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 Sociology
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD programme provides PhD students with strong research training which opens a window of opportunity to a variety of careers within the private and public sectors. The programme includes the drafting of a PhD thesis, active participation in research networks, PhD courses, teaching, and other forms of knowledge dissemination. The PhD programme can be undertaken as a three-year full-time study within the framework of the 5+3 study programme, or as a four-year full-time study programme within the framework of the 4+4 study programme.
Application Deadline: 2 March 2025
2. Fully Funded PhD Position
Summary of PhD Program:
Up to 22 PhD positions are open in the international Marie S. Curie Doctoral Programme ‘Interdisciplinary Marie S. Curie Action for Health’ (INTERACT). The positions are open for researchers with a master’s degree, and maximum 4 years of experience. All PhD-project will be interdisciplinary, working across biology/biomedicine to physics, chemistry, data science or engineering. A PhD project in science didactics is also available. The candidates’ main workplace will be either at the University of Copenhagen or the Technical University of Denmark, dependent of the selected project. The programme is co-funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Grant Agreement no. 101179234.
Application Deadline: February 20, 2025
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Economics of Agri-Food System Transition
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD project is part of the subproject “Mapping of stakeholder interests and analysis of lock-ins, barriers and potential drivers of change to a more plant-based agriculture and food system”. The PhD project contributes to this subproject by investigating economic drivers, barriers and lock-ins for transition in the agricultural and agri-food sectors at national, regional and local level, as well as to the development of transition scenarios for the Danish Agri-Food System. This entails using qualitative methods to map the relevant economic incentives, mechanisms and barriers on farms and in food industry firms, and in particular quantitative methods to assess the strength of incentives and the nature and magnitudes of barriers and lock-ins regarding transition towards a more plant-based agrifood sector, at the level of selected regions and municipalities and across the agri-food value chain. An example of a barrier could be farms’ recent investment in facilities for animal production.
Application Deadline: 16th of February 2025
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Arts and Cultural Studies
Summary of PhD Program:
PhD studies consist of research programmes at the highest international level that qualify students for independent research, knowledge dissemination and teaching. The main emphasis is on PhD students organising and conducting their own research project (under supervision). The programme culminates in the submission of a PhD thesis, which the student must defend in public. The programme is prescribed to 180 ECTS credits, corresponding to three years of full-time study.
Application Deadline: 16 February 2025
5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies
Summary of PhD Program:
The department is advertising two PhD scholarships within all of the department’s subject areas, as well as three additional scholarships earmarked for the department’s rare disciplines respectively relating to Greenlandic and Arctic Studies (Greenlandic foreign language acquisition/comparative linguistics/translation/bilingualism), Polish (the cultural history and/or history of ideas of modern Poland, preferably with a global outlook), and Turkish (the politics and/or history of ideas of modern Turkey, preferably with a transnational outlook).
Application Deadline: 16 February 2025
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Nordic Studies and Linguistics
Summary of PhD Program:
PhD studies consist of research programmes at the highest international level that qualify students for independent research, knowledge dissemination and teaching. The main emphasis is on PhD students organising and conducting their own research project (under supervision). The programme culminates in the submission of a PhD thesis, which the student must defend in public. The programme is prescribed to 180 ECTS credits, corresponding to three years of full-time study.
Application Deadline: 16 February 2025
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7. Fully Funded PhD Position in English, Germanic and Romance Studies
Summary of PhD Program:
The department is advertising two other scholarships also within all of the department’s subject areas. For one of these two PhD scholarships, preference will be given to a project that engages with one of the department’s language areas and incorporates a European and/or global perspective. The project may be focused on linguistic, literary, cultural, or historical topics..
Application Deadline: 16 February 2025
8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Communication
Summary of PhD Program:
PhD studies consist of research programmes at the highest international level that qualify students for independent research, knowledge dissemination and teaching. The main emphasis is on PhD students organising and conducting their own research project (under supervision). The programme culminates in the submission of a PhD thesis, which the student must defend in public. The programme is prescribed to 180 ECTS credits, corresponding to three years of full-time study.
Application Deadline: 16 February 2025
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Biostatistics and Causal inference
Summary of PhD Program:
We invite highly qualified, thorough, and motivated applicants to apply for the position. The PhD will engage in research on causal discovery and inference, and for partially identified effects. This may include the use of partially identified estimands, causal discovery in settings with partial identification, causal discovery with temporal background knowledge, and/or causal risk prediction. An understanding of basic causal inference or causal discovery is useful, as well as experience with statistical programming and R development.
Application Deadline: February 15th 2025
10. Fully Funded PhD Position in Gut Ecology and Phage Delivery Engineering
Summary of PhD Program:
During the last decade it has become evident that a range of complex diseases are associated with gut microbiome (GM) imbalances, amongst other metabolic syndrome, colon cancer, autism spectrum disorders, and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). This makes the GM an attractive therapeutic target for faecal microbiota transplantation (FMT), but widespread use of FMT is unlikely due to inconsistent treatment outcomes and the risk of infection by bacteria and human viruses that are transferred along with the donor material. Recent studies point at the bacterial viruses (bacteriophages, in short phages) as the driving element for successful FMT.
Application Deadline: 9 February 2025
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in bioinformatics and metagenomics of the phyllosphere microbiome
Summary of PhD Program:
The flag leaf is a critical determinant of wheat yield, contributing up to 45% of the total yield. This PhD project aims to address the taxonomic diversity and functional potential of the wheat phyllosphere microbiome with a particular focus on the microbiome associated to the flag leaf. Today, more than one third of crop yields are lost due to abiotic and biotic stress factors, such as drought, salinity, pests and disease. In the MATRIX program several key microorganisms and regulatory mechanisms involved in wheat growth promotion and protection against biotic and abiotic stresses will be identified. By combining new microbiome-assisted approaches with machine learning and predictive modelling the MATRIX aims to quantitate and predict microbiome-mediated changes and their effect on wheat resilience and productivity under various climate change scenarios, which can be used as a novel tool to improve future wheat yield management strategies.
Application Deadline: February 1st 2025
