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Postdoctoral Fellowship Positions

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Postdoctoral Fellowship Opportunity Available:​​​
Closing date:
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Postdoctoral  Research Fellowship

Macroeconomics​

Department of Economics

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15 January 2024
 (or until the position is filled)

Prof Guangling Liu​
​​Postdoctoral Fellowship 

Allan Gray Centre for Africa Entrepreneurship (AGCAE)

Scope of Research: Two intellectual projects focus: 

Connecten: Seeks to measure and build a regional and national understanding of "ten" conditions that are generally associated with healthy entrepreneurial ecosystems in response to the lack of regional and national data on the same. 

Africa Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Index: In partnership with Innovation for policy (I4policy) in an ambitious effort to understand entrepreneurial ecosystem conditions broadly similar to Connecten at a continental level.

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18 Decem​ber 2023
​Dr Jaco Franken
​Postdoctoral Fellowship
 
TB drug discovery and development

Department of Biochemistry

Project Title: The Design and implementation of protein binding and interaction assays (such as DSF, ITC and SPR), SDS-PAGE, Western-Blot and other immunological essays for protein identification and quantification and spectrophotometric assays such as reporter assays and proximity assays (FRET, BRET, AlphaScreen).

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15 Decem​ber 2023
​Prof Erick Strauss
​Postdoctoral Research Fellowship

TB Genomics Group, Division of Molecular Biology and Human Genetics 

Research Title: "Identification and Characterization of Non-tuberculosis Mycobacteria (NTM) in South Africa, and their Role in Modulating Macrophage Immune Response to other Lung Pathogens".


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15 Decem​ber 2023
Dr Marisa Klopper
​​Postdoctoral Research Fellowships

Centre for the study of the Afterlife of Violence and the Reparative Quest (AVReQ)

Research Themes: Exploration of experiences in higher education institutional context with a focus on at least one of the following:

  • Transgenerational construction of racial practice and the lived experience of race in higher education institutional context
  • Stories of change and transformation at university campuses: relational encounters across difference.
  • Universities in the wider community in historical context 


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12 Decem​ber 2023
​Dr Samantha van ​Schalkwyk
​​Postdoctoral Fellowship

SARchi chair in Gender Politics

Project Title: Gender Politics- Enhancing Women's Citizenship: To determine the shape and quality of women's citizenship in South Africa, but also in Southern Africa from  a comparative perspective

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10 Decem​ber 2023
​Prof Amanda Gouws
​Postdoctoral Research Fellowship 

Department of Viticulture & Oenology

Scope of Research: to better understand how biotechnologically important microorganisms such as yeast and microalgae communicate, and to identify interaction specific molecular signatures.

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  10 Decem​ber 2023
​Prof Florian Bauer
​Postdoctoral Research Fellowship 

Department of Chemistry and Polymer Science 

Scope of Research: Solid-state supramolecular chemistry- Sublimation of organic multi-component crystals.

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8 ​December 2023
Prof Delia Haynes
Postdoctoral Fellowship

Faculty of Law. One fellowship available per department: Private Law, Public Law and Mercantile Law

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 5 December 2023
​Ms Yolandi Filander
Postdoctoral Fellowship

Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering

Scope of Research: Developing Speech processing models tailored for child speech in Afrikaans, isiXhosa and siSwati.

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30 November 2023
Prof Herman kamper 
Postdoctoral  Research Fellowship

TB Genomics Group, Division of Molecular Biology and Human Genetics.

Project Title: An RNA nanosensor for the diagnosis of antibiotic resistance in M.tuberculosis 

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30 November 2023
Prof Robin Mark Warren
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship:
Global Health 

A 2-year postdoctoral fellowship in global health is available for a candidate with an interest in improving access to surgical care at the community level.

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30 November 2023
Prof Kathryn Chu​
Postdoctoral Fellowship  

Division of Medical ​​Physiology

Project Title: Altered mitochondrial function and HIV-associated cardiometabolic disease in populations from South Africa and Kenya (MITO-SAKen)

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30 November 2023
​Prof Hans Strijdom 
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship:
Eco-evolutionary modelling of biodiversity changes in open adaptive communities.​

Scope of Research: This project aims to use mathematical and statistical tools to monitor and predict the dynamics and patterns of community transitions when facing cross-scale stressors, such as habitat loss, biological invasions, and climate change. It brings together advanced mathematical models and statistical methods with real biodiversity data to create in-depth understanding of how ecological communities and interaction networks assemble and operate in changing environments. ​

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This call remains open until filled or 31/12/2028
​Ms JE Swart

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