Are you holding Master’s degree and looking for fully funded PhD positions? University of Copenhagen, Denmark 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 Geography, with a focus on urban expansion and encroachment on ecologically sensitive areas in African cities
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD fellowship is part of the research project “Urban encroachment – untangling drivers and dynamics of land-use transitions in ecologically sensitive areas” funded by a Sapere Aude: DFF Starting Grant from the Independent Research Fund Denmark. The overarching aim of this project is to identify and promote more sustainable trajectories of urban expansion, which will allow African cities to accommodate rapidly growing populations, while preserving ecologically sensitive areas, benefiting from ecosystem services and building resilience to climate change. The research will entail a comparative case study of two rapidly growing cities – Accra in Ghana and Dar es Salaam in Tanzania – which have been characterized by extensive informal expansion in recent decades.
Application Deadline: 4th of September 2024
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in philosophy of science
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD student will be part of a project team that uses the analytical tools of philosophy of science to assess the claim that absence of proper theorizing is the root cause of low replicability in psychological sciences and to understand the type of theory needed to alleviate the crisis. The PhD project should address the replication crisis and theory crisis in cognitive science from the perspective of philosophy of science. The PhD project should engage with recent philosophy of science and philosophy of confirmation, as well as relevant theoretical, methodological, and empirical studies in psychology. The successful candidate will be working in close cooperation with philosophers as well as cognitive psychologists and neuroscientists associated with the CoInAct Research Group (https://psychology.ku.dk/coinact/) and is expected to partake in the activities of CoInAct on a daily basis.
Application Deadline: 31 August 2024
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in In Vivo Pharmacology
Summary of PhD Program:
The present project is a collaboration between the Experimental Pharmacology and Toxicology Lab and the Laboratory of liquid crystalline nano-self-assemblies (Pharmaceutical Physical and Analytical Chemistry group, the Department of Pharmacy) at University of Copenhagen. Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD; previously termed: Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD)) is a prominent contributor to morbidity and mortality worldwide. It represents the most common cause of liver disease and life-threatening liver failure due to steatohepatitis (MASH) and associated liver fibrosis, with substantial health-care costs for its prevention or management. In line with the urgent global need for new therapies to treat patients with late-stage liver fibrosis, this collaborative project studies a simple-by-design multifunctional nanotherapeutic platform for treatment.
Application Deadline: 13th August 2024
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Quantum Optomechanics
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD project explores mechanical systems as components of hybrid quantum processors. A particular focus will lie on fabricating silicon nitride mechanical resonators which can act as quantum memory with unprecedented coherence time, i.e. for superconducting or spin qubits. The project furthermore comprises setting up and operating experiments to study the devices using optical and electronic techniques.
It is expected that the developed fabrication techniques will be used in a wider range of applications, including the monolithic fabrication of quantum chips, highly efficient microwave-to-optical transduces required for connecting future quantum computers to a larger quantum network, as well as new types of quantum and classical sensors.
Application Deadline: 12 August 2024
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5. Fully Funded PhD Position in climate warming responses of Sphagnum functionality and carbon balance
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD project will focus on climate warming responses of Sphagnum moss and the consequences for ecosystem functioning and input and output of C from ecosystems. Sphagnum mires are natural and efficient carbon stores, but we lack understanding about the stability of this carbon under changing and especially warmer climate. Techniques involved in the project include field-based automatic CO2 flux measurement, microscopy, laboratory incubation, chemical characterization of Sphagnum and in situ enzyme characterization. The PhD project is highly collaborative with opportunities for research exchange at INRAe in Marseille, France, and at Cambridge University, UK. The research questions of the PhD project build on recent advancement of our understanding of the Sphagnum cell wall composition and on field-based evidence of Sphagnum climate warming responses. Ultimately, the PhD project aims to uncover how Sphagnum will function as a C sequestrator in a future warmer climate.
Application Deadline: 11 August 2024
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Molecular Cell Biology
Summary of PhD Program:
With the proposed project, we will study the role of liquid-liquid phase separation in facilitating DNA repair processes in the cell nucleus as a model to establish a fundamental biological understanding of how biomolecular droplets allow the cell to orchestrate its biochemical processes. We will achieve this through a cross-disciplinary effort that combines molecular genetics and state-of-the-art microscopy with biophysical modelling and computational simulations.
Application Deadline: 5 August 2024
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Nutrition and Gut Microbiome Research
Summary of PhD Program:
In your role as PhD student, you will be in charge of writing the study protocol for approval to the Ethical Committee. Following approval, you will be responsible with the recruitment of study participants and for conducting the controlled dietary intervention study, which includes examination visits and handling of biological samples. Furthermore, you will conduct liquid chromatography mass spectrometry-based metabolomics, bomb calorimetry, and microbiome analyses on collected biological samples. Finally, you will integrate microbiome, metabolomics, and faecal energy data, and write scientific publications.
Application Deadline: 4 August 2024
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Physics-Informed Data Analysis for Biosciences
Summary of PhD Program:
This project revolves around improving data analysis of biophysical/biomedical data by combining physical modelling and deep learning. There is freedom to shape the precise problem by the candidates themselves, and the formulation of new avenues of research is encouraged. Research areas could include computer vision, development of differentiable physical models, synthetic/differentiable image generation, regularization of simulation-to-reality gap, probabilistic modelling, expert knowledge in neural networks, etc.
Application Deadline: 4 August 2024
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Theology and ethics of domesticated animals
Summary of PhD Program:
The central objective of the research project is to develop new conceptualizations of the relation between humanity and nature in times of ecological crises. CARNAL expands the ethical tradition of self-care and care for other humans into an ecologized ethics of care. We focus on everyday dilemmas and options for change in the areas of consumption, biodiversity, and conceptions of everyday human interactions with the corporeality of ecological networks. CARNAL is placed at the Faculty of Theology, and its methodology aims to coordinate the fields of Anthropology and Theology.
Application Deadline: 2 August 2024
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10. Fully Funded PhD Position in newborn infectious diseases and therapeutics
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD position will be a part of a project funded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation within Basic Bioscience and Biomedicine. The overall aim of the project is to explore how early life nutrition and Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine can prevent sepsis and mortality in infected newborns. Every year, millions of newborn infants, especially those born prematurely, die due to infection during the first month of life. In low-income settings including Africa, BCG vaccine administered shortly after birth in low-birth-weight infants confers protective effects against neonatal infection and all-cause mortality. This protective effect is beyond the specific protection of tuberculosis that BCG is supposed to target via adaptive immunity. This has contributed to the discovery of non-specific effects of vaccines.
Application Deadline: 31 July 2024
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in organoid modelling of the post-acute phase of COVID
Summary of PhD Program:
In this project we aim to understand and explain the mechanistic link between the post-acute phase (PAP) of COVID-19 and risk of noncommunicable diseases. More specifically, we aim to determine the clinical and biological mechanisms behind the increased risk of reduced organ function in pulmonary, cardiovascular, and renal systems associated with the PAP of COVID-19.
Your primary research area will be to generate, assess and use induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived organoids to support the project. You will optimize the protocols for kidney and lung organoid generation and use this model system to assess novel immune factors in blood samples from human controls and patients suffering from COVID. Using both 2D and 3D representative model systems, you will, in collaboration with other group members assess viability, fibrosis, senescence load, bioenergetic changes and morphologic changes.
Application Deadline: July 21st 2024
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12. Fully Funded PhD Position in Bioinformatics/ Data Science/ Machine Learning
Summary of PhD Program:
The position is part of a research project generously funded by the Carlsberg Foundation entitled “Look who’s talking: decoding protein-protein dialogue using ChatGPT”.
WHAT? Inside every cell of any organism, hundreds to thousands of distinct proteins are constantly interacting with each other. Together, this dialogue between proteins determine virtually every facet of cellular behaviour and function.
WHY? Despite the fundamental importance of these protein-protein interactions, we still do not fully understand this dialogue between proteins. Some of the open questions are: Which proteins are interacting which each other? How do they know who to interact with? How do they precisely interact with each other? And why do they interact with each other?
Application Deadline: 21 July 2024
13. 02 Fully Funded PhD Position in experimental brain tumor research
Summary of PhD Program:
You will join a multi-disciplinary research team that work with both patient tumor tissue, experimental in vitro and in vivo brain tumor models and advanced bioinformatics.
1) The main tasks in the experimental PhD project will be establishment of 3D patient-like brain cancer models to be used for drug testing followed by validation in orthotopic patient-derived models. The candidate is required to have documented experience with cell culturing and different in vitro assays, histology, immunohistochemistry and imaging techniques as well as molecular techniques. Experience in handling iPSC-derived microglia and cerebral organoids is a plus.
2) The main tasks in the bioinformatic PhD project to investigate the tumor microenvironment in histologically distinct glioblastoma samples and correlate these findings with clinical outcomes. The ideal candidate should have a background in biological sciences and have experience in either data analysis of high-plex spatial transcriptomics or single-cell/nuclei RNA sequencing or be proficient in R or python.
Application Deadline: July 19 2024
14. Fully Funded PhD Position in Algorithms
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD students will be part of a world-class research environment in theoretical computer science with a strong presence at top-tier conferences like STOC, FOCS, and SODA, and also with publications in premier AI conferences like AAAI, IJCAI, and NeurIPS. We are home to the Basic Algorithms Research Copenhagen (BARC) centre joint with the IT University of Copenhagen, and have extensive collaborations with the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and with Lund University on the Swedish side of the Oresund Bridge, as well as with our many visitors.
Application Deadline: July 15, 2024
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15. Fully Funded PhD Position in forest growth modelling
Summary of PhD Program:
Sustainable forest management is a critical component of environmental conservation and climate change mitigation. Accurate growth models play a pivotal role in guiding decision-making processes related to forestry practices. However, in the face of evolving forest management paradigms such as closer-to-nature forestry, forests managed for biodiversity conservation, and climate-targeted forestry, there is an urgent need to develop updated growth models that incorporate parametric modeling and where relevant novel AI methodologies. This proposed PhD project aims to address this crucial knowledge gap by advancing growth models for changing forest management and environmental sustainability.
Application Deadline: 3 July 2024
16. Fully Funded PhD Position in Theoretical Computer Science and/or Combinatorial Optimization
Summary of PhD Program:
The MIAO research group has a unique profile in that we are doing cutting-edge research both on the mathematical foundations of efficient computation and on state-of-the-art practical algorithms for real-world problems. This creates a very special environment, where we do not only conduct in-depth research on different theoretical and applied topics, but where different lines of research cross-fertilise each other and unexpected and exciting synergies often arise. Much of the activities of the group revolve around powerful algorithmic paradigms such as, e.g., Boolean satisfiability (SAT) solving, Gröbner basis computations, integer linear programming, and constraint programming. This leads to classical questions in computational complexity theory—though often with new, fascinating twists—but also involves work on designing and coding up clever algorithms that can exploit the power of such paradigms in practice.
Application Deadline: 1 July 2024
17. Fully Funded PhD Position in Shipping Decarbonization and Trade Law
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD position aims to examine some of these intricate interactions between shipping, trade and climate change law with a specific focus on the regulation of shipping GHG emissions post the 2023 IMO Revised Strategy. By elucidating on the regulatory frameworks, opportunities and challenges for carbon pricing, border adjustment mechanisms, green fuels development, ensuring a fair and equitable transition to net-zero, the research will contribute to inform the development of more effective and sustainable policies in the maritime sector and offer valuable insights into climate change governance. A more definite scope of research is to be defined with the selected candidate on the basis of qualifications and latest developments.
