Are you a Master’s graduate looking for fully funded PhD opportunities? Explore the range of funded PhD programs available at the University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. Apply online now and kickstart your doctoral journey!
1. Fully Funded PhD Position in Geography, with a focus on urban expansion and encroachment on ecologically sensitive areas in African cities
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD fellowship is part of the research project “Urban encroachment – untangling drivers and dynamics of land-use transitions in ecologically sensitive areas” funded by a Sapere Aude: DFF Starting Grant from the Independent Research Fund Denmark. The overarching aim of this project is to identify and promote more sustainable trajectories of urban expansion, which will allow African cities to accommodate rapidly growing populations, while preserving ecologically sensitive areas, benefiting from ecosystem services and building resilience to climate change. The research will entail a comparative case study of two rapidly growing cities – Accra in Ghana and Dar es Salaam in Tanzania – which have been characterized by extensive informal expansion in recent decades. The objectives of the research are to estimate the scale and magnitude of natural areas lost in urban expansion, to gain insights into the motivations and logics of diverse actors involved in land-use conversions within ecologically sensitive areas and to develop a comprehensive understanding of how urban governance arrangements shape encroachment dynamics.
Application Deadline: 4th of September 2024
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in digital media and scandal
Summary of PhD Program:
The EXPOSING project examines how scandals emerge and progress over time and across media, as citizens no longer passively witness scandals through mass media but take an active role by posting their opinions online and becoming a driving force in exposing and judging moral transgressions. The project aims to show how citizens’ participation in digital publics affects the ways in which scandals develop, and how scandals, as a result of being increasingly citizen-driven, become sites for public communication of concern. The hypothesis is that scandals have the potential to create public value by occasioning citizens’ engagement in the negotiation of what a society considers contestable.
Application Deadline: 1 September 2024
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Human physiology, Environmental Health and Climate Change
Summary of PhD Program:
We are looking for a PhD candidate with expertise in cardiovascular physiology (medical doctor or human physiology/biology educational background) and willingness to work in an international interdisciplinary project (ICARUS) investigating the relationship between individual physiology, psychology and thermal resilience. The position is part of a larger multidisciplinary project (named ICARUS after the greek myth), which will study the interactions between climate change, individual physiology, psychology, and its importance for improving the mitigation of health threats associated with global warming. The project will combine expertise in physiology, pharmacology, photobiology, psychology, behavioral science, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) and aims to develop an improved framework for identifying individuals at risk, but also for improving advice adherence and effective mitigation measures.
Application Deadline: 1 September 2024
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Multiple Waterscapes in Urban Ghana
Summary of PhD Program:
The project examines what poorer people in Kumasi (Ghana) do to get clean water, and whether this depends on which part of the city they live in. It focuses on three types of urban sites that represent different configurations of residents and businesses, and different social histories and dynamics i: 1. the downtown older areas of the city where many residents are originally migrants, 2. areas that are both industrial and residential and where poorer people compete with water intensive industries and 3. sites on the edge of the city where long term residents compete with middle class people that buy land at the outskirts of the city. The study of these sites employs a combination of ethnographic and archival methods and draws from a range of disciplinary backgrounds.
Application Deadline: 1 September 2024
5. Fully Funded PhD Position in philosophy of science
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD student will be part of a project team that uses the analytical tools of philosophy of science to assess the claim that absence of proper theorizing is the root cause of low replicability in psychological sciences and to understand the type of theory needed to alleviate the crisis. The PhD project should address the replication crisis and theory crisis in cognitive science from the perspective of philosophy of science. The PhD project should engage with recent philosophy of science and philosophy of confirmation, as well as relevant theoretical, methodological, and empirical studies in psychology. The successful candidate will be working in close cooperation with philosophers as well as cognitive psychologists and neuroscientists associated with the CoInAct Research Group (https://psychology.ku.dk/coinact/) and is expected to partake in the activities of CoInAct on a daily basis.
Application Deadline: 31 August 2024
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in In Vivo Pharmacology at the Section for Preclinical Disease Biology
Summary of PhD Program:
The Experimental Pharmacology and Toxicology Lab – The ExPT Lab – are experts in designing and conducting preclinical studies of drugs and toxins. We host the graduate program for In Vivo Pharmacology and Experimental Animals. Our major in house projects focus on metabolic fatty liver disease, effects of vitamin C deficiency, and drug-induced liver injury. Our group consists of people with a range of different scientific backgrounds covering e.g. veterinary medicine, analytical chemistry, molecular biology. Our vision is that ‘Our research and the students and scientists we train have a high international level and contribute globally to evidence-based disease prevention and treatment’. Within this group you will be part of a dedicated and highly experienced team of scientists with many successful PhD projects behind them.
Application Deadline: 13th August 2024
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7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Quantum Optomechanics
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD project explores mechanical systems as components of hybrid quantum processors. A particular focus will lie on fabricating silicon nitride mechanical resonators which can act as quantum memory with unprecedented coherence time, i.e. for superconducting or spin qubits. The project furthermore comprises setting up and operating experiments to study the devices using optical and electronic techniques. It is expected that the developed fabrication techniques will be used in a wider range of applications, including the monolithic fabrication of quantum chips, highly efficient microwave-to-optical transduces required for connecting future quantum computers to a larger quantum network, as well as new types of quantum and classical sensors.
Application Deadline: 12 August 2024
8. Fully Funded PhD Position in climate warming responses of Sphagnum functionality and carbon balance
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD project will focus on climate warming responses of Sphagnum moss and the consequences for ecosystem functioning and input and output of C from ecosystems. Sphagnum mires are natural and efficient carbon stores, but we lack understanding about the stability of this carbon under changing and especially warmer climate. Techniques involved in the project include field-based automatic CO2 flux measurement, microscopy, laboratory incubation, chemical characterization of Sphagnum and in situ enzyme characterization. The PhD project is highly collaborative with opportunities for research exchange at INRAe in Marseille, France, and at Cambridge University, UK. The research questions of the PhD project build on recent advancement of our understanding of the Sphagnum cell wall composition and on field-based evidence of Sphagnum climate warming responses. Ultimately, the PhD project aims to uncover how Sphagnum will function as a C sequestrator in a future warmer climate.
Application Deadline: 11 August 2024
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Molecular Cell Biology
Summary of PhD Program:
With the proposed project, we will study the role of liquid-liquid phase separation in facilitating DNA repair processes in the cell nucleus as a model to establish a fundamental biological understanding of how biomolecular droplets allow the cell to orchestrate its biochemical processes. We will achieve this through a cross-disciplinary effort that combines molecular genetics and state-of-the-art microscopy with biophysical modelling and computational simulations.
Application Deadline: 5 August 2024
10. Fully Funded PhD Position in Nutrition and Gut Microbiome Research
Summary of PhD Program:
In your role as PhD student, you will be in charge of writing the study protocol for approval to the Ethical Committee. Following approval, you will be responsible with the recruitment of study participants and for conducting the controlled dietary intervention study, which includes examination visits and handling of biological samples. Furthermore, you will conduct liquid chromatography mass spectrometry-based metabolomics, bomb calorimetry, and microbiome analyses on collected biological samples. Finally, you will integrate microbiome, metabolomics, and faecal energy data, and write scientific publications.
Application Deadline: 4 August 2024
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Physics-Informed Data Analysis for Biosciences
Summary of PhD Program:
This project revolves around improving data analysis of biophysical/biomedical data by combining physical modelling and deep learning. There is freedom to shape the precise problem by the candidates themselves, and the formulation of new avenues of research is encouraged. Research areas could include computer vision, development of differentiable physical models, synthetic/differentiable image generation, regularization of simulation-to-reality gap, probabilistic modelling, expert knowledge in neural networks, etc.
Application Deadline: 4 August 2024
12. Fully Funded PhD Position in understanding sensory palatability of rapeseed proteins
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD position is part of ‘SEEDFOOD: Functional and palatable plant seed storage proteins for sustainable foods’ project funded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation. The primary partners in SEEDFOOD are University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and University of Le Mans in France (ULM). The project coordinator is Professor Marianne Nissen Lund, Department of Food Science, UCPH.
SEEDFOOD will serve as multi-disciplinary centre in which you as young scientist will benefit from training and joint supervision by principal investigators. We expect some mobility between labs and partners. You will be part of an international dynamic research environment founded on knowledge sharing, high scientific ambitions and cross-disciplinary synergy. We focus on active career development of junior researchers and offer coaching/mentoring activities across the centre.
Application Deadline: 2 August 2024
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in Theology and ethics of domesticated animals
Summary of PhD Program:
The central objective of the research project is to develop new conceptualizations of the relation between humanity and nature in times of ecological crises. CARNAL expands the ethical tradition of self-care and care for other humans into an ecologized ethics of care. We focus on everyday dilemmas and options for change in the areas of consumption, biodiversity, and conceptions of everyday human interactions with the corporeality of ecological networks. CARNAL is placed at the Faculty of Theology, and its methodology aims to coordinate the fields of Anthropology and Theology.
Application Deadline: 2 August 2024
14. Fully Funded PhD Position in newborn infectious diseases and therapeutics
Summary of PhD Program:
The research group in Cellular and Molecular Pediatrics is one among three interconnected research groups in Section of Comparative Pediatrics and Nutrition. The section offers a highly international, diverse and interdisciplinary environment, performing translational research and teaching related to physiology, immunology, microbiology, nutrition and diseases in both laboratory animals and human infants and children. The work extends from basic in vitro studies in cells and tissues (gut cell lines, primary blood and immune cells, and tissues) with various analytical techniques and omics technologies, to animal model studies (mainly in piglets) and intervention and cohort studies in infants at hospitals (exploring growth, gut, brain, immunity and microbiome).
Application Deadline: 31 July 2024
15. Fully Funded PhD Position in organoid modelling of the post-acute phase of COVID
Summary of PhD Program:
In this project we aim to understand and explain the mechanistic link between the post-acute phase (PAP) of COVID-19 and risk of noncommunicable diseases. More specifically, we aim to determine the clinical and biological mechanisms behind the increased risk of reduced organ function in pulmonary, cardiovascular, and renal systems associated with the PAP of COVID-19.
Your primary research area will be to generate, assess and use induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived organoids to support the project. You will optimize the protocols for kidney and lung organoid generation and use this model system to assess novel immune factors in blood samples from human controls and patients suffering from COVID. Using both 2D and 3D representative model systems, you will, in collaboration with other group members assess viability, fibrosis, senescence load, bioenergetic changes and morphologic changes.
Application Deadline: July 21st 2024
16. Fully Funded PhD Position in Bioinformatics/ Data Science/ Machine Learning
Summary of PhD Program:
The “Data Science for Drug Design” (DSDD) research group is dedicated to the development and application of cutting-edge and data-driven technologies to advance network medicine. The DSDD group has a broad expertise encompassing structural bioinformatics, cheminformatics, computer-aided drug discovery & design, research tool/database development and applying machine learning/AI approaches.
Application Deadline: 21 July 2024
17. 02 Fully Funded PhD Position in experimental brain tumor research and bioinformatics
Summary of PhD Program:
You will join a multi-disciplinary research team that work with both patient tumor tissue, experimental in vitro and in vivo brain tumor models and advanced bioinformatics.
1) The main tasks in the experimental PhD project will be establishment of 3D patient-like brain cancer models to be used for drug testing followed by validation in orthotopic patient-derived models. The candidate is required to have documented experience with cell culturing and different in vitro assays, histology, immunohistochemistry and imaging techniques as well as molecular techniques. Experience in handling iPSC-derived microglia and cerebral organoids is a plus.
2) The main tasks in the bioinformatic PhD project to investigate the tumor microenvironment in histologically distinct glioblastoma samples and correlate these findings with clinical outcomes. The ideal candidate should have a background in biological sciences and have experience in either data analysis of high-plex spatial transcriptomics or single-cell/nuclei RNA sequencing or be proficient in R or python.
Application Deadline: July 19 2024
18. Fully Funded PhD Position in Algorithms
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD students will be part of a world-class research environment in theoretical computer science with a strong presence at top-tier conferences like STOC, FOCS, and SODA, and also with publications in premier AI conferences like AAAI, IJCAI, and NeurIPS. We are home to the Basic Algorithms Research Copenhagen (BARC) centre joint with the IT University of Copenhagen, and have extensive collaborations with the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and with Lund University on the Swedish side of the Oresund Bridge, as well as with our many visitors.
We aim to attract top talent to an ambitious, creative, collaborative, and fun environment. Using the power of mathematics, we strive to create fundamental breakthroughs in algorithms and complexity theory. While our focus in on theoretical research, we do have a track record of surprising algorithmic discoveries leading to major industrial applications.
Application Deadline: July 15, 2024
19. 02 Fully Funded PhD Position in Social Data Science (SODAS)
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD projects will focus on A. extending those ideas by identifying strategies for how to use network data to connect the individuals in the data and B. understanding how biases in the data can be detected in the underlying embeddings. In addition to these key objectives, the selected candidates are expected to collaborate with researchers from both computational and social sciences in an interdisciplinary environment, co-author scientific papers aimed at high-impact journals, and participate in international conferences. For the selected candidates, there will be possibilities to influence the project and develop new project ideas within the project frame. In addition, the chosen candidates will also be asked to fulfill other work obligations (typically teaching or supervising thesis students) to a small degree in the overall period.
Application Deadline: 14 July 2024
20. Fully Funded PhD Position in forest growth modelling
Summary of PhD Program:
Sustainable forest management is a critical component of environmental conservation and climate change mitigation. Accurate growth models play a pivotal role in guiding decision-making processes related to forestry practices. However, in the face of evolving forest management paradigms such as closer-to-nature forestry, forests managed for biodiversity conservation, and climate-targeted forestry, there is an urgent need to develop updated growth models that incorporate parametric modeling and where relevant novel AI methodologies. This proposed PhD project aims to address this crucial knowledge gap by advancing growth models for changing forest management and environmental sustainability.
Application Deadline: 3 July 2024
