Skip to content

Laddar pollenprognos...

Logotyp för Naturhistoriska riksmuseet
Logotyp för Naturhistoriska riksmuseet

Vacancies

Are you one of our new colleagues? Here you can find current job openings in English.

Some jobs are only listed in Swedish: see all job openings available in Swedish here.

About the Workplace

Our activities are based on our scientific collections, which include near 11 million specimens. The majority of our 300 staff work in the Research Department.

Our exhibits and Cosmonova offer new experiences and discoveries to our visitors, and every year it is our pleasure to welcome over 700,000 visitors of all ages. We value quality, openness, clear organization and our sense of common purpose. Sharing our knowledge gives us motivation and inspiration in our daily our work.

Title
Form of emplyment
Application deadline

Postdoctoral researcher, Department of population Analysis and Monitoring

Temporary employment
31 July 2025
Read more about the position Postdoctoral researcher, Department of population Analysis and Monitoring
This project is part of an EU consortium with project partners in Finland and Sweden funded by Interreg Aurora. The project aims to enhance collaboration, develop novel methods, produce best practices and utilise existing knowledge of ringed seals ecology (Pusa hispida) to better understand the threats the ring seal populations face in Lake Saimaa and the Gulf of Bothnia in order to provide scientific data-driven advice for management. Specifically, the project aims to provide spatially explicit information on ringed seals key habitats related to human activity and promote awareness on ringed seals to the general public. The successful candidate will participate in planning and conducting fieldwork to deploy telemetry tags (on 20 Baltic Ringed seals (BRS)) to collect data on ringed seal behaviour at sea. Two types of tags will be used in this project:  (i) SMRU (Sea Mammal Research Unit at University of St Andrews, Scotland) GPS-GSM satellite tag. The purpose of this tag is to collect data on seal position, dive depth profiles and duration, surface intervals and water temperature in order to reveal information on habitat use. This tag is designed to remain attached until seals undergo moulting.  (ii) Wildlife Computers SPOT flipper tag. The purpose of this tag is to retrieve low resolution position and haul-out behaviour during breeding and moulting. This tag stay attached on the seal flipper and transmit data until the batteries are depleted. The successful candidate will further process and analyse data in collaboration with partners in Finland. This will include statistical analysis to produce a movement behaviour model for BRS, producing spatial data on the predicted key habitats of BRS and quantifying the effects of shipping and fishing activities on the occurrence and behaviour of BRS. The results will feed into a population risk assessment and recommendations for sustainable sea area management.  The successful candidate will also collaborate in creating a mobile exhibition promoting awareness on ringed seals and their habitats to the general public in Sweden and Finland, which includes organising the exhibition in Sweden. The Swedish Museum of Natural History has since the 1980s run the national monitoring programs for seals, including the BRS. The National monitoring data is available for analysis and may be incorporated into the project.   The position is available with a start date as soon as possible, and will end on 31 of July 2028.
Read more and apply

Postdoctoral researcher, Department of population Analysis and Monitoring

Read more about the position Postdoctoral researcher, Department of population Analysis and Monitoring

This project is part of an EU consortium with project partners in Finland and Sweden funded by Interreg Aurora. The project aims to enhance collaboration, develop novel methods, produce best practices and utilise existing knowledge of ringed seals ecology (Pusa hispida) to better understand the threats the ring seal populations face in Lake Saimaa and the Gulf of Bothnia in order to provide scientific data-driven advice for management. Specifically, the project aims to provide spatially explicit information on ringed seals key habitats related to human activity and promote awareness on ringed seals to the general public. The successful candidate will participate in planning and conducting fieldwork to deploy telemetry tags (on 20 Baltic Ringed seals (BRS)) to collect data on ringed seal behaviour at sea. Two types of tags will be used in this project:  (i) SMRU (Sea Mammal Research Unit at University of St Andrews, Scotland) GPS-GSM satellite tag. The purpose of this tag is to collect data on seal position, dive depth profiles and duration, surface intervals and water temperature in order to reveal information on habitat use. This tag is designed to remain attached until seals undergo moulting.  (ii) Wildlife Computers SPOT flipper tag. The purpose of this tag is to retrieve low resolution position and haul-out behaviour during breeding and moulting. This tag stay attached on the seal flipper and transmit data until the batteries are depleted. The successful candidate will further process and analyse data in collaboration with partners in Finland. This will include statistical analysis to produce a movement behaviour model for BRS, producing spatial data on the predicted key habitats of BRS and quantifying the effects of shipping and fishing activities on the occurrence and behaviour of BRS. The results will feed into a population risk assessment and recommendations for sustainable sea area management.  The successful candidate will also collaborate in creating a mobile exhibition promoting awareness on ringed seals and their habitats to the general public in Sweden and Finland, which includes organising the exhibition in Sweden. The Swedish Museum of Natural History has since the 1980s run the national monitoring programs for seals, including the BRS. The National monitoring data is available for analysis and may be incorporated into the project.   The position is available with a start date as soon as possible, and will end on 31 of July 2028.

Application deadline: 31 July 2025

Anställningstyp: Temporary employment

Read more and apply