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 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 scholarship at the Department of English, German and Romance Studies, Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen (UCPH) Faculty of Humanities Department of English, German and Romance Studies 11-05-2025
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 Eating and Alcohol Drinking at the Department of Biomedical Sciences Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences Department of Biomedical Sciences 12-05-2025
PhD fellowship in the Belongie Lab Faculty of Science Department of Computer Science 12-05-2025
PhD fellowship(s) in Data Science and Geometric Models of Morphology and in Computer vision for detection and segmentation in plant images, Faculty of SCIENCE, University of Copenhagen Faculty of Science Pioneer AI section 14-05-2025
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 Open and Programmable Accelerators for Data-intensive Applications (CHORYS) Faculty of Science Programming Languages and Theory of Computing 16-05-2025
PhD fellowship in Environmental Analytical Chemistry Faculty of Science PLEN 17-05-2025
PhD fellowship in Mucosal Immunology at the Immunology and Microbiology Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences Department of Immunology and Microbiology 19-05-2025
PhD fellowship in Natural History Museum Ethics Faculty of Science Statens Naturhistoriske Museum 22-05-2025
PhD fellowship in Human Centred Robotics Faculty of Science Human-Centred Computing 22-05-2025
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
PhD fellowship in Physics Faculty of Science Niels Bohr Institute 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
211-2144/25-2H PhD fellowship in Experimental Quantum Physics Faculty of Science Niels Bohr Institute 29-05-2025
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
PhD Fellow for studying gain-of-function GABAA receptor variants in developmental and epileptic encephalopathies Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences The Department of Neuroscience 15-06-2025
PhD scholarship in the ERC Consolidator Project INNER_LEAGUE at the Saxo Institute at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen Faculty of Humanities Saxo-Instituttet 15-08-2025