PhD Opportunities in Environmental Sustainability

The University of Bath is offering two exciting PhD opportunities in quantum science within Kristina Rusimova’s established and well-funded NanoBioPhotonics Research Group. The projects explore how light can be used to control individual molecules and investigate their quantum behaviour. Project 1: Loading the Quantum Dice: Controlling Matter One Molecule at a Time . Project 2: A Photon and a Molecule Walk into a Tunnel Junction: Quantum Optics Meets Single-Molecule Science . The opportunities a...

Harvard University's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs welcomes applications from graduate students and postdoctoral scholars across disciplines whose research engages with international, transnational, global, or comparative national issues. Eligible projects may address contemporary or historical topics, rigorous policy analysis, or the study of specific countries and regions outside the United States. The opportunity is relevant to students and researchers in international relation...

The DIW Berlin Graduate Center PhD Programme 2027 offers a fully funded doctoral pathway based in Berlin, Germany, at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin). The programme is designed for research in Economics , Public Policy , Climate Policy , and Energy . It may suit international students seeking high-impact doctoral research and academic development in Europe. Funding is provided through a doctoral researcher contract. The post does not specify the contract value, tuition ar...

Simon Fraser University in Canada is offering fully funded MSc and PhD positions in remote sensing through the Synthetic Aperture Radar Laboratory in the Faculty of Applied Sciences. The research focuses on synthetic aperture radar, remote sensing, satellite data, programming, and radar-sensor research. Successful students may contribute to publishable research involving radar observations, satellite-data processing, and computational methods. Applicants should have a background in remote sensin...

EdeLab at Université Laval is reopening applications for three PhD positions . The laboratory, led by Associate Professor Edel Pérez-López, conducts research in molecular ecology, insect vector invasions, emergent plant diseases, and related microbiology and plant health topics. The positions are intended for future doctoral team members working on the remaining research projects after one of four previously available positions was filled. Interested candidates should consult the complete announ...

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)–BarcelonaTech in Barcelona, Spain, is offering 23 predoctoral doctoral training grants beginning 1 April 2027. The opportunities support PhD research projects across agricultural, computer, electrical, electronic, biomedical, civil, materials and communication engineering, environmental science, physics, and related fields. The grants provide contracts of up to four years, including an optional maximum 12-month post-PhD orientation period. Funding is €2...

PhD position in equitable AI for breast cancer screening and risk prediction is available at the Department of Oncology-Pathology, Karolinska Institutet, in Solna, Sweden. The doctoral student will join the Computational Breast Imaging Group, led by Associate Professor Fredrik Strand. The project investigates whether artificial intelligence systems used in population-based mammography screening perform equitably across population groups and how disparities can be reduced. Research will examine A...

The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) invites applications for a four-year, full-time PhD research fellowship in Sociology in Trondheim, Norway. The project examines power, governance, and the political economy of fighting antimicrobial resistance (AMR), with particular attention to pharmaceutical innovation, markets, regulation, procurement, antibiotic sovereignty, and security of supply. The doctoral researcher will join the interdisciplinary project “Preparedness and Respo...

Leiden University is seeking a PhD candidate for the research project “Entangled with Seaweed: The Politics of Economising Nature in Scotland and South Africa.” The successful candidate will conduct ethnographic research into the impacts of seaweed economisation and blue economy strategies on coastal communities in Scotland. The project draws on political ecology, valuation studies, environmental anthropology, sustainability research, and the multispecies turn. It examines how seaweed harvesting...