Mathematics Scholarships & PhD Positions 2026–2027: 24+ Open Programmes
24 verified mathematics scholarships & phd positions for 2026–2027 are open right now, concentrated in United Kingdom and Sweden. The soonest deadline is 28 October 2026 — closing-soon entries are flagged in the list. Hosted by Aarhus University, CNRS and Eindhoven University of Technology. Listings are re-verified daily against official sources.
KTH Royal Institute of Technology is hiring a doctoral student to work on game-theoretic methods for multi-agent autonomous systems. The project develops decision-making frameworks in which multiple autonomous agents interact, compete or cooperate, using tools from game theory, optimisation and machine learning to design robust strategies under uncertainty.
EPSRC FIBE3 CDT (Future Infrastructure and Built Environment: Unlocking Net Zero) at the University of Cambridge offers a fully funded 1+3 year MRes + PhD programme starting October 2027. Focuses on infrastructure challenges for the net-zero transition. Fully funded for eligible Home students, with very limited international funding. Application fee: £20. Deadline: 14 April 2027.
Faculty for the Future fellowships support up to USD 50,000/year for women from developing economies pursuing STEM PhD or postdoctoral research abroad.
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.
Investigating fast computational approaches like Lattice Boltzmann Methods and GPU-accelerated CFD for modelling urban airflow and environmental hazard assessment.
Partially FundedCompetitive university funding may be available
The Future Fluid Dynamics CDT supports doctoral research into fluid behaviour and its applications. Hosted by University of Leeds in Leeds. Apply by 7 January 2027.
InterMaths Consortium (University of L'Aquila) · Italy
InterMaths is an Erasmus Mundus joint master in mathematical modelling and simulation with applications in biomedical sciences and industrial engineering, coordinated from the University of L'Aquila. The 2026 scholarship round closed on 25 February at 13:00 CET, and the 2027 round is expected to use the same date, giving maths applicants a relatively late deadline.
Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) · Austria
ISTA's PhD programme recruits across research groups in the natural and mathematical sciences. Hosted by Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) in Klosterneuburg. Apply by 8 January 2027, 15:00 CET.
✓ Fully FundedStipend/salary rate set by the funder — see the official listing
Max Planck School of Biomedical AI (BMAI) · Germany
The Max Planck School of Biomedical AI (BMAI) offers 25 fully funded three-year PhD positions at leading German research institutions. Interdisciplinary research at the interface of AI and life sciences. Application deadline: 1 December 2026. Applicants can apply without IELTS - German doctoral hiring assesses English through documents and interview.
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
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)
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.
These Göttingen positions support theoretical or computational research in nonequilibrium statistical physics and active matter. Applicants can apply without IELTS - German doctoral hiring assesses English through documents and interview.
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.
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
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.
Stockholm University invites applications for a PhD student position in theoretical physics, focused on quantum sensing with anharmonic systems. The project studies how engineered anharmonicity in quantum systems - from superconducting circuits to trapped modes - can be exploited to build more sensitive and more robust quantum sensors.
✓ Fully FundedSalaried PhD position per the Swedish collective agreement
The Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions (UMR 7598), run jointly by CNRS and Sorbonne Universite in Paris, advertises a six-month postdoctoral position in microlocal analysis (post-doctorat en analyse microlocale). The project concerns the mathematical analysis of wave propagation, partial differential equations and related questions in microlocal analysis, within the DANIVA project framework.
✓ Fully FundedEUR 4,000 gross per month (6-month postdoctoral CDD)
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.
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.
