Are you holding Master’s degree and looking for fully funded PhD positions? University of Bergen, Bergen, 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
Summary of PhD Program:
The position is part of the Belmont Forum project “ComDisp: Community-Centered Modeling of Housing-Related Health Disparities.” ComDisp develops a grassroots modeling framework to predict health disparities under different climate change scenarios. Addressing housing-related health risks in the USA, Vietnam, Turkey, and Ecuador, the project integrates community engagement, data science, and computational modeling. The key objectives of ComDisp are:
• Identifying and understanding housing, air quality, and respiratory health issues in each case study.
• Linking climate change models to housing, air quality, and respiratory health outcomes.
• Designing a grassroots scenario-planning process.
• Exploring and analyzing housing and health issues under climate scenarios through interactive tools and resources.
Application Deadline: 30th June 2025
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in microbiology
Summary of PhD Program:
Viruses that infect planktonic algae and bacteria play a central role in marine ecosystems by regulating turnover, abundance, and diversity in microbial food webs. Over several years, we have collected DNA/RNA samples of viruses and their host organisms from the Arctic and polar marine ecosystems. These samples will be analysed alongside quantitative data on the environment and microorganisms. This work will form the basis for our further research in the Arctic. The work will include bioinformatics of metagenomes and transcriptomes, statistical analysis of data, and modelling. Some of the work will be conducted in close collaboration with our international partners, and therefore, periodic travel is to be expected.
Application Deadline: 17th June 2025
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in physical oceanography
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD study will address the transformation of Atlantic Water in the Norwegian Sea and Fram Strait, where the warm and saline waters flow poleward and partly recirculate in a complex current system under varying physical controls and processes. The successful candidate will investigate processes on scales from mesoscale eddies to small-scale turbulence and mixing. This includes instabilities of boundary currents, exchanges and subduction across fronts, responses to atmospheric and tidal forcing, and internal waves. The research will be based on observations from ship surveys, underwater gliders, and bottom-anchored moored instruments.
Application Deadline: 15th June 2025
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Climate Dynamics
Summary of PhD Program:
Interactions between the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Ocean basins are increasingly recognized as a key factor in understanding climate variability and have the potential to improve seasonal to decadal climate predictions. The PhD candidate will investigate mechanisms of such basin interactions on decadal timescales and the joint influence on for instance high latitude climate. The candidate will analyze a new and novel coupled millennium reanalysis, which uses modern data assimilation and an extensive paleo-proxy archive, in addition to designing and performing targeted modelling experiments. As a PhD candidate at the Geophysical Institute at the University of Bergen, you will also be affiliated with the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research (BCCR). BCCR is the largest climate research centre in the Nordic countries and has a broad international environment.
Application Deadline: 11th June 2025
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5. Fully Funded PhD Position in energy resources and system modeling
Summary of PhD Program:
The electricity consumption in Norway is expected to increase from todays 140 TWh to possibly 220 TWh in 2050, mainly driven by the transition to zero greenhouse emissions (electrification), industrial growth and new production. To tackle the increased demand, the Norwegian government has planned for 30GW of installed offshore wind power by 2040. This will drastically change the Norwegian electricity system and making the power system more weather dependent and the production more intermittent. The PhD will work will be twofold. The first part will be to improve and develop datasets and estimation algorithms for renewable energy that will enhance the simulation capabilities of the open-source energy market simulation model for operational planning JulES developed by the Norwegian Water and Energy Directorate (NVE).
Application Deadline: 6th June 2025
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in physical oceanography
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD-project will focus on the Antarctic slope front dynamics, with particular focus on the circulation near ice tongues overhanging the continental slope. The PhD-candidate will set up and run idealised numerical experiments to study how the presence of an ice tongue modifies the slope front current dynamics and the heat flux into an ice shelf cavity further the south. The idealised modelling will be combined with analysis of in-situ observations (moored and shipboard measurements of velocity and hydrography) from the area around Trolltunga, an ice tongue extending northward from Fimbulisen in Dronning Maud Land.
Application Deadline: 3rd June 2025
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in physical oceanography
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD-project will focus on processes related to shelf break exchanges in the Southern Weddell Sea, Antarctica, with particular focus on the inflow of warmer water masses from the deep ocean onto the continental shelf in the Filchner Trough region. The PhD candidate will address questions related to the effect of bathymetry, dense water outflow, seasonal and interannual variability in hydrography and atmospheric forcing on the warm inflow. The candidate will process and use altimetry-data from the new Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) in combination with conventional altimetry retrievals and existing in situ observations. The in-situ observations include moored and shipboard measurements of velocity and hydrography.
Application Deadline: 3rd June 2025
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Physical Oceanography
Summary of PhD Program:
The large-scale circulation in the North Atlantic Ocean plays a key role in regulating climate by facilitating the northward throughput of warm and salty waters within the extended Gulf Stream system. However, the role of variable gyre circulation in modulating the northward throughput of water, and potentially reducing meridional coherence in the large-scale overturning circulation, remains unknown. The appointed PhD candidate will address several key questions about North Atlantic gyre circulation, overturning circulation, and the mechanisms causing variability in the two, using a range of modelling tools such as Lagrangian simulations and ocean model perturbation experiments.
Application Deadline: 3rd June 2025
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in quantum technology
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD project will contribute to an interdisciplinary effort aimed at understanding the dynamical behavior of quantum systems, with a particular focus on their application in quantum optimization and quantum control. Relevant application domains include quantum sensing, energy grid optimization and/or jet evolution in quantum chromodynamics. The work will involve a combination of theoretical modeling, numerical simulations of quantum dynamics, and the use of high-performance computing facilities. The candidate will also have the opportunity to explore the capabilities of existing quantum computing platforms as tools for simulation and benchmarking.
Application Deadline: 1st June 2025
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10. Fully Funded PhD Position in Computational Chemistry
Summary of PhD Program:
The project will tightly combine atomistic molecular dynamics (MD) simulations with experimental methods sensitive to atomistic detail (in particular NMR relaxation). The PhD fellow will build a library of high-resolution experimental data of oligosaccharides, against which they will critically assess the current MD models and perform data-driven optimization. The verified models will be used to reveal the conformational ensemble and dynamics of oligosaccharides in the human glycome, in particular those relevant for virus–host interactions.
Application Deadline: 1st June 2025
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Microelectronics
Summary of PhD Program:
Wireless acoustic transmission of data from sensors to the network has very limited bandwidth. To reduce the transmission requirement of data, onboard processing is therefore required in the sensors. This is especially relevant for sensor types that generate relatively large amounts of raw data. Then the raw data must be processed in the sensor in order to be able to transmit compressed data or a condition description based on analysis of the raw data. Onboard processing is also very relevant for units with multiple sensors (sensor fusion) where the combination of information from multiple sensors can be used to describe a condition or make a decision to send an alarm signal or take other actions locally.
Application Deadline: 25th May 2025
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12. Fully Funded PhD Position in Global Public Health and Primary Care
Summary of PhD Program:
At the Faculty of Medicine, Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, a full-time PhD-position is available in the Health Economics, Leadership, and Transformative Ethics- Research Group (HELTER) for a period of three (3) years. The position is part of the project “HEKIMA”, funded by The Research Council of Norway. A short project description can be found at HEKIMA | Section for Ethics and Health Economics | UiB.
Application Deadline: 23rd May 2025
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry of the Cryosphere
Summary of PhD Program:
The SnowAI project aims to use to produce new high-resolution datasets on snow depth in Western Norway derived from machine learning and radar remote sensing. The successful PhD candidate for this position will work within the scope of the project but will be free to shape their own project related to the impacts of a variable snowpack in Western Norway. Potential topics include quantifying recent changes in glaciers in Western Norway from archival and contemporary aerial datasets as well as Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), or modelling the future state of the cryosphere using the Bergen Snow Simulator (BESSI), or combinations of the aforementioned.
Application Deadline: 23rd May 2025
14. Fully Funded PhD Position in Medical Technology
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD candidate will be a part of the research group for Chemistry in Medical Technology at Department of Chemistry, University of Bergen. The research group have interdisciplinary collaborations with researchers at Haukeland University Hospital and The Western Norway University of Applied Sciences. A part of the interdisciplinary collaborations is focused on development of diagnostic methods based on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The PhD candidate will work on a project where the goal is to develop methods (acquisition and processing) within diffusion-weighted MRI for characterization of brain microstructure, which can be applied in improved diagnostics using medical imaging.
