Do you hold a Master’s degree and dream of pursuing a fully funded PhD in the Denmark? Great news! Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark now accepting online applications for fully funded PhD positions across a wide range of disciplines. Passionate and qualified candidates are encouraged to apply through the respective university’s official application portals and take the next big step in their research journey.”
1. Funded PhD Vacancy in Sustainable Packaging Manufacturing Using Natural Fiber Networks
Position Description:
The Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering (DTU Construct) of the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) has an open PhD position on the topic of “Sustainable Packaging Manufacturing Using Natural Fiber Networks”. The position is funded in the context of the project HiProBio co-funded by the Innovation Fund Denmark. You will be working in the framework of the ongoing collaboration between DTU Construct, DTU Chemical Engineering and Danish as well as international companies with the goal of implementing solutions for the development of compostable, recyclable and renewable natural fiber-based packaging.
Deadline to Apply: 5 December 2025
2. Funded PhD Vacancy in Sustainable Photochemical PFAS Destruction
Position Description:
Your overall focus will be to advance the development of a sustainable photochemical reduction process for PFAS mineralization using a green reducing agent. You will work in close collaboration with an interdisciplinary research team in Water Technology and Processes section at DTU Sustain, combining environmental engineering, photochemistry, electrochemistry and process optimization to achieve safer and more efficient PFAS destruction.
Deadline to Apply: 30 December 2025
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3. Funded PhD Vacancy in Computing Parallelism Enabled by Photonic Integrated Circuits
Position Description:
The exponential surge in artificial intelligence (AI), internet traffic, and online services demands a revolutionary leap in devices, computing architecture, and integration technologies. As digital computing struggles to keep up with the growing demand, in MINDnet will investigate neuromorphic computing as a promising solution to support such a demand by getting inspired by the brain’s powerful and energy-efficient processing capabilities.
Deadline to Apply: 15 March 2026
4. Funded PhD Vacancy in Photonic Reservoir Computing in Coupled Resonant Structures
Position Description:
The Machine Learning in Photonic Systems group at DTU Electro at the Technical University of Denmark is seeking a candidate for a PhD position to research multiplexing in photonic integrated circuits for enhancing computing efficiency through parallelism. The PhD student will participate in an international team in an EU-funded Doctoral Network project called MINDnet. The project consists of 15 Ph.D. students at 7 universities, one research center and two companies. The project has partners from eight different EU countries. All 15 Ph.d. projects are within the overall theme of neuromorphic computing and analog signal processing, targeting applications in the fields of communication, sensing, geolocalization, space and biomedical.
Deadline to Apply: 15 March 2026
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5. Funded PhD Vacancy in Stem Cell Technology and Eye Disease Modelling
Position Description:
At DTU Health Tech, we offer a 3-year fully funded PhD position in the Applied Stem Cells group (ASTEM) within the Section for Cell and Drug Technologies. You will join a young and dynamic research environment where we combine stem cell engineering, disease modeling, molecular biology, and advanced microscopy to understand and treat retinal diseases. Through this PhD project, you will work at the interface between stem cell biology and translational medicine — establishing patient-derived induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) lines carrying genetic mutations that cause blindness and using them to generate in-vitro models of retinal degeneration. Your work will contribute to developing new therapeutic and drug testing strategies for vision preservation.
Deadline to Apply: 15 December 2025
6. Funded PhD Vacancy in Writing, Learning and Teaching with Generative AI in STEM
Position Description:
On one hand, GenAI challenges traditional methods of learning and assessment, such as the take-home assignments or exams, which to a large extent can be delegated to GenAI technologies. On the other, GenAI tools such as chatbots and AI tutors are becoming embedded in everyday educational practices, altering how students read, write and learn, how educators teach, and how institutions assess and value student work. It is further an open question to what extent GenAI transforms STEM disciplines.
Deadline to Apply: 1 March 2026
7. Funded PhD Vacancy in Topology Optimization for Additively Manufactured Fuel Cells
Position Description:
We are looking for an excellent PhD candidate with finite element, and possibly topology optimization expertise, for an exciting interdisciplinary project within design of additively manufactured ceramic fuel cells. The project shall develop design approaches that take manufacturing induced effects such as residual stresses, defects and edge roughness into account. The project is anchored at DTU Construct and funded by the Villum Investigator Project AMSTRAD granted by the Villum Foundation.
Deadline to Apply: 9 December 2026
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8. Funded PhD Vacancy in Cutting-Edge Machine Learning Methods for Climate Modelling
Position Description:
This PhD project will focus on reducing uncertainties in Arctic sea-ice predictions. There will be three subprojects: 1) develop a climate data retrieval system in close collaboration with researchers at DMI and RMI. The pipeline is based on CMIP6, CMIP7, and C3S data. 2) develop generative AI models that can create high-resolution climate data based on low-resolution input, 3) develop probabilistic AI models to generate ensembles of Arctic winter initial states, which will be used as input to physical climate simulations to explore predictive relationships across warming scenarios.
Deadline to Apply: 8 December 2025
9. Funded PhD Vacancy in Urban Planning and Sustainable Mobility
Position Description:
The objective of the PhD is to support collaborative research and contribute to the development and implementation of adolescent-inclusive urban mobility systems. This includes (a) designing and facilitating participatory planning processes, (b) engaging adolescents and stakeholders in co-creation activities, (c) contributing to the development and evaluation of digital tools, (d) analyzing mobility behaviors and accessibility gaps, and (e) supporting project management and communication across international partners. .In addition, The project will assess the impact of participatory methods and planning tools for inclusivity, accessibility, and sustainability in urban mobility.
Deadline to Apply: 5 December 2025
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10. Funded PhD Vacancy in Latent Thermal Energy Storage for Safe and Flexible Cooling Systems
Position Description:
The research explores how phase change materials that can store “cold” energy when they change between solid and liquid states can help make cooling systems more flexible and reliable. A large-scale pilot installation at DTU Campus for server room cooling will serve as a pilot for testing, control, and optimization of such latent thermal energy storage. This installation will be taken into operation in March 2026. To optimize the controllability of cold storage using phase change materials, a novel charge determination method (measurement of energy stored) will be developed in the laboratory.
Deadline to Apply: 4 January 2026
11. Funded PhD Vacancy in Machine Learning Enabled Metasurfaces for Efficient Wave Interaction with Human Tissue
Position Description:
The project goal, and thus your focus, is to design and experimentally characterize antenna- and metasurface-based solutions for both uniform as well as focused field distributions throughout dedicated and realistic examples of lossy media such as human tissue and fluid-cell cultures. To overcome the present-day challenges of the underlying field interaction with the lossy fluids and cells, machine learning will be used to optimize the resulting electromagnetic solutions. Throughout the project, a close collaboration between DTU Space (electromagnetics), DTU Electro (machine learning) and HHC Medical (real-world applications) is envisioned.
Deadline to Apply: 19 December 2025
12. Funded PhD Vacancy in inorganic contaminants in binder-based construction materials when using secondary raw materials
Position Description:
We are looking for a highly motivated PhD student to join our dynamic and interdisciplinary research team in the Section of Construction Materials and Durability at DTU Sustain. Through advanced experimental work and modelling, you will help uncover how inorganic contaminants from incineration ashes used as secondary raw materials will affect binder-based construction materials. The investigations will bridge different levels from leaching tests to the characterization of the materials to elucidate the fate of key elements in binder-based construction materials.
Deadline to Apply: 14 December 2025
13. Funded PhD Vacancy in Catalysis Informatics
Position Description:
This PhD project aims to build a next-generation catalyst informatics platform that integrates machine learning, text mining, image analysis, and data fusion to make sense of the enormous but scattered knowledge in research literature. By structuring and learning from heterogeneous data, you will create predictive models to guide the discovery of new catalysts. But more importantly, you will be part of a team pursuing a catalyst informatics platform that addresses key challenges in the field, such as poor selectivity and energy efficiency in power-2-x reactions.