Are you holding Master’s degree and looking for fully funded PhD positions? University of 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. 03 Fully Funded PhD Position in Informatics – Cryptology
Summary of PhD Program:
All employees are expected to contribute to leading-edge research and teaching of high international quality. All PhD students at the department are members of our research school in ICT, which provides an opportunity to interact with PhD students across the research fields. The school has annual meetings, monthly lunches and offers courses in scientific writing and application writing. The working environment for this position will be at the Selmer Center in Secure Communication. The Selmer Center is one of the top ICT research groups with main research in areas of sequence design, coding theory, cryptology, Boolean functions, information security, and quantum information theory.
Application Deadline: 15th September 2023
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Comparative Politics
Summary of PhD Program:
The Department of Comparative Politics at the University of Bergen, Norway, is recruiting a PhD candidate to contribute to the project “Political Parties and Climate Change: Positions, Polarisation and Policy Relevance (PARTYCLIM)” funded by the Norwegian Research Council. The position is for a fixed-term period of 4 years, of which 25% will be dedicated to teaching, supervision, and administrative tasks within the Department. The successful applicant will work with an exciting international team of six renowned experts: Fay Farstad (University of Bergen), Neil Carter (University of York), Conor Little (University of Limerick), Matto Mildenberger (University of California Santa Barbara), Bruce Tranter (University of Tasmania) and Marianne Aasen (CICERO).
Application Deadline: 18th August 2023
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in biosystematics of marine invertebrates
Summary of PhD Program:
Siphonophores are a ubiquitous component of marine zooplankton. Yet, their fragile, gelatinous colonies make them challenging to study, and many aspects of their diversity and ecology remain poorly known. Baseline studies on the diversity of siphonophores are lacking for several regions, and the group is sparsely represented in DNA reference libraries. Many of the ~190 known species are assumed to have wide or cosmopolitan distributions, but closer scrutiny frequently uncovers undescribed, geographically structured genetic diversity within the group.
Application Deadline: 15th August 2023
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Nursing Home Medicine
Summary of PhD Program:
The position is funded by the University of Bergen (UiB) and is part of the “Virtual darkness and digital phenotyping in specialized and municipal dementia care: The DARK.DEM randomized controlled trial”. The DARK.DEM is funded by the Research Council of Norway. In this project, we will explore if virtual darkness, that is, light without blue wavelengths, can improve treatment of behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia, such as agitation, anxiety, depression and psychosis. We will conduct a randomized controlled trial at NKS Olaviken Gerontopsychiatric Hospital, Askøy, in which patients with agitation and dementia will be allocated to either standard treatment or add-on treatment with virtual darkness. We will also utilize data from wearable sensors to evaluate behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia.
Application Deadline: 15th August 2023
5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Contested Knowledges in and through Asylum Litigation
Summary of PhD Program:
The position is connected to the research project ‘Contested Knowledges in and through Asylum Litigation (ASYKNOW)’ funded by a European Research Council Starting Grant. ASYKNOW will develop new conceptual tools for understanding the role of expert knowledge in asylum governance by investigating the ways in which knowledge about asylum seekers and migration is mobilized, contested, and constituted through asylum litigation. The project combines an ethnography of legal processes with legal archaeology.
Application Deadline: 15th August 2023
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in de novo drug design
Summary of PhD Program:
Development of new pharmaceuticals requires efficient navigation of the vast chemical space. This may be achieved via heuristic computational methods, also termed “de novo” design methods, which may optimize toward desirable drug candidates without having to explore the complete chemical space. Via an interdisciplinary approach that includes informatics, computational chemistry, synthesis, computational biology, and biomedicine, the project team will develop radically new de novo molecular design methods. Specifically, the team will develop methods that integrate expert knowledge early on, via machine-learning models and on-the-fly human intervention in the otherwise automated process. The new methods will be applied to design inhibitors of targets for cancer and antibiotics, the most promising of which will be synthesized and tested.
Application Deadline: 15th August 2023
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Comparative Politics
Summary of PhD Program:
There is a vacancy for a PhD position at the Department of Comparative Politics, Faculty of Social Sciences. The position is for a fixed-term period of 4 years, of which 25% will be dedicated to teaching, supervision and administrative tasks at the Department. The Department of Comparative Politics is a research-intensive department offering an exciting place for research and education on political institutions, organizations, processes, and behaviour at local, national, and international levels. The Department offers bachelor’s and master’s programmes in comparative politics, as well as a bachelor’s programme in European studies. Research at the department is organized in research groups, and around research projects.
Application Deadline: 15th August 2023
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Psychosocial Science
Summary of PhD Program:
The primary aim of the BLINDZONES project is to determine the mechanisms underlying a recently discovered perceptual illusion, which in addition to challenging basic assumptions in traditional vision science may also contribute to traffic accidents. The illusion consists of a compelling and immediate experience that the blind zone behind an object is empty. We aim to develop a basic scientific understanding of this anomalous phenomenon and to clarify its implications for basic vision theory. In particular, we aim to determine the heuristic principles employed by the underlying visual mechanisms and to identify potential neural correlates of these mechanisms. We also aim to determine the potential role of the illusion in traffic accidents. Based on this research, we also aim to answer the question of what countermeasures are most effective for reducing the risk of accidents associated with blind zones.
Application Deadline: 15th August 2023
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Psychosocial Science
Summary of PhD Program:
The main task of the PhD candidate is to plan, conduct, analyze and publish the results of behavioral experiments investigating the illusion of empty blind zones using virtual reality (VR). Ideally, we are looking for a candidate who is also interested in being involved in the programming of the VR experiments to some extent. The appointed person will join the Bergen Laboratory for the Study of Decision, Intuition, Consciousness, and Emotion (DICE-lab) at the Department for Psychosocial Science. The main supervisor will be professor Vebjørn Ekroll. We aim to offer the candidate opportunities for brief research stays in the labs of Rob van Lier (Radboud University, the Netherlands) and/or Johan Wagemans (KU Leuven, Belgium).
Application Deadline: 15th August 2023
10. Fully Funded PhD Position in Water Isotope Research
Summary of PhD Program:
The project “Isotopic Transfer Rates during Water Phase Changes – iTRANSFER” consists of an experimental and modeling component that will establish an accurate basis for the use of water isotopic composition in studies of the terrestrial and extraterrestrial hydrological cycle. The iTRANSFER project will use new precise water isotopologue spectroscopy analyzers in experimental laboratory setups to measure the isotopologue transfer rates. Water isotopologue spectroscopy analyzers allow developing new experimental setups utilizing the possibility for continuous measurements of the water vapor isotopologue composition and the need for only very small sample volumes. The iTRANSFER project will furthermore use climate models equipped with water isotopologues together with networks of in-situ atmospheric water vapor isotopologue measurements to evaluate the effect of the new and more accurate fractionation factors.
Application Deadline: 14th August 2023
11. 02 Fully Funded PhD Position in political science/ public administration
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD project should be an independent project but within a relevant and current topic within political science and/or public administration, with a clear research question and delimited research objectives. If possible, please indicate your preferred supervisor at the department. The duration of the PhD position is 4 years, of which 25 percent of the time comprises obligatory duties associated with research, teaching, and dissemination of results. The employment period for the successful candidate may be reduced if he or she previously has been employed in a PhD position.
Application Deadline: 14th August 2023
12. Fully Funded PhD Position in Human-Computer Interaction
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD position will conduct research in Human-Computer Interaction related to one of the abovementioned areas. The preference will be given for the projects around physical ergonomics and accessibility personalisation for new input devices for desktop environment, such as ergonomic personalised keyboards, controllers, or adaptive furniture, or for novel user interfaces beyond the desktop, such as virtual reality, augmented reality, or extended reality.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in marine Biogeochemistry
Summary of PhD Program:
The Nordic Seas are of key importance for the global carbon cycle. Here, deep water formation leads to vertical transports of large amounts of carbon from the atmosphere and surface ocean to the abyss, where it is stored for hundreds to thousands of years. This helps slow down global warming. The successful candidate will investigate the dynamics of this process. A key goal is to resolve carbon cycle impacts of current variability and expected future changes in dense water formation and deep mixing. The work will be conducted using traditional ship-based as well as modern observations, such as from biogeochemical Argo floats, in addition to conceptual and climate models.
Application Deadline: 7th August 2023
14. Fully Funded PhD Position in plant-mycorrhizal interactions
Summary of PhD Program:
Dwarf-shrubs are a dominant plant functional group across the boreal, arctic and alpine biomes, and they play important roles for biodiversity, ecology and ecosystem functioning in the habitats in which they occur. For example, dwarf-shrubs provide important food resources for grazers, pollinators, and people and habitat for other plants, insects, rodents, and birds. Through interactions with belowground fungal networks (ericoid mycorrhiza), they play critical roles in carbon sequestration and long-term carbon storage in soils, suggesting that dwarf-shrubs may play a critical role in feedbacks from land to the climate system.
Application Deadline: 1st August 2023
15. Fully Funded PhD Position in Law
Summary of PhD Program:
The Faculty of Law, University of Bergen, offers a PhD position. The position is connected to the project ‘Life and Work in Balance: Legal responses to working life in times of change and crisis’ (LaW-BALANCE). The project concerns labour law, social security law and discrimination law, and the relation between EU/EEA law and Norwegian law. It is not a requirement that the person appointed has experience with research in these legal areas.
Application Deadline: 1st August 2023
16. Fully Funded PhD Position in Informatics
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD project is advised by Prof. H. Hauser (visual data science) and co-advised by Assoc.-Prof. N. Blaser (machine learning) as well as Prof. Th. Spengler (meteorology). Profs. Th. Ertl and M. Sedlmair from the Univ. of Stuttgart are also involved in the planned research. The project synopsis is:To understand inherent uncertainties in weather prediction, it is common to consult stochastically perturbed simulation ensembles with highly detailed ensemble members. Extracting relevant conclusions from such ensembles is very challenging and depends on a successful condensation of the data. Especially when aiming at an interpretation of an entire ensemble in terms of domain-relevant features, such as cyclones, fronts, rain, etc., summarization is very difficult and only possible on the basis of expert knowledge. We foresee that new visual data science methods from this project will significantly support the study of such rich ensembles.
Application Deadline: 1st August 2023
17. Fully Funded PhD Position in machine learning/ deep learning in computational life science
Summary of PhD Program:
There is a vacancy for a PhD Research Fellow in computational life science at the Department of chemistry. The position is for a fixed-term period of 3 years with the possibility of a 4th year with compulsory other work (e.g. teaching duties at the Department). The position is affiliated to the NFR-project Life at the periphery: the workings of proteins at the surface of cell and organelle membranes. The project is led by Prof. Nathalie Reuter at University of Bergen and is a collaboration with the groups of Prof.Anne-Claude Gavin (U.Geneva, Switzerland) and Dr.Sergei Grudinin (U.Grenoble & CNRS, France).
Application Deadline: 30th July 2023
18. Fully Funded PhD Position in Nanotechnology
Summary of PhD Program:
The position is related to the ERC Starting Grant project “smartGROW”, which main objective is the development of a new diamond growth technology that allows diamond synthesis in 3D on complex-shaped objects such as medical implants, flexible electronics, optical and mechanical components for aerospace and marine industries. In the project, a novel surface wave plasma chemical vapor deposition (CVD) system will be designed based on various numerical models and realized using advanced manufacturing techniques such as 3D metal printing. The vacancy for a PhD fellow is related to those project tasks, which include fabrication and tests of metamaterial-based waveguides with fractal apertures, and design and construction of the novel CVD chamber. The fellow will get the opportunity to be involved in the design optimization of the CVD system and synthesis of diamond on 3D objects at low temperatures. Design and fabrication of reactor chamber components and tests of diamond deposition on various objects and surfaces will be an integral part of the project.
Application Deadline: 15th July 2023
19. Fully Funded PhD Position in Nanotechnology
Summary of PhD Program:
The position is related to the ERC Starting Grant project “smartGROW”, which main objective is the development of a new diamond growth technology that allows diamond synthesis in 3D on complex-shaped objects such as medical implants, flexible electronics, optical and mechanical components for aerospace and marine industries. In the project, a novel surface wave plasma chemical vapor deposition (CVD) system will be designed based on various numerical models and realized using advanced manufacturing techniques such as 3D metal printing. The vacancy for a PhD fellow is related to those project tasks, which include development of models for metamaterial-based waveguides, fractal apertures and surface wave plasma. The fellow will get the opportunity to be involved in the design optimization of the CVD system using deep neural networks. Design and evaluation of microwave devices using deep generative networks and numerical simulations of electromagnetic fields and surface wave hydrogen plasma will be an integral part of the project.
Application Deadline: 15th July 2023
20. Fully Funded PhD Position in hydrogen safety for ships
Summary of PhD Program:
SH2IPS is an interdisciplinary project where the primary objective is to provide science-based recommendations for an international regulatory framework that can facilitate the safe development and deployment of merchant ships powered by hydrogen and hydrogen-based fuels. The project activities include the development of fundamental knowledge and competence on ignition and combustion phenomena in hydrogen-air mixtures to support the development of technical solutions for explosion protection in congested and confined environments. The research activities in SH2IPS are conducted in collaboration with other national and international research projects and networks on hydrogen safety. The PhD project will focus on experimental investigations of ignition phenomena for hydrogen-air mixtures. Dependent on the research interests and qualifications of the candidate, the project may also entail modelling of ignition phenomena.
