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 cosmochemistry and planetary sciences
Summary of PhD Program:
The Centre for Star and Planet Formation (Starplan) is a multidisciplinary research centre focused on understanding the formation of planetary systems, including the Solar System, using a multidisciplinary approach that combines astronomy, astrophysics and cosmochemistry. The main focus of these PhD research positions is centered on elucidating the timescales and processes leading to the formation of the Solar System, including the accretion and differentiation of rocky planets, by measurement of isotopic variations in extraterrestrial materials.
Application Deadline: 01-10-2024
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Economic Geography
Summary of PhD Program:
The project seeks to provide insights informing policies to minimize the costs of job destruction and maximize the benefits of job creation in a socially fair and geographically equal way, in the wider patterns of green transition. These policies will be informed by findings on the socially and geographically uneven implications of this process across Europe and underlying factors. The PhD fellow will contribute to the project efforts to a) conceptualize contemporary job creation and destruction, b) collect secondary data on labour markets across EU regions, c) shape methods to collect and then analyze questionnaire data in the Danish regions, and d) conduct interviews and focus groups with local stakeholders in Kalundborg municipality in Denmark.
Application Deadline: 29-09-2024
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Science Education Research
Summary of PhD Program:
We seek a candidate for an exciting research project focused around the concept of teaching science through nature connectedness. The project aims to explore how primary school science teachers might lead their students to experience nature not just as a mental construct, but as something they experience with their bodies, thus leading to posing questions about how the natural world works. The project could be designed to provide insights into how teachers currently do or do not use some form of nature connectedness in their instruction, how it might be incorporated into teaching, and the outcomes for both teachers’ perceptions of the effectiveness of such a teaching and the outcomes for students themselves.
Application Deadline: 25-09-2024
4. Fully Funded PhD Position
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD program is study program which aims at training PhD students, at an international level, to undertake research, development, and teaching assignments. These qualifications open a window of opportunity to a variety of careers within the private and public sectors. The program includes the drafting of a PhD thesis, active participation in research networks and the Department’s scholarly life, PhD courses, teaching, and other forms of knowledge dissemination. The standard duration of the PhD programme is three years of full-time studies, which equals 180 ECTS credits.
Application Deadline: 25-09-2024
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5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Neurobiology of Energy Homeostasis
Summary of PhD Program:
This project revolves around targeting hypothalamic neuroplasticity for sustained weight loss. Accordingly, we are looking to recruit a candidate with a background in molecular biology, neuroscience or similar and with interest in rodent CNS biology and appetite regulation. The candidate will work in close collaboration with several other group members from the Clemmensen Group, as well as other labs at CBMR and our international collaborators. Experimentally, the project involves mouse genetics, fiber photometry, confocal microscopy, and advanced metabolic and behavioral mouse phenotyping.
Application Deadline: 20-09-2024
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Molecular Underpinning and Targeting AMPK for Treatment of Insulin Resistance
Summary of PhD Program:
The overarching aim of the Sakamoto Group is to elucidate molecular mechanisms underlying cellular energy sensing and restoration of metabolic balance. We study how post-translational modifications (e.g., reversible phosphorylation) and allosteric regulation of signaling proteins/metabolic enzymes control cellular energy balance and how dysfunctions of such molecular processes lead to cardiometabolic diseases. Our goal is to identify and validate drug candidates that ameliorate energetic imbalance in cardiometabolic disorders. We take multidisciplinary approaches, collaborate with renowned national/international experts and support development of early career scientists.
Application Deadline: 20-09-2024
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Cardiometabolic Variant-to-Function
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD project is a truly interdisciplinary project supervised by Professor Ruth Loos and co-supervised by Associate Professor Camilla Schéele and in collaboration with the Pers lab at CBMR, with the opportunity for short study-stays abroad. The Loos Group aims to identify the genetic and non-genetic determinants of body weight regulation to gain insight into the deeper layers of biology that underlie obesity and metabolism. Additionally, the group aims to improve prediction, prevention, and treatment through the implementation of precision health strategies.
Application Deadline: 20-09-2024
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Science Education Research
Summary of PhD Program:
We seek candidate for an exciting research project focused on the professional identity of science teachers. The project aims to explore how professional identity develops and what impact in-service training and further education may have on science teachers. The project will provide insights into teachers’ perception of their own teacher professionalism and the factors that have shaped them as science educators, both at individual and structural levels. This may involve examining perceived barriers and opportunities in science teaching, differences and similarities among teachers with a background in different science disciplines, and the importance of teacher collaboration for identity formation.
Application Deadline: 18-09-2024
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Breaking Antimicrobial Resistance by Targeting Potentiators
Summary of PhD Program:
One of the biggest challenges to modern health care is the increasing number of bacterial infections not responding to antibiotic treatment. This clinical challenge is compounded by the lack of mechanistic understanding of bacterial resistance. The objective of the “Breaking Antimicrobial Resistance by Targeting Potentiators” project is to combat antimicrobial resistance by delineating the molecular mechanisms whereby intrinsic bacterial factors, so-called “potentiators”, allow bacteria to develop high-level resistance to antibiotics. In the present project we will focus on methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), one of the resistant pathogens having the greatest clinical impact. Specifically, we will investigate how the Spx controlled bacterial stress response is potentiating both virulence and antimicrobial resistance in MRSA.
Application Deadline: 15-09-2024
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10. Fully Funded PhD Position in Eco-evolutionary Modelling of Pathogen Dynamics
Summary of PhD Program:
The project is centred on understanding the (paleo-) ecological conditions for the spread of particular human pathogens, and on critically evaluating proposed socio-ecological responses to this spread. It will be focused on infectious agents that are likely to undergo a niche expansion under ongoing climate and ecological breakdown. First, the PhD student will use a combination of (paleo-)ecological data and ancient genomes to model the spatio-temporal spread of these pathogens and develop robust ecological niche models, which are informed not just by the present but also the past inferred ranges of these organisms. The student will then refine models of future pathogen spread under the light of this data.
Application Deadline: 15-09-2024
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Large Language Models
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD fellow will join the Information Retrieval Lab at the Machine Learning Section at DIKU. The Machine Learning section is among the leading research environments in Web & Information Retrieval in Europe (ranked within the top 10 in Europe for the last 5 years, according to CSRankings) with a strong presence at top-tier conferences, continuous collaboration in international & national research networks, and solid synergies with big tech, small tech, and industry. The Machine Learning section consists of a vibrant selection of approximately 65 talented researchers (40 of whom are PhD and postdoctoral fellows) from around the world with a diverse set of backgrounds and a common incessant scientific curiosity and openness to innovation.
Application Deadline: 15-09-2024
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12. Fully Funded PhD Position in digital media and communication research
Summary of PhD Program:
The successful applicant will become part of the project entitled, GREENWATCH – Green Surveillance: Imagining a Sustainable Internet of Things, funded through a European Research Council Advanced Grant, 2025-2029. The project examines the potentials and challenges of employing the Internet of Things (IoT) as a communication system monitoring the effects of human activities of Earth’s ecosystems, which further entails surveillance of human individuals and social institutions. The position represents a unique opportunity to participate in interdisciplinary and culturally comparative work covering China, Europe, and the United States, and to contribute to theory development on a strategic issue with global ramifications.
Application Deadline: 15-09-2024
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in Earth Observation of Disturbed Wetlands
Summary of PhD Program:
We are seeking a highly motivated individual with good interpersonal and communication skills. Fluency in spoken and written English is a requirement. As criteria for the assessment, emphasis will also be laid on previous publications (if any), relevant experience in remote sensing and wetlands, as well as on programming skills (e.g. r, python). Experience with dense time series of high-resolution imagery (<30m spatial resolution) and machine/deep learning techniques are an advantage and proven experience with handling and processing large image datasets. Experience with remote sensing of peatlands is considered an advantage but is not formal a requirement.
Application Deadline: 15-09-2024
14. Fully Funded PhD Position in social science of health promotion and public health
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD project consists of a qualitative in-depth study. Through individual interviews and diary notes, it will illuminate how work life influences the menopausal transition among women in Denmark. Furthermore, focus groups will be conducted to clarify how different initiatives at work can be enabling and/or constraining for women’s experiences during the menopausal transition. The recruitment of women will be based on a nationwide survey (KISO SURVEY) conducted by the research center, Women in Healthy Transition. The qualitative data will deepen the understanding of menopause at work through a theoretical, preferably sociological, lens.
Application Deadline: 15-09-2024
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15. Fully Funded PhD Position in Bioinformatics/ Comparative genomics
Summary of PhD Program:
The flag leaf is a critical determinant of wheat yield, contributing up to 45% of the total yield. This PhD project aims to enhance crop resilience by investigating the key players within the wheat phyllosphere microbiome. The research will involve high-quality sequencing data to analyze dominant bacterial communities in the wheat phyllosphere, focusing on comparative genomics of keystone species, determining their dominance and functional roles using genome-mining tools, and assessing their metabolic potential through genome-scale metabolic models. The project will primarily utilize genomic data, with future integration of available amplicon sequence variants (ASVs) and metagenomic data to further elucidate the complexities of these microbial communities.
Application Deadline: 08-09-2024
16. Fully Funded PhD Position in Food Material Science
Summary of PhD Program:
Protein bars constitute modern lifestyle products containing 20 to 50 % proteins (often of dairy origin), fat, carbohydrates/sugars and humectants, providing water activity in the intermediate moisture region (typically between 0.5 and 0.8) and giving microbiological stability outside the cooling chain. The ideal protein bar has a soft bite texture that does not develop hardness over a typical shelf life of about one year. However, protein bars are highly concentrated non-equilibrium systems, and in reality thermodynamically favoured physicochemical changes occur during storage, more often than not, resulting in component segregation. From a consumer perspective, this is observed as an unstable growth of product hardness that ultimately renders the product unattractive and, therefore, effectively limits shelf life.
Application Deadline: 06-09-2024
17. Fully Funded PhD Position in cerebrospinal fluid dynamics
Summary of PhD Program:
Our research group focuses on the molecular mechanisms underlying water and ion homeostasis in the mammalian brain under both physiological and pathophysiological conditions. We resolve the transport mechanisms underlying cerebrospinal fluid secretion with a technical approach spanning from molecular properties of water transport proteins to their regulation at the cellular level and their integral function in rodent in vivo models of physiology and pathophysiology and associated animal behavior. Through extensive collaboration with the clinic, the laboratory performs CSF analysis of patient samples to elucidate the underlying etiology of pathologies such as post-hemorrhagic hydrocephalus.
Application Deadline: 05-09-2024
18. Fully Funded PhD Position in Geography, with a focus on urban expansion and encroachment on ecologically sensitive areas in African cities
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD fellowship is part of the research project “Urban encroachment – untangling drivers and dynamics of land-use transitions in ecologically sensitive areas” funded by a Sapere Aude: DFF Starting Grant from the Independent Research Fund Denmark. The overarching aim of this project is to identify and promote more sustainable trajectories of urban expansion, which will allow African cities to accommodate rapidly growing populations, while preserving ecologically sensitive areas, benefiting from ecosystem services and building resilience to climate change. The research will entail a comparative case study of two rapidly growing cities – Accra in Ghana and Dar es Salaam in Tanzania – which have been characterized by extensive informal expansion in recent decades.
Application Deadline: 04-09-2024
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19. Fully Funded PhD Position in Detecting and Mitigating Quantum Decoherence in superconducting circuits
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD project addresses the decoherence sources limiting qubit lifetimes by investigating and developing relevant and novel superconducting circuits. This includes optimizing designs, materials choice, packaging, and characterization methods (high throughput) of the superconducting qubits/circuits. Special focus will be on understanding decoherence mechanisms in different superconducting materials and material combinations. Furthermore, the project will investigate the origin of two-level systems and their relation to defects via theoretical modeling.
Application Deadline: 01-09-2024
20. 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: 01-09-2024
21. Fully Funded PhD Position in computational biology
Summary of PhD Program:
The broader focus of the PhD is the development and implementation of novel statistical methods for the analyses of DNA sequencing data. Of specific relevance to this Ph.D. position are methods for estimating genetic distance and full phylogenetic trees while taking into account molecular evolution substitution models. Secondly, the hosting centre, the CAEG Center of Excellence, is devoted to the generation of ancient environmental genomes as part of a diverse suite of projects spanning million-year-old material from extreme arctic environments to DNA sequencing data from lost civilizations in southeast Asia. The Ph.D. candidate will have the opportunity to develop programs to facilitate and drive the data analyses of one or more of these large projects.
Application Deadline: 01-09-2024
22. Fully Funded PhD Position in Ethnology and Health Humanities
Summary of PhD Program:
PhD studies consist of research programmes that qualify students for independent and wide-ranging research, development and teaching at international level. The main emphasis is on PhD students organising and conducting their research project, under supervision, and in close collaboration with the entire project team in Skin Health. The successful candidate is thus expected to contribute to co-authored papers. The programme culminates in the submission of a PhD thesis, which the student must defend in public. The programme is prescribed to 180 ECTS points, corresponding to three years of full-time study.
Application Deadline: 01-09-2024
23. Fully Funded PhD Position in Human Geography
Summary of PhD Program:
We are seeking a highly motivated candidate with a strong interest in agri-food value dynamics, agricultural transformation processes, and regional development in the Global South. Documented skills in global value chain analysis is an advantage, as the PhD project must contribute to the research project utilizing this analytical approach. Documented experience in fieldwork, including survey techniques, qualitative research methods and statistical analysis, is required. A proven record of fieldwork experience in rural areas in the Global South is also an advantage. High proficiency in spoken and written English is essential.
Application Deadline: 01-09-2024
24. Fully Funded PhD Position in digital media and scandal
Summary of PhD Program:
The EXPOSING project examines how scandals emerge and progress over time and across media, as citizens no longer passively witness scandals through mass media but take an active role by posting their opinions online and becoming a driving force in exposing and judging moral transgressions. The project aims to show how citizens’ participation in digital publics affects the ways in which scandals develop, and how scandals, as a result of being increasingly citizen-driven, become sites for public communication of concern. The hypothesis is that scandals have the potential to create public value by occasioning citizens’ engagement in the negotiation of what a society considers contestable.
Application Deadline: 01-09-2024
25. Fully Funded PhD Position in Human physiology, Environmental Health and Climate Change
Summary of PhD Program:
The successful PhD candidate will work closely with Lars Nybo, Professor in Human Physiology, and will be responsible for developing and collecting physiological data (primarily cardiovascular parameters of relevance for heat tolerance and its importance for resilience to orthostatic stress and maintainance of cognitive function). The work will include echo-cardiographis assessment of heart function. In addition the candidate will have the change to work with methodologies to assess heat tolerance, obtain human biological material (e.g. skin biopsies and blood sampling to evaluate effects of UV-exposure and risk-taking behaviors such as ”sun-seeking”). The candidate will also be expected to participate in field and lab studies in Greece in collaboration with Professor Andreas Flouris.
Application Deadline: 01-09-2024
26. Fully Funded PhD Position in Multiple Waterscapes in Urban Ghana
Summary of PhD Program:
The project examines what poorer people in Kumasi (Ghana) do to get clean water, and whether this depends on which part of the city they live in. It focuses on three types of urban sites that represent different configurations of residents and businesses, and different social histories and dynamics i: 1. the downtown older areas of the city where many residents are originally migrants, 2. areas that are both industrial and residential and where poorer people compete with water intensive industries and 3. sites on the edge of the city where long term residents compete with middle class people that buy land at the outskirts of the city. The study of these sites employs a combination of ethnographic and archival methods and draws from a range of disciplinary backgrounds.
