University of Copenhagen, Denmark 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 University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Eligible candidate may Apply as soon as possible.
(01) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD position in nutrition and survival of newborn piglets
We seek to appoint a highly motivated and dynamic PhD fellow interested in immunology, neurology and the development of novel nutritional interventions for newborn piglets. The candidate should preferably have a veterinary background or research experience in animal models of neonatology. The successful candidate will be affiliated to the research group for Comparative Pediatrics, Section of Biomedicine, Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences. The position commences on 1 January 2026, or as soon as possible thereafter.
Deadline :13-10-2025
(02) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD fellowship in Urban Water Management
We are looking for candidates with technical/scientific background, or background in the fields of urban systems and design, or interdisciplinary fields, including: Geosciences/ Physical Geography, Environmental Science, Hydrology/Urban Hydrology, Civil Engineering (with specialization in water resources or urban drainage), Urban Planning/Urban Design, Landscape Architecture (with focus on stormwater and green infrastructure), Architecture (with focus on sustainable water-sensitive design), Environmental Planning, Climate Change Adaptation Studies, Sustainability Science, Natural Resource Management, Ecology (especially urban ecology and ecosystem services).
The ideal candidate has a solid understanding of soil–water–plant interactions, good knowledge of urban water management systems including eco-hydrology and water quality aspects, strong design skills, and the ability to develop innovative, systemic solutions.
Deadline : 05-10-2025
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(03) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD fellowship in collection-based Natural History Research
The Natural History Museum Denmark offers 1 fully funded PhD position within Collection-based Natural History Research. The successful candidate will conduct 3 years of collection-based research, focused on dark taxa and unknown species, preferably including representatives of Danish flora, fauna or geology. The PhD projects are part of the Museums strategic aim to expand research on unknown species and taxonomic groups that are not well defined and described to provide crucial natural history understanding, data and expertise for developing solutions to planetary challenges, including climate change and biodiversity loss.
Deadline : 05-10-2025
(04) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD fellowship in experimental electrocatalysis
Water electrolysis is crucial in the green energy transition. Especially, membrane-based electrolyzers are a crucial technology that allows for dynamic operation, which makes them compatible with fluctuating renewable electricity. This leads to a resource challenge, as the electrolyzers rely on the scarce, precious metal iridium as an electrocatalyst. The project will focus on water electrolysis catalysts with decreased precious metal loadings, which are often unstable. The aim is to achieve an understanding of the fundamental degradation mechanisms that lead to the instability and related performance losses.
The PhD project will explore nanoparticle electrocatalysts on different support materials for water electrolysis. As catalyst degradation includes macroscopic phenomena, which are heterogeneous across the electrode, spatially resolved knowledge of structural changes is crucial. The focus will be on understanding the instability during operation with different operando X-ray scattering and X-ray spectroscopy synchrotron methods.
Deadline : 29-09-2025
(05) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD fellowship in Section for molecular ecology and evolution at the Globe Institute
Your task will be to develop new computational methods to study archaic introgression and applying them to the largest dataset of present-day human genomes available (>1.1 million people). The goal is to establish how many archaic human groups contributed to our genomes. Your task is to infer key parameters of the archaic human evolutionary history such as mutation rate, generation time, admixture history with other archaic humans, historic population size and selective forces which shaped their genome. You will investigate how many times they encountered modern humans, how long they coexisted with modern humans and where they interacted with modern humans. Further since many biobanks how medical records associated with them this projects provides a unique opportunity to study the effect of archaic introgression on human health and phenotypes.
Deadline : 28-09-2025
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(06) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD fellowship in Understanding Brain Cell Function in Obesity
We are looking for a highly motivated PhD student to join a research project focused on understanding how specific brain cell populations contribute to obesity and related metabolic diseases. The project will involve the analysis of large-scale single-cell datasets and aims to map how different cell types respond to metabolic and genetic changes. The successful candidate will contribute to developing molecular insights and resources that support the broader research community in identifying relevant cell populations and mechanisms involved in metabolic regulation. This is an exciting opportunity to work at the intersection of neuroscience, metabolism, and data science in a collaborative and supportive research environment.
Deadline :21 September 2025
(07) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD fellowship in faba bean crop physiology
There is a need to integrate more grain legumes into our agricultural systems to build efficient, resilient, and environmentally friendly plant-based food systems. DIGIFABA aims to develop digital phenotyping tools specifically designed to quantify and qualify the yield components of faba beans and detect drought stress in the field, thereby optimizing breeding strategies for yield stability in protein-rich crops for a sustainable future. To achieve this, the DIGIFABA project will focus on the creation and application of computer vision segmentation for the delineation of plant characteristics, the establishment of methodologies for the study of plant morphometry, the expansion and utilization of statistical analysis for growth profile evaluation, and the formulation and implementation of a mechanistic model tailored to faba beans.
The PhD will focus on field and greenhouse experiments designed to enhance the understanding of plant plasticity towards drought stress. Above- as well as belowground traits will be examined with focus on responses to drought. The PhD will closely collaborate with project partners focusing on statistics, machine learning and crop modelling.
Deadline : 21-09-2025
(08) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD in Adipose Tissue Plasticity and Neurovascular Remodeling
We aim to uncover how adipose tissue communicates with other organs to regulate whole-body metabolism. While traditionally viewed as an energy reservoir and mechanical cushion, adipose tissue is now recognized as a key endocrine organ essential for maintaining systemic metabolic balance.
In times of caloric excess, adipose tissue expands either through hyperplasia—the formation of new adipocytes from progenitor cells—or through hypertrophy, where existing adipocytes expand. This expansion is accompanied by remodelling of the tissue’s cellular composition, blood vessels, and neuronal networks. For healthy expansion to occur, the process requires tight coordination between adipogenesis, vascularization, and innervation.
For this PhD project, we will leverage our existing peptidome data, to identify novel secreted factors that influence the neurovascular architecture of adipose tissue. Your tasks will involve developing human co-culture models —combining adipocytes with neuronal and vascular cells—to functionally characterize these candidate molecules. You will use advanced imaging approaches including confocal high content screening, and light sheet microscopy following adipose whole tissue clearing. You will also explore the most promising candidates in vivo using CRISPR-based gene-editing methodology established at CBMR to manipulate gene expression in specific adipose depots.
You will be part of a supportive and collaborative team, working closely with both supervisors and fellow researchers, and benefit from our strong network in adipose tissue biology and translational research.
Deadline : September 21, 2025
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(09) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD in Molecular Underpinning and Targeting AMPK for Treatment of Metabolic Disorders
The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research (CBMR) is an academic research Center that pioneers groundbreaking research towards better cardiometabolic health. Through collaborative interdisciplinary research from single-cell genomics to whole-body systems, CBMR aims to transform the basic understanding of cardiometabolic health and accelerate its translation into prevention and treatment strategies. The Center’s uniquely multi- and interdisciplinary approach combines research in genetics, physiology and pharmacology, to better understand the complex interplay of the many factors that drive cardiometabolic disease. You can learn more in the Executive Summary of CBMR’s Strategy 2024–2028.
CBMR was established in 2010 at the Faculty of Health & Medical Sciences and has been located in the Maersk Tower at Panum since 2017. The around 250 employees create an international, highly collaborative research environment across disciplines.
Deadline : 21-09-2025
(10) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD in Neuroendocrinology and Metabolic Homeostasis
The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research (CBMR) is an academic research Center that pioneers groundbreaking research towards better cardiometabolic health. Through collaborative interdisciplinary research from single-cell genomics to whole-body systems, CBMR aims to transform the basic understanding of cardiometabolic health and accelerate its translation into prevention and treatment strategies. The Center’s uniquely multi- and interdisciplinary approach combines research in genetics, physiology and pharmacology, to better understand the complex interplay of the many factors that drive cardiometabolic disease. You can learn more in the Executive Summary of CBMR’s Strategy 2024–2028.
CBMR was established in 2010 at the Faculty of Health & Medical Sciences and has been located in the Maersk Tower at Panum since 2017. The around 250 employees create an international, highly collaborative research environment across disciplines.
Deadline : 21-09-2025
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(11) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD in Functional Proteomics
We are seeking an enthusiastic and motivated candidate to pursue a PhD project in functional proteomics and cross-species genetics. The project aims to uncover the molecular mechanisms through which physical exercise improves muscle health and insulin sensitivity. Our group has conducted deep proteomic profiling of human skeletal muscle and plasma and identified a set of exercise-responsive proteins associated with improved insulin sensitivity. The successful candidate will investigate the functional roles of these proteins using high-throughput genetic screening in Drosophila melanogaster. The project integrates cutting-edge omics technologies, bioinformatics, and functional genomics to bridge human data with in vivo model systems. The candidate will work in close collaboration with Prof. Kim Rewitz, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen and be part of an interdisciplinary team of molecular biologists, bioinformaticians, and cell biologists.
Together, we aim to advance our understanding of how physical exercise confers metabolic benefits and identify novel molecular targets for improving muscle health and insulin sensitivity.
Deadline : September 21, 2025
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(12) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD fellowship in ovarian cancer biology at Biotech Research & Innovation Centre (BRIC)
The project aims at understanding the biology, evolution and therapeutic targetabilily of high-grade serous ovarian carcinoma through studies of extrachromosomal circular DNA. The PhD student will combine bioinformatic analyses of sequencing data of tumor samples from high-grade serous ovarian cancer tumor samples as well as patient-derived organoid cultures and subsequently use the patient-derived organoid models for experimental exploration and validation. The student will utilize and develop bioinformatic analysis strategies as well as advanced primary cell culture methods, genetic engineering of cells, chemical screening and high content imaging.
Deadline : 18-09-2025
(13) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD fellowship in Condensed Matter Theory at the Niels Bohr Institute
The PhD project is funded by a grant from the Danish Research Foundation (DFF-2), which also sponsors a post doc researcher to be hired at a later stage. The grant title is: “New Frontiers in Magnetism: Altermagnetism and Odd-Parity Spin Textures”. Thus, the main theme of the PhD project is unconventional magnetism, i.e. altermagnetism and odd-parity magnetism. What stabilizes and characterizes these newly discovered forms of matter, and how do we utilize their properties? In order to answer these questions, the PhD student will work with model calculations and use the toolbox of many-body condensed matter theory to gain new fundamental insight. It is also expected that we will collaborate with experimental groups, and therefore also apply more material-specific methods to help understand and guide experimental efforts. Finally, the project also includes effects of further instabilities in unconventional magnets, e.g. superconductivity and charge-ordered states. It remains an open question at present, what are the salient features of new ordered states emerging out of unconventional magnetic metals.
Deadline : 17 September 2025
(14) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD fellowship in bioorganic chemistry
We are looking for candidates within the field(s) of chemistry and biochemistry. Applicants can have a background in synthetic bioorganic chemistry with a focus on oligonucleotides and/or peptides, preferably also experience with chemoselective conjugation chemistries, medicinal chemistry of biopharmaceuticals or biochemistry. Experience with synthesis and characterization of bioconjugates, in particular peptide-oligonucleotide conjugates would be advantageous. Experience with HPLC and mass spectrometry would also be advantageous.
Deadline : 15-09-2025
(15) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD stipends in Statistics and the mathematics of Insurance and Economics at the Department of Mathematical Sciences
The department has about 55 permanent scientific staff members; around 60 PhD students and 35 postdocs. It has strong research groups in Mathematics, Statistics, Insurance and Economics, and it has active PhD, postdoc, and visitor’s programs. Our buildings are located in central Copenhagen next to the central park Fælledparken. Our website provides more information about the department and the research conducted at the department, see https://www.math.ku.dk/english and https://www.math.ku.dk/english/research/. We offer creative and stimulating working conditions in a dynamic and international research environment.
You can find more information about the PhD program on the homepage https://www.math.ku.dk/english/programmes/ph.d/.
Deadline : 15-11-2025
(16) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD stipends in Mathematics at the Department of Mathematical Sciences
The department has about 55 permanent scientific staff members; around 60 PhD students and 35 postdocs. It has strong research groups in many areas of mathematics, and active PhD, postdoc, and visitor’s programs. Our buildings are located in central Copenhagen next to the central park Fælledparken. Our website https://www.math.ku.dk/english provides more information about the department and the research conducted at the department https://www.math.ku.dk/english/research/. We offer creative and stimulating working conditions in a dynamic and international research environment.
You can find more information about the PhD program on the homepage https://www.math.ku.dk/english/programmes/ph.d/.
Deadline : 15-11-2025
(17) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD fellowship in Explainable Natural Language Understanding Department of Computer Science Faculty of SCIENCE University of Copenhagen
The PhD fellowship is offered in the context of an ERC Starting Grant held by Isabelle Augenstein on ‘Explainable and Robust Automatic Fact Checking (ExplainYourself)’. ERC Starting Grant is a highly competitive funding program by the European Research Council to support the most talented early-career scientists in Europe with funding for a period of 5 years for blue-skies research to build up or expand their research groups.
ExplainYourself proposes to study explainable automatic fact checking, the task of automatically predicting the veracity of textual claims using machine learning methods, while also producing explanations about how the model arrived at the prediction. Automatic fact checking methods often use opaque deep neural network models, whose inner workings cannot easily be explained. Especially for complex tasks such as automatic fact checking, this hinders greater adoption, as it is unclear to users when the models’ predictions can be trusted. Existing explainable ML methods partly overcome this by reducing the task of explanation generation to highlighting the right rationale. While a good first step, this does not fully explain how a ML model arrived at a prediction. For knowledge intensive natural language understanding tasks such as fact checking, a ML model needs to learn complex relationships between the claim, multiple evidence documents, and commonsense knowledge in addition to retrieving the right evidence. There is currently no explainability method that aims to illuminate this highly complex process. In addition, existing approaches are unable to produce diverse explanations, geared towards users with different information needs. ExplainYourself radically departs from existing work in proposing methods for explainable fact checking that more accurately reflect how fact checking models make decisions, and are useful to diverse groups of end users. It is expected that these innovations will apply to explanation generation for other knowledge-intensive NLU tasks, such as question answering or entity linking.
The project team currently consists of the principle investigator, three PhD students and two postdocs, collaborators from CopeNLU as well as external collaborators.
The PhD student to be recruited in this call is expected to define their PhD project within the scope of the overall project, and collaborate with the larger project team.
Deadline : 31-10-2025
(18) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD fellowship in Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics
We are looking for candidates within the field of condensed matter physics, with a strong background in condensed matter theory. Knowledge of many-body techniques – including Feynman diagrams, second quantization, and renormalization group methods – and experience with numerical methods are highly desirable.
Deadline : 30-10-2025
About The University of Copenhagen, Denmark – Official Website
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.
A number of prominent scientific theories and schools of thought are namesakes of the University of Copenhagen. The famous Copenhagen Interpretation of quantum mechanics was conceived at the Niels Bohr Institute, which is part of the university. The Department of Political Science birthed the Copenhagen School of Security Studies, which is also named after the university. Others include the Copenhagen School of Theology and the Copenhagen School of Linguistics.
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