Are you holding Master’s degree and looking for fully funded PhD positions? Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden invites online application for multiple funded PhD Programs / fully funded PhD positions in various research areas.
Candidates interested in fully funded PhD positions can check the details and may apply as soon as possible. Interested and eligible applicants may submit their online application for PhD programs via the University’s Online Application Portal.
1. Fully Funded PhD Position in Sociology
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD candidate will take part in the WASP-HS graduate school, which provides foundations, perspectives, and state-of-the-art knowledge in the different disciplines taught by leading researchers in the field. Through an ambitious program with research visits, partner universities, and visiting lecturers, the graduate school actively supports forming a strong multi-disciplinary and international professional network between PhD candidates, researchers and practitioners in the field. It thus provides added value on top of the existing PhD programs at the partner universities, providing unique opportunities for participants.
Application Deadline: 2025-10-15
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Computing Science with focus on Symbolic AI
Summary of PhD Program:
In modern software systems and the organizations that run them, a substantial part of day-to-day decisions with critical impact on individual humans and society at large is either fully automated or heavily relies on automatically provided decision support. While machine learning approaches become increasingly prevalent in this context, the cores of the systems’ reasoning engines typically remain ‘symbolic’ (knowledge-based). These symbolic or neuro-symbolic software systems are of high practical complexity, which makes them difficult to reason about, for example when assessing which meta-level changes lead to the intended real-world impact. Working towards solving this problem, the theme of the broader project is ‘Automating Reasoning about Automated Reasoning’.
Application Deadline: 2025-08-15
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in computational physics to uncover organelle coordination mechanisms under stress
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD project aims to uncover the signaling pathways that plants evolved to coordinate activities among the nucleus, mitochondria, and chloroplasts. The project will involve developing mathematical models, validating them with experimental data, and making predictions. The ultimate goal is to decode the mechanisms behind intra-organelle coordination. Besides plant cells, such coordination is a general problem for all life that underwent endosymbiosis at some time during their evolutionary history.
Application Deadline: 2025-08-15
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Business Administration, specialization in entrepreneurship
Summary of PhD Program:
You will work at the Department of Business Administration, Entrepreneurship section, at Umeå School of Business, Economics and Statistics with Prof. Norbert Steigenberger as your main supervisor. With this PhD project, funded by Lundbergs Foundation, we aim to generate knowledge about how entrepreneurs can use cryptocurrencies to create economic and social value and what risks cryptocurrencies pose from an entrepreneurial perspective. You specify your own research question within this area. The project is mainly intended for quantitative methods but is to some extent also open to qualitative methods.
Application Deadline: 2025-08-15
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5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Clinical Microbiology
Summary of PhD Program:
The ongoing societal transformation and large green investments in northern Sweden create enormous opportunities and complex challenges. For Umeå University, conducting research about – and in the middle of – a society in transition is key. We also take pride in delivering education to enable regions to expand quickly and sustainably. In fact, the future is made here.
Application Deadline: 2025-08-15
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Computing Science with focus on Compilation of Linear Algebra Expressionst
Summary of PhD Program:
Linear algebra expressions are evaluated in an efficient and robust way by mapping them to a carefully chosen sequence of calls to optimized functions as offered by libraries such as BLAS and LAPACK. The mapping is by no means unique, and different mappings differ in terms of time, space, and accuracy. When the sizes of the matrices are unknown at compile-time, as is often the case, then the problem is further complicated by the fact that no single mapping is optimal for all combinations of matrix sizes. As a consequence, any code generated (at compile-time) to evaluate the at run-time) must consist of more than just a single sequence of function calls.
Application Deadline: 2025-08-01
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in plant science with focus on photosynthetic water oxidation
Summary of PhD Program:
Photosynthesis drives life on Earth by converting solar light into chemical energy and providing the molecular oxygen we breathe. This doctoral project focuses on exploring the molecular mechanisms underlying photosynthetic water oxidation to O2, with special focus on the role of protein-water-cofactor interactions and substrate water binding and exchange at the catalytic site. This will be studied by employing biophysical techniques, such as time-resolved membrane inlet mass spectrometry, fluorescence and EPR spectroscopies, as well as molecular biology for introducing site specific alterations.
Application Deadline: 2025-07-31
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Sociology
Summary of PhD Program:
The doctoral student’s research will examine how digital technologies, particularly social media and artificial intelligence, are transforming the conditions for political communication, mobilisation, and t power in contemporary societies. The project should be grounded in sociological theory and empirically oriented, focusing on how political ideas, actors, and conflicts are shaped and mediated through digital platforms. Central themes may include, for example, algorithmic influence on opinion formation, the role of AI-generated content in political discourse, the implications of digital communication platforms for democratic participation, or digital disinformation as a sociotechnical phenomenon.
Application Deadline: 2025-07-21
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Sociology
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD student will work within the research project “New maps of gender equality? Gender ideals and practices in a comparative perspective.” The project analyses the prevalence and development of the second half of the gender revolution: men’s participation in home and family life. Ideals and practices related to work and family are compared across different countries, social groups within countries, and over time. The project is based on survey data.
