Are you a Master’s graduate looking for fully funded PhD opportunities? Explore the range of funded PhD programs available at the University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway. Apply online now and kickstart your doctoral journey!
1. Fully Funded PhD Position in Embryology and Healthy development
Summary of PhD Program:
A 3-year Ph.D. position is available at the Centre for Embryology and Healthy Development (CRESCO; recently launched Norwegian Centre of Excellence). The candidate will work in the Stem Cells, Ageing and Cancer group under the supervision of Deputy Centre Director and Associate Professor Lorena Arranz, located at the Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo. The project entitles “Imaging Ageing Endothelium at the Nanoscale” and the position is funded by the EU Horizon Europe MSCA Program “Doctoral Networks” (DN) ImAge-D. The co-supervisor will be Professor Friedemann Kiefer from Universität Münster.
Application Deadline: 26th June 2024
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Seismogenic faults in CO2 storage
Summary of PhD Program:
A PhD Research Fellow position on Seismogenic faults in CO2 storage is available at the Study of Sedimentary Basins Section within the Department of Geosciences, the University of Oslo (UiO), supported by the Akademia program at the UiO. We seek a candidate with a strong background in structural geology and tectonics, who will work with characterization of North Sea crustal fault geometries, their mechanical properties and seismogenic potential, as part of CO2 storage assessments. The candidate will work in a team of structural geologists at the University of Oslo and with Equinor’s CO2 storage group. Some work will be conducted in Equinor’s offices (Fornebu).
Application Deadline: 14th June 2024
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Information Systems for Climate Health
Summary of PhD Program:
The position is devoted to carrying out research on climate health data and its role in supporting decisions for a various user groups. Within this broad topic, data integration, data storing and processing, and data visualization will be important. Spatial data models are natural starting points, and research on Geographical Information Systems (GIS) is expected to be central. Empirically, the research will be based in concrete activities of the HISP Centre, University of Oslo, and processes to adapt the open source software DHIS2 to support climate health information needs globally.
Application Deadline: 24th June 2024
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Formal Methods and Software Engineering for Digital Twins
Summary of PhD Program:
Are you interested in doing a PhD in formal methods and software engineering, developing exciting software solutions in a unique, interdisciplinary research environment? In this project, we will work on digital twins, which are technologies that can support the development and exploration of hypothetical experiments (so-called “what-if” scenarios). The project aims to develop digital twin solutions that work in practice and that allow us to argue for correctness. The design of the digital twin should allow us to express the correctness of its underlying architecture but also to justify specific configurations for different hypothetical exper-iments.
Application Deadline: 30th June 2024
5. Fully Funded PhD Position in fluid mechanics/soft matter physics
Summary of PhD Program:
The position is part of a large tecno-convergence project funded by the Research Council of Norway that focuses on the development of sustainable soft adhesion robots. More specifically, the project has an ambitious aim to demonstrate the feasibility and longevity of the production of vibration-based soft robots. At the core of the project lies an understanding of the elastohydrodynamics of the adhesion cup, requiring the development of a fundamental understanding of the coupling between the fluid flow and the elastic deformations of the soft robot. The PhD fellowship will be involved in the development of new theories and computational predictions of the fluid-structure interaction and/or the experimental development of the robot.
Application Deadline: 11th June 2024
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Computational Continuum Mechanics
Summary of PhD Program:
We invite applications for a PhD position in computational continuum mechanics to develop a physical model for fluid transport and mixing in fracture networks. The objective is to better understand fluid flow and reactive transport in networks that evolve due to clogging and unclogging under the action of chemical precipitation. This dynamic phenomenon is encountered in many situations from the transport of nutrients through veins and branches in living systems to flow of chemical solutions through porous and fractured rocks in the subsurface. Applications may include the filling of vein networks on geological time scales, the formation of biominerals, the remediation of contaminants, the restoration of cultural heritage, the clogging of geothermal wells and the mineral trapping of CO2 in the subsurface.
Application Deadline: 30th July 2024
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7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Ethics, Environmental Philosophy and Ecotheology
Summary of PhD Program:
The successful candidate will do research on ethics, democracy, and ecology within the overall project. We expect the ability to provide advanced discussions of contemporary and classical problems within ethics, environmental philosophy, philosophy of religion and/or eco-theology in dialogue with adjacent fields such as biology, life science, philosophy, psychology, and anthropology. For a closer description of DEMOCRISIS and its research plan for the period 2024-2028, please contact the leader of the research group, Prof. Marius Timmann Mjaaland (marius.mjaaland@teologi.uio.no).
Application Deadline: 20th June 2024
8. Fully Funded PhD Position in The Political Psychology of AI
Summary of PhD Program:
While some optimistic viewpoints suggest that AI may serve as a catalyst for and equalizer of political participation, alternative perspectives raise concerns about the potential adverse impacts of AI, which could pose threats to democratic engagement and its overall functionality. The doctoral candidate will engage in research projects centered around political psychology, investigating the psychological effects of AI, and in particularly generative AI such as large language models (e.g., Gemini, Grok, ChatGPT, CoPilot, MyAI) or image models (e.g., DALLE, Midjourney), has on political attitudes, trust in democratic institutions, and the extent of civic engagement.
Application Deadline: 30th June 2024
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Computational Biology & Gene Regulation
Summary of PhD Program:
The Computational Biology & Gene Regulation group led by Anthony Mathelier at the NCMM, a part of the Nordic EMBL Partnership for Molecular Medicine, is seeking an ambitious and highly motivated PhD candidate for a four-year PhD position combined with lab management (25% duty work) funded by NCMM core funding to the Mathelier group, starting in October 2024.
Application Deadline: 11th June 2024
10. Fully Funded PhD Position in JEUX – Literary Games, Poetics and the Early-Modern Novel
Summary of PhD Program:
The positions form part of the ERC-funded research project JEUX – Literary Games, Poetics and the Early-Modern Novel (101087560). JEUX investigates how literary authors model their own practice creatively through play. The project goes beyond traditional metaphors of literature as gameplay and investigates an actual literary game from theoretical, historical and empirical perspectives. The project investigates representations of game-playing practices in early-modern novels, novelists’ participation in literary salons and the impact that these practices have on how the novel gets established as a genre. JEUX will explore cultural practices as a potential site for creativity, innovation and community also in the contemporary world.
Application Deadline: 15th August 2024
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in History – Before Copyright
Summary of PhD Program:
We invite applications for PhD research on any aspect of the history of printing privileges in the period 1500-1800. Potential candidates may wish to focus on a particular period, person, archive, or location. For example, one might consider political alliances and conflicts, but also scientific and commercial networks, media strategies and censorship, or the cultural dynamics of specific places in a globalizing world. Applicants are expected to state in their project proposal why they have chosen a particular approach and what sources they intend to use (e.g. printed literature, engravings, court records, maps, newspapers, chancellery archives, etc.). Preference may be given to projects on France and Scandinavia, and to projects dealing with the (legal) Enlightenment.
Application Deadline: 4th August 2024
12. Fully Funded PhD Position in Precision Psychiatry
Summary of PhD Program:
At the Centre for Precision Psychiatry, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, there is a doctoral research fellowship position available. The Centre runs a series of multidisciplinary studies involving hospital departments in Oslo and several research groups at the University of Oslo. The main goal is to develop tools and knowledge for precision medicine in psychiatry, building on advanced statistical methods for analysis of large-scale human genetic and neuroimaging data, to better understand how biological, psychological, and environmental factors contribute to severe mental and neuropsychiatric disorders, their treatment, and outcomes.
Application Deadline: 12th June 2024
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in AI Democracy
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD candidate will be associated with the interdisciplinary research group AI Democracy – How can Artificial Intelligence (AI) change political participation and democracy? (uio.no) The research group is funded by the initiative UIO:Democracy and will commence in the fall of 2024. We desire the PhD candidate to utilize knowledge, methods, and perspectives from social sciences and humanities to better understand how Artificial Intelligence (AI), especially generative AI and large AI models such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Midjourney, and Dalle, can influence and alter the foundations of political engagement and democratic participation. Applicants are requested to develop a project description related to the AI-Democracy theme, describing theory, research questions, and methodology.
Application Deadline: 25th August 2024
14. Fully Funded PhD Position in research initiative Eco-Emotions
Summary of PhD Program:
The main aim of the project is to discuss how humans affectively deal with environmental change, as represented in and through literature, from the past and today, in the North and globally. The current environmental crisis has made us aware of the pressing need for new insight, pertaining to the deeper emotive structures of humanity and the cognitive mechanisms that condition our relationship to the environment.
The two main research questions of the project are: (1) How does literature represent and describe affective responses to environmental change? (2) What effect does literature have on our emotions and thoughts, and how can it contribute to sustainability in times of environmental transformations? By discussing these research questions, the project will harvest the yet unexploited potential of powerful, large-scale narratives from the past and today, which have the potential to activate new ways of thinking about and relating to our environment.
Application Deadline: 15th August 2024
15. Fully Funded PhD Position in Philosophy of Science – “AssemblingLife”
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD position will be specifically associated with one of two research strands in AssemblingLife: (1) One strand considers how the understanding of genetic causation may be transformed by bringing in current knowledge about self-assembly processes. One possible route would be to investigate genetic material as “nudgers” of self-assembly processes. (2) A second strand will be an investigation of self-assembly in the context of philosophy of causal and/or mechanistic explanation across fields and scales. A central question will be to what extent self-assembly processes challenges existing philosophical frameworks of scientific explanation. The candidate´s proposed doctoral research need not address these topics exactly as described here. Candidates should, though, in their research description and application address how their proposed research relates to one of the research strands described.
Application Deadline: 15th August 2024
16. Fully Funded PhD Position in Design Studies – Designing with/out Extractive Materials
Summary of PhD Program:
The successful candidate will work primarily on the main project’s work package 1, Mining Modernity. The application’s project proposal should explore how the exploitation of extractive materials was designed into the material culture of the “mined modernity” of the second industrial revolution (late 19th and early 20th century). A watershed in the organization of manufacturing, this period ushered in the role of the designer and the process of designing in their modern-day configurations, a key component of which is the specification of materials (which types of materials, in which quantities and qualities). The PhD project will trace the flow of extractive materials during the second industrial revolution, with an emphasis on how their exploitation and consumption became an integral feature of modern design practices and material cultures.
Application Deadline: 15th August 2024
