If you’re a Masters degree holder and seeking Fully Funded PhD Programs, Uppsala University, Sweden has several online applications open for PhD programs. Explore the PhD opportunities across diverse research areas and submit your application soon.
1. Fully Funded PhD Position in Solid Mechanics, with focus on dislocation dynamics of hydrogen embrittlement in steel
Summary of PhD Program:
Hydrogen Embrittlement refers to the scenario where hydrogen enters metallic materials, interact with the microstructure and degrade the mechanical properties. It poses a significant threat to the safety of engineering structures for hydrogen transport and storage. However, the underlying mechanism of hydrogen embrittlement is still under debate.
The project is funded by Swedish Research Council and entitled “Interplay between hydrogen, precipitates and dislocation substructures in pipeline steel”. The project aims to improve the safety of hydrogen transport via pipelines, by gaining a solid mechanistic understanding of hydrogen embrittlement in pipeline steels.
Application Deadline: 12.Aug.2024
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in multimodal characterization of magnetic nanomaterials with X-ray and ferromagnetic resonance (MSCA COFUND project PRISMAS)
Summary of PhD Program:
We study the connection between functional properties such as magnetism and adsorption in nanomaterials under the insertion of ions such as lithium or molecules such as PFAS with a number of probes at different length scales. We do this by studying the connection between changes in the crystal structure (WAXS), particle morphology (SAXS), chemical state (ferromagnetic resonance or x-ray absorption) and functional properties (electrochemistry or adsorption) using a multimodal approach when the ions are inserted/removed chemically or electrochemically.
Application Deadline: 30.Aug.2024
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Biochemistry
Summary of PhD Program:
The project is a part of a larger EU-funded doctoral network (SPIDoc’s, https://www.ms-spidoc.eu/). The purpose of the network is to advance virus-related structural biology, where a considerable challenge lies in that the proteins change between different conformations over their life time and that their dynamics are very important for the virus’s life cycle. Using mainly native mass spectrometry, ion mobility, imaging with X-ray free electron lasers, and molecular dynamics simulations, viral particles with be interrogated in the gas phase, that is, taken out of solution, which circumvents a number of difficulties faced in solution-based methods.
Application Deadline: 26.Jul.2024
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Human-Computer Interaction
Summary of PhD Program:
The doctoral position is located at the unit for human-computer interaction in the project “Controlling the uncontrollable: the impact of reproductive health apps on experiences of pregnancy, midwives’ working conditions and data privacy”. The project focuses on understanding the importance of personal technology such as apps on reproductive health experiences. The project aims to study these new technological players in reproductive health. We want to know what role they play for healthcare professionals and healthcare institutions, as well as for women’s and men’s interpretation of and experiences with reproduction and partnership.
Application Deadline: 12.Aug.2024
5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Evolutionary Genomics
Summary of PhD Program:
Global estimates suggest that less than 5% of the true fungal diversity is currently described, largely because the majority of the up to 5 million fungal species on earth have no visible fruiting structures and cannot easily be cultured using established methods. Because the hidden majority of species defy established protocols for species recognition, we cannot effectively communicate about the majority of fungal species, many of which are frequently and abundantly detected in environmental samples. The proposed project uses species hypotheses built on environmental DNA (eDNA) data for targeted high-resolution microscopy and single cell genomics to infer evolutionary history and life cycle dynamics of hitherto undescribed fungal species and lineages.
Application Deadline: 30.Aug.2024
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6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Automatic Control focusing on Data- Driven Methods
Summary of PhD Program:
This project is dedicated to the development and analysis of data-driven methods for decision and control of dynamical systems. It will utilize tools from control theory, estimation theory, and statistical learning, with the aim of generating new ideas that can be applied to a broad range of dynamical systems. The theoretical development will be grounded in key application areas, ensuring the practical relevance of our research in real-world settings.
Application Deadline: 30.Aug.2024
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Cancer Precision Medicine
Summary of PhD Program:
We are looking for a doctoral student with a special interest in the area of cancer precision medicine with a focus on hematological tumors and epigenetic regulation of gene expression. The candidate will devote most of the time towards his/her research level education. Within this research level education the candidate will mainly focus on studies on epigenetic mechanism and the impact of these for tumor transformation and progression of the tumor clone in two hematopoietic tumors, multiple myeloma and acute leukemia in infants. Mapping of tumor specific genes regulated by modifications on DNA and histons will be identified, validated and functionally tested in patient material as well as in cell lines.
Application Deadline: 15.Aug.2024
8. Fully Funded PhD Position in evolutionary biology and palaeontology
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD project will focus on using state-of-the-art imaging technologies to access for the first time the bone microanatomy of stem tetrapods in three dimensions and investigate unexplored microstructures involved in the elongation of the appendicular bones and the formation of the wrist/ankle.
This project will aim at reconstructing the evolution of limb-bone microanatomy of Devonian-to-Carboniferous tetrapods in three dimensions using a 3D work-station available at the Evolution and Development (EO) program and the software VGStudioMax. Segmentation and 3D rendering of bone histological structures will be conducted by the PhD student on a synchrotron tomographic dataset acquired by the main supervisor.
Application Deadline: 08.Jul.2024
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in lymphatic developmental biology
Summary of PhD Program:
Lymphangiogenesis, the process of lymphatic vessels formation from pre-existing vessels, is marked by the onset of Prox1 expression. Recently we have discovered the induction of Prox1 is a progressive process. This is coupled with bipotential LEC progenitors undergoing a cell division before sprouting from the cardinal vein (CV). We have further teased out that Vegfc signalling is apical to this process and drives cell division and Prox1 expression in lymphatic daughter cells. This work posed a question of how Vegfc signalling and Prox1 transcriptional cascade together coordinate the lymphatic fate. This PhD project will involve dissecting this question using transcriptomics and imaging base approaches in zebrafish.
Application Deadline: 01.Aug.2024
10. Fully Funded PhD Position in Machine Learning and Computer Vision
Summary of PhD Program:
In this project, the selected candidate will join us in conducting fundamental machine learning research and developing principled foundations of vision-language models, with opportunities to validate the methods on challenging real-world problems involving computer vision. There will be a strong focus on deep learning, image analysis and neural language modeling within the project. Some topics of interest within the project scope include, but are not limited to, designing efficient algorithms for integration of visual and textual modalities, aligning visual and text embeddings into a cohesive embedding space and representation learning. We will consider various forms of data, including text, images and videos.
Application Deadline: 12.Aug.2024
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11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Materials Chemistry at the Program for Inorganic Chemistry
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD project involves research on new types of surface coatings for demanding environments, including nuclear fuel rods for use in nuclear power plants. The work is part of a larger research program with Uppsala University, Linköping University, and Chalmers University of Technology. Collaborations with other doctoral students and senior researchers are an important part of the research. The materials will mainly be produced using chemical vapor deposition (CVD). The research project will involve fundamental materials science studies of thin films produced with CVD, as well as application-oriented studies in collaboration with industry partners.
Application Deadline: 15.Aug.2024
12. Fully Funded PhD Position in Molecular Pharmaceutics
Summary of PhD Program:
The purpose of the doctoral project is to develop new molecules that can be used for more effective uptake of orally administered drugs, particularly therapeutic peptides. This will be done by using new methods within artificial intelligence for molecular design, in combination with physically-based modeling of interactions between model peptides and the intestinal environment, as well as in combination with cell profiling data from a related project.
Application Deadline: 31.Jul.2024
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in Molecular Pharmaceutics
Summary of PhD Program:
The purpose of the doctoral project is to develop new molecules that can be used for more effective uptake of orally administered drugs, particularly therapeutic peptides. This will be achieved by using various types of cell profiling methods to examine how cells react in different ways to these so-called permeability enhancers and how permeability is affected by this. The data generated will be used in combination with artificial intelligence methods for molecular design in a related project to generate new molecules with tailored properties for increased absorption of therapeutic peptides.
Application Deadline: 31.Jul.2024
14. Fully Funded PhD Position in Physics and Astronomy
Summary of PhD Program:
The research in the materials physics division focuses on metamaterials and functional materials with an emphasis on non-equilibrium and finite size effects in, amongst others, magnetic materials, metal hydrides and soft matter. Samples are synthesized as well as studied in-house with e.g. x-rays, ions, optical methods and transport measurements. These characterization tools are complemented by advanced x-ray and neutron scattering methods in the labs in Uppsala as well as at large scale facilities. The group also operates several accelerators for ion beam physics in the tandem laboratory as well as the neutron reflectometer SuperADAM at the Institute Laue-Langevin in Grenoble (France), bot as user facilities and national Swedish infrastructures.
Application Deadline: 12.Aug.2024
15. Fully Funded PhD Position in psychology
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD student will work with research on the psychology of cybersecurity, primarily by empirically studying cyber-risk judgments. Risk and uncertainty are important factors in cybersecurity; one will never be able to create entirely secure systems because new threats arise at the same rate that new security solutions are developed. By examining the psychological factors that affect cyber-risk judgments we can find ways to facilitate behaviors that minimize risk as much as possible while also maintaining a reasonable balance between risk and benefit.
Application Deadline: 12.Aug.2024
16. Fully Funded PhD Position in Field of Diagnostics and Therapy for Neurodegenerative Diseases
Summary of PhD Program:
The overall goal of the doctoral project is to identify and study proteins whose expression or distribution is altered in neurodegeneration and then generate brain-penetrating antibodies that bind to these proteins. These antibodies will then be used to develop new diagnostics, such as PET and SPECT radioligands, or for therapeutic applications to investigate whether the antibodies affect pathology in models of neurodegenerative diseases. The work thus involves both in vitro work, primarily immunological and histological methods, and in vivo studies in models of neurodegenerative diseases.
Application Deadline: 31.Jul.2024
17. Fully Funded PhD Position in vertebrate palaeontology
Summary of PhD Program:
The work will consist of studying, interpreting, analysing and describing fossil material of Devonian tetrapods (early land vertebrates) from Greenland. The material will principally be studied using synchrotron microtomography (a kind of high-resolution 3D x-ray imaging). The PhD student will study these tomographic data, reconstruct and interpret the anatomy of the fossils, and on that basis analyse their interrelationships, probable lifestyles etc. The results will be presented in peer-reviewed scientific journals and at international scientific conferences. In addition to research, the PhD student is expected to do some teaching, usually as a lab assistant. There will be opportunities for fieldwork.
Application Deadline: 12.Aug.2024
