Build your research career at SLU.

The Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science (VH) can nominate outstanding researchers currently based outside SLU for prestigious career grants. We are looking for excellent researchers whose ideas can strengthen our research environments and long-term capacity.

For early-career researchers outside SLU

Two routes to a long-term research career at SLU

For both programmes, SLU must meet funder requirements for international recruitment and gender balance. Early contact lets us assess eligibility, timing and the fit with a prospective host department. External candidates are particularly welcome.

Explore the opportunities

Research that advances animal health, welfare and sustainable animal production

VH conducts research and education in veterinary medicine and animal science, with domesticated animals and their protection and welfare at the centre. A strong nomination must show how the candidate’s programme will contribute to, and benefit from, a specific VH research environment.

Explore research at VH

From research idea to an SLU nomination

We encourage you to make contact well before an internal deadline. The exact materials and dates are updated for each call.

How nomination works

Interested in being nominated by VH?

VH is looking for researchers who want to develop an independent research programme and build a group of their own. A strong fit does not mean duplicating existing work: your research should complement and strengthen VH’s profile, while the faculty offers a setting where you can thrive. In your expression of interest, name the VH department and researcher you see as a potential host, and explain how their expertise, local collaborators and relevant infrastructure could help you get started—and what distinctive expertise you would bring.

Tell us about your profile

Working at SLU and in Sweden.

At SLU, your research can contribute to a clear public mission: advancing sustainable living through research, education and environmental assessment. The university works throughout Sweden, with main locations in Alnarp, Uppsala and Umeå and research environments that connect academic work with real-world questions in agriculture, animals, food and the environment.

The VH Faculty is primarily based in Uppsala, at the centre of the Stockholm–Uppsala life science region. The cluster brings together academic research, clinical capability and companies in biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, medical technology and e-health. SLU collaborates closely with regional universities, including Uppsala University, Karolinska Institutet (KI) and KTH Royal Institute of Technology—offering opportunities to connect animal health and veterinary science with wider biomedical and life science research. Explore the Stockholm–Uppsala life science cluster and Uppsala’s life science sector.

Swedish working life is designed to support both ambitious careers and life outside work. Employees are entitled to at least 25 days of annual leave by law; a 40-hour standard working week and respect for time off are part of the national framework. At SLU, annual leave is 28 days up to and including the year you turn 29, 31 days from the year you turn 30, and 35 days from the year you turn 40. SLU also offers a SEK 2,000 annual wellness allowance, parental-pay supplements and a government occupational pension. Eligible parents may share 480 days of parental benefit per child, 390 of them income-related.

Your location and exact employment conditions depend on the host department and appointment. Explore working at SLU and vacancies, SLU’s employee benefits, living and working in Sweden, and work–life balance in Sweden. For personal eligibility and benefit rules, see the Swedish Social Insurance Agency’s parental-benefit information.