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. Fully Funded PhD Position in microbial ecology
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD project will address different aspects of microbial ecology and evolution. In particular, working with laboratory experiments and computer simulations, the candidate will investigate mechanisms regulating biodiversity and food web functions. Possible research foci include virus-host interaction dynamics and co-evolution under different environmental conditions, as well as analyses of natural microbial communities and change in dominant taxa under varying conditions. RAS (resirculating aquaculture systems) facilities may be used. Central to the research project will be to address the role of life strategy trade-offs in structuring microbial communities. The candidate will be responsible to design and execute a research plan with support from supervisors and technical staff.
Application Deadline: 1st June 2024
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in parasitology/immunology
Summary of PhD Program:
As of today, salmon lice represent one the main challenges for the Norwegian salmon farming industry, as they diminish the fish welfare of both wild and farmed salmonids. The project will take a closer look at the host-parasite interaction between salmon and salmon lice, where the salmon lice’s glandular secretion will be in focus. Recently, we have characterized a number of proteins that appear to be important in the host-parasite interaction, e.g. by dampening immune responses and blood coagulation in the host. The main goal of the PhD project is to investigate whether it is possible to use these proteins in a DNA vaccine against salmon lice. In addition to testing the DNA vaccine’s potential to prevent lice infestation, new constructs and injection methods will be tested to see whether this can increase the mucosal immune response. The project will thus not only be aimed at salmon lice but has the potential to increase knowledge in general about the use of DNA vaccines against mucosal pathogens.
Application Deadline: 1st May 2024
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in wearables (IOS) and sensor data analysis
Summary of PhD Program:
Dementia with Lewy Bodies (DLB) is our focus of research in the ANeED Joint Effort. DLB is a less known but highly prevalent and severe neurodegenerative disease, characterized by non-amnestic cognitive decline, visual hallucinations, fluctuations in cognitive abilities and arousal, daytime sleepiness, sleep behavior disorder, and motor parkinsonian symptoms. DLB is underdiagnosed, frequently misdiagnosed, and severely under-researched.
This PhD-project is focused on data collection using wearable devices (smart watch, EEG/EOG glasses and an EEG headband) to identify digital biomarkers for diagnosis, undertake prognosis and evaluation of drug effects in patients and of caregiver distress, develop a unique digital application for patients and their caregivers, conduct pharmacological analyses, and study the effects of elements of the Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) program.
Application Deadline: 1st May 2024
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Development and application of Machine Learning for downscaling climate predictions/projections
Summary of PhD Program:
This position will focus on the application of machine learning to develop computationally efficient emulators of high-resolution state-of-the art regional climate models. The goal of the emulators is to learn the relationship between large-scale predictions made by coarse resolution dynamical models and local surface variables of interest (such as near surface temperature, precipitation, wind speeds). This is accomplished by training the emulators to mimic the results of computationally expensive high-resolution regional climate models. The result is a suite of computationally lightweight algorithms capable of generating large ensembles that can translate coarse resolution operational climate predictions or projections into robust and reliable regional and local information.
Application Deadline: 30th April 2024
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5. Fully Funded PhD Position in pure mathematics
Summary of PhD Program:
The position is intended to give promising and motivated candidates with a strong background in advanced mathematics the opportunity to pursue advanced research leading up to a doctoral degree within the activities of research presently represented in the department. These are: Algebra, Algebraic Geometry, Analysis and PDEs, Topology. More specifically we are working in combinatorial commutative algebra, categorical aspects of algebra, algebraic geometry, K-theory, equivariant and motivic homotopy theory, analysis on manifolds, dispersive partial differential equations.
Application Deadline: 25th April 2024
6. 12 Fully Funded PhD Position in Medicine
Summary of PhD Program:
At the Faculty of Medicine, ten (10) open PhD positions are available along with two (2) positions earmarked for dentistry starting 1st September 2024. The successful candidates will be appointed full-time for a period of four (4) years or a maximum of four (4) months after completion of the PhD degree, should this be achieved by less than four years. The positions include 25 % required duties such as development work, teaching, exam work or supervision, depending on the needs of the department/centre. It is possible to combine a part-time (50 %) PhD position with another part-time (50 %) position. The total employment period for these combined positions amounts to six (6) years. Please indicate this in the application and note that both employers must approve a part-time solution before the starting date.
Application Deadline: 15th April 2024
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Foreign Languages
Summary of PhD Program:
The Literature & Religion Research Group provides an inclusive forum for all levels of researchers who are working on intersecting aspects of literature and religion in a variety of institutes and departments, with strengths in the Institute for Foreign Languages and the Institute for Archeology, History, and Religious Studies. Through writing workshops, seminars, lectures, and other activities, the research group seeks to probe the interfaces of writing and belief across broad spectrums of time, geography, and language. Currently of special interest is the question of how literature that can be construed as religious, and religious texts that can be construed as literary, shape individual readers as well as their larger communities in both ethical and aesthetic ways.
Application Deadline: 15th April 2024
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Law
Summary of PhD Program:
At the Faculty of Law, University of Bergen, there is a vacant position as a Ph.D.-candidate associated with the project ‘Artificial Intelligence in Education: Layers of Trust (EduTrust AI)’. The project is interdisciplinary, connecting information and computer science, learning sciences, social sciences and law. The project will develop new knowledge about a trustworthy use of AI in the educational sector where transparent and fair AI systems must be based on trust and high degree of acceptance in society. The research contribution from the Faculty of Law will be within EU/EEA rules on privacy and data protection and the relation between data protection and Artificial Intelligence (AI). It is a requirement that the person appointed has experience in these legal areas.
Application Deadline: 15th April 2024
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Quaternary Geology and Palaeoclimate
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD Research Fellow will investigate the glacial geology of the Central Himalaya to discover how changes in glacier dynamics and palaeoclimate can be interpreted from moraines. The PhD Research Fellow will investigate the glacial geology of the monsoon-influenced Himalaya at a regional scale using satellite imagery and data and test novel Deep Learning methods to automatically identify glacial landforms at a regional scale. Alongside developing a regional understanding of the Late Quaternary glacial geology in the monsoon-influenced Himalaya, the PhD Research Fellow will investigate in detail the interactions of glaciers with the landscape in the Nepal Himalaya through field-based geomorphological mapping and observation and analysis of glacial sediments and landforms.
Application Deadline: 5th April 2024
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10. Fully Funded PhD Position in Modern History of the Middle East
Summary of PhD Program:
The Department of Archeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion (AHKR) invites applications for a PhD research fellowship in the modern history of the Middle East commencing August 15th 2024, or as agreed upon. The position is for a fixed-term period of four years. We are looking for candidates with degrees in History, Middle Eastern Studies, Islamic Studies, or other related disciplines with a strong historical focus. Seeking to rethink the history of the modern Middle East and its place within global and regional processes of modernity, we are interested in projects with a focus on areas that have traditionally been marginal. Projects focusing on the Gulf, including Iraq, Yemen, and Oman from the vantage point of 20th century cultural, social, intellectual, urban, or legal history will be prioritized.
Application Deadline: 2nd April 2024
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Organometallic and Homogeneous Catalysis
Summary of PhD Program:
Ammonia is the most important ingredient in the production of artificial fertilizers and is also a very promising carbon-free energy carrier. Ammonia is produced via the so-called Haber-Bosch process, which requires high temperatures and pressures using hydrogen from natural gas. The research group works to make ammonia production more sustainable and environmentally friendly and develops catalysts and processes for the synthesis of ammonia directly from water and nitrogen. The research fellow’s project is part of this work, and the scholarship holder will, together with other researchers in the project group, design, synthesize, test, and immobilize new catalysts for the conversion of nitrogen and water into ammonia. In general, the research group uses insights and predictions from quantum chemical calculations to design catalysts, and these catalysts are next synthesized and tested in the group’s laboratory. We are looking for a research fellow with the right background and motivation to strengthen the experimental side of the overall project.
Application Deadline: 2nd April 2024
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12. Fully Funded PhD Position in cell biology–proteostasis network control of multiprotein complexes lifecycle
Summary of PhD Program:
The research group uses genetics, biochemistry and mass spectrometry proteomics techniques to investigate principles of proteostasis control. Specific research focus of the group is understanding the lifecycle of large multiprotein complexes (see Onischenko et al, Cell, 2017 and 2020). The PhD project is aimed at characterizing assembly and turnover of one of such complexes – mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation system (OXPHOS) – under normal and perturbed proteostasis conditions observed in ageing-related disorders.
The candidate will work on establishing biochemical analysis of assembly dynamics and turnover of OXPHOS complexes in budding yeast and in mammalian cells and examining the impact of experimentally induced proteostasis control defects. The project will take extensive use of molecular cloning, biochemical isolation of protein complexes both in budding yeast and mammalian cells and computational analysis of large-scale experimental datasets. Large part of the experimental data will be acquired by mass spectrometry proteomics to quantitatively characterize the parameters of the OXPHOS lifecycle.
Application Deadline: 1st April 2024
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in Clinical Science
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD candidate will be part of a research project funded by the Norwegian Cancer Society aiming to identify new treatment options for patients suffering from the most aggressive cervical cancer subtypes. The first objective will be to establish and characterize a cervical cancer organoid library from patient derived tissue. Next, a CRISPR-Cas12 screens will be applied to identify novel cancer genes. By targeted drug screen, drug candidates will be discovered. The sensitivity and specificity of potential treatment strategies will be further tested by functional knock-out studies in vitro and in PDX mice models at the Yale University, Connecticut, US.
Application Deadline: 29th March 2024
14. Fully Funded PhD Position in Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence
Summary of PhD Program:
The main purpose of the PhD position is to complete a PhD degree, which qualifies for a career in academia and for other forms of employment that requires high analytical skills. The duration of the PhD position is four years, of which 25 per cent of the time comprises other, career-promoting work such as teaching, dissemination of results and administration. A substantial part of such career-promoting work will include teaching, supervision and to participate in assessment and examination at the Examen philosophicum and/or other introductory courses at the Faculty of Humanities. A more detailed plan for this part of the position will be developed in collaboration with the Department at the very beginning of the employment period.
Application Deadline: 29th March 2024
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15. Fully Funded PhD Position in machine learning and geomatics on natural hydrocarbon seepage
Summary of PhD Program:
The successful candidate will utilise space-borne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) to understand the distribution and temporality of oil slick activity. This will involve using the latest machine learning techniques to reliably and robustly interpret imagery from a range of SAR sensors. These data will be combined with data about geology, meteorology, ecology, industrial activity, and fisheries to verify observations and understand drivers. The candidate will be embedded in a research group investigating these topics from geological, geophysical and ecological perspectives, and the work of the candidate will be important to unify observations from various disciplines. We encourage those with a strong machine learning background to apply, training of geological or hydrocarbon related issues will be provided from the research group.
Application Deadline: 24th March 2024
16. Fully Funded PhD Position in Statistics/Probability Theory
Summary of PhD Program:
There is a vacancy for a PhD Research Fellow in Statistics/Probability Theory at the Department of Mathematics. 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 intended to give promising candidates the opportunity to pursue advanced research leading to a doctoral degree within one of the fields of statistics and probability theory represented at the department.
Application Deadline: 21st March 2024
17. 02 Fully Funded PhD Position in Informatics: Algorithms, Logic and AI
Summary of PhD Program:
PhD positions are available within the “Algorithmic Foundations of Trustworthy AI” project. This collaborative endeavour, spanning the Department of Informatics and the Department of Information Science and Media Studies, aims to develop novel theories for understanding, developing, and designing socially aware algorithms. Successful candidates will actively contribute to research on reconciling social parameters and algorithmic efficiency, as well as the development and application of formal social models. This presents a unique chance to engage in ground-breaking work at the intersection of AI, Algorithms, Logic, and Social Sciences.
