PhD Scholarships at Aarhus University, the largest research university in Denmark, a member of the European University Association.
| Application deadline | Project title | Programme | Candidate background |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/05/31 23:59 CEST | Unveiling the alternative hydrogen pathway in cattle rumen | Quantitative Genetics and Genomics | Applicants must have a relevant Master’s degree (120 ECTS), or equivalent, or receive the Master’s degree before the start date. The Master’s degree should be in microbiology. |
| 2025/05/04 23:59 CEST | Data-driven analysis of turbulence and algae dynamics using high-frequency lake monitoring data | Ecoscience | Applicants must have a relevant Master’s degree (120 ECTS), or equivalent, or receive the Master’s degree before the start date. The Master’s degree should be in Environmental Science, Environmental Engineering, Ecology, Applied Mathematics, Data Science, or a related discipline. |
| 2025/05/01 23:59 CEST | Understanding protein supramolecular structures in gels and emulsions | Food Science | Applicants to the PhD position must have a relevant Master’s or Bachelor’ degree (a fast track 4-year PhD could be granted in this case with high academic standing). |
| 2025/05/01 23:59 CEST | PhD position in the role of cropping system diversification supporting weed-arthropod interactions, biodiversity and ecosystem services in arable fields | Agroecology | Applicants should hold a Master’s degree (or equivalent qualification) in agroecology, chemical ecology, biology, entomology, environmental science, or a related field. |
| 2025/05/01 23:59 CEST | Untapping belowground plant interactions for optimal plant defence in crops. | Agroecology | Applicants should hold a Master’s degree (or equivalent qualification) in agroecology, chemical ecology, biology, entomology, environmental science, or a related field. |
| 2025/04/20 23:59 CEST | Upcycling of alkaline wastes based on CO2 mineralization | Civil and Architectural Engineering | Applicants must have a relevant Master’s degree (120 ECTS) or at least one year of a Master’s degree related to material sciences, material chemistry, inorganic materials or relevant subjects. |
| 2025/04/01 23:59 CEST | PhD in improving the utilization of the phosphorus resource in soil and biochar | Agroecology | Applicants to the PhD position must have a relevant Master’s degree (120 ECTS) in agrobiology, biology, soil science or related field. |
| 2025/04/01 23:59 CEST | Next-gen polymer SLS printing | Mechanical and Production Engineering | Applicants must have completed Bachelor’s degree (180 ECTS) and at least one year of a Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering (or a related field) when enrolling in the programme. |
| 2025/04/01 23.59 CEST | PhD Position in Wetland Restoration and Nature-Based Solutions for Biodiversity and Climate Resilience | Agroecology | Applicants should hold a Master’s degree (or equivalent qualification) in ecology, biology, entomology, environmental science, climate science, computational biology, geography, or a related field. |
| Project title | Keywords | Application deadline |
|---|---|---|
| 2 PhDs in innovation and greenhouse gas monitoring | Innovation, Greenhouse gas monitoring, Hyperspectral imaging, Entrepreneurship and Machine learning | 2025/05/01 23:59 CEST |
| AI-Assisted Human Knowledge Seeking | Knowledge-seeking, Multilinguality, Natural language processing, Large language models, Computational social science | 2025/05/01 23:59 CEST |
| Atmospheric organic aerosol particles and clouds: probing how aerosol phase behavior-affects cloud formation | Atmospheric chemistry and physics, aerosol particles, clouds and climate, aerosol phase state and number | 2025/05/01 23:59 CEST |
| Beta-decay studies of proton-dripline nuclei at FRIB | Experimental nuclear physics, beta-decays, data analysis | 2025/05/01 23:59 CEST |
| Cloud interfacial chemistry probed by ultrafast surface spectroscopy | aerosol, surface chemistry, femtosecond laser, sum frequency generation, photochemistry | 2025/05/01 23:59 CEST |
| Glucose and lactic acid metabolism in the bird retina | respiratory physiology, metabolism, neuroscience, cell biology, transcriptomics | 2025/05/01 23:59 CEST |
| How does loss of land ice affect coastal runoff and biogeochemical cycling in Arctic coastal areas? | Freshwater; coastal waters; river runoff; biogeochemistry; freshening | 2025/05/01 23:59 CEST |
| Identifying terrestrial sources of atmospheric microbial ice-nucleation proteins in the Arctic | Bioaerosols, Arctic microbial ecology, atmospheric science, ice nucleation, cloud formation | 2025/05/01 23:59 CEST |
| Investigating in-cloud processes of Arctic bioaerosols | Bioaerosols, Arctic microbial ecology, atmospheric science, ice nucleation, cloud formation | 2025/05/01 23:59 CEST |
| Molecular aspects of Parkinson’s Disease | Parkinson’s Disease, α-synuclein, monoclonal antibodies, lipid nanoparticles, blood-brain barrier | 2025/05/01 23:59 CEST |
| Molecular diffusion in atmospheric aerosol particles: sensing oxygen in aerosols with luminescence indicators | Atmospheric physical chemistry, aerosol particles, aerosol viscosity, microscopy, molecular diffusion | 2025/05/01 23:59 CEST |
| Neurophysiological defects in O-GlcNAc transferase intellectual disability | Neurobiology, neurodevelopmental disease, mouse models, glycosylation, electrophysiology | 2025/05/01 23:59 CEST |
| PhD position in microbial physiology focusing on upcycling of alkaline wastes based on CO2 mineralization | Microbiology, physiology, genomics, CO₂ capture | 2025/05/01 23:59 CEST |
| Quantifying Ecosystem Structural Diversity and Fragmentation using LiDAR, RADAR, Structure from Motion or Deep Learning | Vegetation structure, remote sensing, lidar, spatial scaling, ecosystem fragmentation | 2025/05/01 23:59 CEST |
| Reasoning with Large Language Models | Reasoning, Large language models, Artificial Intelligence, Agentic AI, Reinforcement learning | 2025/05/01 23:59 CEST |
| Retinal Antioxidant Defense in Zebrafish | respiratory physiology, metabolism, cell biology, reactive oxygen species, antioxidant defense | 2025/05/01 23:59 CEST |
| Revealing the Effect of Abrasion on the Fate of Chiral Biosignature Molecules | Mars, Biosignatures, Chiral molecules, Life detection, Mars missions | 2025/05/01 23:59 CEST |
| Understanding C*-algebras by inducing symmetries | C*-algebras, ideal structure, groupoid C*-algebras | 2025/05/01 23:59 CEST |
