Funded positions · 17 open
Salaried PhD posts, doctoral fellowships and postdocs. In much of northern Europe a PhD is a paid job with a salary, so you apply for the position itself rather than for a separate scholarship.
🇩🇰 University of Copenhagen · Denmark
Part of the Global Cultural China project: how Chinese cultural products and art travel between China and Denmark through networks, markets and audiences. Starts 1 February 2027.
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🇩🇰 University of Copenhagen · Denmark
Investigate how bio-based fertilisers change soil organic matter and the microbial processes that make phosphorus available to plants, for more sustainable farming. Start 1 January 2027 or soon after.
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🇸🇪 Uppsala University · Sweden
Develop mathematical and statistical methods for measuring uncertainty in machine-learning predictions, applied to large clinical cancer datasets. International applicants are welcome; start 15 November 2026 or as agreed.
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🇳🇴 University of Oslo · Norway
Use AI with 2D and 3D imaging, including micro-CT, confocal microscopy and electron microscopy, to analyse and predict how biomaterials and regenerative tissue constructs behave.
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🇳🇴 University of Oslo · Norway
Computational biology and bioinformatics in the Department of Clinical Molecular Biology (EpiGen) at the university's Ahus campus. Start as soon as possible.
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🇸🇪 Lund University · Sweden
Design control systems that steer datacenters towards lower carbon emissions and costs while keeping services reliable, between energy systems and AI infrastructure. Applicants must not have lived or worked in Sweden for more than 12 of the last 36 months.
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🇸🇪 Lund University · Sweden
Develop automated ways to find and fix security flaws in software written by AI, combining cybersecurity with software engineering. Start no later than 1 May 2027.
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🇳🇴 University of Oslo · Norway
Study how chromatin structure shapes cancer, using genomics, proteomics and cell assays, in a Research Council of Norway project with partners at the Technical University of Denmark.
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🇨🇭 ETH Zurich · Switzerland
Interdisciplinary AI research with the ETH AI Center's more than 140 professorships, from the foundations of AI to its uses in medicine, robotics, architecture and the social sciences. Applications only through the online portal, by 16:00 CET.
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🇸🇪 Lund University · Sweden
Combine AI-based protein design with synthetic biology to build programmable living materials from engineered biofilms. Start 1 January 2027 or as agreed.
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🇨🇭 ETH Zurich and Max Planck Society · Switzerland
A competitive doctoral programme in machine learning and learning systems, with one advisor at ETH Zurich and one at a Max Planck Institute. Long-listed applicants send a short research video.
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🇸🇪 Lund University · Sweden
Bring together vegetation models and field data on tree growth and death to understand how the world's forests, and the carbon they store, are changing.
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🇸🇪 Lund University · Sweden
Use computational acoustic models to study how dolphins form their echolocation beams, with applications in medical ultrasound and non-destructive testing.
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🇳🇴 University of Oslo · Norway
Research how students, course content, context and AI interact in higher education, in the fast-growing field of the learning sciences.
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🇸🇪 Uppsala University · Sweden
Build scalable, automated tools to verify hybrid quantum-classical programs, including those that use error correction. Start 15 January 2027 or as agreed.
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🇸🇪 Lund University · Sweden
Model how planets form across the Galaxy and how planetesimals are thrown out of planetary systems, to explain where interstellar comets come from.
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🇨🇭 ETH Zurich · Switzerland
Doctoral research in robotics, from soft and bio-inspired robots to robots that work in the real world. You choose up to three ETH professors to work with, and they review your application.
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