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 fellow positions at the Department of Food and Resource Economics
The relevant research areas for the PhD scholarships are within the thematic areas covered by the four larger research groups at IFRO:
- Environment and natural resources, which includes environmental valuation, economic modelling, behavioural economics, and the economic regulation of environmental externalities and natural resource use, environmental ethics, sociology and governance, climate change economics and policy, economics, assessment and management of forests, fishery or aquaculture, biodiversity conservation,
- Production, markets, and policy, which include production economics, applied micro-economics, efficiency analysis, innovation studies, sustainability transitions, management science, organization and ownership, policy design and analysis, business economics, agricultural and food economics including agri-tech economics, policy and regulation, trade negotiations and agreements, and the impact of international trade in food and natural resources,
- Consumption, bioethics, and regulation, which include food economics, food and environmental sociology and policy, law, consumer behaviour and policy, and public health economics and policy in the human, veterinary and the animal science fields. It also includes ethics perspectives on food production, animal husbandry, companion animals, veterinary practices, and management of the environment and natural resources,
- Global development conducting research on nature-society relations, including agricultural commodities and value chains, business and development, rural livelihoods and environmental reliance, state and non-state governance, climate adaptation and mitigation, renewable energy, forestry and conservation, indigenous territories and resource conflicts, urbanisation, and social movements and mobilisation.
Deadline : 19 April 2026,
(02) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Scholarship at the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen (UCPH): Moralizing Politics: The Practice of Judging Others (MoPo) – The Dignity of Work: Social Value and Esteem
This PhD project will cover one of four cases covered in the MoPo project: The Dignity of Work: Social Value and Esteem. The issue of working-class resentment has played a major political role in recent years, and politicians in several advanced democracies have responded by speaking of the dignity of work and the importance of a proper work ethic. This discourse has often pitted hard-working ordinary p eople against lazy minorities, the creative class, or the elite. The sphere of work is central to MoPo’s concern with practices of judging and being judged. The normative question of the envisioned PhD project is how political discourse surrounding the dignity and value of work affects the political standing of different groups and the epistemic quality of public deliberation. The project could draw on recognition theory and theories of deliberative democracy. Moreover, the project is expected to consider the relationship between valuing work and democratizing work. In line with the overall approach of the MoPo project, the PhD project should apply the method of ‘practice-sensitive reflective equilibrium’ by combining a qualitative case study of practices of judging work with moral philosophy and democratic theory. The candidate should formulate their own PhD project within this overall theoretical and methodological framework.
Deadline : 13 April 2026.
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(03) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Scholarship at the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen (UCPH): Moralizing Politics: The Practice of Judging Others (MoPo) – Cancel Culture: Human Equality and Respect
We hereby invite applications for a PhD scholarship at the Department of Political Science. Enrolment will be at the Faculty of Social Sciences under Copenhagen Graduate School of Social Sciences.
The position starting date is 1 August 2026, or as soon as possible thereafter.
The successful candidate will be part of the research project “Moralizing Politics: The Practice of Judging Others” (MoPo), funded by the European Research Council, and led by Professor Christian Rostbøll.
MoPo investigates the role of moral judgment in contemporary politics, where citizens increasingly judge one another as good or bad people. While this moralization can reinforce democratic accountability, it also risks deepening polarization and hostility. By combining philosophical analysis with case studies on cancel culture, the dignity of work, fake news, and climate shaming, the project explores when the human propensity to judge others is pernicious versus beneficial for democracy.
Deadline : 13 April 2026
(04) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD fellowship in Molecular Cell Biology
The project is focused on understanding how genetic variation shapes protein function and contributes to disease mechanisms and will involve Deep Mutational Scanning (DMS) along with CRISPR-based genome engineering to systematically assess the function and stability of thousands of gene variants to generate exhaustive quantitative functional landscapes of disease‑associated proteins.
Deadline : 12th of April 2026
(05) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Marie Curie PhD fellowship in Micronutrient intake and status in healthy young adults fed either a plant-based or a meat-based diet
MICROSUNSET is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Doctoral Network (MSCA-DN) funded by the European Union, in which we have 12 open positions for Doctoral Candidates (DCs). We aim to create a network of early-stage researchers equipped with knowledge and skills – including entrepreneurship –to develop and support implementation strategies that address micronutrient deficiencies in Europe as diets shift toward more plant-based foods. For MICROSUNSET we will recruit 12 highly talented DCs, whose collective research will focus on bio-accessibility and bioavailability of micronutrients, and strategies to produce and process plant-based foods with enhanced concentration of micronutrients as an integrative part of sustainable and healthy diets. Development of analytical methods, digestion models, dietary modelling, and conducting consumer surveys will form part of the Doctoral Network’s tasks.
Deadline : 12 April 2026
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(06) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD fellowship in transcriptional regulation
The work will be focused on elucidating the mechanisms of RNAPII associated factors and how these impact transcription dynamics during cellular homeostasis and following cellular stress, such as those induced by DNA damage. The project involves generation of human cell lines using CRISPR/Cas technologies combined with profiling of transcription using RNA-seq approaches (RNA-seq, TTchem-seq, mNET-seq etc.) as well as proteomics investigation of RNAPII complexes and high content imaging to track nascent transcription. The role of the candidate will primarily be to perform experiments in the laboratory, analyse and interpret data, scientific publication, as well as attend scientific seminars and conferences.
Deadline : April 10th, 2026
(07) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Research assistant and PhD fellowship in epigenetics and gene regulation
Our group works in the broad area of proteomics, genomics, epigenetics, and cell signaling. In this project, we are interested in understanding epigenetic mechanisms of gene regulation, with special focus to understand the mechanisms of gene activation by cis-regulatory enhancers. The project will use quantitative proteomics and genomics to further understand the role of epigenetic regulators in gene regulation. The project will combine CRISPR-based genome editing with NGS-based approaches (i.e. RNA-seq, Nascent RNA sequencing, ChIP-seq, and ATAC-seq), quantitative mass spectrometry, and cell biological approaches to uncover new regulatory pathways and decipher underlying mechanisms.
Candidate will perform experimental laboratory work, including generation of CRISPR-edited cell models, mass spectrometry-based analysis of protein interaction networks, and generation of next-generation sequencing data by ChIP-seq, RNA-seq, Nascent-seq, and ATAC-seq. The candidate with experience in both wet lab and bioinformatics will be able to do both (i.e. work in the wet lab and perform bioinformatics analyses). If you would like to know more about the project(s), please contact us!
Deadline : 10 April 2026
(08) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD stipends in Mathematics
There will be PhD stipends available in:
- Algebraic and Arithmetic Geometry, Applied algebra, Combinatorics, Geometric group theory, Geometry and Geometric Analysis, Number Theory, Representation Theory, and Topology as covered by the section Algebra & Geometry and Copenhagen Center for Geometry & Topology (GeoTop).
- Classical Analysis, Descriptive Set Theory, Functional Analysis, Geometric group theory, Harmonic Analysis, History of Mathematics, Mathematical Physics, Operator Algebras, Partial Differential Equations, Quantum Information, Quantum Computation and Quantum Simulation as covered by the section Analysis and Quantum, the Centre for the Mathematics of Quantum Theory and the Quantum for Life Center.
Deadline : 1 April 2026
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(09) 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
We invite applications for PhD stipends in the following areas, all within the sections of Insurance and Economics and Statistics and Probability Theory:
- Optimal transport and adapted Wasserstein metrics (contact Johannes Wiesel, [email protected])
- Causality (contact Niels Richard Hansen, [email protected])
- Other areas within statistics, mathematics-economics, and actuarial science besides those mentioned above (contact PhD coordinator Helle Sørensen, [email protected])
Deadline : 1 April 2026
(10) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD fellowship in computational and mathematical modelling of flow and fracture in ice sheets
The Greenland ice sheet is currently the largest contributor to present-day global sea level rise, with mass loss mainly driven by surface melting. Surface meltwater can drain to the base of the ice sheet and enhance ice flow velocities on seasonal timescales, but the long-term response of ice flow and outlet glacier dynamics to increased surface melting in a warming climate is not well known.
The focus of the PhD project will be to study fracture and damage formation of ice sheets and how it induces structural weaknesses that can facilitate fast flow and precondition ice shelves for disintegration, and potentially causing irreversible grounding line retreats. The project will bne to develop and implement continuum formulations of stress-based poro-damage dynamics and hydrofracturing, using new e.g. phase field methods. Models will be validate against date obtained from inverse modelling of continent-wide surface velocity and fracture fields derived from satellite imagery.
You will work in an international team that also includes researchers and early career scientists from The section for the Physics of Ice, Climate and Earth at the Niels Bohr Institute, the Complex Physics group at the Niels Bohr Institute, the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI) and the Northumbria University in Newcastle, UK. Visits with these collaborators are expected.
Deadline : 1 April 2026
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(11) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD fellowships in experimental materials chemistry and electrocatalysis
Project 1 will focus on the synthesis/structure/property relations in disordered high entropy oxide materials for with a strong emphasis on structural analysis using x-ray scattering techniques. The project will concern how structural disorder can be controlled in metal oxide synthesis. The candidate will be involved in the development of synthesis methods for oxides with structural disorder and will advance structural characterization of the materials using high-level synchrotron techniques. The candidate will be especially involved in understanding the structural changes taking place during synthesis reactions, and in situ synchrotron experiments will be central for the work. A major part of the PhD project will be data acquisition and high-level analysis. The project will be supervised by Kirsten M. Ø. Jensen.
Project 2 concerns the electrocatalytic properties of mixed metal oxides. Mixed-metal oxides represent a promising strategy for the design of economically and environmentally scalable catalysts and supports for water electrolyzers. However, finding optimal materials requires exploration of a vast composition space, the exploration of which requires medium- to high-throughput methods of synthesis, characterization and testing. We are looking for a PhD candidate to develop and apply such methods.
Deadline : 1 April 2026
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(12) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD fellowship in causal inference
The PhD project aims to develop novel statistical methodology for causal inference in biostatistical and epidemiological applications, with particular emphasis on longitudinal data characterized by irregular and near-continuous monitoring. The project will develop and extend data-adaptive and semiparametric methods for inference on dynamic treatment effects that avoid ad-hoc time discretization and better reflect clinical decision processes. The overall goal is to strengthen the methodological foundations for causal analysis and to improve the reliability and interpretability of evidence derived from observational healthcare data. Methodological themes may include: dynamic treatment regimes; intensity-based or continuous-time interventions; semiparametric efficiency theory; targeted learning and doubly robust estimation; efficient testing of treatment effects; development, estimation, and implementation of novel estimators.
Depending on the candidate’s background and interests, the project may take a more theoretical direction (e.g., focusing on continuous-time modeling, semiparametric theory and efficiency) or a more applied and computational direction (e.g., focusing on scalable algorithms, software development, collaboration with clinicians, and translation of clinical questions into formal estimands).
Deadline : April 1st 2026
(13) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Research assistant and PhD fellowship in forensic genetics – forensic omics and complex samples
The PhD candidate will investigate the application of multi-omics data for forensic human identification (HID). The research focuses on genome-wide shotgun DNA sequencing (whole genome sequencing) and shotgun RNA sequencing (whole transcriptome sequencing) to resolve complex forensic samples. Shotgun DNA sequencing is currently utilized for highly degraded or low-template samples in forensic case works for both human identification and extended kinship analysis (forensic investigative genetic genealogy), while shotgun RNA sequencing represents a promising alternative that enables analysis at the single-cell level.
A significant challenge in routine forensic casework is the high prevalence of multi-donor samples (mixtures), which currently account for approximately two-thirds of all samples analyzed at the Section of Forensic Genetics. This project aims to resolve these complex mixtures through two distinct strategies.
The first approach seeks to bypass the mixture problem by isolating individual cells (i.e., sperm cell) prior to analysis. Following isolation, we will conduct single-cell shotgun DNA and RNA sequencing to obtain “clean” individual profiles. The second approach focuses on exploring bioinformatic methods to “deconvolute” (untangle) shotgun DNA and RNA profiles when multiple donors are present in a single sample.
Deadline : 1 April 2026
(14) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Fellowship in Microbial Ecology
This PhD project aims to elucidate the microbial mechanisms underlying biological nitrification inhibition (BNI) in wheat, focusing on ammonia-oxidizing bacteria (AOB) and archaea (AOA) and their interactions with root-exuded benzoxazinoids and other BNI compounds. The project will also enhance and develop microbial methods for BNI phenotyping and link microbial responses to plant growth conditions, fertilization regimes, and rhizosphere ecology.
The specific objectives are:
- Characterize AOA and AOB responses to BNI compounds produced by wheat, using controlled growth chamber experiments, microcosm studies, and in vitro assays.
- Develop and optimize microbial BNI screening methods, including whole-cell bioreporter assays and bioreporters based on Nitrosomonas europaea and Nitrosospira multiformis.
- Investigate effects of plant growth stages and fertilization treatments on BNI expression and microbial activity in the rhizosphere.
- Collect and analyze rhizosphere and soil samples to assess microbial community composition and functional gene abundance.
- Link microbial responses to wheat genotypes, including lines with and without Leymus racemosus (Lr) chromosome translocation fragments, and identify potential microbial indicators of BNI capacity.
- Integrate molecular and microbial ecology approaches to provide a mechanistic understanding of BNI and support the development of microbial-informed breeding strategies.
Deadline : 31 March 2026
(15) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD fellowship in gravitational physics
We are looking to solve some of the most pressing questions in black holes physics, on the problem of motion in Gravitation and on the search for the ultimate description of Nature.
We are looking for candidates within the field(s) of gravitational physics and high energy physics. Applicants can have a background from partial differential equations to astrophysics or high energy physics. We welcome all talented, highly motivated candidates.
Deadline : 22.03.2026
(16) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD fellowship in Superconducting Quantum Engineering
We are seeking a motivated PhD candidate to join our experimental research team and pursue cutting-edge research in superconducting quantum circuits in the following areas:
- Scalable Superconducting Qubit Systems: Development of scalable architectures for operating high-performance superconducting qubits to enable fault-tolerant quantum computing. This includes advanced circuit designs and fabrications, and system-level integration.
- Hybrid Quantum Systems: Development of novel hybrid quantum systems that integrate superconducting quantum circuits with mechanical membranes and magnetic crystals to enable long-lived quantum memories and nonreciprocal quantum devices, respectively.
- Broadband Quantum-Limited Amplifiers: Development of novel broadband, high-dynamic-range Josephson parametric amplifiers, leveraging microwave and Josephson nonlinear engineering to enable quantum-limited microwave detection, serving as a backbone for superconducting quantum computing.
More specifically, the successful PhD candidate will explore novel packaging solutions for superconducting quantum circuits, individually tailored to unlock and maximize the performance of the aforementioned quantum devices. This work will encompass scalable 3D-integrated I/O interfaces, co-integration of magnetic crystals with superconducting circuits, and fast, reliable flip-chip architectures for electromechanical quantum devices. The PhD project will be supervised and managed on a day-to-day basis by Assistant Professor Shingo Kono ([email protected]), with additional advisory support from Associate Professor Morten Kjaergaard.
Deadline : 19th March 2026
(17) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Two PhD Scholarships at the Faculty of Theology
The PhD programme provides PhD students with strong research training which opens a window of opportunity to a variety of careers within the private and public sectors. The programme includes the drafting of a PhD thesis, active participation in research networks, PhD courses, teaching, and other forms of knowledge dissemination.
The granting of the PhD scholarships will take place under the agreement in force between the Ministry of Finance and the Danish Confederation of Professional Associations. Under this agreement, a holder of a PhD scholarship is obliged to carry out relevant duties amounting to a total of 840 hours over the three-year period. The scholarship holder must also be prepared to take an active part in the faculty’s research environment.
Deadline : 16 March 2026
(18) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: 2 PhD fellowships in in-vitro digestion of novel plant-based ingredients
One fellowship (1)
The production of food is one of the largest greenhouse gas (GHG) emitting sectors (c.30% of total). Livestock is a major contributor (c.15% of total GHG emissions) to this. A dietary shift towards less animal-based foods is therefore necessary to reduce the climate impact of our food production. To ensure that this will contribute to healthy diets, it is necessary to understand the fate of new, plant based food in the gastrointestinal tract. However, this is challenging, as digestion is a complex, multiscale, and multistage process, with dynamics that depend on the food, the gastrointestinal tract, and their interactions.
This fellowship aims to develop and utilize experimental methods for the collection of experimental results for enabling the use of machine learning, that will allow us to characterize the digestive processes, identify key variables, and determine in-vitro key parameters to predict digestibility in-vivo. The appointed PhD candidate will work in close collaboration with a Postdoctoral Researcher.
Second fellowship (2)
Currently, plant ingredients are often refined to almost molecular purity – and then combined again to create structured foods. This isolation is resource intensive, and the removal of fibre and micronutrients can compromise the nutritional value. This can be mitigated by applying milder forms of processing that do not fully refine ingredients and leave some of the native structure of the plant material intact. The properties of these partially refined ingredients depend strongly on the way of processing. This Fellowship is aimed at developing rapid experimentation methods that will allow us to explore the relation between the degree and type of processing, and the foods that result from their use. The results will be used for data machine learning, in collaboration with other partners in the project. The appointed PhD candidate will work in close collaboration with a Postdoctoral Researcher.
Deadline : 15 March 2026
(19) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Projects in Theoretical Quantum Optics and Quantum Information
Two different projects are available
- Quantum Internet technology. This project will be part of the Quantum Internet Alliance (QIA), a joint European network aiming at bulding the world’s first quantum internet protype within the duration of the Ph.D. project. The successful candidate will develop physical models of the system being built with the aim of predicting and optimizing its performance. In addition the project will develop general theories for quantum internet technologies and methods for describing them.
- Scalable quantum information processing based on quantum dots. The projects aims at developing theories for how to implement quantum information processing with quantum dots strongly coupled to light and will be a collaboration with experimentalists at the Niels Bohr Institute, Ruhr-Universität Bochum and the University of Basel. The goal is to both develop concrete proposals for experiments which can be implemented in the near future and long term architectures for quantum information processors.
Deadline : 15 March 2026
(20) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD fellowships in Remote Sensing and Deep Learning for understanding woody ecosystem response to climate change
The Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management invites applicants for two PhD fellowships in Remote Sensing and Deep Learning for understanding woody ecosystem response to climate change. The PhD positions are part of Center for Remote sensing and Deep Learning of Global Tree Resources funded by the Danish National Research Foundation, which focuses on the critical role of trees in terrestrial ecosystems, such as climate regulation, biodiversity support, and local livelihoods.
Deadline : March 15th 2026
(21) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD fellowship in Physics
The project aims to enhance the understanding and prediction of climate tipping points, with a specific focus on the potential collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC). As global warming accelerates, current climate models struggle to accurately predict extreme events and rapid changes. The project will integrate physics-based climate models, data analysis, and advanced statistical methods to bridge discrepancies between theoretical predictions, observational data, and climate model outputs. By developing new statistical techniques and models, the project seeks to provide early warnings of tipping points, particularly the AMOC collapse, which could have severe global climate implications. With a strong interdisciplinary approach, the collaboration between experts in mathematics, physics, and data science aims to create a robust framework for predicting and mitigating the risks associated with climate change.
Deadline : 15 March 2026,
(22) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD position focusing on pathogen lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases as inhibitor targets
The PhD student will focus on lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases (LPMOs), which are copper carbohydrate active enzymes receiving much attention in the latter decade, initially for their biotechnological potential in biofuel production, but now also because of their prominence in pathogens, particularly plant pathogens. The PhD project will run in two tracks: 1) structure-based inhibitor design of LPMOs, including crystallographic fragment screening and other ligand-complex studies (initially on model LPMOs), inhibitions studies and computational inhibitor design and 2) characterization, both functional and structural, of novel LPMOs from plant pathogens and their interactions with inhibitors. Part 1) will in particular involve strong collaboration with the group of Jørn Bolstad Christensen at the University of Copenhagen and a postdoctoral researcher carrying out synthetic chemistry and Part 2) with the group of Jean-Guy Berrin (INRAE, Marseille, France) where several LPMOs from fungal phytopathogens have been already identified.
Deadline : 12 March 2026
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The University of Copenhagen is a public research university in Copenhagen, Denmark. Founded in 1479, the University of Copenhagen is the second-oldest university in Scandinavia, and ranks as one of the top universities in the Nordic countries and Europe.
Its establishment sanctioned by Pope Sixtus IV, the University of Copenhagen was founded by Christian I of Denmark as a Catholic teaching institution with a predominantly theological focus. In 1537, it was re-established by King Christian III as part of the Lutheran Reformation. Up until the 18th century, the university was primarily concerned with educating clergymen. Through various reforms in the 18th and 19th century, the University of Copenhagen was transformed into a modern, secular university, with science and the humanities replacing theology as the main subjects studied and taught.
The University of Copenhagen consists of six different faculties, with teaching taking place in its four distinct campuses, all situated in Copenhagen. The university operates 36 different departments and 122 separate research centres in Copenhagen, as well as a number of museums and botanical gardens in and outside the Danish capital. The University of Copenhagen also owns and operates multiple research stations around Denmark, with two additional ones located in Greenland. Additionally, The Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences and the public hospitals of the Capital and Zealand Region of Denmark constitute the conglomerate Copenhagen University Hospital.
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 Copenhage
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