Application and admission
Doctoral studies comprise two or four years of full‑time study and leads to a licentiate degree (120 credits) or a doctoral degree (240 credits). The doctoral programme consists of coursework and an independent research project. As a doctoral student, you will also often teach at the undergraduate and master’s levels.
Most doctoral students hold a time‑limited doctoral studentship with a salary during their studies. A doctoral studentship may only be held by someone admitted to third‑cycle studies, including those admitted to a licentiate degree. Decisions regarding the establishment and appointment of doctoral studentships are made by the respective departmental board. Below you will find the currently advertised doctoral positions.
Admission requirements
To be admitted to doctoral studies, you must meet both the general and the specific entry requirements, as well as demonstrate the ability to complete the programme.
General eligibility for doctoral requires that you have:
- completed a degree at the advanced (master’s) level,
- fulfilled course requirements amounting to at least 240 higher‑education credits, of which at least 60 credits at the advanced level, or
- acquired essentially equivalent knowledge in some other way, in Sweden or abroad.
In addition to the general eligibility requirements, each university may set its own specific entry requirements. These requirements vary between subjects and institutions. They must be necessary for the doctoral student to benefit from the programme. They may concern knowledge from higher‑education studies or equivalent, specific professional experience, language proficiency, or other conditions. The specific eligibility requirements usually involve the applicant having knowledge within a particular subject area needed to pursue the doctoral studies.
Each doctoral programme has a general study syllabus, established by the relevant faculty or board. The general study syllabus specifies the specific eligibility requirements for each doctoral programme. You can find LiU’s doctoral subjects and their study syllabi on the page Third cycle subject areas.
Advertised doctoral positions
| Job | Published To | Employment Type | External ID | City | Department | Occupational Area | Position | URL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PhD Position in Industrial Marketing | 2026-04-16 | Time limited employment (temporary) | IEI-2026-00026 | Linkoping | IEI - Department of Management and Engineering | PhD students | https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/28393 | |
| Postdoc on Trustworthy AI | 2026-04-30 | Time limited employment (temporary) | IDA-2026-00062 | Linkoping | IDA - Department of Computer and Information Science | Teachers and Scientists | https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/28678 | |
| PhD Student for Sustainable and Resource-Efficient Machine Learning | 2026-04-24 | Time limited employment (temporary) | IDA-2026-00060 | Linkoping | IDA - Department of Computer and Information Science | PhD students | https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/28717 | |
| Postdoc in efficient and robust decentralized AI | 2026-05-15 | Time limited employment (temporary) | LiU-2026-01297 | Linkoping | ISY - Department of Electrical Engineering | Teachers and Scientists | https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/28722 | |
| PhD student in AI Security | 2026-04-20 | Time limited employment (temporary) | LiU-2026-01325 | Linkoping | ISY - Department of Electrical Engineering | PhD students | https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/28735 | |
| PhD student in Cybersecurity | 2026-04-20 | Time limited employment (temporary) | IDA-2026-00054 | Linkoping | IDA - Department of Computer and Information Science | PhD students | https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/28759 | |
| Postdoc in Ageing and Social Change | 2026-04-24 | Time limited employment (temporary) | IKOS-2026-00033 | Norrkoping | IKOS - Department of Culture and Society | Teachers and Scientists | https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/28790 | |
| AI Training Program Officer at the AI factory Mimer | 2026-04-30 | Permanent employment | LiU-2026-01448 | Linkoping | NAISS - Nationell Akademisk Infrastruktur för Superdatorer i Sverige | Technical and Administrative personnel | https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/28812 | |
| Team Lead – AI Technology & Tools | 2026-04-30 | Permanent employment | LiU-2026-00935 | Linkoping | NAISS - Nationell Akademisk Infrastruktur för Superdatorer i Sverige | Technical and Administrative personnel | https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/28820 | |
| PhD student in semantic and goal-oriented communications with focus on cloud-assisted artificial intelligence and control systems | 2026-04-20 | Time limited employment (temporary) | LiU-2026-01509 | Norrkoping | ITN - Department of Science and Technology | PhD students | https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/28823 | |
| Application experts in Life Sciences for AI-factory Mimer | 2026-04-23 | Permanent employment | LiU-2026-01455 | Linkoping | NAISS - Nationell Akademisk Infrastruktur för Superdatorer i Sverige | Technical and Administrative personnel | https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/28824 | |
| PhD Student in Automatic Control | 2026-04-30 | Time limited employment (temporary) | LiU-2026-01554 | Linkoping | ISY - Department of Electrical Engineering | PhD students | https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/28837 | |
| Postdoc in AI for cybersecurity of communication software | 2026-04-30 | Time limited employment (temporary) | IDA-2026-00101 | Linkoping | IDA - Department of Computer and Information Science | Teachers and Scientists | https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/28841 | |
| Teaching assistants in CyberSecurity | 2026-04-21 | Extrajob | IDA-2026-00107 | Linkoping | IDA - Department of Computer and Information Science | Student | https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/28872 | |
| PhD student in Spatio-Temporal Machine Learning | 2026-04-24 | Time limited employment (temporary) | IDA-2026-00111 | Linkoping | IDA - Department of Computer and Information Science | PhD students | https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/28898 | |
| Postdoc within AI-based decision support for fault diagnosis of industrial systems | 2026-04-30 | Time limited employment (temporary) | LiU-2026-01645 | Linkoping | ISY - Department of Electrical Engineering | Teachers and Scientists | https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/28903 | |
| PhD position in Polymer Chemistry focusing on Wood-Derived Functional and Circular Materials | 2026-04-30 | Time limited employment (temporary) | LiU-2026-01775 | Norrkoping | ITN - Department of Science and Technology | PhD students | https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/28909 | |
| PhD student in Medical Science | 2026-04-28 | Time limited employment (temporary) | BKV-2026-00324 | Linkoping | BKV - Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences | PhD students | https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/28922 | |
| PhD student in Environmental Science | 2026-05-05 | Time limited employment (temporary) | TEMA-2026-00089 | Linkoping | TEMA - Department of Thematic Studies | PhD students | https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/28927 | |
| Postdoc in chemical and electrochemical doping of organic semiconductors | 2026-04-29 | Time limited employment (temporary) | LiU-2026-01826 | Norrkoping | ITN - Department of Science and Technology | Teachers and Scientists | https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/28928 | |
| PhD Student in Automatic Control with focus on complex networks and multiagent dynamics | 2026-05-15 | Time limited employment (temporary) | LiU-2026-01842 | Linkoping | ISY - Department of Electrical Engineering | PhD students | https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/28966 | |
| Teaching assistants/Amanuens in Quality Management and Engineering. | 2026-05-07 | Extrajob | IEI-2026-00278 | Linkoping | IEI - Department of Management and Engineering | Student | https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/28983 |