16 PhD programmes offered by the university

Uppsala University provides a postgraduate program in Theoretical Physics with specialization in Quantum Field Theory and String Theory. Our program will give you opportunity to work with leading experts in the most exciting areas of modern research in theoretical physics.

Doctoral studies in Molecular Life Sciences at Uppsala University will be carried out at the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology.

Doctoral education in Biology at Uppsala University is offered at the Evolutionary Biology Centre (EBC, Department of Ecology and Genetics and Department of Organismal Biology) and Uppsala Biomedical Centre (BMC, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology).

Chemistry concerns aspects of elements and chemical compounds. At Uppsala University, the subject is dynamic and wide in scope, with possible interdisciplinary connections and research collaborations with (for example) biosciences, physics, materials science, medicine, pharmacy and education development.

If you want to do research in mathematics, a PhD is a first step in the right direction. As a PhD student in Mathematics at Uppsala University, you have the possibility to get in touch with the most distinguished and modern mathematical research in the world.

At the Department of Medicinal Chemistry at Uppsala University, we conduct frontline research with a focus on how specific substances can be developed into drugs.

The History of Science and Ideas programme offered by Uppsala University develops advanced research expertise in the historical development of scientific, intellectual, and cultural ideas within global and interdisciplinary contexts.

The Department of Statistics at Uppsala University educates and conducts research in statistics. We work both with methodological questions, as well as with applications in a wide range of fields.

The research and education in Physics and Astronomy at Uppsala University extends from the innermost building blocks of matter through consideration of molecules and materials to the structure and development of stars and the universe.

If you want to do research in mathematics, a PhD is a first step in the right direction. As a PhD student in Applied Mathematics and Statistics at Uppsala University, you have the possibility to get in touch with the most distinguished and modern mathematical research in the world.

Geophysics at Uppsala University is about "looking into" and understanding the Earth's structure, its history and processes - based on measurements of the Earth's physical properties.

The research in the Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology at Uppsala University is essentially basic, but with relevance and application in health and disease in both animals and humans.

At the division of Astronomy and Space Physics at Uppsala University we are doing research across a range of fields, from space in Earth's direct vicinity to the first stars in the universe found in distant galaxies.

Research at the Immunology, Genetics and Pathology department at Uppsala University is basic, translational and clinical and there is a close collaboration between pre-clinical and clinical scientists.

Biochemistry has a long history at Uppsala University, with roots in the research established by the chemists The Svedberg and Arne Tiselius, both Nobel Laureates and among the internationally most prominent scientists from Sweden.

The Department of Medical Cell Biology at Uppsala University carries out research and educates PhD students in cell biology and physiology focusing on diabetes, kidney function, inflammation, cancer and neurobiology.