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".

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TITLE FACULTY LOCATION DEADLINE
One or two PhD fellowships in Quantum Optics Faculty of Science Niels Bohr Institue 10-12-2025
PhD Fellowships at the Cosmic Dawn Center Faculty of Science Niels Bohr Institute 14-12-2025
3 PhD fellowships in Robotic Intercropping Faculty of Science PLEN 14-12-2025
PhD scholarship in the Sociology of Quantification in Africa – ERC Project “Modelling African Futures: A comparative technography of evidence-based welfare policy in Ghana, Senegal, Kenya and Botswana” Faculty of Theology The Faculty of Theology 15-12-2025
PhD fellowship in Membrane Filtration within a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Industrial Doctoral Network UP2MEM Faculty of Science Department of Food Science 15-12-2025
PhD positions in AI in Medicine Faculty of Science Department of Computer Science 15-12-2025
PhD fellowship in Diversity, Ecology and Effects of Toxigenic Marine Microalgae Faculty of Science Natural History Museum Denmark 20-12-2025
PhD student position in neuronal synaptic biology/mitophagy, mitochondrial biogenesis and bioinformatics at BRIC, Issazadeh-Navikas Group Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences BRIC 23-12-2025
PhD fellowship or postdoc in brain tumor bioinformatics at BRIC Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences BRIC 31-12-2025
PhD fellowship in Physics, Biocomplexity Faculty of Science Niels Bohr Institue 01-01-2026
PhD fellowship in Didactics of Mathematics Faculty of Science Department of Science Education 04-01-2026
PhD fellowship in Genomics - PhD Project in Vertebrate Comparative Genomics Faculty of Science The Natural History Museum Denmark 04-01-2026
PhD student to join our cutting-edge project TRUSTMIND Faculty of Science Department of Computer Science 04-01-2026
PhD Project in neuronal transcription factor biophysics Faculty of Science Department of Biology 04-01-2026
PhD Fellow in Spatial Proteomics of Cardiac Conduction and Disease Mechanisms Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences Department of Biomedical Sciences 08-01-2026
PhD or integrated MSc + PhD fellowship in Algorithms Faculty of Science Datalogisk Institut 10-01-2026
PhD fellowship in Analytical Chemistry Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences Department of Pharmacy 11-01-2026
Morten Meldal PhD fellowships in Chemistry Faculty of Science Faculty of Science 01-02-2026
PhD Fellow in Human-Centric Explainable Natural Language Understanding Faculty of Science Department of Computer Science 01-02-2026
PhD scholarship at the Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen (UCPH) Faculty of Humanities Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics 01-02-2026
PhD Project in Human-Computer Interaction for Behaviour Change in Extended Reality Faculty of Science Department of Computer Science 01-02-2026