273 verified phd positions for 2026–2027 are open right now. The soonest deadline is 27 October 2026 — closing-soon entries are flagged in the list. Hosted by TU Delft, Stockholm University and University of Manchester. Listings are re-verified daily against official sources.
The Sensory Science and Eating Behaviour group at Wageningen is recruiting a PhD researcher to study how food properties influence children’s eating behaviour and energy intake. The position is based within Human Nutrition and Health. Applicants can apply without IELTS - selection is based on documents and an English interview, not a test certificate.
Fully funded four-year CRUK Manchester Institute PhD in the Chromatin Regulation research group, October 2027 intake. Stipend GBP 21,113-23,294 per year plus fees. Deadline: 6 November 2026, 17:00 GMT.
The Ghedini Lab at Monash University is recruiting a PhD candidate to study how organismal physiology underpins community stability in marine phytoplankton. Part of the international ReDiLEEP Doctoral Network. Fully funded Monash PhD scholarship. Deadline: 30 October 2026. Applicants must apply separately for and obtain a Monash PhD scholarship; funding is not automatically attached to this project.
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.
Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) invites applications for a PhD position on contrast ultrasound imaging of nanobubbles for cancer diagnostics, funded within the NWO MOMENTUM programme. The project develops next-generation ultrasound contrast agents - nanoscale bubbles small enough to escape the vasculature and image tissue beyond blood vessels - and the imaging sequences needed to detect them sensitively and safely.
Funded PhD in Counselling and Clinical Psychology (UTSC field, clinical psychology) at the University of Toronto for Fall 2027 entry. Application deadline: 1 December 2026.
✓ Fully FundedStipend/salary rate set by the funder — see the official listing
This Earlham Institute PhD tests whether controlling the timing and location of resistance-gene expression can preserve crop protection while reducing growth penalties. Potato cyst nematodes provide the disease system.
Radboud University invites applications for a PhD position on Decolonising Reparations, part of an NWO-funded research project. The project works with Indo and Indonesian communities to critically examine histories of colonial violence and the politics of repair, using participatory and creative methods to explore what reparations can mean beyond financial settlements - including acknowledgement, memory, restitution and institutional change.
PhD position at UEA focused on design optimisation of brushless doubly fed machines (BDFMs) for offshore wind turbine generators. Start date 1 February 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.
Leiden University's Centre for Linguistics invites applications for a PhD candidate working on Dutch morphology and constructicography. The project develops computational descriptions of Dutch word formation and construction patterns, contributing to digital language resources that connect morphological analysis with construction-based lexicography.
Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) invites applications for a PhD position on dynamic space-time interfaces for high-speed terahertz (THz) beam control. The project develops dynamically modulated THz interfaces that can steer, shape and route terahertz beams at high speed, including nonreciprocal propagation effects that break the usual symmetry of wave transmission.
Wageningen is recruiting a PhD researcher to study the economics of native-species production and rural development in Brazil’s Cerrado. The project focuses on livelihoods, biodiversity and value chains in the MATOPIBA region. Applicants can apply without IELTS or TOEFL - English is assessed through the interview, and advanced Portuguese is mandatory for the Brazil fieldwork.
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.
Fully funded 4-year PhD developing advanced robotic catheterization technologies at KU Leuven. Master's with distinction required. Deadline: 30 Oct 2026.
Leiden University advertises a PhD candidate position in the research project 'Entangled with Seaweed', working on case studies in Scotland. The project, funded through the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO Open Competition), takes an ethnographic approach to the emerging seaweed economy: how coastal communities, industries and regulators in Scotland negotiate the cultivation, harvesting and governance of seaweed, and what this reveals about changing relations between marine resources, livelihoods and environmental policy.
Leiden University advertises a PhD candidate position in the research project 'Entangled with Seaweed', working on case studies in South Africa. Within the NWO Open Competition-funded programme, this line of the project studies the South African seaweed sector ethnographically: the people whose livelihoods depend on seaweed harvesting and farming, the regulatory landscape governing marine resource access, and the social and ecological entanglements that shape how the seaweed economy develops.
The Technical University of Denmark (DTU) advertises a three-year funded PhD position in entrepreneurship, artificial intelligence, and labour-market disruption at DTU Entrepreneurship. The research examines how AI technologies reshape entrepreneurial activity and labour markets: which tasks and business models are disrupted, how new venture creation responds, and what the implications are for innovation policy and workforce transition.
