Department of Chemistry invites applicants for two PhD fellowships in Theoretical Catalysis. The projects are rooted in the Theory group which is part of Center for High Entropy Alloy Catalysis (CHEAC) funded by Danish National Research Foundation, and the ERC Synergy project DEMI funded by European Research Counsil Executive Agency.

Start date is 1 February 2027 or shortly hereafter.

The projects
The aim is to understand and discover materials for catalyzing electrochemical reactions.

The first project is focused on catalysis on high entropy alloys and understanding their activity in energy conversion reactions.

The second project is focused on modelling stability of electrocatalyst materials. The aim is to develop a framework to predict metastability of catalyst materials.

Among the methods used will be Density Functional Theory, statistics, machine-learning and dynamics.

Collaboration with members of other research groups at UCPH and abroad is required.

Who are we looking for?
We are looking for candidates within the field(s) of chemistry, physics, nanochemistry, material science or similar. Applicants can have a background from solid state chemistry/physics, chemical engeneering, computational chemistry or similar.

Our group and research - and what do we offer?
In our group we work with theoretical catalysis, which is based on atomic scale simulations and dynamics. In this way we have insight into the structure, reactions and intermediates at an atomic level.

Our main research fields are:

• Electrocatalysis for various reactions: water splitting, CO2 reduction ect.
• Catalytic surfaces of high entropy alloys.
• Atomic scale simulations.

The Theory group consists of around 15 researchers (postdocs, PhD- MSc- and BSc students).

The Theory group is a part of Department of Chemistry, Faculty of SCIENCE, University of Copenhagen. We are located in Copenhagen.

We offer creative and stimulating working conditions in a dynamic and international research environment.

Principal supervisor is Center leader and Professor Jan Rossmeisl, Department of Chemistry, Jan.Rossmeisl@chem.ku.dk, Direct Phone: +45 5071 9584

The PhD programme

Qualifications needed for the regular programme (5+3)
To be eligible for the regular PhD programme, you must have completed a degree programme, equivalent to a Danish master’s degree (180 ECTS/3 FTE BSc + 120 ECTS/2 FTE MSc) related to the subject area of the project, e.g. Chemistry, Material Science or Physics. For information of eligibility of completed programmes, see General assessments for specific countries and Assessment database.

Terms of employment in the regular programme
Employment as PhD fellow is full time and for maximum 3 years.

Employment is conditional upon your successful enrolment as a PhD student at the PhD School at the Faculty of SCIENCE, University of Copenhagen. This requires submission and acceptance of an application for the specific project formulated by the applicant.

Terms of appointment and payment accord to the agreement between the Danish Ministry of Taxation and The Danish Confederation of Professional Associations on Academics in the State. The position is covered by the Protocol on Job Structure.

Responsibilities and tasks in the PhD programmes

• Carry through an independent research project under supervision

• Complete PhD courses corresponding to approx. 30 ECTS / ½ FTE
• Participate in active research environments, including a stay at another research institution, preferably abroad
• Teaching and knowledge dissemination activities
• Write scientific papers aimed at high-impact journals
• Write and defend a PhD thesis on the basis of your project

We are looking for the following qualifications:

• Professional qualifications relevant to the PhD project
• Relevant publications
• Relevant work experience
• Other relevant professional activities
• Curious mind-set with a strong interest in catalysis
• Good language skills

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Application and Assessment Procedure

 Your application including all attachments must be in English and submitted electronically by clicking APPLY NOW below.

Please include: 

1. Motivated letter of application (max. one page)
2. Curriculum vitae including information about your education, experience, language skills and other skills relevant for the position
3. Original diplomas for Master of Science and transcript of records in the original language, including an authorized English translation if issued in another language than English or Danish. If not completed, a certified/signed copy of a recent transcript of records or a written statement from the institution or supervisor is accepted.
4. Publication list (if possible)
5. Reference letters (if available)

Application deadline:

The deadline for applications is 18.10.2026, 23:59 GMT +2.

We reserve the right not to consider material received after the deadline, and not to consider applications that do not live up to the abovementioned requirements.

The further process
After deadline, a number of applicants will be selected for academic assessment by an unbiased expert assessor. You are notified, whether you will be passed for assessment.

The assessor will assess the qualifications and experience of the shortlisted applicants with respect to the above mentioned research area, techniques, skills and other requirements. The assessor will conclude whether each applicant is qualified and, if so, for which of the two models. The assessed applicants will have the opportunity to comment on their assessment. You can read about the recruitment process at http://employment.ku.dk/faculty/recruitment-process/.

Interviews with selected candidates are expected to be held in week 46, November.

Questions
For specific information about the PhD fellowship, please contact the principal supervisor.

General information about PhD study at the Faculty of SCIENCE is available at the PhD School’s website: https://www.science.ku.dk/phd/.

The University of Copenhagen wishes to reflect the surrounding community and invites all regardless of personal background to apply for the position. 

Start date is expected to be January 1st, 2027 or as soon as possible thereafter.

The project
As PhD student, you will investigate the mechanisms by which biocompatible Fe-, Mn- and Zn-based nanozymes are taken up, transported and function within plants under drought stress. The work will focus on advanced imaging of nanozyme localization and cellular interactions using LA-ICP-TOF-MS, TEM-EDX and confocal microscopy, combined with analyses of ROS scavenging and oxidative stress responses. You will evaluate how nanozyme treatments influence drought tolerance in climate chamber and field experiments. The project aims to generate fundamental knowledge on nanozyme behaviour in plants and support the development of safe, effective nano-enabled strategies for improving crop resilience to drought.

Who are we looking for?
We are seeking a highly motivated and ambitious PhD candidate with a strong interest in the interface between plant science, nanotechnology and advanced imaging. The candidate should hold a Master's degree in Plant Science, Biology, Agricultural Science, Nanoscience, Biotechnology or a related discipline. The successful candidate will investigate the uptake, transport and intracellular behavior of biocompatible nanozymes in plants exposed to drought stress. It is a clear advantage if you have hands-on experience with LA-ICP-TOF-MS, TEM-EDX and confocal microscopy, as well as knowledge of reactive oxygen species (ROS) dynamics and general plant stress physiology. The candidate should be enthusiastic about interdisciplinary research and willing to work across the fields of plant biology, analytical chemistry and nanotechnology. The candidate is expected to be independent, collaborative and curious, and to contribute actively to an international research environment involving close collaboration between group members.

Our group and research- and what do we offer?
As PhD student in the project, you will join the Plant Nutrition Research Group (www.husted-lab.com) at the University of Copenhagen, an internationally recognized and interdisciplinary research environment working at the interface between plant nutrition, analytical chemistry and nanotechnology. The group conducts both fundamental and applied research aimed at improving nutrient use efficiency, crop resilience and the sustainability of agricultural production systems. We place strong emphasis on maintaining a friendly, collaborative and supportive working atmosphere, where team members openly share knowledge, ideas and expertise. We believe that excellent science is best achieved through dedicated teamwork, mutual respect and a positive working environment that supports both scientific excellence and personal development. As PhD student, you will receive close scientific mentorship, access to world-class infrastructure and the opportunity to contribute to pioneering research addressing some of the major challenges facing future agriculture, including drought resilience, nutrient efficiency and climate adaptation of crops.

Principal supervisor is Professor Søren Husted, Department of plant and Environmental Sciences, Email shu@plen.ku.dk.

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The PhD programme
A three year full-time study within the framework of the regular PhD programme (5+3 scheme), if you already have an education equivalent to a relevant Danish master’s degree.

Getting into a position on the regular PhD programme

Qualifications needed for the regular programme
To be eligible for the regular PhD programme, you must have completed a degree programme, equivalent to a Danish master’s degree (180 ECTS/3 FTE BSc + 120 ECTS/2 FTE MSc) related to the subject area of the project, e.g. plant science, plant nutrition. For information of eligibility of completed programmes, see General assessments for specific countries and Assessment database.

Terms of employment in the regular programme
Employment as PhD fellow is full time and for maximum 3 years.

Employment is conditional upon your successful enrolment as a PhD student at the PhD School at the Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen. This requires submission and acceptance of an application for the specific project formulated by the applicant.

Terms of appointment and payment accord to the agreement between the Danish Ministry of Taxation and The Danish Confederation of Professional Associations on Academics in the State. The position is covered by the Protocol on Job Structure.

You can read more about salary levels in the state sector www.loenoverblik.dk (in Danish).

Responsibilities and tasks in both PhD programmes

• Carry through an independent research project under supervision
• Complete PhD courses corresponding to approx. 30 ECTS / ½ FTE
• Participate in active research environments, including a stay at another research institution, preferably abroad
• Teaching and knowledge dissemination activities
• Write scientific papers aimed at high-impact journals
• Write and defend a PhD thesis on the basis of your project

We are looking for the following qualifications:

• Professional qualifications relevant to the PhD project
• Relevant publications
• Relevant work experience
• Other relevant professional activities
• Curious mind-set with a strong interest in plant science, nanotechnology and advanced imaging
• Good language skills

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Application and Assessment Procedure

 Your application including all attachments must be in English and submitted electronically by clicking APPLY NOW below.

Please include: 

1. Motivated letter of application (max. one page)
2. Your motivation for applying for the specific PhD project
3. Curriculum vitae including information about your education, experience, language skills and other skills relevant for the position
4. Original diplomas for Bachelor or Master and transcript of records in the original language, including an authorized English translation if issued in another language than English or Danish. If not completed, a certified/signed copy of a recent transcript of records or a written statement from the institution or supervisor is accepted.
5. Publication list (if possible)
6. Reference letters (if available)

Application deadline:

The deadline for applications is 23 October 2026, 23:59 GMT+2.

We reserve the right not to consider material received after the deadline, and not to consider applications that do not live up to the abovementioned requirements.

The further process
After deadline, a number of applicants will be selected for academic assessment by an unbiased expert assessor. You are notified whether you will be passed for assessment.

The assessor will assess the qualifications and experience of the shortlisted applicants with respect to the above-mentioned research area, techniques, skills and other requirements. The assessor will conclude whether each applicant is qualified and, if so, for which of the two models. The assessed applicants will have the opportunity to comment on their assessment. You can read about the recruitment process at http://employment.ku.dk/faculty/recruitment-process/.

Interviews with selected candidates are expected to be held in week 45 and 46 2026.

Questions
For specific information about the PhD fellowship, please contact the principal supervisor.

[General information about PhD study at the Faculty of SCIENCE is available at the PhD School’s website: https://www.science.ku.dk/phd/].

The University of Copenhagen wishes to reflect the surrounding community and invites all regardless of personal background to apply for the position. 

Start dates are expected to be 01.02.2027 or as soon as possible thereafter.

The project

The project will study the development of novel homogeneous transition metal-catalysed reactions utilizing earth-abundant metal catalysts (e.g., Mo, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu). These reactions will aim to transform abundant feedstock chemicals such as CO2 and biomass into high-value products using thermal, electrochemical, and photochemical means. To realize this goal, a mechanistically guided approach to reaction development will be taken that combines kinetics, organometallic synthesis, and method development. This technological breakthrough promises to serve as a cost-effective method to sustainably construct societally relevant molecules that will reduce our reliance on petrochemically derived chemicals.

Who are we looking for?

We are looking for candidates within the field(s) of organic chemistry who must be proficient in English. Applicants can have a background in synthetic organic chemistry, methodology development, organometallic chemistry, mechanistic chemistry, or electrochemistry. All candidates will be assessed in one pool.

Our group and research- and what do we offer?

The Day group is a recently established research group at the University of Copenhagen that is working on cutting-edge research within homogeneous earth-abundant transition-metal catalysis. The research conducted will focus on understanding fundamental organometallic chemistry to inform the rational reaction design of new catalytic methodologies that can be applied to address current challenges in sustainability. These topics range from the synthesis of fine chemicals and pharmaceuticals to the synthesis of new types of plastics.

The PhD candidate will be working alongside Prof. Day and his team and will get consistent feedback, assistance, and support. Prof. Day has led numerous projects published in leading academic journals such as Nature Catalysis, Nature Communications, J. Am. Chem. Soc., Chem. Soc. Rev., and Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Prof. Day has worked in Canada, USA, Spain, and Denmark and expects to hire candidates to create a vibrant, multicultural group with frequent social activities.

Supervisor is Assistant Professor, Craig S. Day, Department of Chemistry, csd@chem.ku.dk.

Principal supervisor is Associate Professor Jiwoong Lee, Department of Chemistry, jiwoong.lee@chem.ku.dk,

The PhD programme

The PhD programme Depending of your level of education, you can undertake the PhD programme as either:

Option A: A three year full-time study within the framework of the regular PhD programme (5+3 scheme), if you already have an education equivalent to a relevant Danish master’s degree. Candidates without such qualifications will not be considered.

Option B: An up to five year full-time study programme within the framework of the integrated MSc and PhD programme (the 3+5 scheme), if you do not have an education equivalent to a relevant Danish master´s degree – but you have an education equivalent to a Danish bachelors´s degree.

Option A: Getting into a position on the regular PhD programme

Qualifications needed for the programme
To be eligible for the regular PhD programme, you must have completed a degree programme, equivalent to a Danish master’s degree (180 ECTS/3 FTE BSc + 120 ECTS/2 FTE MSc) related to the subject area of the project, e.g. Organic Chemistry. For information of eligibility of completed programmes, see General assessments for specific countries and Assessment database.

Terms of employment in the regular programme
Employment as PhD fellow is full time and for maximum 3 years.

Employment is conditional upon your successful enrolment as a PhD student at the PhD School at the Faculty of SCIENCE, University of Copenhagen. This requires submission and acceptance of an application for the specific project formulated by the applicant.

Terms of appointment and payment accord to the agreement between the Danish Ministry of Finance and The Danish Confederation of Professional Associations on Academics in the State. The position is covered by the Protocol on Job Structure.

Option B: Getting into a position on the integrated MSc and PhD programme

Qualifications needed for the integrated MSc and PhD programme

If you do not have an education equivalent to a relevant Danish master´s degree , you might be qualified for the integrated MSc and PhD programme, if you have an education equivalent to a relevant Danish bachelor´s degree. Here you can find out, if that is relevant for you: General assessments for specific countries and Assessment database.

Terms of the integrated programme To be eligible for the integrated scholarship, you are (or are eligible to be) enrolled at one of the faculty's master programmes in Chemistry.

Students on the integrated programme will enroll as PhD students simultaneously with completing their enrollment in this MSc degree programme.

The duration of the integrated programme is up to five years, and depends on the amount of credits that you have passed on your MSc programme. For further information about the study programme, please see: www. science.ku.dk/phd, “Study Structures”.

Until the MSc degree is obtained, (when exactly two years of the full 3+5 programme remains), the grant will be paid partly in the form of 48 state education grant portions (in Danish: “SU-klip”) plus salary for work (teaching, supervision etc.) totaling a workload of 150 working hours per year. A PhD grant portion is currently (2025) DKK 7,086 before tax.

When you have obtained the MSc degree, you will transfer to the salary- earning part of the scholarship for a period of two years. At that point, the terms of employment and payment will be according to the agreement between the Ministry of Finance and The Danish Confederation of Professional Associations on Academics in the State (AC). The position is covered by the Protocol on Job Structure.

Associations on Academics in the State. The position is covered by the Protocol on Job Structure.

Responsibilities and tasks in both PhD programmes

• Complete and pass the MSc education in accordance with the curriculum of the MSc programme (ONLY when you are attending the integrated MSc and PhD programme)
• Carry through an independent research project under supervision
• Complete PhD courses corresponding to approx. 30 ECTS / ½ FTE
• Participate in active research environments, including a stay at another research institution, preferably abroad in collaborative programs
• Teaching and knowledge dissemination activities 
• Write scientific papers aimed at high-impact journals
• Write and defend a PhD thesis on the basis of your project

We are looking for the following qualifications:

• Professional qualifications relevant to the PhD project
• Relevant publications
• Relevant work experience
• Other relevant professional activities
• Curious mind-set with a strong interest in organic chemistry and peptides
• Good language skills

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Application and Assessment Procedure

 Your application including all attachments must be in English and submitted electronically by clicking Apply for position below.

Please include: 

1. Motivated letter of application (max. one page)
2. Curriculum vitae including information about your education, experience, language skills and other skills relevant for the position
3. Original diplomas for Bachelor of Science or Master of Science and transcript of records in the original language, including an authorized English translation if issued in another language than English or Danish. If not completed, a certified/signed copy of a recent transcript of records or a written statement from the institution or supervisor is accepted.
4. Publication list (if available)
5. Reference letters (if available)

Application deadline:

The deadline for applications is October 30th 2026, 23:59 GMT +1.

We reserve the right not to consider material received after the deadline, and not to consider applications that do not live up to the abovementioned requirements.

The further process
After deadline, a number of applicants will be selected for academic assessment by an unbiased expert assessor. You are notified whether you will be passed for assessment.

The assessor will assess the qualifications and experience of the shortlisted applicants with respect to the above mentioned research area, techniques, skills and other requirements. The assessor will conclude whether each applicant is qualified and, if so, for which of the two models. The assessed applicants will have the opportunity to comment on their assessment. You can read about the recruitment process at http://employment.ku.dk/faculty/recruitment-process/.

Questions
For specific information about the PhD position, please contact the supervisor (Asst. Professor Craig S. Day, Department of Chemistry, csd@chem.ku.dk).

General information about PhD study at the Faculty of SCIENCE is available at the PhD School’s website: https://www.science.ku.dk/phd/.

The University of Copenhagen wishes to reflect the surrounding community and invites all regardless of personal background to apply for the position. 

Department of Mathematical Sciences (MATH) invites applications for PhD stipends in Statistics and the mathematics of Insurance and Economics.

The start date is ordinarily September 1, 2027, but can be subject to negotiation.

We invite applications for PhD stipends in the following areas, all within the sections of Insurance and Economics and Statistics and Probability Theory:

• Optimal transport and adapted Wasserstein metrics (contact Johannes Wiesel, wiesel@math.ku.dk)
• Causality and reliable ML at the Copenhagen Causality Lab. Applicants should propose their own angle and argue how it fits the group and wider network, including the Pioneer Centre for AI and SMARTbiomed (see https://sweichwald.de/#research-with-us).
• Other areas within statistics, mathematics-economics, and actuarial science besides those mentioned above (contact PhD coordinator Helle Sørensen, helle@math.ku.dk)

We encourage you to specify preferred project(s) and supervisor(s) in your application.

You are welcome to contact any member of the sections of Insurance and Economics and Statistics and Probability Theory to discuss research projects.

Who are we looking for?

We are looking for candidates with an education in Statistics, Insurance, Economics or nearby fields and with strong mathematical qualifications.

About the department

The department has about 50 permanent scientific staff members, around 60 PhD students and 35 postdocs. It has strong research groups in many areas of mathematics and active PhD, postdoc, and visitors' programs. Our buildings are located in central Copenhagen next to the central park Fælledparken. Our website http://www.math.ku.dk/english provides more information about the department and the research conducted at the department https://www.math.ku.dk/english/research/.  We offer creative and stimulating working conditions in a dynamic and international research environment.

You can find more information about the PhD program on the homepage http://www.math.ku.dk/english/programmes/ph.d/.

The PhD programme

Depending on your level of education, you can undertake the PhD programme as either:

Option A: A three year full-time study within the framework of the regular PhD programme (5+3 scheme), if you already have an education equivalent to a relevant Danish master’s degree.

Option B: An up to five year full-time study programme within the framework of the integrated MSc and PhD programme (the 3+5 scheme), if you do not have an education equivalent to a relevant Danish master´s degree – but you have an education equivalent to a Danish bachelors´s degree.

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Option A: Getting into a position on the regular PhD programme

Qualifications needed for the regular programme
To be eligible for the regular PhD programme, you must have completed a degree programme, equivalent to a Danish master’s degree (180 ECTS/3 FTE BSc + 120 ECTS/2 FTE MSc) related to the subject area of the project, e.g. [relevant educations]. For information of eligibility of completed programmes, see General assessments for specific countries and Assessment database.

Terms of employment in the regular programme
Employment as PhD fellow is full time and for maximum 3 years.

Employment is conditional upon your successful enrolment as a PhD student at the PhD School at the Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen. This requires submission and acceptance of an application for the specific project formulated by the applicant with the help of the supervisor.

Terms of appointment and payment according to the agreement between the Danish Ministry of Taxation and The Danish Confederation of Professional Associations on Academics in the State. The position is covered by the Protocol on Job Structure.

Option B: Getting into a position on the integrated MSc and PhD programme

Qualifications needed for the integrated MSc and PhD programme

If you do not have an education equivalent to a relevant Danish master´s degree, you might be qualified for the integrated MSc and PhD programme, if you have an education equivalent to a relevant Danish bachelor´s degree. Here you can find out, if that is relevant for you: General assessments for specific countries and Assessment database.  

Terms of the integrated programme
To be eligible for the integrated scholarship, you are (or are eligible to be) enrolled at one of the faculty’s master programmes. Students on the integrated programme will enroll as PhD students simultaneously with completing their enrollment in this MSc degree programme.

The duration of the integrated programme is up to five years and depends on the amount of credits that you have passed on your MSc programme. For further information about the study programme, please see: www.science.ku.dk/phd, “Study Structures”.

Until the MSc degree is obtained (when exactly two years of the full 3+5 programme remains), the grant will be paid partly in the form of up to 48 state education grant portions (in Danish: “SU-klip”) plus salary for work (teaching, supervision etc.) totalling a workload of 150 working hours per year. A PhD grant portion is currently (2026) DKK 7.426 before tax.

When you have obtained the MSc degree, you will transfer to the salary-earning part of the scholarship for a period of two years. At that point, the terms of employment and payment will be according to the agreement between the Ministry of Finance and The Danish Confederation of Professional Associations on Academics in the State (AC). The position is covered by the Protocol on Job Structure.

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Responsibilities and tasks:

• Complete and pass the MSc education in accordance with the curriculum of the MSc programme (ONLY when you are attending the integrated MSc and PhD programme)
• Carry through an independent research project under supervision
• Complete PhD courses corresponding to approx. 30 ECTS / ½ FTE
• Participate in active research environments, including a stay at another research institution, preferably abroad
• Teach and carry out knowledge dissemination activities
• Write scientific papers aimed at internationally recognized journals
• Write and defend a PhD thesis on the basis of your project

We are looking for candidates with the following qualifications and experience:

• Professional qualifications relevant to the PhD project
• Relevant work experience
• Other relevant professional experience, including publications (if any)
• A curious mind-set with a strong interest in Mathematics and its applications
• Good English skills

Application and Assessment Procedure

Your application including all attachments must be in English and submitted electronically by clicking APPLY NOW below.

Please include: 

1. Motivated letter of application (max. one page)
2. Curriculum vitae including information about your education, experience, publications (if any), language skills and other skills relevant for the position
3. Original diplomas for Bachelor or Master and transcript of records in the original language, including an authorized English translation if issued in another language than English or Danish. If not completed, a certified/signed copy of a recent transcript of records or a written statement from the institution or supervisor is accepted.
4. Reference letters (if available; letters can be uploaded as part of the application or sent to hr-math@adm.ku.dk by the reference person).

When you will be affiliated with the University of Copenhagen or otherwise have access to their research, you may be required to undergo a background screening. The purpose is to protect the security and research integrity of the University of Copenhagen.

Application deadline

The deadline for applications is 1 November 2026, 23:59 GMT +1.

We reserve the right not to consider material received after the deadline, and not to consider applications that do not live up to the abovementioned requirements.

The further process
After deadline, a number of applicants will be selected for academic assessment (shortlisted) by a committee of unbiased experts. You are notified whether you will be passed for assessment.

An assessment committee will assess the qualifications and experience of the shortlisted applicants with respect to the research area, skills and other requirements. The assessors will conclude whether each applicant is qualified. The assessed applicants will have the opportunity to comment on their assessment. You can read about the recruitment process at http://employment.ku.dk/faculty/recruitment-process/.

Questions
For specific information about the PhD fellowships, please contact the people mentioned in the beginning of the call.

General information about PhD study at the Faculty of SCIENCE is available at the PhD School’s website: https://www.science.ku.dk/phd/.

The University of Copenhagen wishes to reflect the surrounding community and invites all regardless of personal background to apply for the position. 

Department of Mathematical Sciences (MATH) invites applicants for PhD stipends in mathematics.

The start date is ordinarily September 1, 2027, but can be subject to negotiation.

There will be PhD stipends available in:

• Algebraic and Arithmetic Geometry, Applied algebra, Combinatorics, Geometric group theory, Geometry and Geometric Analysis, Number Theory, Representation Theory, and Topology as covered by the section Algebra & Geometry and  Copenhagen Center for Geometry & Topology (GeoTop).

• Classical Analysis, Descriptive Set Theory, Functional Analysis, Geometric group theory, Harmonic Analysis, History of Mathematics, Mathematical Physics, Operator Algebras, Partial Differential Equations, Quantum Information, Quantum Computation and Quantum Simulation as covered by the section Analysis and Quantum, the Centre for the Mathematics of Quantum Theory  and the Quantum for Life Center.

You are welcome to contact any member of the department to discuss research projects.

Who are we looking for?

We are looking for candidates within the field of Mathematics or nearby fields, whose background and research interests are a strong fit with the areas of mathematics above.

About the department

The department has about 50 permanent scientific staff members; around 60 PhD students and 35 postdocs. It has strong research groups in many areas of mathematics, and active PhD, postdoc, and visitors’ programs. Our buildings are located in central Copenhagen next to the central park Fælledparken. Our website http://www.math.ku.dk/english provides more information about the department and the research  conducted at the department https://www.math.ku.dk/english/research/.  We offer creative and stimulating working conditions in a dynamic and international research environment.

You can find more information about the PhD program on the homepage http://www.math.ku.dk/english/programmes/ph.d/.

The PhD programme

Depending on your level of education, you can undertake the PhD programme as either:

Option A: A three year full-time study within the framework of the regular PhD programme (5+3 scheme), if you already have an education equivalent to a relevant Danish master’s degree.

Option B: An up to five year full-time study programme within the framework of the integrated MSc and PhD programme (the 3+5 scheme), if you do not have an education equivalent to a relevant Danish master’s degree – but you have an education equivalent to a Danish bachelor’s degree.

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Option A: Getting into a position on the regular PhD programme

Qualifications needed for the regular programme
To be eligible for the regular PhD programme, you must have completed a degree programme, equivalent to a Danish master’s degree (180 ECTS/3 FTE BSc + 120 ECTS/2 FTE MSc) related to the subject area of the project, e.g. mathematics or closely related. For information of eligibility of completed programmes, see General assessments for specific countries and Assessment database.

Terms of employment in the regular programme
Employment as PhD fellow is full time and for maximum 3 years.

Employment is conditional upon your successful enrolment as a PhD student at the PhD School at the Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen. This requires submission and acceptance of an application for the specific project formulated by the applicant.

Terms of appointment and payment according to the agreement between the Danish Ministry of Taxation and The Danish Confederation of Professional Associations on Academics in the State. The position is covered by the Protocol on Job Structure.

Option B: Getting into a position on the integrated MSc and PhD programme

Qualifications needed for the integrated MSc and PhD programme

If you do not have an education equivalent to a relevant Danish master’s degree, you might be qualified for the integrated MSc and PhD programme, if you have an education equivalent to a relevant Danish bachelor’s degree. Here you can find out, if that is relevant for you: General assessments for specific countries and Assessment database.  

Terms of the integrated programme
To be eligible for the integrated scholarship, you are (or are eligible to be) enrolled in one of the faculty’s master’s programmes in Mathematics or Quantum Information Science.

Students on the integrated programme will enroll as PhD students simultaneously with completing their enrollment in this MSc degree programme.

The duration of the integrated programme is up to five years, and depends on the amount of credits that you have passed on your MSc programme. For further information about the study programme, please see: www.science.ku.dk/phd, “Study Structures”.

Until the MSc degree is obtained, (when exactly two years of the full 3+5 programme remains), the grant will be paid partly in the form of up to 48 state education grant portions (in Danish: “SU-klip”) plus salary for work (teaching, supervision etc.) totalling a workload of 150 working hours per year. A PhD grant portion is currently (2026) DKK 7.426 before tax.

When you have obtained the MSc degree, you will transfer to the salary-earning part of the scholarship for a period of two years. At that point, the terms of employment and payment will be according to the agreement between the Ministry of Finance and The Danish Confederation of Professional Associations on Academics in the State (AC). The position is covered by the Protocol on Job Structure.

Responsibilities and tasks in both PhD programmes

• Complete and pass the MSc education in accordance with the curriculum of the MSc programme  (ONLY when you are attending the integrated MSc and PhD programme)
• Carry through an independent research project under supervision
• Complete PhD courses corresponding to approx. 30 ECTS / ½ FTE
• Participate in active research environments, including a stay at another research institution, preferably abroad
• Teaching and knowledge dissemination activities
• Write scientific papers aimed at high-impact journals
• Write and defend a PhD thesis on the basis of your project

We are looking for the following qualifications and experience:

• Professional qualifications relevant to the PhD project
• Relevant work experience
• Other relevant professional experience, including publications (if any)
• A curious mind-set with a strong interest in Mathematics
• Good English skills

Application and Assessment Procedure

Your application including all attachments must be in English and submitted electronically by clicking APPLY NOW below.

Please include: 

1. Motivated letter of application (max. one page)
2. Curriculum vitae including information about your education, experience, publications (if any), language skills and other skills relevant for the position
3. Original diplomas for Bachelor’s or Master’s and transcript of records in the original language, including an authorized English translation if issued in another language than English or Danish. If not completed, a certified/signed copy of a recent transcript of records or a written statement from the institution or supervisor is accepted.
4. Reference letters (if available; letters can be uploaded as part of the application or sent to hr-math@adm.ku.dk by the reference person).

When you will be affiliated with the University of Copenhagen or otherwise have access to their research, you may be required to undergo a background screening. The purpose is to protect the security and research integrity of the University of Copenhagen.

Application deadline:

The deadline for applications is 1 November 2026, 23:59 GMT+1.

We reserve the right not to consider material received after the deadline, and not to consider applications that do not live up to the abovementioned requirements.

The further process
After deadline, a number of applicants will be selected for academic assessment (shortlisted) by a committee of unbiased experts. You are notified whether you will be passed for assessment.

An assessment committee will assess the qualifications and experience of the shortlisted applicants with respect to the research area, skills and other requirements. The assessors will conclude whether each applicant is qualified. The assessed applicants will have the opportunity to comment on their assessment. You can read about the recruitment process at http://employment.ku.dk/faculty/recruitment-process/.

Questions
For specific information about the PhD fellowship, please contact the principal supervisor.

General information about PhD study at the Faculty of SCIENCE is available at the PhD School’s website: https://www.science.ku.dk/phd/.

The University of Copenhagen wishes to reflect the surrounding community and invites all regardless of personal background to apply for the position. 

The PhD project will be part of the research project Sensing Korea: Reframing Korean Studies in the Nordic Countries, funded by the Academy of Korean Studies. Sensing Korea aims to develop sensory and narrative approaches to Korean Studies in order to explore the diversity of Korean experiences beyond essentializing representations.

The PhD scholarship is funded through the Core University Program for Korean Studies of the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Korea and the Korean Studies Promotion Service at the Academy of Korean Studies (AKS-2026-OLU-2250001). Sensing Korea is led by Barbara Wall and hosted by Korean Studies at the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen. The project runs for five years, from June 2026 to May 2031.

The PhD candidate will be supervised by project leader Barbara Wall and will work closely with a project team comprising scholars based at the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies as well as researchers from Korean Studies programs at other Nordic universities. The candidate is also expected to have an interest in communicating academic knowledge about Korea to a broader public.

About the department
The project is based at the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, which is part of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Copenhagen. The department has approximately 800 students and 150 employees. At the department, we research and teach in language, culture, religion and society, primarily with a focus on regions outside Western Europe and the USA. The work is rooted in language-based area studies and cross-cultural perspectives that provide insight into global contexts and cultural complexity.

Introduction to the PhD programme
PhD studies consist of research programmes that qualify students for independent and wide-ranging research, development and teaching at international level. The main emphasis is on PhD students organising and conducting their own research project (under supervision). The programme culminates in the submission of a PhD thesis, which the student must defend in public. The programme is prescribed to 180 ECTS points, corresponding to three years of full-time study. The PhD will have to teach and carry out other tasks at the department as part of the PhD position corresponding to 840 working hours (6 months).

A PhD opens up a range of career opportunities in academia and elsewhere. As well as writing a thesis, PhD students work in active research environments in Denmark and abroad. They contribute to the academic environment, take research training courses and convey the results of their research in teaching, at academic conferences and to the general public.

Qualification requirements
Applicants must have qualifications corresponding to a master’s degree in Korean Studies or a related field in the humanities. Particularly relevant disciplinary backgrounds and research interests include Literary Studies and Sensory Studies, as well as Musicology, Media Studies, Religious Studies, Cultural Studies, History, Art History/Visual Culture, Performance Studies, and East Asian Studies. If you have completed your education in Denmark, you must have a master’s degree covered by the collective agreement for academics in the state sector.

The ideal candidate will have a strong background in Korean Studies or a related humanities discipline, with research interests in Literary Studies and/or Sensory Studies, or in another relevant field with a clear connection to sensory and narrative approaches to Korea. Excellent proficiency in Korean and English is essential. Proficiency in a Scandinavian language and/or Literary Sinitic (Hanmun) is considered an advantage.

If you have completed your education outside of Denmark, you must either have a master’s degree equivalent to a Danish master’s degree (two years) or as minimum a bachelor’s degree equivalent to a Danish bachelor’s degree (three years) and be assessed as having professional qualifications at master's level.

If you have completed your education outside of Denmark, we will obtain an assessment of your education from the Danish Research Agency. Applicants must possess skills in written and spoken academic English at a high level. Additional language skills and knowledge of related regions is an advantage. If deemed necessary, the department may request that applicants document their English or other language skills.

Application
All applications must be submitted online, in PDF or Microsoft Word format, via the link “Apply for the position” at the bottom of the page.

The application must include:

Personal statement (max. one page)
In their personal statements, applicants are encouraged to:

• outline how the PhD project relates to other research activities at the department, particularly the Sensing Korea project.
• describe as clearly as possible their competencies and personal qualifications relevant to the PhD programme and the Sensing Korea project.

CV
Applications must be accompanied by a CV (max.one page) and a list of publications, where relevant.

Documentation (diplomas and transcripts)
Applicants must upload the following:

• A copy of their Master’s degree diploma or similar (if this is not available by the application deadline, applicants must document pre-approval of their Master’s thesis)
• A copy of their Master’s degree transcript
• A copy of their Bachelor’s degree diploma
• A copy of their Bachelor’s degree transcript.

Applicants with a degree from a university where the working language is not English or one of the Scandinavian languages must submit a translation of their Master’s diploma and/or diploma transcripts approved by the issuing university of by another local authority. These documents must be translated into English, Danish, Norwegian or Swedish. An official description of the grading scale (and a diploma supplement where relevant) must also be attached.

Chinese applicants must attach a China Credentials Verification (CHSI) certificate. Read more about CHSI here: https://www.chsi.com.cn/xlcx/en/index.jsp.

Project description
Applications must include a preliminary project description covering the problem formulation, overall objectives, methodology, design and timetable (max. five pages/12,000 characters, incl. spaces, excl. bibliography). The project description should also give a preliminary indication of what research literature the candidate would expect to engage with.

On the website of the PhD School, you can find more information about the attachments your need to include with your application:PhD at the Faculty of Humanities – University of Copenhagen / https://phd.humanities.ku.dk/how-to-obtain-a-phd-scholarship/admission-requirements/ .

Please do not upload or submit recommendations, publications, theses, etc.

Assessment criteria
The following criteria are applied when assessing PhD applications:

• The quality, originality and feasibility of the PhD project and its relevance to the Sensing Korea project
• Research qualifications, as reflected in the attached CV and project description
• Competencies and knowledge of relevant fields of academic research
• Level (grades obtained) of Bachelor and Master’s studies.

Please note that only one position is available and competition is intense.

The recruitment process 
After the deadline for applications, the Head of Department considers advice from the Appointment Committee and then selects applicants for assessment. All applicants will be notified whether or not they have been shortlisted. After this, the Head of Department sets up an expert Assessment Committee to assess the shortlisted applications. The selected applicants will be informed who is serving on the committee. Individual applicants will be offered the opportunity to comment on the committee’s assessment of their application before the appointment is announced.

Enrolment
It is a prerequisite for employment that successful applicants enrol at the PhD School of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Copenhagen.
For further information about the structure of the PhD programme, please refer to: Structure of the PhD programme – University of Copenhagen
For further information about the guidelines for PhD studies at UCPH, please refer to: https://phd.ku.dk/english/

Salary and Terms of Employment
Terms of appointment and salary will be in accordance with an agreement between the Ministry of Finance and The Danish Confederation of Professional Associations (AC).
The salary range starts at approximately DKK 30,200 (EUR 4.040) + an 18.07 % pension contribution. According to the agreement, the PhD student is required to carry out tasks at the relevant department to an extent corresponding to 840 working hours (6 months). These tasks are primarily expected to consist of teaching in the department’s study programmes.

You can read more about employment as a PhD Fellow here: Employment as a PhD student – University of Copenhagen.

International Applicant?
The University of Copenhagen offers a broad variety of services for international researchers and accompanying families, including support before and during your relocation and career counselling to expat partners. Please find more information about our services at: For international researchers at the University of Copenhagen – University of Copenhagen (ku.dk).

An Equal Opportunity Workplace
The University of Copenhagen is committed in its pursuit of academic excellence to equality of opportunity and to creating an inclusive working environment and therefore encourages all qualified candidates to apply, regardless of personal background, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, ethnicity etc. To learn more about our diverse workplace and our participation in the HRS4R HR Excellence in research, please visit: HR Excellence in Research – University of Copenhagen.

For further information about the application procedure, please refer to the University of Copenhagen website: https://employment.ku.dk/faculty/recruitment-process/

Contact Information
Information about the recruitment process is available from HR South at: hr-soendre@adm.ku.dk. Please refer to ID number: 211-2541/26-2H.

If you have any questions about the academic content of the PhD programme, please e-mail the PhD coordinator at the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, Simon Stjernholm, stjernholm@hum.ku.dk.
If you have questions related to the Sensing Korea project, please email PI Barbara Wall, barbara.wall@hum.ku.dk

The deadline for applications is 1 November 2026 at 23:59 (CET).
Any applications or additional material submitted after the deadline will not be considered. However, changes may be made to the submitted application right up until the deadline.

The position is open for talented candidates with a master’s degree, who want to pursue a PhD degree in Computer Science.

DC1: The successful PhD candidate will work on reversible programming languages. The candidate can build on the work by project members.

Concretely, the work includes the following:

• Advancing reversible programming languages with a view on increasing their expressiveness and applicability to the development and construction of non-trivial reversible algorithms.
• Studying the integration of reversible features into mainstream irreversible languages.
• Exploring domain-specific features to identify novel language idioms specific to reversible programming and applications developed elsewhere in the network.
• Publishing the results at international conferences and in peer-reviewed journals.

Planned secondments: CNRS / Université Côte d'Azur (France), University of Southern Denmark (Denmark), and Tokai National Higher Education and Research System (Japan).

Key criteria for the assessment of applicants for the position:
The candidate must have a master’s degree (equivalent to a Danish Master's degree) in Computer Science or a closely related field, obtained by the recruitment date.

Certified copy of original Master of Science diploma and transcript of records in the original language, including an authorized English translation if issued in a language other than English or Danish. If not completed, a certified/signed copy of a recent transcript of records or a written statement from the institution or supervisor is accepted.

As a prerequisite for a PhD fellowship employment, your master’s degree must be equivalent to a Danish master’s degree. We encourage you to read more in the assessment database: https://ufsn.dk/english/education/recognition-and-transparency/find-assessments/assessment-database/

Please note that we might ask you to obtain an assessment of your education performed by the Ministry of Higher Education and Science.

Other important criteria are:

• Strong academic record and motivation for doctoral research.
• Experience in programming language design, semantics, or implementation, regardless of programming paradigm, is an advantage. Prior knowledge of reversible computing is not needed.
• Ability to work independently, take initiative, and collaborate effectively in an international research environment. Proactive and team-oriented approach to work.
• Proficiency in written and spoken English.
• Willingness and ability to travel and undertake secondments at other project partners.

The successful candidate will be employed as a PhD student at the Department of Computer Science at the Faculty of Sciences, University of Copenhagen, and will collaborate closely with the group at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense, which is also an E-CoRe partner. The position may involve co-supervising related student projects. The PhD student is expected to participate in the activities of the research section and in the training programme of the E-CoRe network.

The main supervisor is Professor Robert Glück (e-mail: glueck@di.ku.dk), whose current research focus is on programming languages, reversible computing, program generation, and metaprogramming.

Start date:    1 January 2027, or after agreement with the cohort of the MSCA-DN

Duration:      3 years

The successful candidate will conduct independent research related to the topics above at the Programming Languages and Theory of Computation (PLTC) Section, Department of Computer Science (DIKU). We expect the candidate to engage in an active research environment and take part in student guidance.

Note: Another job opening for DC7 “Compilation Principles for Reversible Languages” is available. More information: PhD position in Compilation Principles for Reversible Languages (MSCA Doctoral Network E-CoRe, DC7), University of Copenhagen.

Mobility rule
The researcher must not have resided or carried out his/her/their main activity (work, studies, etc.) in Denmark for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately before the recruitment date. Short stays as holidays and compulsory military service and/or Refugee Convention 1951 are disregarded.

Eligibility as Doctoral Candidate (DC)
The recruited DC must be doctoral candidate, i.e. not already in possession of a doctoral degree on the first day of employment. Researchers who have successfully defended their doctoral thesis but who have not yet formally been awarded the doctoral degree will not be considered eligible.

Workplace description 
The Programming Languages and Theory of Computation (PLTC) Section is part of the Department of Computer Science (DIKU) at the Faculty of Science, located on the North Campus in Copenhagen. At the section we research topics such as algorithmic aspects of programming, compiler technology, functional programming, reversible and quantum computing. You will be part of an international group of PhD students, postdocs, and faculty working at the intersection of programming languages, theory of computing, and various applications.

More information about PLTC and DIKU can be found at https://di.ku.dk/english/research/pltc/  and https://di.ku.dk/english/.

Terms of employment 
Salary, pension and terms of employment will be in accordance with the Agreement between the Ministry of Finance and AC (Danish Confederation of Professional Associations) or other relevant organization. Currently, the monthly salary starts at DKK 31,845 / approx. EUR 4,260 (August 2026-level). 
Depending on qualifications, a supplement may be negotiated. The employer will pay an additional 18.07 % to your pension fund.

The position is covered by the Job Structure for Academic Staff at Universities 2025.

Further information
For further information, please contact Professor Robert Glück (e-mail: glueck@di.ku.dk).

International applicants may find this link useful: https://ism.ku.dk/ (International Staff Mobility) or https://www.workindenmark.dk/.

Application procedure
Your online application must be submitted in English by clicking ‘Apply now’ below. Furthermore, your application must include the following documents/attachments – all in PDF format:

1. Motivated letter of application (max. one page).
2. CV incl. education, experience, language skills and other skills relevant for the position.
3. Master of Science diploma and transcript of records. If not completed, a certified/signed copy of a recent transcript of records or a written statement from the institution or supervisor will do.
4. Publication list (if any).

Deadline for applications: Sunday 1 November 2026, 23:59 PM CET.

We reserve the right not to consider material received after the deadline, and not to consider applications that do not live up to the above-mentioned requirements.

The further process 
After the expiry of the deadline for applications, the authorized recruitment manager selects applicants for assessment on the advice of the hiring committee which will consist of both internal (UCPH) and external members. All applicants are then immediately notified whether their application has been passed for assessment by an unbiased assessor. Once the assessment work has been completed, each applicant has the opportunity to comment on the part of the assessment that relates to the applicant him/herself.

You may read about the recruitment process at https://employment.ku.dk/faculty/recruitment-process/.

The applicant will be assessed according to the Ministerial Order no. 242 of 13 March 2012 on the Appointment of Academic Staff at Universities.

The University of Copenhagen wishes to reflect the surrounding community and invites all regardless of personal background to apply for the position.

Read more about the network at https://e-core.nws.cs.unibo.it/.

The position is open for talented candidates with a master’s degree, who want to pursue a PhD degree in Computer Science.

DC7: The successful PhD candidate will work on compilation principles and techniques for reversible languages. The candidate can build on the work by project members.

Concretely, the work includes the following:

• Studying techniques for translating high-level reversible languages into efficient low-level reversible and irreversible representations.
• Designing optimisation techniques for reversible languages, including foundational methods and novel approaches to program analysis and code generation.
• Implementing prototype compilers to evaluate optimisation techniques, alongside a benchmark suite specifically designed for reversible compilation and empirical evaluation.
• Publishing the results at international conferences and in peer-reviewed journals.

Planned Secondments: Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen (Germany), University of Manchester (UK).

Key criteria for the assessment of applicants for the position:  

The candidate must have a master’s degree (equivalent to a Danish Master's degree) in Computer Science or a closely related field, obtained by the recruitment date.

Certified copy of original Master of Science diploma and transcript of records in the original language, including an authorized English translation if issued in a language other than English or Danish. If not completed, a certified/signed copy of a recent transcript of records or a written statement from the institution or supervisor is accepted.

As a prerequisite for a PhD fellowship employment, your master’s degree must be equivalent to a Danish master’s degree. We encourage you to read more in the assessment database: https://ufsn.dk/english/education/recognition-and-transparency/find-assessments/assessment-database/

Please note that we might ask you to obtain an assessment of your education performed by the Ministry of Higher Education and Science.

Other important criteria are:

• Strong academic record and motivation for doctoral research.
• Experience in compiler design, program analysis, and language semantics, regardless of programming paradigm, is an advantage. Prior knowledge of reversible computing is not needed.
• Ability to work independently, take initiative, and collaborate effectively in an international research environment. Proactive and team-oriented approach to work.
• Proficiency in written and spoken English.
• Willingness and ability to travel and undertake secondments at other project partners.

The successful candidate will be employed as a PhD student at the Department of Computer Science at the Faculty of Sciences, University of Copenhagen, and will collaborate closely with the group at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense, which is also an E-CoRe partner. The position may involve co-supervising related student projects. The PhD student is expected to participate in the activities of the research section and in the training programme of the E-CoRe network.
The main supervisor is Professor Robert Glück (e-mail: glueck@di.ku.dk), whose current research focus is on programming languages, reversible computing, program generation, and metaprogramming.

Start date:    1 January 2027, or after agreement with the cohort of the MSCA-DN

Duration:      3 years

The successful candidate will conduct independent research related to the topics above at the Programming Languages and Theory of Computation (PLTC) Section, Department of Computer Science (DIKU). We expect the candidate to engage in an active research environment and take part in student guidance.

Note: Another job opening for DC1 “Reversible Programming Languages” is available. More information: PhD position in Reversible Programming Languages (MSCA Doctoral Network E-CoRe, DC1), University of Copenhagen.

Mobility rule
The researcher must not have resided or carried out his/her/their main activity (work, studies, etc.) in Denmark for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately before the recruitment date. Short stays as holidays and compulsory military service and/or Refugee Convention 1951 are disregarded.

Eligibility as Doctoral Candidate (DC)
The recruited DC must be doctoral candidate, i.e. not already in possession of a doctoral degree on the first day of employment. Researchers who have successfully defended their doctoral thesis but who have not yet formally been awarded the doctoral degree will not be considered eligible.

Workplace description 
The Programming Languages and Theory of Computation (PLTC) Section is part of the Department of Computer Science (DIKU) at the Faculty of Science, located on the North Campus in Copenhagen. At the section we research topics such as algorithmic aspects of programming, compiler technology, functional programming, reversible and quantum computing. You will be part of an international group of PhD students, postdocs, and faculty working at the intersection of programming languages, theory of computing, and various applications.

More information about PLTC and DIKU can be found at https://di.ku.dk/english/research/pltc/  and https://di.ku.dk/english/.

Terms of employment 
Salary, pension and terms of employment will be in accordance with the Agreement between the Ministry of Finance and AC (Danish Confederation of Professional Associations) or other relevant organization. Currently, the monthly salary starts at DKK 31,845 / approx. EUR 4,260 (August 2026-level). 
Depending on qualifications, a supplement may be negotiated. The employer will pay an additional 18.07 % to your pension fund.

The position is covered by the Job Structure for Academic Staff at Universities 2025.

Further information
For further information, please contact Professor Robert Glück (e-mail: glueck@di.ku.dk).

International applicants may find this link useful: https://ism.ku.dk/ (International Staff Mobility) or https://www.workindenmark.dk/.

Application procedure
Your online application must be submitted in English by clicking ‘Apply now’ below. Furthermore, your application must include the following documents/attachments – all in PDF format:

1. Motivated letter of application (max. one page).
2. CV incl. education, experience, language skills and other skills relevant for the position.
3. Master of Science diploma and transcript of records. If not completed, a certified/signed copy of a recent transcript of records or a written statement from the institution or supervisor will do.
4. Publication list (if any).

Deadline for applications: Sunday 1 November 2026, 23:59 PM CET.

We reserve the right not to consider material received after the deadline, and not to consider applications that do not live up to the above-mentioned requirements.

The further process 
After the expiry of the deadline for applications, the authorized recruitment manager selects applicants for assessment on the advice of the hiring committee which will consist of both internal (UCPH) and external members. All applicants are then immediately notified whether their application has been passed for assessment by an unbiased assessor. Once the assessment work has been completed, each applicant has the opportunity to comment on the part of the assessment that relates to the applicant him/herself.

You may read about the recruitment process at https://employment.ku.dk/faculty/recruitment-process/.

The applicant will be assessed according to the Ministerial Order no. 242 of 13 March 2012 on the Appointment of Academic Staff at Universities.

The University of Copenhagen wishes to reflect the surrounding community and invites all regardless of personal background to apply for the position.

Research group
This PhD project is a collaborative project between the lab of Professor Petrine Wellendorph (Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology, specializing in molecular pharmacology, principal supervisor), the Protein Analysis Group of Professor Kasper D. Rand (Department of Pharmacy, specializing in HDX-MS, principal co-supervisor), and Associate Professor Annette E. Langkilde (Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology, specialist in SAXS, co-supervisor). This interdisciplinary setup uniquely bridges brain mechanisms with protein dynamics and structure, enabling new biological insights and cross-fertilization between fields. The PhD fellowship is funded by a larger project grant from the Novo Nordisk Foundation.

Project description
Neuronal signalling underlies every function of the brain, from basic communication to learning and memory. This project focuses on a calcium-sensing protein that plays a central role in these processes. The project will apply in-solution biophysical and analytical methods to explore molecular details of ligand binding on protein dynamics to promote structure-function of the protein and, ultimately, advance drug discovery. As the primary methodology, mass spectrometry to measure the hydrogen/deuterium exchange (HDX-MS) of the protein in solution will be used. The HDX-MS method has emerged as a sensitive and powerful alternative technology to study the conformation of proteins using only small quantities of dilute samples. The project will utilize HDX-MS to analyze the protein in various conformational and activational states and elucidate its interaction with ligands and other proteins. Furthermore, the project will also use classical radioligand binding techniques and state-of-the-art biophysical methods e.g. DSF and SAXS to measure affinity and oligomerization. This combined experimental approach will allow for a detailed analysis of the biophysical, structural, and pharmacological properties of the protein.

Principal supervisor
Professor Petrine Wellendorph, Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology, e-mail: pw@sund.ku.dk, tel. +45 3533 6397.

Start
1. Feb 2027

Duration
3 years as a PhD student

Place of employment
The Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology will be the primary host, but the project will also be highly integrated with activities at Department of Pharmacy. Both departments offer research-based education and interdisciplinary research that supports the development and understanding of drugs at the highest level for the benefit of society. We work as part of a dynamic academic community of research, education and innovation within the Pharmaceutical Sciences bridging Health Sciences and Life Sciences.

Information about the primary host Department can be found at www.drug.ku.dk

Job description
Your key tasks as a PhD student at the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences are:

• Carrying through an independent research project under supervision
• Completing PhD courses or other equivalent education corresponding to approximately 30 ECTS points
• Participating in active research environments including a stay at another research team, preferably abroad
• Obtaining experience with teaching or other types of dissemination related to your PhD project
• Teaching of undergraduate students in pharmaceutical sciences
• Writing a PhD thesis on the grounds of your project

PhD Programme description
The PhD programme is a three-year full-time research education within the framework of the 5+3 scheme, intended for candidates holding a relevant academic degree within the project’s subject area (e.g., pharmaceutical sciences, analytical chemistry, biophysics, biochemistry, or related areas).

Qualifications
If you have completed your academic education in Denmark, the admission to the PhD programme requires a relevant Master’s degree (equivalent to 180 ECTS BSc + 120 ECTS MSc).

If you have an academic education from abroad, you must have either a degree equivalent to a Danish master's degree (180 ETCS + 120 ECTS MSc), or at a minimum, a bachelor’s degree equivalent to a Danish bachelor's degree (180 ECTS) and be academically qualified at master's level.

As part of the assessment of whether you meet the educational requirements, you must also achieve a positive academic evaluation and be assessed as the best qualified for the position.

General criteria:

• Professional qualifications relevant to the PhD project (see specific qualifications below)
• Relevant work experience
• Previous publications
• The grade point average achieved
• Other professional activities
• A curious mind-set with an overall interest in protein structure-function
• Good language skills in English and, preferably, Danish
• A collaborative mindset and strong communication skills

Specific criteria:

The successful candidate will be an experimentally oriented scientist with a primary interest in protein chemistry, structural biology, mass spectrometry and bioanalytical science. A good understanding of biochemistry and pharmacology is also a clear advantage. Preference will be given to applicants with experience in protein chemistry, mass spectrometry and data analysis. Experience with HDX-MS will give the applicant a particularly strong standing. As the project is highly collaborative, we are looking for applicants who are motivated to work across academic research groups and who bring strong interpersonal and communication skills to this kind of setting.

Place of employment
The place of employment is at the Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen. Associated is also the Department of Pharmacy. We offer creative and stimulating working conditions in a dynamic and international research environment. Our research facilities include modern laboratories within molecular pharmacology, protein chemistry and mass spectrometry.

Terms of employment
The average weekly working hours are 37 hours per week.

The position is a fixed-term position limited to a period of 3 years.

The employment is conditioned upon the applicant’s successful enrolment as a PhD student at the Graduate School at the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen. This requires submission and acceptance of an application for the specific project to the Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences.

The PhD study must be completed in accordance with The Ministerial Order on the PhD programme (2025) and www.healthsciences.ku.dk on achieving the degree.

The PhD student is expected to be affiliated to the graduate programme in pharmaceutical sciences, www.dra.ku.dk

Salary, pension, and terms of employment are in accordance with the agreement between the Ministry of Finance and The Danish Confederation of Professional Associations on Academics in the State. Depending on seniority, the monthly salary starts at approximately 31,800 DKK/Roughly 4,250 EUR (August 2026) plus pension.

Application procedure
Your application, in English, must be submitted electronically by clicking “Apply now” below and must include the following documents in PDF format:

1. Motivated letter of application (max. one page)
2. CV incl. education, experience, language skills and other skills relevant for the position
3. Certified copy of original Master diploma and transcript of records in the original language, including an authorized English translation if issued in other language than English or Danish. If not completed, a certified/signed copy of a recent transcript of records or a written statement from the institution or supervisor is accepted. As a prerequisite for a PhD fellowship employment, your master’s degree must be equivalent to a Danish master’s degree. We encourage you to read more in the assessment database. Please note that we might ask you to obtain an assessment of your education performed by the Ministry of Higher Education and Science. Applicants with a Master´s degree from abroad should also enclose a short description of the grading scale used
4. Publication list (if possible)
5. Other information to consider: References and recommendations (if possible)

The deadline for applications is 1 November 2026, 23.59 (CET)
We reserve the right not to consider material received after the deadline, and not to consider applications that do not live up to the abovementioned requirements.

The further process
After the expiry of the deadline for applications, the authorised recruitment manager selects applicants for assessment on the advice of the hiring committee. All applicants are then immediately notified whether their application has been passed for assessment by an unbiased assessor.

The assessor makes a non-prioritized assessment of the academic qualifications and experience with respect to the above-mentioned area of research, techniques, skills and other requirements listed in the advertisement.

Once the assessment work has been completed each applicant has the opportunity to comment on the part of the assessment that relates to the applicant.

The applicant will be assessed according to the Ministerial Order no. 242 of 13 March 2012 on the Appointment of Academic Staff at Universities.

You can read about the recruitment process at http://employment.ku.dk/faculty/recruitment-process/

Questions
For further information, applicants may contact the principal supervisor Petrine Wellendorph, e-mail:  pw@sund.ku.dk, phone: +45 3533 6397 or PhD coordinator Marianne W. Jørgensen, e-mail: marianne.joergensen@sund.ku.dk, phone: +45 3533 6449.

General information about PhD studies at the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences is available at the Graduate School’s website: https://healthsciences.ku.dk/phd/guidelines/

For more information on working and living in Denmark visit http://ism.ku.dk (International staff mobility) and https://www.workindenmark.dk

The University of Copenhagen wish to reflect the diversity of society and encourage all qualified candidates to apply regardless of personal background.

Start date is (expected to be) 1 January 2027 or as soon as possible thereafter.

The project

Intercropping is considered a potential more sustainable cropping system reducing fertilizer and pesticide inputs. Despite the well-known effects of intercropping there is still a knowledge gap considering belowground interactions. The project will focus on intercropping of faba bean and cereals, and the potential benefits of the fun mutant (fixation under nitrate). Above- as well as belowground complementarity and competition between crops will be examined with focus on nitrogen dynamics. The project will also focus on biological nitrogen fixation, transfer of nitrogen between species and effect of specific rhizobium strains on fixation. Experiments will be conducted in field trials and in rhizotubes, and the field experiments will be done in close collaboration with SLU in Uppsala where similar experiments will be carried out. Results from the experiments will feed into development of an intercropping crop modelling part.

Who are we looking for?

We are looking for candidates within the field(s) of agronomy, biology and/or root science. Applicants can have a background with specific knowledge on root development and function, grain legume production, intercropping, crop competition and biological nitrogen fixation. Experience with greenhouse and/or field studies in combination with one or more of the abovementioned topics is an advantage.

Our group and research- and what do we offer?

The PhD position is placed in the Belowground Crop Ecology research group headed by Associate professor Dorte Bodin Dresbøll. Focus of the research group is on resilient and sustainable cropping systems with special emphasis on belowground interactions, root development and function. We are working with grain legumes, forage legumes and cereals for food and feed. Main topics of the group are drought tolerance, nutrient acquisition and root exudation.

The group is a part of the Agricultural Section of Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, SCIENCE, University of Copenhagen. We are located at the Taastrup Campus outside Copenhagen.

We offer creative and stimulating working conditions in dynamic and international research environment. Our research facilities include field and greenhouse facilities, modern laboratories and specialized root research facilities.

Principal supervisor is Associate professor Dorte Bodin Dresbøll, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, dbdr@plen.ku.dk, +4535333452

The PhD programme

Qualifications needed for the regular programme
To be eligible for the regular PhD programme, you must have completed a degree programme, equivalent to a Danish master’s degree (180 ECTS/3 FTE BSc + 120 ECTS/2 FTE MSc) related to the subject area of the project, e.g. [relevant educations]. For information of eligibility of completed programmes, see General assessments for specific countries and Assessment database.

Terms of employment in the regular programme
Employment as PhD fellow is full time and for maximum 3 years.

Employment is conditional upon your successful enrolment as a PhD student at the PhD School at the SCIENCE faculty, University of Copenhagen. This requires submission and acceptance of an application for the specific project formulated by the applicant.

Terms of appointment and payment accord to the agreement between the Danish Ministry of Taxation and The Danish Confederation of Professional Associations on Academics in the State. The position is covered by the Protocol on Job Structure.

You can read more about salary levels in the state sector www.loenoverblik.dk (in Danish).

Responsibilities and tasks in the PhD programme

• Carry through an independent research project under supervision
• Complete PhD courses corresponding to approx. 30 ECTS / ½ FTE
• Participate in active research environments, including a stay at another research institution, preferably abroad
• Teaching and knowledge dissemination activities
• Write scientific papers aimed at high-impact journals
• Write and defend a PhD thesis on the basis of your project

We are looking for the following qualifications:

• Professional qualifications relevant to the PhD project
• Relevant publications
• Relevant work experience
• Other relevant professional activities
• Curious mind-set with a strong interest in agronomy and specifically grain legumes, root physiology, and intercropping systems
• Good language skills

Application and Assessment Procedure

 Your application including all attachments must be in English and submitted electronically by clicking APPLY NOW below.

Please include: 

1. Motivated letter for applying for the specific PhD project (max. one page)
2. Curriculum vitae including information about your education, experience, language skills and other skills relevant for the position
3. Original diplomas for Bachelor or Master and transcript of records in the original language, including an authorized English translation if issued in another language than English or Danish. If not completed, a certified/signed copy of a recent transcript of records or a written statement from the institution or supervisor is accepted.
4. Publication list (if possible)
5. Reference letters (if available)

Application deadline:

The deadline for applications is 1 November 2027, 23:59 GMT +1.

We reserve the right not to consider material received after the deadline, and not to consider applications that do not live up to the abovementioned requirements.

The further process
After deadline, a number of applicants will be selected for academic assessment by an unbiased expert assessor. You are notified whether you will be passed for assessment.

The assessor will assess the qualifications and experience of the shortlisted applicants with respect to the above-mentioned research area, techniques, skills and other requirements. The assessor will conclude whether each applicant is qualified and, if so, for which of the two models. The assessed applicants will have the opportunity to comment on their assessment. You can read about the recruitment process at http://employment.ku.dk/faculty/recruitment-process/.

Interviews with selected candidates are expected to be held in week 47.

Questions
For specific information about the PhD fellowship, please contact the principal supervisor.

Materials send directly to the principal supervisor will not be considered.

[General information about PhD study at the Faculty of SCIENCE is available at the PhD School’s website: https://www.science.ku.dk/phd/].

The University of Copenhagen wishes to reflect the surrounding community and invites all regardless of personal background to apply for the position. 

Expected start date is 1 January 2027 or as soon as possible thereafter.

The project

Background. Casein micelles (CMs) are the main protein constituent of milk (80% of protein) and defining for dairy product taste and structure. CMs are 100-200 nm globular particles, formed by a hydrated network of disordered casein proteins, named αS1, αSs, β, and κ casein. The caseins are cross-linked through binding to ionic calcium and colloidal calcium phosphate, and through hydrophobic interactions. Post-translational modifications play an important role in this, as the ionic interactions are largely mediated by casein phosphorylation sites. The CMs are stabilized by κ caseins that are believed to form a hairy layer on the CM surface. Therefore, κ casein are particularly important for CM stability. κ caseins moreover contain a rennet cleavage site, separating its anchoring para κ casein domain from the water-soluble caseinomacropeptide, the primary component of the stabilizing hairy layer. Enzymatic cleavage of this site promotes coagulation and curd formation.

Goal. Despite decades of research, central questions remain regarding the CM structure, their molecular organization, and dynamic behaviour. The goal of the PhD project is to answer fundamental questions like: are all caseins needed for CM formation? What is the role of post-translational modifications in the casein-calcium network formation, and in the κ casein hairy layer? How extended is the stabilizing hairy layer, and how does it depend on for example pH or solvent? What is the dynamic exchange of caseins between soluble caseins or other CMs? In other words, the PhD project’s aim is to understand the molecular interactions in CM which are central to the unique food properties of dairy products like milk, cream, and cheese, with a particular focus of κ casein.

How. Methodological strategy involves state-of-the-art molecular dynamics simulations for building a molecular model of casein micelles. Advanced x-ray and neutron scattering experiments, will be used to validate the model. Scattering experiments provide information of the hierarchical structure of CMs, whereas molecular simulations model the molecules and their interactions. The combination of simulations and scattering data is particularly strong, as the simulated molecular predictions can be validated experimentally. The project thus involves preparing samples, collecting and analysing scattering data and complementary data when needed, and running MD simulations and comparing these to the experimental data. [AL1] 

Societal impact. By understanding casein micelles better, the project supports the development of more sustainable dairy products based on plant-based or precision fermented proteins. Such approaches could remedy the green house gas emissions and adverse effect on biodiversity and animal welfare in traditional dairy production.

Who are we looking for?

We are looking for applicants with a strong background in molecular modelling, for example applied to food or structural biology. Experience with any of the following is an advantages: 

• Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations; coarse-grained force fields, for example Martini.
• Small-angle x-ray scattering (SAXS), small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) or other x-ray or neutron scattering experiments.
• Programming, for example use of Python and GitHub.
• Data analysis, inverse problems and statistical analysis.
• Mathematical understanding, knowledge of integration, Fourier transformation etc.
• Wet lab experience; protein purification, experience with with colloidal and self-assembled systems.

Finally, the candidate needs to posses good written and oral communication skills.

Our group and research – and what we offer?

You will be part of a very strong cross-institutional and international research environment through the CaIFF center (https://pharmacy.ku.dk/research/caiff/). This means that other PhD students will start approximately at the same time, and you will be part of a unique network of young researchers in the center. You will be supervised by newly appointed tenure track assistant professor Andreas Larsen as well as associate professor Jacob Kirkensgaard (https://www.erda.dk/vgrid/JJKK/), who are affiliated with the Department of Food science and the Niels Bohr Institute at University of Copenhagen. Thus, you will be in a research environment focusing on self-assembly, dynamic structure formation within food science, but also have colleques in the related field of polymer science and soft matter. You will get regular supervision and be part of a lively research group with students at all level from BSc to PhDs and postdocs. A strong methodological focus core technique in the group is on the use of x-ray and neutron scattering experiments to probe structure and molecular self-assembly at the nanometer-scale.

The Departments offers unique facilities. Department of Food science have state-of-the art laboratory facilities for sample preparation and characterization. Computational resources are available through national and European supercomputer facilities LUMI and Computerome, along with local small-scale GPU resources at the Niels Bohr Institute. Local SAXS instrument are available at both institutes, and managed through the cross-disciplinary X-ray center (CXC), and thereby readily available for the project. Only one hour from the University of Copenhangen, in Lund in Sweden, there is access to the world-class x-ray synchrotron MAX-IV, and the project involves SAXS experiments there. Moreover, the group regularly visits neutron facilities in Europe, and will be frequent users of the neutron facility European Spallation Source (ESS) also in Lund, which is expected to open for users during 2027.  

Principal supervisor is associate professor Jacob Kirkensgaard, Niels Bohr Institute and the Department of Food Science, University of Copenhagen, jjkk@food.ku.

Co-supervisor is tenure-track assistant professor Andreas Larsen, Niels Bohr Institute and the Department of Food Science, University of Copenhagen, andreas.larsen@food.ku.dk.

The PhD programme

Qualifications needed for the regular programme
To be eligible for the regular PhD programme, you must have completed a degree programme, equivalent to a Danish master’s degree (180 ECTS/3 FTE BSc + 120 ECTS/2 FTE MSc) related to the subject area of the project, e.g. [relevant educations]. For information of eligibility of completed programmes, see General assessments for specific countries and Assessment database.

Terms of employment in the regular programme
Employment as PhD fellow is full time and for maximum 3 years.

Employment is conditional upon your successful enrolment as a PhD student at the PhD School at SCIENCE, University of Copenhagen. This requires submission and acceptance of an application for the specific project formulated by the applicant.

Terms of appointment and payment accord to the agreement between the Danish Ministry of Taxation and The Danish Confederation of Professional Associations on Academics in the State. The position is covered by the Protocol on Job Structure.

You can read more about salary levels in the state sector www.loenoverblik.dk (in Danish).

Responsibilities and tasks in the PhD  programme

• Carry through an independent research project under supervision
• Complete PhD courses corresponding to approx. 30 ECTS / ½ FTE
• Participate in active research environments, including a stay at another research institution, preferably abroad
• Teaching and knowledge dissemination activities
• Write scientific papers aimed at high-impact journals
• Write and defend a PhD thesis on the basis of your project

We are looking for the following qualifications:

• Professional qualifications relevant to the PhD project
• Relevant publications
• Relevant work experience
• Other relevant professional activities
• Curious mind-set
• Good language skills

Application and Assessment Procedure

 Your application including all attachments must be in English and submitted electronically by clicking APPLY NOW below.

Please include: 

1. Motivated letter of application (max. one page)
2. Your motivation for applying for the PhD project
3. Curriculum vitae including information about your education, experience, language skills and other skills relevant for the position
4. Original diplomas for Bachelor and Master and transcript of records in the original language, including an authorized English translation if issued in another language than English or Danish. If not completed, a certified/signed copy of a recent transcript of records or a written statement from the institution or supervisor is accepted.
5. Publication list (if possible)
6. Reference letters (if available)

Application deadline:

The deadline for application is 1 November 2026, 23:59 GMT +1

We reserve the right not to consider material received after the deadline, and not to consider applications that do not live up to the abovementioned requirements.

The further process
After deadline, a number of applicants will be selected for academic assessment by an unbiased expert assessor. You are notified whether you will be passed for assessment.

The assessor will assess the qualifications and experience of the shortlisted applicants with respect to the above-mentioned research area, techniques, skills and other requirements. The assessor will conclude whether each applicant is qualified and, if so, for which of the two models. The assessed applicants will have the opportunity to comment on their assessment. You can read about the recruitment process at http://employment.ku.dk/faculty/recruitment-process/.

Interviews with selected candidates are expected to be held in November/December 2026.

Questions
For specific information about the PhD fellowship, please contact the principal supervisor.

[General information about PhD study at the Faculty of SCIENCE is available at the PhD School’s website: https://www.science.ku.dk/phd/].

The University of Copenhagen wishes to reflect the surrounding community and invites all regardless of personal background to apply for the position. 

The position is offered within the project Rethinking ADHD: from executive control to a disorder of salience and will focus on reconsidering the theoretical and philosophical premises underlying ADHD, and distractibility in particular. The project is funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark and is led by Assistant Professor Jelle Bruineberg.

Introduction
The PhD programme is a study programme which aims at training PhD Fellows, at an international level, to undertake research, development, knowledge dissemination and teaching assignments. The main emphasis is on PhD students organising and conducting their own research project (under supervision). The programme includes the drafting of a PhD thesis which the student must defend at a public defence. The standard duration of the PhD programme is three years of full-time studies, which equals 180 ECTS.

A PhD degree opens a range of career opportunities in academia and elsewhere. As well as writing a thesis, PhD students work in active research environments in Denmark and abroad. They contribute to the academic environment, take research training courses, and convey the results of their research in teaching, at academic conferences and to the general public.

The PhD Fellow will be affiliated with the Center for Subjectivity Research, an internationally oriented and interdisciplinary research center that seeks to further the integration of different philosophical traditions, in particular phenomenology and analytic philosophy of mind. It moreover promotes the dialogue between philosophy and empirical science, in particular psychiatry, clinical psychology, cognitive science, developmental psychology, sociology, anthropology, and political theory (https://cfs.ku.dk/).

The Project
The overall aim of the Sapere Aude project is to rethink the theoretical assumptions underpinning Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). ADHD is typically thought of as a disorder of executive control: an inability to control where attention is directed. But in situations that capture their interests, people with ADHD seem to be able to focus for particularly long periods of time.    

The core idea to be pursued is that ADHD might be better understood as a difference in the way the world draws attention. Everyday attention is then not so much a tug-of-war between controlling your attention and being distracted, but a balancing act between sticking to the task at hand and remaining open to other things that might also be relevant. The hypothesis is that a salience-based approach to ADHD can make better sense of some of the paradoxical aspects of ADHD, such as hyperfocus, can lead to a better understanding of ADHD and can inform the normative debate about ADHD.

The PhD project is part of a work package that develops the conceptual and philosophical groundwork that is required for articulating a new perspective on ADHD. This groundwork includes rethinking some foundational issues in the philosophy and cognitive science of attention, such as: What is the “job description” for attention? What is the division of labor between salience and executive control? And is it always good to have more control over one’s attention? The PhD candidate is expected to develop and carry out a research project that coheres with the overall ambitions of the work package.

The role will suit applicants who are interested in working at the intersection between philosophy, cognitive science and psychiatry, and who have a special interest in attention. Applicants should have well-developed writing and research skills, and be able to demonstrate research potential, for example through a strong Master’s thesis, publications, or conference presentations.

Qualification Requirements
Applicants must have qualifications corresponding to master’s level related to the subject area of the project, e.g. Philosophy, Cognitive Science, or similar. If you have completed your education in Denmark, you must have a master’s degree covered by the collective agreement for academics in the state sector.

If you have completed your education outside of Denmark, you must either have a master’s degree equivalent to a Danish master’s degree (two years) or as minimum a bachelor’s degree equivalent to a Danish bachelor’s degree (three years) and be assessed as having professional qualifications at master's level.

If you have completed your education outside of Denmark, we will obtain an assessment of your education from the Danish Research Agency.

Applicants must possess skills in written and spoken academic English at a high level. If deemed necessary, the department may request that applicants document their English skills.

Application
Please submit your application online. To apply, please click on the “Apply now” icon at the bottom of this page. Your application must be written in English, and include the following attachments in either PDF or Word format:

• Cover letter (max. 1 page)
• CV (max. two pages)
• Diplomas, transcripts and description of grading scale
  Please include the following documents: bachelor’s and master's degree - diplomas and transcripts, description of grading scale. Note: If your master’s degree diploma is not available by the application deadline, please include your latest transcript of grades.
• Project abstract (max. 1,200 characters incl. spaces)
• Project description (max. 12,000 characters incl. spaces excluding bibliography).
  Your project description should include:
• A motivated introduction
• Objective(s) of the project
• Problem statement
• A short description of the international state of the art within the relevant research field(s)
• A theoretical framework for the project and central concepts.
• Proposed method and identification, if any, of empirical data.
• Expected results.
• A timetable or study plan for how you expect to complete the project in three years.
• A writing sample of single-authored written work: A short sample of written work, e.g. in the form of a published piece of work, a course paper or an extract from your MA dissertation (approx. 5,000 words).

Applicants holding a degree from a university where the working language is neither English nor a Scandinavian language must include translated versions of their diploma and transcripts, verified by the issuing university. The documents must be translated into English, Danish, Norwegian, or Swedish. In addition, an official description of the relevant grading scale (e.g. diploma supplement) must be included.

On the website of the PhD School, you can find more information about the attachments your need to include with your application: PhD at the Faculty of Humanities.

Assessment Criteria
The following criteria are applied when assessing PhD applications:

• Research qualifications, as reflected in the attached CV and project description
• Competencies and knowledge of relevant fields of academic research
• Level (grades obtained) of bachelor and master’s studies.

Salary and Terms of Employment
Terms of appointment and salary will be in accordance with an agreement between the Ministry of Finance and The Danish Confederation of Professional Associations (AC). The salary range starts at approximately DKK 31.844,98 (EUR 4.259,91) + an 18.07 % pension contribution.

According to the agreement, the PhD Fellow is required to carry out tasks at the relevant department to an extent corresponding to 840 working hours (6 months) over the course of the three-year employment.

You can read more about employment as a PhD Fellow here: Employment as a PhD student.

The Recruitment Process 
Following the application deadline, the Head of Department will, on the advice of the appointment committee, select applicants for assessment. All applicants will be notified whether they have been shortlisted. The Head of Department will appoint an expert assessment committee to evaluate the shortlisted applications. The shortlisted applicants will be informed of the committee’s composition. Each shortlisted applicant will be given the opportunity to comment on the committee’s assessment before the appointment is finalised.

Enrolment
It is a prerequisite for employment that successful applicants enrol at the PhD School of the Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen. Follow the links below for further information: PhD Programmes - Guide to studies and admission.

International Applicant?
The University of Copenhagen offers a broad variety of services for international researchers and accompanying families, including support before and during your relocation and career counselling to expat partners. Please find more information about our services at: For international researchers at the University of Copenhagen.

An Equal Opportunity Workplace
The University of Copenhagen is committed in its pursuit of academic excellence to equality of opportunity and to creating an inclusive working environment and therefore encourages all qualified candidates to apply, regardless of personal background, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, ethnicity etc. To learn more about our diverse workplace and our participation in the HRS4R HR Excellence in Research, please visit HR Excellence in Research.

Contact Information
We encourage you first to consult our website, where most questions concerning the recruitment process as well as the academic content and structure of the PhD programme are addressed:
Structure of the PhD programme

If you do not find the information you are looking for, you are welcome to contact the PhD Coordinator, Nete Nørgaard Kristensen by email at netenk@hum.ku.dk, or HR Søndre at hr-soendre@adm.ku.dk.

For specific questions about the role and project, feel free to contact Jelle Bruineberg at bruineberg@hum.ku.dk.

Please remember to state the ID number 211-2555/26-2H.

The deadline for applications is 3 November 2026 at 23:59 [CET].

Any applications or additional material submitted after the deadline will not be considered. However, changes may be made to the submitted application right up until the deadline.

We are offering a PhD fellowship in Veterinary Virology commencing 1st of February 2027.

Our group and research
Forskningsgruppen udfører forskning og undervisning inden for områderne enzootiske og zoonotiske virusinfektioner hos dyr. Forskningen vil de kommende år fokuseres på influenza infektioner i dyr, med fokus på zoonotiske aspekter af svine influenza virus. Gruppen bestå pt af ca. 20 forskere, phd studerende, studentermedhjælpere og 2 andre labornater. Vi har altid meget travlt, men har et godt arbejdsmiljø med masser af humor, kageklub og fleksible arbejdsopgaver og hvor alle hjælper alle.

The research group for Veterinary and Zoonotic Virology consists of around 20 members and as the name states work on both veterinary and zootonic viruses with a main focus on swine influenza A virus. We utilize different molecular methods such viral isolation in cells, qPCR/PCR, sequencing, ELISA and different immunological assays. The research group is very social and we have journal club, cake and breakfast club and Friday bars etc.

Project description
The PhD project will be on cross-reactive vaccines for swine influenza A virus. The first part of the project will be focussed on establishing immunological assays in the laboratory and generating hyperimmune serum in pigs experimentally for following antigenic characterization of Danish swine influenza A virus. The second part of the PhD will be on selecting representative vaccine strains testing them first experimentally in pigs and afterwards in the field.

Principal supervisor is Professor Lars Erik Larsen, Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, lael@sund.ku.dk, phone:  +4540998434

Start:                  1 February 2027

Duration:          3 years as a PhD student

Job description
Your key tasks as a PhD student at SUND are:

• Carrying through an independent research project under supervision.

• Completing PhD courses or other equivalent education corresponding to approximately 30 ECTS points.
• Participating in active research environments including a stay at another research team.
• Obtaining experience with teaching or other types of dissemination related to your PhD project
• Teaching and disseminating your knowledge.
• Writing a PhD thesis on the grounds of your project

PhD Programme Description:
The PhD programme is a three-year full-time research education within the framework of the 5+3 scheme, intended for candidates holding a relevant academic degree within the project’s subject area (e.g., [relevant degrees]).

Qualifications:
If you have completed your academic education in Denmark, the admission to the PhD programme requires a relevant Master’s degree (equivalent to 180 ECTS BSc + 120 ECTS MSc).

If you have an academic education from abroad, you must have either a degree equivalent to a Danish master's degree (180 ETCS + 120 ECTS MSc), or at a minimum, a bachelor’s degree equivalent to a Danish bachelor's degree (180 ECTS) and be academically qualified at master's level.

As part of the assessment of whether you meet the educational requirements, you must also achieve a positive academic evaluation and be assessed as the best qualified for the position.

Other important criteria are:

• The grade point average achieved
• Professional qualifications relevant to the PhD project
• Previous publications
• Relevant work experience
• Other professional activities
• A curious mind-set with a strong interest in veterinary virology
• Language skills

Place of employment
The place of employment is at the Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen. We offer creative and stimulating working conditions in dynamic and international research environment. Our research facilities include modern laboratories and the project will be carried out in collaboration with Statens Serum Institute, Landbrug og Fødevarer and Ceva Animal Health.

Terms of employment
The average weekly working hours are 37 hours per week.

The position is a fixed-term position limited to a period of 3 years. The start date is 1st of February 2027 or after agreement.

The employment is conditioned upon the applicant’s success­ful enrolment as a PhD student at the Graduate School at the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen. This requires submission and acceptance of an application for the specific project formulated by the applicant.

The PhD study must be completed in accordance with The Ministerial Order on the PhD programme (2013) and the Faculty’s rules on achieving the degree.

Salary, pension and terms of employment are in accordance with the agree­ment between the Ministry of Taxation and The Danish Confederation of Professional Associations on Academics in the State. Depending on seniority, the monthly salary starts at approximately 27,800 DKK/Roughly 3,700 EUR (October 2021 level) plus pension.

You can read more about salary levels in the state sector www.loenoverblik.dk (in Danish).

Questions
For specific information about the PhD fellowship, please contact the principal supervisor.

General information about PhD studies at the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences is available at the Graduate School’s website: https://healthsciences.ku.dk/phd/guidelines/

Application procedure
Your application must be submitted electronically by clicking ‘Apply now’ below. The application must include the following documents in PDF format: 

1. Motivated letter of application (max. one page)

2. CV incl. education, experience, language skills and other skills relevant for the position

3. Certified copy of original Master of Science diploma and transcript of records in the original language, including an authorized English translation if issued in other language than English or Danish. If not completed, a certified/signed copy of a recent transcript of records or a written statement from the institution or supervisor is accepted. As a prerequisite for a PhD fellowship employment, your master’s degree must be equivalent to a Danish master’s degree. We encourage you to read more in the assessment database: https://ufm.dk/en/education/recognition-and-transparency/find-assessments/assessment-database. Please note that we might ask you to obtain an assessment of your education performed by the Ministry of Higher Education and Science.

4. Publication list (if possible)

Application deadline:  [Wednesday 4 November 2026, 23.59pm CET

We reserve the right not to consider material received after the deadline, and not to consider applications that do not live up to the abovementioned requirements.

The further process
After the expiry of the deadline for applications, the authorized recruitment manager selects applicants for assessment on the advice of the hiring committee. All applicants are then immediately notified whether their application has been passed for assessment by an unbiased assessor.

The assessor makes a non-prioritized assessment of the academic qualifications and experience with respect to the above-mentioned area of research, techniques, skills and other requirements listed in the advertisement.

Once the assessment work has been completed each applicant has the opportunity to comment on the part of the assessment that relates to the applicant him/herself.

You find information about the recruitment process at: http://employment.ku.dk/faculty/recruitment-process/

The applicants will be assessed according to the Ministerial Order no. 242 of 13 March 2012 on the Appointment of Academic Staff at Universities.

The University of Copenhagen wishes to reflect the diversity of society and encourage all qualified candidates to apply regardless of personal background. 

The AI Section at the Department of Computer Science invites applicants for a PhD fellowship in computational modelling and evaluation of cultural interpretation with language models. The position is part of the research project “CuRe: Cultural Reasoning for Responsible Language Model Development” (DFF project 5334-00088B), funded by Independent Research Fund Denmark.

The expected start date is February 1st, 2027 or as soon as possible thereafter.

The project

Language models can produce fluent interpretations of texts while obscuring the cultural assumptions, uncertainty and alternative readings underlying their answers. CuRe investigates how language models understand and reason about culture, ambiguity and interpretation, and how these capabilities can be evaluated and improved to support responsible language model development. Literary texts provide a demanding testbed: their interpretation depends on historical and cultural knowledge, close attention to textual evidence and the ability to accommodate several plausible readings.

The PhD candidate will develop computational methods and evaluation resources for culturally grounded interpretation. Working closely with researchers in natural language processing and literary studies, the candidate is expected to:

• construct datasets and benchmarks linking literary passages, relevant cultural and historical context, textual evidence and expert or reader interpretations;
• analyse what cultural knowledge and interpretive strategies language models use, where their interpretations fail and how confidently they present uncertain conclusions;
• develop methods for grounding interpretations in evidence and for representing uncertainty, ambiguity and multiple plausible interpretations;
• evaluate the resulting methods through automatic experiments and studies with literary scholars and other readers; and
• publish the results in leading venues in natural language processing, artificial intelligence and computational humanities.

The exact research questions will be refined together with the successful candidate. Relevant methodological directions include language model evaluation and probing, retrieval and retrieval-augmented generation, explicit representations of interpretive evidence and uncertainty, data annotation, human-centred evaluation and multilingual or cross-cultural analysis. The empirical work will primarily use modern Scandinavian literary texts, while aiming to develop methods and findings that generalise beyond literature. The project includes a planned research stay at McGill University.

Who are we looking for?

We are looking for candidates with a strong computational background and an interest in how language, culture and interpretation can be studied rigorously. Applicants may have a background in natural language processing, computational linguistics, computer science, machine learning, artificial intelligence, data science, digital humanities or a closely related field. Formal training in literary studies is not required, but the successful candidate must be motivated to work across disciplinary boundaries and to engage seriously with humanities research questions.

Our group and research- and what do we offer?

The PhD fellow will join the CoAStaL research group and the AI Section at the Department of Computer Science. The research environment brings together faculty, postdoctoral researchers and PhD students working on multilingual and cross-cultural NLP, multimodality, language model training and evaluation, responsible AI and computational humanities. The section collaborates broadly with leading research groups in Denmark and abroad.

CuRe is an interdisciplinary collaboration with the Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics at the University of Copenhagen. The project builds on established joint work in computational literary studies and provides access to large literary corpora, domain expertise and relevant annotation resources. The PhD fellow will therefore be part of both a technically strong NLP environment and a close collaboration with literary scholars.

The group is part of the Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen. We are located in Copenhagen. We offer creative and stimulating working conditions in a dynamic and international research environment. Our research facilities include modern GPU computing resources, shared data and annotation infrastructure and access to relevant text corpora.

Principal supervisor: Associate Professor Desmond Elliott, Department of Computer Science, de@di.ku.dk.

Co-supervisor: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor Daniel Hershcovich, Department of Computer Science, dh@di.ku.dk.

Co-supervisor: Associate Professor Jens Bjerring-Hansen, Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, jbh@hum.ku.dk.

The PhD programme

The position is offered as a three-year full-time study within the framework of the regular PhD programme (5+3 scheme).

Qualifications needed
To be eligible for the regular PhD programme, you must have completed a degree programme, equivalent to a Danish master’s degree (180 ECTS/3 FTE BSc + 120 ECTS/2 FTE MSc) related to the subject area of the project, e.g. [relevant educations]. For information of eligibility of completed programmes, see General assessments for specific countries and Assessment database.

Terms of employment

The position is covered by the Memorandum on Job Structure for Academic Staff.

Salary, pension and other conditions of employment are set in accordance with the Agreement between the Ministry of Taxation and AC (Danish Confederation of Professional Associations) or other relevant organisation. Currently, the monthly salary starts at 31,800 DKK/approx. 4,200 EUR (August 2026-level). Depending on qualifications, a supplement may be negotiated. The employer will pay an additional 18,07 % to your pension fund.

Foreign and Danish applicants may be eligible for tax reductions, if they hold a PhD degree and have not lived in Denmark the last 10 years.

Responsibilities and tasks

• Carry through an independent research project under supervision
• Complete PhD courses corresponding to approx. 30 ECTS / ½ FTE
• Participate in active research environments, including a stay at another research institution, preferably abroad
• Teaching and knowledge dissemination activities
• Write scientific papers aimed at high-impact journals
• Write and defend a PhD thesis on the basis of your project

We are looking for the following qualifications:

• A master’s degree or equivalent qualification relevant to the PhD project.
• Strong programming skills, preferably in Python, and experience with machine learning or natural language processing tools.
• Knowledge of modern NLP and language models and an ability to design, implement and evaluate computational experiments.
• Experience with one or more of the following is an advantage: language model evaluation, retrieval or retrieval-augmented generation, data annotation, interpretability, multilingual NLP or computational humanities.
• Relevant research experience, publications, thesis work or professional activities.
• Ability to work independently, formulate research questions and collaborate across computer science and the humanities.
• A curious and critical mindset with a strong interest in culture, interpretation and responsible AI.
• Excellent written and spoken English. Knowledge of a Scandinavian language or experience with literary analysis is an advantage but not a requirement.

Application and Assessment Procedure

Your application including all attachments must be in English and submitted electronically by clicking APPLY NOW below.

Please include: 

1. Motivated letter of application (maximum one page) explaining your motivation for the project, your relevant qualifications and the research directions that particularly interest you.
2. Curriculum vitae including information about your education, research or work experience, language skills and other skills relevant to the position.
3. Original diplomas for bachelor’s and master’s degrees and transcripts of records in the original language, including an authorised English translation if issued in a language other than English or Danish. If the master’s degree has not yet been completed, a certified or signed recent transcript of records or a written statement from the institution or supervisor is accepted.
4. Publication list, if applicable.
5. Reference letters, if available.

Application deadline:

The deadline for applications is November 8th, 2026, 23:59 CET

We reserve the right not to consider material received after the deadline, and not to consider applications that do not live up to the abovementioned requirements.

The further process
After deadline, a number of applicants will be selected for academic assessment by an unbiased expert assessor. You are notified whether you will be passed for assessment.

The assessor will assess the qualifications and experience of the shortlisted applicants with respect to the above-mentioned research area, techniques, skills and other requirements. The assessor will conclude whether each applicant is qualified and, if so, for which of the two models. The assessed applicants will have the opportunity to comment on their assessment. You can read about the recruitment process at http://employment.ku.dk/faculty/recruitment-process/.

Interviews with selected candidates are expected to be held in week 49.

Questions
For specific information about the PhD fellowship, please contact the project supervisor Daniel Hershcovich at dh@di.ku.dk or +45 53 33 88 04.

[General information about PhD study at the Faculty of SCIENCE is available at the PhD School’s website: https://www.science.ku.dk/phd/].

The University of Copenhagen wishes to reflect the surrounding community and invites all regardless of personal background to apply for the position. 

The starting date is March 1st 2027 or as soon as possible thereafter.

Introduction
The PhD-student will be part of a project entitled Exploring the bases of individual differences in face recognition funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark (IRFD). The project is headed by Professor Randi Starrfelt and is a collaboration with Professor in Psychology and Epidemiology, Karen-Inge Karstoft and Professor in Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, Birgitte Fagerlund from Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen.

The overall project investigates variability in face recognition across a large, representative sample of the Danish population, with the aim of relating this to variability in other measures of cognition through questionnaires and data from Danish public registries. The focus of the PhD-project will be on relating variability in face recognition to other measures and indicators of cognitive abilities. Applicants are asked to situate and develop their research plan within the framework of the overall project, and the original project proposal should be requested from Professor Randi Starrfelt, randi.starrfelt@psy.ku.dk prior to submitting the application.

Candidates with various background may be considered for the position, examples of relevant backgrounds are MA/MSc degrees in experimental, cognitive, or developmental psychology, neuropsychology, cognitive (neuro)science, medicine (psychiatry), or public health. Strong skills in data handling and analysis is an advantage, as is an interest in the research questions posed in the overall project. Experience with research using data from Danish public registries will be an advantage but is not a requirement. The PhD student will be working in close collaboration with psychologists from different disciplines including psychological epidemiology and cognitive neuropsychology/neuropsychiatry. The position will be placed at Copenhagen Neuropsychology Lab, part of the Section for Cognition and Neuropsychology. It is expected that the successful candidate will be present, part of the team, and partake in the activities in the Lab on a daily basis.

The PhD programme provides PhD students with strong research training which opens a window of opportunity to a variety of careers within the private and public sectors. The programme includes the preparation of a PhD thesis, active participation in research networks, PhD courses, teaching, and other forms of knowledge dissemination. This funded PhD-position is to be undertaken as a three-year full-time study within the framework of the 5+3 study programme. 

Duties and responsibilities
Information about the PhD study programme is available on the website of Copenhagen Graduate School of Social Sciences PhD at the Faculty of Social Sciences and on the PhD website of the department.

Qualification requirements
Applicants must have qualifications corresponding to master’s level related to the subject area of the project, e.g. MSc in psychology, public health, medicine, or cognitive neuroscience. If you have completed your education in Denmark, you must have a master’s degree covered by the collective agreement for academics in the state sector.

If you have completed your education outside of Denmark, you must either have a master’s degree equivalent to a Danish master’s degree (two years) or as minimum a bachelor’s degree equivalent to a Danish bachelor’s degree (three years) and be assessed as having professional qualifications at master's level.

If you have completed your education outside of Denmark, we will obtain an assessment of your education from the Danish Research Agency.

Scholarship in the 5+3 programme
The 5+3 PhD study programme 
PhD students are paid a salary in accordance with the agreement between the Ministry of Finance and the Danish Confederation of Professional Associations (AC). The PhD student has a work obligation of up to 840 hours over the 3-year period of time without additional pay. The work obligation can include teaching, for instance.

Please note assessment of applicants’ qualifications and eligibility for employment and enrolment will only take place after the application deadline.

How to apply
Please submit your application online. To apply, please click on the “Apply now” icon at the bottom of this page. Your application must be written in English, and include the following attachments (with descriptive titles) in either PDF or Word format:

• Cover letter (max. 1 page detailing your motivation and background for applying with the specific PhD project)
• CV
• Project description of max 3 pages / 6000 characters excluding references presenting and discussing the challenges and advantages of using selected variables from the Danish Public registries as indexes for cognitive ability and cognitive disorders (cf. Work Package 2 and 3 in project proposal for IRFD that should be requested from randi.starrfelt@psy.ku.dk. The description should also include a suggestion for how to select relevant variables and ideas for which analyses might be helpful in analysing their relationship to the face recognition data collected in the project.
• Diploma and transcripts of records (BSc and MSc) Please note: If your degree diploma is not available by the application deadline, please include your latest transcript of grades.
• Other information for consideration, e.g., list of publications, documentation of English language qualifications (if any). Please do not include commitments from supervisors, recommendations etc.

Further details on the documents that should accompany your application are available on this website: Admission requirements and application procedures.

Assessment Criteria
The following criteria are used when shortlisting candidates for assessment: 

1. Research qualifications as reflected in the cover letter, CV and project proposal. 

2. MSc from a relevant field, e.g. psychology, public health, medicine, or cognitive (neuro)science.

3. Interest in cognition and variability in cognitive ability.

4. Performance (grades obtained) in graduate and post-graduate studies. 

Salary and Terms of Employment
Terms of appointment and salary will be in accordance with an agreement between the Ministry of Finance and The Danish Confederation of Professional Associations (AC). The salary range starts at approximately DKK 31.844,98 (EUR 4.260,48) + an 18.07 % pension contribution.

The Recruitment Process 
After the application deadline, the Head of Department will consider advice from the appointment committee and then selects applicants for assessment. All applicants will be notified whether they have been shortlisted. The Head of Department will then set up an expert assessment committee to assess the shortlisted applications. The selected applicants will be informed who is serving on the committee. Each shortlisted applicant will be offered the opportunity to comment on the committee’s assessment before the appointment is announced.

Enrolment
It is a prerequisite for employment that successful applicants enrol at the PhD School of the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Copenhagen.

International Applicant?
The University of Copenhagen offers a broad variety of services for international researchers and accompanying families, including support before and during your relocation and career counselling to expat partners. Please find more information about our services at: For international researchers at the University of Copenhagen.

An Equal Opportunity Workplace
The University of Copenhagen is committed in its pursuit of academic excellence to equality of opportunity and to creating an inclusive working environment and therefore encourages all qualified candidates to apply, regardless of personal background, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, ethnicity etc.To learn more about our diverse workplace and our participation in the HRS4R HR Excellence in Research, please visit HR Excellence in Research.

Contact Information
We encourage you to first consult our website, where most questions concerning the recruitment process as well as the academic content and structure of the PhD programme are answered:

Structure of the PhD programme

How to obtain a PhD scholarship.

If you do not find the information you are looking for, you are welcome to contact Thomas Habekost, email: thomas.habekost@psy.ku.dk, or HR South at hr-soendre@adm.ku.dk. Please remember to state the ID number 211-2559/26-2H.

The deadline for applications is November 10th at 23:59 CET.

Any applications or additional material submitted after the deadline will not be considered. However, changes may be made to the submitted application right up until the deadline.

The start date is expected to be 1 February 2027 or as soon as possible thereafter.
 

The position

This doctoral position is part of REGULAIRE (Regulatory Learning for the Governance of Transformative Technologies) is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Doctoral Network bringing together 15 doctoral candidates at ten European universities to study how regulation can learn and adapt in situations where technologies, risks, and expectations change quickly. Its projects examine how regulators sense emerging problems early, how balanced interventions encourage learning without overcorrection or underreaction, how such interventions alter institutional capacities, and how feedback can be institutionalised so that insights travel across organisations and jurisdictions.

Project description

The PhD student’s research is expected to conduct in-depth qualitative studies of how EU digital regulation (e.g., AIA, DSA) is technically and organisationally implemented in SMEs developing AI-related technologies. The goal is to map developers’ translation of regulatory guidance into product and service design and compares implementation strategies across sectors. This project offers a focused route into human-centred computing, sociotechnical research and the study of regulation in practice. You will join an international cohort, receive supervision across institutions and take part in three residential summer schools, methods workshops, monthly paper development seminars and joint work with regulators, standardisation bodies and international organisations. Every project includes a planned three-month intersectoral secondment.

The PhD student to be recruited in this call is expected to define their PhD project within the scope of the overall project and collaborate with the larger project team.

Description of the scientific environment

The position will be within the Human Centered Computing section (HCC). The Human Centered Computing section is a highly interdisciplinary group that conducts research within the areas of Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing, Digital Fabrication and related fields. Our section aspires to be a top research environment that bridges technology, theory, and empirical studies. The Human Centered Computing research environment at the University of Copenhagen is internationally leading, as evidenced by it’s ranking as second in Europe according to CSRankings. Further information about research at the Department is available here: https://di.ku.dk/english/research/ .

This position will be co-supervised by Irina Shklovski (email: ias@di.ku.dk) and Naja Holten Møller (email: naja@di.ku.dk) at the University of Copenhagen in the Department of Computer Science, Human-Centered Computing section. The PhD will be conducted in collaboration with Joris Van Hoboken, Professor of Information Law, with special emphasis on Law and Digital Infrastructure at the Institute for Information Law (IViR), Faculty of Law, University of Amsterdam

Who are we looking for?

• Applicants should hold a MSc degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Data Science, HCI, Critical Data Studies, STS, Law and Policy or a related field.
• Good written and oral English skills are a requirement.
• Previous scientific publications (if any) and relevant work experience is encouraged
• Applicants must be willing to engage in international mobility, including the planned secondment and network-wide activities

The ideal candidate would have an educational background or prior work experience in technology development, prior experience in qualitative research and fieldwork in organisations, and some understanding of European regulatory and policy concerns around AI systems.
 

The PhD programme

You can undertake the PhD programme as:

A three year full-time study within the framework of the regular PhD programme (5+3 scheme), if you already have an education equivalent to a relevant Danish Master’s degree.

Getting into a position on the regular PhD programme

Qualifications needed for the regular programme
To be eligible for the regular PhD programme, you must have completed a degree programme equivalent to a Danish Master’s degree (180 ECTS/3 FTE BSc + 120 ECTS/2 FTE MSc) related to the subject area of the position, i.e. HCI or CS. For information of eligibility of completed programmes, see General assessments for specific countries and Assessment database.

Additional qualifications for the MSCA PhD

REGULAIRE is funded by the European Commission’s Marie Skłodowska-Curie programme and to be eligible for this funding you must meet the following criteria:

• You must not have resided or carried out your main activity (work, studies, etc.) in Denmark for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately prior to your recruitment;
• You must work on the project full-time.

Please ensure that this information is clear on your CV. Researchers can be of any nationality.

Terms of employment in the regular programme
Employment as a PhD fellow is full time, on site in Copenhagen, and for maximum 3 years.

Employment is conditional upon your successful enrolment as a PhD student at the PhD School at the Faculty of SCIENCE, University of Copenhagen. This requires submission and acceptance of an application for the specific position formulated by the applicant.

Terms of appointment and payment accord to the agreement between the Danish Ministry of Taxation and The Danish Confederation of Professional Associations on Academics in the State. The position is covered by the Protocol on Job Structure.

Responsibilities and tasks in the PhD programme

• Carry out a research project with increasing autonomy from your supervisors
• Collaborate with researchers both within the research group, and with external project partners
• Author scientific papers aimed at high-impact venues
• Participate in the research and training activities with the REGULAIRE network
• Disseminate research nationally and internationally
• Attend PhD courses on general skills development such as academic writing, as well as relevant specialised courses such as REGULAIRE summer and winter schools
• Conduct a change of scientific environment in the form of a secondment with a relevant standards organisation and an extended visit with one of the REGULAIRE academic partners
• Write and defend a PhD thesis on the basis of your project

We are looking for the following qualifications:

• Professional qualifications relevant to the PhD position
• Relevant educational background
• Relevant publications
• Relevant work experience
• Other relevant professional activities
• Good written and oral English language skills

Application and Assessment Procedure

Your application including all attachments must be in English and submitted electronically by clicking APPLY NOW below.

Please include: 

1. Cover Letter detailing your motivation and background for applying for this PhD position;
2. Research Statement detailing your desired research focus and goals for the PhD studies within the scope of the specified position. The research statement should demonstrate your independent thinking by outlining a concrete research direction within technology governance you wish to explore, including: specific research questions you aim to address, preliminary ideas on methodological approaches you would employ, connections to existing literature, and the potential impact and applications;
3. Curriculum vitae including information about your education, experience, language skills and other skills relevant for the position;
4. Original diplomas for Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees and transcript of records in the original language, including an authorized English translation if issued in another language than English or Danish. If not completed, a certified/signed copy of a recent transcript of records or a written statement from the institution or supervisor is accepted;
5. Publication list (if available);
6. Names and contact details of three references.

Application deadline:

The deadline for applications is November 22, 23:59 GMT +1.

We reserve the right not to consider material received after the deadline, and not to consider applications that do not live up to the abovementioned requirements.

The further process
After the deadline, a number of applicants will be selected for academic assessment by unbiased expert assessors. You will be notified about whether your application will be selected for assessment.

The assessors will assess the qualifications and experience of the shortlisted applicants with respect to the above-mentioned research area, skills and other requirements. The assessors will conclude whether each applicant is qualified. The assessed applicants will have the opportunity to comment on their assessments. You can read about the recruitment process at http://employment.ku.dk/faculty/recruitment-process/.

Interviews with selected candidates are expected to be held in December

Questions

For specific information about the PhD fellowship, please contact ias@di.ku.dk  

General information about PhD study at the Faculty of SCIENCE is available at the PhD School’s website: https://www.science.ku.dk/phd/.

The University of Copenhagen wishes to reflect the surrounding community and invites all regardless of personal background to apply for the position. 

The PhD-student will be responsible for the assessment of the participants with the International Trauma Interview in Danish, overseeing recruitment progress, and conducting quantitative and qualitative research based on survey and interview data. Experience with quantitative and qualitative data analysis is a must. The candidate must have strong clinical skills and preferably with trauma populations. The candidate must be able to work independently under supervision. Collaborative skills and team spirit are in high regard. For the right candidate, there will be ample possibilities to influence the project and develop new project ideas within the project frame.

Supervision and research group
The PhD-student will be part of a research group at the Department of Psychology conducting psychological and psychiatric research on psychotherapy and trauma.

Qualification requirements
Applicants must have qualifications corresponding to master’s level related to the subject area of the project, e.g. Psychology. If you have completed your education in Denmark, you must have a master’s degree covered by the collective agreement for academics in the state sector.

If you have completed your education outside of Denmark, you must either have a master’s degree equivalent to a Danish master’s degree (two years) or as minimum a bachelor’s degree equivalent to a Danish bachelor’s degree (three years) and be assessed as having professional qualifications at master's level.

If you have completed your education outside of Denmark, we may obtain an assessment of your education from the Danish Research Agency.

Place of employment
The Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Copenhagen (https://psychology.ku.dk/) is a vibrant, inclusive workplace hosting a large group of faculty, post docs and PhD-students. The research of the department covers a wide range of topics and methodologies and has an international work environment.

Strategy of the Faculty of the Social Sciences
The Department of Psychology is part of the Faculty of the Social Sciences. The faculty is a successful academic community that strives to put knowledge into action by:

• Engaging partners in the co-creation of knowledge, learning and social change.
• Empowering our students to become reflective and responsible citizens who have the vision, the knowledge and the competence to change society for the better.
• Energizing global, European and Danish communities of knowledge by innovating research methodologies and by research findings with impact

For more on the faculty strategy, see: https://socialsciences.ku.dk/.

The recruitment process
Further information on the recruitment process at University of Copenhagen can be found here:  https://employment.ku.dk/faculty/recruitment-process/

An Equal Opportunity Workplace
The University of Copenhagen is committed in its pursuit of academic excellence to equality of opportunity and to creating an inclusive working environment and therefore encourages all qualified candidates to apply, regardless of personal background, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, ethnicity etc. For more on the diverse working place environment at the University and the University’s participation in the HRS4R HR Excellence in Research, see https://employment.ku.dk/working-at-ucph/eu-charter-for-researchers/

International applicant?
The University of Copenhagen offers a broad variety of services for international researchers and accompanying families, including support before and during your relocation and career counselling to expat partners. Please find more information about these services as well as information on entering and working in Denmark here: https://ism.ku.dk/

Contact information
We encourage you to first consult our website, where most questions concerning the recruitment process as well as the academic content and structure of the PhD programme are answered:

Structure of the PhD programme

How to obtain a PhD scholarship.

For information about the project and the position, please contact PI Assistant Professor Sara Kerstine Kaya Nielsen, sara.nielsen@psy.ku.dk. Information about the recruitment process is available from HR, e-mail: HR-SOENDRE@adm.ku.dk Please refer to ID number: 211-2569/26-2H

How to apply
Submit a complete application at our online portal. Click on the “Apply now” icon at the bottom of the page to apply. The documents must be in Adobe PDF or Word.  

Your application must be written in English and include the following documents:

• Motivated application
• Curriculum vitae
• Diploma (master and bachelor)
• Other relevant material

The deadline for applications is 1 December 2026.
Applications or enclosures received thereafter will not be considered.