Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark invites online Application for number of Fully Funded PhD Positions at various Departments. We are providing a list of Fully Funded PhD Programs available at Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark.
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(01) PhD Positions – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD scholarship in impedance-aware adaptive control of power electronic converters – DTU Wind
Are you passionate about the green energy transition? Do you wish to contribute to the development of solutions to support the increasingly renewable power grid? This fully funded 3-year PhD position at DTU Wind and Energy Systems could be a perfect fit for you.
We offer a vibrant, multidisciplinary, international, and friendly environment, encouraging creativity, diversity, empathy, and teamwork. You will have a great opportunity to build strong networks with internationally known researchers at DTU and other universities as well as leading industrial partners.
As a PhD candidate, you will join the Power-to-X and Storage (PtX) section within the Power and Energy Systems (PES) division. The PtX section combines multidisciplinary research in energy storage and flexibility, digital twins, energy islands, electrolyzers, and machine learning. Our team of 26 members from 13 different nationalities values diversity and includes experts in a broad range of scientific disciplines, including electrical engineering, control theory, industrial engineering, electronics engineering, energy policy, data science, and applied mathematics.
Deadline : 31 January 2026
(02) PhD Positions- Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD scholarship in tracking the chemistry of biomass valorization – DTU Chemistry
If you are ambitious and seeking to contribute to developing novel chemistry for a sustainable future using advanced visualization methods, then a possibility is right here for you.
A 3-year PhD fellowship is available in chemistry at the Department of Chemistry, DTU from March 1, 2026 or soon thereafter. The fellowship is funded by by a Green Research project by Independent Research Foundation Denmark. The work will be carried out under the supervision of Professors Sebastian Meier and Associate Professor Martin Nielsen in an international environment at DTU Chemistry.
We are interested in the discovery and characterization of novel chemical reactions proceeding towards bulk chemicals under environmentally friendly conditions. We use NMR spectroscopy for discoveries and unbiased characterizations of molecules, their conversion, and their interactions in complex systems. Solvent effects, kinetic details and energy landscapes of extended reaction pathways are focus areas in our groups. You will be collaborating with a second PhD student (position also open), who will be developing a next-generation catalytic system for converting biomass to MeTHF, supervised by Martin Nielsen.
Deadline : 5 January 2026
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(03) PhD Positions – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD scholarship in catalytic biomass valorization – DTU Chemistry
A 3-year PhD fellowship in catalytic biomass valorization is available in the Nielsen group at DTU Chemistry. If you find it interesting to combine studies in homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis with the complex chemistry of carbohydrates and derivatives, then this position might be for you! Funded by a Green Research project by Independent Research Foundation Denmark, Associate Professor Martin Nielsen is hiring a person to develop the next-generation catalytic system for converting biomass to the valuable commodity chemical MeTHF. Professor Sebastian Meier, a leading expert on in situ NMR technology, is co-supervisor of the position. Please note that you will be working with another PhD student (position also open), who will be developing NMR techniques for quantitative analysis of the biomass transformations, supervised by Sebastian Meier.
Deadline : 5 January 2026
(04) PhD Positions – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD scholarship in Developing Composite Additive Manufacturing Systems for Earth and Lunar Applications – DTU Construct
Are you excited about pioneering the next generation of additive manufacturing technologies for both space and Earth applications?
We are seeking a motivated PhD candidate to develop a 3D printing system for melting and extruding lunar regolith, while also advancing the field of composite 3D printing through experimental testing and process development. This position bridges hands-on experimentation with advanced digital fabrication, numerical modelling, material testing, and process optimization. You will work on the fabrication and mechanical characterization of composite specimens with tailored fiber orientations, gaining insights into how printing strategies can fine-tune thermo-mechanical properties. At the same time, you will help bring the molten regolith extrusion 3D printing system from concept to operation, advancing our vision of autonomous, in-situ resource–based construction for the Moon and beyond.
We invite you to join our section Digital Building Technologies at the Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering as a PhD student, where you will collaborate with a team of experts dedicated to advancing the digital transformation of the built environment. Our research focuses on developing and applying digital technologies such as additive manufacturing/3D printing, numerical modelling, artificial intelligence, automation and robotics, digital twins, and smart materials
Deadline : 22 December 2025
(05) PhD Positions – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD scholarship in Geometric Deep Learning for Materials – DTU Energy
You will break new ground in AI4Materials by joining one of two tightly connected PhD projects at DTU Energy:
- Develop, train and deploy efficient generative models and reinforcement learning models for 3D graphs of materials to explore vast inorganic chemical spaces and design synthesizable energy materials. You will couple such models with physics simulation-based workflows to evaluate stability, properties, and synthesizability-by-design in close collaboration with NTU Singapore.
- Develop software frameworks, APIs, and workflows for foundational machine learning potentials (MLPs). You will develop geometric graph manifold learning methods and utilize those to learn from heterogeneous quantum mechanical datasets. You will implement and benchmark state-of-the-art GNN-based MLPs and build autonomous finetuning and active learning pipelines that make advanced ML potentials usable by a broad research community.
Across both projects, you will design, implement, and validate robust computational workflows. You will co-develop well-documented, shareable codebases and tools following modern software engineering practices. You will collaborate closely with international partners, including research stays. You will contribute to a culture of open, inclusive, and collaborative research within the team at DTU Energy.
Deadline : 19 December 2025
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(06) PhD Positions- Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD scholarship in Healthcare Operations – Analysing and Optimising Hospital-at-Home Systems – DTU Management
The PhD project aims to analyze and optimize Hospital-at-Home concepts using data-driven decision-support addressing challenges like long distances to specialist care and high no-show appointment rates. We develop methodologies for elderly care systems in rural areas by integrating primary and specialist care (coordinating between the sectors) using advanced data-driven planning. Your research will contribute to sustainable, resilient, and efficient healthcare systems. The research is expected to employ methods from Operations Research, Management Science, Data Science, and Analytics.
The core focus of the PhD project will be to develop and test planning and optimization models to analyze new and innovative Hospital-at-Home systems to improve access to healthcare for elderly and vulnerable citizens. You will be part of a dynamic, interdisciplinary research setting at one of Europe’s leading technical universities. DTU is committed to innovation, societal impact, and diversity. Situated in Copenhagen, consistently ranked among the world’s most livable cities, the university provides outstanding quality of life in a safe, sustainable urban environment enriched by a lively cultural scene.
Deadline : 19 December 2025
(07) PhD Positions – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD scholarship in Theoretical Chemical Dynamics – DTU Chemistry
Are you passionate about chemical theory and computation? Are you interested in the real-time (atto- to picosecond) dynamic changes in molecules when they undergo physical and chemical transformations? Are you curious about the interplay with the environment? Do you want to interpret and design time-resolved experiments?
If you would like to dive into the multifaceted field of theoretical chemistry and you want to have a strong influence on the topic of your PhD project for fulfilling your dreams and ambitions, this open position within the field of theoretical chemical dynamics might be the perfect fit for you.
Deadline : 22 January 2026
(08) PhD Positions – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Scholarships in Systems Biology of Gas Fermenting Microorganisms – DTU Biosustain
We invite applicants for two PhD positions in the C1 Systems Biology research group within the MORE-GAS project. Gas fermentation is a promising technology to enable cost effective and sustainable biomanufacturing. However, little is known about non-model gas fermenting microorganisms. The focus of the advertised positions will be on mapping the metabolism of gas fermenting microorganisms of interest at an unprecedented scale.
Project 1: development of automated workflows for multi-omics data generation. In this project you will integrate small-scale automated bioreactors with workflows for the generation of high-quality multi-omics data (metabolomics, proteomics, transcriptomics). You will then apply these workflows to study gas fermenting microorganisms of interest.
Project 2: high-throughput phenotyping of gas fermenting microorganisms. In this project you will develop methods for high-throughput phenotyping of microorganisms, refining experimental and computational workflows for the generation of omics data at a high-throughput.
Deadline : 18 December 2025
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(09) PhD Positions – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD scholarship in the chemistry of 3D tomographic printing – DTU Chemistry
Your responsibilities will be to investigate the chemistry in the 3D printing process with emphasis on initiators and inhibitors covering both characterization of existing molecules and synthesis of new candidate molecules
In the project Towards Multiscale Free-Form Manufacturing Employing Tomograpic Polyspectral Reconstruction (ToMaTo) we are working with the tomographic 3D printing methods. All parts of the object we want to produce are cured simultaneously. We are exploring the benefits of use two (or more) wavelength of light to achieve higher resolution or incorporating spacial property differences in the produced objects.
There are two modes of utilizing the dual wavelength process. In one configuration you are exiting two different photoinitiators to initiate two different polymerization processes, e.g. free radical and cationic polymerization. In this configuration you can cure two different polymers in principle independently and generate spacial property variation. In another configuration you use one wavelength to initiate polymerization e.g. following the free radical mechanism and you use the other wavelength to excite a photo-inhibitor that in the exited state inhibits the polymerization. We have shown theoretically that this mode will allow for substantial improvements in the fidelity of the printed object.
Deadline : 1 January 2026
(10) PhD Positions – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD scholarship in End-to-End Learning for Continuous Variable Quantum Communication – DTU Electro
DTU Electro invites applications for a PhD position in digital signal processing and machine-learning-enabled continuous-variable quantum key distribution (CV-QKD). The position is offered within the Marie Skłodowska-Curie QuNEST – Quantum Enhanced Optical Communication Network Security doctoral training program (https://qunest.eu) and the Villum Investigator Program: Power-Efficient Optical Communication (POPCOM).
The PhD project will focus on developing machine-learning-based signal-processing frameworks—including constellation and pulse shaping, as well as equalization—to mitigate impairments arising from practical limitations in CV-QKD systems (e.g., bandwidth constraints, ADC resolution, phase noise etc). Emphasis will be placed on energy-efficient, low-complexity hardware solutions.
Deadline : 1 January 2026
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(11) PhD Positions – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD scholarship in machine learning for enzyme and process engineering – DTU Biosustain
The Computational Protein Engineering (CPE) group at The Novo Nordisk Foundation Centre for Biosustainability (DTU Biosustain) is developing novel methods to engineer proteins more effectively using state-of-the-art experimental and computational approaches. Our mission is to develop innovative and sustainable solutions to the most pressing issues facing our societies in terms of bioproduction and bioremediation. To support this goal, we are looking for a colleague who is independent, who thrives within an interdisciplinary environment at a world-class research centre, and who is highly motivated to move the area of enzyme engineering to the next level, while having a positive impact on our world. When joining our group, you get the opportunity to use the latest algorithms in machine learning for improving protein function, for instance, enzyme activity, selectivity, or stability, etc. We currently work with enzymes involved in the biosynthesis of natural products and biochemicals as well as in the breakdown of greenhouse gases including CO2 and CH4.
Deadline : 31 January 2026
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(12) PhD Positions – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD scholarship in inorganic contaminants in binder-based construction materials when using secondary raw materials – DTU Sustain
Are you passionate about the valorization of secondary raw materials and making construction materials more sustainable? Do you want to make sure that construction materials with secondary raw materials are safe from inorganic contaminants and will not lead to detrimental contamination in the built environment or the surrounding environment?
We are looking for a highly motivated PhD student to join our dynamic and interdisciplinary research team in the Section of Construction Materials and Durability at DTU Sustain. Through advanced experimental work and modelling, you will help uncover how inorganic contaminants from incineration ashes used as secondary raw materials will affect binder-based construction materials. The investigations will bridge different levels from leaching tests to the characterization of the materials to elucidate the fate of key elements in binder-based construction materials.
Deadline : 14 December 2025
(13) PhD Positions – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD scholarship in Machine Learning Enabled Metasurfaces for Efficient Wave Interaction with Human Tissue – DTU Space & DTU Electro
If you want to push the much-needed advancement of techniques for efficient interaction of electromagnetic waves with lossy materials, such as human tissue, and support the development of your scientific career within the growing field of antennas and metasurfaces for specifically health applications, the present project is the right for you. In a collaborative initiative by DTU Space and DTU Electro, we invite applications for a position as a PhD student in machine learning aided design of antennas and metasurfaces for efficient propagation and focusing of electromagnetic waves in a variety of lossy media. The project will give you an opportunity to work with theoretical, numerical and experimental aspects of machine learning assisted design of antennas and metasurfaces for near-field interaction and in vitro sensing of lossy materials including human tissue and realistic cell culture samples. As a part of the project, the Danish company HHC medical will provide benchmarking of different prototypes using biological assays (cell uptake) compared to their existing state-of-the-art antenna solutions, to connect the resulting electromagnetic performance with the biological outcome.
Deadline : 19 December 2025
(14) PhD Positions – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD scholarship in Latent Thermal Energy Storage for Safe and Flexible Cooling Systems – DTU Construct
The research explores how phase change materials that can store “cold” energy when they change between solid and liquid states can help make cooling systems more flexible and reliable. A large-scale pilot installation at DTU Campus for server room cooling will serve as a pilot for testing, control, and optimization of such latent thermal energy storage. This installation will be taken into operation in March 2026. To optimize the controllability of cold storage using phase change materials, a novel charge determination method (measurement of energy stored) will be developed in the laboratory. You will work at the intersection of experimental testing, storage modelling, and energy system monitoring and control – contributing knowledge that can help data centers and other high-energy users reduce their environmental footprint. This PhD is embedded in the Clean-Energy Transition Partnership “La-Flex” with Norwegian, German and Danish companies and research institutions. A research stay at NTNU (Trondheim, Norway) is expected to be part of the project and a strategic research alliance.
Deadline : 4 January 2026
(15) PhD Positions – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD scholarship in Writing, Learning and Teaching with Generative AI in STEM – DTU Management
This project invites theoretically and empirically grounded studies that contribute to understanding how GenAI is reconfiguring the practices, purposes, and values of writing, learning and teaching in STEM. Proposals may engage with one or more of the following themes:
- Assessment, Writing, and Academic Integrity: How are AI-assisted writing, coding, and modeling altering notions of originality, authorship, and evaluation? Which new human-machine configurations emerge or become contested in STEM education?
- Transforming STEM Learning and Pedagogy: How are educators, students, and institutions adapting teaching and learning in response to GenAI? In what ways are chatbots, AI tutors and code-assistants changing problem-solving, experimentation, and disciplinary expertise?
- Educational Transformation and Institutional Practice: How are universities and faculty redesigning curricula, policies, and support systems to protect against or align education with GenAI? What new literacies and competencies are emerging in response to this changing landscape?
Deadline : 1 March 2026
(16) PhD Positions – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD scholarship in Stem Cell Technology and Eye Disease Modelling – DTU Health Tech
If you are passionate about stem cell biology and want to make a real difference for patients suffering from vision loss, this PhD position is for you.
At DTU Health Tech, we offer a 3-year fully funded PhD position in the Applied Stem Cells group (ASTEM) within the Section for Cell and Drug Technologies. You will join a young and dynamic research environment where we combine stem cell engineering, disease modeling, molecular biology, and advanced microscopy to understand and treat retinal diseases.
Through this PhD project, you will work at the interface between stem cell biology and translational medicine — establishing patient-derived induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) lines carrying genetic mutations that cause blindness and using them to generate in-vitro models of retinal degeneration. Your work will contribute to developing new therapeutic and drug testing strategies for vision preservation.
Deadline : 15 December 2025
(17) PhD Positions – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD scholarship in Photonic Reservoir Computing in Coupled Resonant Structures – DTU Electro
The Machine Learning in Photonic Systems group at DTU Electro at the Technical University of Denmark is seeking a candidate for a PhD position to research multiplexing in photonic integrated circuits for enhancing computing efficiency through parallelism.
The PhD student will participate in an international team in an EU-funded Doctoral Network project called MINDnet. The project consists of 15 Ph.D. students at 7 universities, one research center and two companies. The project has partners from eight different EU countries. All 15 Ph.d. projects are within the overall theme of neuromorphic computing and analog signal processing, targeting applications in the fields of communication, sensing, geolocalization, space and biomedical.
This Ph.D. project will take place at DTU Electro. Apart from the time at DTU there will be secondments of minimum 3 months at Technical University of Illmenau (DE), HPE (BE) and University of Trento (IT). There will also be regular meetings with the other 14 Ph.D. students in the doctoral network, including 4 training schools and two workshops.
As a participant of the project, the PhD student will become part of a team at DTU with numerical and experimental expertise in photonic computing. The activities within the project will benefit from synergies with other projects in the group as well as with other activities at the department. The main supervisor will be Assoc. Prof. Francesco Da Ros, DTU Electro
Deadline : 15 March 2026
(18) PhD Positions – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD scholarship in Computing Parallelism Enabled by Photonic Integrated Circuits – DTU Electro
The PhD student will participate in an international team in an EU-funded Doctoral Network project called MINDnet. The project consists of 15 Ph.D. students at 7 universities, one research center and two companies. The project has partners from eight different EU countries. All 15 Ph.d. projects are within the overall theme of neuromorphic computing and analog signal processing, targeting applications in the fields of communication, sensing, geolocalization, space and biomedical.
This Ph.D. project will take place at DTU Electro. Apart from the time at DTU there will be secondments of minimum 3 months at University of Pisa (IT), Fraunhofer Heinrik Hertz Institute (DE) and Spincloud (DE). There will also be regular meetings with the other 14 Ph.D. students in the doctoral network, including 4 training schools and two workshops.
As a participant of the project, the PhD student will become part of a team at DTU with numerical and experimental expertise in photonic computing. The activities within the project will benefit from synergies with other projects in the group as well as with other activities at the department. The main supervisor will be Assoc. Prof. Francesco Da Ros, DTU Electro.
Deadline : 15 March 2026
(19) PhD Positions- Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD scholarship in Sustainable Photochemical PFAS Destruction – DTU Sustain
If you are eager to advance sustainable water treatment technologies and contribute to solving one of the world’s most persistent environmental challenges, this position is for you.
At DTU Sustain, you will work at the forefront of environmental engineering and photochemical technology, developing innovative solutions for the degradation of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). You will gain hands-on experience with advanced analytical tools, reactor design, and reaction kinetics, skills that will prepare you for a future career in academia, research, or the water industry.
Deadline : 30 December 2025
(20) PhD Positions – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD scholarship in Prospective Life cycle Assessment of new innovative Membranes from Recycled Materials – DTU Sustain
Are you passionate about tackling the impact of membrane solutions and their production and use impacts? At the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), we are offering a fully funded PhD position focused on understanding and mitigating the environmental and health impacts of advanced membranes for water and food industries. This research sits at the cutting edge of sustainable materials design, prospective life cycle assessment, and industrial innovation.
This PhD opportunity is part of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Network UP2MEM, a European training network committed to advanced MEMbrane technologies for water and food industries. Through prospective LCA (pLCA), you will identify environmental hotspots and potential improvements, which will guide the choice of materials and energy sources as the project evolves. Application of the SIMPL approach ensures a discussion of how assumptions and key factors are considered when forecasting lab scale results, into full scale futures. Through inclusion of PESTLE and casual loop diagrams (CLD), non-engineering factors are included in the potential futures. The adoption of SIMPL will ensure that the full value chain of a future use of the membranes will be considered. Your research will directly support the transformation of the membrane sector toward safer, more sustainable practices, while equipping you with advanced interdisciplinary skills and international research experience.
Deadline : 15 December 2025
(21) PhD Positions – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD scholarship in Polymer Nanofiber Membrane from Recycled Membrane Waste Materials – DTU Sustain
Are you passionate about tackling the impact of membrane solutions and their production and use impacts? At the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), we are offering a fully funded PhD position focused on a circular approach to membrane technologies – transforming membrane waste (after lifetime) into functional polymer nanofiber membranes for the water and food industries. This is a highly interdisplinary projects where the PhD student will learn and develop skills in sustainable material design, membrane technologies, prospective life cycle assessment, and industrial innovation.
This PhD opportunity is part of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Network UP2MEM, a European training network committed to advanced MEMbrane technologies for water and food industries. Through combining material science and membrane processes, you will develop next-generation upcycling technology for the membrane industry. Moreover, you will be in close collaboration with other PhDs in the UP2MEM projects, e.g., PhDs at DTU working on prospective LCA to identify environmental hotspots and potential improvements, which will guide the choice of materials and energy sources as the project evolves.
Deadline : 15 December 2025
(22) PhD Positions – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD scholarship in E-mobility and Photovoltaics integration – DTU Wind
Do you want to be involved in the green energy transition? Do you wish to contribute to the development of Renewable energies and E-mobility integration and are you looking for a career in R&D or academia? Then we have a great opportunity!
We are looking for a highly motivated and skilled candidate with a master’s degree in STEM disciplines to join us as a PhD scholar. We offer a multidisciplinary, international, and friendly atmosphere, encouraging creativity, diversity, empathy, and teamwork. You will have a great opportunity to build strong networks with internationally known researchers at DTU and other universities as well as industrial partners.
Deadline : 15 December 2025
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The Technical University of Denmark, often simply referred to as DTU, is a university in the town Kongens Lyngby, 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) north of central Copenhagen, Denmark. It was founded in 1829 at the initiative of Hans Christian Ørsted as Denmark’s first polytechnic, and it is today ranked among Europe’s leading engineering institutions.
Along with École Polytechnique in Paris, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Eindhoven University of Technology, Technical University of Munich and Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, DTU is a member of EuroTech Universities Alliance.
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