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: PhD Research Fellowship in Science & Technology Studies
One PhD Research Fellowship (SKO 1017) in Science & Technology Studies (STS) is available at TIK Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture at the University of Oslo (UiO) from August 2026.
Candidates are invited to apply for a three-year PhD Research Fellowship associated with the DataMines project (Governing data infrastructure and clouds in digitally mediated natural resource extraction and exploitation).
The position is for three years, with the possibility of extension for teaching activities.
The successful PhD candidate will define and carry out an individual subproject on the politics of bioprospecting in Norway, with a focus on legal and scientific practices. More information about the project is available in the project’s website and upon request [email protected]
Deadline : 28th April 2026
(02) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Research Fellowship in Quantitative Imaging and Cell Mechanics of Early Embryo Development
GENESIS is a newly established Life Science Convergence Environment that brings active matter physics, cell biology, and machine learning to address the fundamental processes guiding the earliest stages of mammalian embryo development. Early embryogenesis is a critical stage in which collective cell dynamics, mechanical forces, and gene regulation interact to drive blastocyst formation, embryonic axis establishment, and cell fate specification.
This PhD project aims to experimentally map and quantify the mechanical and dynamical processes underlying early mouse and human embryogenesis, focusing on cellular motility, shape dynamics, cytoskeletal organization, and force generation. The position is embedded in a highly interdisciplinary team spanning advanced microscopy, gene regulation, active matter physics, and machine learning.
Deadline : 10th April 2026
View All Fully Funded PhD Positions Click Here
(03) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD research fellowship (SKO 1017) in Innovation studies
The PhD fellow will contribute to WPs 9 and 10 of the SURE-AI centre. This research will investigate the adoption and use of AI for private firms and public organizations, and the factors that affect adoption patterns and strategies, such as organizational skills and capabilities, ICT-related infrastructures and digital skills of the employees, as well as ethical and regulatory constraints that may affect organizations’ propensity to implement and use AI. Research in these workpackages will also investigate the effects that AI use in firms have on R&D and innovation, the changing nature of working tasks, and business performance. Professor Fulvio Castellacci and Associate Professor Markus Bugge coordinate the TIK Centre’s work in SURE-AI.
The appointed candidate will be part of the TIK Centre’s research group in Innovation Studies.
The research fellow will be part in the Faculty’s approved PhD programme (TIK track) and is expected to complete the project within the set fellowship period. The main purpose of the fellowship is research training leading to the successful completion of a PhD degree. For more information, please see the Faculty of Social Sciences’ web site.
In addition to their own research work, fellows may be invited to participate in teaching and/or administration activities connected to research and teaching in the programs offered at the Centre. All such work will be compensated with an equivalent extension of the research fellowship.
Deadline : 12th April 2026
(04) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Research Fellow in Theoretical and Computational Active Matter Physics for Glioblastoma Invasion
Glioblastoma (GBM) is a highly invasive and lethal brain cancer whose progression is strongly governed by cellular and nuclear mechanics, cytoskeletal organization, and interactions with a mechanically heterogeneous brain microenvironment. The GLIOFORCE project explores mechano-adaptation as a targetable vulnerability in this aggressive disease.
The successful candidate will join an interdisciplinary research consortium and work closely with three other PhD students, combining theory, computation, and experiments to model and manipulate the physical forces experienced by invading cancer cells. The overarching goal is to identify biomechanical “weak points” in cancer cell invasion and to inform the development of innovative, mechanics-based intervention strategies. By focusing on the biomechanics of cancer cell spreading, GLIOFORCE seeks to open new avenues for the treatment of aggressive cancers such as glioblastoma.
Deadline : 5th April 2026
(05) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Fellow position in Psychology (Gene-Environment Interplay and Neurodevelopment)
A PhD Fellow position in psychology is available at the PROMENTA Research Center, the Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Norway.
The PhD fellow will be part of the interdisciplinary Convergence Environment NeuroPathways: A Multidisciplinary Convergence Approach to Understanding and Supporting Neurodevelopmental Variability, funded through the University of Oslo. The project integrates genetics, psychology, pharmacology, and educational sciences to advance understanding of neurodevelopmental variability and improve evidence-based and inclusive support strategies across the life course.
Deadline : 31st March 2026
Polite Follow-Up Email to Professor : When and How You should Write
Click here to know “How to write a Postdoc Job Application or Email”
(06) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD-fellowship
The PhD candidate will be part of an interdisciplinary team of researchers with backgrounds in demography, sociology, psychology, economics and health sciences. He or she will work closely with researchers at other institutions, especially the Norwegian Institute of Public Health where the candidate will be offered part-time placement, and there are opportunities for collaboration and exchanges with international project partners in Europe and North America.
The appointment is a fulltime position for a period of three years. The employment period can be considered to be up to 4 years given addition of teaching and administrative duties (up to 25 %), depending on the competence of the successful applicant and the needs of the department.
The HUP Section conducts research and provides education in health, developmental, and personality psychology across various academic programs. The section has around 40 national and international staff members, including a dozen permanent university lecturer, associate professors and professors, with about half being women. It also includes around two dozen PhD students, Post-Doctoral and Research Fellows, and Associate Professors II.
Deadline : 31st March 2026
(07) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD-fellowship
We invite applicants for a three-year position as a PhD research fellow at the Institute of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Oslo. The position is based at the University of Oslo, and is jointly led and supervised by the University of Oslo, the ERC HOMME grant (PI Vegard Skirbekk), as well as the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, the ERC Biosfer grant (PI Mikko Myrskyla).
The successful candidate will make use of a rich linkage of register data on the whole Norwegian population and larger health studies. The PhD candidate will be part of an interdisciplinary team of researchers with backgrounds in demography, sociology, psychology, economics and health sciences. He or she will work closely with researchers at other institutions, especially the Norwegian Institute of Public Health where the candidate will be offered part-time placement, and there are opportunities for collaboration and exchanges with international project partners in Europe and North America.
Deadline : 31st March 2026
(08) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD fellowship at the Interface of Systems Neuroscience and Cancer Biomechanics Research
A 4-year PhD position is available at the Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo. This is a unique collaboration between the labs of Associate Professor Coen Campsteijn (mechanistic cancer biology) and Professor Koen Vervaeke (systems neuroscience).
You will join GLIOFORCE, a recently established and interdisciplinary consortium merging biology, physics and engineering to describe, model and target cellular biomechanics during invasion of aggressive brain cancer, Glioblastoma. By targeting cancer cell mechano-adaptation, GLIOFORCE aims to open up innovative avenues for treating aggressive cancers like Glioblastoma.
Deadline : 5th April 2026
Click here to know “How to Write an Effective Cover Letter”
(09) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD fellowship in Systems Neuroscience
A PhD position is available in the lab of Prof. Koen Vervaeke at the Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Oslo. The position is a four-year fixed-term appointment, of which 25% is dedicated to career building opportunities.
We are looking for highly motivated candidates with a strong interest in systems neuroscience and microscopy.
The lab focuses on determining the mechanisms of neural circuits and the contribution of specific cell types to behavior. In this particular project, you will investigate how the hippocampus forms spatial memories and how these processes are influenced by addictive substances.
You will use state-of-the-art in vivo two-photon imaging and electrophysiology to record neuronal activity in rodents performing behavioral tasks, and use optogenetics to manipulate neural activity.
Do you enjoy working in an international environment, tackling the mysteries of the brain with the support of an international team of experts? Then this job may be for you.
Deadline : 5th April 2026
(10) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Research Fellow in Criminology or Sociology of Law on the Shadow Fleet
A position as a PhD Research Fellow (SKO 1017) is available as part of the convergence environment CargoCrime: (Il)Licit Seaborne Transport and the Energy Transition, led by Associate Professor Hege Høyer Leivestad and funded by UiO:Energy and Environment (2025-2030). The fellow will be responsible for their own PhD project and work closely with Professor Kjersti Lohne at the Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law as part of the Faculty of Law’s responsibility for CargoCrime’s second work package “Spotlighting the Shadow Fleet”.
The appointment period lasts three years without teaching obligations, or four years with teaching duties making up 25% of the total workload. A four-year fellowship requires that the candidate can contribute to the Faculty of Law’s current teaching needs. The expected start date is no later than 1 September 2026. The location of employment is Oslo.
PhD fellowships are recruitment positions intended to lead to a PhD degree at The Faculty of Law. Applicants must be qualified for admission to the PhD programme at the Faculty of Law. Read more about the Doctoral Degree.
Deadline : 23rd March 2026
Connect with Us for Latest Job updates
(11) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Research Fellow in Education: Learning, Reading, and Assessment in the Context of Generative AI
Applicants are invited to apply for a 3-year position as PhD Research Fellow in language didactics to be based at the Department of Teacher Education and School Research (ILS) at the University of Oslo.
Are you motivated to take a step towards a doctorate and open up exciting career opportunities? As a PhD Candidate with us, you will work to achieve your doctorate, and at the same time gain valuable experience that qualifies you for a further career in higher education and research, both in and outside academia.
This PhD fellowship is part of the newly established AI Centre for the Empowerment of Human Learning (AI LEARN). The centre will foster interdisciplinary collaboration among researchers to address societal challenges, understand the impact of AI, develop new technologies, and drive innovation across both the business and public sectors. This initiative is established and financed through the government’s significant investment in artificial intelligence over the next five years.
Your immediate leader will be professor Marte Blikstad-Balas and associate professor Fredrik M. Røkenes.
This PhD fellowship is part of the national AI Centre for the Empowerment of Human Learning (AI LEARN).
Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming how we learn, work, and participate in society. While these developments present significant opportunities, they also raise challenges that require a responsible and research-based approach.
As humans and AI learn together, create together, and lead together, the foundations of education, work, and civic life are being reshaped. AI LEARN brings together researchers and partners across disciplines and sectors to explore how AI can be used in inclusive, ethical, and sustainable ways – with the goal of strengthening human agency and democratic participation in an AI-driven society.
Deadline : 31st March 2026
Polite Follow-Up Email to Professor : When and How You should Write
(12) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Research Fellow in Multisensory Networked Interactions with Robotics Avatars
The PhD fellowship position is located at the Department of Informatics and is hosted jointly by the Network and Distributed Systems Research Group and the Robotics and Intelligent Systems Research Group. The research groups consist of around 30 full- and part-time faculty members and several postdoctoral researchers and PhD students. The research groups conduct research in various areas of mobile network systems, multimedia and AR/VR/XR systems, robotics and machine learning, focusing on fundamental aspects as well as on applications in multidisciplinary contexts.
This position is part of the DRIVE project, funded by the Research Council of Norway (RCN) (2026-2030), focusing on brain-driven multi-sensory robotic avatars for remote collaborative physical work. The DRIVE project involves Simula Research Laboratory and University of Texas at Austin, USA, as partners. In addition, this PhD candidate will be able to participate and exploit synergies with the National AI Centre for AI and Creativity (MishMash), led by University of Oslo, funded by the RCN (2025-2030).
The successful candidate will join the Sustainable Immersive Networking Lab (SINLAB), a multidisciplinary team working on systems that enable users to act in remote physical spaces and experience the effects of their actions through multimodal feedback (audio, video, haptics). While SINLAB addresses applications in health, industry, education, sports, entertainment and creative domains, the focus of the PhD candidate will be on remote collaborative physical work especially the real-time interaction among humans and between humans and a remote environment.
Deadline : 1st April 2026
(13) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Research Fellow in functional genomics
The PhD will be hired on the project “HotSpot: Stress-induced mutations in evolution” funded by the NFR and led by William Reinar. The HotSpot project investigates how environmental stress biases the genomic mutation landscape and how these biases may influence evolution.
The recruited PhD candidate will be involved in the work package Genome dynamics of stress-induced mutagenesis and will investigate how heat stress impacts Arabidopsis thaliana genome dynamics. The PhD candidate will generate omics (RNA-seq and PacBio CiFi) and phenotypic data from experimentally evolved Arabidopsis thaliana lines and perform integrative analyses of these data to advance our understanding of transient and heritable changes in a plant system under stress.
The project provides an excellent opportunity for the candidate to conduct high-impact research facilitating pursual of further academic and/or commercial ambitions within plant sciences after project completion. The work will be conducted in labs and facilities connected to the Department of Biosciences, UiO, which is planned to re-locate to the new Life Science Building in 2026/2027.
Deadline : 1st April 2026
(14) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Phd research fellow in pharmacology
A full-time PhD position (SKO 1017) is available for 4 years in the “Innate Lymphocyte Group” led by professor Marit Inngjerdingen at Department of Pharmacology, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo. The position includes 25 percent of career-promoting work, such as teaching, supervision, and/or research assistance. The career-promoting work is dependent upon the qualifications of the applicant and the current needs of the department.
This position is a part of the convergence environment PERMEATE- Peptides for Membrane Targeting and Synergistic Drug Delivery. Convergence environments are interdisciplinary research groups that will aim to solve grand challenges related to health and environment. They are funded by UiO’s interdisciplinary strategic area UiO:Life Science.
The project will focus on overcoming cell membrane barriers using peptides to facilitate the targeted delivery of therapeutic molecules, leveraging a multidisciplinary approach that combines expertise from computational sciences and chemistry to pharmacy and medicine.
Key research goals of the project are:
- Identify peptides to specifically target and permeate cell membranes of therapeutic relevance.
- Explore synergistic effects of peptides with small molecule therapeutics.
- Use peptides as a targeting molecule for drug delivery vehicles such as lipid nanoparticles (LNPs)
- Create experimental protocols for cancerous, healthy human and microbial model cell membranes.
- Establish predictive models for peptide-induced transport and cell membrane deformation.
- Create a training hub for young scientists to prosper in a multidisciplinary environment that connects experts ranging from theoretical modelling to biomedical applications.
The convergence environment will include three PhD positions and one postdoc position.
Deadline : 30th March 2026
(15) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Research Fellow in Semiconductor Defects for Quantum Technologies
A PhD Research Fellow is available at Centre for Materials Science and Nanotechnology (SMN), Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Oslo (UiO), within the Centre for Defects in Semiconductors for Quantum Sensing (DSQS). DSQS is one of four national research centers within quantum technology in Norway. DSQS is experimentally oriented center for physical realization of quantum technology using point defects in semiconductors. Point defects, e.g. a missing atom or a small defect complex, can act as artificial atoms for use in quantum communication and computing, or as in the present project, as quantum sensors. Such defects are often termed as quantum defects, highlighted for example by NV-centers after the nitrogen-vacancy center in diamond. At DSQS, we aim to explore emerging candidates for quantum defect components in silicon and silicon carbide, discover novel and previously unknown defects in other quantum materials, and further develop the NV center toward practical applications. DSQS aims to build a competitive research environment that spans over a large portion of the value chain – from fundamental understanding of materials and defects to integration and sensing applications. The Norwegian partners are the University of Oslo, SINTEF and Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI) as well as international collaboration envisaged with Nordic partners in Denmark and Sweden.
Deadline : 7th April 2026
(16) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Research Fellow in Sociology- Punishment as a Vehicle for Change?
The PhD fellow will be part of the research project Punishment as a Vehicle for Change? The Causal Impact of Norwegian Corrections on Reoffending and Reintegration in Norway and Beyond (NoReoffend), which is financed by the Research Council of Norway and headed by Professor Synøve N. Andersen. The fellow is expected to pursue independent research under supervision and within the scope of the NoReoffend project.
The NoReoffend project seeks to advance our knowledge on the intended and unintended consequences of punishment, using Norway as a case study. The project will employ population-wide register data and experimental methods to assess causal effects of sentencing and programming on the reoffending, employment, education and/or family outcomes of sentenced individuals. The successful candidate is expected to develop a research agenda focused on one or more of these outcomes and contribute to the project’s WP1. Please contact Prof. Andersen for more information and a more detailed description of the project.
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 candidate who is hired will automatically be admitted to the PhD programme. Residence in Norway is expected, but a research stay abroad during the fellowship period is encouraged.
Deadline : 30th April 2026
(17) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Research Fellow in Social Sciences
Applicants are invited for a four-year full-time position as PhD Research Fellow at the Centre for Research on Equality in Education (CREATE), University of Oslo, Norway.
CREATE is an interdisciplinary Centre of Excellence funded by the Research Council of Norway with the objective of generating novel knowledge about how to reduce social inequality. The interdisciplinary center integrates researchers with substantive expertise from education, psychology, sociology, economics, and genetics, and methodological expertise from educational measurement, psychometrics, econometrics, statistics, and biostatistics. The PhD Fellowship is affiliated with CREATE’s research strand 1 «Identifying the barriers to equality in education», aiming to disentangle the causal mechanisms that hinder equality and to understand for whom, how, and why these mechanisms operate over time and across the life course.
The PhD Fellow will be part of the interdisciplinary Convergence Environment “NeuroPathways: A Multidisciplinary Convergence Approach to Understanding and Supporting Neurodevelopmental Variability”, funded through the University of Oslo. The project integrates economics, sociology, genetics, psychology, pharmacology, and educational sciences to advance our understanding of neurodevelopmental variability and improve evidence-based and inclusive support strategies across the life course.
We are looking for a motivated and engaged PhD Fellow with strong potential for high-quality research. The position includes 25% career-promoting work, which may consist of teaching, dissemination, and contributions to NeuroPathways interdisciplinary and convergence activities. The career-promoting work will depend on the candidate’s qualifications and CREATE’s needs.
Deadline : 13th April 2026
(18) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Research Fellow in statistical population ecology
The employment will lead to a PhD in statistical ecology, focussing on studying correlated life-history traits, combining different sources of information, and assessing how environmental effects and management actions affect population dynamics and viability. Available data include long term capture recapture data on fish (also including scale samples) and seabirds (also including tracking data). Other relevant data may be suggested by the applicant. Extensive fieldwork is not expected.
As part of BioM, the candidate will work in an interdisciplinary team of biologists, statisticians and philosophers, including one other PhD student (statistics) and two postdocs (spatial forest ecology and philosophy/social science). The candidate is expected to contribute toward developing wholistic adaptive management systems.
BioM is an interdisciplinary Convergence Environment under UiO:Life Science, involving collaborations between the Department of Biosciences, the Natural History Museum, the Department of Mathematics, and the Department of Philosophy. To respond effectively to the accelerating decline in biodiversity, BioM will unite ecology, statistics, and philosophy to improve the modelling and governance of biodiversity under uncertainty. The project develops process-explicit, hierarchical models that capture key ecological dynamics, integrate diverse and incomplete data sources, and account for uncertainty in ways that are relevant to real-world management. Since Jan 1 2026, UiO:Life Science is part of the Centre for Global Sustainability.
Deadline : 15th April 2026
(19) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Research Fellow in Theoretical and Computational Active Matter Physics
GENESIS is a newly established Life Science Convergence Environment that brings together active matter physics, cell biology, and computational biology to address the fundamental
processes guiding the earliest stages of mammalian embryo development. Early embryogenesis involves tightly coupled cellular dynamics, mechanical forces, and gene regulation that drive symmetry breaking, self-organization, and cell fate specification, many of which exhibit hallmarks of active matter.
This PhD project aims to develop theoretical and computational active-matter models of early mouse embryogenesis that couple collective cell mechanics with gene regulation. The goal is to identify the physical and mechanochemical principles underlying symmetry breaking and self-organization during pre-implantation development, in close connection with experimental data from live imaging and spatially resolved gene expression profiling.
The work of the PhD fellow will be theoretical and computational in nature and will include:
- Developing minimal active-matter models capturing cell motility, deformation, and division
- Incorporating gene-regulatory effects and studying mechanochemical feedback
- Analyzing symmetry breaking, self-organization, and topological defects
- Validating models using experimental data generated by the GENESIS team
The project offers a strongly interdisciplinary research environment spanning physics, developmental biology, advanced imaging, and machine learning.
Deadline : 5th April 2026
(20) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Research Fellow in Trustworthy Machine Learning
Unsupervised machine learning (ML) methods are widely used to explore structure in complex and high-dimensional data, particularly in the life sciences, where clustering analyses often form the basis for biological interpretation and hypothesis generation. In practice, the conclusions drawn from such analyses rest on a set of often implicit assumptions about what constitutes a meaningful or reliable result, for example, that stable solutions under realistic data perturbation are good indicators of the underlying structure, or that internal validation criteria capture the relevant aspects of the data and their representation. Many such assumptions are widely relied upon, yet rarely examined explicitly. In high-dimensional settings, these assumptions are especially difficult to justify, as sparsity and the curse of dimensionality make the identification and interpretation of the latent structure more challenging. This project addresses these challenges within the framework of trustworthy machine learning to clarify when unsupervised analyses, particularly clustering, can be meaningfully trusted to reflect properties of the underlying data-generating process.
Deadline : 24th March 2026
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.
Disclaimer: We try to ensure that the information we post on VacancyEdu.com is accurate. However, despite our best efforts, some of the content may contain errors. You can trust us, but please conduct your own checks too.
Related Posts
