Call for 20 Assistant Professor positions
Karolinska Institutet is a world-leading medical university with a long and proud history of ground-breaking research. We are now recruiting outstanding early-career researchers with particularly excellent scientific merits and future potential. We are looking for inspiring, curious and creative candidates to start their career as Assistant Professor with us in several subject areas.
Last day to apply was 2 September — the application period is now closed.
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Photo: Liza SimonssonApplication closed
Applications for Aassistant professors positions are now closed. If you have applied, you can find information here.
Preliminary schedule for the process:
- Eligibility and assessment: September 2025
- Digital interview: October 2025
- External review: November 2025
- Personal interview on site: December 2025-January 2026
- Decision: January-February 2026
Photo: Liza SimonssonApplication process for Assistant Professors
More about what KI offers, conditions and about the recruitment process.
Photo: Liza SimonssonKI to recruit excellent early-career researchers
"KI is offering its new early-career researchers a six-year start package of nine or twelve million kronor, depending on scientific field as identified by the department, and colleagues who are also world-leading researchers,” says Sten Linnarsson, dean of KI Solna and member of the Faculty Board.
Assistant Professorships in Medicine
Assistant Professorships in Medicine
AI in brain and behaviour within neurology, psychiatry or psychology
Basic oral sciences
Cardiology and/or respiratory research
Clinical science, intervention and technology
Endocrine autoimmunity
Experimental and translational medicine
Experimental tumor biology
Genetic precision diagnostics
Human physiology or medicine of extreme environments
ImmunologyImmunology within pediatrics
Molecular or translational medicine
Neurodegenerative disorders
Precision cancer medicine
Assistant Professorships in Biomedicine and Public Health
Assistant Professorships in Biomedicine and Public Health
Biomedical science
Cell and molecular biology
Environmental medicine
Epidemiology or biostatistics
Public health sciences
Suicidology
Research at Karolinska Institutet
Photo: Gunnar AskResearch within the entire biomedical field
Karolinska Institutet accounts for the single largest share of all academic medical research conducted in Sweden.
The research spans the entire biomedical field - from basic experimental research to clinical studies in collaboration with the health care system.
Photo: Liza SimonssonCore facilities
Karolinska Institutet offers a wide range of core facilities, providing services, resources, and expertise to academic research in Sweden. These core facilities were all established to meet the needs of the university’s own scientists, and they are constantly evolving to provide the latest techniques and knowledge within their fields of expertise.
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Academic freedom and work-life balance are two aspects that attract many researchers and lecturers to Sweden and Karolinska Institutet. As a researcher here, you will have the right to commercialise your research, and even get support from the university in doing so. Find out more about the many benefits of working at KI.
Photo: Erik CronbergTen reasons to choose to work at KI
What do you look for in a new job? Creativity? Making a difference? Cutting-edge equipment? Doing your bit for world-leading research and education at Sweden’s largest medical university? In that case, KI is the employer for you. Today, KI ranks as the leading medical university in the EU. Here are some reasons for choosing to work at KI.
Photo: Liza SimonssonRecruitment and consolidator program for junior researchers
Karolinska Institutet is advertising positions as assistant professors in several different subject areas. Excellence and mobility will be rewarded in the announcement.
Photo: Ulf Sirborn,Foto: Ulf SirbornMore jobs at KI
Karolinska Institutet's vision is to be one of the leading medical universities in the world. Our committed and competent employees make this possible. Find all available positions at KI and everything you need to know about working at our university.