PhD Positions & Scholarships in Sweden 2026–2027: 39+ Open
39 verified phd positions & scholarships in sweden for 2026–2027 are open right now. The soonest deadline is 30 October 2026 — closing-soon entries are flagged in the list. Hosted by Stockholm University, Uppsala University and Lund University. Listings are re-verified daily against official sources.
Studying in Sweden with funding
39 verified phd positions & scholarships in sweden for 2026–2027 are open right now. The soonest deadline is 30 October 2026 — closing-soon entries are flagged in the list. Hosted by Stockholm University, Uppsala University and Lund University. Listings are re-verified daily against official sources.
Swedish PhD positions are salaried employment (usually 80% of a full salary) rather than scholarships. Positions are advertised on university websites and varbi/Nature Careers.
Common funding types
•Salaried PhD employment
•Stipend-based positions
•Industrial PhD (KKN)
Typical levels
•PhD positions
•Postdoc positions
English requirement
English is the working language in most research groups; no IELTS needed when your degree was taught in English.
Timing
Positions advertised year-round with fixed closing dates.
KTH Royal Institute of Technology is hiring a doctoral student to work on game-theoretic methods for multi-agent autonomous systems. The project develops decision-making frameworks in which multiple autonomous agents interact, compete or cooperate, using tools from game theory, optimisation and machine learning to design robust strategies under uncertainty.
Lund University advertises a doctoral position in medical radiation physics focused on tritium persistence in soils and sediments. Tritium - a radioactive isotope of hydrogen released by nuclear facilities - behaves in environmental systems in ways that are still imperfectly understood, and the project studies how organically bound tritium persists in soils and sediments, how it moves through food chains, and what this means for radiological assessment.
✓ Fully FundedSalaried PhD position per the Swedish collective agreement
Lund University invites applications for a doctoral student position on risk and safety of heterogeneous swarm systems, hosted by the CHASS competence centre and funded by the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF). Swarm systems - large numbers of cooperating drones, robots and autonomous agents - promise major advances in logistics, inspection and rescue, but their heterogeneous, dynamic composition creates new safety and assurance challenges.
✓ Fully FundedSalaried PhD position per the Swedish collective agreement
Lund University invites applications for a doctoral student in medical science with a orientation toward health sciences (halsovetenskap), within the PRO-COG project. The project studies how people with cognitive disabilities experience and navigate public environments, and how society can design environments and services that support participation for this group.
✓ Fully FundedSalaried PhD position per the Swedish collective agreement
The Fulbright Sweden Scholar Program sends Swedish researchers and lecturers to US institutions for lecturing and research stays under the bilateral Fulbright agreement. Each year's call, with its closing date and discipline-specific awards, is published on the Fulbright Sweden site.
Partially FundedSEK 50,000 grant + SEK 15,000 one-time travel allowance
This master programme trains public-health professionals for disaster preparedness and response, covering risk governance, emergency operations and health-system resilience. Its admission-and-selection page carries the live dates and criteria for the next intake.
Partially FundedFunding options depend on the current call
The Department of Meteorology at Stockholm University invites applications for a PhD student position in atmospheric sciences and oceanography, focused on aerosol-cloud-climate interactions. The project studies how atmospheric particles influence cloud properties and, through them, the climate system - one of the largest sources of uncertainty in climate projection.
✓ Fully FundedSalaried PhD position per the Swedish collective agreement
The Department of Meteorology at Stockholm University invites applications for a PhD student position in atmospheric sciences and oceanography, focused on clouds in the atmospheric boundary layer. Boundary-layer clouds regulate the exchange of energy and moisture between the surface and the free atmosphere, and their behaviour is central to weather and climate prediction.
✓ Fully FundedSalaried PhD position per the Swedish collective agreement
The Department of Meteorology at Stockholm University invites applications for a PhD student position in atmospheric sciences and oceanography, focused on mixed-phase cloud processes. Mixed-phase clouds - containing both supercooled liquid water and ice - control cloud lifetime and radiative effect in cold regions, and their representation remains a challenge for weather and climate models.
✓ Fully FundedSalaried PhD position per the Swedish collective agreement
The Department of Meteorology at Stockholm University invites applications for a PhD student position in atmospheric sciences and oceanography, focused on machine-learning methods in climate modelling. The project applies modern data-driven techniques - from neural parameterisations to hybrid physics-ML modelling - to improve how climate models represent subgrid and coupled processes.
✓ Fully FundedSalaried PhD position per the Swedish collective agreement
The Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at Stockholm University invites applications for a PhD student position in biochemistry. The department conducts fundamental research on the molecular machinery of life, spanning enzyme mechanisms, membrane proteins, RNA biology and cellular metabolism, using approaches that connect structural, biochemical and cell-biological methods.
✓ Fully FundedSalaried PhD position per the Swedish collective agreement
The Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at Stockholm University invites applications for a PhD student position in bioinformatics. The position develops computational approaches to biological data, working across large-scale sequencing, proteomics or imaging datasets depending on the project line, and contributing methods that the department's experimental groups rely on.
✓ Fully FundedSalaried PhD position per the Swedish collective agreement
Lund University invites applications for a doctoral student in biomedical engineering specialising in engineering acoustics. The project bridges bioacoustics and medical technology, taking the echolocation abilities of dolphins as inspiration for advances in computational acoustics and medical ultrasound.
✓ Fully FundedSalaried PhD position per the Swedish collective agreement
The Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at Stockholm University invites applications for a PhD student position in biophysics. The position addresses quantitative questions about the structure, dynamics and interactions of biological molecules, using methods that may include optical and single-molecule spectroscopy, computational modelling and advanced biochemical assays.
✓ Fully FundedSalaried PhD position per the Swedish collective agreement
The Department of Physics at Stockholm University invites applications for a PhD student position in chemical physics, focused on quantum-chemical calculations of X-ray spectra in the condensed phase. The project develops and applies electronic-structure methods to predict and interpret X-ray spectroscopy of liquids, solutions and solid interfaces - connecting spectral signatures to molecular structure and dynamics.
✓ Fully FundedSalaried PhD position per the Swedish collective agreement
PhD position in computational neuroscience at Karolinska Institutet and SciLifeLab. Theme: Neural dynamics underlying survival behaviors. Deadline: 30 Oct 2026.
✓ Fully FundedSalary per Swedish collective agreement (typically SEK 32,000–35,000/month initial)
Uppsala University invites applications for a doctoral student in electrical engineering with a focus on power system adequacy. The project studies whether future power systems, with high shares of weather-dependent generation and new demands such as electrified transport and industry, will be able to meet electricity needs reliably across timescales.
Uppsala University invites applications for a doctoral student position in evolutionary and ecological genetics. The project applies genomic methods to questions in population and evolutionary genetics, studying how genetic variation is shaped by ecological processes and how natural populations adapt to changing environments.
The Department of Earth Sciences at Uppsala University invites applications for a PhD student position in geophysics. Uppsala operates one of the longest-running geoscience programmes in Europe, and its geophysics activities span solid-Earth geophysics, geophysical imaging of subsurface structure, and studies of crustal processes combining seismic, potential-field and electromagnetic methods with quantitative modelling.
✓ Fully FundedSalaried PhD position per the Swedish collective agreement
Lund University invites applications for a doctoral student in industrial design with a focus on strategic design. The project examines design as a strategic resource in organisations and society, studying how design competence shapes decision-making, innovation processes and long-term organisational direction.
✓ Fully FundedSalaried PhD position per the Swedish collective agreement
Employed PhD position in laser spectroscopy at Uppsala University's Department of Physics and Astronomy (ref UFV-PA 2026/2816). Monthly doctoral salary. Deadline: 20 November 2026.
✓ Fully FundedSalary per Swedish collective agreement (typically SEK 32,000–35,000/month initial)
Employed PhD position in limnology at Uppsala University (ref UFV-PA 2026/2846): process-based modelling of phytoplankton succession in lakes. Deadline: 25 November 2026.
✓ Fully FundedSalary per Swedish collective agreement (typically SEK 32,000–35,000/month initial)
Fully funded four-year PhD at Chalmers University developing machine learning decoders for scalable quantum error correction within the QuBriC MSCA network.
The Wenner-Gren Institutes at Stockholm University invite applications for a PhD student position in molecular biosciences. The institutes are the university's hub for experimental molecular biology, hosting research on gene expression, chromosome biology, infection biology, developmental systems and cellular stress responses.
✓ Fully FundedSalaried PhD position per the Swedish collective agreement
