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 Scholarship at the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen (UCPH): The Anatomy of Empire (ANATEM)
We hereby invite applications for a PhD scholarship at the Department of Political Science. The successful candidate will work on the project ‘The Anatomy of Empire”, funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark, alongside professor Jacob Gerner Hariri (PI) and co-investigators, associate professor Asger Mose Wingender (Department of Economics, UCPH) and professor Gary Cox (Stanford University). The successful candidate will be enrolled at the Faculty of Social Sciences under the Copenhagen Graduate School of Social Sciences.
In most of recorded history, empire has been the dominant form of political organization. Even so, there are no systematic empirical analyses of how being subject to imperial rule has affected countries’ political development or, indeed, of what actually constitutes “empire”. These fundamental questions are part of what ANATEM will seek to address. This is relevant today because many so-called ‘failed states’ were, until recently, under imperial rule. It is also relevant because many scholars find that great powers today are beginning to behave like empires again. The chosen candidate will work with the other team members to finalize and analyze a novel database of cities, which were the political, economic, and administrative nodes of states and empires.
The successful candidate will write her/his PhD dissertation on the overall topic of political and economic development primarily, but not limited to, using the database. Funding is available for conference attendance and research visits such that the candidate can develop her/his international network and research expertise.
Deadline :02-12-2024
(02) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD fellowship in Sediment DNA at the Department of Forensic Medicine
Research on human DNA recovered from sediments is a rapidly developing field. This area has implications for both forensic and ancient DNA research, where recovered DNA could be used for human identifications or to understand past environments and people. However, there is still a lack of understanding of how DNA is preserved in sediments, how to maximize its recovery, and how to adapt computational methods to this metagenomic data. This project will utilize bronze age sediments from England in order to study DNA preservation and recovery from different geological conditions. Methodological findings from this study will then be applied to sediments from various bronze age sites to study human population dynamics and agricultural practices. In addition, there will be the opportunity to apply these methods to human identification scenarios. This project will be performed at the Section of Forensic Genetics, Department of Forensic Medicine and will include collaborations with the Section for GeoGenetics, The Globe Institute.
Deadline : 28 November 2024
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(03) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD stipends in Statistics and the mathematics of Insurance and Economics
There will be PhD stipends available in
- Statistics, mathematics-economics, and actuarial science in general (not associated with a prespecified project; contact Helle Sørensen, [email protected])
- Statistical modeling of emerging risks (contact Martin Bladt, [email protected])
- Optimization under decision-dependent uncertainty (contact Giovanni Pantuso, [email protected])
- Actuarial science within the project frame InterAct (contact Mogens Steffensen, [email protected])
You are welcome to contact any member of the sections of Insurance and Economics and Statistics and Probability Theory to discuss research projects.
Deadline :15-11-2024
(04) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD stipends in Mathematics
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.
Deadline : 15-11-2024
(05) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD fellowship in Meiofauna Hox Gene Evolution and Patterning
Many animals occupy the microscopic realm (i.e., the meiofauna), exhibiting a tiny size but still astonishingly complex behaviors and life strategies. How do animals become small? Which mechanisms allow them to adapt to life in the meiofauna? This PhD project will answer these questions by exploring the genomes of meiofauna animals and their larger, closer relatives. Through comparative genomics and transcriptomics during the life stages of selected meiofauna, we will find signatures of miniaturization in these animals affecting their development and metabolism, which might explain their small size and life cycle strategies. To better understand how their small bodies evolved, we will focus on Hox genes, an ancient gene family involved in the formation of the trunk of all animals with bilateral symmetry. We will combine computational with experimental analyses of gene expression (e.g., in situ hybridization) to characterize the Hox gene complement of meiobenthic lineages, as well as the timing and pattern of expression of these genes during their embryogenesis. Together, this PhD project will address fundamental questions in animal evolution while combining multiple approaches (field collections, theory, computational and experimental biology) to understand the biological principles underpinning animal miniaturization.
The PhD candidate is expected to participate in the design of experiments, conduct fieldwork collecting meiofauna, and perform bioinformatic analyses and In Situ Hybridization experiments. The project will involve one or several research stays abroad, e.g., with collaborator José M. Martín-Durán at Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom.
Deadline : 13 November 2024
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(06) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Fellowship in public policy and sustainable transition at the University of Copenhagen
At its core, the objective of GreenTraC is to establish the causal relations between determinants (e.g. political, institutional and technological conditions) of green transition policy and its effects on transition processes. Rather than focusing on single instruments in transition policy, our study objects are packages of policy instruments brought to bear on a particular domain. Effective green transition policy mixes simultaneously promote creation of novel green solutions and phase-out unsustainable solutions. However, this can be politically difficult as it may mobilise opposition from actors applying unsustainable technologies. This points to the importance of policy processes in overcoming opposition from potential losers of policy change. Though it has been recognised that policy process theory needs to be brought into transition studies, little progress has been achieved in this respect. GreenTraC will advance knowledge on the way in which policy processes may promote or impede green transition. The Centre focuses on policies for green transition of the agrifood industry, energy-intensive industries (e.g. cement and chemicals) and maritime transport – three sectors where emission-reductions have been relatively limited and rapid acceleration is needed. The PhD fellow will undertake comparative research on green transition policy processes within one or two of these sectors, taking into account the PhD fellow’s interests and profile.
Deadline : 04-11-2024
(07) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD fellowship in comparative peptidomics and immunoinformatics
The objective of the PhD is to develop and validate immunopeptidomic methods for canine MHC class I/II presented antigen discovery, develop in-silico models for dog leukocyte antigen (DLA) presentation as well as to characterize presented antigens in dogs presenting with spontaneously resolving tumors.
The overall aim is to advance tools for immunotherapeutic evaluation in dogs with the view that this can benefit dogs as well as improve the translation of research between dogs and humans. A secondary view is to understand the mechanism behind self-resolving canine tumors and to evaluate if this mechanism can be explored for future strategic immunotherapy development across species.
Deadline : 3 November 2024
(08) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD scholarship at the Department of Communication, Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen (UCPH)
We are looking for a motivated PhD candidate who will participate in the research project Post-neutrality in Libraries, Archives and Museums financed by VELUX FONDEN’s core group program (Project number VEL67752).
Libraries, archives and museums (LAMs) in Denmark, as well as in the rest of the Western world, are in the midst of a major transformation from being understood as neutral cultural institutions to undertaking a more distinct and active position on certain societal issues. Several LAM-institutions are concerned with contributing to a more inclusive society and drawing attention to past injustices. Simultaneously, LAMs are increasingly involved in solving new types of tasks in society, e.g. fighting climate change or engaging in issues of health and well-being. The research project Post-neutrality in Libraries, Archives and Museums examines the ongoing transformation from different perspectives in order to create a conceptual framework that enables society to engage in more productive discussions and evaluations of the practices of cultural institutions.
Within the framework of the overall research project Post-neutrality in libraries, archives and museums, the successful candidate will complete a three-year PhD project with the aim of analysing how post-neutral practices and strategies are understood by leaders and professionals in Danish LAM-organisations, how the practices are implemented both off- and online, what the implications are for their engagement with communities, and the extent to which they reshape the core missions and functions of LAMs. The project should be carried out primarily as case studies with ethnographic methods. We invite project proposals with innovative ideas on how to investigate post-neutral strategies and practices in Danish LAMs. The proposal should also include ideas for relevant cases.
Deadline :03-11-2024
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(09) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD fellowship in Environmental Economics
Over the coming decades, the Danish government has the ambition to increase the forest area by 250,000 hectares to meet a number of strategic environmental and climate goals. It is currently unknown how the areas will be selected and how to prioritise between different objectives such as climate change mitigation, biodiversity conservation, water quality improvements in coastal waters and protection of ground water resources. Integrated Environmental Economic models are useful tools to conduct scenarios for different strategies and explore their implementation. The PhD will further develop existing national scale models to improve their robustness for policy design.
The PhD will improve the existing national scale economic model (TargetEconBES) to allow more targeted scenario development for afforestation strategies. This will require integration of new data sources and close interaction with experts from different environmental science domains.
It is envisaged, that the project will enhance the methodologies to evaluate alternative land use scenarios and produce an overall analysis of the value of establishing new forests in different places in Denmark. Through spatially explicit environmental economics modelling, the project will integrate data on the current land use, the economic and environmental values of alternative uses, and develop landscape level scenarios to identify where new forests could achieve significant environmental benefits in cost effective ways.
Deadline : 01-11-2024
(10) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD fellowship in Comprehensive Serological Viral Screening at the Department of Immunology and Microbiology
The 3-year PhD fellowship will include laboratory-based PhIP-Seq analysis of historic, archived patient serological samples. The project will require both the development of a phage display library and comprehensive serological antibody screening for application in 3- 5 separate studies characterising the virome in IMD patients before and after their disease onset, and exploring the role of IMD outcomes, in those individuals with specific antibody profiles and genetic susceptibility, compared with those without IMD. The ideal candidate should embody academic excellence with wet laboratory experience as well as strong biostatistical skills.
Deadline : 31 October 2024
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(11) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD scholarship in platform studies at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen (UCPH)
The PhD position is part of the Level up your money game project which runs from 2025 to 2027 and is funded by the Velux foundation. The successful candidate’s research activities will contribute to the project’s empirical studies of children and young people’s economic socialisation at the intersection between gaming and finance.
Level up your money game addresses children and young peoples ‘money games’ in online environments. With money games we refer to the ongoing convergence between gaming and finance as virtual game economies intersect with wider speculative trading on the internet, new types of ‘finfluencers’ emerge on social media platforms, gaming discourses spread across the financial sector, and gamification techniques are put to use on retail investment platforms. The project addresses children and young people’s money games in this digital environment at the level of social practices, creator strategies and platform models. To do this, the project will combine qualitative fieldwork, digital methods and political economic analysis.
For more information about the project, please contact the project PI Anne Mette Thorhauge ([email protected]).
As a PhD student in the project, you are expected to formulate and carry out your own PhD project focused on an empirical mapping and exploration of everyday practices, identities, and socialization of Danish youth at the intersection between gaming and finance, in accordance with work package 1 in the project. This work will include qualitative fieldwork, primarily consisting of ethnographic interviews and focus groups with Danish youth, and qualitative, and possibly quantitative, analyses of social media content and social interactions across relevant sites and platforms. This work will be linked with the overall project work on social practices and platform models and contribute to a more general conceptualization and analysis of money games as a multidimensional construct.
In addition to carrying out an individual PhD project the successful applicant is expected to participate in project activities, including regular coordination activities as well as organizing, hosting and/or attending research events in Denmark and abroad. As a PhD student at the Department of Communication you will be part of a dynamic and internationally oriented interdisciplinary environment focused on advancing theoretical, methodological and empirical research about digital society.
Deadline : 27 October 2024.
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(12) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD fellowship in Unraveling the impact of oral diseases, and unique oral microbiome and salivary proteome signatures in identifying early-stage complications in children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes
The project is part of a larger interdisciplinary collaboration, in which children and adolescents with T1D from Eastern Denmark undergo a comprehensive screening program using advanced methods.
There is an increasing recognition of the complex interplay between oral and general health, and this project acknowledges the strength of including evaluation of oral health into the conventional screening program of early signs of retinopathy, nephropathy, and neuropathy.
This project will provide new insights in the interplay between oral and systemic determinants of development of early diabetic complications, which eventually can be useful in identifying subgroups at specific risk of early complications and enhance development of preventive and therapeutic measures to minimize morbidity later in life.
An additional aim is to determine whether the salivary glands are potential targets of autoimmune processes as those seen in the pancreas in type 1 diabetes. The salivary glands may also be targets for vascular and nerve changes and display early signs of microangiopathy and neuropathy. These histopathological changes can contribute to explain occurrence of salivary gland dysfunction and subsequent development of oral diseases and assist in identifying children with type 1 diabetes having specific needs for dental preventive measures and treatment to avoid disease development and complicating the management of type 1 diabetes.
Deadline : 27th October 2024
(13) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Two PhD fellowships in “The effect of biotechnological pesticides based on RNA and peptides on species in the environment”
The vision of ENSAFE is to develop the in silico and experimental methods and tools needed to underpin an efficient evidence-based risk assessment framework for new bio-based plant protection products (PPPs) based on short double stranded RNA (dsRNA) and peptides. We will hire two PhD students working with each their model compound of newly commersialised dsRNA or peptide based products:
- PhD 1 will focus on understanding species specificity of PPPs based on spray on dsRNA, of which the first product, Ledprona, was approved for use in the USA in December 2023. You will work closely with the bioinformatisians in the project, who develop computer models to predict which species may be the most sensitive based on their genomic composition. You will create experimental data to underpin the mashine learning models, and will test hypotheses formulated based on the models. Species sensitivity measures may include endpoints reaching from the molecular scale using different omic’s techniques to monitoring life-history traits such as growth, reproduction and survival of the test organisms.
- PhD 2 will focus on understanding species specificity of PPPs based on spray on peptides, of which insecticides from the company Vestaron will provide a first case, but other products could be included. You will also work with bioinformatisians, who develop computer models to predict which species may be the most sensitive, but the link between genomes and target proteins may be less close that that for RNA-based products. Species sensitivity measures may include endpoints reaching from the molecular scale using different omic’s techniques to monitoring life-history traits such as growth, reproduction and survival of the test organisms.
Common for both PhD’s will be joint work with our project partners at UK Center for Ecology and Hydrology in Wallingford, England, who are experts in terrestrial ecotoxicology and risk assessments of biopesticides, and host a range of important non-target species such as ladybirds, bees and butterflies, and collaboration with project partners from Ålborg University who are experts in tracing biomolecules such as RNA and peptides in organisms and the environment. Two PhDs will also be hired by CEH, who will dive closer into biological modes of actions of the producs when sensitive species have been identified by you, and postdocs and PhDs will be hired by Ålborg university to develop the tools for tracking the products in organisms and the environment. Hence, you will be part of a team of 4-5 PhD students working on each their topic within the ENSAFE project, and will be an active and contributing part of the ENSAFE consortium working on creating the scientific foundation needed to effectively evaluate the environmental safety of dsRNA and peptide-based PPP technologies for uses in Europe.
Deadline : 27 October 2024
(14) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD fellowship in Food Science
The project is aimed at developing experimentation methods that allow us to do efficiently characterise the functionality that complex, mildly process plant based food ingredients give when applied in end products, such that we can obtain many results in parallel, as function of their origins (type of crop) and history of processing.
Deadline : 25-10-2024
(15) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD fellowship in epidemiology at the Eye Translational Research Unit
The FOREVER project is building the largest database of eye examination and health data in Scandinavia to study and improve eye health and general health in the aging population. The unique database, consisting of comprehensive eye examinations, questionnaire responses, blood pressure measurements and genetic information, is built in close collaboration with Synoptik A/S, unikk.me and the FOREVER consortium. In addition, data from nationwide health registries will also be included in the near future.
Deadline : 24 October 2024
(16) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD fellowship in sustainable protein production in rapeseed
We are seeking a talented PhD fellow to join our team in advancing sustainable plant-based protein production at the Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences. The successful candidate will work on elucidating the molecular mechanisms governing seed quality traits, with a focus on protein content and composition in rapeseed (Brassica napus) under low nitrogen input conditions.
Deadline : 23th October 2024
(17) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD fellowship in Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics
We are looking for candidates within the field of physics, preferably with a focus on condensed matter theory. Applicants can have a background from applied math as well, although knowledge of many-body techniques, including Feynman diagrams and second quantization, is highly desirable.
Deadline :22-10-2024
(18) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD fellowship in the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Doctoral Network (MSCA-DN) in intestinal organoids and gut-on-a-chip technology
The CEH is implementing an innovative research line in which we will for the first time conduct comparative evolutionary research on animal-microbiota interactions using gut-on-a-chip technology. Gut-on-a-chip organoid models are the most advanced in vitro technologies to study animal-microbiota interactions, for reproducing many of the essential biological properties of real intestines, such as pilosity, cell line differentiation, biochemical gradients and peristalsis. The objective of the fellowship is to generate intestinal organoids from wild animals belonging to multiple evolutionary lineages to create homologous gut-on-a-chip models, with which to study how reaction of animal tissues to microbial stimuli varies across evolutionary distinct species.
The PhD Fellow will need to collect intestinal tissue, develop standardised protocols to generate the intestinal organoids, seed them on stretchable PDMS chips, conduct experiment with them and run a range of microscopy and molecular assays at the Globe Institute’s organoid lab.
Deadline : October 22, 2024
(19) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD fellowship in the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Doctoral Network (MSCA-DN) in Hologenomics
Adaptive processes to environmental changes are the central axis of evolution. Understanding how living organisms manage to adapt to environmental changes has become more relevant than ever, due to the intensity of the climate change we are experiencing. Various theories and experimental data suggest that vertebrates will be one of the taxa most affected by rapid climate change, due to their limited capacity to accumulate mutations that can be subject to natural selection. Therefore, most vertebrates depend on their phenotypic plasticity (through changes in behaviour and physiology) to adapt to new conditions. Although historically the origin of such plasticity has been attributed to genetic factors, recent studies have shown that the intestinal microbiota can grant extra plasticity under certain conditions. Therefore, the objective of the fellowship is to measure the degree of extra capacity that the microbiota confers to newts to adapt to different climatic conditions.
The PhD Fellow will need to carry out field work and captivity experimentation with newts in Spain, in which the adaptation capacity (measured through fitness proxies including physiological, genetic and behavioural factors) of animals translocated from different environments and subject to microbiota transplants will be measured. In consequence, the project will require spending long periods of time outside Denmark. Finally, sequencing and phenotypic data will need to be generated and analysed using a variety of analytical approaches.
Deadline : 22-10-2024
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(20) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD fellowship in translational cardiology
Heart diseases are a major cause of death, disability, and societal costs world-wide. Our current interventional treatments for heart failure and heart valve disease do not improve the symptoms in many patients, suggesting that we do not possess a satisfactory understanding of the disease mechanisms. This project intends to progress patient care, by expanding mechanistic insights and develop a tool to aid clinical decision-making for patients with heart valve disease and/or heart failure. This is done by in-vivo and ex-vivo experiments in large animal models and patient investigations.
Deadline : 22nd of October 2024
(21) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD fellowship in Quantum algorithms and Quantum Error Correction
true transformational potential of quantum computing is expected to emerge in the fault-tolerant era, but beyond Shor’s algorithm, the practical advantages remain uncertain. A promising development is the new quantum Metropolis (qMet) algorithm, which prepares the thermal state of a quantum many-body Hamiltonian and could be widely useful for simulating materials, molecules, and optimization tasks. This PhD project aims to explore specific applications of qMet, focusing on resource estimation, material simulation, and optimization.
Deadline :21 October 2024
(22) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD fellowship in quantum algorithms and quantum science education
The PhD project will investigate quantum systems which naturally perform certain aspects of quantum algorithms. The aim is to draw upon the intuition obtained from these systems to 1) make the dynamics of quantum algorithms more accessible to non-experts of the field and 2) to investigate new aspects of quantum algorithms. The PhD student involved in this project will be a member of and work in close collaboration with both the NQCP Education & Outreach (E&O) team as well as the NQCP Algorithms & Applications team.
With colleagues in the NQCP E&O team the candidate will also convey a broader range aspects concerning quantum technologies by developing new teaching material and through teaching at pre-university, university and post-university level.
Deadline : 20-10-2024
(23) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD fellowship in Microbial Communities Interactions
This project aims to understand and utilize the potential of multispecies bacterial communities to enhance plant protection and improve crop resilience. We will explore how bacterial competition, such as space colonization, nutrient uptake, and protective compound secretion, contributes to crop resilience. By filling the knowledge gap in multispecies protection, we hope to optimize beneficial microbial interactions, leading to more sustainable agricultural practices and longer shelf-life for food products.
The main goal of this PhD project is to study multispecies community interactions using an artificial potato-like model, which we will develop as part of this project. To investigate bacterial interactions, we plan to create a biomimetic surface that mimics natural potato topography. The project includes three primary objectives: creating and characterizing the artificial model for studying bacterial spatial dynamics, analyze how bacterial communities organize and interact over time using confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM) and Fluorescent In Situ Hybridization (FISH), and investigate how nutrient uptake impacts competitive exclusion among these communities.
The position is for 3 years, and the project will be carried out at the Section of Microbiology, Gut Health, and Fermentation, Department of Food Science, University of Copenhagen. You will engage in activities within the group and with national and international collaborators.
The principal supervisor is tenure-track assistant professor Henriette Lyng Røder, PhD, of the Section of Microbiology, Gut Health, and Fermentation in the Department of Food Science.
Deadline : 20-10-2024
(24) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD fellowship in Evolutionary Biology at the Globe Institute
Palaeogenomics has revolutionised our understanding of human population history by analysing thousands of human genomes from skeletal remains. Unfortunately, this requires destructive sampling of such remains and can conflict with descendant communities’ values and heritage conservation policies. To circumvent these limitations, we are using a novel DNA source: ancient quids.
We are analysing quid DNA from the Americas, where evolutionary history is understudied, skeletal remains are rare and destructive sampling is limited. Using quid DNA, we aim at reconstructing the genomic history of Indigenous Americans, their past lifeways, and their health. Throughout this project we will focus on the latter by reconstructing and characterising the chewers’ oral microbiome, and exploring how this complex microbial community changed in connection with the initial peopling of the continent by Ice Age hunter-gatherers, the rise of complex agricultural societies and their demise during European colonisation.
The PhD fellow will be part of a newly established research group led by Assistant Prof. J. Víctor Moreno Mayar, funded by Villum Fonden and the European Research Council, within the Globe Institute Section for GeoGenetics.
Deadline :16 October 2024,
(25) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD fellowship at Center for Translational Neuromedicine
Despite decades of research highlighting the role of astrocytes in brain function, the precise mechanisms underlying their involvement remain a subject of debate. Astrocytes, as the brain’s primary homeostatic cells, play a critical role in modulating ion concentrations based on brain state. However, despite extensive literature demonstrating their influence, our understanding of how they regulate ion concentrations and subsequently affect brain activity is still incomplete.
The proposed PhD project will focus on investigating the role of astrocytes in maintaining ion homeostasis during health and disease, with a particular emphasis on epilepsy. The research will employ viral techniques to monitor ion fluctuations in astrocytes, in combination with animal models of epilepsy, utilizing 2-photon imaging. Understanding the role of astrocytes in epilepsy could pave the way for developing novel therapeutic approaches.
Deadline : 16 October 2024
(26) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Fellowship in Nutritional Immunology
The overall theme of the current projects is to improve brain health and cognitive function in subjects with and/or models of obesity-related gut barrier dysfunction. The applicant must provide a letter of motivation justifying which of the following two projects they would apply for and exemplify in a few sentences how they will (experimentally) approach the challenge: A) investigate the mechanisms in obesity-related microbial dysbiosis and gut barrier dysfunction and cognitive impairment; B) investigate the mechanisms of bacterial translocation in obesity and/or IBD and its potential influence on neurodegeneration.
Deadline : 13 October 2024
(27) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD fellowship in Patterns and Causality in Arctic and Mid-Latitude Climate Co-Variability
The central hypothesis of the project is that the atmospheric interactions between the Arctic and lower latitudes are influenced by the aggregated effects of short-term climate variability, such as heat and moisture transport, jet stream dynamics, and sea ice variability. This PhD project will explore these relationships through the development and application of advanced statistical and machine learning methodologies.
The PhD candidate will develop and refine statistical tools and metrics to analyze co- and lagged variability in observed and modeled data of climatic variability in the Arctic and mid-latitudes, initially focusing on temperature, sea ice extent, jet stream positioning, and near-surface pressure. The candidate will employ a variety of advanced techniques including, for example, Causal Effect Networks to determine the directionality and strength of causal relationships between climate variables and Self-Organizing Maps and Machine Learning to identify and categorize patterns in climate data that are indicative of teleconnection strength and trends.
Data sources will include reanalysis datasets (e.g., ERA5, NOAA‐CIRES Twentieth Century Reanalysis), in-situ and satellite observations (e.g., ESA-CCI, NSICD) and output from global climate models (e.g., CMIP5, CMIP6). The PhD project will also involve close collaboration with a postdoc at AU under the ArcticPush project, particularly in terms of providing input to and analyzing climate model experiments. But also more generally with the PIs at AU and DMI.
Deadline : 13-10-2024
(28) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD fellowship in Movement Neuroscience
This PhD scholarship will be anchored in the section Movement & Neuroscience in the Project Neurophysiological control of complex motor skills and effects of practice. The project aims at investigating neurophysiological control mechanisms involved in human motor control of complex motor skills (including gait). Additionally, the aim is to investigate effects of motor skill practice. The methods include behavioral measures based on movement kinematics, eye tracking etc., motor and cognitive tests and on electrophysiological methods involving outcomes based on electromyography (EMG), electroencephalography (EEG) and brain stimulation methods. The aim is to study control mechanisms and adaptations to motor practice in adult human participants with and without motor challenges.
Deadline : 11-10-2024
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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 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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