PhD Opportunities in Geography in Sweden

PhD project on convergent evolution in buzz-pollinated flowers at the Plant Ecology and Evolution program , Department of Ecology and Genetics, Uppsala University. This doctoral project examines how similar floral traits have evolved repeatedly across independent plant lineages in response to bee pollinators. The student will investigate buzz-pollinated flowers, a widespread example of convergent evolution, to compare similarity in floral form with similarity in function across several plant fam...

This PhD project is hosted by the Department of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) and is linked to the doctoral subject Landscape Architecture. The research focuses on governance and organizational adaptation in relation to the operation and maintenance of urban drainage infrastructure. The project addresses a major sustainability challenge: stormwater transports pollutants from urban areas into receiving waters, creating pre...

Trees For Me is seeking a PhD student in forest genetics to join a research environment based at Skogforsk, in collaboration with the Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU). The doctoral project will investigate how flowering and seed production can improve silver birch breeding . By examining these reproductive processes, the research aims to support the development of more productive and resilient birch forests and contribute to sustain...

PhD research in boreal raptor ecology and climate change is available at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Umeå, Sweden, within the Department of Wildlife, Fish and Environmental Studies. The doctoral project will investigate how climate, prey dynamics, and landscape change reshape northern raptor communities. The research will develop predictions about ecological responses across boreal environments, with potential emphasis on population ecology, community ecology, and movement...

This PhD project at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences is hosted by the Department of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management and sits within the third-cycle subject area of Landscape architecture . The doctoral research examines governance and organisational alignment for the operation and maintenance of urban drainage infrastructures, with a specific focus on how long-term maintenance schemes can be made more coherent, feasible, and environmentally responsible. The project...

The PhD project is based at the Department of Biosystems and Technology at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and is part of the Biogas Solutions Research Center . The research focuses on how digestate residues from biogas production can be used safely and effectively in sustainable horticultural production. The project examines digestate as a circular resource that can return nutrients and organic material to cultivation. A central theme is the use of the fiber fraction as a compon...

This PhD project at the Department of Biosystems and Technology , Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, focuses on the valorization and risk assessment of anaerobic digestates for sustainable horticultural production. The research addresses how digestate from biogas production can be transformed into safe, useful inputs for horticulture, with particular attention to the liquid fraction for nutrient solutions and the fibre fraction as a growing-media component and potential partial replace...

PhD project in Arctic landscape change at the University of Gothenburg, led by Jakob Assmann in the Spatial Ecology & Arctic Change research area. The project will investigate how Arctic landscapes are changing by combining drone imagery, satellite imagery, machine learning and artificial intelligence. The research sits at the intersection of remote sensing, data science and Arctic environmental research, offering an opportunity to develop and apply computational approaches to the study of spati...

This PhD project focuses on forest genetics and birch breeding , with a particular emphasis on understanding and improving flowering and seed production in silver birch . The student will study how environmental conditions and cultivation treatments influence flowering in young plants and older breeding material, with attention to light conditions, plant development and genetic differences in flowering responses. The research is designed to connect fundamental questions about reproductive develo...