Statistics Scholarships & PhD Positions 2026–2027: 7+ Open Programmes

Fully Funded PhD Studentship in Foundational AI at University College London

University College London · United Kingdom

PhD studentship at University College London in foundational artificial intelligence, focusing on reinforcement learning, intelligent data acquisition, generative and foundation models, and applications in communication systems, engineering, and scientific discovery. Fully funded for Home (UK) students with a stipend of £23,805 per year. Supervised by Dr Sattar Vakili.

PhD in Spatial Statistics for IoT and Remote Sensing of Tree Crop Diseases at Twente, Netherlands

University of Twente · Netherlands

This ITC doctorate develops spatial-statistical methods for combining IoT measurements, remote sensing and field observations to understand diseases in tree crops. Cocoa farms in Ghana provide a central application.

PhD Positions in Mathematics and Stochastics 2027 - Aarhus University - Aarhus University, Denmark

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.

PhD Students in Statistics: Next-Generation Latent Variable Models (Fully Funded 4 Years) - Umea University, Sweden

Umeå University · Sweden

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.

PhD-TA in Statistics (Functional Data Analysis) - Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), Netherlands

Eindhoven University of Technology · Netherlands

Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) is hiring a PhD-TA in statistics with a focus on functional data analysis. The position combines 80 percent doctoral research with 20 percent teaching-assistant duties in the Statistics research group of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science.

SDSI – Master in Data Science and Intelligent Systems (Morocco)

SDSI Programme (Morocco) · Morocco

SDSI is a Moroccan master programme in data science and intelligent systems that trains AI and data engineers for the Moroccan and Francophone tech ecosystem. Its admission page publishes the annual call, eligibility list and scholarship information for international and Moroccan applicants.

Simons-Ramanujan Fellowships at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences

Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences · United Kingdom

The Simons-Ramanujan Fellowship offers early career researchers from low and middle-income countries the opportunity to visit the Isaac Newton Institute (INI) for 1-3 months to participate in a research programme. Funded by the Simons Foundation. Provides accommodation, a £25 per diem, and up to £1200 travel costs. Open to applicants in at least the 3rd year of their PhD.