Posted: Jan 27, 2026

Postdoc in Spatial Transcriptomics and Extracellular Vesicle Biology

Full-time

Salary: $7,000.00 - $8,000.00 Monthly

Application Deadline: Feb 19, 2026

Are you passionate about challenging established norms in extracellular vesicle biology? Do you have any experience in spatial transcriptomics and/or single-cell RNAseq? Here is an exciting opportunity for you to do postdoc research in Denmark. This is a 2-year position from 1 April 2026 or as soon as possible thereafter.

The project is funded by Lundbeck Foundation through the LF Experiment grant A Brain-wide Atlas of Cell-to-Cell Communication via Extracellular Vesicles. As a postdoc, you will primarily use zebrafish embryos as a model organism with the ambitious aim of establishing clear evidence for extracellular vesicle-driven crosstalk in the brain beyond synapses. Through the project, you will be trained as an expert in the extracellular vesicle field with skills in genetic engineering of extracellular vesicles (including transient/stable transgenesis of zebrafish), live embryo imaging, and single-cell/spatial transcriptomics.

Who we are

You will join a vibrant, collaborative, and international research community that includes 142 full-time scientific staff and 85 PhD students. English is the primary language used for internal communication and teaching, and international candidates are not required to learn Danish. Aarhus University offers a wide range of services to support international researchers and their families, including career counselling for accompanying partners.

You will be affiliated with an active research group led by Associate Professor Yuya Hayashi at the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics. Yuya started his own group on extracellular vesicle biology and RNA nanotechnology funded by a Hallas-Møller Emerging Investigator grant from Novo Nordisk Foundation in 2022. Using the zebrafish as a model organism, the team focuses on studying the role of extracellular vesicles in cell-to-cell communication as inspiration for new nanomedicine designs. Visit his group webpage (https://mbg.au.dk/yuya-hayashi/) for further information. Yuya also organises a cross-departmental network of extracellular vesicle researchers at Aarhus University, EVAnet (https://mbg.au.dk/evanet/).

Interested? Please visit the official call in the following link and directly contact Yuya for further information.