273 verified phd positions for 2026–2027 are open right now. The soonest deadline is 27 October 2026 — closing-soon entries are flagged in the list. Hosted by TU Delft, Stockholm University and University of Manchester. Listings are re-verified daily against official sources.
Aarhus University · Denmark
Fully funded PhD at Aarhus University investigating orbitronics and twistronics in 2D quantum materials using microscopic and ultrafast ARPES.
Earlham Institute · United Kingdom
Earlham Institute is advertising an ARIES doctorate on genomic variation and population structure in Atlantic bluefin tuna and Atlantic herring. The project involves CEFAS researchers.
Imperial College London · United Kingdom
A fully funded PhD studentship in Parkinson's Disease at the UK DRI at Imperial. Hosted by Imperial College London in London. Apply by 30 October 2026 (time not specified).
The Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University invites applications for two PhD candidates within the DIViNE doctoral network, a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions project on political violence and democracy. The advertised projects address institutional reform and public support for political violence, asking how institutional change shapes citizens' attitudes toward violent and democratic political action.
Imperial College London · United Kingdom
This project aims to improve pgSIT performance to control important agricultural insect pests by refining CRISPR construct design.
Aarhus University · Denmark
Fully funded three-year PhD at Aarhus University in Physical AI, developing adaptive foundation models for robotics with multimodal perception and reasoning.
Stockholm University's Department of Physics invites applications for a PhD student position in physics, focused on quantum-chemical calculations of X-ray spectra in the condensed phase. Complementing the chemical-physics line, this position approaches condensed-phase X-ray spectroscopy from the physics side - developing theoretical descriptions and computational implementations for spectra of liquids, molecular solids and aqueous systems, and connecting them to experiments that probe chemical bonding and dynamics in real environments.
University of Amsterdam · Netherlands
The University of Amsterdam (UvA) advertises a PhD position in political science on militarization and democratic erosion in Latin America. The project examines how the expanding role of armed forces in public life - from public security to infrastructure and emergency governance - interacts with the quality of democratic institutions across Latin American countries, combining comparative analysis, country cases and where relevant quantitative measures of militarization and democratic performance.
Empa · Switzerland
PhD position developing life-like materials that learn, remember, and forget for use in soft robotics at Empa St. Gallen. Salaried employment contract.
Max Planck Society · Germany
These Göttingen positions support theoretical or computational research in nonequilibrium statistical physics and active matter. Applicants can apply without IELTS - German doctoral hiring assesses English through documents and interview.
Aarhus University · Denmark
The Department of Mathematics at Aarhus University invites applications for PhD positions in mathematics, statistics and stochastics within its graduate programme. The call covers projects across the department's research groups, including analysis, geometry, probability, statistics and applied mathematics, with successful candidates joining active research environments at the Aarhus campus.
TU Delft · Netherlands
Fully funded TU Delft PhD positions in the Taminiau Lab (QuTech) on quantum networks based on spin defects in silicon carbide. EUR 3,204 to 4,051 gross/month. Deadline: 15 December 2026. Applicants can apply without IELTS - selection is based on documents and an English interview, not a test certificate.
University of Surrey · United Kingdom
Surrey Morphology Group is recruiting a PhD student to compare predictability in Romance verbal inflection. The studentship forms part of the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship project Scaling Predictability in Morphological Paradigms.
The Francis Crick Institute · United Kingdom
Fully funded 4-year PhD programme 2027 at The Francis Crick Institute London. £27,715 per year tax-free stipend, tuition covered for international students. Deadline: 3 November 2026, 12:00 midday GMT.
Stockholm University · Sweden
Stockholm University invites applications for a doctoral student in psychology working on chronomedicine in psychiatry. The project studies how circadian and sleep-wake rhythms relate to psychiatric conditions and their treatment, contributing to the growing field of chronomedicine that times diagnosis and intervention to biological rhythms.
Uppsala University · Sweden
Uppsala University invites applications for a doctoral position in psychology at the DiVE Lab, working within developmental psychology. The lab studies development and individual variation, and the doctoral project contributes to the lab's programme on how developmental processes unfold and vary between children and contexts.
Imperial College London · United Kingdom
This PhD project will focus on the single most pressing challenge in quantum computation: errors in these machines.
TU Delft · Netherlands
Fully funded TU Delft PhD in the Groeblacher Lab on highly coherent single photon emitters using erbium ions in the telecom C-band for the quantum internet. Deadline: 8 November 2026. Applicants can apply without IELTS - selection is based on documents and an English interview, not a test certificate.
Utrecht University · Netherlands
Utrecht University invites applications for a PhD position reconstructing the historic landscape developments of Zeeland, the Dutch delta province shaped by centuries of floods, land reclamation and coastal engineering. The project integrates historical-geographical sources, cartographic material and landscape data to reconstruct how Zeeland's land and water systems evolved over the centuries.
Uppsala University · Sweden
Uppsala University invites applications for a PhD student position on the recycling of solid electrolytes for all-solid-state batteries. The project focuses on lithium halide solid electrolytes, a promising class of materials for next-generation solid-state cells, and develops closed-loop recycling routes that recover and regenerate these materials after cell use.
Lund University invites applications for a doctoral student position in Technology and Society within the MSCA REGULAIRE doctoral network. The project studies regulatory learning and supervisory competence in the implementation of the EU AI Act, examining how supervisory authorities build the knowledge, routines and organisational capacity needed to govern artificial intelligence.
University of Agder · Norway
3-year fully funded PhD in learning-based control of autonomous robot manipulation at University of Agder, Norway. NOK 550,800 gross/year. Deadline: 28 Oct 2026.
University of Oslo · Norway
Paid PhD Research Fellow at the University of Oslo's Natural History Museum: marine algae and protistan parasites, NOK 550,800-595,000/year salary. Apply by 4 November 2026.
Wageningen University & Research · Netherlands
Wageningen University & Research is recruiting a doctoral researcher to study societal resilience against disaster and war in the Netherlands. The project asks who participates in resilience initiatives, who makes decisions and who benefits. Applicants can apply without IELTS - selection is based on documents and an English interview, not a test certificate.