Are you holding Master’s degree and ready to elevate your academic journey to the highest level? University of Copenhagen, Denmark, has announced a multiple fully funded PhD positions awaiting talented individuals like you. Don’t miss your chance to be part of our vibrant academic community. Explore the exciting PhD positions available and submit your application today!”
Candidates interested in fully funded PhD positions can check the details and may apply as soon as possible.
(01) Fully Funded PhD Position
PhD position summary/title:–PhD scholarship at the Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen (UCPH)
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.
Deadline : 2 March 2025
(02) Fully Funded PhD Position
PhD position summary/title:–PhD fellowship in RNA Biology
Noncanonical 5’ capping of RNA molecules with metabolites, such as NAD and FAD, has recently been observed in many organisms, but in most cases the functional consequences of the capping remains unknown. In this project, the focus will be on the 5’metabolite capping of two important E. coli non-coding RNAs, which play a central role in the regulation of cellular growth and carbon storage. The aim of the project is to characterise the metabolite RNA capping of these non-coding RNAs and its regulatory consequences. The project involves classic E. coli genetics and RNA biology methods as well as specialised sequencing based methods for the detection of RNA capping.
Deadline : March 1st 2025
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(03) Fully Funded PhD Position
PhD position summary/title:–PhD fellowship in Molecular Cell Biology
We are looking for candidates within the field(s) of Biology, Molecular Biology or related areas with significant laboratory experience. Ideally, the successful candidate will possess excellent skills in with life-cell imaging, cloning, and molecular biology techniques. Prior experience working with model plants species Arabidopsis thaliana and Physcomitrium patens will be considered an advantage. The candidate should hopefully be extremely enthusiastic about scientific research, proactive, imaginative and should be able to work independently and in a team.
Deadline :28th of February 2025
(04) Fully Funded PhD Position
PhD position summary/title:–Up to 22 fully funded Marie S. Curie PhD positions at University of Copenhagen and Technical University of Denmark
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.
Deadline : February 20, 2025
(05) Fully Funded PhD Position
PhD position summary/title:–PhD scholarships at the Saxo Institute, University of Copenhagen
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.
A PhD degree opens up a range of career opportunities in academia and elsewhere. As well as writing a thesis, PhD students work in active research environments in Denmark and abroad. They contribute to the academic environment, take research training courses, and convey the results of their research in teaching, at academic conferences and to the general public.
Deadline : 16 February 2025
(06) Fully Funded PhD Position
PhD position summary/title:–PhD scholarships at the Department of Communication, University of Copenhagen
The Department of Communication at the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Copenhagen is inviting applications for four three-year PhD scholarships starting on 1 September 2025.
The department is advertising three PhD scholarships as well as one Carlsberg Foundation Humanities PhD Fellowship. Please note that a Danish Master’s degree is required to apply for the Carlsberg PhD Fellowship.
The PhD scholarships/Carlsberg Fellowship can be applied for within all the department’s research areas: Education; Film Studies and Creative Media Industries; Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums; Information Science and Technologies; Information, Technology and Connections; Media Studies; Philosophy; Rhetoric; Subjectivity Research; and Tracking and Society.
Deadline :16 February 2025
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(07) Fully Funded PhD Position
PhD position summary/title:–PhD scholarships at the Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies, University of Copenhagen
The Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies at the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Copenhagen is inviting applications for three three-year PhD scholarships starting on 1 September 2025.
The Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies is home to research and teaching in the areas of English, French, Italian, Spanish and German languages and their associated literatures, cultures and societies. Read more here: https://engerom.ku.dk/english/about/.
The department is advertising one Carlsberg Foundation Humanities PhD Fellowship. The scholarship can be applied for within all of the department’s subject areas. Please note that a Danish Master’s degree is required to apply for the Carlsberg PhD fellowship.
Deadline : 16 February 2025
(08) Fully Funded PhD Position
PhD position summary/title:–PhD scholarships at the Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, University of Copenhagen
The Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Copenhagen is inviting applications for three 3-year PhD scholarships starting on 1 September 2025.
The department is also advertising one Carlsberg Foundation Humanities PhD Fellowship. Please note that a Danish Master’s degree is required to apply for this fellowship.
Deadline : 16 February 2025
(09) Fully Funded PhD Position
PhD position summary/title:–PhD scholarships at the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen
The Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies at the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Copenhagen is inviting applications for six three-year PhD scholarships starting on 1 September 2025.
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).
Deadline : 16 February 2025
(10) Fully Funded PhD Position
PhD position summary/title:–PhD scholarships at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen
The Department of Arts and Cultural Studies is seeking PhD candidates affiliated with one or more of the department’s sections and contributing to one of the department’s six interdisciplinary research clusters.
The project should be affiliated with one (or more) of the following sections:
- Comparative Literature & Modern Culture
- Art History & Visual Culture
- Theatre and Performance Studies
- Musicology
Deadline : 16 February 2025
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(11) Fully Funded PhD Position
PhD position summary/title:–PhD fellowship in Economics of Agri-Food System Transition
IFRO invites applicants for a PhD fellowship in Economics of Agri-Food System Transition, with a specific focus on assessing economic drivers, barriers and lock-ins for change towards a more plant-based agriculture and food system in Denmark at regional and local levels. The PhD fellowship is part of the multidisciplinary research project COTRANSITION (COllectively TRANSITIONing the agriculture and food system), which is financed by the Plant-Based Food Foundation (Fonden for Plantebaserede Fødevarer).
Deadline : 16th of February 2025
(12) Fully Funded PhD Position
PhD position summary/title:–PhD fellowships in Biostatistics and Causal inference at the SMARTbiomed Pioneer centre
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
Deadline : February 15th 2025
(13) Fully Funded PhD Position
PhD position summary/title:–PhD fellowship in synthesizing CO2-derived materials
The project that the PhD candidates would be working on is developing transition-metal-catalyzed methodologies (e.g., using Fe, Co or Ni) to create polymers from CO2. The development of this reaction will enable the creation of plastics directly from CO2 with renewable feedstock chemicals using sustainably sourced metal catalysts. To realize this goal, a mechanistically guided approach to reaction development will be taken that combines kinetics, organometallic synthesis with method development. This technological breakthrough promises to serve as a cost-effective and potent carbon sequestration method, scalable to industrial levels, with significant societal benefits in the sustainable production of commodity materials, thus reducing our reliance on petrochemically derived plastics.
Deadline : 14 February 2025
(14) Fully Funded PhD Position
PhD position summary/title:–PhD fellowship in Gut Ecology and Phage Delivery Engineering
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. The PhageX project is based on the bold hypothesis that phage transplantation not only can have same effect as FMT, but it can also be transformed into a reproducible production of safe phage therapeutics that warrant low risk of infection of pathogenic bacteria and human viruses from the donor material. Both in vitro simulations of gut conditions and animal models will be applied to evaluate the methodologies. Although IBD will be used as a proof-of-concept case, PhageX will open a myriad of possibilities to cure various GM-related diseases with minimal risk for the patient and thereby replacing FMT with a next-generation phage-mediated therapy.
Deadline : 9 February 2025
(15) Fully Funded PhD Position
PhD position summary/title:–Morten Meldal PhD fellowships in Chemistry
We are looking for strong candidates within the broader field of Chemistry. Applicants should hold a MSc or a BSc degree related to one or more of the areas of experimental and theoretical chemistry listed above, with excellent results and good English language skills.
The three criteria for the assessment of the applications will be 1) The excellence of the PhD candidate based on former performance at BSc and MSc level, 2) The academic originality and expected impact of the proposed project and 3) Implementation including the relevance of the supervisor host environment and the feasibility of the PhD project plan.
In order to develop a research proposal that can be supported at the Faculty of Science (SCIENCE), it is a requirement that you have made an agreement beforehand with a supervisor at one of the departments listed below; a letter of confirmation from the supervisor must be included in your application.
Deadline : February 1st 2025
(16) Fully Funded PhD Position
PhD position summary/title:–CESE PhD fellowship in Science Education Research at IND
We invite applicants for a PhD fellowship to research professional identities among science teachers in Danish primary and lower secondary schools. The project is part of the Danish Science Education Academy (NAFA) and its research program: Center of Excellence in Science Education (CESE). This program announces PhD calls focussing on research relevant to practice in Danish primary and lower secondary education and/or teacher education. All CESE PhD calls are organized through collaboration between a Danish university college and a Danish university. CESE PhD candidates become part of NAFA and are linked to a CESE research project. Learn more about NAFA and the purpose of NAFA here: www.NAFA.nu.
Deadline : February 1st, 2025
(17) Fully Funded PhD Position
PhD position summary/title:–PhD fellowship in Agri-Food System Transition
By working with the Climate Alliance (Klimaalliancen) to support Danish regions and municipalities in reducing their GHG emissions and developing ambitious solutions for the future agriculture and food system, the overarching aim of the COTRANSITION project is to accelerate the transformation of the agri-food system in Denmark by overcoming barriers and lock-ins, and mobilizing all agri-food stakeholders to collaborate on transitioning to more plant-based food production and consumption.
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” on which the PhD Fellow will work contributes to this aim by implementing methodologies based in agri-food system transition management approaches. This entails using qualitative methods to map the interests and connections of all relevant stakeholders at the level of select regions and municipalities and across the agri-food value chain. On this basis, analysis will focus on the technological, economic, regulatory, cultural, and social-psychological barriers and lock-ins that hold actors back from contributing to the transition, as well as the identification of potential drivers for change. Part of the mapping will be done via participatory methods, manifested in a series of three stakeholder workshops, where the PhD will also do follow-up interviews and surveys.
Deadline : 1 February 2025
(18) Fully Funded PhD Position
PhD position summary/title:–PhD fellowship in bioinformatics and metagenomics of the phyllosphere microbiome
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.
Deadline :February 1st, 2025
(19) Fully Funded PhD Position
PhD position summary/title:–PhD fellowship in Molecular Cell Biology
With project we aim to investigate how exogenous factors influence the cellular decision-making leading to lateral root formation. We aim to identify how these exogenous factors impact the root’s intrinsic clock, and potentially manipulate this clock to maximize lateral root formation. We will achieve this by combining state-of-the art microscopy, molecular, biochemical and genetic approaches.
Deadline : 31st of January 2025
(20) Fully Funded PhD Position
PhD position summary/title:–A PhD position in Kidney Engineering at reNEW Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences University of Copenhagen
reNEW is an international consortium of three leading research institutions; the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute in Melbourne, Australia, and Leiden University Medical Center in Leiden, The Netherlands. The Mission of reNEW is to bring together research excellence to harness the therapeutic potential in stem cell medicine. For this, researchers within reNEW address fundamental questions in stem cell and developmental biology and aim to translate research findings to products that will help patients with incurable disorders such as congenital kidney disorders, chronic ulcerative disorders, neurological disorders, and diabetes.
Deadline : 27 January 2025,
(21) Fully Funded PhD Position
PhD position summary/title:–PhD fellowship in Microbiology and Immunology
The role of nutrition and dietary components in regulating mucosal immune function is becoming a new and exciting research area. Our group is interested in how dietary components and the gut microbiota interact to regulate immunity at mucosal surfaces, which is critical for protection against pathogens but can also cause pathologies such as IBD when dysregulated.
The PhD project will focus on polyphenols, a class of common dietary compounds with putative health benefits. We aim to determine how polyphenols interact with gut bacteria to produce metabolites with immunomodulatory activity. We will use molecular microbiology, transcriptomics, and gene editing to uncover metabolic pathways involved in polyphenol breakdown. Finally, we will use mouse models of bacterial and parasitic infection to determine if synbiotic treatment with polyphenols and defined bacteria enhances mucosal immunity to infection. Full training will be provided. The PhD student will also contribute to teaching in the section.
Deadline : 26 January 2025
(22) Fully Funded PhD Position
PhD position summary/title:–PhD fellowship in NK cell biology and immune stealth
NK cells are regulated by a combination of positive and negative-acting receptors, which give them the ability to target cancer- and infected cells. In the current project we will identify and characterize novel NK cell receptors and their regulatory pathways, and examine their impact on effector function. We will do not only examine receptors present on NK cells, but also other leukocytes such as gamma delta T-cells or macrophages.
When transplanting stem cell derived tissue, it is important that the graft is not rejected. This requires cells, that are not recognized by the patients immune system – also known as immune stealth.
Our goal is to identify receptors important in regulating immune cell activation with a focus on generating immune stealth during transplantation of stem cell derived tissue.
Deadline : 26 January 2025
(23) Fully Funded PhD Position
PhD position summary/title:–PhD fellowship in population genetics
The student will be analysing whole-genome sequencing data from spiral-horned antelopes, with the aim of identifying gene flow, population structure and demographic history. The work will include quality controlling of the raw sequencing data, bioinformatics and filtering of data, application of state-of-the-art population genetic analysis methods, development on new methods for inferring gene flow and admixture.
Deadline : 26 January 2025
(24) Fully Funded PhD Position
PhD position summary/title:–Ph.d.-projekt om gruppekonsultationer i almen praksis
I mange år har en-til-en-konsultationer hos læger kombineret med telefonsamtaler været de dominerende konsultationsformer. Men i disse år udvides kontaktformer mellem borger og egen læge betydeligt, med bl.a. udvidet brug af fjernkonsultationer. Dette åbner for en gentænkning af, hvordan kontakten mellem borger og egen læge skal være fremover. Et af de spændende nye tiltag, som afprøves flere steder, og som måske peger mod fremtidens almen praksis, er gruppekonsultationer.
Disse alternativer til de traditionelle fysiske møder mellem patient og læge/personale i almen praksis bliver allerede afprøvet, og under corona-pandemien, blev der indsamlet flere erfaringer med onlinekonsultationer. Gruppekonsultationer er nyeste skud på stammen i rækken af alternativer til de almindelige konsultationer i almen praksis
I dette projekt vil vi især undersøge gruppekonsultationer for patienter med type 2-diabetes. Som patient med type 2-diabetes ser man typisk sin egen læge flere gange om året for at få en status og eventuelt justeret sin behandling. Det kan være vanskeligt at få talt grundigt om alle de udfordringer og behov, som præger hverdagen med og behandlingen af diabetes.
Deadline : 24-01-2025
(25) Fully Funded PhD Position
PhD position summary/title:–PhD fellowship in Bioinformatics at the Department of Immunology and Microbiology
Are you interested in becoming a bioinformatics researcher working with state-of-the-art methods and data? Would you like to contribute to research that will deepen our understanding of the interplay between the viruses and the immune system? Then this is the PhD project for you. In this project, you will be working with single cell proteomics and transcriptomics data from clinical trials testing virus vaccine strategies, as well as pre-clinical data from model organisms. The overall aim is to stratify immune activation on mucosal surfaces and in the lungs following nasal spray vaccination as well as intra-muscular vaccination. In doing so, you will be applying existing analysis algorithms and inventing new ones when necessary.
Deadline : 23 January 2025
(26) Fully Funded PhD Position
PhD position summary/title:–PhD fellowship in Mycelium-based Biomaterials
Food is one of the largest greenhouse gasses (GHG) emitting sectors (c.30% of total), and livestock is a major contributor (c.15% of total GHG emissions) to this. A dietary shift towards less animal-based foods is therefore necessary to reduce the climate impact of our food. Mycelium, the root structure of filamentous fungi, offers vast potential for this shift, as it is affordable, nutritious (e.g. high in protein, low in fat) and consumer acceptable. In addition, mycelium can grow on side streams from the food and biotech industry, further enhancing its green potential. To date, it is typically cultivated as a food ingredient source, with the aim to destroy its natural structure and extract purified ingredients. While this has seen broad applications in foods (e.g. mycoprotein) and beyond (e.g. construction materials, leather), purification and drying can increase the environmental footprint. In-situ mycelium structuring on suitable scaffolds provides a novel approach towards a new generation of natural, sustainable foods with properties that are controlled and tuned during mycelium growth, therefore requiring minimal post-production processing. Currently, this is practiced only in highly empirical, niche products like the Rhizopus-based Tempeh, due to the lack of the required mechanistic understanding of how mycelium grows on different scaffolds.
Deadline : 22 January 2025
(27) Fully Funded PhD Position
PhD position summary/title:–PhD fellowship in function, pharmacology and regulation of the sodium leak channel complex
The sodium leak channel complex is a recently characterized large protein assembly that regulates cellular excitability in a variety of neuronal and non-neuronal tissues. This project will focus on the function, pharmacology and regulation of the sodium leak channel complex, using a combination of electrophysiology, molecular biology, biochemistry and cell culture.
Deadline : 22 January 2025
(28) Fully Funded PhD Position
PhD position summary/title:–PhD fellowship in Motor Neuroscience / System Neuroscience
Bimanual coordination is crucial for fine motor control. Previous research has focused on interhemispheric inhibition as a main mechanism for interhemispheric coordination, but interhemispheric facilitation may also be important for bimanual coordination. The PhD project will test interhemispheric communication by using a novel transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) paradigm aimed to assess interhemispheric inhibition and facilitation in the healthy human brain. In addition the project will test if interhemispheric connectivity is altered in professional muscians and if it can be modulated by TMS interventions targeting transcallosal coupling. In general, the project will advance our understanding of the basic mechanisms of motor control and good hand function.
Deadline : 22 of January 2025
(29) Fully Funded PhD Position
PhD position summary/title:–PhD fellowship in Clinical Translational Metabolism at the Department of Biomedical Sciences Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences
We are seeking a highly motivated and promising PhD candidate to join our research team. The Clinical Translational Metabolism group focuses on obesity, weight loss and sustaining a healthy weight throughout life as we want to contribute to the development and improvement of effective prevention and treatment strategies for obesity in both children, adolescents and adults. We aim to translate basic metabolism research into clinically relevant evidence, collaborating with both basic scientists and clinicians. Our research includes a variety of clinical and experimental methods to investigate the metabolic, psychosocial and behavioral mechanisms underlying obesity, weight loss and weight loss maintenance in humans. Our group has extensive experience in running clinical trials and integrates a variety of factors including appetite regulation, gut hormones, diet, physical activity, behavioral and social aspects.
Deadline : 20 January 2025
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The University of Copenhagen is a public research university in Copenhagen, Denmark. Founded in 1479, the University of Copenhagen is the second-oldest university in Scandinavia, and ranks as one of the top universities in the Nordic countries and Europe.
Its establishment sanctioned by Pope Sixtus IV, the University of Copenhagen was founded by Christian I of Denmark as a Catholic teaching institution with a predominantly theological focus. In 1537, it was re-established by King Christian III as part of the Lutheran Reformation. Up until the 18th century, the university was primarily concerned with educating clergymen. Through various reforms in the 18th and 19th century, the University of Copenhagen was transformed into a modern, secular university, with science and the humanities replacing theology as the main subjects studied and taught.
The University of Copenhagen consists of six different faculties, with teaching taking place in its four distinct campuses, all situated in Copenhagen. The university operates 36 different departments and 122 separate research centres in Copenhagen, as well as a number of museums and botanical gardens in and outside the Danish capital. The University of Copenhagen also owns and operates multiple research stations around Denmark, with two additional ones located in Greenland. Additionally, The Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences and the public hospitals of the Capital and Zealand Region of Denmark constitute the conglomerate Copenhagen University Hospital.
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