Job board February 2026
PhD, postdoc and other academic job opportunities
Group leader/Professorship positions
Multiple tenure-track/tenured faculty positions in the newly established School of Biomedical Engineering (BME)
ShanghaiTech University invites highly-qualified candidates to apply for multiple tenure-track/tenured faculty positions in the newly established School of Biomedical Engineering (BME).
- Institution(s): ShanghaiTech University (CHN)
- Level of qualifications required: PhD
- Deadline to apply: 13 April 2026
4 Group Leaders/ PIs in Kaunas-Kiel Microbiome & Precision Medicine Center
The newly established Kaunas-Kiel Microbiome & Precision Medicine Center at Lithuanian University of Health Sciences invites highly motivated, creative, and ambitious researchers to apply for Principal Investigator / Group Leader positions.
- Institution(s): Lithuanian University of Health Sciences (LTU)
- Level of qualifications required: PhD in life sciences, biomedicine, bioinformatics, computational biology or a closely related field
- Deadline to apply: 21 April 2026
Junior Group Leaders in Artificial Intelligence
The Paris Brain Institute seeks to recruit Junior Group Leaders in the fields of AI, data science and computational sciences to address key challenges in brain health and neuroscience.
- Institution(s): Paris Brain Institute – Institut du Cerveau (FRA)
- Level of qualifications required: PhD
- Deadline to apply: 26 April 2026
Postdoc positions
Pre-ERC Postdoc Program
This postdoc program is designed to prepare postdoctoral researchers for a successful ERC Starting Grant application or equivalent and for an independent research career in top research organisations in Europe and around the world.
- Institution(s): CeMM (AUT)
- Level of qualifications required: PhD
- Other information: PhD defence date must be no earlier than 2024
- Deadline to apply: 14 March 2026
Postdoctoral Fellow in proton therapy research
This position is part of a collaborative project between multiple partner organisations, including the University of Zurich and the Cyclotron Centre Bronowice in Krakow.
- Institution(s): Paul Scherrer Institute (SUI)
- Level of qualifications required: PhD degree in physics, mathematics, engineering, computer science or other natural sciences
- Deadline to apply: 15 March 2026
Postdoc position in machine learning for cardiovascular imaging
The Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery (MMK) is looking for up a postdoctoral researchers to join Ass Prof. David Marlevi and his team on the use of machine learning for improved hemodynamic risk prediction using cardiovascular imaging in general, and four-dimensional flow magnetic resonance imaging (4D Flow MRI) in particular.
- Institution(s): Karolinska Institutet (SWE)
- Level of qualifications required: PhD and strong research background in scientific machine learning
- Deadline to apply: 16 March 2026
Postdoc Position: Sensorimotor Neuroscience and Rehabilitation Technology
Join the RE:HOME project as a junior postdoctoral researcher and help develop smart, personalised home‑rehabilitation technology for children with neurological conditions.
- Institution(s): Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour (NLD)
- Level of qualifications required: PhD in a relevant field (e.g. sensorimotor neuroscience, human movement sciences, biomedical engineering, artificial intelligence, computational neuroscience)
- Other information: Temporary employment contract of 22 months
- Deadline to apply: 31 March 2026
Alliance Interinstitutional Postdoctoral Positions
The Alliance primarily supports basic and translational research in the fields of cancer research, cardiovascular research, neuropsychiatric diseases, genomics, synthetic immunology, molecular engineering, medical technologies and novel applications of AI concepts in health and life science research.
- Institution(s): Health + Life Science Alliance Heidelberg Mannheim (GER)
- Level of qualifications required: PhD, MD, or MD/PhD
- Other information: All applicants must apply with their own research project proposal supervised by at least two PIs at different Alliance institutions and must contact the Alliance PIs of their choice prior to applying
- Deadline to apply: 31 March 2026
Postdoctoral Research Position: Language Models for Pediatric Data Analysis
The focus of this position is the development, validation, and safe integration of locally hosted LLMs for automated coding of pediatric diagnoses from electronic health records (EHRs), with the goal of enhancing research capabilities and clinical data usability.
- Institution(s): ETH Zurich (SUI)
- Level of qualifications required: PhD in a relevant field (e.g., Computer Science, Medical AI, Medical informatics) or a closely related field
- Other information: German proficiency and fluency at C1 level or higher, required for analyzing local patient records
- Deadline to apply: Open
Postdoctoral Researcher or Senior Scientist (AI × Biology)
The Boeva Lab at ETH Zurich is looking for exceptional, ambitious, and highly motivated postdoctoral researchers or senior scientists to join our team at the forefront of machine learning, AI, and cancer genomics.
- Institution(s): ETH Zurich (SUI)
- Level of qualifications required: PhD
- Deadline to apply: Open
Postdoctoral Researcher in Computer Science
We are seeking a highly motivated Postdoctoral Researcher to join the FNR AI-HPC 2025 BRIDGES project GenePPS, which investigates how machine learning can enable prediction of gene perturbation effects for drug discovery.
- Institution(s): University of Luxembourg (LUX)
- Level of qualifications required: PhD degree in computer science, machine learning, computational biology, or a closely related field
- Other information: Solid expertise in deep learning, with experience in at least one of the following: foundation models, transformer architectures, graph neural networks, representation learning, or large-scale training
- Deadline to apply: Open
Researcher in integration of multi-omics data
The GarMiglio Lab is looking for talented researchers to develop computational pipelines to integrate multi-omics data aimed to dissect the molecular mechanisms of cancer progression, metastasis, and resistance to therapy in solid tumor.
- Institution(s): Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), Phoenix, Arizona (USA)
- Level of qualifications required: Master’s or PhD (optional) in Engineering, Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or related field
- Deadline to apply: Open until positions are filled
PhD positions
PhD Student in proton therapy research
This position is part of a collaborative project between multiple partner organisations, including the University of Zurich and the Cyclotron Centre Bronowice in Krakow.
- Institution(s): Paul Scherrer Institute (SUI)
- Level of qualifications required: Master’s degree in physics, mathematics, engineering or other natural sciences
- Other information: You will be registered as a PhD student at the ETH Zurich.
- Deadline to apply: 15 March 2026
PhD in Personalized hemodynamic modelling of carotid artery stenosis for stroke prediction
At the faculty of Biomedical Engineering at Eindhoven University of Technology, a PhD-position is available within the Thromborisk project, a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Doctoral Network funded by the EU.
- Institution(s): Eindhoven University of Technology (NLD)
- Level of qualifications required: MSc degree in Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Physics, or any other relevant program
- Other information: Knowledge or interest in biomechanical and numerical modelling, and preferably also AI
- Deadline to apply: 31 March 2026
PhD in Patient-specific estimation of local variation of intraluminal thrombus properties in AAAs
a PhD-position is available within the Thromborisk project, a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Doctoral Network funded by the EU.
- Institution(s): Eindhoven University of Technology (NLD)
- Level of qualifications required: MSc degree in Biomedical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Physics, or any other relevant program
- Other information: Knowledge or interest in biomechanical and numerical modelling, and preferably also AI
- Deadline to apply: 31 March 2026
PhD position – Computational Neuroscience and Systems Biology. Theme: Neural dynamics underlying survival behaviors
The Stagkourakis Lab at Karolinska Institutet and SciLifeLab in Stockholm is recruiting a PhD student in computational neuroscience.
- Institution(s): Karolinska Institutet (SWE)
- Level of qualifications required: MSc in in Computational Neuroscience, Physics, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, Bioengineering, or related field
- Deadline to apply: 5 April 2026
Doctoral Researcher in AI for AR Neurosurgery
The PhD position is part of the CART-4D project, a “Made in Luxembourg” collaboration between the University of Luxembourg and ARSPECTRA. The doctoral candidate will be embedded in the Computational Mechanics (Legato) group and enrolled in the Doctoral Programme in Complex Systems Science.
- Institution(s): University of Luxembourg (LUX)
- Level of qualifications required: Master’s degree in computational mechanics, applied mathematics, physics, computer science, biomedical engineering or a related field
- Other information: Good knowledge of numerical methods and finite-element analysis. Solid programming skills in C++ and/or Python
- Deadline to apply: Open
