PhD Opportunities in Biology in Finland

The University of Turku is recruiting a doctoral researcher at the Turku PET Centre in Finland through the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions PREFERENCE Doctoral Network. The project, “Effect of ischemic heart disease on multiorgan perfusion,” focuses on using long axial field-of-view (LAFOV) PET/CT to study cardiovascular disease and whole-body biological processes. The doctoral researcher will conduct hands-on clinical research to improve the use of LAFOV PET/CT in patient care. The work will deve...

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...

This doctoral project is part of the European Commission’s PANDORA Doctoral Network and is hosted by the School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Eastern Finland in Kuopio. The researcher will work on pathomechanisms and novel drug optimization for age-related macular degeneration (AMD) , with a strong emphasis on ophthalmic drug delivery to the retina. The core research task is to develop and test intravitreal drug formulations designed for targeted retinal delivery. ...

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...

The Department of Biological and Environmental Science at the University of Jyväskylä is recruiting one doctoral researcher to join a project on disease ecology and zoonotic risk. The project uses a One Health perspective to examine how urbanisation and forest management shape wildlife–pathogen–human interactions across Finland’s urban, rural and forest environments. The doctoral researcher will work on quantitative analysis of large, heterogeneous ecological datasets, including long-term wildli...

The Barrett lab at the University of Helsinki is recruiting a doctoral researcher to work on computational genomics for predictive medicine . The project sits at the intersection of genomics, multiomic data analysis, and machine learning, with a scientific goal of identifying mechanistically meaningful subtypes of complex human diseases. Rather than focusing only on observed clinical phenotypes, the lab aims to characterize diseases through molecular and biological endotypes that can better supp...

This doctoral position sits within the FAroGels MSCA Doctoral Network and the Department of Food and Nutrition at the University of Helsinki’s Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry. The project, “Aerogels for Oral Lubrication,” explores how dietary-fibre aerogels and cryogels can be designed as functional porous, moisture-responsive materials for food applications, with a particular focus on texture, mouthfeel, and oral processing. The doctoral researcher will investigate how fibre-network organis...

The Department of Biological and Environmental Science at the University of Jyväskylä is recruiting a Doctoral Researcher to work on an evolutionary biology project focused on how natural selection and sexual selection interact to shape diversification in natural populations over contemporary timescales. The project gives the doctoral researcher freedom to develop research within this broader framework, using the freshwater isopod Asellus aquaticus as an empirical model system. This species offe...

Tampere University invites applications for a doctoral researcher position in occupational cancer epidemiology within the NordExCan project, “The Nordic Occupational Exposome and Cancer: Decades of Change, Mixtures, and Inequalities.” The research is based in the Health Sciences Unit and connected with Tampere University's multidisciplinary population health and doctoral research environment. Led by Principal Investigator Dr. Subas Neupane , the project examines how occupational exposures change...