University funded Salaried PhD Positions: 32 Doctoral programmes 2129 views

The University of Helsinki yearly allocates funding to doctoral programmes for employing doctoral students in salaried employment relationships (salaried positions). These doctoral student positions are designated as full-time work.

About the funded positions:

• The aim is that doctoral students employed by the University will complete their degree in four years.
• The 2019 call includes additional positions earmarked in particular for projects on artificial intelligence and AI solutions in all fields of science and scholarship.

Requirements:

• Candidate should be eligible to apply for a salaried position. Candidate can apply for a salaried position in a doctoral programme if he/she is currently a doctoral student at the University of Helsinki or planning to pursue a doctoral degree.
• If candidate already has been granted the right to pursue a doctoral degree at the University of Helsinki, he/she can apply for a salaried position, provided the candidate have not yet spent a total of four years in the position of a salaried doctoral student.
• Candidate can apply for a salaried position either from own doctoral programme or from another doctoral programme, which suits his/her research profile.
• If candidate get a salaried position from another doctoral programme, he/she is required to ask for the change of doctoral programme
• If candidate do not yet hold the right to pursue a doctoral degree at the University of Helsinki, he/she can apply for a salaried position if your research plan fits the profile of the doctoral programme.
• If candidate do not yet hold the right to pursue a doctoral degree, he/she can apply for the right with the same application.

Applications:

Applications to be submitted online form and include the required attachments.

• Research and study plan
• Skills that support writing a doctoral dissertation, the title and abstract of master’s thesis, as well as details on supervisory arrangements (in the case of certain programmes).

Doctoral programmes:

Doctoral School in Environmental, Food and Biological Sciences

The Doctoral Programme in Food Chain and Health

1. Doctoral Programme in Wildlife Biology
2. Doctoral Programme in Plant Sciences
3. Doctoral Programme in Interdisciplinary Environmental Sciences
4. Doctoral Pro­gramme in Sustainable Use of Renewable Natural Resources
5. Doctoral Programme in Microbiology and Biotechnology
6. Doctoral Programme in Food Chain and Health

Doctoral School in Health

7. Doctoral Programme in Biomedicine
8. Doctoral Programme in Clinical Research
9. Doctoral Programme in Population Health
10. Doctoral Programme in Oral Sciences
11. Doctoral Programme in Drug Research
12. Doctoral Programme in Integrative Life Science
13. Doctoral Programme Brain & Mind
14. Doctoral Programme in Clinical Veterinary Medicine

Doctoral School in Humanities and Social Sciences (HYMY)

15. Doctoral Programme in Economics
16. Doctoral Programme in Gender, Culture, and Society
17. Doctoral Programme in History and Cultural Heritage
18. Doctoral Programme in Language Studies
19. Doctoral Programme in Law
20. Doctoral Programme in Philosophy, Arts, and Society
21. Doctoral Programme in Political, Societal and Regional Change
22. Doctoral Programme in Psychology, Learning and Communication

Doctoral School in natural sciences (DONASCI)

23. Doctoral Programme in Atmospheric Sciences
24. Doc­toral Programme in Chemistry and Molecular Sciences
25. Doctoral Programme in Computer Science
26. Doctoral Programme in Geosciences
27. Doctoral Programme in Materials Research and Nano-sciences
28. Doctoral Programme in Mathematics and Statistics
29. Doctoral Programme in Particle Physics and Universe Sciences