University of Oslo, Norway 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 Oslo, Norway.
Eligible candidate may Apply as soon as possible.
(01) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral Research Fellow in Applied Philosophy
A position as PhD Research Fellow (SKO 1017) in philosophy with an applied orientation is available at the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas (IFIKK), Faculty of Humanities, University of Oslo.
Interdisciplinary knowledge and education are essential for addressing complex problems and societal challenges. The PhD fellow will contribute to clarifying the role that interdisciplinarity should play in political processes. The fellow will be part of the research group Science and Democracy at IFIKK and will write a dissertation in philosophy with an applied orientation. The dissertation should engage with specialized discussions within philosophy of science, social and political epistemology, ethics, political philosophy, or other relevant areas of philosophy.
Deadline : 15th August 2025
(02) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral research fellowship in Translational Reproductive Science
The position is part of the project PRIME – Primordial follicle Regulation and Interventions for Modulating Extracellular tension, which aims to investigate whether primordial follicle activation in the human ovary was a reversible process. This groundbreaking research addresses key gaps in ovarian biology and seeks to develop novel strategies for fertility preservation in women at risk of early follicle depletion (e.g. cancer survivors and patients with POI).
The project combines molecular profiling, high-resolution imaging, and biomechanical manipulation using human ovarian tissue samples. The PhD candidate will be part of an interdisciplinary research environment, working closely with national and international collaborators.
The purpose of the fellowship is research training leading to the successful completion of a PhD degree. The duration of appointment is 3 years and the position is available as soon as possible.
A fourth year as a PhD Research Fellow may become relevant, and it will involve 25 percent of other career-promoting work. Other career-promoting work may consist of teaching, supervision, and/or research assistance. This will depend on the candidate’s qualifications and the needs of the institute.
Deadline : 11th August 2025
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(03) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral Research Fellowship linked to the project “The Democracy of Silence”
The Democracy of Silence investigates silence as an integral dimension of democratic culture, challenging the assumption that participation must always be vocal or visible. The project explores how silence shapes democratic life, citizenship, and participation in both digital and offline contexts. We ask, how can we reimagine the democratic potentials of silence in a society that hinges on vocal ideals of citizenship? And, what kind of politics emerges when we embrace silence as a democratic value, rather than view it as a threat?
Our research group is interdisciplinary, bringing together expertise from media and communication, informatics, participatory design, musicology, cultural theory, theology, and beyond. As such, the project is inspired by and seeks to advance discussions in democratic theory (Habermas, 1996; Dahl, 1998), political philosophy (Vieira, 2020; Gray, 2021), aesthetics and cultural studies (Sontag, 1969; Blanchot, 1955; Yao, 2021), as well as recent work on digital societies and datafication (Bucher, 2020; Hesselberth & de Bloois, 2020). We welcome PhD projects from a wide range of disciplines, and media is understood here in its broadest sense, encompassing digital infrastructures, music/sound, AI, visuals, and more. The group’s work is organized through thematic collaboratories that address topics such as silent AI, embodied knowledge, political disaffection, the right to silence in contexts of free speech, and the design of information systems attentive to silence.
Deadline : 15th August 2025
(04) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD-/Postdoctoral Research Fellowship “Convergence and cultural development in the life sciences”
The research project “Convergence and cultural development in the life sciences” explores novel forms of research practices in the life sciences and efforts to enable new collaborative research cultures to increase competitiveness, sustainable development and innovation, as well as enable cutting-edge research, including that of supporting research careers and talented researchers. The project is financed by the University of Oslo’s strategic initiative UiO:Life Sciences, and the UiO:Life Sciences initiative is also the study object of the project. The PhD/postdoctoral research fellow will work closely with senior researchers forming the project core group.
The PhD/postdoctoral research fellow is invited to develop a specific research focus related to the efforts to build novel forms of collaborations and research practices of the life sciences in a University of Oslo context. This interest may include, but is not limited to:
- Articulations and tensions between disciplinarity and interdisciplinarity
- Novel epistemic practices in the life sciences and their development
- University strategy and its relation to career development, talent development and interdisciplinary and collaborative practices
- The relation of interdisciplinary cooperation to societal challenges
- Value conflicts and tensions in the life sciences and its different epistemic cultures and evaluative principles and practices.
Deadline : 18th August 2025
(05) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Fellow in Innovation Studies (AI)
The AIP project investigates the economic effects of artificial intelligence (AI). Some expect that AI will lead to positive impacts in terms of innovation, productivity and economic growth. Others point to possible economic harms such as technological unemployment, increasing market concentration and exacerbation of income inequalities. Public policies will have a crucial role to shape the direction and extent of these effects.
Deadline : 17th August 2025
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(06) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD fellowship in Criminology and/or Sociology of Law, Digitizing Sexual Violence
One PhD fellowship is available at the Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law to undertake research as part of the project Digitizing Sexual Violence: The role of technology in creating and regulating sexual harms. The project is funded by the Norwegian Research Council. The candidate will be able to work on cutting-edge research topics and get access to an international and interdisciplinary network of high expertise with possibilities of research stays abroad. The candidate will be part of an interdisciplinary project group where close collaboration across academic disciplines and scientific methods is expected.
Digitizing Sexual Violence takes as a starting point that new technologies, such as smart phones and social media platforms, have become vital to social connections; moreover, they have reshaped sexual violence in two distinct ways. First, technology is being increasingly incorporated into traditional forms of sexual violence, such as when perpetrators take pictures of their victims while assaulting them. Second, technology has contributed to the creation of new forms of sexual harm, such as image-based abuse and deepfake technology. The implications of these developments are twofold. First, the use of technologies as part of harmful sexual conduct offers new possibilities to investigate and prosecute sex crimes in general due to an increased amount of technological evidence. Second, the role of technology in both traditional sexual violence and new forms of sexual harm have instigated a need for legal regulations of these practices. The objective of Digitizing Sexual Violence is to conceptualize an emerging scientific field at the intersection of law and technology: the technologization of the legal processing of sexual violence and the criminalization of technology-facilitated sexual harms.
The study will focus on three changes organized in separate work packages. Changes in 1) legislation and case law regarding technology-facilitated sexual harms; 2) the investigation and prosecution of sexual violence; 3) peopleʼs knowledge, attitudes and conceptualizations of the use of law in relation to technology-facilitated sexual harms. The advertised position is part of work package 3. Applicants do not need to have prior in-depth knowledge of sexual violence but should have relevant methodological and theoretical expertise from the social sciences and an interest in the topic. Applicants should develop an independent research project within the framework outlined in this work package.
Deadline :31st August 2025
(07) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Research Fellow in Education focusing on Collaborative Learning
Applications are invited for a four-year position as PhD Research Fellow affiliated to the Department of Education, Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Oslo. The position will be connected to the research environment for studies in higher education and work, currently named HEDWORK. The area of research for the PhD is collaborative learning in higher education or work.
Collaboration in educational and work contexts holds immense potential for learning. Collaboration is generally seen as a meaningful form of activity, which often combines the learning of new knowledge and development of competences with problem solving, project-based work, or creative tasks in authentic contexts. Collaborative learning can take many forms; from short-term interactions during structured discussions, team-based simulation sessions or problem-solving tasks to long-term collaborative work on open-ended projects. Often, collaborative work or tasks are supported or mediated by digital tools, which partake into complex collaboration ecologies. The rise of intelligent technologies, such as generative AI tools, has placed the spotlight on new forms of collaboration, between human and non-human agents. There is an urgent need for research on how collaborative practices evolve with these powerful tools, and support learning in disciplinary or interdisciplinary contexts. In addition, the nature of the interaction between human and machine triggers new questions about the locus of agency and learning these emergent collaboration ecologies. Such examinations may require in-depth qualitative analyses but also mixed-methods approaches, possibly enabled by emerging AI-enhanced techniques.
The PhD project should overall contribute to a better understanding collaborative learning in higher education work context. The candidate is expected to conduct empirical studies and analyses of rich datasets, and in particular, interaction data, with a focus on examination of collaborative learning processes and practices. The PhD position can be connected to ongoing projects with a focus on collaborative learning and practice (especially, TeamLearn or CORPUS), and make use of projects’ datasets. The project description is expected to elaborate on the research problem of the prospective PhD project, how it is embedded in the research literature and which theoretical perspectives as well as methodologies are considered. Interested candidates are encouraged to contact the listed contact persons for further information.
Deadline : 10th September 2025
(08) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Research Fellow(s) in Sociology
We seek candidates with the potential to contribute to the development of sociology as a discipline at the department. The fellows are expected to pursue independent research under supervision, as outlined in their submitted project proposals. We value the contribution of young scholars to the academic environment and study programmes at the department and encourage candidates with a desire to participate actively in departmental life to apply.
Applicants should have research interests that resonate with ongoing research at the department. We currently have strong research activities in the fields of social inequality, migration, integration and diversity, cultural and political participation, urban studies, sustainable transformations, population dynamics, and work, organisations and politics. The call is not thematically limited to these topics, but preference can be given to candidates with projects that align with the department’s supervisory capacity. Applicants are expected to demonstrate through their application letter and project proposal how they will contribute to the development of sociology at the department.
The position requires participation in the Faculty of Social Sciences’ organised research education programme (PhD programme) and the completion of a doctorate in sociology. The candidates who are hired will automatically be admitted to the PhD programme.
Deadline : 15th September 2025
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(09) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Research Fellow in fluid mechanics of droplet flow on complex fibers
The project will provide a fundamental understanding of droplet flow on single and complex fiber networks. Essential to the project is the development of a new understanding of capillary flow, drop impact, and wetting in fibrous networks. The PhD research fellow will design droplet flow experiments on fibers and focus on droplet accumulation on fibrous structures when exposed to fog flow. There will also be aspects with coupling droplet dynamics to properties of complex soft materials.
Access to fresh water is the foundation of life on Earth and poses severe restrictions and challenges for regions facing water scarcity, a problem that is expected to worsen in the future due to the growing impacts of climate change. Increasing likelihood of extreme weather such as drought and heat waves, highlights the need for new sustainable approaches to improve water access. The goal of this sustainability-oriented project is to develop a better understanding of the fundamental fluid mechanics involved as droplets flow on and through fog nets, aiming to create new designs that optimize water yield.
The project aspires to elucidate the physics governing droplet impact and wetting on fibrous networks in order to enhance fog net technology. The planned work is experimental and will be conducted in our lab facilities, also incorporating theoretical models of complex flow. Fieldwork is planned in collaboration with a non-profit organization in Morocco, providing opportunities to test the concepts developed in this project and work alongside international collaborators.
Deadline : 15th August 2025
(10) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Research Fellow in Formal Methods for Data Protection in Digital Twins
This position is funded by the Department of Informatics and will be part of the collaboration between the Reliable Systems (PSY) research group, which works in formal methods, programming language theory and digital twins, and the Data and Knowledge Management (DKM) research group, which works in sematic technologies. Both groups have a dynamic and interactive working environment with good gender balance, consisting of full-time professors, researchers, and many postdocs and PhD candidates.
The planned PhD research topic will explore techniques to handle protected data in digital twin architectures. To explore and investigate this topic, the project will combine formal methods, programming language theory and semantic technologies, aiming to develop systematic techniques for handling protected data. The planned topic aims to develop methods that can be integrated within a digital twin framework. The PhD project aims at demonstrating the results by either a theoretical framework or in an experimental proof of concept that can be integrated to the existing digital twin framework SMOL (https://smolang.org/).
Deadline : 17th August 2025
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(11) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Research Fellow in Human Geography
We seek candidates with the potential to contribute to the development of human geography as a discipline at the department. The fellow is expected to pursue independent research under supervision, as outlined in their submitted project proposals. We value the contribution of young scholars to the academic environment and study programmes at the department and encourage candidates with a desire to participate actively in departmental life to apply.
Applicants should have research interests that resonate with ongoing research at the department. We currently have strong research communities in the fields of urban studies, sustainable transformations, work, organisations and politics, social inequality, migration, integration and diversity, cultural and political participation, population dynamics. Human geographers are also engaged in economic and political geography. The call is not thematically limited to these topics, but preference can be given to candidates with projects that align with the department’s supervisory capacity. Applicants are expected to demonstrate through their application letter and project proposal how they will contribute to the development of human geography at the department.
The position requires participation in the Faculty of Social Sciences’ organised research education programme (PhD programme) and the completion of a doctorate in human geography. The candidate who is hired will automatically be admitted to the PhD programme.
Deadline : 15th September 2025
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(12) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Research Fellow in geochemical modeling
The PhD will be part of the new FME GigaCCS centre. The centre will advance Norway’s expertise in CCS, as well as support the global implementation of CCS at a gigatonne scale.
FME GigaCCS seeks a highly motivated candidate for a PhD research fellowship aimed at de-risking CO2 storage in (hyper)saline aquifers. The background is that solid salt is known to form during CO2 storage, potentially leading to permeability
impairment and reduced injectivities. Much research have been done to understand the physics of salt precipitation, but little is known on how geological heterogeneities at various scales affect the extent of salt formation.
The project targets modeling formation dry-out and salt precipitation during CO2 storage. The candidate will work on developing numerical models for salt precipitation at pore- to continuum-scale, with special focus on how sedimentary
stratification at various scales affects capillary backflow to the salt-dryout zone. The candidate will work in an interdisciplinary team. There will be a close collaboration between UiO and NORCE, with co-supervision from the latter.
Deadline : 10th August 2025
(13) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Research Fellow in Machine Learning
This Ph.D. position is focused on ML in realistic settings referring to statistical and system characteristics in the real world contrary to an ideal learing setting. The candidate will contribute to understanding how neural networks extract the most relevant information of the data to make a prediction using advanced mathematical tools. This insight opens the door for enjoying the real world. The candidate further develops efficient and robust algorithms for realistic settings in terms of data and computing resources and collaborates to address major challenges in important applications including marine domain and neuroscience.
Deadline : 15th August 2025
(14) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Research Fellow in Paleontology
Applications are invited for a 4 year position in a Research Fellowship as a PhD Candidate in invertebrate paleontology to be based at the Natural History Museum, Økern facility, University of Oslo. Project title:
“Earth system events recorded in the Lower Paleozoic of the Oslo Region”.
The Oslo Region is a classical area for the study of the Lower Paleozoic (Cambrian, Ordovician, and Silurian). The literature about the Oslo Region successions is extensive, providing a solid foundation for further research. NHM in Oslo has large collections of fossils and rocks, and field exposures are well known and easily accessible. The PhD candidate will carry out a thorough review of the whole succession in the light of new knowledge about global and regional trends and events, including climate change, evolutionary events (radiations and extinctions), plate tectonics, and changes in geochemical cycles. The project will have a focus on invertebrate paleontology, with new sampling of sections with precise stratigraphic control, supported by chemostratigraphy. New work in the Silurian is particularly urgent.
Deadline : 10th August 2025
(15) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Research Fellow in Sociology/Human Geography and Organizational Theory
There is a vacant position at the Department of Sociology and Human Geography for a research fellow (SKO 1017) in sociology/human geography and organizational theory. The position is for a period of four years with 25% compulsory work (primarily teaching). The candidate will be expected to contribute to the Master’s programme Organization, Leadership and Work (OLA) at the Department.
The department is ranked as the premier academic research institute in sociology and human geography in Norway, conducting top international research while offering high quality education for students. The department is renowned both for the breadth of topics and methodologies employed and for its highly qualified researchers.
Deadline : 15th September 2025
(16) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Research Fellow in Plant Evolutionary Genomics
The PhD project will explore whether convergent Arctic traits, such as cold tolerance and flowering time, are underpinned by similar genetic mechanisms in distantly related plant species. The candidate will compare population-level genomic data from different Arctic taxa, conduct controlled common garden experiments, and analyze the molecular pathways involved in adaptation to extreme environments.
While a core project framework is in place, there is flexibility to tailor specific research questions to the candidate’s interests and background in consultation with the supervisors. This allows the successful applicant to shape the direction of their PhD within the broader thematic scope of Arctic plant adaptation
Deadline : 10th August 2025
(17) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Research Fellow in Supervisory Control for the Power Grid of a Telescope
The person hired in the position will work on theoretical control and optimization methods for a grid island powered by renewable energy, supporting both the ATLAST telescope and the nearby community of San Pedro de Atacama.
The PhD candidate will have the unique opportunity to shape the renewable energy management system by developing novel real-time control & optimization algorithms. Pilot demonstrations on partner radio telescope facilities such as APEX and the Sardinia Radio Telescope may be possible, depending on the interest of the PhD candidate and availability of the pilot sites.
The core activity of the ATLAST2 shall support Researchers, PhD candidates and Postdocs. They work in close contact with the research and user partners of ATLAST2, and with other partners at ITS on the general topics of renewable energy systems. The PhD candidate will work on a team at ITS comprising two other positions funded by ATLAST2, alongside Assoc. Profs. Mathias Hudoba de Badyn and Marianne Zeyringer, as well as Prof. Sabrina Sartori.
Deadline : 14th August 2025
(18) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Research Fellowship in Political Science (4 years)
The Department of Political Science is recruiting a PhD Research Fellow (SKO 1017).
We invite applications from excellent candidates in all sub-fields of political science, including public policy and administration, comparative politics, political theory, international relations and research methods.
The appointment is for a fixed, non-tenured term of 4 years, and has a 25% teaching component. The Department teaches in all the sub-fields mentioned above.
The successful candidate will be part of the Faculty’s PhD programme. The work is expected to lead to a PhD in political science.
Deadline : 1st September 2025
(19) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Two PhD fellow positions in ERC-project “Private Law Firms as Transnational Advocates (PROBONO)”
Two positions as PhD Research Fellow (SKO 1017) are available in the research project PROBONO. The project is funded by the European Research Council. The two research fellows will work together with the Principal Investigator (PI) of PROBONO, Professor Nina Reiners, and the PROBONO team at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights (NCHR), a multidisciplinary department at the Faculty of Law.
The period of appointment runs for three years without teaching duties, or upon agreement, four years with teaching duties constituting 25% of the overall workload. A four-year fellowship requires that the candidate can contribute to the current teaching needs of the Faculty of Law, including the multidisciplinary master program in human rights.
The purpose of the fellowship is research training leading to the successful completion of a PhD degree within the set fellowship period. The selected candidate will automatically be admitted to the PhD programme of the Faculty of Law. Please read about the requirements for admission to the PhD program here.
Deadline :15th September 2025
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About The University of Oslo, Norway – Official Website
The University of Oslo, until 1939 named the Royal Frederick University is the oldest university in Norway, located in the Norwegian capital of Oslo. Until 1 January 2016 it was the largest Norwegian institution of higher education in terms of size, now surpassed only by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. The Academic Ranking of World Universities has ranked it the 58th best university in the world and the third best in the Nordic countries. In 2015, the Times Higher Education World University Rankings ranked it the 135th best university in the world and the seventh best in the Nordics. While in its 2016, Top 200 Rankings of European universities, the Times Higher Education listed the University of Oslo at 63rd, making it the highest ranked Norwegian university.
The university has approximately 27,700 students and employs around 6,000 people. Its faculties include (Lutheran) theology (with the Lutheran Church of Norway having been Norway’s state church since 1536), law, medicine, humanities, mathematics, natural sciences, social sciences, dentistry, and education. The university’s original neoclassical campus is located in the centre of Oslo; it is currently occupied by the Faculty of Law. Most of the university’s other faculties are located at the newer Blindern campus in the suburban West End. The Faculty of Medicine is split between several university hospitals in the Oslo area. The university also includes some formally independent, affiliated institutes such as the Centre for International Climate and Environmental Research (CICERO), NKVTS and the Frisch Centre.
The university was founded in 1811 and was modeled after the University of Copenhagen and the recently established University of Berlin. It was originally named for King Frederick VI of Denmark and Norway, and received its current name in 1939. The university is informally also known as Universitetet (“the university”), having been the only university in Norway, until 1946 and was commonly termed “The Royal Frederick’s” (Det Kgl. Frederiks), before the name change.
The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded in the university’s Atrium, from 1947 to 1989 and will be so again in 2020, making it the only university in the world to be involved in awarding a Nobel Prize. Since 2003, the Abel Prize is awarded in the Atrium. Five researchers affiliated with the university have been Nobel laureates.
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