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Postdoctoral Fellowship Positions

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Postdoctoral Fellowship Opportunity Available:​​​
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Postdoctoral  Fellowship

Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine and Health Sciences

Research Focus: Genetic characterization of an inherited neuromuscular diseases (NMD) cohort utilizing next generation sequencing  (NGS) data. 


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15 May 2024
Prof Franclo Henning
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship

Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, Centre for Multi-dimensional Visualisation (MuVISU)

Research Focus: Machine learning for compositional data.


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03 May 2024
Stephan van der Westhuizen
Postdoctoral Fellowships

National Research Foundation (NRF)

Funding Opportunities

NRF Free-standing Postdoctoral Fellowships:
  • Natural Sciences
  • Engineering
  • Technology
  • Social Science
  • Humannities 
NRF Innovation Postdoctoral Fellowships:
  • Cellular and Molecular Biology
  • Engineering Computer Science 
  • Physics 
  • Astronomy
  • Mathematical Sciences 
  • Nanotechnology
  • Chemistry
  • Earth Science
  • Ecology
  • Medical science 
  • Social Science 
NRF Scarce Skills Postdoctoral Fellowship:
  • Management: Financial Management; Accounting, Auditing, Statistics, Actuarial Science
  • Biological Science: Biotechnology
  • Physical Science: Mathematical sciences, Physics, Geology, Computer Sciennce, Information Systems, Chemistry. 
  • Engineering: All fields including Agricultural Science, Transportation Studies, Tourism, Demography

02 May 2024
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Postdoctoral Fellowship

Department of Exercise, Sport & Lifestyle Medicine.

Research Focus: Injury and illness Surveillance in Paralympic athletes and other adapted sports medicine research.


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30 April 2024
Prof Wayne Derman
Postdoctoral  Fellowship

​Faculty of AgriScience & Department of History

Research Focus: The cultivation of the Indigenous and underutilised Bambara groundnut in the Southern Africa- to understand how indigenous communities have interacted with, and managed, this important crop over time. 


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30 April 2024
Dr E Phiri
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship

​Faculty of Theology

Scope of Research: The New Testament and ecology- exploring the theme from the viewpoint of ancient cosmology, with attention to both texts and contexts.


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30 April 2024
Prof. Jeremy Punt
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship

Department of Industrial Engineering

Research Focus: Ecosystem design and research integration for large scale transition to electric mobility for SA road passenger and freight transport.​



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28 April 2024
Prof. Joubert van Eeden
Postdoctoral Fellowship

National Institute for Theoretical and Computational studies (NITheCS) Stellenbosch Hub, Africa Europe CoRE-AI

Research Focus: Addressing global and African challenges through the application of Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, and Theoretical and Computational Thinking

- To contribute significantly to the achievements of the Sustainable Development Goals by addressing critical issues such as climate change, food security, education, public health, and social justice.


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23 April 2024
​Prof. Francesco Petruccione
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship

South African Research Chair in Integrated Wine Science (SARchi)

Scope of Research: To better understand how biotechnologically important microorganisms such as yeasts and microalgal species communicate and identify interaction specific molecular signatures. 


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15 April 2024
​Prof. Florian Bauer
Postdoctoral  Fellowship

South African National Institute for Theoretical and Computational Science (NITheCS)

Research Themes: Any of the 8 NITheCS themes including: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Bioinformatics & Quantative Biology, Data Science, Earth Systems Modelling & Climate Change Modelling, Mathematics, Quantative Finance, Statistics, Theoritical Physics. 


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15 April 2024
​Prof. Francesco Petruccione
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship

Department of Chemistry and Polymer Science

Scope of Research: Computational structural chemistry- determination of structure - property relationships of potential gold-based drugs.


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12 April 2024
Prof Catharine Esterhuysen
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship

Department of Food Science 

Scope of Research: To investigate the use Hyperspectral Imaging and conventional RGB imaging as a vehicle to qualitatively predict for the presence of pre-harvest germination in barley and varietal differences, using chemometric modelling. 


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10 April 2024
Dr Stefan Hayward
Postdoctoral  Research Fellowship

Macroeconomics​

Department of Economics

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15 January 2024
 (or until the position is filled)

Prof Guangling Liu​
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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