PhD Opportunities in Economics 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 Department of Psychology at the University of Jyväskylä is recruiting a doctoral researcher for the STN-funded Planetary Mind project. The project examines environmental agency — the ability to make sustainable everyday choices — and its relationship to mental health across different age groups. The doctoral researcher will work in a multidisciplinary consortium and develop a dissertation linked to the project’s research themes. The role combines original research with publication, collabora...

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 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...

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,...

This PhD opening is based in the Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Helsinki , within the Department of Pharmacology and Drug Therapy . The project focuses on medication safety and treatment effectiveness as part of social and clinical pharmacy research. The doctoral researcher will work on developing new effective operating models, methods and evidence to identify, prevent and manage medication-related risks in social and healthcare. The main research areas include risk management for med...

The Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Helsinki is seeking a doctoral researcher in social and clinical pharmacy for a fixed-term employment relationship of up to five years. The position is based in the Department of Pharmacology and Drug Therapy. The research area sits within a multidisciplinary health sciences field that focuses on optimizing patients’ medication use, promoting health, and preventing disease. The advertised area covers the use, availability, and effectiveness of medicin...

This doctoral opening is based in the Humans, Security and Privacy research group in the Department of Computer Science at Aalto University. The project sits at the intersection of human-computer interaction , psychology, and human-centered security, with a focus on how people experience security and privacy online and how they respond to digital deception , including social engineering. The central research theme is how users judge whether a digital request is genuine when convincing messages, ...

The Department of Psychology at the University of Jyväskylä is offering a doctoral researcher position within the Planetary Mind research project. The project is a multidisciplinary consortium study that investigates Environmental Agency —the capacity to make sustainable choices in everyday life—and its relationship with mental health across different age groups. The doctoral researcher will contribute to a project that aims to: examine the significance of environmental agency for mental health;...