Uppsala University, Sweden invites online Application for number of Fully Funded PhD Degree at various Departments. We are providing a list of Fully Funded PhD Programs available at Uppsala University, Sweden.
Eligible candidate may Apply as soon as possible.
(01) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral position in English
Do you want to complete a PhD programme with the support of competent and friendly colleagues in an international environment? Are you looking for an employer that invests in sustainable collegiality and offers safe, favourable working conditions? We welcome you to apply for a PhD student position at Uppsala University.
The Faculty of Languages at Uppsala University engages in teaching and research across a wide range of classical and contemporary languages, literatures and cultures, as well as linguistics and computational linguistics. This diversity of linguistic, literary and cultural orientations constitutes a core of humanities research and lays a solid foundation for fruitful collaborations within the faculty, but also with other disciplines and society at large.
Deadline : 2 March 2026,
(02) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral student positions at the Department of Law
An employed doctoral student must primarily devote his or her time to his or her own doctoral research. Other duties at the department may be included, such as teaching students, working in teaching teams, and administration (no more than 20% of the position). A requirement for employment as a doctoral student is that the applicant must have been admitted to doctoral studies. The regulations governing the employment of doctoral students and admittance to doctoral studies are found in Chapter 5, Sections 1-7, and Chapter 7, Sections 34-41, of the Higher Education Ordinance, and in the general study plan for doctoral studies at the Faculty of Law, Uppsala University.
Deadline : 1 March 2026
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(03) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral student in private law, focus on insolvency law at the Dep. of Law
The Faculty of Law at Uppsala University is, and has for many decades been, a strong and dynamic research environment in property and insolvency law, holding a leading position in both Sweden and the rest of the Nordic region. Recently, the faculty received a donation from the Ackordscentralen Foundation to fund research in insolvency law. In accordance with this donation, the Department of Law hereby announces one doctoral position in private law with a focus on insolvency law. This field includes disciplines such as bankruptcy and restructuring law, general property law with an emphasis on creditor protection issues, as well as credit and security law.
Deadline : 1 March 2026
(04) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD position in Neuromorphic Devices and Circuits for next-generation sensing and computing
Human brains can process complex, dynamic, and real-time information with remarkable efficiency after millions of years of evolution. Neuromorphic computing, inspired by how the human brain functions, offers a promising solution to dramatically lowering power consumption and enables fast and adaptive information processing in today’s Zettabyte-scale data era. Artificial neurons and synapses are the core building blocks of neuromorphic systems. Yet currently, these neuromorphic circuits still fall far short of the efficiency and functionality of their biological counterparts.
This project aims to overcome these limitations through a synergistic circuit–device co-design that jointly optimizes both circuit architectures and component properties, ensuring that intrinsic device physics effectively translate into significant system-level improvements. In this project, we will develop neuromorphic devices with inherent biological resemblance and compact, low-power neuromorphic circuits. We will also simulate high-efficiency spiking neural networks (SNN) and build neuromorphic sensory systems to validate performance and explore broad biomedical and other potential applications. The outcomes will contribute fundamental knowledge and new technologies that move us closer to sensing and computing systems approaching the efficiency of the human brain.
Deadline : February 25, 2026
(05) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: 1–2 PhD Positions in Philosophy
The successful applicant will be offered a position as a PhD candidate (“doktorandanställning”) for 4 years full-time, during which the PhD candidate will receive a salary as an employee at the department. See details about start salary below. They will also be eligible for Swedish social benefits, including pension schemes and paid parental leave. PhD candidates are expected to engage in their studies full-time and to participate in the activities of the department. The position may include teaching and other assignments. Certain duties, including teaching, qualify the student for an extension of their contract.
Deadline : 15.Feb.2026
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(06) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: One PhD position, at the Department of Theology
The holder of a PhD position shall, foremost, be devoted to his or her own postgraduate study and research. Other duties at the Department which relate to teaching and administrative work may be included within the scope of the employment (to a maximum of 20 %). A requirement for employment as doctoral student is that the applicant must be admitted to postgraduate studies. To this extent, the applicant’s ability to successfully complete the doctoral studies will be decisive. Regulations governing University admissions are found (in Swedish) in Högskoleförordningen, chapter 7 §§ 34-36 and chapter 5 §§ 1-7. Information on admissions requirements, application forms etc. can be found on the website of the Faculty of Theology.
Deadline : 13th of February 2026
(07) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: At least five PhD positions at the Department of Theology
The Faculty of Theology is one of nine faculties at Uppsala University. As researchers we use the same research methods as our colleagues in the Humanities and Social Sciences. The Faculty is not linked to any faith community, and the religious affiliation of students, research students, lecturers or other staff is of no relevance to the Faculty. The Faculty of Theology is the oldest faculty at Uppsala University and the Department of Theology covers all areas of religious studies. The Department of Theology is the largest institution for education and research in Theology and Religious Studies in Sweden, and offers a creative environment for pursuing research or a degree.
Deadline : 13th of February 2026
(08) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral (Phd) position in Solid State Physics with focus on photophysics in 2D quantum materials)
The study and exploration of two-dimensional (2D) quantum materials, such as transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), has gained significant attention over the past few decades for their use in optoelectronics. Despite this interest, the photophysical properties of these materials and the physics of defects within these materials, introduced via different exfoliation methods, are not well understood. The overall goal of this project is to deepen the fundamental understanding of defect physics and provide fresh insights into the hotly debated topic of 2D material defect passivation, leveraging advanced vibration spectroscopies, time-resolved optical spectroscopy and microscopy for the first time.
Deadline : 12 February 2026
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(09) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD student in Multi-Scale Modelling of Aqueous Organic Redox Flow Batteries
This PhD project is part of the AFLOW consortium supported by the Swedish Energy Agency and focuses on multi-scale modelling of aqueous organic redox flow batteries, to build a predictive understanding of electrolyte performance from molecular to device-relevant length scales. The main task for the doctoral candidate will be to develop and apply computational models to quantify and predict key thermodynamic properties—most notably solubility limits and water activity—which critically govern energy density and operating windows in aqueous redox flow systems. The work will combine molecular-level simulations and data-driven models for optimizing electrolyte formulation. The project involves close interaction with experimental partners in the AFLOW consortium and includes a planned research stay at the University of Waterloo, Canada, where the student will explore pore network modelling to bridge electrolyte properties with porous electrode and flow-cell architectures.
Deadline : 11.Feb.2026
(10) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD position in the development of methods to analyze electrical conductivity of oil impregnated cellulose
Cellulose, the most abundant biopolymer, is vital for sustainable materials and energy technologies. Its moisture-dependent electrical conductivity impacts bio-based electronics, sensors, insulation, and green composites. Reliable methods to measure and interpret this conductivity advance both fundamental science and applications such as energy storage, smart packaging, and biodegradable systems.
Understanding cellulose conductivity is especially critical for transformer insulation, where oil-impregnated cellulose plays a central role. While traditional oils had much lower resistivity than pressboard, highly purified oils now show comparable values, making accurate models of cellulose conductivity essential for robust insulation design. Even small amounts of moisture greatly increase conductivity, yet a consistent microscopic model is still missing. This project will integrate modelling and experiments on both non-impregnated and oil-impregnated cellulose to develop a comprehensive conductivity model for the oil–cellulose system.
The project, funded by Hitachi Energy AB, will be conducted in close collaboration with the industrial partner and their research organization. Access to state‑of‑the‑art facilities and expertise is ensured, though special rules may apply regarding publication and IP rights.
We have an exciting work environment designed by the doctoral student and the research team together. The doctoral student will be supervised by at least two supervisors. The Department of Electrical Engineering also gives a salary supplement to employed PhD students at the Department of Electrical.
Deadline : January 31, 2026
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(11) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD in Political Science (at least three positions)
The doctoral studies program spans four years and is funded through doctoral employment. Doctoral candidates are expected to pursue their education in the doctoral studies program on a full-time basis and actively participate in departmental activities. Teaching or other duties at the department, equivalent to a maximum of 20 percent, may be assigned. The duration of the employment is extended proportionally.
Some PhD positions may be linked to specific research projects. If this is the case, information will be posted on the website PhD Programme in Political Science – Uppsala University. When applying for a PhD position you will be considered for all projects.
Deadline : January 30, 2026
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(12) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral Student in Economics – up to 6 positions
The PhD program at the Department of Economics prepares you both for an academic career and for qualified work in the private and public sectors. Our alumni hold fulfilling and important positions throughout society. We offer an intellectually stimulating research environment with several research seminars every week and many international visitors.
Deadline : 30.Jan.2026
(13) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD position in Health Economics with a Focus on Prevention and Health Inequalities (MSCA HEPARD)
This doctoral position is part of HEPARD (Health Economic Policy Advice with Real-World Data), a Marie Skłodowska-Curie (MSCA) funded European doctoral network that unites leading institutions to train a new generation of researchers in health economics, causal inference, and the analysis of large-scale administrative and observational data. The collaboration across departments aims to equip them with solid theoretical foundations, advanced empirical methods, and experience in interdisciplinary cooperation.
This project investigates the socioeconomic and local environmental determinants of health capital accumulation and disease risk. Using Swedish registry data and quasi-experimental methods, it examines how access to preventive care and neighborhood characteristics influence long-term health trajectories. The project applies both econometric and machine learning approaches to identify high-risk groups and to inform more targeted prevention strategies.
Deadline : 30 January 2026
(14) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD position in Health Economics with a Focus on Patient-Centered Care and Evidence-Based Decision Tools (MSCA HEPARD)
This doctoral position is part of HEPARD (Health Economic Policy Advice with Real-World Data), a Marie Skłodowska-Curie (MSCA) funded European doctoral network that unites leading institutions to train a new generation of researchers in health economics, causal inference, and the analysis of large-scale administrative and observational data. The collaboration across departments aims to equip them with solid theoretical foundations, advanced empirical methods, and experience in interdisciplinary cooperation.
The project aims to refine and validate an innovative tool designed to capture patients’ treatment preferences, particularly the trade-offs between survival and health-related quality of life (HRQoL). In a prospective study, this tool will be applied to examine how these preferences evolve for prostate cancer patients in response to changes in survival and HRQoL prospects. The candidate will contribute to mixed-method research, including qualitative interviews, psychometric validation, and quantitative analyses. This work will generate unique insights into how preferences shift during disease progression and how structured communication can support shared decision-making and enhance treatment adherence.
Deadline : 30 January 2026
(15) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD student in Circadian Epigenomics
Are you interested in working with molecular and cell biology methods, epigenetics, and circadian regulation, with the support of competent and friendly colleagues in an international environment? Are you looking for an employer that invests in sustainable employeeship and offers safe, favourable working conditions? We welcome you to apply for a PhD position in the Molecular Toxicology and Epigenetics (EpiTox) group at the Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University.
Research in the EpiTox group aims at understanding the role of epigenetic mechanisms in neurodevelopment effects of environmental chemicals and how circadian rhythms affect epigenetic patterns and toxic responses. The EpiTox group is part of the research program Physiology and Environmental Toxicology, a growing, vibrant research environment where experimental models and molecular tools are used to study and understand cellular and molecular mechanisms in animals and plants underlying whole organisms’ physiology, development, and responses to the environment.
Deadline : 30th of January 2026
(16) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD student in Inorganic chemistry, Advanced Thermoelectric Materials via Nanoparticle-in-Alloy Engineering in thin film
PhD student in the Inorganic Chemistry research program. The research focuses on the development of next-generation thermoelectric materials through advanced nanoscale engineering. The project aims to significantly enhance thermoelectric performance by decoupling the key thermoelectric characteristics using a “nanoparticle-in-alloy” design strategy within an inorganic thin-film system. The core objective of the research is to tailor the interface structure and electronic interactions between magnetic nanoparticles and a degenerated semiconductor matrix. The proposed synthesis route, based entirely on physical vapor deposition—a highly non-equilibrium process, is unique and enables the development of unprecedented nanocomposites such as those envisioned in this project. The research provides fertile ground for scientific innovation with the present project but has the potential to impact other related fields.
The research includes studies from materials synthesis, thin-film deposition, advanced structural and magnetic characterization, to thermoelectric and electronic transport measurements. The project also incorporates a theoretical component, including theoretical predictions of material stability and properties, carried out in collaboration with the Physics Department at Linköping University. Depending on the PhD student’s interests, involvement in this theoretical work may range from collaborative participation to direct engagement in the modeling and simulations.
Deadline : 30.Jan.2026
(17) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD student in Scientific Computing and Quantum Physics, focusing on numerical algorithms for open quantum systems
This PhD project focuses on advancing the scientific computing foundations of quantum spin dynamics by developing efficient numerical algorithms for modeling complex, open quantum systems. The work combines numerical mathematics and quantum theory to simulate 2D and 3D spin textures and to quantify quantum effects such as coherence, entanglement, and dissipation. The candidate will design scalable numerical methods for quantum master equations, implement high-performance simulations, and help build open-source tools for large-scale spin-system modeling. By improving our ability to compute and understand quantum spin behavior, this project also supports the long-term development of quantum computers, where controlling noisy, interacting quantum systems is a central challenge.
Deadline : 30 January 2026
(18) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Up to 2 PhD Positions in Programming Languages and Program Verification
The available PhD positions are within three projects that all aim to make it easier for developers to write safe, correct, and efficient programs. All projects will typically include both a theoretical part, developing new techniques and approaches, as well as implementations that can be practically used.
The first project targets specifically numerical programs that appear widely in e.g. safety-critical (embedded) systems, data analysis, weather forecasting, physics, and engineering. Verifying that such programs are correct is challenging because of rounding errors due to floating-point arithmetic. Possible research directions include developing new automated program verification techniques specifically for such programs, as well as specification inference and fault localisation approaches that would make such verifiers practical usable for real-world code.
The second project is centered around memory safety and techniques for memory-safe programming. Memory bugs are extremely costly in development and create security holes in programs; managed languages avoid most such problems at the cost of additional run-time machinery and checking which can increase the footprint of a program or make it harder to reason about its performance. Languages like Rust offers memory safety without the additional run-time machinery, as long as programs can be expressed in its safe subset. Possible research directions include new type systems or static analyses that extend the range of memory-safe programming and new dynamic techniques for memory safety.
The third project is centered around concurrency safety. Managed languages offer memory safety and null safety, but most do not offer concurrency safety. This means that undefined behaviours are still possible and compilers may optimise programs in ways that surprise programmers and cause programs to go wrong in ways that are hard to debug and fix. This project is looking at ways to change how programming languages approach concurrency, and in particular take responsibility for correct concurrency. Possible research directions include new memory models, new dynamic techniques for detecting and handling concurrency errors, and new implementations of runtimes rethinking how concurrency is handled.
Deadline : 30 January 2026
(19) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD student in chemistry with specialization in analytical chemistry
We are looking for a PhD student in analytical chemistry to develop analytical methods for mass spectrometry imaging (MSI) using direct infusion mass spectrometry and analytical strategies to target specific metabolites with quantitative MSI. A concrete goal will be to perform spatial metabolomics of liver tissues (down to single-cell resolution) to determine the pathways underlying Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC). This project will involve close collaboration with research partners at Lund university, including correlating metabolomic and transcriptomic data to identify metabolic pathways of interest for the treatment of HCC. The PhD candidate will work with and develop custom-made techniques coupled to high resolving mass spectrometry for molecular characterization of biological samples, using tandem mass spectrometry and reactive chemistry, quantification, and data analysis, including statistics.
As a PhD candidate you will be involved in all the steps of the project and collaborate interdisciplinary with researcher groups in IT, chemistry, medicine and biology. You will be working at the forefront of the research field and advance it through experimental work, molecular annotation strategies and data analysis. You will work with state-of-the art instrumentation and have the opportunity to contribute with creative and innovative technical solutions to detect metabolites and lipids from biological samples with mass spectrometry.
Deadline : 28 January 2026
About Uppsala University, Sweden –Official Website
Uppsala University is a research university in Uppsala, Sweden. Founded in 1477, it is the oldest university in Sweden and all of the Nordic countries still in operation. It has ranked among the world’s 100 best universities in several high-profile international rankings during recent years. The university uses “Gratiae veritas naturae” as its motto and embraces natural sciences.
The university rose to pronounced significance during the rise of Sweden as a great power at the end of the 16th century and was then given a relative financial stability with the large donation of King Gustavus Adolphus in the early 17th century. Uppsala also has an important historical place in Swedish national culture, identity and for the Swedish establishment: in historiography, literature, politics, and music. Many aspects of Swedish academic culture in general, such as the white student cap, originated in Uppsala. It shares some peculiarities, such as the student nation system, with Lund University and the University of Helsinki.
Uppsala belongs to the Coimbra Group of European universities and to the Guild of European Research-Intensive Universities. The university has nine faculties distributed over three “disciplinary domains”. It has about 44,000 registered students and 2,300 doctoral students. It has a teaching staff of roughly 1,800 (part-time and full-time) out of a total of 6,900 employees. Twenty-eight per cent of the 716 professors at the university are women. Of its turnover of SEK 6.6 billion (approx. USD 775 million) in 2016, 29% was spent on education at Bachelor’s and Master’s level, while 70% was spent on research and research programs.
Architecturally, Uppsala University has traditionally had a strong presence in Fjärdingen, the neighbourhood around the cathedral on the western side of the River Fyris. Despite some more contemporary building developments further away from the centre, Uppsala’s historic centre continues to be dominated by the presence of the university.
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