PhD and Postdoc Positions in Law in Denmark

DTU Compute is offering a PhD scholarship focused on developing machine-learning methods for faster analysis and optimization of cyber-physical systems. The project will connect learned prediction models with optimization methods to address analytical calculations and simulations that are too expensive to evaluate repeatedly within practical computing budgets. The PhD researcher will develop surrogate models for predicting outputs such as execution delays, energy use, and resource demands. Machi...

The PhD fellowship is hosted by the Human Centered Computing section in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen, within the Faculty of Science. The project sits inside REGULAIRE, a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Doctoral Network focused on how regulation can adapt when technologies, risks, and expectations change quickly. The research topic centers on the street-level bureaucracy of regulatory implementation for AI. The doctoral student will carry out in-depth qualitat...

This scholarship supports Danish citizens with close ties to Denmark who are pursuing a Master’s degree in the United States, usually at the Harvard Kennedy School and in some cases at another comparable Ivy League university. It is designed for study in public policy or public administration and is administered by the Danish-American Fulbright Commission. The award can support either a one-year or a full two-year master’s programme. The one-year option is intended for experienced professionals,...

Copenhagen Business School is recruiting a postdoc in work-life balance policy: citizens, policies and firms at the Department of International Economics, Government & Business . The post is embedded in a multidisciplinary environment that brings together research on international business and political science, with a strong orientation toward societal challenges and the relationship between business, government, and broader public policy. The postdoc will join the AGILE work-life balance proje...

This postdoctoral position is based at the Department of Anthropology, School of Culture and Society, Faculty of Arts, Aarhus University, and is tied to the research project “Stories from my new life: Mobile transitions and social becomings among resettled refugees in Denmark” (TRANSIT) . The project focuses on the lives of resettled refugees, with particular attention to the legal, social, and existential transitions that accompany resettlement. TRANSIT is built around the resettlement of appro...

This PhD scholarship is part of the ERC-funded SLOMODEMO project at the Department of Political Science, Aarhus University . The project examines how liberal democracies respond when social, technological, and everyday life accelerate, while democratic lawmaking remains deliberative, rule-bound, and comparatively slow. The advertised PhD position focuses specifically on the relationship between social acceleration and democratic lawmaking . The student will develop an original, focused project w...

Aalborg University is advertising two postdoctoral positions in the research project TIMED – How Children and Youth Learn Time Sense in Educational Transitions , led by Jin Hui Li (Associate Professor). The project is funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark through a Sapere Aude Research Leader grant . The positions focus on educational transitions , social inequality , temporality , and ethnographic research . One postdoc will study the transition from kindergarten to primary school ; t...

PhD fellowship in Street-level Bureaucracy of Regulatory Implementation for AI at the University of Copenhagen , Department of Computer Science, Human Centered Computing section. This PhD project sits inside REGULAIRE (Regulatory Learning for the Governance of Transformative Technologies), a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Doctoral Network with 15 doctoral candidates across 10 European universities. The project focuses on how EU digital regulation such as the AI Act (AIA) and Digital Services Act...

PhD scholarship at Aarhus University , Department of Political Science, on social acceleration and democratic lawmaking . The position is part of the ERC-funded SLOMODEMO project ( High Speed Society, Slow Motion Democracy, and the Dilemma for Democratic Problem Solving ) led by Professor Kees van Kersbergen . The project examines how liberal democracies respond when technological change, social change, and everyday life accelerate while democratic procedures remain deliberative and comparativel...