Job board January 2026
PhD, postdoc and other academic job opportunities
Group leader/Professorship positions
Leader of the Research Team “Medical Imaging and Robotics”
- Institution(s): SANO (PL)
- Level of qualifications required: PhD in a relevant field (such as computer science, engineering, applied mathematics, medical physics, biomedical engineering, robotics, or medicine), experience in areas related to medical imaging, AI, robotics, or computational medicine in general, along with a strong publication record and an interest in translational research
- Deadline to apply: Open
Full-time academic position at the University of Liège
A full-time academic position, in the field of “Biomechanical Engineering” within the Department of Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering (A&M) of the School of Engineering and Computer Science.
- Institution(s): ULiège (BE)
- Level of qualifications required: PhD in engineering sciences and technology or equivalent.
- Other information: Fixed-term contract for four years. Following positive evaluation, the candidate will be appointed permanently.
- Deadline to apply: 1 March 2026.
Inamori Frontier Program (Assistant / Associate Professor, Lecturer / Senior Lecturer)
Kyushu University will implement the “Inamori Frontier Program” to attract world-class young researchers of exceptional quality. This Program invests in the recruitment and development of outstanding human resources through the Institute for Advanced Study.
- Institution(s): Kyushu University (JP).
- Level of qualifications required: Ph.D., regardless of academic discipline, at the time of taking up employment at the University.
- Other information: Five year fixed-term contract with the possibility to hire up to five people.
- Deadline to apply: 11 March 2026 (Japan time, strictly observed)
Postdoc positions
Postdoc position in Development of in vitro skin model including sensory perception
Position offered through a collaboration project between the Bio Engineering Laboratory (Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering of ETH Zurich in Basel) and Novartis AG
- Institution(s): ETH Zurich (CH)
- Level of qualifications required: Strong background in biology and engineering (e.g., bioengineering, biotechnology, or related fields).
- Starting date: The starting date is flexible but must be before June 2026.
- Other information: The position is fully funded for initially 2 years, an extension to up to 4 years is possible
- Deadline to apply: 15 February 2026
Postdoc position in quantitative biology
The Zampieri group offers a post-doctoral research opportunity in the context of systems pharmacology, computational biology and metabolic regulation.
- Institution(s): University of Basel (CH).
- Level of qualifications required: PhD in (Bio)Physics, (Bio)engineering, Biological Sciences, Microbiology, Biochemistry, Systems Biology, Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics/Computational Biology, or related fields.
- Other information: Experience with programming language (e.g. Matlab, R or Python) and statistical analysis of large-scale datasets.
- Deadline to apply: 18 February 2026.
Two Postdoctoral Scientist(s) in In Vitro Diagnostics, Electrochemistry / Electronic Engineering
Dr Daniel A. Richards and Professor Andrew J. deMello, in the Institute for Chemical and Bioengineering at ETH Zürich, are searching for two postdoctoral researchers to develop a diagnostic device for multidrug resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MDR-MTB).
- Institution(s): ETH Zurich (CH).
- Level of qualifications required: Candidates are expected to have obtained a PhD degree in a relevant science or engineering discipline.
- Other information: Work as part of a multi-institutional consortium, including the Swiss Centre for Microelectronics (CSEM), the Swiss Tropical Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH), and the National Centre for Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (NCTLD) in Tblisi, Georgia.
- Deadline to apply: Position open until fulfilled. Interviews will start in mid February.
Postdoctoral Fellow – Computational Biology
The Dixon Lab at University of Basel is seeking a highly motivated research fellow to study neuro-immune interactions in cancer.
- Institution(s): University of Basel (CH).
- Level of qualifications required: PhD in Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, Computer Science, Mathematics, Biomedical Sciences, or a closely related field.
- Other information: Expertise in machine learning, AI, or statistical modeling applied to biological data.
- Deadline to apply: Position open until filled by a suitable candidate.
PhD positions
10+ PhD positions available at multiple institutions within the EU-funded project CUSTOM
Link for info and application
PhD position at KU Leuven (Development of novel implant types to avoid stress shielding in orthopaedic implants)
Ph.D. position offered through the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Doctoral Network ‘CUSTOM’
- Institution(s): KU Leuven (BE), Budapest University of Technology and Economics (HU).
- Supervision: Prof. Kathleen Denis (KU Leuven), Dr. Gábor Szebényi (BME)
- Level of qualifications required: MSc in Mechanical, Electromechanical, Biomedical Engineering or related fields.
- Other information: Fully funded scholarship for 18 months at BME and 18 months at KU Leuven
- Deadline to apply: 12 February 2026
PhD position at KU Leuven (Simulation-based assessment of implantation parameters affecting bone–implant stability)
Ph.D. position offered through the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Doctoral Network ‘CUSTOM’
- Institution(s): KU Leuven (BE)
- Supervision: Prof. Kathleen Denis, Prof. Harry van Lenthe.
- Level of qualifications required: MSc in Mechanical, Electromechanical, or Biomedical Engineering, or a closely related field.
- Deadline to apply: 12 February 2026
Doctoral Researcher (PhD Student), Tissue Engineering
The University of Eastern Finland is inviting applications for a Doctoral Researcher (PhD Student) position in Tissue Engineering at the Department of Technical Physics on the Kuopio campus.
- Institution(s): University of Eastern Finland (FI).
- Level of qualifications required: MSc in biomedical engineering, biotechnology, or a related field.
- Other information: The position will be filled for a fixed term of three years as from 1 April 2026 (or as agreed).
- Deadline to apply: 12 February 2026.
PhD position in systems biology
The Zampieri group offers a post-doctoral research opportunity in the context of systems pharmacology, computational biology and metabolic regulation.
- Institution(s): University of Basel (CH).
- Level of qualifications required: MSc in (Bio-)Physics, (Bio-)Engineering, Biological Sciences, Microbiology, Biochemistry, Systems Biology, Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics/Computational Biology, or related fields.
- Other information: Interest in mathematical modelling of metabolic and regulatory/signalling network.
- Deadline to apply: 18 February 2026.
PhD student – Physics of bacterial infections
The research group of Prof. Knut Drescher at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel seeks to appoint a PhD student in physics of bacterial infections, with a focus on using advanced light microscopy and optics for spatial transcriptomics measurements, to start immediately or as per arrangement.
- Institution(s): University of Basel (CH).
- Level of qualifications required: MSc in physics, bioengineering, optics or a similar discipline.
- Deadline to apply: 20 February 2026.
Doctoral student in Cancer Bioinformatics
Join the Computing Disease Evolution in Cancer group, led by Dr Eszter Lakatos within the Division of Applied Mathematics and Statistics and persue exciting research. You will combine mathematical modelling and bioinformatics to uncover the key factors behind cancer development.
- Institution(s): Chalmers University of Technology (SE).
- Level of qualifications required: MSc in Applied Mathematics, Bioengineering, Bioinformatics or in a related topic.
- Other information: The position is a fixed-term appointment of four years, with the possibility to teach up to 20%, which extends the position up to five years.
- Deadline to apply: 23 February 2026.
PhD position: Biomechanical digital twins for realistic self-healing surgical trainers
This research is part of a multidisciplinary and inter-university project RESSURG (REalistic Self-healing SURGical trainers), aimed at investigating the potential of self-healing polymers in the context of surgical trainers.
- Institution(s): KU Leuven (BE)
- Level of qualifications required: MSc in Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field.
- Other information: The project is a collaboration between research groups at KU Leuven, VUB Brussels University, and imec.
- Deadline to apply: 26 February 2026
PhD position at KU Leuven (PhD Position in Quantitative Pharmacology of Biologics)
This PhD project centers on the development of a computational platform model for a biologic therapy, integrating data from clinical trials and real-world studies.
- Institution(s): KU Leuven (BE)
- Level of qualifications required: MSc in Pharmacometrics, Pharmaceutical Sciences, (Bio)medicine, (Bio)statistics, Bioinformatics, Biotechnology, Mathematics, Bioengineering, or related fields
- Deadline to apply: 27 February 2026
