PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in Earth Science in Finland

Aalto University’s Department of Energy and Mechanical Engineering, within the School of Engineering, is seeking a Master’s thesis worker for the Energy Conversion and Systems research group. The project focuses on optimizing an SO2-depolarized electrolyser (SDE) stack for renewable hydrogen production. SDE technology is a polymer electrolyte membrane electrolyser that uses electricity to produce hydrogen with sulfuric acid as a by-product. Compared with conventional electrolysis, the system off...

The University of Oulu’s Faculty of Technology is seeking a postdoctoral researcher for a three-year project in hydrological and ecosystem modelling within the Water, Energy and Environmental Engineering Unit. The research investigates how hydrological and biogeochemical processes interact with terrestrial ecosystems and climate systems in Arctic and boreal environments. The researcher will develop and apply numerical models to simulate water and nutrient fluxes, carbon mobilisation and lateral ...

The University of Oulu is seeking a Doctoral Researcher in Peatland Restoration Hydrology and Biogeochemistry for a three-year project in the Water, Energy and Environmental Engineering Unit of the Faculty of Technology. The research investigates how restoration and rewetting of former peat extraction areas influence carbon cycling, water quality, lateral greenhouse-gas emissions, water storage, runoff dynamics, and catchment hydrology. The project centres on the intensively monitored Turvesuo–M...

The Doctoral Researcher will join the Global Change and Biotic Interactions Ecology group at the University of Oulu to work in the Research Council of Finland-funded project “Mechanisms of Plant Biodiversity Change.” The project investigates why plant biodiversity responds differently to global change across sites and time, with a particular focus on the combined roles of spatial context, dispersal in space and time, biotic interactions, and intraspecific trait change. The research is designed t...

This postdoctoral position is based in the Global Change and Biotic Interactions Ecology group at the University of Oulu and is part of the Research Council of Finland-funded project “Mechanisms of Plant Biodiversity Change” . The project is led by Prof. Anu Eskelinen and focuses on understanding why plant biodiversity changes unevenly across space and in response to global change. The successful researcher will work on questions about the mechanisms shaping plant community change, including the...

The University of Oulu is recruiting a Postdoctoral Researcher for the General Education Research unit at the Faculty of Education and Psychology. The role sits within DATAVOID (From a Void to the Cloud? Data Centres in the Afterlives of Arctic Industries), an interdisciplinary research project examining how data centres emerge in post-industrial northern communities and how they relate to the legacies of earlier industries. The post is designed for a researcher who will develop a comparative st...

Two doctoral researcher positions are available in the Department of Geographical and Historical Studies at the University of Eastern Finland, based on the Joensuu Campus. The posts are part of the Research Council of Finland-funded project “Trees and the travels of knowledge: making modern (trans)imperial forestry from the margins, 1917–1939” , which investigates how forestry research moved across borders and how local forestry practices became part of global science in the interwar period. The...

The University of Helsinki’s Faculty of Arts is offering a full-time, three-year doctoral researcher position in archaeology, with the work located in the Department of Cultures. The position is linked to the Academy of Finland–funded SRTOOL project, led by Academy Research Fellow Maria Lahtinen, and places the doctoral researcher in a strongly international, interdisciplinary setting. The project focuses on strontium isotope tools for tracing mobility connected to aquatic diets across the past,...

The University of Helsinki is offering a 36-month doctoral researcher position in archaeobotany within the Research Council of Finland-funded NeoPlant project, which studies plant use, cultivation and the cultural roles of plants in Neolithic Finland (ca. 3000–1500 BCE). The project examines a major transition in human history: the shift from hunting and gathering towards food production and farming, while also recognising the continued importance of hunting, fishing and gathering in Neolithic F...