Are you a PhD holder interested in Postdoctoral Fellowships? Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts is offering Postdoctoral Fellowships in various research fields. Apply today to pursue your research interests in a stimulating academic environment!
1. Postdoctoral Position
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A postdoctoral position is available to study the effects of muscle size (inactive muscle mass) on the contractile properties of skeletal muscle in the laboratory of Andrew Biewener at the Concord Field Station of Harvard University. The research project involves making in situ and in vitro Force-Velocity-Power, Force-Length and cyclical work loop measurements of submaximal versus maximally activated skeletal muscles from different sized mammals. Measurements will inform and help to test 3D muscle models in collaboration with the Wakeling lab at Simon Fraser University. The project will also involve close collaboration with the lab of Nicolai Konow at UMA-Lowell. Candidates with a background in biomechanics, bioengineering or muscle modeling are encouraged to apply, particularly those with experience carrying out isolated muscle experiments.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
2. Postdoctoral Position
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The Weatherhead Research Cluster on Identity Politics at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University invites applications for a postdoctoral fellowship focusing on ethnic and religious politics and conflict. This fellowship is part of the annual cohort of the Weatherhead Scholars Program, which comprises 20-25 members, including postdoctoral fellows, visiting scholars, and practitioner fellows. The fellow will work closely with Melani Cammett, Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs in the Department of Government, Chair of the Weatherhead Research Cluster on Identity Politics, and Faculty Director of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
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3. Postdoctoral Position
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Business, the global economy, and societies around the world are facing dramatic upheaval as a result of rapid technological change driven simultaneously by digitization, the application of artificial intelligence and machine learning to all facets of company, economic, and human data, and a new emphasis on the importance of design and innovation on value creation for stakeholders. Postdoctoral Fellows at D^3 will work on various research projects related to these phenomena, including: Business Model Transformation; Operating Model Transformation; Organizational and Workforce Transformation; Performance and Metrics; Data, Privacy and Transparency; and Societal Impact.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
4. Postdoctoral Position
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We’re looking for a joint postdoctoral fellow, who will be mentored by both Prof. Nada Amin at Harvard SEAS and Prof. Walter Fontana at Harvard Medical School. The goal is to develop new computational methods anchored in programming languages and inspired by chemistry, biology, and medicine. For example, we want to propose and study abstractions as an emergent computational phenomenon in an evolutionary approach to program synthesis.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
5. Postdoctoral Position
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A postdoctoral position is available in the Geometric Machine Learning Group at Harvard University, led by Prof. Melanie Weber. This role offers an opportunity to perform research at the intersection of Geometry and Machine Learning, with a focus on studying geometric structures in data and models and how to leverage such structure for the design of efficient machine learning algorithms with provable guarantees. Research areas include Representation Learning, Machine learning and Optimization on graphs and manifolds, as well as applications of geometric methods in the Sciences.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
6. Postdoctoral Position
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The Postdoctoral Fellow will work under the direct supervision of faculty Principal Investigators and the Senior Director of Labs. They will work closely with the Research Manager and Research Associate(s) at each lab. We seek candidates with experience in one or more of the following areas: causal inference, econometrics, experimental design and analysis, or working with complex datasets such as networks. The role requires advanced knowledge of quantitative research methodologies and data science techniques to manage, extrapolate and analyze research data.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
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7. Postdoctoral Position
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The Postdoctoral Fellows will play a pivotal role within the LISH Lab Team, collaborating with Harvard Business School (HBS) faculty and LISH researchers to leverage data in advancing social science research across business, management, digital transformation, data science, and artificial intelligence. Business, the global economy, and societies around the world are facing dramatic upheaval as a result of rapid technological change driven simultaneously by digitization, the application of artificial intelligence and machine learning to all facets of company, economic, and human data, and a new emphasis on the importance of design and innovation on value creation for stakeholders.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
8. Postdoctoral Position
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The Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health studies the frequency, distribution, and determinants of disease in humans, a fundamental science of public health. In addition to pursuing ground-breaking global research initiatives, we educate and prepare future medical leaders and practitioners as part of our mission to ignite positive changes in the quality of health across the world.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
9. Postdoctoral Position
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For academic year 2025-26 the Fairbank Center is offering two post-doctoral fellowships to support participants in an interdisciplinary research group that will focus on the timely theme of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Society in Global China. The research group will be led by Professor Ya-Wen Lei and Professor Moira Weigel (see bios below). The 2025-26 An Wang research group aims to examine AI development, adoption, and impact as multidimensional, transnational processes shaped by historical precedents, China’s domestic evolution, and contemporary global dynamics. Please see the Fairbank Center website for a more detailed description of the research theme and objectives.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
10. Postdoctoral Position
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The Insight + Interaction Lab in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) at Harvard University seeks motivated postdoctoral fellows with a Ph.D. in computer science/engineering or a related field to work on research projects in the areas of data visualization and/or machine learning. In addition to working closely with graduate students and collaborators on research projects, the candidate is expected to actively participate in writing grant proposals.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
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11. Postdoctoral Position
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The Fishman Lab invites applications for a Postdoctoral Fellow position. Our goal is to discover signals that flow from internal organs to the brain – what parameters are sensed, by what cells, and to what end, in terms of maintaining constancy of the internal environment. We focus in particular upon the heart and cardiovascular system, using the transparent larvae of the zebrafish. The heart, like all internal organs, has its own local mini-brain. This local network is connected to the autonomic nervous system, known to register external threats and internal challenges, such as hypotension and hypoxia. Projects range across a host of technologies, including single cell transcriptional analysis, in vivo neuronal activity monitoring, transgenesis, optogenetics, patch clamp analysis, electron microscopy and expansion microscopy.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
12. Postdoctoral Position
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Applications are invited for Postdoctoral Research Fellows in the Black Hole Initiative (BHI) at Harvard University and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO). The BHI is the first interdisciplinary research center worldwide to focus on the study of black holes. It is located within Harvard University at 20 Garden Street in Cambridge, MA. Current senior members of the BHI include Harvard faculty, BHI Director Peter Galison (History & Philosophy of Science), Ramesh Narayan (Astronomy), Andy Strominger (Physics) and Abraham Loeb (Astronomy), Yale Faculty Priyamvada Natarajan (Astronomy), MIT Faculty Netta Engelhardt (Physics), as well as SAO astronomers Sheperd Doeleman (Founding Director of the Event Horizon Telescope project) and Michael Johnson (Astrophysicist, Harvard-Smithsonian CfA).
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
13. Postdoctoral Position
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One History of Capitalism Fellow will be appointed for the academic year 2025-2026 and will be provided time, guidance, office space, and access to Harvard University facilities. Fellows should be prepared to devote their time to productive scholarship and must undertake sustained projects of new research or other original work. They will be expected to be in residence and participate in the vibrant community of historians of business, capitalism, and political economy at Harvard Business School and in the Harvard community more broadly.
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14. Postdoctoral Position
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The Harvard College Observatory Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian invites applications for a postdoctoral research position with Prof. Edo Berger in the areas of time-domain and gravitational wave astrophysics, including electromagnetic studies of gravitational wave sources, supernovae, tidal disruption events, gamma-ray bursts, machine learning classification, and magnetic activity in low mass stars and exoplanets. The successful applicant will lead and participate in observations and data analysis across the electromagnetic spectrum, in one or more of these areas, or will lead work on machine learning classification of optical transients.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
15. Postdoctoral Position
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A postdoc position is immediately available in the Uchida/Watabe-Uchida laboratory at Harvard University to study the neural mechanism of decision-making. We seek an individual from a various background with an interest in animal behavior, computation in the brain, and behavioral development.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
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16. Postdoctoral Position
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The Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard T.H Chan School of Public Health invites applications for a Postdoctoral fellow position funded in large part by an NIH training grant on Quantitative Sciences for Cancer Research. Candidates have latitude to choose among several mentors across various institutes at Harvard; research can range from the most applied to the most theoretical as long as there is a genuine commitment to its ultimate utility in cancer research.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
17. Postdoctoral Position
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The Department of Statistics invites applications for a Postdoctoral Fellow with Professor Subhabrata Sen. Professor Sen’s lab focuses on research in applied probability, high-dimensional statistics, and network analysis. Potential research projects include (but are not limited to) inference on networks, typical and atypical properties of random graphs, community detection etc.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
