Are you holding Master’s degree and looking for fully funded PhD positions? Stockholm University, 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 Environmental Science focusing on sea spray aerosol transport of PFAAs
Summary of PhD Program:
Evidence has emerged that levels of perfluoroalkyl acids (PFAAs) are elevated in coastal regions despite there being no obvious sources. In previous research, we have demonstrated that PFAAs emitted on sea spray aerosols (SSA) is an important source of PFAAs to air. It remains uncertain, however, what the contribution of SSA transport is to atmospheric deposition of PFAAs to land. While modelling of transport and deposition undertaken in our research group indicates the importance of SAA transport and deposition of PFAAs in coastal regions, there is currently little empirical evidence for these impacts. In this project, we aim to demonstrate that coastal zones in Denmark and Sweden are impacted by PFAAs through short-range transport and deposition of relatively large SSA particles with short atmospheric lifetimes.
Application Deadline: February 16, 2024
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Environmental Science
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD position will be associated with the Wallenberg Academy Fellowship project SuPerTip (Quantifying methane emissions from the subsea permafrost tipping system) that aims to provide an observationally-constrained estimate of current and future methane emissions from thawing subsea permafrost. The PhD student will contribute to this aim by providing observational, quantitative data on subsea permafrost and the biogeochemical processes happening as subsea permafrost thaws. This becomes possible through a rare set of subsea permafrost samples from the Russian Arctic Ocean available at Stockholm University (see e.g. Wild et al. 2022 Nature Communications). The planned PhD work might include laboratory experiments, isotopic analyses and molecular biomarker analyses, and a detailed research plan will be developed by student and supervisors in the first months of the thesis work.
Application Deadline: 15 February 2024
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Political Science
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD positions will be part of a research project Democracy, Autocracy, and International Cooperation, which is funded by the European Research Council (ERC) and Swedish Research Council (VR). For more information, see Democracy, Autocracy, and International Cooperation. The PhD thesis projects are expected to align with the research project’s main aim of exploring why, how, and under what conditions the political regimes of countries affect the extent, form, and effectiveness of international cooperation. The research project relates to both comparative politics and international politics, and makes use of a combination of quantitative, qualitative, and experimental methods.
Application Deadline: 6 February 2024.
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Political Science
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD thesis project is expected to align with the research project’s main aims of studying why, how and under which conditions democratic states are regulating social media platforms and how this shapes what is published on these platforms. The research project relates to comparative politics, democracy studies and democratic theory and it makes use of a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods.
Application Deadline: 6 February 2024.
5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Sustainability Science
Summary of PhD Program:
We seek an enthusiastic and committed PhD student to join a transdisciplinary team of researchers working in the Powering Change project, funded by FORMAS. The transdisciplinary project aims to explore whether and how renewable energy transitions in one place could have unintended consequences in other places and at multiple scales. Specifically, the project will examine spillover effects of wind energy projects on the territorial rights, sovereignty and ways of life of Indigenous Peoples and local communities (IPLCs) and aims to surface new transformative visions for just energy transitions.
Application Deadline: 4 February 2024
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Sustainability Science
Summary of PhD Program:
We seek an enthusiastic and committed PhD student to develop science-based approaches to Nature Positive investments, as part of the research project MISTRA Finance to Revive Biodiversity (www.finbio.org). The FinBio program aims to provide cutting-edge transdisciplinary research to support the capacity of the financial sector to contribute to enhancing the resilience of the biosphere, while also rapidly reducing the drivers of biodiversity loss.
Application Deadline: 4 February 2024
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Sustainability Science
Summary of PhD Program:
We seek an enthusiastic and committed PhD candidate to join an interdisciplinary team of researchers at the SRC working on social-ecological resilience within the framework of the project “Living with Xylella: Securing viable rural futures amid a plant disease epidemic in Europe’s Mediterranean food basket.” Funded by FORMAS, the Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development, the project focuses on the social-ecological dimensions of plant health. It frames plant health as an integral component of sustainable rural development and takes a participatory approach to understanding the governance processes and social-ecological outcomes of plant disease. The empirical focus is Xylella fastidiosa, a plant pathogen that has devastated olive and almond farming systems in Mediterranean Europe over the past decade.
Application Deadline: 4 February 2024
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Law
Summary of PhD Program:
In order to meet the specific entry requirements, the general syllabus for doctoral studies in the field of Law stipulates that applicants must have completed an LL.M, a Swedish Law Degree or equivalent. Eligibility can also be granted to applicants who, through professional experience or other training, are deemed to have acquired competence equal to that which is necessary to conduct studies at post- graduate level, both in terms of scientific skills and legal literacy relevant to the research area.
Application Deadline: 1 March 2024
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Molecular Biosciences
Summary of PhD Program:
The project addresses cellular aging and health and the molecular mechanisms that drive and counteract cellular proteostasis. Specifically, the project deals with how the different cellular molecules communicate and the interplay between systems of protein quality control and stress-induced transcriptional programs. The project is based on the model organism budding yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) and mammalian cell culture and relevant methods from molecular biology, microbiology, genetics, cell biology and biochemistry.
Application Deadline: 4 February 2024
10. Fully Funded PhD Position in Molecular Biosciences
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD student position is available in the laboratory headed by Professor Eva Sverremark-Ekström. The project addresses molecular mechanisms coupled to how gut microbes and microbial products influence gut epithelium integrity and function as well as immune characteristics and responsiveness. We study this under homeostatic conditions but also in the context of chemotherapy exposure in different cellular and molecular experimental models, complemented by in vivo studies and work with human clinical samples.
Application Deadline: 4 February 2024
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Paleoclimatology
Summary of PhD Program:
Storms are a common feature of European winters, yet predictions of storminess (frequency and intensity) and storm track position are conflicting. This stems from a lack of data, particularly from pre-instrumental times, limiting our understanding of natural drivers. The aim of this four-year project is to understand drivers of storminess and storm track position in the Euro-North Atlantic over the Holocene. This is achieved by building peat paleostorm reconstructions using novel (ATR-FTIR and CT-scanning) as well as established (grain size and elemental chemistry) storm proxies. We will use previously published records, existing material and target new sites to build a transect stretching from northern to southern Europe, allowing us to chart spatial and temporal variations in storm activity and link this to potential mechanisms.
Application Deadline: 29 February 2024
12. Fully Funded PhD Position in Physical Geography: Permafrost Landscape classification
Summary of PhD Program:
The northern permafrost region has been projected to shift from a net sink of greenhouse gases to a net source under global warming. However, annual permafrost region budgets of the main greenhouse gases (CO2, CH4, and N2O) are highly uncertain. This PhD student would work to create improved geospatial databases of permafrost landscapes to improve assessments of monthly to annual greenhouse gas budgets of the permafrost region. The research contributes to the CALIPSO project funded under Schmidt Futures as well as assessment of the permafrost region greenhouse gas budgets carried out within the REgional Carbon Cycle Assessment and Processes-2 (RECCAP2) project.
Application Deadline: 28 February 2024
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in Physical Geography: Soil health assessment
Summary of PhD Program:
Healthy soils are the basis for food production, viable ecosystems and functional biogeochemical cycles. From a global perspective, loss of soils and decline in both soil fertility and soil carbon content are major problems. Problems that also contribute to increased emissions of greenhouse gases. The European Union (EU) is strongly committed to developing sustainable agricultural practices to improve soil fertility across Europe. The Department of Natural Geography, Stockholm University is a partner in the large collaborative EU project AI4SoilHealth which will be the basis for this PhD position.
Application Deadline: 28 february 2024
14. Fully Funded PhD Position in Sociological Demography
Summary of PhD Program:
In order to meet the specific entry requirements, the general syllabus for doctoral studies in the field of Sociological demography stipulates that applicants must, in addition to the basic eligibility requirements, the applicant must have completer at least one independent research work in demography or a related subject documented in an essay or other written work. General syllabus for Doctoral Studies in Sociological Demography.
Application Deadline: 1 March 2024
15. Fully Funded PhD Position in Sociology
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD positions are part of the research programme “Sustainable synergies”. The aim of the programme is to study how the welfare state can be developed to support a sustainable working life for everyone, based on both internationally comparative research and in-depth analyses of Sweden. In focus are the working-life transitions individuals make during their life-course. Specifically, the programme will examine how different combinations of social policies can support successful transitions for different groups in the labour market.
Application Deadline: 1 March 2024
16. Fully Funded PhD Position in Sociology
Summary of PhD Program:
In order to meet the general entry requirements, the applicant must have completed a second-cycle degree, completed courses equivalent to at least 240 higher education credits, of which 60 credits must be in the second cycle, or have otherwise acquired equivalent knowledge in Sweden or elsewhere.
Application Deadline: 1 March 2024
17. Fully Funded PhD Position in Bioinformatics
Summary of PhD Program:
Targeted spatial omics is a new technology field that allows cellular resolved mapping of gene and protein expression profiling in the preserved morphological context of tissue specimens from organs or whole organisms. Data from “Targeted spatial omics” is preferably integrated with data from single-cell multi-omics experiments, since the spatial information may guide the interpretation of the single-cell multi-omic data, and vice versa. Single-cell multi omics generaes data on RNA expression, promotor status and/or panels of proteins from the same cell. Corresponding ”targeted spatial multi-omics data” can still not be generated with ease.
Application Deadline: 21 February 2024.
18. Fully Funded PhD Position in Biochemistry
Summary of PhD Program:
Targeted spatial omics is a new technology field that allows cellular resolved mapping of gene and protein expression profiling in the preserved morphological context of tissue specimens from organs or whole organisms. These methods are very powerful, but they are complex, low in throughput and expensive. In order to scale targeted spatial omics methods to allow large studies of clinical cohorts, or for diagnostic applications, new approaches are needed. The aim of this project is to work on such approaches, and apply them for analysis of tissue specimens from mainly human tumors.
Application Deadline: 21 February 2024.
19. Fully Funded PhD Position in Bioinformatics
Summary of PhD Program:
The goal of this project is to develop computational algorithms and methods that use omics data to infer gene regulatory networks (GRNs), and apply these to understand regulatory mechanisms that lead to cancer formation. Cancer cells are subjected to scRNA-seq to measure the transcriptomic response of gene knockdown perturbations via CRISPR interference on a large scale. The Sonnhammer group has recently shown that such data data offers a significant improvement in GRN quality compared to non-perturbed data. The project involves developing and applying computational methods that can work optimally with this new type of data, either by adapting and optimizing existing methods, or designing new methods based on deep learning neural networks and variational autoencoders.
Application Deadline: 21 February 2024.
20. Fully Funded PhD Position in Biochemistry
Summary of PhD Program:
Cellular respiration is the mitochondrial process that reduces oxygen to water using electrons from foodstuff, and conserves the energy released in the form of a proton gradient across a membrane. We are interested in how the membrane-bound proteins constituting the respiratory chain are assembled, what complexes are formed in the membranes and what their mechanism of action is. We primarily use bacterial model systems, both those that are similar to the mitochondrial (‘our’) chains and those that are potential drug (antibiotics) targets in pathogenic bacteria. We are interested both in aerobic respiration (as occurs in our mitochondria) and respiration on nitrates (denitrification).
Application Deadline: 21 February 2024.
21. Fully Funded PhD Position in Biochemistry
Summary of PhD Program:
Your studies in Biochemistry will be in the project: Structural, biochemical and biophysical studies of enzymes within nucleotide metabolism and DNA repair. We use X-ray crystallography, cryo-EM, biochmical and biophysical methods to study enzymes within nucleotide metabolism pathways and DNA repair. Structural, biophysical and biochemical studies are essential for our understanding of these enzymes natural functions and the development of inhibitors.
Application Deadline: 21 February 2024.
22. Fully Funded PhD Position in Bioinformatics
Summary of PhD Program:
Protein structure is essential for understanding their function and developing drugs targeting proteins. Recently, a deep learning method that can predict the structure of most proteins was made freely available and released a database with predicted protein structures. However, proteins do not act alone – they work together with other proteins. Therefore, the next major challenge is using these methods for predicting protein-protein interactions. Our initial studies have shown that it is possible to predict accurate structures of a large part of dimeric proteins using either a modified version of AlphaFold2 or AlphaFold-multimer.
Application Deadline: 21 February 2024.
23. Fully Funded PhD Position in Neurochemistry
Summary of PhD Program:
Alzheimer’s disease is the most common cause of dementia in the elderly and the number of affected individuals is forecasted to increase over the coming years. The main risk factor for the development of Alzheimer’s disease is older age, but also female sex increases the risk of disease. The main genetic risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease is APOE4, present in approximately 20 % of the Scandinavian population, which increases the risk of disease by up-to 15-fold.
