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
Clinical Professor of Plastic Surgery with special focus on Reconstructive Surgery (Fixed-Term, 5 Years) Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences Department of Clinical Medicine 26-04-2026
Postdoc position for 3 years in stem cell-based disease modelling of Parkinson’s disease Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences Department of Biomedical Sciences 26-04-2026
Postdoctoral researcher in wood modification, lignin systems, and durability under wet conditions Faculty of Science Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management 26-04-2026
Assistant Professor of Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms of P. falciparum Malaria Pathogenesis and Immunity at Department of Immunology and Microbiology Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences Department of Immunology and Microbiology 26-04-2026
Part-time Assistant Professorship in Social Data Science Faculty of Social Sciences Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science 28-04-2026
Assistant professor position in Microbial Trait Modeling Faculty of Science Department of Biology 29-04-2026
Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Blackford Group, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine (ICMM) Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine 30-04-2026
Postdoctoral Position in Aneuploidy, microRNA Biology and Cancer Research Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine 30-04-2026
Postdoc and PhD scholarship as part of the “Pesticides and Human Health” project Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences Department of Public Health 30-04-2026
Postdoc in Educational Psychology, AI, and University Teaching at Department of Science Education Faculty of Science Department of Science Education 30-04-2026
Postdoctoral Position in Physics Education Research Faculty of Science Department of Science Education 30-04-2026
Postdoctoral position in experimental research on generative AI and learning processes (EEG, eye tracking) at the Virtual Learning Lab Faculty of Social Sciences Department of Psychology 30-04-2026
Teaching Assistant Professor of Companion Animal Soft Tissue Surgery Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences 30-04-2026
Entrepreneurial Post Doc in Algae biochemistry Faculty of Science Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences 01-05-2026
Postdoc in digital twins for neutron scattering methods Faculty of Science Niels Bohr Institute 01-05-2026
Postdoc of Computational Biophysics of Disordered Proteins Faculty of Science Department of Biology 03-05-2026
Specialtandlægeuddannelse i Ortodonti Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences Odontologisk Institut 03-05-2026
Postdoc of Environmental Microbiology Faculty of Science PLEN 03-05-2026
Postdoctoral Fellowships in Experimental Quantum Matter Faculty of Science The Niels Bohr Institute 07-05-2026
158716 Clinical Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology with special focus on Gynaecological Endocrinology (Fixed-Term, 5 Years) Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences Copenhagen University Hospital - Herlev and Gentofte, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in the Capital Region 10-05-2026
Postdoc of molecular geobiology and organometals Faculty of Science Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management 10-05-2026
Postdoc of Geochemistry Faculty of Science The Natural History Museum Denmark 15-05-2026
Postdoc in membrane proteins from viruses, their functional and structural properties, and their druggability Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences Department of Biomedical Sciences 15-05-2026
Three-year veterinary post doc position in investigational radiotherapy at the Danish Center for Particle Therapy (Aarhus) with employment at University of Copenhagen Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences 17-05-2026
3 Postdoctoral Positions in Law in the areas of Climate, Environment, Ocean and Food Transition Faculty of Law Faculty of Law 17-05-2026
159762 Senior scientist of intestinal biology (Fixed-Term, 2 Years) Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences Department of Biomedical Sciences 17-05-2026
Postdoc in AI in cancer treatment Faculty of Science Department of Computer Science 17-05-2026
PhD positions in AI in Medicine Faculty of Science Department of Computer Science 17-05-2026
Postdoc in Epidemiology and diagnosis of large animal parasite infections Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences 18-05-2026
One Postdoctoral/Assistant Professor position: ‘Networking the War: An Ethnographic-Analytical Study of Minority Perspectives, Mobility, and Recovery in War-Affected Ukraine’ Faculty of Humanities Institut for Tværkulturelle og Regionale Studier 20-05-2026
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 RNA & Cardiovascular Physiology at NEXS Faculty of Science Faculty of Science 05-06-2026
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