Here you can apply for a PhD position with your own project description. An application for the general call must include a project description (½-4 pages), where you describe your ideas and research plans for your project. You can indicate a URL to further information, if you like.
Before starting the application process, it is strongly recommended that you contact a prospective supervisor in order to discuss a potential project. This may contribute to writing a better and more targeted application. Furthermore, it is a good idea to inquire about possible financing, since the likelihood of securing admission through the general call depends on the available resources of the supervisor and the PhD programme for which you apply.
You can find AU researchers/potential supervisors by searching on subject headings here. Furthermore, you can find more info on the various PhD programmes at GSNS on each of the programme websites.
It is not a requirement that the applicant has been in contact with a prospective supervisor before the application process begins.
Before you apply, please read the application guide thoroughly. All applications must be submitted via the application portal.
Here you apply for one of the positions on the list of specific calls below. Please note that the list is regularly updated. The list will be complete approximately two weeks before application deadline. If you can’t find a project within your field of research on the list, please have a look later or apply via the general call.
Before you apply, please read the application guide thoroughly. Please follow the application instructions in the specific call announcement.
You can use the filter function to narrow down your search field or search for something specific.
| Project title | Programme | Keywords | Candidate background | Application deadline |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 PhDs in innovation and greenhouse gas monitoring | Geoscience | Innovation, Greenhouse gas monitoring, Hyperspectral imaging, Entrepreneurship and Machine learning | Master’s degree in geoscience, physics, environmental science, computer science, engineering or similar fields | 2025/05/01 23:59 CEST |
| Quantifying Ecosystem Structural Diversity and Fragmentation using LiDAR, RADAR, Structure from Motion or Deep Learning | Biology | Vegetation structure, remote sensing, lidar, spatial scaling, ecosystem fragmentation | Master’s degree within geoscience, geography or biology | 2025/05/01 23:59 CEST |
| Atmospheric organic aerosol particles and clouds: probing how aerosol phase behavior-affects cloud formation | Chemistry | Atmospheric chemistry and physics, aerosol particles, clouds and climate, aerosol phase state and number | Master’s degree, or a Bachelor´s degree plus one year of Master´s studies completed, within Chemistry, Physics, Atmospheric Science, Nanoscience, Engineering or similar | 2025/05/01 23:59 CEST |
| AI-Assisted Human Knowledge Seeking | Computer Science | Knowledge-seeking, Multilinguality, Natural language processing, Large language models, Computational social science | Master’s degree in computer science or a closely related field | 2025/05/01 23:59 CEST |
| Understanding C*-algebras by inducing symmetries | Mathematics | C*-algebras, ideal structure, groupoid C*-algebras | Applicants must have completed a relevant Master’s degree in mathematics by the beginning of the PhD. | 2025/05/01 23:59 CEST |
| Molecular diffusion in atmospheric aerosol particles: sensing oxygen in aerosols with luminescence indicators | Chemistry | Atmospheric physical chemistry, aerosol particles, aerosol viscosity, microscopy, molecular diffusion | Applicants to the PhD position must have a finished Master’s degree, or a finished Bachelor´s degree plus one year of Master´s studies completed (at the time of starting the position), within Chemistry, Physics, Atmospheric Science, Nanoscience, Engineering or similar. | 2025/05/01 23:59 CEST |
| Revealing the Effect of Abrasion on the Fate of Chiral Biosignature Molecules | Biology | Mars, Biosignatures, Chiral molecules, Life detection, Mars missions | Applicants must have a relevant Master’s degree or at least one year of a Master’s degree in Chemistry, Biology or Physics or in related disciplines. | 2025/05/01 23:59 CEST |
How does loss of land ice affect coastal runoff and biogeochemical cycling in Arctic coastal areas? | Biology | Freshwater; coastal waters; river runoff; biogeochemistry; freshening | Applicants must have a relevant master’s degree in biology, hydrology, glaciology, oceanography, or geoscience. | 2025/05/01 23:59 CEST |
| Reasoning with Large Language Models | Computer Science | Reasoning, Large language models, Artificial Intelligence, Agentic AI, Reinforcement learning | Master’s degree in computer science or a closely related field | 2025/05/01 23:59 CEST |
| Physics and Astronomy | Experimental nuclear physics, beta-decays, data analysis | Bachelor’s degree and strong background in Physical Science | 2025/05/01 23:59 CEST | |
| Identifying terrestrial sources of atmospheric microbial ice-nucleation proteins in the Arctic | Biology | Bioaerosols, Arctic microbial ecology, atmospheric science, ice nucleation, cloud formation | MSc degree in a relevant discipline | 2025/05/01 23:59 CEST |
| Investigating in-cloud processes of Arctic bioaerosols | Biology | Bioaerosols, Arctic microbial ecology, atmospheric science, ice nucleation, cloud formation | MSc degree in a relevant discipline | 2025/05/01 23:59 CEST |
