Industrial Postdoctoral Fellowship (IPD)
Funds industrial postdoc roles in Sweden by embedding researchers in company settings for applied projects.
SSF's Industrial Postdoctoral Fellowship (IPD) 2026 is a grant program administered by the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF), an independent Swedish foundation established in 1994 with an endowment from former wage-earner funds. SSF distributes approximately SEK 600 million per year across roughly 300 ongoing projects and is not a Swedish government agency — it operates autonomously.…
Postdoctoral research positions jointly embedded between a Swedish university and an industry partner, covering natural sciences, technology, and medicine within SSF's strategic research areas, with mandatory 30% industry co-financing.
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