79 verified computer science scholarships & phd positions for 2026–2027 are open right now, concentrated in United Kingdom and Netherlands. The soonest deadline is 27 October 2026 — closing-soon entries are flagged in the list. Hosted by TU Delft, Lancaster University and ETH Zurich. Listings are re-verified daily against official sources.
The University of Southampton recruits doctoral candidates to the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Doctoral Network BlueOcean, focused on robotic monitoring and data processing for seafloor change. The network develops autonomous platforms, sensing technologies and data pipelines to observe and understand seafloor dynamics - from habitat change to geohazards - training a cohort of doctoral researchers across European partner institutions.
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) · Japan
OIST recruits international applicants for its PhD programme in Okinawa. Hosted by Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) in Okinawa. Apply by 15 November 2026, 23:59 JST.
✓ Fully FundedMonthly stipend per programme rules — see official listing
This FNS doctorate investigates how AI processing can be distributed across embedded devices, edge infrastructure and the cloud while meeting communication and computing constraints. Applicants can apply without IELTS - selection is based on documents and an English interview, not a test certificate.
Within Future Network Services, this PhD develops methods for understanding risks to 6G infrastructure and network operations. The work supports planning, network evolution and disaster recovery. Applicants can apply without IELTS - selection is based on documents and an English interview, not a test certificate.
TU Delft is recruiting a doctoral researcher to coordinate AI agents managing radio, transport, computing and service resources in future 6G networks. The position belongs to the Future Network Services programme. Applicants can apply without IELTS - selection is based on documents and an English interview, not a test certificate.
✓ Fully Funded€3,204–€4,051 gross per month, depending on doctoral year.
The University of Surrey is offering a doctorate on AI-assisted camera-lens design. The project combines computer vision, graphics and computational imaging to connect optical design choices with image quality.
King's College London is leading CDTnet, a European doctoral network supporting the training of PhD researchers in the development of cardiovascular Digital Twins.
✓ Fully Funded£23,805/year (UKRI minimum + London weighting, 2026/27)
The University of Copenhagen offers a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions doctoral candidate position (DC7) in the E-CoRe doctoral network, working on compilation principles for reversible languages. The project studies how high-level reversible programs can be compiled into efficient low-level code while preserving invertibility guarantees, connecting programming-language theory with compiler engineering.
✓ Fully FundedDKK 31,845/month (approx. €4,260, Aug 2026 level)
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)
Build on Manchester's computer science legacy with a PhD at one of the UK's largest and most computer science departments. Scholarships, studentships, and awards available at university, faculty, and department level. Year of entry: 2027.
Two fully funded TU Delft PhD positions in the Curious Beams Lab on the ERC BEAMSurf project: diffractive atomic-scale surface imaging with backscattered electrons. Deadline: 8 November 2026. Applicants can apply without IELTS - selection is based on documents and an English interview, not a test certificate.
Fully funded four-year PhD at Chalmers University developing machine learning decoders for scalable quantum error correction within the QuBriC MSCA network.
This doctorate develops mathematical approaches for transport and logistics decisions involving multiple organisations. It considers how competition and cooperation change the choices available to each participant. Applicants can apply without IELTS - selection is based on documents and an English interview, not a test certificate.
Fully funded three-year PhD at Aarhus University in Physical AI, developing adaptive foundation models for robotics with multimodal perception and reasoning.
The University of Copenhagen offers a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) doctoral candidate position in the E-CoRe doctoral network, working on reversible programming languages as doctoral candidate DC1. Reversible computing studies programming models and languages in which computation can run backwards as well as forwards, with applications from energy-efficient computing to quantum programming and incremental computation.
✓ Fully FundedDKK 31,845/month (approx. €4,260, Aug 2026 level)
This project explores how to embed intelligence directly into the 'body' of robotic materials, sitting at the intersection of mechanical metamaterials, robotics, active matter physics, and embodied AI.
✓ Fully Funded£21,805 per year (UKRI rate for 2026/27)
This FNS PhD examines secure management of 6G services distributed across infrastructure owned by different organisations. Its central problem is making dependable orchestration decisions across trust boundaries. Applicants can apply without IELTS - selection is based on documents and an English interview, not a test certificate.
University of Surrey PhD studentship in federated machine unlearning. The award covers Home-rate tuition and a UKRI-rate stipend; applicants must meet Home-fee eligibility. Deadline: 31 October 2026. Funding is restricted to applicants eligible for UK/Home tuition-fee status, regardless of how general admissions eligibility is described.
The Quantum Informatics CDT combines doctoral research with training across computing, physics, mathematics and engineering. Its four-year programme accepts a limited number of fully funded international researchers.
