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 Planet Formation
Summary of PhD Program:
The successful candidate will work on a PhD project on understanding the formation and composition of Earth and other rocky planets. The methodology can involve either hydrodynamical simulations of planets embedded within a protoplanetary disc or modelling the partitioning of elements between the core, mantle and atmosphere of a growing planet. The results will be compared to data from telescopes, satellite missions and meteorites.
Application Deadline: 01-12-2023
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Precision Nutrition, Metabolomics
Summary of PhD Program:
Metabolomics is a broad interdeplicinary field that combines analytical chemistry, biochemistry and bioinformatics to understand perturbations of and interactions within a biological system. To master this field a broad interest and training is therefore required. Therefore, depending on background and interest of the candidate, the candidate will be trained in all aspects of a metabolomics study.
Application Deadline: 19-11-2023
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Mathematics
Summary of PhD Program:
There will be PhD stipends available in:
Algebraic and Arithmetic Geometry, Applied algebra, Combinatorics, Geometric group theory, Geometry and Geometric Analysis, Number Theory, Representation Theory, and Topology as covered by the section Algebra & Geometry and Copenhagen Center for Geometry & Topology (GeoTop).
Classical Analysis, Descriptive Set Theory, Functional Analysis, Geometric group theory, Harmonic Analysis, History of Mathematics, Mathematical Physics, Operator Algebras, Partial Differential Equations, Quantum Information, Quantum Computation and Quantum Simulation as covered by the section section Analysis and Quantum, the Centre for the Mathematics of Quantum Theory funded by the Villum Foundation and the ‘Quantum for Life’ Center funded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation.
Application Deadline: 15-11-2023
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Statistics
Summary of PhD Program:
There will be a limited number of PhD stipends not attached to specific projects. In addition, there will be PhD stipends available in:
Actuarial science within the project frame InterAct (contact Mogens Steffensen, mogens@math.ku.dk)
Causality in event driven dynamical systems (contact Niels Richard Hansen, Niels.R.Hansen@math.ku.dk)
Statistical and causal methodology for complex data structures with applications to microbiome data analysis (contact Niklas Pfister, np@math.ku.dk)
Machine learning, projects related to differential privacy, robustness, and algorithmic fairness (contact Amartya Sanyal, amsa@di.ku.dk; primary employment at DIKU)
Application Deadline: 15-11-2023
5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Danish-German Cultures
Summary of PhD Program:
“Danish-German Cultures (1773-1864). Conflict and Cohesion” is a cultural history project which investigates the hybrid culture of Danish-German coexistence in the Danish composite state from 1773-1864. The aim of the project is to write a new transcultural history of art, literature, language and human practices. We will explore how authors, artists, intellectuals and academics, as well as civil servants and politicians, lived and worked in a zone with two nationalities and the two languages Danish and German in the cosmopolitan state. This will challenge the dominant narrative of ideological battles, mutual exclusions and war, and instead examine the dual conditions of conflict and cohesion before the formation of the Danish nation state in 1864.
Application Deadline: 01-11-2023
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Astronomy
Summary of PhD Program:
Pearson’s Extragalactic Streams group works on a variety of topics including globular cluster streams in dwarf galaxies, developing stream-finding algorithms to search for streams in new datasets, developing stream fitting tools for extragalactic streams, and predicting the behavior of stellar streams within different dark matter frameworks. The groups work with at the intersection of theory and observations, and analyze large-scale cosmological simulations, run stream formation simulations, while comparing to real data.
Application Deadline: 01-11-2023
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Physics/ Biocomplexity
Summary of PhD Program:
The project aims at uncovering universal characteristics and laws in life systems, in particular in adaptation, development, and evolution with the spirit of theoretical physics, by focusing on consistency between hierarchical levels – molecules, cells, organisms, and ecosystem. The ideal candidate will have a strong theoretical physics background, in particular statistical physics and dynamical systems. Previous knowledge of biology is not necessarily required, although high motivation to understand a life system with willingness to learn is needed. Our research project is theoretical, by taking analytical, numerical, or data-driven approaches, with possible collaboration with experimental groups.
Application Deadline: 31-10-2023
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Chemical Biology
Summary of PhD Program:
The five key proteins present in the PSD (PSD-95, SynGAP, Homer, Shank and GKAP) are important for normal brain function, and dysfunction of these proteins has vast implications for a wide range of brain diseases. The proteins comprise larger intrinsically disordered regions, and hence are also referred to as intrinsically disordered proteins (IDP). Those regions are often important for structure and function. In this project, the fellow will examine how targeting such IDPs of the PSD proteins with peptide-based probes will provide a better understanding how to restore the healthy state of PSD using peptide modulators.
Application Deadline: 29-10-2023
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Atom Optics and Nanophotonics
Summary of PhD Program:
The project will focus on experimental development of a new platform for optical quantum memories and new tools to combine cold atoms and nano-scale dielectric structures. As this project is highly multidisciplinary, we expect that the PhD student will contribute to research on single-atom imaging and control, nanofabrication, and characterization of nanophotonic structures. An important goal will be to demonstrate strong atom-atom interactions mediated by light propagating in carefully engineered nano-scale dielectric waveguides.
Application Deadline: 22-10-2023
10. Fully Funded PhD Position in optimization of antimicrobial treatment of enteric infections in pigs
Summary of PhD Program:
The project aims to optimize oral neomycin, spectinomycin and sulfonamide/trimethoprim treatment of pigs suffering from PWD. This will be done through pharmacokinetic (PK) and pharmacodynamic (PD) studies in collaboration with the French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE). The project also comprises a metagenomics component where the impact of these antibiotics on the gut microbiome and resistome will be analysed. Finally, a retrospective study will be performed to assess the relationship between MICs and clinical outcome in farm settings. Together with data from the PK/PD analyses, information from the retrospective analysis will be used to propose the first ever clinical breakpoints for oral treatment of porcine diarrhoea.
Application Deadline: 20-10-2023
11. 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: 18-10-2023
12. Fully Funded PhD Position in social science of health promotion, exercise and sport
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD project will consist of a nation-wide quantitative survey and a follow-up qualitative study with individual interviews and focus groups. The participants in the survey will be Danish women in the age of 45-59 years. The aim of the survey will be to investigate relations between menopausal status, symptoms, physical activity, well-being and socioeconomical factors among others. The qualitative study will based on the quantitative results to deepen the understanding of particularly relevant relations through a micro sociological lens. Thus, the PhD project is based on a mixed method approach to adequately examine the complexities of menopausal transitions in Denmark.
Application Deadline: 15-10-2023
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in experimental condensed matter physics and quantum devices
Summary of PhD Program:
The project focuses on the experimental development and operation of solid-state quantum devices for applications in quantum simulation. A key platform is systems of multiple electronic quantum dots coupled to superconducting microwave resonators. The student will develop experiments for a new dilution cryostat equipped with high frequency measurement equipment. The project combines materials characterization, e.g. by electron microscopy, nanofabrication, low-temperature physics using cryofree dilution refrigerators, low-noise and high-frequency electrical measurement techniques, data analysis, interaction with theoretical physicists and materials scientists, and scientific writing in English. The PhD student will work closely with other researchers at the department developing superconducting microwave resonators and semiconducting materials, e.g. nanowires for quantum dots that will be implemented in these experiments.
Application Deadline: 15-10-2023
14. Fully Funded PhD Position in Arts and Cultural Studies
Summary of PhD Program:
DALOSS is dedicated to interdisciplinary and collaborative research into data loss as a constituent part of digitization and datafication, that is also steeped in political and ethical considerations. The project is infused by an interdisciplinary ambition to mobilize distinct, but integrated approaches, to challenge and complement existing research paradigms of data loss through empirical examples and theoretical frameworks across different disciplines, sectors, and societal levels.
Application Deadline: 15-10-2023
15. Fully Funded PhD Position in Fine-grained Analysis in Brain Imaging
Summary of PhD Program:
We are seeking a candidate with a strong passion for applied mathematics, machine learning, deep learning, and medical image analysis. The project is centered around the identification and characterization of brain lesions such as white matter hyperintensities within MRI scans. Our goal is to devise robust machine-learning techniques, yielding nuanced insights from clinical data collected in uncontrolled scenarios to help with brain disease diagnosis. Our emphasis lies in establishing the robustness of these methods across various challenges including variations in scanner vendors, field strengths, software, quality, and protocols, while working with heterogeneous data encompassing natural variations in comorbidities and demographics. This study will not only delve into well-established deep learning principles but will also explore innovative avenues based on information theory, active learning, and transfer learning, among other things.
Application Deadline: 15-10-2023
16. Fully Funded PhD Position in Privacy Studies
Summary of PhD Program:
PRIVACY is dedicated to interdisciplinary and collaborative research into notions of privacy in Early Modern Europe and beyond. The collaborative programme is driven by an interdisciplinary vision of an integrated approach in which a team of scholars collaborate, challenge and inspire each other in a joint pursuit of notions, terms, experiences, instances and absences of privacy across five themes: beliefs, health, home, law and urban space. Shared responsibility across academic hierarchies is a token of PRIVACY’s vision for interactive research education.
Application Deadline: 15-10-2023
17. Fully Funded PhD Position in Experimental Quantum Optics
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD project will be part of the Quantum Photonics Group, which is headed by Professor Peter Lodahl and currently consists of nine Postdocs and eight PhD- students. The group is part the Center for Hybrid Quantum Network and the Quantum Optics section, which consists of more than 50 researchers. The center and the section provides a very strong research environment with leading international research groups within quantum optics. The group is a part of The Niels Bohr Institute, Faculty of SCIENCE, University of Copenhagen. We are located in Copenhagen.
Application Deadline: 15-10-2023
18. Fully Funded PhD Position in Sensory and Consumer Science
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD is part of a Novo Nordisk funded project led by Associate Professor Qian Janice Wang. Overall, the project aims to promote consumer behaviour change towards more sustainable food choices and consumption. Specifically, the PhD project will use a combination of virtual/physical retail spaces and biometric technology (e.g., eyetracking) to better understand and predict consumer food choice behaviour in both online and offline scenarios. A focus will be to manipulate context, defined as multisensory environmental elements as well as cognitive messaging, to study implicit and explicit consumer reactions and purchase behaviour. This research will help address the need to understand the drivers to shift consumer habits towards healthier and lower planetary footprint diets.
Application Deadline: 15-10-2023
19. Fully Funded PhD Position in Environmental Toxicology
Summary of PhD Program:
It is impossible to assess the risk of all chemical pollutants to all species in the environment at all sorts of environmental conditons. Chemical risk assessments therefore depend on models which can predict the chemical fate and biological effect across species and endpoints. Several models exsist but few are fully evaluated for their ability to predict fate and effects under nature like conditions. The overall aim of QTOX is to address the robustness of models based on mechanistic knowledge of the underlying processes in the chain from exposure to effects, across all levels of biological organisation, with close connection to regulatory endpoints, and under environmentally realistic conditions, i.e., including the dynamics of chronic exposures to mixtures of chemicals. The robustness of all models will be evaluated on microcosm scenarios under two environmental regimes in Spain and Holland, respectively.
Application Deadline: 13-10-2023
20. Fully Funded PhD Position in Characterization of Protein Modifications by Electrophiles
Summary of PhD Program:
Cardiovascular disease causes over 1.9 million deaths (~40% of all mortality) in the European Union each year. There is considerable evidence that a major cause of cardiovascular disease – atherosclerosis (which is characterized by lipid and cholesterol accumulation) is driven by chronic low-grade inflammation of the artery wall. Disease development is associated with the formation of atherosclerotic plaques and changes to both cellular proteins and the extracellular matrix (ECM) that surrounds and supports cells, and lipid deposition at sites of ECM damage. Inflammation, and the damage that it induces is believed to be an early and necessary event in lesion development, and critical in plaque rupture. In current studies we are examining the changes that occur to proteins within atherosclerotic plaques, and the role of reactive electrophiles (e.g. a,b-unsaturated aldehydes, metabolic products and related species) in protein modification and disease development.
Application Deadline: 12-10-2023
21. Fully Funded PhD Position in Protein science
Summary of PhD Program:
The Kragelund-group focuses on the interaction of IDPs and IDRs with other biomolecules and on how disorder help expand molecular communication. We aim to provide a detailed understanding of how structural disorder leads to regulatory diversity and how this diversity relates to biological function. To achieve these goals, we host the Novo Nordisk Foundation Challenge Center REPIN – rethinking protein interactions, joining 5 different research groups in Europe. Additionally, we have state-of-the-art facilities for recombinant protein production and analytical tools such as CD, ITC, MST, nano-DSF, Q-TOF MS for biophysical and biochemical characterization. Our main technique is biomolecular NMR spectroscopy, and we have regular access to synchrotron SAXS.
Application Deadline: 09-10-2023
22. Fully Funded PhD Position in Circadian Biology and Bioinformatics
Summary of PhD Program:
You will be part of a project investigating how metabolism is controlled across the circadian cycle. Our preliminary evidence has identified how diet and exercise act as zeitgebers to reset the circadian clock. This project will build upon that foundational knowledge to investigate the environmental cues and molecular transducers that regulate circadian metabolism. In addition, we will investigate how this process may be dysregulated in disease states such as obesity and type 2 diabetes, using animal models and human clinical samples.
Application Deadline: 08-10-2023
23. Fully Funded PhD Position in companion animal clinical neurology
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD fellow will become part of a group of highly dedicated and enthusiastic veterinary neuro researchers and clinicians with a strong network of leading national and international veterinary and human neurologists and neuroscientists. The research of The Neurology Group at Frederiksberg Campus is clinically based with a strong focus on the investigation of especially the clinical phenotypes and neuroinflammatory and neurodegenerative disease mechanisms in e.g., autoimmune inflammatory central nervous system (CNS) diseases, canine cognitive dysfunction, and neuropathic pain. We also investigate biomarkers in CNS disease e.g., of brain tumours – all with translational aspects to similar human conditions.
Application Deadline: 08-10-2023
24. Fully Funded PhD Position in computational biology
Summary of PhD Program:
The candidate will have opportunities to shape their projects in consultation with the advisor, and the project can range from theoretical methods development to empirical data analysis. The applicant will be solidly embedded within the core group of the Lundbeck GeoGenetics Centre and the Centre for Ancient Environmental Genomics (caeg) and will have access to the data generated from the high throughput sequencing center as part of the GeoGenetics Centre.
Application Deadline: 08-10-2023
25. Fully Funded PhD Position in Radical Pietism in Northern Europe
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 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 points, corresponding to three years of full-time study.
Application Deadline: 08-10-2023
26. Fully Funded PhD Position in Interactions between Eukaryotic and Prokaryotic Microbiomes in Pigs
Summary of PhD Program:
The project will investigate the role of fungal and protozoan microeukaryotes as modulators of the intestinal bacterial community structure in pigs. Our hypothesis is that these microorganisms play a key, yet largely neglected role in the assembly and resilience of the bacterial microbiome. The project will benefit from the large amount and diversity of samples and data collected during longitudinal cohort studies conducted on pig farms in the two funding projects. The approach is to combine shotgun metagenomics with amplification and sequencing of the ITS2 region and the 18S rRNA gene, as these methods provide higher sensitivity for studying fungi and protozoa, respectively. Positive associations with pig health will be further validated under controlled experimental conditions by assessing the effects of administering selected fungal or protozoan species.
Application Deadline: 08-10-2023
27. Fully Funded PhD Position in Chemical Biology at Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology
Summary of PhD Program:
Our laboratory has recently developed technology for identifying the chemical messenger molecules responsible for quorum sensing and crosstalk between staphylococci within the microbiome. These messenger molecules are called autoinducing peptides (AIPs). In this interdisciplinary and highly collaborative project, we will perform a substantial structure–activity relationship (SAR) study, building on our novel discoveries. Your tasks will thus include synthesis, assay development, and biological compound evaluation, including work performed in the laboratories of our collaborators at Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences (UCPH) and at Karolinska Institute in Stockholm.
Application Deadline: 06-10-2023
28. Fully Funded PhD Position in Physics
Summary of PhD Program:
Active matter comprises a wide range of living systems including cells, bacteria, and subcellular filaments, as well as artificial and synthetic materials that are continuously driven far from equilibrium by their constituent elements. Fundamental biological processes such as cell division, cell death, and the emergence of coordinated motion of cells are governed by the activation of biochemical signals by mechanical stresses and by the physics of active matter. This research project will use theoretical and computational modeling with potential applications in the life sciences.
