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 Physical Geography with a focus methane cycling in Arctic stream networks
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD project will investigate carbon cycling in Arctic river networks, with a focus on CH4, and an emphasis on the groundwater-surface water connectivity. We will combine novel sensors, remote sensing products, microbial studies and large-scale isotopic analysis to unravel how the anaerobic carbon cycle shapes CO2 and CH4 dynamics in Arctic rivers. The project is part of an ERC Starting grant focused on Arctic CH4 emissions, which provides generous resources and important synergies with other researchers in the group performing modelling research on the same topic. The empirical part of the project will largely take in the Abisko Research Station.
Application Deadline: 2025-03-01
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Experimental Physics with focus on Modeling Water Plumes of the Icy Moons
Summary of PhD Program:
Enceladus and Europa, two of the most fascinating moons in our solar system, are known for their water plumes — jets of water vapor and other materials erupting from beneath the icy surfaces of these moons. Enceladus, a moon of Saturn, has water plumes that spew from its south pole, sourced from a subsurface ocean beneath its icy crust. Europa, one of Jupiter’s Galilean moons, has also shown evidence of plumes, likely caused by water escaping through cracks in its ice shell. These features strongly suggest the presence of vast liquid water oceans beneath the icy surfaces of these moons, positioning both moons as prime targets in the search for extraterrestrial life.
Application Deadline: 2025-02-28
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Experimental Physics with focus on the Aurora at Jupiter’s Moon Ganymede
Summary of PhD Program:
We seek a brilliant PhD candidate to investigate the processes that accelerate the electrons that cause the auroral emissions at Ganymede. These studies will be conducted, using a Vlasov simulation model of the plasma on an auroral fieldline with input from global hybrid simulations, observations, and modeling of the neutral atmosphere. The PhD project will be carried out in cooperation with scientist at Umeå University, other research institutes in Sweden, as well as international scientific contacts in Austria, Belgium and the UK. We expect this research to have an impact on Ganymede science, auroral science in general, and to be useful in planning and interpreting the observations of the JUICE spacecraft.
Application Deadline: 2025-02-28
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Experimental Physics with Focus on Mercury’s Magnetosphere
Summary of PhD Program:
Mercury is a fundamentally unique object in the solar system. It possesses a weak global magnetic field of internal origin and in consequence, a small magnetosphere much smaller than the magnetosphere of Earth. Due to the proximity of Mercury to the Sun, the magnetosphere of Mercury is subject to the most intense solar wind flux and ferocious space weather among all the planets in the solar system. The purpose of the PhD project is to provide a comprehensive understanding of the complex interaction between the solar wind and Mercury during extreme solar events (e.g., Coronal Mass Ejections) using Amitis, a state-of-the-art hybrid-kinetic plasma model.
Application Deadline: 2025-02-28
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5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Molecular Biology
Summary of PhD Program:
Integrity of the genome is critical to both the development and health of humans. Our chromosomes are constantly exposed to various types of DNA damage, which if unrepaired can cause diseases such as cancer. To meet these challenges, several DNA repair pathways have evolved. The Cohn laboratory is focused on understanding how these pathways work in human cells. We have discovered several new proteins playing important roles in these pathways. This PhD project has the goal to further elucidate the role of new components of the DNA repair pathways.
Application Deadline: 2025-02-28
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in molecular and cellular communication between cancer and the nervous system
Summary of PhD Program:
A 4-year PhD position in understanding the molecular and cellular crosstalk between cancer and the nervous system has become available at Umeå University, Sweden. We encourage applications from highly motivated individuals with a keen interest in cancer, neuroscience and developmental biology. The PhD is open to anyone who meets the criteria outlined below. The studentship provides an excellent training opportunity for a talented and ambitious student. The working ‘day to day’ language in the laboratory is English.
Application Deadline: 2025-02-23
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Medical Science with orientation towards Molecular Biology
Summary of PhD Program:
Innate immune cells are constantly sensing the environment and responding to pathogen invasion. In this process, cells change their transcriptional and proteomic landscape. Microproteins are small previously unknown proteins that have been shown to play regulatory roles in diverse cellular pathways. The project aims to identify microproteins in innate immune cells involved in immune processes by combining computational and experimental approaches.
Application Deadline: 2025-02-18
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in ecosystem modelling focused on responses of river network carbon processing to climate stress
Summary of PhD Program:
River networks receive large amounts of carbon from terrestrial ecosystems, which is processed and respired into carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4), the most important greenhouse gases. Rivers emit large amounts of CO2 and CH4 to the atmosphere, but future projections of river CO2 and CH4 emissions are lacking because we lack predictive models. Ongoing climate change is particularly severe at high latitudes and has the potential to massively increase the delivery of carbon to river networks and emissions to the atmosphere.
Application Deadline: 2025-02-16
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in computational science to uncover organelle coordination mechanisms under stress
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD project aims to uncover the signaling pathways plants use to coordinate activities among the nucleus, mitochondria, and chloroplasts. The project will involve the development and application of theoretical mathematical models, with experimental data serving to validate the model predictions. Ultimately, the project seeks to decode this intricate cellular coordination mechanism.
Application Deadline: 2025-02-16
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10. Fully Funded PhD Position in computational science to uncover the mechanisms of immune memory
Summary of PhD Program:
This project integrates data science, machine learning, and mathematical modeling to investigate how the immune system adapts — or fails to adapt — under stress. The research focuses on individuals undergoing therapies that suppress immune cells, leaving them vulnerable to infections and reducing vaccine effectiveness. A key research question drives this work: What mechanisms govern immune cell dynamics and antibody production during stress responses in the immune system?
Application Deadline: 2025-02-16
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in computational science to uncover how ecological communities respond to climate-induced stress
Summary of PhD Program:
As climate change transforms the environment, it is also altering the distribution of plants and animals across the planet. These changes impact natural regions, or bioregions, where species coexist. To protect biodiversity, it is crucial to understand how these regions are formed and how they respond to environmental shifts. This involves uncovering the key mechanisms that define bioregion boundaries and predicting their responses to a changing climate.
Application Deadline: 2025-02-16
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12. Fully Funded PhD Position in computational science to decipher master regulatory mechanisms of plant stress responses
Summary of PhD Program:
Plants are the foundation of human nutrition, but their ability to sustain agricultural production is under growing pressure. Increasing population demands, limited natural resources, and unpredictable climates pose significant challenges to global food security. To address these issues, we need to develop crops that can thrive even under stressful conditions, including drought, heat, or nutrient deficiencies. This PhD project aims to uncover how plants detect and respond to stress, focusing on the Mediator complex – a key regulatory hub that integrates stress signals and coordinates the genetic and physiological changes necessary for survival.
Application Deadline: 2025-02-16
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in Experimental Physics with focus on Space Physics
Summary of PhD Program:
Heavy ions can be transported very differently than H+ ions because of their larger gyroradii, and they are more likely to be unmagnetized when interacting with so called meso-scale phenomena, i.e., of the scale of the heavy ion gyroradius. In the project, we will investigate how heavy ions are affected by meso-scale phenomena in the magnetotail. In specific we will focus on two of the most important meso-scale phenomena in the tail: Fast Earthward and tailward flows as well as tail flapping waves. We will conduct both detailed event studies as well as large statistical studies.
Application Deadline: 2025-02-16
14. Fully Funded PhD Position in Applied Physics with focus on hollow-core fiber technology for telecom
Summary of PhD Program:
The Internet is enabled by a network of silica fibers with a step-index profile. Since the invention of optical fiber 50 years ago, its design has not been radically changed. During the last 10 years, it has been discovered that a new class of hollow-core fiber (HCF) can potentially provide several key advantages over conventional fibers, including lower propagation loss, lower latency (due to the faster light speed in air), lower nonlinearity and dispersion, and the liberty of choosing light frequencies in a wider spectral range.
Application Deadline: 2025-02-10
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15. Fully Funded PhD Position in plant science with a focus on small proteins
Summary of PhD Program:
This doctoral project focuses on exploring the molecular mechanisms underlying plant development, with particular emphasis on symmetry-breaking processes in flowers. Symmetry breaking is a fundamental biological phenomenon where symmetrical structures develop into complex, specialized forms. This process is crucial in multicellular organisms and plays a central role in shaping the diversity of plant and animal forms. The research combines experimental and computational approaches, leveraging advanced techniques such as genomics, proteomics, genome editing, and protein engineering.
Application Deadline: 2025-01-31
16. Fully Funded PhD Position in Medical Science with orientation towards Molecular Biology
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD project involves research using invertebrate model systems to investigate the mechanisms by which potential host genome editing processes enhance antigen receptor diversity, contributing to a deeper understanding of the human immune system. The experimental work will involve a variety of advanced techniques, including CRISPR/Cas9-based mutagenesis, imaging, genomics, and single-cell transcriptomics.
Application Deadline: 2025-01-31
17. 1-2 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.
Application Deadline: 2025-01-30
18. Fully Funded PhD Position in Computing Science with focus on Compilation of Linear Algebra Expressions
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.