PhD Opportunities in Climate Science in Finland

Knowing Animals: The Leverhulme Doctoral Programme on Interdisciplinary Pathways to Multispecies Understanding is a four-year doctoral programme led by the Royal Veterinary College in collaboration with the University of Exeter. The programme explores how animals experience and understand the world, placing animal perspectives at the heart of decision-making. It brings together approaches from the sciences, humanities, and social sciences to develop interdisciplinary pathways for understanding h...

This funded PhD project investigates what happens on land when temperatures exceed 1.5°C and examines the long-term consequences of climate “overshoot.” The research will combine geochemical datasets with climate model simulations to determine how land systems respond to past, present and future warming. By connecting evidence from different climate periods with modelled future conditions, the project will contribute to improved assessments of the environmental consequences of exceeding 1.5°C of...

ARIES DTP is offering fully funded PhD studentship opportunities for an October 2027 start, focused on environmental research and doctoral study of the changing planet. The programme spans five broad research themes: Ecology and Biodiversity ; Marine, Atmospheric and Climate Sciences ; Geosciences, Resources and Environmental Risk ; Environmental Genomics and Microbiology ; and Agri-environments and Water . Projects are intended for researchers interested in understanding natural systems and tac...

This PhD project at Uppsala University is based in the Department of Ecology and Genetics within the Limnology program at the Evolutionary Biology Centre (EBC) . The project focuses on phytoplankton succession in lakes and how these communities respond to environmental change. The student will work on process-based biogeochemical and dynamical modelling to study the drivers of seasonal changes in phytoplankton community composition. The research examines how physical and chemical conditions, pre...

The Graduate School of Integrated Climate and Earth System Sciences (SICSS) at the University of Hamburg offers a structured PhD programme focused on basic research into climate system interactions and climate effects. The programme is designed to support doctoral researchers in building strong disciplinary expertise while also developing interdisciplinary thinking and international networking. Doctoral researchers follow a curriculum with compulsory introduction courses in climate system scienc...

Michigan Technological University offers a Forest Science PhD through the College of Forest Resources and Environmental Science for students who want to make significant contributions to knowledge through advanced study and innovative research. The program supports research across forest ecology, soils, silviculture, tree improvement, forest wildlife ecology and management, forest economics, forest inventory, geographic information systems, growth and yield, wood science, and forest biology. Cur...

GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences is seeking a doctoral researcher for section 1.2, Global Geomonitoring and Gravity Field, within its Geodesy department. The position contributes to the ERC Synergy Grant project SnowShifts – Current and future shifts of snow regimes in extreme environments . The research will improve understanding of snow volume and mass, their nonlinear dynamics, and snow-regime shifts in the Earth and climate systems. The doctoral researcher will focus on high-resolution q...

Uppsala University is offering a fully funded PhD project in meteorology, climate statistics, and the dynamics of compound climate extremes . The research will quantitatively analyse mid-latitude compound climate extremes in recent and future climates. The doctoral researcher will investigate how atmospheric dynamics and circulation features contribute to the occurrence of different surface compound extremes, including the physical drivers that link large-scale atmospheric behaviour with multipl...

The University of Reading is offering four-year funded PhD opportunities through the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in the Mathematics of our Future Climate. The doctoral programme focuses on applying mathematics to challenges connected with future climate. Students will join a structured doctoral training environment designed around climate-related mathematical research, developing advanced research expertise at the intersection of mathematics and climate science. The opportunity is based a...