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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UCPH recruit on the basis of the criteria for recognising merit: Research, Teaching, Societal impact, Organisational contribution, External funding, and Management.

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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