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1. Fully Funded PhD Programs in Innovation Studies (AI)
Summary of PhD Project
The AIP project investigates the economic effects of artificial intelligence (AI). Some expect that AI will lead to positive impacts in terms of innovation, productivity and economic growth. Others point to possible economic harms such as technological unemployment, increasing market concentration and exacerbation of income inequalities. Public policies will have a crucial role to shape the direction and extent of these effects.
Application Deadline: 17th August 2025
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2. Fully Funded PhD Programs in Bioinformatics and Gene Regulation
Summary of PhD Project
The PhD project aims to explore how multiple layers of gene expression regulation—including DNA packaging, transcription initiation, and translation—interact to control gene activity. Using an integrated computational biology approach, the project will bridge traditionally separate areas of study to provide new insights into fundamental biological processes relevant to health and disease.
Application Deadline: 23rd July 2025
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3. Fully Funded PhD Programs in Political Science
Summary of PhD Project
The Department of Political Science is recruiting a PhD Research Fellow (SKO 1017). We invite applications from excellent candidates in all sub-fields of political science, including public policy and administration, comparative politics, political theory, international relations and research methods. The appointment is for a fixed, non-tenured term of 4 years, and has a 25% teaching component. The Department teaches in all the sub-fields mentioned above. The successful candidate will be part of the Faculty’s PhD programme. The work is expected to lead to a PhD in political science.
Application Deadline: 1st September 2025
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4. Fully Funded PhD Programs in Formal Methods for Data Protection in Digital Twins
Summary of PhD Project
This position is funded by the Department of Informatics and will be part of the collaboration between the Reliable Systems (PSY) research group, which works in formal methods, programming language theory and digital twins, and the Data and Knowledge Management (DKM) research group, which works in sematic technologies. Both groups have a dynamic and interactive working environment with good gender balance, consisting of full-time professors, researchers, and many postdocs and PhD candidates.
Application Deadline: 17th August 2025
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5. Fully Funded PhD Programs in Criminology and/or Sociology of Law, Digitizing Sexual Violence
Summary of PhD Project
One PhD fellowship is available at the Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law to undertake research as part of the project Digitizing Sexual Violence: The role of technology in creating and regulating sexual harms. The project is funded by the Norwegian Research Council. The candidate will be able to work on cutting-edge research topics and get access to an international and interdisciplinary network of high expertise with possibilities of research stays abroad. The candidate will be part of an interdisciplinary project group where close collaboration across academic disciplines and scientific methods is expected.
Application Deadline: 31st August 2025
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6. Fully Funded PhD Programs in Machine Learning
Summary of PhD Project
This Ph.D. position is focused on ML in realistic settings referring to statistical and system characteristics in the real world contrary to an ideal learing setting. The candidate will contribute to understanding how neural networks extract the most relevant information of the data to make a prediction using advanced mathematical tools. This insight opens the door for enjoying the real world. The candidate further develops efficient and robust algorithms for realistic settings in terms of data and computing resources and collaborates to address major challenges in important applications including marine domain and neuroscience.
Application Deadline: 15th August 2025
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7. Fully Funded PhD Programs in geochemical modeling
Summary of PhD Project
The PhD will be part of the new FME GigaCCS centre. The centre will advance Norway’s expertise in CCS, as well as support the global implementation of CCS at a gigatonne scale. FME GigaCCS seeks a highly motivated candidate for a PhD research fellowship aimed at de-risking CO2 storage in (hyper)saline aquifers. The background is that solid salt is known to form during CO2 storage, potentially leading to permeability impairment and reduced injectivities. Much research have been done to understand the physics of salt precipitation, but little is known on how geological heterogeneities at various scales affect the extent of salt formation.
Application Deadline: 10th August 2025
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8. Fully Funded PhD Programs in Applied Philosophy
Summary of PhD Project
A position as PhD Research Fellow (SKO 1017) in philosophy with an applied orientation is available at the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas (IFIKK), Faculty of Humanities, University of Oslo. Interdisciplinary knowledge and education are essential for addressing complex problems and societal challenges. The PhD fellow will contribute to clarifying the role that interdisciplinarity should play in political processes. The fellow will be part of the research group Science and Democracy at IFIKK and will write a dissertation in philosophy with an applied orientation. The dissertation should engage with specialized discussions within philosophy of science, social and political epistemology, ethics, political philosophy, or other relevant areas of philosophy.
Application Deadline: 15th August 2025
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9. 02 Fully Funded PhD Programs in Private Law Firms as Transnational Advocates (PROBONO)
Summary of PhD Project
Two positions as PhD Research Fellow (SKO 1017) are available in the research project PROBONO. The project is funded by the European Research Council. The two research fellows will work together with the Principal Investigator (PI) of PROBONO, Professor Nina Reiners, and the PROBONO team at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights (NCHR), a multidisciplinary department at the Faculty of Law. The period of appointment runs for three years without teaching duties, or upon agreement, four years with teaching duties constituting 25% of the overall workload. A four-year fellowship requires that the candidate can contribute to the current teaching needs of the Faculty of Law, including the multidisciplinary master program in human rights.
Application Deadline: 15th September 2025
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10. Fully Funded PhD Programs in Paleontology
Summary of PhD Project
Applications are invited for a 4 year position in a Research Fellowship as a PhD Candidate in invertebrate paleontology to be based at the Natural History Museum, Økern facility, University of Oslo. Project title: “Earth system events recorded in the Lower Paleozoic of the Oslo Region”. The Oslo Region is a classical area for the study of the Lower Paleozoic (Cambrian, Ordovician, and Silurian). The literature about the Oslo Region successions is extensive, providing a solid foundation for further research. NHM in Oslo has large collections of fossils and rocks, and field exposures are well known and easily accessible. The PhD candidate will carry out a thorough review of the whole succession in the light of new knowledge about global and regional trends and events, including climate change, evolutionary events (radiations and extinctions), plate tectonics, and changes in geochemical cycles.
Application Deadline: 10th August 2025
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11. Fully Funded PhD Programs in Plant Evolutionary Genomics
Summary of PhD Project
The PhD project will explore whether convergent Arctic traits, such as cold tolerance and flowering time, are underpinned by similar genetic mechanisms in distantly related plant species. The candidate will compare population-level genomic data from different Arctic taxa, conduct controlled common garden experiments, and analyze the molecular pathways involved in adaptation to extreme environments.
Application Deadline: 10th August 2025
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12. Fully Funded PhD Programs in Education focusing on Collaborative Learning
Summary of PhD Project
The PhD project should overall contribute to a better understanding collaborative learning in higher education work context. The candidate is expected to conduct empirical studies and analyses of rich datasets, and in particular, interaction data, with a focus on examination of collaborative learning processes and practices. The PhD position can be connected to ongoing projects with a focus on collaborative learning and practice (especially, TeamLearn or CORPUS), and make use of projects’ datasets. The project description is expected to elaborate on the research problem of the prospective PhD project, how it is embedded in the research literature and which theoretical perspectives as well as methodologies are considered. Interested candidates are encouraged to contact the listed contact persons for further information.
Application Deadline: 10th September 2025
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13. Fully Funded PhD Programs in fluid mechanics of droplet flow on complex fibers
Summary of PhD Project
The project will provide a fundamental understanding of droplet flow on single and complex fiber networks. Essential to the project is the development of a new understanding of capillary flow, drop impact, and wetting in fibrous networks. The PhD research fellow will design droplet flow experiments on fibers and focus on droplet accumulation on fibrous structures when exposed to fog flow. There will also be aspects with coupling droplet dynamics to properties of complex soft materials.
Application Deadline: 15th August 2025
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14. Fully Funded PhD Programs in Convergence and cultural development in the life sciences
Summary of PhD Project
The research project “Convergence and cultural development in the life sciences” explores novel forms of research practices in the life sciences and efforts to enable new collaborative research cultures to increase competitiveness, sustainable development and innovation, as well as enable cutting-edge research, including that of supporting research careers and talented researchers. The project is financed by the University of Oslo’s strategic initiative UiO:Life Sciences, and the UiO:Life Sciences initiative is also the study object of the project. The PhD/postdoctoral research fellow will work closely with senior researchers forming the project core group.
Application Deadline: 18th August 2025
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15. Fully Funded PhD Programs in Sociology/ Human Geography and Organizational Theory
Summary of PhD Project
We seek a candidate with an interest in and the potential to contribute to the development and teaching of organizational theory, institutional change and work life studies at the department. We value the contribution of young scholars to the academic environment and study programmes at the department and encourage candidates with a desire to participate actively in departmental life to apply.
Application Deadline: 15th September 2025
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16. Fully Funded PhD Programs in Human Geography
Summary of PhD Project
We seek candidates with the potential to contribute to the development of human geography as a discipline at the department. The fellow is expected to pursue independent research under supervision, as outlined in their submitted project proposals. We value the contribution of young scholars to the academic environment and study programmes at the department and encourage candidates with a desire to participate actively in departmental life to apply.
Application Deadline: 15th September 2025
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17. Fully Funded PhD Programs in Sociology
Summary of PhD Project
There are 1-2 vacant positions at the Department of Sociology and Human Geography for research fellows (SKO 1017) in sociology. The positions are for a period of three years without compulsory work or four years with 25% compulsory work (primarily teaching). The department is ranked as the premier academic research institute in sociology in Norway, conducting top international research while offering high quality education for students. The department is renowned both for the breadth of topics and methodologies employed and for its highly qualified researchers.
Application Deadline: 15th September 2025
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