We are seeking an Assistant Professor for a position starting May 15, 2026 to explore new ways of treating chemoresistant acute myeloid leukaemia in the Wennerberg group at BRIC, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen
Information on BRIC and the Wennerberg group can be found at:
www.bric.ku.dk Our research The Wennerberg group at BRIC focuses on identifying new effective precision cancer therapies. This is done with a systems-driven approach where we combine chemical biology, phenotypic profiling, molecular profiling, and informatics to gain an understanding of individual cancers, their drug resistance mechanisms, and how they may be targeted. Our ultimate goal is to build the foundation for new types of stratified and individualized cures for cancer patients.
Your job The assistant professor’s responsibilities will primarily consist of research, including publication/academic dissemination duties.
The Assistant Professor will take the lead on a project focused on identifying novel targetable mechanisms of phenotypic plasticity underlying acute myeloid leukaemia chemoresistance. The project integrates high-throughput drug response analyses with molecular profiling acute myeloid leukaemia cell lines, patient samples and animal models.
You will be encouraged to further design and implement innovative methodologies to address the clinically relevant questions in the acute leukaemia therapy resistance field, depending on her/his expertise and interests.
Teaching at Master’s, PhD, and medical student courses organized at BRIC will also be part of your tasks.
Profile Six overall criteria apply for assistant professor appointments at the University of Copenhagen. The six criteria (research, teaching, societal impact, organisational contribution, external funding, and leadership) are considered a framework for the overall assessment of candidates. Find information about each criterion here: https://employment.ku.dk/faculty/criteria-for-recognising-merit.
Furthermore, we are looking for highly motivated and enthusiastic scientist with the following skills and experience:
Essential experience and skills:
- A PhD in the life sciences
- Postdoctoral research experience
- Extensive experience with in vitro models of acute myeloid leukaemia, including drug response studies in short- and long-term patient-derived primary cell culture.
- Experience with high-throughput screening and high-throughput flow cytometry, including acoustic liquid dispensing and methods for multidimensional automated subpopulation analyses to understand drug responses within differentiation hierarchies of leukaemias.
- Experience with the design and execution of mouse model xenograft studies, including administration of compounds (injections, oral gavage) and in vivo imaging (IVIS).
- Holding the training and certificates to perform mouse model experiments in Denmark.
- Experience with data management and processing, including statistical analysis for biological data interpretation, data visualisation, high-throughput screening data analysis, organisation of patient data.
- Excellent writing skills and experience in writing research articles, grant applications, and reports to funding bodies.
- Experience in training and supervising students and junior researchers.
- Efficient communication skills and ability to work in a team.
- Ability to multitask and manage competing priorities.
- Proactive problem-solving attitude.
- Excellent written and spoken English.
Place of employment The place of employment is at BRIC, University of Copenhagen. We offer creative and stimulating working conditions in dynamic and international research environment. Our research facilities include modern laboratories and several core facilities shared between the 24 research groups at BRIC and the neighbouring Finsen Laboratory. We have weekly journal clubs, data clubs, seminars with invited speakers and a young researchers association, ASAP, our own PhD programme, MoMeD and our own
Postdoc Career Programme. BRIC actively participates in the European alliance, EU-life consisting of 17 excellent life science research institutions
http://eu-life.eu/ Terms of employment The employment as assistant professor is a full time and fixed-term position from 15 May 2026 until 31 December 2026.
Salary, pension and other conditions of employment are set in accordance with the Agreement between the Ministry of Taxation and AC (Danish Confederation of Professional Associations) or other relevant organisation. Currently, the monthly salary starts at 35,000 DKK/approx. 4,700 EUR (October 2021 level). Depending on qualifications, a supplement may be negotiated. The employer will pay an additional 17.1 % to your pension fund.
Foreign and Danish applicants may be eligible for tax reductions if they hold a PhD degree and have not lived in Denmark the last 10 years.
The position is covered by the Job Structure for Academic Staff at Universities 2020.
Questions For further information please contact Krister Wennerberg; krister.wennerberg@bric.ku.dk.
Foreign applicants may find this link useful:
www.ism.ku.dk (International Staff Mobility).
Application procedure Your application must be submitted in English by clicking ‘Apply now’ below. Furthermore, your application must include the following documents/attachments – all in PDF format:
- Motivated letter of application (Max. one page)
- CV incl. education, work/research experience, language skills and other skills relevant for the position
- A certified/signed copy of a) PhD certificate and b) Master of Science certificate.
- List of publications
Deadline for applications: 15 March 2026, 23.59pm CET We reserve the right not to consider material received after the deadline, and not to consider applications that do not live up to the abovementioned requirements.
The further process After the expiry of the deadline for applications, the authorized recruitment manager selects applicants for assessment on the advice of the hiring committee. All applicants are then immediately notified whether their application has been passed for assessment by an unbiased assessor. Once the assessment work has been completed each applicant has the opportunity to comment on the part of the assessment that relates to the applicant him/herself.
You can read about the recruitment process at
http://employment.ku.dk/faculty/recruitment-process/ The applicant will be assessed according to the Ministerial Order no. 242 of 13 March 2012 on the Appointment of Academic Staff at Universities.
Interviews are expected to be held in week 14
The University of Copenhagen wish to reflect the diversity of society and encourage all qualified candidates to apply regardless of personal background.