If you’re a Masters degree holder and seeking Fully Funded PhD Programs, University of Bergen, Norway has several online applications open for PhD programs. Explore the PhD opportunities across diverse research areas and submit your application soon.
1. 02 Fully Funded PhD Position in Contested frontiers of settler states
Summary of PhD Program:
There are vacancies for two PhD positions at the Department of Comparative Politics. Each position is for a fixed-term period of 4 years. Of that period, at least 75% will be devoted to PhD training and research as an integral member of the exciting ERC project “Contested Frontiers: Understanding the constitutional politics of settler-state peripheries” (ConFront). The other 25% may involve teaching, supervision, and administrative tasks at the department.
The project combines political theory, constitutional law, and comparative politics to understand efforts – usually by Indigenous peoples versus settlers/states – to (re)constitute frontier jurisdictions, especially in the North American Arctic, Fennoscandic north, U.S. Pacific, and Australian tropics. ConFront consists of five team members led by the department’s associate professor of Arctic governance, Aaron Spitzer.
Application Deadline: 5th August 2024
2. 02 Fully Funded PhD Position in Comparative Politics
Summary of PhD Program:
The project addresses the impact of demographic change on representative democracy. The growing proportion of senior citizens across European populations increases their influence on elections and policy decisions. How does this affect the political representation of old, young, and future generations’ interests? To assess the impact of demographic change on Generational Political Pluralism in Norway, Europe, and beyond, the project investigates generational cleavages in two integral parts of policymaking: public opinion and political representation. The empirical analyses draw on a combination of observational, behavioural, and experimental data and will use a range of innovative methods like survey experiments, text analysis, and social network analysis to make descriptive and causal inferences.
Application Deadline: 2nd August 2024
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in parasitology
Summary of PhD Program:
One of the biggest challenges for salmon farming is the ectoparasite salmon lice (Lepeophtheirus salmonis). Strong spread of the parasite threatens wild salmon and current treatment methods for farmed salmon result in poor fish welfare.
The research fellow’s assignment will focus on studying the host-parasite interaction between salmon and salmon lice. Among other things, this will be investigated using gene knock-down of relevant louse genes and infection trials. The knowledge should contribute to enhance our understanding of these interactions which can inform the development of new and effective treatment methods against lice. Various molecular techniques, including high-throughput sequencing, RNA interference, and in situ hybridization will be employed in this study.
Application Deadline: 1st August 2024
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Evolution of Neurotransmitter Receptors
Summary of PhD Program:
Work in the Lynagh group focuses on the evolution, function, and pharmacology of ligand-gated ion channels, receptors that mediate rapid communication between neurons, using molecular phylogenetics, mutagenesis, chemical biology, and electrophysiology. We currently plan to identify and characterize certain families of such receptors in marine invertebrates and compare them to homologous receptors from other animals, including human, with a view to establish novel evolutionary and pharmacological principles. In this PhD project, the candidate will perform electrophysiological experiments, various molecular biology and biochemistry, cell culture, and possibly microscopy and animal maintenance.
Application Deadline: 30th June 2024
5. Fully Funded PhD Position in theoretical physics
Summary of PhD Program:
The theoretical physics group works with a wide range of research in quantum physics, particle physics and nuclear physics. The announced PhD project will deal with the description of strongly interacting systems that are produced in heavy-ion collisions at the LHC. QCD jet observables, representing multi-particle long-distance processes, are particularly suited to probe the dynamical evolution of the quark-gluon plasma created in these collisions. The project will focus on developing high-precision calculations of jet observables through a systematic approach based on effective field theory which is highly relevant in the context of future upgrades of the LHC accelerator. It involves developing new computational methods for dealing with relativistic particle propagation in both equilibrium and non-equilibrium background systems. If you are interested in these topics, we encourage you to apply!
Application Deadline: 30th June 2024
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6. 02 Fully Funded PhD Position in Biomedicine
Summary of PhD Program:
In all living organisms, there is a subset of small coenzyme molecules that participate in thousands of biochemical reactions, thereby enabling and coordinating metabolism. In the course of evolution, the same molecules have attained more and more key roles as regulators of virtually all biological processes, often through posttranslational protein modifications. This is illustrated, for example, by the use of NAD in a multitude of metabolic reactions and at the same time as substrate for ADP-ribosylation and protein deacetylation.
The highly interdisciplinary HubMOL project aims to unravel the mechanistic principles of how these hub molecules of life interact to enable and control both metabolism and signaling. The project combines world-leading competences in synthetic and analytical chemistry, biochemistry, molecular genetics, bioinformatics and advanced technology development with experts from Norway, Austria and the USA.
Application Deadline: 25th June 2024
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Ultrasound Acoustics
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD project has work title Wideband Methods for Complex Acoustic Waveguides. The work will be carried out with main supervisor at University of Bergen in planned collaboration with external partners. This is an excellent opportunity to work with ultrasound acoustics and signal analysis in the scientific forefront, in short distance to industrial applications.
Several acoustic methods are used for non-destructive evaluation (NDE) and structural health monitoring (SHM) of mechanical constructions. One family of such methods monitor the integrity of bar-, plate-, and pipe-like elastic structures by means of guided ultrasonic waves (GUW). Transmitting ultrasound transducers excite GUW propagation modes in the structure. Receiving transducers are used to detect changes in scattering, signal amplitudes, or phase (travel time). Such signal changes carry information about events and processes such as, e.g., crack formation, dimensional changes, delamination, marine growth, scale and wax formation, corrosion, and erosion.
Application Deadline: 14th June 2024
