Umea 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 Umea University, Sweden.
Eligible candidate may Apply as soon as possible.
(01) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD student in Physical Geography with a focus methane cycling in Arctic stream networks
River networks receive large amounts of carbon from terrestrial ecosystems, which is processed and “respired” into carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4), the most important greenhouse gases. Norther rivers emit large amounts of CO2 and CH4 to the atmosphere, but the main controls on the production and delivery of these greenhouse gases is still unclear. Ongoing climate change is particularly severe at high latitudes and has the potential to massively increase the delivery of carbon to river networks and emissions to the atmosphere.
This PhD project will investigate carbon cycling in Arctic river networks, with a focus on CH4, and an emphasis on the groundwater-surface water connectivity. We will combine novel sensors, remote sensing products, microbial studies and large-scale isotopic analysis to unravel how the anaerobic carbon cycle shapes CO2 and CH4 dynamics in Arctic rivers. The project is part of an ERC Starting grant focused on Arctic CH4 emissions, which provides generous resources and important synergies with other researchers in the group performing modelling research on the same topic. The empirical part of the project will largely take in the Abisko Research Station.
Deadline : 2025-03-01
(02) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Position in Experimental Physics with focus on Modeling Water Plumes of the Icy Moons
Enceladus and Europa, two of the most fascinating moons in our solar system, are known for their water plumes — jets of water vapor and other materials erupting from beneath the icy surfaces of these moons. Enceladus, a moon of Saturn, has water plumes that spew from its south pole, sourced from a subsurface ocean beneath its icy crust. Europa, one of Jupiter’s Galilean moons, has also shown evidence of plumes, likely caused by water escaping through cracks in its ice shell. These features strongly suggest the presence of vast liquid water oceans beneath the icy surfaces of these moons, positioning both moons as prime targets in the search for extraterrestrial life. Observations from NASA’s Cassini and Galileo space missions reveal that these plumes interact with their moons’ plasma and electromagnetic environments, producing observable signatures that are not fully understood.
We seek a brilliant PhD candidate to investigate the interaction between the water plumes of the icy moons and their surrounding electromagnetic environment using our cutting-edge, high-performance plasma model, Amitis (www.amitiscode.com). This project is primarily based on computer simulations and focuses on exploring how the plumes shape the electromagnetic environment of the icy moons. By comparing model results with observational data, the research aims to deepen our understanding of icy moons, their dynamic systems, and their potential to harbor life.
Deadline : 2025-02-28
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(03) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Position in Experimental Physics with focus on the Aurora at Jupiter’s Moon Ganymede
Ganymede is one of Jupiter’s moons, and it is the largest moon in the solar system. Ganymede has its own magnetic field, and its orbit around Jupiter is inside of Jupiter’s magnetosphere. This makes for a peculiar magnetic field configuration, and auroral light emissions have been observed from Ganymede’s atmosphere with the Hubble Space Telescope. Thus, the aurora at Ganymede is of particular interest in auroral research, which can advance the present day knowledge of both Ganymede and the aurora in general. Ganymede’s aurora is one of the topics to be studied by the Jupiter ICy moon Explorer (JUICE) mission that was launched in 2023, by the European Space Agency (ESA), and is now on its way to Jupiter and Ganymede.
We seek a brilliant PhD candidate to investigate the processes that accelerate the electrons that cause the auroral emissions at Ganymede. These studies will be conducted, using a Vlasov simulation model of the plasma on an auroral fieldline with input from global hybrid simulations, observations, and modeling of the neutral atmosphere. The PhD project will be carried out in cooperation with scientist at Umeå University, other research institutes in Sweden, as well as international scientific contacts in Austria, Belgium and the UK. We expect this research to have an impact on Ganymede science, auroral science in general, and to be useful in planning and interpreting the observations of the JUICE spacecraft.
Deadline : 2025-02-28
(04) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD position in Molecular Biology
Integrity of the genome is critical to both the development and health of humans. Our chromosomes are constantly exposed to various types of DNA damage, which if unrepaired can cause diseases such as cancer. To meet these challenges, several DNA repair pathways have evolved. The Cohn laboratory is focused on understanding how these pathways work in human cells. We have discovered several new proteins playing important roles in these pathways. This PhD project has the goal to further elucidate the role of new components of the DNA repair pathways. It will do so through the application of state-of-the-art techniques in biochemistry, molecular biology and cell biology, combined with world-class mass spectrometry and high-resolution live-cell imaging and structural biology. Examples of methods to be used by the successful applicant are recombinant protein purification, in vitro assays, CRISPR/Cas9 genome engineering, various cell-based assays including sophisticated live-cell imaging, and cryo-EM. Please contact Martin Cohn ([email protected]) for details on the newest and most interesting ongoing projects. A person who is employed as a PhD student shall primarily devote his-/or herself to his/her own education. The project and research environment will give the dedicated student the opportunity to train as a first-class researcher.
Deadline : 2025-02-28
(05) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Position in Experimental Physics with Focus on Mercury’s Magnetosphere
Mercury is a fundamentally unique object in the solar system. It possesses a weak global magnetic field of internal origin and in consequence, a small magnetosphere much smaller than the magnetosphere of Earth. Due to the proximity of Mercury to the Sun, the magnetosphere of Mercury is subject to the most intense solar wind flux and ferocious space weather among all the planets in the solar system. The purpose of the PhD project is to provide a comprehensive understanding of the complex interaction between the solar wind and Mercury during extreme solar events (e.g., Coronal Mass Ejections) using Amitis, a state-of-the-art hybrid-kinetic plasma model (www.amitiscode.com). By comparing model results with NASA’s MESSENGER and ESA’s/JAXA’s BepiColombo observations, the research aims to deepen our understanding of Mercury’s magnetosphere and its dynamic system. The project foresees ample collaborative opportunities with international research groups, including the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF, Rome) and the University of Michigan (USA).
Deadline : 2025-02-28
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(06) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD position in the molecular and cellular communication between cancer and the nervous system
A 4-year PhD position in understanding the molecular and cellular crosstalk between cancer and the nervous system has become available at Umeå University, Sweden. We encourage applications from highly motivated individuals with a keen interest in cancer, neuroscience and developmental biology. The PhD is open to anyone who meets the criteria outlined below. The studentship provides an excellent training opportunity for a talented and ambitious student. The working ‘day to day’ language in the laboratory is English.
Deadline : 2025-02-23
(07) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD position in Medical Science with orientation towards Molecular Biology
Innate immune cells are constantly sensing the environment and responding to pathogen invasion. In this process, cells change their transcriptional and proteomic landscape. Microproteins are small previously unknown proteins that have been shown to play regulatory roles in diverse cellular pathways. The project aims to identify microproteins in innate immune cells involved in immune processes by combining computational and experimental approaches.
A person who is employed as a PhD student shall primarily devote his-/or herself to his/her own education. All doctoral students at the Faculty of Medicine participate in a doctoral education programe. More information about the doctoral education program at the Faculty of Medicine can be found at the website for Doctoral studies.
Deadline : 2025-02-18
(08) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Stress response modelling in IceLab: PhD position in ecosystem modelling focused on responses of river network carbon processing to climate stress
River networks receive large amounts of carbon from terrestrial ecosystems, which is processed and respired into carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4), the most important greenhouse gases. Rivers emit large amounts of CO2 and CH4 to the atmosphere, but future projections of river CO2 and CH4 emissions are lacking because we lack predictive models. Ongoing climate change is particularly severe at high latitudes and has the potential to massively increase the delivery of carbon to river networks and emissions to the atmosphere.
This PhD project will develop reaction-transport models of carbon in river networks, both at fine-spatial resolution within small watersheds as well as at a pan-Arctic scale. The models will be used to predict future river emissions of CO2 and CH4, under distinct climate scenarios.
The project will use models currently being developed in the research group, linking aquatic metabolism and greenhouse gas emissions in river networks. The project is part of an ERC Starting grant focused on Arctic CH4 emissions, with important synergies with other researchers in the group performing empirical research on the same topic.
Deadline : 2025-02-16
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(09) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Stress response modelling in IceLab: PhD position in computational science to uncover organelle coordination mechanisms under stress
Plant cells harbor two distinct membrane-enclosed organelles, mitochondria and chloroplasts, which are responsible for respiration and photosynthesis, respectively. The chloroplasts and mitochondria are functionally interconnected, and balancing their activities is crucial for plant health, especially during stress conditions.
Chloroplasts and mitochondria evolved from free-living prokaryotic organisms through independent endosymbiotic events, retaining their own genomes despite significant evolutionary changes. Over time, these organelles have undergone extensive genome reduction, with most of their genes being transferred to the nucleus. As a result, the majority of organellar proteins are encoded in the nucleus, creating a strong interdependence between the organelles and the nucleus. This interdependence presents a complex challenge, requiring precise coordination among the nucleus, mitochondria, and chloroplasts, which can be likened to a cellular ‘three-body problem.’
This PhD project aims to uncover the signaling pathways plants use to coordinate activities among the nucleus, mitochondria, and chloroplasts. The project will involve the development and application of theoretical mathematical models, with experimental data serving to validate the model predictions. Ultimately, the project seeks to decode this intricate cellular coordination mechanism.
Deadline : 2025-02-16
(10) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Stress response modelling in IceLab: PhD position in computational science to uncover the mechanisms of immune memory
This project integrates data science, machine learning, and mathematical modeling to investigate how the immune system adapts — or fails to adapt — under stress. The research focuses on individuals undergoing therapies that suppress immune cells, leaving them vulnerable to infections and reducing vaccine effectiveness. A key research question drives this work: What mechanisms govern immune cell dynamics and antibody production during stress responses in the immune system?
To tackle this question, we will leverage unique technology that combines advanced sequencing with mass spectrometry, mapping immune responses in unprecedented detail. By analyzing this rich immune cell data, the project aims to uncover patterns in immune cell dynamics and identify what constitutes a successful antibody response. These findings will provide crucial insights for designing better vaccines and therapies in the future.
You will work with medical and computational experts to develop and apply tools for analyzing high-dimensional datasets, revealing the key drivers of immune function. The project includes collaboration with method developers at the Houston Methodist Research Institute in Texas, providing opportunities for research visits to engage with cutting-edge technology and expertise. This interdisciplinary research, supported by an exciting partnership, offers a unique opportunity to address pressing questions with real-world applications in public health.
Deadline : 2025-02-16
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(11) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Stress response modelling in IceLab: PhD position in computational science to uncover how ecological communities respond to climate-induced stress
As climate change transforms the environment, it is also altering the distribution of plants and animals across the planet. These changes impact natural regions, or bioregions, where species coexist. To protect biodiversity, it is crucial to understand how these regions are formed and how they respond to environmental shifts. This involves uncovering the key mechanisms that define bioregion boundaries and predicting their responses to a changing climate.
To address these challenges, this PhD project will work closely with experts in ecology, biodiversity, and computational modelling. We will develop and apply innovative data-driven methods to map bioregions and predict how they may change over time. By integrating advanced tools to analyse large datasets on species, their evolutionary histories, and the environments they live in, the project aims to uncover the processes that shape bioregions and identify areas where biodiversity faces the greatest risk.
The project will use methods developed by our group, such as the Infomap Bioregions platform, which helps researchers create detailed maps of biodiversity. You will also work with models that can include many types of information, from species’ relationships to climate conditions, to provide a clearer picture of how ecosystems evolve and respond to change.
Deadline : 2025-02-16
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(12) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Stress response modelling in IceLab: PhD position in computational science to decipher master regulatory mechanisms of plant stress responses.
Plants are the foundation of human nutrition, but their ability to sustain agricultural production is under growing pressure. Increasing population demands, limited natural resources, and unpredictable climates pose significant challenges to global food security. To address these issues, we need to develop crops that can thrive even under stressful conditions, including drought, heat, or nutrient deficiencies.
This PhD project aims to uncover how plants detect and respond to stress, focusing on the Mediator complex – a key regulatory hub that integrates stress signals and coordinates the genetic and physiological changes necessary for survival.
You will work with plant and computational experts to develop and apply advanced network analysis tools to map the complex signalling pathways that control plant stress responses. By integrating data across multiple levels – including stress signals, transcription factor interactions, chromatin modifications, and gene expression – the project will decode how plants manage stress at both molecular and whole-plant scales.
Deadline : 2025-02-16
(13) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD position in Experimental Physics with focus on Space Physics
The Earth is constantly losing parts of its atmosphere by its upper part being ionized and partially lost into space. To better understand this atmospheric escape, we must first get a better understanding of the plasma transport in Earth’s magnetotail.
The ‘Magnetospheric Space Plasma Group’ at Umeå University is therefore looking for a brilliant PhD candidate interested in performing research on the transport of heavy ions (He+, He++, O+) in Earth’s magnetotail, using observed data from the ESA Cluster and the NASA MMS multi-spacecraft missions.
Heavy ions can be transported very differently than H+ ions because of their larger gyroradii, and they are more likely to be unmagnetized when interacting with so called meso-scale phenomena, i.e., of the scale of the heavy ion gyroradius. In the project, we will investigate how heavy ions are affected by meso-scale phenomena in the magnetotail. In specific we will focus on two of the most important meso-scale phenomena in the tail: Fast Earthward and tailward flows as well as tail flapping waves. We will conduct both detailed event studies as well as large statistical studies.
Deadline : 2025-02-16
(14) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD position in Applied Physics with focus on hollow-core fiber technology for telecom
The Internet is enabled by a network of silica fibers with a step-index profile. Since the invention of optical fiber 50 years ago, its design has not been radically changed. During the last 10 years, it has been discovered that a new class of hollow-core fiber (HCF) can potentially provide several key advantages over conventional fibers, including lower propagation loss, lower latency (due to the faster light speed in air), lower nonlinearity and dispersion, and the liberty of choosing light frequencies in a wider spectral range. These HCFs are based on anti-resonant reflection by sub-micron-thick silica membranes. Despite breakthroughs, significant challenges still remain in both HCF design and fabrication. Further development of HCFs requires fundamental understanding of light-guidance principle as well as material properties of extremely thin silica membranes. In this project, you as a PhD candidate will carry out:
- detailed theoretical studies of light guidance in HCFs, and thermo- and fluid dynamics under fiber-drawing processes;
- experimental investigations of material properties of ultra-thin silica membranes (through e.g. transmission-electron microscopy); and
- characterization of fabricated HCFs (on both structural and optical transmission properties).
Deadline : 2025-02-10
(15) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD-student
The ongoing societal transformation and large green investments in northern Sweden create enormous opportunities and complex challenges. For Umeå University, conducting research about – and in the middle of – a society in transition is key. We also take pride in delivering education to enable regions to expand quickly and sustainably. In fact, the future is made here.
Deadline : 2025-02-09
(16) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Department of Community Medicine and Rehabilitation
The ongoing societal transformation and large green investments in northern Sweden create enormous opportunities and complex challenges. For Umeå University, conducting research about – and in the middle of – a society in transition is key. We also take pride in delivering education to enable regions to expand quickly and sustainably. In fact, the future is made here.
Deadline : 2025-02-05
About Umea University, Sweden –Official Website
Umea University is a university in Umeå in the mid-northern region of Sweden. The university was founded in 1965 and is the fifth oldest within Sweden’s present borders.
As of 2015, Umea University has nearly 31,000 registered students (approximately 16,000 full-time students), including those at the postgraduate and doctoral level. It has more than 4,000 employees, half of which are teachers/researchers, including 368 professors.
Internationally, the university is known for research relating to the genome of the poplar tree and the Norway Spruce, and its highly ranked Institute of (industrial) Design.
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