PhD

As a PhD student at the University of Copenhagen you have the opportunity to advance your international career as part of a world class research team. Every year, UCPH enrols more than 700 new PhD students. The University of Copenhagen offers cutting edge research in an international atmosphere. In 2013 Monocle Magazine heralded Copenhagen as "the most liveable city in the world".

Read about the job structure and the recruitment process for faculty and academic staff.

TITLE FACULTY LOCATION DEADLINE
PhD in AI-guided redesign of contractile injection systems Department of Biology Faculty of Science University of Copenhagen Faculty of Science Biologisk Institut 23-04-2025
PhD fellowship in BioPhysics Faculty of Science Niels Bohr Institute 27-04-2025
211-2132/25-2H PhD Fellowship in Pharmaceutical Data Science Education Faculty of Science Department of Science Education 27-04-2025
PhD fellowship in electrocatalysis Faculty of Science Department of Chemistry 27-04-2025
PhD fellowship in Exercise and Respiratory Physiology Faculty of Science Institut for idræt og ernæring 27-04-2025
PhD fellowships at the Department of Plant & Environmental Sciences. Faculty of Science PLEN 29-04-2025
PhD fellowship in Plant-Microbe-Insect Interactions Faculty of Science PLEN 30-04-2025
PhD Fellow for Mass Spectrometry-Based Proteomics Investigation of Disease Mechanisms Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences Department of Biomedical Sciences 01-05-2025
PhD Fellowship in Open and Programmable Accelerators for Data-intensive Applications (CHORYS) Faculty of Science Programming Languages and Theory of Computing 01-05-2025
PhD fellowship in Gravitational Self-Force Faculty of Science Niels Bohr Institutet 01-05-2025
Vacant PhD scholarships at iCourts, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen Faculty of Law Centre of Excellence for International Courts and Governance 04-05-2025
PhD fellowship in physics Faculty of Science Niels Bohr Institute 07-05-2025
PhD fellowship in Particle Astrophysics Faculty of Science Niels Bohr Instituttet 07-05-2025
PhD fellowship in Natural History Museum Ethics Faculty of Science Statens Naturhistoriske Museum 08-05-2025
PhD fellowship in extended Reality for Behaviour Change at The Pioneer Centre for AI Faculty of Science Human-Centred Computing 12-05-2025
PhD fellowship in Condensate Formations and Oscillatory Protein Concentrations in Cell Regulation Faculty of Science Niels Bohr Instituttet 15-05-2025
PhD positions in AI in Medicine Faculty of Science Datalogisk Institut 15-05-2025
PhD fellowship in Interpretable Natural Language Processing Faculty of Science Department of Computer Science, Natural Language Processing 15-05-2025
PhD fellowship in Environmental Analytical Chemistry Faculty of Science PLEN 17-05-2025
PhD scholarship in sociolinguistics and/or ethnology at the Center of Excellence “TRANSITION – Changing Urban and Rural Lives”, University of Copenhagen Faculty of Humanities Institut for Nordiske Studier og Sprogvidenskab 25-05-2025
Vacant PhD scholarship in Law of the Sea/Maritime Law and Human Mobility, the Faculty of Law Faculty of Law Det Juridiske Fakultet 26-05-2025
PhD fellowship in Analytical Chemistry Faculty of Science PLEN 01-06-2025
PhD fellowship in computational and mathematical modelling of flow and fracture in ice sheets Faculty of Science Niels Bohr Institute 03-06-2025
PhD scholarship at the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen (UCPH) as part of the ERC-funded Lobbying (A)symmetry Project Faculty of Social Sciences Department of Political Science 05-06-2025