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 fellowship at the Department of Food and Resource Economics Faculty of Science Department of Food and Resource Economics 28-03-2025
211-2108/25-2H PhD fellowship in gene regulation and single cell methodology Faculty of Science Department of Biology 31-03-2025
PhD fellowship in Microbial ecology and plant-microbe interactions in the wheat rhizosphere Faculty of Science Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences 31-03-2025
PhD fellowship in solid state Pharmacy Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences Department of Pharmacy 31-03-2025
211-2056/25-2H PhD stipends in Mathematics Faculty of Science Department of Matematical Sciences 01-04-2025
211-2068/25-2H PhD stipends in Statistics and the mathematics of Insurance and Economics Faculty of Science Department of Matematical Sciences 01-04-2025
PhD Scholarships at the Faculty of Theology, including Centre of African Studies Faculty of Theology Det Teologiske Fakultet 01-04-2025
PhD Study Bursary at the Faculty of Theology, including Centre of African Studies Faculty of Theology Det Teologiske Fakultet 01-04-2025
PhD fellowship in Theoretical Quantum Optics and Quantum Information Faculty of Science Niels Bohr Institutet 01-04-2025
PhD fellowship in bowhead whale population genomics and demography Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences Globe Institute 01-04-2025
211-2102/25-2H PhD fellowship in deep-sea viral ecology Faculty of Science Department of Biology 01-04-2025
PhD fellowship in General Pathology at the Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences Institut for Veterinær- og Husdyrsvidenskab 02-04-2025
PhD fellowship in Dairy-Plant Hybrid Foods Faculty of Science FOOD 04-04-2025
PhD fellowship in Physics of Life Faculty of Science Niels Bohr institutet 06-04-2025
PhD scholarship in Culture-Aware Evaluation of Large Language Models in Low-Resourced Languages at Centre for Language Technology, The Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, University of Copenhagen Faculty of Humanities Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics 06-04-2025
Reposting - 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 Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences Department of Odontology 06-04-2025
PhD scholarships in Network Science, AI, and Science of Science – at the Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS), University of Copenhagen Faculty of Social Sciences SODAS 21-04-2025
PhD fellowship in BioPhysics Faculty of Science Niels Bohr Institute 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