Are you holding Master’s degree and looking for fully funded PhD positions? University of Oslo, Norway 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 Medical Ethics
Summary of PhD Program:
A 3-year full-time Doctoral Research Fellowship (SKO 1017) in Medical Ethics is available at the Centre for Medical Ethics, University of Oslo. The position form part of the European Research Council-funded Starting Grant-project “Ethics of Mortality Measurement” (ETHME), which will consist of Principal Investigator Carl Tollef Solberg, two postdoctoral research fellows, two associated doctoral candidates, and a research coordinator. In addition, five leading researchers constitute the advisory board of ETHME.
ETHME is a theoretical project that investigates the theoretical and normative grounds for measuring deaths and evaluating their disvalue in summary measures of population health, such as the disability-adjusted life year (DALY). The project seeks to develop an “ethics of mortality measurement” which involves deliberation on choices and rationales behind the scope, construction and applications of mortality measurements. ETHME consists of three work packages: WP1 – Understanding the nature of harm in death, WP2 – Building theoretically robust summary measures and WP3 – Evaluating procreation in future individuals.
Application Deadline: 13th May 2024
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Philosophy of Science – “AssemblingLife”
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD position will be specifically associated with one of two research strands in AssemblingLife: (1) One strand considers how the understanding of genetic causation may be transformed by bringing in current knowledge about self-assembly processes. One possible route would be to investigate genetic material as “nudgers” of self-assembly processes. (2) A second strand will be an investigation of self-assembly in the context of philosophy of causal and/or mechanistic explanation across fields and scales. A central question will be to what extent self-assembly processes challenges existing philosophical frameworks of scientific explanation. The candidate´s proposed doctoral research need not address these topics exactly as described here. Candidates should, though, in their research description and application address how their proposed research relates to one of the research strands described.
Application Deadline: 15th August 2024
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in History – Experiencing American Democracy
Summary of PhD Program:
A Doctoral Research Fellowship (SKO 1017) in History is available at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History, University of Oslo. The Doctoral Research Fellow will be affiliated with the research group Experiencing American Democracy: Nordic Encounters in Transatlantic Perspective (ExAM) and the Democracy, Freedom and Boundaries research group. ExAm examines Norwegian and Nordic experiences with American democracy in a transatlantic perspective in the period 1800 to the present day and connections between migration and Americanization.
Application Deadline: 20th May 2024
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Philosophy – Construction in the Formal Sciences (C-FORS)
Summary of PhD Program:
A Doctoral Research Fellowship (SKO 1017) in Philosophy is available at the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas, University of Oslo. The position is associated with the ERC Advanced Grant project Construction in the Formal Sciences (C-FORS). The candidate is expected to present a research project closely connected to this project. We seek a candidate who can contribute to Work Package 4: Construction and philosophy (see project description). Relevant areas include the philosophical logic and philosophy of mathematics, as well as more formal parts of metaphysics and the philosophy of language. We particularly welcome attempts to bring potentialist or generative ideas to bear on the analysis of truth and the semantic paradoxes.
Application Deadline: 30th April 2024
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5. Fully Funded PhD Position in ECOART
Summary of PhD Program:
1-2 full-time Doctoral Research Fellowships (SKO 1017) in Art History and Visual Studies are available at the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas, University of Oslo. These positions form part of the European Research Council-funded Consolidator project ECOART – An Ecological History of Eurasian Art: Natural Resources, Aesthetic Practices, and Early Modern Globalization, which will consist of a team of Principal Investigator Anna Grasskamp, three doctoral research fellows and two post-doctoral research fellows. The project investigates the artistic use and visual representation of geographical, geological, botanical, zoological, and climatic resources in Eurasia, a space dominated by European and Chinese economic spheres of influence, in an era of early modern globalization from 1500 to 1800. Funding for fieldwork, archival research, conference attendance and publications will be available to all members of the project.
Application Deadline: 30th April 2024
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in membrane dynamics and cancer cell invasion
Summary of PhD Program:
The Schink lab is looking for a highly motivated PhD student to work on the molecular mechanisms of membrane organisation and the role of dysregulated membrane trafficking for cancer cell invasion and metastasis. Our research focusses on membrane trafficking, where we study the molecular mechanisms of how vesicles are formed and how they get their correct identity. Moreover, we are interested in how dysregulation of membrane transport processes contributes to diseases such as cancer and infectious diseases. A key focus of our studies is the role of macropinocytosis as a nutrient scavenging route in cancer cells. In addition, we are studying how membrane trafficking contributes to cancer cell invasion and metastasis.
Application Deadline: 25th April 2024
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Molecular Nutrition
Summary of PhD Program:
Applications are invited for a 3-year position in a Research Fellowship as PhD Candidate in Molecular Nutrition to be based at the Department of Nutrition, Institute for Basic Medical Sciences University of Oslo. The fellowship period is 3 years and devoted to carrying out the project, “Targeting immune cell-specific PKA to enhance immune checkpoint therapeutics”. For the right candidate a four-year position, which also includes 25% teaching, supervision and/or administrative duties, may be possible. This is a preclinical drug development project in cancer immunology. The project involves laboratory work in biochemistry, cell biology and organ on a chip technology. Work with animal models (mice) is required.
Application Deadline: 24th April 2024
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Understanding Latin American Challenges in the 21st Century
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD project analyses the mechanisms and resources the EU has deployed to partner with Latin America to encourage a green transformation. It seeks to assess the consequences of associated means to encourage democratic participation transparency. Moreover, it seeks to compare the approaches of the EU to those of China and the United States vis-à-vis Latin America. The overall goal is to provide knowledge that can strengthen the collaboration for a democratic green transition in Latin America and Europe. Applications are invited for a 3 year position in a Research Fellowship as a PhD Candidate.
Application Deadline: 1st May 2024
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Neuroimaging
Summary of PhD Program:
The successful candidate will work on quantification of differences and changes in the brain, using multimodal, longitudinal magnetic resonance images (MRIs), genetic information, self-reported mental health, and cognitive test scores from cohorts of individuals with known differences in biomedical risk at birth, including prenatal drug exposure. These individuals are followed over an extended period of development, now reaching well into adulthood. The data offer a unique opportunity to model heterogeneity in intercepts and slopes, of brain development, and link these to differences in biomedical risk at birth, cognition, mental health, and biomarker information. The work will require programming in languages such as Python, R or, Matlab and will involve the use of neuroimaging software such as FreeSurfer and others. An important focus of the candidate will also be scientific dissemination, i.e., writing and publication.
Application Deadline: 30th April 2024
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10. Fully Funded PhD Position in Experimental Porous Media Physics
Summary of PhD Program:
Position as PhD Research Fellow in experimental porous media physics is available at Centre of excellence (SFF) PoreLab at the Njord Centre/the Department of Physics. PoreLab is a Norwegian Center of Excellence created in 2017 and situated at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, and the University of Oslo (UiO). It focuses on the physics of porous media using experimental, theoretical and computational methods. It is led by 8 principal scientists from physics, chemistry and geophysics. The fellowship period is 3 years. No one can be appointed for more than one PhD Research Fellowship period at the University of Oslo. Starting date no as soon as possible.
Application Deadline: 9th May 2024
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Semiconductor Defects for Quantum Technologies
Summary of PhD Program:
The field of quantum technology (QT) aims to exploit the most exotic consequences of quantum mechanics for real-world applications, and promises massive impacts on fields ranging from communication and cryptography to sensing and computing. Importantly, quantum sensors harness the rapid interactions between quantum systems and their environment. They are expected to detect smaller changes, provide better spatial resolution, or measure physical effects that are not accessible with the sensor technology of today. Indeed, this could lead to imaging of interactions between neurons and improve our understanding of the brain, or mapping of magnetic fields for wider subsea and space exploration. However, it has been challenging to find the balance between control of the quantum state, robustness to noise, signal detection and, importantly, scalability. Thus, there is an ongoing race to discover and characterize new quantum compatible platforms that satisfy these fundamental criteria.
Application Deadline: 5th May 2024
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12. Fully Funded PhD Position in social studies education
Summary of PhD Program:
Applicants are invited for a 4 year position as PhD Research Fellow in social studies education with an emphasis on sustainability issues at the Department of Teacher Education and School Research, University of Oslo. We live in times of climate crisis, ecological degradation and global injustice. It is widely acknowledged that this situation requires transformations of societal structures and practices, making education a crucial element. Social studies in school have been characterized by an anthropocentric approach where society and nature as concepts appear isolated and the relations and interdependencies are rendered invisible. The PhD project offers an opportunity to explore how sustainability as a societal challenge and as a topic that is taught in school inspire reconsideration of established social science narratives. The contemporary climate and nature crises require theoretical and methodological development in social studies education research regarding central concepts, practices and purposes.
