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Open position

Join the project ’Neurodevelopmental disorder and the synapse’. The research groups of Jakob B. Sørensen and Jean-Francois Perrier have two open positions for ambitious post-docs interested in researching how synaptic mutations lead to disease:

Join the Department of Neuroscience

The Department of Neuroscience offers excellent opportunities for highly motivated and talented master students, PhD students and postdocs to participate in neuroscience research.

Please take time to look through the descriptions of our research groups to find the area of research that best correlates with your scientific interest and background.

You are welcome to send an unsolicited application including a letter of interest, CV and letter of references directly to one of our research group leaders.

PhD: Do your graduate studies at the Department of Neuroscience

We encourage talented and enthusiastic young researchers to pursue a graduate degree (PhD) at the Department of Neuroscience.

We invite you to take contact to the laboratory in which you aim to conduct your thesis work and pursue funding opportunities together with the head of the laboratory group. See full list of researchers at the Department of Neuroscience here

To learn about the requirements for the PhD degree at the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, visit the PhD School’s website

All graduate students at the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences are required to enroll in a graduate program. We encourage the PhD students at Department of Neuroscience to enroll in the graduate program in neuroscience, NeuroGrad. To learn about the requirements and activities of NeuroGrad, visit our website.

Student Opportunities

We invite highly motivated, dedicated and skilled students to contact us for an interview. We have long-term experience with supervision of bachelor and Master’s students with different backgrounds (human biology, medicine, molecular biomedicine, biology, biochemistry). Competent and committed supervision has our highest priority and projects are designed to full-fill the criteria of the individual study.   

See our page for current student opportunities