35 Fully Funded PhD Programs at Umeå University, Sweden
Are you holding Master’s degree and looking for fully funded PhD positions? Umeå University, Sweden invites online application for multiple funded PhD Programs / fully funded PhD positions in various research areas.
Candidates interested in fully funded PhD positions can check the details and may apply as soon as possible. Interested and eligible applicants may submit their online application for PhD programs via the University’s Online Application Portal.
1. Fully Funded PhD Position in Chemistry, with a specialization in the structural biology of viruses
Summary of PhD Program:
In your PhD studies, you will carry out research aimed at dissecting how virus particles assemble. You will characterize multi-component complexes involved in the assembly of viruses from the family Pneumoviridae and compare these to related viral families. Using a multi-modal structural biology and biophysics approach you will analyze structure and dynamics of these complexes to dissect the steps of viral assembly. You will employ both reduced in vitro systems to gain high resolution information, as well as large assemblies to gain ultrastructural insight. You will be provided opportunities to learn operation of cryogenic electron microscopes, 3D structure refinement, and model refinement. You will characterize interactions of viral proteins with lipids and their crosstalk with other binding events.
Application Deadline: 2024-06-03
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2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Discrete Mathematics
Summary of PhD Program:
The Department of Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics is opening a PhD position in mathematics focusing on discrete mathematics and combinatorics. The position covers four years of third-cycle studies, including participation in research and third-cycle courses. The last day to apply is the 30th of April 2024. The candidate will conduct research in discrete mathematics and combinatorics (understood broadly) as part of a project supervised by Associate Professor Istvan Tomon. The specific research questions will be determined based on the candidate’s interests.
Application Deadline: 2024-04-30
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Architecture
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD position provides a unique opportunity for a doctoral student to pursue innovative research in an area of their choice. We invite candidates to propose how their specific research project makes a distinctive and innovative contribution to the selected research area. Additionally, candidates are asked to demonstrate how their research can contribute to and engage with the different thematic areas and research groups at Umeå School of Architecture.
Application Deadline: 2024-04-28
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4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Architecture with a focus on Climate Adaption and the Water-Energy-Food Nexus
Summary of PhD Program:
At 64° latitude, interior landscapes offer interesting possibilities to extend growing seasons and diversify crops, while reducing energy consumption and providing hybrid living spaces between inside and outside. Retrofitting the existing building stock, repurposing vacancies, and expanding our building performance through circular systems may accumulatively have a positive systemic impact both in terms of reducing water and energy consumption, as well as food miles, while buffering existing infrastructure networks and enabling local food production on site. Climate change demands a recalibration of our built environment to become more resource-efficient and more resilient. The research group Designing Cycles at 64° (DC64°) is set out to turn buildings and their inhabitants from being consumers to becoming producers to transform our ecological footprint into a positive one.
Application Deadline: 2024-04-28
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5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Architecture with a focus on Critical Studies in Architecture and Urbanism
Summary of PhD Program:
Are you interested in a doctoral project where problematising and speculating how visions, norms, policies, and regulations in relation to urgent societal issues, e.g., inequalities, ageing population, welfare provision, segregation, mental health, and wellbeing, have been, are, and could be spatially translated are in focus? Are you willing to engage in investigating and theorising architectural agency, i.e., the performative, relational and caring aspects of the spatial organization and design? This doctoral project will be part of the research group Infrastructures of care: architecture, liveable lives and just environments at Umeå School of Architecture, which main interest is in the spatial, social, cultural, political, and experiential dimensions of architecture and urbanism.
Application Deadline: 2024-04-28
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6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Architecture with a focus on Biobased Building Materials
Summary of PhD Program:
The research project “Biobased Building Materials: Enhancing Circular Economy in the Swedish Construction Industry” is part of the Digital Materials Research group at Umeå School of Architecture. Comprising a team of researchers in architecture investigating new, traditional, and waste materials for innovative building applications and our experience cover biobased waste including paper, cardboard, and sawdust, as well as emerging smart materials such as bistables.
Application Deadline: 2024-04-28
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7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Physical Geography – Carbon cycling in northern lakes
Summary of PhD Program:
Northern high-latitudes are subject to pronounced warming, with expected major impacts on the numerous lake ecosystems and the services they provide. Recent research stress that responses of northern lakes to a warming climate are different from expectations based on conventional knowledge. This includes key functions such as biomass production, greenhouse gas exchange and carbon burial in sediments. This project aims to fundamentally advance the understanding of climate impacts on carbon cycling in northern lakes. Specific objectives include to assess direct (e.g. via water temperature) and indirect (e.g. via changes in carbon export from land) climate impacts on carbon cycling (e.g. respiration, photosynthesis, carbon burial) in lakes, and how these effects depend on lake and landscape characteristics.
Application Deadline: 2024-04-17
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Experimental Physics
Summary of PhD Program:
The ‘Ultrafast Nanoscience’ group at Umeå University is looking for a highly motivated PhD candidate interested in performing research on ultrafast spectroscopy in condensed matter nanosystems. The PhD project interfaces exciting fields of research, including ultrafast science, photonics and chemistry, with an overarching goal to understand the dynamics of electronic degrees of freedom in nanostructured materials. The PhD student will study the nonlinear optical properties and the ultrafast electron dynamics in molecular photoswitches coupled to photonic nanostructures and explore the fascinating physics of the so called molecular polaritons at ultrashort timescales. The project results will disclose novel mechanisms to control molecular photoswitches for applications in quantum computing and/or optical transistors.
Application Deadline: 2024-04-12
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9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Experimental Physics
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD student will study the physical mechanisms underlying light-matter interactions in nanoscale magnetic materials. By combining time-resolved (pump-probe) spectroscopy, finite element method and micromagnetic modelling, the candidate will design and realize plasmonic excitations affecting magnetic phenomena on ultrafast timescales. The project will disclose novel mechanisms which might have a huge impact on forthcoming light-driven data processing technologies.
Application Deadline: 2024-04-12
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10. Fully Funded PhD Position in Computing Science with focus on Software Security
Summary of PhD Program:
Our societies rely on computer systems and on software stacks. Unfortunately, software systems contain bugs and vulnerabilities which can be exploited by malicious actors. Most software systems are being built with code from third parties. This code, often packaged as a software library, forms an essential part of the so-called software supply chain. The doctoral student will develop tools and methodologies to conduct an in-depth investigation of the security of the software supply chain. The doctoral student will be able to focus on problems which fit their interest ranging from static and/or dynamic approaches to detecting software vulnerabilities in the code to preventing vulnerability execution at runtime.
Application Deadline: 2024-04-10
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11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Chemistry, with a specialization in organic chemistry
Summary of PhD Program:
The main objective with this doctoral research project is to develop these molecules further in terms of their activity and selectivity but also to introduce chemical groups/features that make them more valuable as research tools with the aim to unravel the exact mode of action. The work thus mainly concerns synthetic organic chemistry and method development. However, because the evaluation of the compounds activity and selectivity are so central to the project you will also learn different methods to test the compounds. You will also attend group meetings with focus on the design and synthesis of the molecules as well as project meetings with collaborators where the use of the molecules in biological studies will be discussed. Several international research groups with complementary expertise are involved in the research program and regular meetings with these collaborators are also part of the work.
Application Deadline: 2024-04-03
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12. 02 Fully Funded PhD Position in ecology, focusing on plant community ecology and ecosystem processes in northern Sweden
Summary of PhD Program:
The projects will focus on interactions of plant communities with belowground and aboveground ecosystem processes, and their responses to environmental factors (such as wildfire, nutrient availability, climate change and biodiversity loss) in natural boreal forest and subarctic tundra in northern Sweden, through the use of both environmental gradients and ongoing term experiments. Through the use of these study systems, we anticipate one student focusing primarily on ecological interactions involving nutrient availability and the other on ecological consequences of plant biodiversity loss, although there is quite some flexibility around this. The projects will include both field work over the summer and autumn months, and corresponding laboratory work, data analysis and writing. While it is our intention that the students work on these systems, the scope of the project work is deliberately broad, and is adaptable to suit the specific interests of the students that are appointed.
Application Deadline: 2024-04-02
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13. 03 Fully Funded PhD Position in educational work
Summary of PhD Program:
Educational Work as a postgraduate subject has a close connection to the pedagogical professional activities in preschool, school and teacher education and examines how these are shaped by different economic, political and social contexts. This doctoral position is aimed at one of TUV’s research profiles or could combine questions that concern two or more research profiles. Examples of specializations for the applicant’s research plan can be in the areas of:
– Curriculum and educational practice, goals and basic values in preschool and school age educare
– Digital practitioners in teacher education, school, preschool and school age educare
– Governance, policy and organization of teacher education, school, preschool and school age educare (including issues of privatisation and marketisation)
Application Deadline: 2024-03-29
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14. 02 Fully Funded PhD Position in Educational Measurement
Summary of PhD Program:
In the subject Educational measurement, research is conducted on educational and psychological assessments. This can involve studying the characteristics of tests and how they function for their purposes and for different groups of individuals. At the department of Applied Educational Sciences, tests such as the Swedish Admission Test to Higher Education (Högskoleprovet) and national tests are developed, and within both of these test activities, there are areas suitable for doctoral projects.
Application Deadline: 2024-03-29
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15. 13 Fully Funded PhD Position in Educational Sciences
Summary of PhD Program:
The Postgraduate School in Educational Sciences offers a coherent environment for doctoral education in the field of educational sciences at Umeå University. You will combine your doctoral education at a department with being part of a dynamic, interdisciplinary doctoral student group and have access to national and international research networks. As a doctoral student in the graduate school, you will contribute to the development of knowledge in the field, for the benefit of researchers as well as teachers and other educational professions.
Application Deadline: 2024-03-29
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16. Fully Funded PhD Position in Education with a focus on Didactics in Vocational Education
Summary of PhD Program:
The research group focus on various types of teaching and learning processes. Fundamental didactic questions – what, why, how, when, for whom and by whom – in relation to teaching (both past and present) are central. Research within the group includes curriculum studies, social studies didactics, educational history, studies on grading and assessment, on minority schooling, and on teacher-student-subject interaction. The group combines research, education and collaboration of relevance for the teaching professions and for teacher education.
Application Deadline: 2024-03-29
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17. Fully Funded PhD Position in Educational work
Summary of PhD Program:
As a doctoral student, you formulate your own research plan in Educational work with a specialization in language, and independently develop your dissertation project in consultation with your supervisors. Your supervisors are assigned based on the project’s focus. You will have continuous supervision and follow-ups with your supervisors as well as with the Director of Research Studies. You will be a part of the department’s research environment where you are expected to contribute through active participation in seminars, research networks, academic gatherings and conferences. You will also take part in other meetings and gatherings at the department, such as workplace meetings and staff days.
Application Deadline: 2024-03-29
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18. Fully Funded PhD Position in Education with a focus on teachers’ practice in innovative learning environments
Summary of PhD Program:
The research group’s overarching objective is to investigate: (i) the nature of practices unfolding in ILEs (ii) teachers’ perceptions of educational change and its impact on established practice and how it challenges previous traditions of organising schools, and (iii) the evolution of the concept of student-centered learning over time. The research group employs a diverse methodology, incorporating qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods. Data for the project is gathered through classroom observations, interviews, and questionnaires. The Ph.D. student will initially engage with existing data and subsequently focus on students’ performance within ILEs.
Application Deadline: 2024-03-29
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19. Fully Funded PhD Position in Science or Technology/Engineering Education
Summary of PhD Program:
As a doctoral student you will be part of the Umeå Science Education Research environment (UmSER). In UmSER, research is conducted within science, sustainability, and technology/engineering education with participants from several departments at Umeå University. Our research interest can be described from two perspectives – the learning situation and the learner. Hence, the research focusses on instructional practices, subject content, learning context, gender and identity, emotions, and motivation, and their relationship with students’ learning. The research involves students and teachers at all levels, from preschool to university.
Application Deadline: 2024-03-29
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20. Fully Funded PhD Position in Language teaching and learning
Summary of PhD Program:
As a doctoral student, you formulate your own research plan in Language teaching and learning and independently develop your dissertation project in consultation with your supervisors. Your supervisors are assigned based on the project’s focus. You will have continuous supervision and follow-ups with your supervisors as well as with the Director of Research Studies. You will be a part of the department’s research environment where you are expected to contribute through active participation in seminars, research networks, academic gatherings and conferences. You will also take part in other meetings and gatherings at the department, such as workplace meetings and staff days.
Application Deadline: 2024-03-29
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21. Fully Funded PhD Position in History and Education
Summary of PhD Program:
The doctoral position is open for applicants with research proposals in educational history and/or history didactics. This doctoral position is advertised in collaboration with the Umeå School of Education and is a part of the Postgraduate School in the Educational Sciences. Core parts of the doctoral programme are delivered in English, but the working language of the department and the research group is mainly Swedish.
Application Deadline: 2024-03-29
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