Postdoctoral Researcher to the Division of Clinical Microbiology Full-time

Postdoctoral Researcher to the Division of Clinical Microbiology

Do you want to contribute to top quality medical research?

The Department of Laboratory Medicine consists of seven divisions in which both research and teaching are conducted. The department is involved in advanced research in both basic and applied research. The Division of Clinical Microbiology conducts multidisciplinary research in infectious diseases that contributes translational knowledge to the development of new diagnostics and treatment methods.

Now the research team of Benedikt Strunz under the Christian Giske research group is looking for a postdoc for a fixed-term position for 2 years extendable to 1 year.

Your mission

As a postdoc, you will study how immunosuppression affects immune functions in the context of viral infections and how that relates to outcome. You will perform integrative multi-omics analyses (including flow cytometry, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics) on both in vitro systems and ex vivo patient samples. You will receive expert guidance in immunology and virology and access to modern equipment to generate this data.

Your profile

To be eligible for employment as a postdoctoral researcher, a PhD or a foreign degree deemed to be equivalent to a Swedish PhD is required. This eligibility requirement must be fulfilled at the latest at the time of the employment decision. Completion of your doctoral degree within the last three years is considered an advantage. If there are special reasons, your degree may have been completed earlier.

In addition, we want you to have documented research expertise and documented research experience in immunology. It is advantageous to have flow cytometry experience and knowledge of innate immunity. It is particularly meritorious to have experience in the analysis of tissue-resident immune cells.

Experience in the methodology for enriching/sorting immune cells as well as analysis of high-parameter flow cytometry and RNA sequencing is particularly meritorious, as is the publication of high-impact research articles in the field of immunology.

As a person, we want you to be creative, productive and have excellent communication skills. You can collaborate but also lead research and communicate ideas. In this recruitment, we place great importance on personal characteristics.

What do we offer?

A creative and inspiring environment with wide-ranging expertise and interests. Karolinska Institutet is one of the world's leading medical universities. At Karolinska Institutet, we conduct successful medical research and hold the largest range of medical education in Sweden. At KI, you get to meet researchers working with a wide range of specialisms and methods, giving you ample opportunity to exchange knowledge and experience with the various scientific fields within medicine and health. It is the crossover collaborations, which have pushed KI to where it is today, at the forefront of global research. Several of the people you meet in healthcare are educated at KI. A close relationship with the health care providers is important for creating groundbreaking top quality education and research. Karolinska Institutet is also a state university, which entitles you to several benefits through our collective agreement.

Location: Flemingsberg

Application

An employment application must contain the following documents in English or Swedish:

• PhD certificate
• A complete resumé, including date of the thesis defence, title of the thesis, previous academic positions, academic title, current position, academic distinctions, and committee work
• A complete list of publications
• A summary of current work (no more than one page)

The application is to be submitted through the Varbi recruitment system.

Want to make a difference? Join us and contribute to better health for all!

Type of employment – Temporary position

Contract type – Full time

First day of employment – According to agreement

Salary – Monthly salary

Number of positions – 1

Full-time equivalent – 100%

City – Huddinge

County – Stockholms län

Country – Sweden

Reference number – STÖD 2-1665/2026

Contact – Benedikt Strunz, benedikt.strunz@ki.se

Union representative – Tarja Schröder OFR-ST, tarja.schroder@ki.seAnnika Lindkvist SACO, annica.lindkvist@ki.se

Published – 25.Apr.2026

Last application date – 09.May.2026