Are you holding Master’s degree and looking for fully funded PhD positions? Aalto University, Espoo, Finland 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 sustainable AI and cloud computing
Summary of PhD Program:
The rapid growth of artificial intelligence (AI) has led to increased energy consumption in data centers, raising concerns about carbon emissions. To address these challenges and support sustainability goals, the project DecAI aims to decarbonize AI through long-term impact assessment and optimization. The goal is to develop a framework to estimate carbon emissions across AI’s development, operation, and use. This framework enables stakeholders, such as AI providers and data center operators, to evaluate and compare scenarios to reduce emissions. The framework will be released as a software tool to guide emissions reduction strategies.
Application Deadline: 31.10.2025
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Computational Social Intrinsic Motivation (SIM)
Summary of PhD Program:
Our goal is to advance social AI, i.e. artificial agents capable of supporting us proactively or reactively in a range of virtual or embodied tasks. However, existing social AI and artificial agents more generally still struggle in delivering reliable support in situations that were not anticipated at design-time, and their decision-making processes may be hard to understand by interaction partners or operators. This project tackles these challenges by advancing Social Intrinsic Motivation (SIM), i.e. computational models of intrinsic motivation applied to the interaction of multiple agents.
Application Deadline: 30.9.2025
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Industrial Wood Construction
Summary of PhD Program:
We are currently seeking a skilled and highly motivated Doctoral Researcher interested in conducting research related to wood construction and structures. This position—Doctoral Researcher in Industrial Wood Construction—is a collaborative opportunity between Aalto University’s Department of Civil Engineering and XAMK (University of Applied Sciences) in Savonlinna. The candidate may be based either in Espoo or Savonlinna. If based in Espoo, periodic travel to Savonlinna is expected. The position offers full-time employment from Aalto for the full four-year duration of the doctoral studies.
Application Deadline: 15.9.2025
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Experimental studies on Hydrogen and Methane combustion in Argon
Summary of PhD Program:
This project investigates the combustion characteristics and jet dynamics of ultra-high-pressure (>300 bar) hydrogen and methane injections in argon environments, under engine-relevant conditions. Advanced optical diagnostics, including high-speed Schlieren imaging, Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV), and Planar Laser-Induced Fluorescence (PLIF) will be employed within a custom optical spray and combustion chamber to capture detailed flow and combustion phenomena.
Application Deadline: 27.8.2025
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5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Wood-based Functional Biocomposites
Summary of PhD Program:
A four-year Doctoral Researcher position is available in the Wood Materials Science Group at the Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems, Aalto University, Finland. The thesis work will be carried out as part of the COOLWOOD project, led by Academy Research Fellow Dr. Shennan Wang and funded by the Research Council of Finland. The project aims to harness and enhance wood’s natural properties for climate regulation, with a particular focus on developing sustainable wood-based materials for passive cooling applications.
Application Deadline: 15.8.2025
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Computational Structural/Solid Mechanics
Summary of PhD Program:
The Department of Civil Engineering is looking for a highly qualified, talented, and motivated individual with an enthusiastic attitude toward high-quality research to work as a full-time Doctoral Researcher or Postdoctoral Researcher in Computational Structural/Solid Mechanics. The candidate’s research activities will focus on the development of a computational setup for fiber-enriched materials design within the Processing-Structure-Properties-Performance (PSPP) framework under the joint supervision of Assistant Professor Sergei Khakalo and Professor of Practice Jouni Punkki.
Application Deadline: 8.8.2025
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Experiments in Swarming Dynamics of Living Swimmers
Summary of PhD Program:
A 4-year Doctoral Researcher position is available in the Living, Fluid, & Soft Matter group of Prof. Matilda Backholm at the Department of Applied Physics at Aalto University. The position is fully funded by the ERC project SWARM. Our research focuses on developing new cutting-edge techniques to probe the forces and flow in small living systems, such as microswimmers, plant roots, and immune cells. Our research is interdisciplinary and curiosity-driven, and we work in an inclusive and collaborative manner.
Application Deadline: 3.8.2025
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8. 03 Fully Funded PhD Position in Machine-Learning-Driven Atomistic Simulations
Summary of PhD Program:
The Data-driven Atomistic Simulation (DAS) group, led by Prof. Miguel Caro at the Department of Chemistry and Materials Science, Aalto University, is looking for three PhD students to join cutting-edge research projects in atomistic modeling, machine learning, and computational materials science. Positions 2 and 3 are under the direct supervision of Prof. Caro as part of various research projects while Position 1 is under direct supervision of Dr. Rina Ibragimova within her recently granted Research Council of Finland Fellow project SpaceML.
Application Deadline: 31.7.2025
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Theoretical Quantum Materials
Summary of PhD Program:
Multiferroic materials exhibiting coexisting electric and magnetic orders and a strong magnetoelectric coupling, are at the frontier of condensed matter physics due to their potential for electrical control of quantum phenomena. The ultimate goal of this PhD project is to design of functional multiferroic superconductors by combining superconducting, magnetic, and ferroelectric materials in van der Waals heterostructures, enabling control of superconductivity via external electric fields. To achieve this, the PhD researcher will combine first-principles calculations and effective models.
Application Deadline: 31.7.2025
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10. Fully Funded PhD Position in solid-state quantum optics and optomechanics
Summary of PhD Program:
The control methods are enabled by strong exciton-photon and exciton-phonon interactions, which together form tri-partite coupling that gives rise to effective optomechanical interaction between collective excitonic states (optical) and vibrational modes (mechanical). This mechanism allows for the room-temperature control over polariton condensation Nature Photonics 13 378 (2019), enabling nonlinear optical switching at extremely low optical signals – down to the single-photon level Nature 597, 493 (2021).
Application Deadline: 31.7.2025
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Applied Mathematics
Summary of PhD Program:
You will work on the theme of “Matrix nearness problems via Riemannian optimisation’’. Areas of mathematics that are relevant include matrix theory, numerical linear algebra, numerical analysis, optimisation, and differential geometry. The project lies at the intersection of numerical linear algebra and Riemannian optimisation, and its main goal is to perform further research on some recently introduced methodology based on recasting matrix nearness problems as optimisation tasks on manifold. You are expected to also coordinate with international researchers in the relevant disciplines.
Application Deadline: 30.7.2025
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12. Fully Funded PhD Position
Summary of PhD Program:
Are you an experienced professional or a talented future star who shares our passion to contribute to creating a better world? We are constantly seeking skilled individuals to join our great community. You can fill out an open application with CV where you can define what kind of job you are looking for and in which area. If you are a match with one of our jobs in the future, we may be in contact with you. Aalto University is an international community, and we welcome people from different backgrounds. Please note that some of our tasks require professional working proficiency in Finnish.
