Are you holding Master’s degree and looking for fully funded PhD positions? Umeå University, Sweden 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 Physical Geography – Carbon cycling in northern lakes
Summary of PhD Program:
Northern high-latitudes are subject to pronounced warming, with expected major impacts on the numerous lake ecosystems and the services they provide. Recent research stress that responses of northern lakes to a warming climate are different from expectations based on conventional knowledge. This includes key functions such as biomass production, greenhouse gas exchange and carbon burial in sediments. This project aims to fundamentally advance the understanding of climate impacts on carbon cycling in northern lakes. Specific objectives include to assess direct (e.g. via water temperature) and indirect (e.g. via changes in carbon export from land) climate impacts on carbon cycling (e.g. respiration, photosynthesis, carbon burial) in lakes, and how these effects depend on lake and landscape characteristics. The project will also test methods and develop guidelines to be used for monitoring of climate impacts on northern lakes. The project will include field studies, remote sensing and modelling of lakes and their catchments in northern Boreal-Arctic Sweden.
Application Deadline: 2024-04-17
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Experimental Physics
Summary of PhD Program:
The ‘Ultrafast Nanoscience’ group at Umeå University is looking for a highly motivated PhD candidate interested in performing research on ultrafast spectroscopy in condensed matter nanosystems. The PhD project interfaces exciting fields of research, including ultrafast science, photonics and chemistry, with an overarching goal to understand the dynamics of electronic degrees of freedom in nanostructured materials.
The PhD student will study the nonlinear optical properties and the ultrafast electron dynamics in molecular photoswitches coupled to photonic nanostructures and explore the fascinating physics of the so called molecular polaritons at ultrashort timescales. The project results will disclose novel mechanisms to control molecular photoswitches for applications in quantum computing and/or optical transistors.
Application Deadline: 2024-04-12
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Experimental Physics
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD student will study the physical mechanisms underlying light-matter interactions in nanoscale magnetic materials. By combining time-resolved (pump-probe) spectroscopy, finite element method and micromagnetic modelling, the candidate will design and realize plasmonic excitations affecting magnetic phenomena on ultrafast timescales. The project will disclose novel mechanisms which might have a huge impact on forthcoming light-driven data processing technologies.
Application Deadline: 2024-04-12
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Chemistry, with a specialization in organic chemistry
Summary of PhD Program:
The main objective with this doctoral research project is to develop these molecules further in terms of their activity and selectivity but also to introduce chemical groups/features that make them more valuable as research tools with the aim to unravel the exact mode of action. The work thus mainly concerns synthetic organic chemistry and method development. However, because the evaluation of the compounds activity and selectivity are so central to the project you will also learn different methods to test the compounds. You will also attend group meetings with focus on the design and synthesis of the molecules as well as project meetings with collaborators where the use of the molecules in biological studies will be discussed. Several international research groups with complementary expertise are involved in the research program and regular meetings with these collaborators are also part of the work.
Application Deadline: 2024-04-03
5. 02 Fully Funded PhD Position in ecology
Summary of PhD Program:
The projects will focus on interactions of plant communities with belowground and aboveground ecosystem processes, and their responses to environmental factors (such as wildfire, nutrient availability, climate change and biodiversity loss) in natural boreal forest and subarctic tundra in northern Sweden, through the use of both environmental gradients and ongoing term experiments. Through the use of these study systems, we anticipate one student focusing primarily on ecological interactions involving nutrient availability and the other on ecological consequences of plant biodiversity loss, although there is quite some flexibility around this. The projects will include both field work over the summer and autumn months, and corresponding laboratory work, data analysis and writing.
Application Deadline: 2024-04-02
6. 03 Fully Funded PhD Position in educational work
Summary of PhD Program:
Educational Work as a postgraduate subject has a close connection to the pedagogical professional activities in preschool, school and teacher education and examines how these are shaped by different economic, political and social contexts. This doctoral position is aimed at one of TUV’s research profiles or could combine questions that concern two or more research profiles.
Application Deadline: 2024-03-29
7. 02 Fully Funded PhD Position in Educational Measurement
Summary of PhD Program:
In the subject Educational measurement, research is conducted on educational and psychological assessments. This can involve studying the characteristics of tests and how they function for their purposes and for different groups of individuals. At the department of Applied Educational Sciences, tests such as the Swedish Admission Test to Higher Education (Högskoleprovet) and national tests are developed, and within both of these test activities, there are areas suitable for doctoral projects.
Application Deadline: 2024-03-29
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Nursing
Summary of PhD Program:
Umeå University is one of Sweden’s largest higher education institutions with over 37,000 students and about 4,700 employees. The University offers a diversity of high-quality education and world-leading research in several fields. Notably, the groundbreaking discovery of the CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing tool, which was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, was made here. At Umeå University, everything is close. Our cohesive campuses make it easy to meet, work together and exchange knowledge, which promotes a dynamic and open culture.
Application Deadline: 2024-03-29
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Education with a focus on Didactics in Vocational Education
Summary of PhD Program:
The research group focus on various types of teaching and learning processes. Fundamental didactic questions – what, why, how, when, for whom and by whom – in relation to teaching (both past and present) are central. Research within the group includes curriculum studies, social studies didactics, educational history, studies on grading and assessment, on minority schooling, and on teacher-student-subject interaction. The group combines research, education and collaboration of relevance for the teaching professions and for teacher education.
Application Deadline: 2024-03-29
10. 13 Fully Funded PhD Position in Educational Sciences
Summary of PhD Program:
The Postgraduate School in Educational Sciences offers a coherent environment for doctoral education in the field of educational sciences at Umeå University. You will combine your doctoral education at a department with being part of a dynamic, interdisciplinary doctoral student group and have access to national and international research networks. As a doctoral student in the graduate school, you will contribute to the development of knowledge in the field, for the benefit of researchers as well as teachers and other educational professions.
Application Deadline: 2024-03-29
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in pedagogy with a focus on pedagogy in working life
Summary of PhD Program:
Umeå University is one of Sweden’s largest higher education institutions with over 37,000 students and about 4,700 employees. The University offers a diversity of high-quality education and world-leading research in several fields. Notably, the groundbreaking discovery of the CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing tool, which was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, was made here. At Umeå University, everything is close. Our cohesive campuses make it easy to meet, work together and exchange knowledge, which promotes a dynamic and open culture.
Application Deadline: 2024-03-29
12. Fully Funded PhD Position in Education with a focus on teachers’ practice in innovative learning environments
Summary of PhD Program:
The research group’s overarching objective is to investigate: (i) the nature of practices unfolding in ILEs (ii) teachers’ perceptions of educational change and its impact on established practice and how it challenges previous traditions of organising schools, and (iii) the evolution of the concept of student-centered learning over time. The research group employs a diverse methodology, incorporating qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods. Data for the project is gathered through classroom observations, interviews, and questionnaires. The Ph.D. student will initially engage with existing data and subsequently focus on students’ performance within ILEs.
Application Deadline: 2024-03-29
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in Language teaching and learning
Summary of PhD Program:
As a doctoral student, you formulate your own research plan in Language teaching and learning and independently develop your dissertation project in consultation with your supervisors. Your supervisors are assigned based on the project’s focus. You will have continuous supervision and follow-ups with your supervisors as well as with the Director of Research Studies. You will be a part of the department’s research environment where you are expected to contribute through active participation in seminars, research networks, academic gatherings and conferences. You will also take part in other meetings and gatherings at the department, such as workplace meetings and staff days.
Application Deadline: 2024-03-29
14. Fully Funded PhD Position in Educational work
Summary of PhD Program:
The research discipline Educational work is focused on a didactic scientific basis and on teachers professional knowledge. At the department of Language studies, the research discipline is focused on research around language and learning. You will find more information about the doctoral studies and our supervisors´ areas of expertise here. This doctoral position is a collaboration with Umeå School of Education and is part of the Postgraduate school in the educational sciences.
Application Deadline: 2024-03-29
15. Fully Funded PhD Position in Science or Technology/Engineering Education
Summary of PhD Program:
As a doctoral student you will be part of the Umeå Science Education Research environment (UmSER). In UmSER, research is conducted within science, sustainability, and technology/engineering education with participants from several departments at Umeå University. Our research interest can be described from two perspectives – the learning situation and the learner. Hence, the research focusses on instructional practices, subject content, learning context, gender and identity, emotions, and motivation, and their relationship with students’ learning. The research involves students and teachers at all levels, from preschool to university. More information regarding these research areas is found on the UmSER homepage.
Application Deadline: 2024-03-29
16. Fully Funded PhD Position in History and Education
Summary of PhD Program:
The Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies conducts research and education within archeology, environmental archeology, history, history and education, history of science and ideas, religious studies, theology and philosophy. History and Education combines perspectives from both history didactics and educational history. The research environment collaborates with other research environments in both history didactics and educational history, both in Sweden and internationally. The environment has close cooperation with Umeå Research Centre for Social Studies Didactics as well as with the Umeå School of Education.
Application Deadline: 2024-03-29
17. Fully Funded PhD Position in ecology with a focus on the role of (deep) root dynamics in permafrost-climate feedback
Summary of PhD Program:
Permafrost soils contain twice as much carbon as the atmosphere, which they have protected for millennia. As arctic temperatures soar and the rate of permafrost thaw accelerates, there is a growing concern about large carbon losses from permafrost soils into the atmosphere. Even though around 80% of plant biomass in the arctic tundra is belowground, the crucial role of roots in carbon cycling remains unquantified. Roots can promote new carbon storage but also stimulate losses of old soil carbon. Here, deep roots are likely to be disproportionally important, as they increasingly interact with newly-thawed, vulnerable soils. Yet, few studies include root measurements, particularly in deeper soils. In this project we will quantify the role of deep roots in the carbon-climate feedback from thawing permafrost soils by using a long-term field experiment combined with a complementing microcosm experiment. The results will define the importance of root dynamics in deep soils and strongly improve our ability to predict feedbacks from arctic tundra to climate change.
Application Deadline: 2024-03-25
18. Fully Funded PhD Position in Odontology
Summary of PhD Program:
The ongoing societal transformation and large green investments in northern Sweden create enormous opportunities and complex challenges. For Umeå University, conducting research about – and in the middle of – a society in transition is key. We also take pride in delivering education to enable regions to expand quickly and sustainably. In fact, the future is made here.
