AMBER Postdoctoral Programme 2026 (MSCA COFUND)

Must hold a PhD or have successfully defended it by the deadline, with a maximum of 8 years of research experience post-PhD. Requires at least one original peer-reviewed publication and compliance with MSCA mobility rules (resided/worked in the host country for max 12 months in the 3 years preceding the deadline).

The AMBER (Advanced Multiscale Biological Imaging using European Research Infrastructures) Postdoctoral Programme focuses on the exploitation and development of large-scale European infrastructures to address key needs for biological imaging over length scales from molecular, through cellular, to tissue, organ, and organism levels of organization.

Featured Projects

• High Throughput SAXS for Visualizing Solid Lipid Nanoparticles at MAX IV, Lund University (Sweden)
• PRISM: Platform for Robotic Imaging and Synchrotron Microscopy, EMBL (France)
• Development of AI-Assisted Sample Optimization Workflows for Cryo-EM, EMBL (France)
• Next-Generation Vitrification Workflows for Cryo-ET, EMBL (France)

Host Institutions

• Lund University with LINXS and MAX IV (Sweden)
• The European Spallation Source ESS ERIC (Sweden)
• The Institut Laue Langevin ILL (France)
• The European Molecular Biology Laboratory EMBL (France)
• The International Institute of Molecular Mechanisms and Machines IMol (Poland)
• University of Leicester (United Kingdom)