The Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at Linköping University announces partial funding of four doctoral student positions.

Photo credit Emma Busk Winquist The main supervisor must conduct experimental laboratory-oriented medical research at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences and the project applied for should be in experimental research.

The grant applied for will be SEK 375.000. Funds cannot be applied for a doctoral project that has already received earmarked doctoral funding from another financiers. The doctoral student must be employed within 12 months after the decision on allocated funding and the supervisor must have additional funding available to accept a doctoral student (either a funding plan or a certificate from the immediate manager).

The doctoral student must spend at least 3 months abroad.

The application must contain

  • Name, position, and contact details of the main supervisor.

  • Names of doctoral students for whom the applicant has been the main supervisor, including years for dissertation and title of the dissertation.

  • Financing plan for the applied PhD project.

  • Brief description, scope and motivation of the doctoral student's planned experimental laboratory activities
    .
  • Description of the intended research training environment at LiU (seminars, other doctoral students, co-supervisors etc.)

  • Description of planned stay abroad for the doctoral student (possible invitation letter may be attached).

  • Brief project plan including appropriate references (max. One A4 page)


Application

The application must be sent via the portal LiU Desk no later than 2025-10-20
(portal opens soon).


Decisions will be announced no later than 2025-11-20.

Please apply here

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