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 applied statistics in monitoring pesticide effects
Summary of PhD Program:
The main aim of environmental risk assessment is to assign magnitudes and probabilities to adverse effects of human impact. A key parameter used in chemical risk assessment is the benchmark dose, identifying the dose associated with a predefined deviation from non-treated controls in the testsystem investigated. The benchmark dose methodology relies on non-linear dose-response models. The methodology is well-established for univariate data, such as a growth or mortility measured at a single point in time, but less so for more complex data structures such hierarchical data based on repeated experiments or time series, which have the advantage of closer resembling reality and accordingly provide more valuable input for risk assessments. In addition, as toxicity is a process in time and exposure concentrations often vary in time (chemicals degrade in the environment, and/or are added repeatedly), statistical methods to describe effect development in time as a function of exposure is becoming increasingly important tools for chemical risk assessment.
Application Deadline: 30-07-2023
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence
Summary of PhD Program:
The 3-year position is funded by the Carlsberg Semper Ardens Advance. Artificial Intelligence has made its way into our everyday life and into the sciences. With that comes great responsibility. The Center for Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence revisits the foundations of responsible Artificial Intelligence and asks deep questions about the philosophical significance of recent breakthroughs in Artificial Intelligence. The phD student is expected to work on questions relating to philosophy of Artificial Intelligence
Application Deadline: 01-08-2023
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Mechanics of Tissue Homeostasis at reNEW
Summary of PhD Program:
A PhD position for 4 years (1 year as a Research Assistant and 3 years as PhD student) is available in the group of Jakub Sedzinski at reNEW. The team studies the general principles underlying epithelial homeostasis. Particularly, the team wants to determine both the mechanics and molecular regulation of the mucociliary epithelial cell development and renewal from stem cells hoping to provide new insights into treatment of epithelial pathologies associated with defective tissue homeostasis, such as asthma, colitis, and most common epithelial tumors, or carcinomas.
Application Deadline: 01-08-2023
4. 02 Fully Funded PhD Position in Human Diet-Gut-Brain interactions
Summary of PhD Program:
The overall purpose of the research performed by the group is to understand the neurophysiological foundations that underlie motor and cognitive functions in humans. The group uses a variety of neuroimaging and neurostimulation techniques (EEG, (f)MRI, TMS) in combination with physical and cognitive testing to investigate how brain networks modulate behavior and we collaborate closely with research groups developing novel, cutting-edge methods of network-quantification.
Application Deadline: 06-08-2023
5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Environmental Toxicology
Summary of PhD Program:
The objective of the current PhD is to test the ability of TKTD models for primary producers to predict effects of chemical mixtures of herbicides, applied at variable exposures mimicking those occurring from drift and run-off scenarios under variable temperature regimes. We expect that the will parameterise the TKTD model for Lemna minor for herbicides with different toxicological modes of action at different temperatures. Then the models will be validated under variable exposure and temperature scenarios of the individual herbicides and their mixtures, mimicking exposure scenarios predicted by chemical fate models such as the FOCUS model.
Application Deadline: 16-08-2023
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Environmental Toxicology
Summary of PhD Program:
We expect that the PhD will establish the significance of architecture (surface to volume ratio), surface properties (cuticula and cell wall composition) and methods of carbon acquisition (from air, sediment via lacuna tissue, or from the water as CO and/or HCO3) in determining species sensitivities of primary producers. The focus will be on determining the time to manifestation of effects on photosynthesis and growth parameters, and the time to recovery. The results will be used to parameterise TKTD models, and to explore which parameters have the largest effects on species differences, and to what extent the models developed for one species and one chemical mode of action can be extrapolated to other species and other chemicals.
Application Deadline: 16-08-2023
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in philosophy
Summary of PhD Program:
The larger project is about the hypothesis that vague and ambiguous theorizing in cognitive neuroscience is a cause of the low replicability of experimental studies. More than half of the studies in psychology do not replicate. Researchers commonly blame poor methodological and statistical practices. Recently, a growing number of researchers have argued that the crisis is due to poor theories. The aim of the project is to use the analytical tools of philosophy of science to assess the claim that absence of proper theorizing is the root cause of low replicability and to understand the type of theory needed to alleviate the crisis.
Application Deadline: 01-09-2023
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Nutritional Immunology/ Parasitology
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD project will focus on how pigs respond to infection with the helminth Trichuris suis when fed diets with different levels of fermentable fibers. We aim to identify gut metabolites derived from the breakdown of dietary fiber that shape the development of innate immune cells in the gut during T. suis infection. Some work in mouse models will also be involved. The PhD student will work together with other PhD students and postdocs in this research, involving infection of pigs or mice with Trichuris spp, metabolomic, microbiome and immunological analyses, including work at collaborating laboratories in both Denmark and abroad (several months). Full training will be provided. The PhD student will also contribute to teaching in the section.
Application Deadline: 23-07-2023
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in theoretical reinforcement learning
Summary of PhD Program:
Reinforcement Learning (RL) aims at developing computer systems, capable of learning an unknown dynamic environment so as to maximize a notion of reward. Relaible application of AI crucially relies on RL algorithms with theoretical performance guranatees. Most of existing algorithms developed for complex RL tasks do not admit such guarantees, and the research on theoretical RL lags far behind pratical RL. An RL task is often mathematically modelled as a mathematical object called a Markov Decision Process (MDP). An RL agent wishes to learn a near-optimal bevahoir through maximizing a notion of reward function in the underlying MDP, which is assumed unknown initially. Its performance in doing so is assessed through performance measures such as regret or sample complexity. In offline RL, the agent relies on pre-collected data without further exploration, whereas in online RL, it interacts with the MDP in an online manner and aims to balance exploration and exploitation. In both settings, the agent wishes to identify a near-optimal control policy yielding as much as reward as possible.
Application Deadline: 16-07-2023
10. Fully Funded PhD Position in Organic Chemistry
Summary of PhD Program:
Artificial enzymes are small organic molecules with enzyme like catalytic properties. The goal of the project is to transform cyclodextrins into artifial enzymes that can bind and catalyse difficult transformations such as the selective oxidation of alkanes including the green house gas methane. The Ph.d. fellow will design and synthesize new cyclodextrins derivatives and study their binding and catalytic properties.
Application Deadline: 13-07-2023
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in medical image analysis
Summary of PhD Program:
This project is focused on learning from combinations of such labeled and unlabeled medical imaging data, with unsupervised and semi-supervised learning and so-called self-supervised techniques. Self-supervised methods are state of the art in a number of computer vision problems and language models that learn unsupervised and semi-supervised are currently changing society through language processing, but have so far not found wide adoption in the medical imaging domain.
The PhD project goals are to investigate the learning and scaling potential of existing and developed methods and investigate their benefits for analysis of longitudinal images by using the large amounts of oncology imaging data available in hospital databases. This could potentially have wide impact on medical image analysis and processing, however, the PhD project will also run side-by-side with a medical PhD project at the Department of Oncology at Rigshospitalet, which aims to use the results of the method development and analysis to specifically improve risk modelling of tumor recurrence and side-effects after treatment.
Application Deadline: 09-07-2023
12. Fully Funded PhD Position in membrane protein biochemistry and peptide drug discovery
Summary of PhD Program:
The Rogers Lab is focused on the discovery of new research ligands and drug-leads for disease linked protein targets. To do this, we manipulate ribosomes to accept unnatural amino acids: amino acid chemical structures not present in the universal genetic code. Reprogramming the ribosome allows for synthesis of peptides with a stable ‘drug-like’ cyclic structure. We then screen trillions of these cyclic peptides (more molecules than there are stars in the galaxy) to isolate molecules with novel drug-like properties. Our researchers use a wide-range of biomolecular experimental techniques, from DNA and RNA molecular biology to solid-phase peptide synthesis. These are combined with specialty techniques using ribozymes, chemically synthesized unnatural amino acids and ultra-high throughput peptide screening.
Application Deadline: 09-07-2023
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in experimental superconducting quantum information physics and devices
Summary of PhD Program:
Project 1 – Quantum information physics with superconducting qubits:
PhD level research on implementing and designing small-scale quantum algorithms, quantum information protocols, multi-qubit gate- and readout-calibration and principles of error detection and correction. The project involves calibration and operation of superconducting multi-qubit systems, high-frequency measurement techniques, low-temperature experimental techniques using cryofree dilution refrigerators, advanced programming, simulation and data analysis.
Project 2 – Novel superconducting couplers, qubits and circuit elements:
PhD level research with a focus on designing, fabricating and measuring novel superconducting qubits and couplers. This project involves low-temperature experiments in cryofree dilution refrigerators, low-noise and high-frequency electrical measurement techniques, nanofabrication of superconducting qubits and circuits as well as developing semiconducting devices, data analysis, advanced programming, device modeling and simulations and close interactions with theoretical collaborators.
Application Deadline: 09-07-2023
14. Fully Funded PhD Position in Plant Science
Summary of PhD Program:
All plant cells produce a carbohydrate-rich extracellular matrix, called the cell wall. Cell wall synthesis and regulation is critical for many physiological processes, such as growth, tissue morphology development, and as the first line of defence against pests and pathogens. Cell walls act as a major carbon sink and are an abundant source of economically important materials; therefore, knowledge of cell walls is highly relevant for both fundamental and applied research.
Application Deadline: 04-07-2023
15. Fully Funded PhD Position in Biocomplexity and Biophysics
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. The model approach will be inspired from statistical physics and the theory of phase transitions and droplet formation. By the introduction of active chemical reactions, we will study the physics of droplet formation and maintenance in time and space.
Application Deadline: 03-07-2023
16. 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: 03-07-2023
17. Fully Funded PhD Position in Machine Learning Predictions of Inorganic Groundwater Chemistry under Climate Change
Summary of PhD Program:
To secure clean water for future generations, knowledge of the influence of climate change on groundwater quality is needed. Though there is a general perception that climate change affects groundwater quality, the concrete impacts are yet unknown. With this project we aim at breaking new grounds to address this knowledge gap by generating new process understanding on how climate change, through altering groundwater recharge and temperature, affects groundwater quality.
Application Deadline: 03-07-2023
18. Fully Funded PhD Position in Organic Chemistry
Summary of PhD Program:
The Lee groupcurrently consists of 6 PhD students and 4 MSc-level students, and 2 Postdocs, total 12 researchers. The group is international (Denmark, South Korea, China, Italy, France, India, and Lithuania) and vibrant with different projects covering subjects of not only methodology developement but also organometallic chemistry, supramolecular chemistry, electrochemistry and polymer chemistry, but all centered on synthetic organic chemistry around carbon dioxide.
Application Deadline: 02-07-2023
19. Fully Funded PhD Position in Science Studies
Summary of PhD Program:
The project sets out to investigate the technological platforms at CBMR. The platforms occupy an intermediary role between experimental set-ups and instruments: they are under exploration, but also aim to standardize complex experimental methods. They thus occupy a role in between what Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, philosopher and historian of experiments, called epistemic things and technological systems respectively.
Application Deadline: 02-07-2023
20. Fully Funded PhD Position in Molecular regulation of the Salt-inducible Kinases in metabolic control
Summary of PhD Program:
The major goal of the PhD project is to investigate the molecular mechanism by which SIKs are switched-on and -off by extracellular signals such as hormones, regulate downstream targets and ultimately specific transcriptional programs metabolic processes, including gluconeogenesis. Your key tasks will be to perform in-depth biochemical analysis of SIKs in collaboration with structural biologists/proteomics expert and perform extensive cell culture work for signaling analysis and in vivo studies of gene-targeted/edited and drug-treated mice for metabolic investigations.
Application Deadline: 02-07-2023
21. Fully Funded PhD Position in Functional Proteomics
Summary of PhD Program:
We are seeking an enthusiastic, passionate researcher to perform a PhD project in functional proteomics. The main objective of the project is to identify and characterize secreted proteins in body fluid samples from healthy and type 2 diabetic individuals at rest and after an exercise intervention. The successful applicant will utilize cutting-edge proteomics workflow, alongside bioinformatics and metabolic assays in in vitro and in vivo model systems. The candidate will work in an interdisciplinary team comprising molecular biologists, bioinformaticians and cell biologists. By working together, we aim to gain better understanding of the complex mechanisms behind protein secretion and how they are influenced by exercise and metabolic disorders.
Application Deadline: 02-07-2023
22. Fully Funded PhD Position in membrane protein structural biology and pharmacology
Summary of PhD Program:
Our sensation of taste influences our dietary choices and alert us about harmful foods, but the underlying molecular mechanisms of taste are poorly understood. This project aims at advancing our understanding of the molecular mechanisms underlying taste perception by studying the structure, dynamics, and function of membrane-bound taste receptors. The PhD candidate will apply single particle cryo-EM in combination with biochemical, pharmacological, and cellular assays to characterize membrane proteins involved in taste. The outcome of the project will yield unprecedented molecular insight into taste perception and delineate the therapeutic and diagnostic potential of an entire family of proteins.
Application Deadline: 30-06-2023
23. Fully Funded PhD Position in Genome Maintenance During Cell Division
Summary of PhD Program:
DNA repair pathways are regulated according to cell cycle stage. The protein TopBP1 is a master regulator of DNA repair and maintenance mechanism during M phase of the cell cycle. This project will investigate the functional interplay between mitotic kinases and TopBP1 and how this affects genome maintenance pathways during M phase.
Application Deadline: 29-06-2023
24. Fully Funded PhD Position in organic synthesis
Summary of PhD Program:
The project focuses on the synthesis and studies of small molecular segments of the carbon allotrope 6,6,12-graphyne. Synthetically, the project employs various metal-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions using alkyne substrates (acetylenic scaffolding). Studies involve electrochemical techniques such as cyclic voltammetry as well as UV-Vis absorption studies.
Application Deadline: 29-06-2023
25. Fully Funded PhD Position in Membrane protein
Summary of PhD Program:
The Membrane Protein Structural Biology Group headed by Associate Professor Pontus Gourdon works on structural and functional characterization of membrane proteins that are essential for human health and highly attractive targets in the treatment of disease. The overarching aim is to reveal the molecular principles and determinants of transport processes across cellular membranes. To this end, we use a number of state-of-the-art techniques within membrane protein structural biology to study structure-function relationships.
