Are you holding Master’s degree and looking for fully funded PhD positions? University of Copenhagen, 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 Humanities
Summary of PhD Program:
The project is hosted at the Saxo Institute, University of Copenhagen. The Saxo Institute at the Faculty of Humanities is dedicated to the study of human societies past and present, with degree programs ranging from History to Archeology, Ethnology, Classical Languages and Migration Studies. PhD studies consist of research programmes at the highest international level that qualify students for independent research, knowledge dissemination and teaching. The main emphasis is on PhD students organising and conducting their own research project (under supervision). The programme culminates in the submission of a PhD thesis, which the student must defend in public. The programme is prescribed to 180 ECTS credits, corresponding to three years of full-time study.
Application Deadline: 15 August 2025
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in High-Energy Heavy-ion physics (ALICE Experiment)
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD project will focus on studying anisotropic flow phenomena in small collision systems, such as proton–proton (pp), proton–oxygen (p–O), and proton–lead (p–Pb) collisions at the LHC Run 3. The successful candidate will lead the development and perform flow measurements using high-precision data from the ALICE experiment, aiming to understand the emergence of collective behavior and the possible formation of a quark-gluon plasma in these systems. This work will play a central role in testing the limits of hydrodynamic descriptions and uncovering the origins of flow-like signals in small-scale collisions.
Application Deadline: June 30th, 2025
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Organic Chemistry
Summary of PhD Program:
The project will study CO2 capture using non-conventional organic materials. Our objectives include design, synthesis and evaluation of organic materials that are scalable. One strategy, for example, includes facile degradation and/or modification of waste plastic in order to produce efficient absorbents and adsorbents for CO2. These molecules will be evaluated for CO2 capture and functionalization for further applications in biological and chemical CO2 conversion reactions.
Application Deadline: June 30th 2025
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Chemistry
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD candidate will explore DNA-AgNCs emitting in the NIR II region. These new emitters will provide new tools for optical tomography and tissue imaging. Besides practical applications, the project will also tackle fundamental questions trying to unravel the structure/property relationship of this class of emitters.
Application Deadline: 30-06-2025
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5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Computer Science, PhD Project in Privacy and Cybersecurity
Summary of PhD Program:
While there currently exists multiple protocols for metadata privacy, from protocols with strong privacy guarantees but large overhead (e.g., DC-nets), to more practical protocols like onion routing (e.g., Tor), they are either not available in the wild, or there are known attacks against them. A reason for these shortcomings is the inherent challenge when designing metadata private protocols: protocols need to sacrifice either low latency, low bandwith overhead, or strong privacy. In this project, we are interested in finding new, practical solutions that still maintain strong privacy, which requires us to strike an adequate trade-off between performance and privacy.
Application Deadline: 30-06-2025
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Organic chemistry
Summary of PhD Program:
The candidate will undertake an independent research project within carbohydrate chemistry in water and aqueous solvents. Reactions between carbohydrates and other biomolecules involving a precomplexation will be studied. The goal is to develop a stereospecific glycosylation working with minimally protected glycosyl donors allowing reactions to be performed in highly polar solvents. New protective groups and leaving groups will be developed to advance glycosylation chemistry in water.
Application Deadline: 22-06-2025
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in studying gain-of-function GABAA receptor variants in developmental and epileptic encephalopathies
Summary of PhD Program:
The Perrier Lab at the Department of Neuroscience, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, is seeking a motivated and talented PhD fellow to study the impact of gain-of-function (GOF) mutations in GABAA receptors implicated in developmental and epileptic encephalopathies (DEEs). DEEs are severe early-onset conditions characterized by intractable epilepsy, intellectual disability, developmental delay or regression, movement disorders, and autism spectrum disorders. Although missense variants in GABAA receptor subunits are often assumed to cause loss of receptor function (LOF), recent work by our collaborators at the University of Sydney (Australia) and Filadelfia Hospital (Denmark) shows that GOF variants are just as prevalent, and their functional outcomes closely correlate with patient phenotypes.
Application Deadline: 15-06-2025
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD project will design and create a robust infrastructure in which data, knowledge and information on disability and accessibility are better shared, used and organized within university organizations. Concretely, the PhD project will a) Map of disability and accessibility data work at the UCPH, answering questions such as: What data is available, missing, or siloed? Who is included and excluded? Where are the barriers and opportunities for increasing institutional knowledge on neurodiversity? b) develop best practices for GDPR-compliant sharing of disability- related information and potentials for University of Copenhagen, and c) create a proposal for reconfigurations of current systems supporting future data work practices that ensure sharing of data, knowledge and information on disability and accessibility for organizational usage within university organizations, piloted specifically for computer science teachers.
Application Deadline: 10-06-2025
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in quantum computing for chemistry and life-science (Algorithms & Applications)
Summary of PhD Program:
We are looking for motivated candidates from any of the many fields spanning quantum resource estimation, quantum algorithms and all the way to areas of use cases/applications of quantum algorithms in chemistry and life-science. Applicants can have a background from Computer Science, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Materials Science, Life-Science and/or Medicine. In all cases, theoretical/computational skills and experience are important.
Application Deadline: 09-06-2025
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10. Fully Funded PhD Position in Human-computer Interaction
Summary of PhD Program:
The field of Human-Computer Interaction seeks to make computer systems in all forms useful and usable for end users. For the past 40 years, this has been done by creating methods for involving users in the design and evaluation of systems. However, we all have experienced computer systems that are frustrating, help solve the wrong tasks, or cause additional work. The field also struggles to make emerging technologies, such as AI, extended reality, and social media, benefit end users rather than deskill or distract them. The idea of this project is that the field lacks theories that can help understand and predict when and why computer systems are useful and usable.
Application Deadline: 09-06-2025
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Political Science
Summary of PhD Program:
As part of the LOBBYMETRY project, the chosen candidate will cooperate with the other project team members in developing measures of informational quality in lobbying exchanges. The LOBBYMETRY project evaluates the types of information provided in several venues of policymaking across sampled issues in climate and digital politics. It uses such textual data to study how and when lobbying contributes positively or negatively to the quality of information in the policy process, and, ultimately, the quality of legislation.
Application Deadline: 05-06-2025
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12. Fully Funded PhD Position in computational and mathematical modelling of flow and fracture in ice sheets
Summary of PhD Program:
The focus of the PhD project will be to study fracture and damage formation of ice sheets and how it induces structural weaknesses that can facilitate fast flow and precondition ice shelves for disintegration, and potentially causing irreversible grounding line retreats. The project will bne to develop and implement continuum formulations of stress-based poro-damage dynamics and hydrofracturing, using new e.g. phase field methods. Models will be validate against date obtained from inverse modelling of continent-wide surface velocity and fracture fields derived from satellite imagery.
Application Deadline: 03-06-2025
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in Computational Chemistry
Summary of PhD Program:
The project involves the use of quantum chemistry, machine learning, and genetic algorithms to search for new homogeneous chemical catalysts. We are looking for candidates within the field of computational chemistry. Applicants can have a background from cheminformatics including RDKit, machine learning applied to chemistry, and molecular modeling
Application Deadline: 02-06-2025
14. Fully Funded PhD Position in Analytical Chemistry
Summary of PhD Program:
The successful candidate will join the UPBIO project, which aims to advance the understanding and chemical characterization of advanced bio-oils derived from lignocellulosic biomass and municipal solid waste. This research is critical for the commercialization of bio-oil upgrading processes. Below, intended research objectives are listed, but the list is not exclusive. We expect the qualified candidate to further define the plan for the PhD within the first three months of employment.
Application Deadline: 01-06-2025
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15. Fully Funded PhD Position in Chemical Biology
Summary of PhD Program:
The position is part of a Lundbeck Foundation Collaborative Project which aims to explore a recently discovered and exciting new biological phenomenon, the formation of biomolecular condensates by liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS), and how this emerging field can lead to entirely novel concepts to treat brain diseases. The candidate will investigate LLPS of postsynaptic density (PSD) proteins with a focus on their role in neurological disorders. The project runs in close collaboration with Mingjie Zhang (Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), Shenzhen, China). Ultimately, the developed probes will lead to modulation of biomolecular condensates at the PSD balancing diseased states of neuronal excitation and inhibition.
Application Deadline: 30-05-2025
16. Fully Funded PhD Position in Experimental Quantum Physics
Summary of PhD Program:
We seek a PhD student to support the exploration of strong magnetic coupling between a mechanical resonator and an individual electronic spin. The experimental platform, based on an ultracoherent phononic membrane resonator and an NV-center in diamond, serves as a testbed of protocols for spin-mechanical quantum sensing and transduction, and the preparation of highly non-classical mechanical quantum states.
Application Deadline: 29-05-2025
17. Fully Funded PhD Position in precision oncology using preclinical cancer models
Summary of PhD Program:
Cluster for Molecular Imaging (CMI) is an interdisciplinary research group affiliated with both Rigshospitalet and the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. CMI was established in 2004 by Prof. Andreas Kjaer to pursue translational molecular imaging research. The research is driven by patient needs and includes all steps from molecule to man, with a strong focus on transferring new methods into clinical practice. The research covers several disease areas, including immune-oncology, cardiovascular diseases, and inflammatory diseases. The group has so far translated 5 PET tracers into the clinic.
Application Deadline: 28 May 2025
18. Fully Funded PhD Position in vascular effects of gut hormones
Summary of PhD Program:
We (Gasbjerg Group) are a recently established research group that focuses on the translational field of gastrointestinal hormones and their therapeutic implications. We conduct clinical studies at collaborating facilities and animal and in vitro pharmacological studies at the University of Copenhagen (Panum Institute, Blegdamsvej 3B, 2200 Copenhagen). The current PhD project consists of one clinical study using total body PET to address bone perfusion supported by more mechanistic, physiological animal studies focusing on vascular effects of gut hormones and development of peptide-based compounds targeting gut hormone receptors.
Application Deadline: 28 May 2025
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19. Fully Funded PhD Position in Mucosal
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD project will focus on tracking the immune and epithelial changes in the respiratory tract from a human clinical trial delivering influenza vaccination through intramuscular and intranasal routes, which will be compared to a live influenza human challenge infection model in humans. Methodology will involve implementation of state-of-the-art imaging technologies, high resolution single cell data sets that will be established on non-trial samples. The PhD will include bioinformatic support from internal and international laboratories through established collaborations. The project will allow the student to gain insights to advanced cellular immunological techniques to answer key questions in understanding the underlying mechanisms involved in effective local and systemic responses to respiratory vaccines and pathogens.
