University of Tartu

The Actuarial and Financial Engineering master’s program at the University of Tartu aims to provide students with skills and knowledge of quantitative risk assessment and management methods at financial institutions: banks, insurance companies, investment funds, pension funds, financial supervision authorities, securities firms, credit companies, etc., in Europe and worldwide. 2-year master’s program prepares specialists for....

The Clinical Nutrition master’s program at the University of Tartu provides broad knowledge of biochemistry, physiology, and metabolism, which underpins clinical provision. After completing the program, you will become a specialist who can effectively combine clinical and basic scientific knowledge to create nutritional plans and optimise patient care.  The program provides a broad knowledge of....

The online Clinical Pharmacy master’s program at the University of Tartu is designed to provide an opportunity for professional development to pharmacists who work at either hospital- or community pharmacies. The master’s program in Clinical Pharmacy is an innovative online-based program designed to cater to the needs of working professionals, offering a unique opportunity for....

The Estonian and Finno-Ugric Languages master’s program at the University of Tartu is unique in combining in-depth language learning with comprehensive, English-based studies in linguistics. You can choose to specialise either in Estonian or Finno-Ugric Languages. The 2-year master’s program in Estonian and Finno-Ugric Languages (EFUL) is unique in combining in-depth language learning with comprehensive,....

This one-year master’s program in Disinformation and Societal Resilience is for professionals who need to understand information manipulations in the global context, work on strategic communication to build social resilience and deal with risk management in organisations and communities. In response to the growing threat of misinformation and hostile information operations, the University of Tartu....

Position We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher in population and/or statistical genetics to develop polygenic risk scores that would a) address the problem of transferability of PRS across populations and b) be suitable for risk prediction for individuals with mixed ancestry. In addition, other aspects of context that modulate the predictive power of PRS,....

We are looking for a 2-year (can be extended to 4 years) postdoc in hydrological modelling to work on testing different land use in various catchment to identify the effectiveness of in-stream wetlands to reduce the agricultural nutrient loads. The research is part of the “Creating Water-Smart Landscapes” project funded by European Research Council. The results....

We are looking for a 2-year (can be extended) postdoc in geoinformatics to work on novel data cube implementations in Discrete Global Grid Systems (DGGS). The research is part of the “Creating Water-Smart Landscapes” project funded by European Research Council and Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Land Use.  You will be working in the Landscape Geoinformatics....

Position We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher to integrate both polygenic risk models and clinically actionable rare variants to create more comprehensive disease risk assessments. We will use WGS data to assess the combined monogenic and polygenic risks for heritable diseases, focusing on different ethnic and ancestry groups to develop and adjust prediction models....

Position We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher in population and/or statistical genetics to develop polygenic risk scores that would a) address the problem of transferability of PRS across populations and b) be suitable for risk prediction for individuals with mixed ancestry. In addition, other aspects of context that modulate the predictive power of PRS,....