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The Graduate School of Science and Technology at Aarhus University is looking for a number of bright, enthusiastic and ambitious candidates who are interested in pursuing a PhD education.

The University is located in Aarhus, Denmark, which provides international students with a safe and stable environment, a high standard of living and a wealth of social opportunities.

Besides having an excellent reputation that enables our PhD graduates to find outstanding employment prospects, Aarhus University offers attractive working conditions, research support and campus resources. Read more about all the benefits here.

Applications are accepted from college students and graduates with an academic record corresponding to a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree.

Application deadline is 1 May 2020 at 11:59 AM CEST, with a starting date of 1 August 2020 or later.

Read more about the call and apply online here.

 

some of the current programs are:

Below you can find a list of vacant PhD project positions under the current call. The list is regularly updated and will be complete approx. two weeks before application deadline.

NS/TS: By 1 June 2020, the Graduate School of Science and Technology will be split into two new graduate schools following the split of the faculty. See below, to find out whether enrolment will be at Graduate School of Natural Sciences (NS) or Graduate School of Technical Sciences (TS).

Application deadline is 1 May 2020 at noon (11:59 AM CEST).

 

Agroecology (TS):

• Seed quality and moisture relations
• Designing pre-treatment and anaerobic digestion of biowastes for higher crop nutrient utilisation

Animal Science (TS):

• Working with humans to reduce the use of antimicrobials and risk of resistance (AMR) in animal farming
• Welfare in farm mink – which type, number and timing of cage resources do mink perceive as beneficial?
• Optimal dietary level of zinc for meeting its physiological requirement by weaned pigs under Danish production conditions  

Biology (NS):

• Genomic and ecophysiological diversity of cable bacteria
• Electron conduction in cable bacteria
• Assessing the role of myoglobin in sulfide signaling by means of genetically modified zebrafish
• Global plant macroecology and evolution with focus on tropical rainforest
• Development and Application of Optical Ammonia Sensors
• Development of Combined Optical and Electrochemical Sensors

 

Bioscience (TS):

• The effects of Skjern River Basin nature restoration and emerging oligotrophication processes in Ringkøbing Fjord on habitats, trophic guilds, birds, fish and ecosystem services

 

Chemistry (NS):

• Modelling the Formation and Growth of Atmospheric Molecular Clusters using Quantum Chemical and Machine Learning Methods

Computer Science (NS):

• Programming language design, analysis and verification
• Program Analysis and Testing
• PhD students for Center for Basic Research in Program Verification
• Augmented and Virtual Reality for Industrial Applications
• Algorithms supporting big data analysis
• Theory of Machine Learning: Dimensionality Reduction and Learning Theory

Engineering (TS):

• Engineering Carbonaceous phOto-REgenerable Materials (CORE-M) for photodegradation of micropollutants
• Adjustable Autonomy and Digital Twins
• Medium and reaction engineering of enzymatic cascade for furan-dicarboxylic acid synthesis
• Profiling the degradation and toxicity of short-chain per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)
• Nanobody-based inhibitors of  allergen-mediated anaphylaxis
• Intelligent Digital Twins for Manufacturing Equipment and Processes
• Light-weight Deep Learning for Visual Analysis
• CO2-to-Methane: Carbon capture and re-utilization through methanation

Environmental Sciences (TS):

• Survival, growth mechanisms, and biotechnological potential of microorganisms on the Greenland ice sheet

 

Food Science (TS):

• Modifications of supramolecular structure of plant proteins for enhanced functionality as food ingredients
• Mastering structure design in model foods containing dairy proteins for flexitarian diets
• Understanding the molecular and supramolecular structure of plant polysaccharide networks for the design of new biodegradable packaging materials
• Sustainable food packaging: Impact of graphene on tuning PLA based nanocomposite properties

 

Geoscience (NS):

• No specific projects at the moment, please have a look later or apply via the GSST open call.

Mathematics (NS):

• No specific projects at the moment, please have a look later or apply via the GSST open call.

Molecular Biology and Genetics (NS):

• Structural basis for the role of complement in neurodegenerative disease

 

Nanoscience (NS):

• Helicase unfolding of G-rich DNA structures
• Multifunctional biologics for imaging and drug targeting to human diseases

 

Physics and Astronomy (NS):

• 3D magneto-hydrodynamical simulations and asteroseismology
• Improving structure optimization with machine learning

 

Quantitative Genetics and Genomics (TS):

• No specific projects at the moment, please have a look later or apply via the GSST open call.