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1. Fully Funded PhD Programs in Architecture leading to a degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Fine Arts
Summary of PhD Project
An artistic doctorate emphasizes design-driven processes and artistic exploration as methods of inquiry, bridging academic research and the professional practice of architecture. Research within this framework may follow a Research by Design approach, where designed artefacts generate new insights. Alternatively, the research may draw on the candidate’s own professional experiences, using long-term case studies, or contribute directly to the design process by developing new methods, tools, techniques, or reflecting critically on design methodologies.
Application Deadline: 30.Sep.2025
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2. Fully Funded PhD Programs in technology and society with focus on AI and the welfare state
Summary of PhD Project
The research group environment at LTH in Lund, led by Stefan Larsson, focuses on social science-oriented but multidisciplinary issues linked to AI, with affiliated researchers at both junior and senior levels. Collaborations exist within the Engineering Faculty as well as within the Faculty of Medicine, Law, Social Sciences and the Humanities, and universities in Finland, Germany and Japan. The research group has a working space at LTH, and is part of the Department of Technology and Society.
Application Deadline: 03.Sep.2025
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3. Fully Funded PhD Programs in Economic Geography
Summary of PhD Project
The research will be conducted within the field of economic geography and will focus on analyzing global innovation dynamics in infrastructure sectors. The position is well-suited for students with an interest in topics such as the geography of sustainability transitions, institutional perspectives on innovation and diffusion, green industry dynamics, change agency, global innovation systems, among others. The position is connected to two research projects focusing on transformative innovation in the water sector.
Application Deadline: 01.Sep.2025
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4. Fully Funded PhD Programs in Biodiversity and Evolution
Summary of PhD Project
Biology is a broad subject about all living things. It encompasses everything from processes at the molecular and cellular level to global processes at ecosystem level. The subject is divided into a range of sub-disciplines and specializations. The PhD program at the Department of Biology includes many of these specializations, from molecular biology to applied ecology, from viruses and individual cells to evolutionary biology and global biodiversity. Taking on research studies at the Department of Biology generally means focusing on a delimited part of the research area of biology and may include field studies, experiments, theoretical studies, or a combination of these.
Application Deadline: 17.Aug.2025
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5. Fully Funded PhD Programs in Chemical Engineering on membrane processes for storm and rainwater harvesting
Summary of PhD Project
The Membrane Group is currently offering a PhD position with a focus on finding sustainable solutions for the treatment of storm- and rainwater. This is a unique opportunity to work with applied research with direct linkages to water utilities and municipalities/cities in the local surroundings with aim to identify next generation’s storm- and rainwater harvesting solution. The membrane technique is seen as a potential method to support a transition towards a more sustainable recirculation and usage of storm- and rainwater.
Application Deadline: 17.Aug.2025
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6. Fully Funded PhD Programs in Chemical Physics, studies of singlet fission processes and energy transfer in energy conversion materials
Summary of PhD Project
The PhD work will be carried out within European Innovation Council funded project Bioinspired Singlet Fission Photon Multipliers (BioSinFin). The goal of BiosSinFin is to use singlet-fission active chromophores and red-emitting materials in protein scaffolds to fabricate a coating for sensitization of Si solar cells to achieve up to an additional 5% conversion efficiency. One objective of this PhD project will be to use multidimensional electronic spectroscopy to explore singled fission process in various molecules in protein scaffolds. The second objective will be to study triplet energy transfer between singled fission and red emitting materials.
Application Deadline: 17.Aug.2025
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7. Fully Funded PhD Programs in computer science with a focus on program analysis
Summary of PhD Project
The position is within the Software Development and Environments division, part of the Department of Computer Science. The division is exploring novel tools, languages, and methods for supporting software development, and conducts research in a variety of topics that include compiler construction, declarative specification languages, distributed development environments, safety monitoring for autonomous systems, and code review analysis driven by eye tracking. The division has strong collaborations both locally within Lund University, internationally with other universities, and with industrial partners, such as ABB and Ericsson.
Application Deadline: 17.Aug.2025
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8. Fully Funded PhD Programs in theoretical computer science
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We invite applications for one to two PhD positions in computational complexity theory. At the heart of computational complexity theory is the quest to understand the nature of efficient computation. What makes a problem computationally hard or easy? How can we show that every algorithm that solves a certain problem must necessarily consume a large amount of resources (such as time or memory, say)? The study of the potential and limits of efficient computation is about foundational, mathematical, research, but research results in computational complexity theory have had major impact in other areas of computer science and other scientific disciplines, and have given rise to some of the most important open problems in modern mathematics.
Application Deadline: 17.Aug.2025
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9. Fully Funded PhD Programs in Building materials with focus on biobased insulation materials
Summary of PhD Project
This PhD project is part of a larger project with the aim of studying and improving the hygrothermal performance of biobased insulation materials. The purpose of the PhD project is to study the hygrothermal performance of existing biobased insulation materials and enhance their energy performance and increase robustness to temporary moisture loads. This will be explored by tailoring the hygrothermal performance of the materials, e.g. their heat release, moisture capacity and sorption kinetics, through tuning the material structure and chemistry by chemical modification.
Application Deadline: 12.Aug.2025
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10. Fully Funded PhD Programs in Electrical Engineering focusing on Wireless Communication for XR
Summary of PhD Project
Wireless systems are becoming an increasingly important part of our everyday life. More advanced functions and services are introduced at the same time as demands for higher efficiency and sustainable technologies are growing. ClassIC is addressing this challenge, where extended reality, XR, is used as the driver for developing an entire ecosystem of design methodologies and practices for future semiconductor systems. An important part of this is the design of energy and hardware efficient wireless communication, used to deliver reliable connectivity to XR- devices. The type of wireless communication chosen for this is distributed MIMO, based on its capability to deliver both reliable and spectral efficient wireless connectivity.
Application Deadline: 11.Aug.2025
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11. Fully Funded PhD Programs in fire safety engineering with the focus on combustible facades
Summary of PhD Project
Fire safety research relates to physical and chemical processes associated with the origin, growth, spread and extinguishing of fires, interactions between fire and buildings/facilities, systems for preventing or detecting fire or limiting its consequences, and evacuation and human behavior in fire. The general objective is to find cost-effective and innovative methods of keeping damage to people, the environment, and property at an acceptable level.
Application Deadline: 10.Aug.2025
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12. Fully Funded PhD Programs in Biochemistry
Summary of PhD Project
The project involves identifying and structurally characterizing membrane-bound water channels in complex with regulatory proteins from the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana. The aim is to give an increased understanding of how regulation of water channels contributes to drought resistance in plants in order to enable the development of crops with increased drought resilience.
Application Deadline: 06.Aug.2025
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13. Fully Funded PhD Programs in Industrial Engineering and Management
Summary of PhD Project
The project will study roles and challenges related to private-public collaboration for supply preparedness in general, and specifically focusing governance mechanisms for preparedness stock and logistics challenges related to increased requirements on supply preparedness for food. The project aims to develop different actors (authorities, food producers, wholesalers, retailers) understanding of private-public collaboration related to supply preparedness in general, and preparedness stock specifically, so it can be strengthened. To secure the project’s relevance, a reference group will include representatives from retail companies, industry organizations, and the Swedish Food Agency.
Application Deadline: 04.Aug.2025
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14. Fully Funded PhD Programs in Numerical Analysis
Summary of PhD Project
This doctoral project lies at the intersection of numerical analysis and scientific machine learning, focusing on the development of reliable, physics-aware AI frameworks. The aim is to build a mathematically grounded approach for approximating partial differential equations (PDEs) using deep kernel learning, which integrates deep neural networks into Gaussian processes constrained by PDEs. Drawing on tools from numerical analysis and reproducing kernel Hilbert space theory, the project seeks to rigorously embed physical laws into deep learning while enabling uncertainty quantification and error estimation. This research offers an opportunity to contribute to foundational advances in physics-informed machine learning.
Application Deadline: 01.Aug.2025
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15. Fully Funded PhD Programs in Computational Chemistry
Summary of PhD Project
Development of quantum chemical methods and computational codes for the accurate description of the electronic structure of large molecules and solids. This work involves data-driven analysis of electronic structure calculations to reduce computational time. The modeling of large systems will also include development of specialised basis sets and model potentials for cluster embedding. A data-driven approach will be employed to enable ab initio calculations for very large molecules and clusters.
Application Deadline: 31.Jul.2025
