PhD Positions & Scholarships in Sweden 2026–2027 — Page 2
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.
Stockholm University invites applications for a PhD student position in neurochemistry with molecular neurobiology. Research in this area studies the molecular organisation of the nervous system - neurotransmitter systems, protein networks at synapses, and the molecular changes underlying neurological and psychiatric disease - using biochemical, cell-biological and imaging approaches on neural cells and tissue models.
✓ Fully FundedSalaried PhD position per the Swedish collective agreement
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.
✓ Fully FundedSalaried PhD position per the Swedish collective agreement
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.
✓ Fully FundedSalaried PhD position per the Swedish collective agreement
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 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.
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.
✓ Fully FundedSalaried PhD position per the Swedish collective agreement
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.
✓ Fully FundedSalaried position (pay scale per listing)
Umea University advertises a fully funded four-year PhD student position in statistics, focused on next-generation latent variable models. Latent variable models - factor models, item-response models, mixed models and their modern extensions - are central to statistics, psychometrics and data science, and the project develops methodology that improves how such models handle high-dimensional, heterogeneous and dependent data.
✓ Fully FundedSalaried PhD position per the Swedish collective agreement
The Stockholm Resilience Centre invites applications for a PhD student position in sustainability science. The Centre, part of Stockholm University's Faculty of Science, is internationally known for research on resilience thinking, planetary boundaries and the governance of social-ecological systems.
✓ Fully FundedSalaried PhD position per the Swedish collective agreement
Stockholm University invites applications for a PhD student position in theoretical physics, focused on quantum sensing with anharmonic systems. The project studies how engineered anharmonicity in quantum systems - from superconducting circuits to trapped modes - can be exploited to build more sensitive and more robust quantum sensors.
✓ Fully FundedSalaried PhD position per the Swedish collective agreement
Lund University invites applications for a post-doctoral fellow position assessing global forest dynamics. The project works on large-scale assessment of forest change, combining remote sensing, forest inventory data and modelling to understand how forests worldwide are responding to climate, management and disturbance.
✓ Fully FundedStipend/salary rate set by the funder — see the official listing
2-year postdoctoral fellowship in molecular mechanisms of MLL1-driven leukaemia at Umeå University. Full-time, starts 1 Jan 2027. Apply by 16 Nov 2026.
✓ Fully FundedStipend/salary rate set by the funder — see the official listing
Karolinska Institutet advertises a post-doctoral researcher position in molecular eicosanoid research, funded as a scholarship. Eicosanoids are lipid mediators derived from polyunsaturated fatty acids that regulate inflammation, immunity and tissue repair, and alterations in eicosanoid networks are implicated in inflammatory disease, pain and cancer.
✓ Fully FundedStipend/salary rate set by the funder — see the official listing
The KI Global Master’s Scholarship at Karolinska Institutet covers the tuition fee for fee-paying (non-EU/EEA) students admitted to one of KI’s Global Master’s programmes in Stockholm. Apply to your programme via University Admissions by mid-January, submit the KI-CV form by 2 February, and complete the scholarship application during the 9–25 February 2027 window. Around ten scholarships are awarded per year on academic merit.
Partially FundedTuition-fee coverage only (living costs, accommodation and travel not covered)
