Are you a PhD holder interested in Postdoctoral Fellowships? Harvard University, Massachusetts is offering Postdoctoral Fellowships in various research fields. Apply today to pursue your research interests in a stimulating academic environment!
1. Postdoctoral Position
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
Postdoctoral positions are available in Cengiz Pehlevan’s research group at Harvard University. Our group investigates how intelligence emerges from the collective dynamics of simple processing units in neural networks, which drive both artificial and natural intelligence. Current projects span a wide range of topics in deep learning theory and theoretical neuroscience.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
2. Postdoctoral Position
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
The Teamcore Group (https://teamcore.seas.harvard.edu) at the John A. Paulson 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 projects on AI and multiagent systems research for societal impact. We focus on fundamental research problems in multiagent systems, machine learning, reinforcement learning, game theory, bandit algorithms, and LLM-enhanced reinforcement learning, driven by interdisciplinary collaborations in public health/conservation and public safety, ensuring a virtuous cycle of research and real-world applications.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
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3. Postdoctoral Position
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
A postdoctoral scholar is sought to build a metalens optical system to image bacteria, including integration with small-pixel sensors, potentially an easy-to-use manual focus system, an integrated light source, and an image capture and transfer system.The candidate will join the group of Prof. Federico Capasso and collaborate with a team at the Harvard Medical School, led by Prof. Johan Paulsson, focused on bacterial detection identification (ID) and antibiotic susceptibility testing (AST), leveraging on this optical system, including interfacing with a microfluidic system.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
4. Postdoctoral Position
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
The program creates a bridge between academic training in public health-related fields and entry-level faculty positions at institutions throughout the United States by advancing the intellectual and professional development of each Yerby Fellow as they develop research agendas, receive grant support, and actively pursue publication in peer-reviewed journals. Fellows work under the guidance of senior Harvard Chan School faculty members with compatible interests and can have opportunities to gain teaching experience and participate in a variety of professional development activities.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
5. Postdoctoral Position
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
The opening is for a postdoctoral fellow with expertise in all of the following areas: The design and control of robotic systems, especially those based on fish. The analysis of fish locomotor dynamics including measurement of kinematics and force generation during locomotion. Care and maintenance of live fishes in a laboratory environment. The postdoc will be based at the Museum of Comparative Zoology Laboratories of Harvard University and have access to all the resources available through the Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Department. The position is available for 1 year, with the possibility of renewal for a second year, and will include a competitive salary and full benefits.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
6. Postdoctoral Position
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
Join an interdisciplinary research team of the Cluzel laboratory at Harvard that focuses on advancing the frontiers of biological imaging, microfluidics and understanding intracellular processes. We are seeking a highly motivated Postdoctoral Research Fellow to develop novel techniques for real-time characterization of intracellular processes using fluorescence microscopy and fluctuation correlation spectroscopy (FCS).
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7. Postdoctoral Position
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The Gershman lab at Harvard University is seeking to hire a postdoctoral fellow to work on experimental studies of learning and memory in planarian flatworms. This research program is motivated by new ideas about the molecular basis of memory. We are using planarians as a model system for understanding cell-intrinsic mechanisms for associative learning and their relationship to regenerative biology. This is a three-year term position with possibility of renewal dependent upon job performance and continued availability of funding.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
8. Postdoctoral Position
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
The Harvard Microrobotics Lab is seeking candidates for multiple Postdoctoral Researcher positions in the area of biodegradable robots with a focus on materials for actuation, energy, and control, and integration with autonomous biodegradable devices.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
9. Postdoctoral Position
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
The Department seeks candidates in the broad field of Earth and Planetary Sciences including but not limited to geology, geochemistry, geobiology, geodynamics, petrology, geophysics, oceanography, atmospheric dynamics, climate science, atmospheric chemistry, Earth history, hydrology, mineralogy, mineral physics, paleomagnetism, seismology, and planetary sciences. We welcome methodological approaches that span field observations, lab-based science, theory, and computation. The Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences celebrates the multiple dimensions of diversity that each member of our community offers, including diversity of background, perspective, and lived experience.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
10. Postdoctoral Position
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The Department of Global Health and Social Medicine stands out at Harvard University for its unique focus on research and training aimed at improving global health delivery and promoting health equity worldwide. Core to the department’s work is the recognition that an interdisciplinary approach is key to expanding and achieving global health equity. Traditional medical models alone will not fully address the complex social, economic, and political factors influencing global health care. Through the lens of disciplines like anthropology, history, sociology, economics, implementation science, and bioethics, department investigators seek to understand how issues like poverty, inequality, and access to resources act as barriers to health.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
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11. Postdoctoral Position
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
The Department of Global Health and Social Medicine stands out at Harvard University for its unique focus on research and training aimed at improving global health delivery and promoting health equity worldwide. Core to the department’s work is the recognition that an interdisciplinary approach is key to expanding and achieving global health equity. Traditional medical models alone will not fully address the complex social, economic, and political factors influencing global health care. Through the lens of disciplines like anthropology, history, sociology, economics, implementation science, and bioethics, department investigators seek to understand how issues like poverty, inequality, and access to resources act as barriers to health.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
12. Postdoctoral Position
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We are excited to announce the opportunity for one or more postdoctoral fellows in the field of experimental axion dark matter searches in Stefan Knirck’s lab at Harvard University. Axion dark matter searches are on the cross-section between fundamental physics, astrophysics, photonics and quantum sensing. Our group is set to play a leading role in BREAD (Broadband Reflector Experiment for Axion Detection) and make crucial contributions to world-leading efforts such as ADMX (Axion Dark Matter eXperiment) and MADMAX (MAgnetized Disk and Mirror Axion eXperiment). We invite all candidates who are passionate about making an impact to this interdisciplinary field both by providing their expertise and grow by learning skills related to fields new to them.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
13. Postdoctoral Position
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
The Digital, Data, and Design (D^3) Institute at Harvard is accepting applications for multiple postdoctoral fellows for academic year 2025-2026 to work on research activities at our research labs. D^3 conducts research at the intersection of academia and practice. The Postdoctoral Fellows will work under the direct supervision of faculty Principal Investigators and the Senior Director of Labs. They will work closely with the lab manager and research associate(s) at each lab. D^3 is looking for candidates with diverse backgrounds and/or new perspectives. There are no teaching requirements for these open positions.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
14. Postdoctoral Position
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
The Computational Science and Engineering Laboratory at Harvard University invites applications for a postdoctoral position at the interface of High Performance Computing, Computational Science and Artificial Intelligence for applications ranging from turbulence to collective fluid mechanics beginning September 1, 2024, or as soon thereafter as possible. The position is for one year, renewable for two additional years. The candidate will work closely with Professor Petros Koumoutsakos cse-lab.harvard.edu For further information, please contact petros@seas.harvard.edu.
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15. Postdoctoral Position
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
The Quantum Condensed Matter Theory groups, led by Professors Eslam Khalaf, Mikhail Lukin, Subir Sachdev, Ashvin Vishwanath, Norman Yao, Susanne Yelin and Bertrand Halperin (Emeritus) in the Department of Physics, and by Professor Efthimios Kaxiras (SEAS/Physics), expect to appoint one or more postdoctoral fellows beginning in Fall 2025. We are looking for candidates with interests in quantum mechanical condensed matter theory including: strongly correlated electron systems & mesoscopics, topological phases, ultracold atomic gases, quantum optics, and quantum information.
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16. Postdoctoral Position
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The Mississippi Delta Research Center of Excellence for Maternal Health is a recently funded multi-year project created to address maternal mortality, decrease severe maternal morbidity, and promote maternal health equity in partnership with the Mississippi Delta community. This collaboration is between Jackson State University, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the Mississippi State Department of Health, the University of Mississippi Medical Center, Six Dimensions (a Mississippi community-based public health consulting company), and various community partners.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
17. Postdoctoral Position
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
We seek up to two postdoctoral fellows who will pursue research on fundamental scientific questions in natural and artificial intelligence, with explicit links to neuroscience and cognitive science. These fellows will be part of Harvard University’s Center for Brain Science (CBS), in a new program in the physics of intelligence, funded by a gift from NTT Research, using physics to tackle fundamental questions in intelligence, bridging computational and theoretical neuroscience, computer science, and cognitive science.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
18. 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
19. Postdoctoral Position
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
The Harvard College Observatory/Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian invites applications for a postdoctoral research position in radio astronomy with Prof. Liam Connor, with a focus on Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs), wide-field radio survey development, and fast time-domain pipelines. Those with previous experience in FRBs, interferometry, radio instrumentation, or pipeline development are strongly encouraged to apply. While direct hardware expertise is considered an asset, it is not required; the exact project(s) will be tailored to the successful applicant’s strengths and interests. The candidate will have the opportunity to lead key projects in wide-field next-generation radio surveys including a radio all-sky monitor and the Deep Synoptic Arrays.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
20. Postdoctoral Position
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
The Program on U.S.-Japan Relations at Harvard University’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs will offer postdoctoral fellowships during the 2025-26 academic year. We seek applications from outstanding recent PhDs in the social sciences who are conducting research that illuminates Japan’s relations with the rest of the world in the broadest sense. We welcome applications from anthropology, business, economics, history, international relations, law, political science, psychology, public health, public policy, and sociology, among other fields. Scholars may examine domestic issues that bear on Japan’s external relations or problems that it shares with other countries, and we encourage projects that compare Japan’s experience cross-nationally.
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21. Postdoctoral Position
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
We seek a postdoctoral research associate to work with Professor Andrew Davies at Harvard University on a large-scale project investigating how feedbacks between multiple ecosystem engineers shape savanna landscape heterogeneity. This particular position will focus on spatial and ecosystem ecology of white rhinoceros in relation to spatial and foraging behavior and how these relate to nutrient dispersal in the Kruger National Park, South Africa. The research will combine movement data from GPS-tagged white rhinoceros, ecosystem manipulation experiments of termite mounds and high-resolution landscape mapping using Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) to understand how feedbacks between ecosystem engineers (white rhinoceros and termites) shape savanna ecosystems.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
