |
| PhD scholarship in Grundtvig Studies at the Faculty of Theology | Faculty of Theology | The Faculty of Theology | 22-06-2026 |