Reference number: HR-2025/2045,
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The Faculty of Health and Life Sciences pursues the vision of
understanding, explaining and improving the world and the society we
live in from a health and life sciences perspective. We conduct
education and research in the fields of health, healthcare and natural
sciences and have extensive collaborative networks with national and
international academic, government and private sector partners. We have
approximately 3 100 students, 80 doctoral students and around 500
members of staff.
The Department of Chemistry and Biomedical Sciences has 45 academic
staff and is based at the Kalmar campus. The department is a dynamic
environment for knowledge creation and learning, offering education and
conducting research in biomedical science, pharmaceutical science,
biochemistry and chemistry.
The department is seeking an outstanding doctoral student in chemistry
to participate in the NordForsk project
Responsible Deployment of AI
for Protein-Ligand Energies
Field of subject for the position: Chemistry
Location: Kalmar
Term and hours: The doctoral studentshipis limited in time
in accordance
with the Higher Education Ordinance (Chapter 5, Section 7).
The studentship is full time.
Degree: Doctoral degree
Start date: 1st March 2026, or as agreed.
Job description
A four-year Ph.D. research fellowship is available at the
Computational
Chemistry Chemistry and Biochemistry Group (CCBG), Linnaeus University.
We are seeking a highly motivated and enthusiastic doctoral student in
the field of chemistry to work on development of deep learning models
for estimating protein-ligand binding energies. The specific project is
a part of a large-scale collaboration involving Linnaeus University,
Danish Cancer Institute, University of Bergen and Vilnius University.
According to the Higher Education Ordinance, a doctoral student is
primarily expected to focus on their research studies. However, up to
20% of the position may involve teaching or administrative duties prior
to completion of the doctoral degree.
Eligibility
The Higher Education Ordinance (Chapter 7, Section 35) states that in
order to be admitted to third-cycle education, the applicant must:
A person meets the general entry requirements for third-cycle studies if they:
Specific entry requirements
Additional merits
The following merits will be considered beneficial when applying for
the position:
Assessment criteria
The assessment criteria concern the evaluation of the applicants
ability to successfully complete the doctoral programme. In the
assessment process, particular emphasis will be placed on the
candidates motivation, potential to carry out doctoral studies, and
personal suitability for the position.
Your application (in English) should include:
You are welcome to submit your application no later than February 15st, 2026.
Contacts:
Research Leader: Ran Friedman ( ran.friedman]_[lnu.se )
Head of Department: Anna Asplund Persson ( anna.asplund]_[lnu.se )
HR-partner: Stina Andersson ( stina.andersson]_[lnu.se )
Linnaeus University has the ambition to utilize the qualities that an
even gender distribution and diversity brings to the organization.
Please apply by clicking on the [Apply] button at the bottom of
the position description on the Vacancies page:
https://lnu.se/en/meet-linnaeus-university/work-with-us/vacancies-page/?rmpage=job&rmjob=8865&rmlang=UK
Applicants are requested to the application resolving CV, cover letter
, a copy of a relevant essay , grades and certificates and other
relevant documents. The applicant also requested to submit with their
application a proposed research plan within the current area of
research. All documents must be attached to digital in the application.
The application and other documents shall be marked with the reference
number. All documents cited must be received by the University no later
than 23.59 (Local time in Sweden) on the closing day.
Linnaeus University is an employer that meets the requirements of the European Charter for Researchers and follows the recruitment guidelines. Therefore, the university has received the HR Excellence in Research award.
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