PhD Opportunities in Earth Science in Finland

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...

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...

The Department of Biological and Environmental Science at the University of Jyväskylä is seeking a doctoral researcher in disease ecology. The position is framed as a fixed-term research appointment intended to support completion of doctoral studies, within an international and multidisciplinary environment. The department highlights research spanning biodiversity, environmental systems, and biological processes from the molecular and cellular level to communities and ecosystems. The opening is ...

The University of Eastern Finland is recruiting three doctoral researchers for the School of Computing on the Kuopio campus to join the ERC-funded MINE-THE-GAP project. The project combines satellite imagery, mining data reports, and AI to study mining activities and their impacts worldwide, with a focus on improving transparency and sustainability in mining. Each doctoral researcher will lead an individual thesis within one of three research themes: mapping mining land use through semantic segm...

Two doctoral researcher positions are available at the Department of Geographical and Historical Studies at the University of Eastern Finland, based on the Joensuu Campus. The successful candidates will join a Research Council of Finland-funded project on the history of forestry knowledge and its international movement in the interwar period. The project investigates how local forestry practices were transformed into global science between 1917 and 1939, and how Nordic forestry became entangled ...

The Sodankylä Geophysical Observatory at the University of Oulu is seeking a doctoral researcher to join a research environment focused on space weather, the near-Earth environment, and Arctic geophysics. The role is embedded in the SafeEarth research programme and centres on understanding how solar activity drives disturbances in the Earth's upper atmosphere and magnetic environment, especially at high latitudes where these effects can create natural hazards. The successful candidate will work ...