Call for SciLifeLab and DDLS Fellows 2025
Karolinska Institutet is recruiting three Assistant Professors in two programs tied to SciLifeLab. SciLifeLab and DDLS Fellows (Assistant Professors) are six-year positions with generous recruitment packages. The successful candidates are employed by Karolinska Institutet and affiliated with SciLifeLab. Deadline for applications is November 15th, 2025.
The SciLifeLab Fellows Program
The SciLifeLab Fellows program is a shared initiative since 2013 between Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm University, KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Uppsala University. The positions are funded by Karolinska Institutet’s Strategic Research Area grant for SciLifeLab. In the 2025 call, up to two Fellows will be recruited.
Call: SciLifeLab Fellow (Assistant Professor in Molecular Life Science)
We are looking for up to two talented researchers who are expected to develop world-leading independent biomedical research in one or several of the fields of interest to SciLifeLab and Karolinska Institutet.
Data-Driven Life Science (DDLS) Fellows Program
The SciLifeLab and Wallenberg National Program for Data-Driven Life Science (DDLS) was started in 2021 and includes the recruitment of 50 Fellows in total, four of which will be joining Karolinska Institutet. Four positions were recently filled at KI, and a call is now open for one more Fellow.
Call: DDLS Fellow (Assistant Professor in Data-Driven Precision Medicine and Diagnostics)
Data-driven precision medicine and diagnostics covers data integration, analysis, visualization, and data interpretation for patient stratification, discovery of biomarkers for disease risks, diagnosis, drug response and monitoring of health.
The applicant is expected to have a strong computational focus on innovative development and application of novel data-driven methods relying on machine learning, artificial intelligence, or other computational techniques.
About SciLifeLab
SciLifeLab is an academic collaboration between multiple Swedish universities and distributed national research infrastructure with a distinct focus on health and environmental research. SciLifeLab Campus Solna houses about 100 research groups, state-of-the-art resources and technological infrastructures, e.g., high throughput DNA sequencing, analysis of gene expression (single cell and spatiotranscriptomics), protein profiling, cellular profiling, chemical and functional biology, advanced visualization, advanced bioinformatics, structural biology, biostatistics, and systems biology.