PhD Opportunities in Journalism in Finland

PhD opportunity at the University of Oulu , Finland, in the Centre for Wireless Communications through the newly funded SmartSpaces project supported by the Research Council of Finland in collaboration with Rice University, US . The project focuses on wireless systems that can sense and interpret their surroundings, enabling secure and efficient spatial awareness services . Research directions mentioned include wireless sensing , intelligent scheduling , and AI , with strong links to RF , radar ...

The Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Helsinki is recruiting a Doctoral Researcher in Global Development Studies for a fixed-term appointment of at least three years, starting on 1 March 2027 (or as agreed). The project is Forests At Tipping points in the Era of Post-truth and Polycrisis: Insights from Brazil and Finland (FATE) , funded by the Research Council of Finland (2024–2030). The project examines deforestation and clearcutting in Brazil and Finland as contributors to climat...

Jyväskylä University School of Business and Economics (JSBE), University of Jyväskylä, is recruiting 5–8 Doctoral Researchers in Business and Economics for a fixed-term period of up to three years, starting 4 January 2027 or as soon as possible after that. This PhD-level opening is designed for candidates completing doctoral studies in JSBE’s doctoral programmes in business studies or economics . Research areas mentioned include accounting and corporate finance , corporate communication , corpor...

Aalto University is recruiting one doctoral researcher / PhD student for the AEGIS (Adaptive Grid-Interactive Edge Datacenter Fleets) MSCA Doctoral Network . The project is an EU-funded European research and training network running from 2026 to 2030 and training 15 doctoral candidates. The advertised project topic is End-to-End Energy Modeling for Distributed AI Services . The research focuses on energy modeling , carbon-aware computing , computer networks , telecommunications , RAN , and datac...

LUT University is recruiting for a Researcher or Doctoral Researcher in justice and sustainability transitions at its Lappeenranta, Finland campus. The position is part of the Academy Research Fellowship project Circuits of Justice: Exploring Normative and Spatial Dimensions of Justice Across Finland’s Battery Supply Chain , led by Dr Alicja Dankowska in the Energy and Society research group. The project examines how justice claims emerge, circulate, and evolve across Finland’s battery supply ch...

Aalto University is recruiting a Doctoral Researcher in Trustworthy Machine Learning at the School of Science , within the Department of Computer Science and the Trustworthy & Adversarial Computing Lab led by Sebastian Szyller . The position is centered on trustworthy machine learning , with research topics including verifiable, provable and auditable machine learning , adversarial robustness , privacy , fairness , AI/MLBOM , and proof-carrying ML . This is a fully funded PhD opening with a 2+2 ...

Aalto University is recruiting a Doctoral Researcher in Speech and Language Technology at the Department of Information and Communications Engineering (DICE), Finland. The project, COWAMA: Content-based watermarking for AI-generated audio , is led by Assistant Professor Lauri Juvela and focuses on speech and audio processing , deepfake detection , audio watermarking , source tracing , and trustworthy generative AI . The research aims to detect the origin and authenticity of AI-generated speech a...

Exciting PhD opportunity at Aalto University for 4 Doctoral Researchers in Robotics . The research team is working on topics including safe autonomy in shared spaces , semantic communication , socially aware perception , autonomous driving , visual perception , and representation learning . This is a strong fit for candidates interested in robotics, automation, engineering, and AI-driven autonomous systems. The post is shared by Farzeen Munir and mentions collaboration with Tomasz Piotr Kucner ,...

Hao Dong is actively recruiting PhD students and postdoctoral researchers to join his research group at ELLIS Institute Finland and Tampere University in Finland for Fall 2026 / Spring 2027 . The group works on machine learning , computer vision , multimodal learning , generative AI , and vision-language models , with a strong focus on foundation models and agentic systems that can safely adapt and generalize to new environments. Research applications mentioned include robotics , autonomous driv...