496 verified fully funded scholarships & 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, Max Planck Society and University of Manchester. Listings are re-verified daily against official sources.
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.
Fully funded TU Delft PhD in the Groeblacher Lab on highly coherent single photon emitters using erbium ions in the telecom C-band for the quantum internet. Deadline: 8 November 2026. Applicants can apply without IELTS - selection is based on documents and an English interview, not a test certificate.
Utrecht University invites applications for a PhD position reconstructing the historic landscape developments of Zeeland, the Dutch delta province shaped by centuries of floods, land reclamation and coastal engineering. The project integrates historical-geographical sources, cartographic material and landscape data to reconstruct how Zeeland's land and water systems evolved over the centuries.
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)
3-year fully funded PhD in learning-based control of autonomous robot manipulation at University of Agder, Norway. NOK 550,800 gross/year. Deadline: 28 Oct 2026.
Paid PhD Research Fellow at the University of Oslo's Natural History Museum: marine algae and protistan parasites, NOK 550,800-595,000/year salary. Apply by 4 November 2026.
Wageningen University & Research is recruiting a doctoral researcher to study societal resilience against disaster and war in the Netherlands. The project asks who participates in resilience initiatives, who makes decisions and who benefits. Applicants can apply without IELTS - selection is based on documents and an English interview, not a test certificate.
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)
A fully funded joint PhD programme with the University of Edinburgh at the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics, focusing on dependable and deployable AI for Robotics.
This RMIT chemical engineering scholarship is supported by an ARC Future Fellowship project. Hosted by RMIT University in Melbourne. Apply by 31 December 2026.
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.
This Sheffield ECOSOLUTIONS doctorate develops optical sensors for continuous environmental chemical monitoring. Dissolved copper provides the initial case study.
TU Delft is recruiting a doctoral researcher to investigate protein interactions using single-molecule fluorescence and computational analysis. The work connects molecular measurements with predictions relevant to therapeutic research. Applicants can apply without IELTS - selection is based on documents and an English interview, not a test certificate.
Maastricht University invites applications for a PhD candidate in spatial multi-omics and single-cell analysis of human diseases, with a start in January 2027. Spatial transcriptomics and related multi-omics technologies make it possible to map gene expression, chromatin state and protein levels within intact tissue, revealing how disease processes unfold across cell types and tissue niches.
Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) invites applications for a PhD position on spatiotemporal light generation with frequency-gradient metasurfaces. The project explores engineered metasurfaces that imprint controlled frequency gradients on ultrashort optical pulses, enabling ultrafast beam steering, temporal focusing and self-torque light beams.
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
Fully funded four-year CRUK Manchester Institute PhD in stem cell biology, October 2027 intake. Tax-free stipend GBP 21,113-23,294 per year plus fees. Deadline: 6 November 2026, 17:00 GMT.
King's College London advertises a funded PhD studentship under reference number 161245. The position is advertised through the university's Corehr recruitment portal, and the closing date is to be confirmed - King's studentship competitions of this type typically close around December, so early preparation is strongly advised.
✓ Fully Funded£45,031–£52,514/year incl. London weighting (salaried post)
