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PhD Fellowship in Unconventional Magnetism - Niels Bohr Institute

We are offering a PhD fellowship in condensed matter theory commencing Dec. 1 2025 or as soon as possible thereafter.

Our group and research
The PhD project will be carried out within the condensed matter theory group at the Niels Bohr Institute (NBI), University of Copenhagen. Significant collaboration is expected to take place with collaborators of Prof. Brian M. Andersen, and with other members of the condensed matter theory group, which include Profs. Per Hedegaard, Karsten Flensberg, Jens Paaske, Morten H. Christensen, and Andreas Kreisel as well as experimentalists at NBI, including the neutron scattering and quantum transport groups.

Project description

The PhD project is funded by a grant from the Danish Research Foundation (DFF-2), which also sponsors a post doc researcher to be hired at a later stage. The grant title is: “New Frontiers in Magnetism: Altermagnetism and Odd-Parity Spin Textures”. Thus, the main theme of the PhD project is unconventional magnetism, i.e. altermagnetism and odd-parity magnetism. What stabilizes and characterizes these newly discovered forms of matter, and how do we utilize their properties? In order to answer these questions, the PhD student will work with model calculations and use the toolbox of many-body condensed matter theory to gain new fundamental insight. It is also expected that we will collaborate with experimental groups, and therefore also apply more material-specific methods to help understand and guide experimental efforts. Finally, the project also includes effects of further instabilities in unconventional magnets, e.g. superconductivity and charge-ordered states. It remains an open question at present, what are the salient features of new ordered states emerging out of unconventional magnetic metals.

Principal supervisor isProf. Brian M. Andersen, Niels Bohr Institute, bma @ nbi.ku.dk. Phone: + 45 50 46 86 51

Start: December 1 2025.

Duration: 3 years as a PhD student.

Job description
Your key tasks as a PhD student at NBI are:

  • Carrying through an independent research project under supervision.
  • Completing PhD courses or other equivalent education corresponding to approximately 30 ECTS points.
  • Participating in active research environments including a stay at another research team.
  • Obtaining experience with teaching or other types of dissemination related to your PhD project
  • Teaching and disseminating your knowledge.
  • Writing a PhD thesis on the grounds of your project

Key criteria for the assessment of applicants
Applicants must have qualifications corresponding to a master’s degree related to the subject area of the project, e.g. theoretical physics. Please note that your master’s degree must be equivalent to a Danish master’s degree (two years).

Other important criteria are:

  • The grade point average achieved.
  • Professional qualifications relevant to the PhD project.
  • Previous publications.
  • Relevant work experience.
  • Other professional activities.
  • A curious mind-set with a strong interest in theoretical quantum physics and many-body theory.
  • Language skills.

Place of employment

The place of employment is at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen. The Niels Bohr Institute is the Department of Physics at the University of Copenhagen. We offer creative and stimulating working conditions in dynamic and international research environment. Our research facilities include modern laboratories and office facilities required for optimal working conditions.

Terms of employment
The average weekly working hours are 37 hours per week.

The position is a fixed-term position limited to a period of 3 years. The start date is December 1 2025 or as soon as possible thereafter.

The employment is conditioned upon the applicant’s success­ful enrolment as a PhD student at the Graduate School at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen. This requires submission and acceptance of an application for the specific project formulated by the applicant.

The PhD study must be completed in accordance with The Ministerial Order on the PhD programme (2013) and the Faculty’s rules on achieving the degree.

Salary, pension and terms of employment are in accordance with the agree­ment between the Ministry of Taxation and The Danish Confederation of Professional Associations on Academics in the State. Depending on seniority, the monthly salary starts at approximately 30,800 DKK/Roughly 4,100 EUR (April 2025 level) plus pension.

Questions
For specific information about the PhD fellowship, please contact the principal supervisor.

Application procedure
Your application must be submitted electronically by clicking ‘Apply now’ below. The application must include the following documents in PDF format:

  1. Motivated letter of application (max. one page)

  2. CV incl. education, experience, language skills and other skills relevant for the position

  3. Certified copy of original Master of Science diploma and transcript of records in the original language, including an authorized English translation if issued in other language than English or Danish. If not completed, a certified/signed copy of a recent transcript of records or a written statement from the institution or supervisor is accepted. As a prerequisite for a PhD fellowship employment, your master’s degree must be equivalent to a Danish master’s degree. We encourage you to read more in the assessment database: https://ufm.dk/en/education/recognition-and-transparency/find-assessments/assessment-database. Please note that we might ask you to obtain an assessment of your education performed by the Ministry of Higher Education and Science

  4. Publication list (if possible)

Application deadline: 17 September 2025****, 23.59pm CET

We reserve the right not to consider material received after the deadline, and not to consider applications that do not live up to the abovementioned requirements.

The further process
After the expiry of the deadline for applications, the authorized recruitment manager selects applicants for assessment on the advice of the hiring committee. All applicants are then immediately notified whether their application has been passed for assessment by an unbiased assessor.

The assessor makes a non-prioritized assessment of the academic qualifications and experience with respect to the above-mentioned area of research, techniques, skills and other requirements listed in the advertisement.

Once the assessment work has been completed each applicant has the opportunity to comment on the part of the assessment that relates to the applicant him/herself.

You find information about the recruitment process at: http://employment.ku.dk/faculty/recruitment-process/

The applicants will be assessed according to the Ministerial Order no. 242 of 13 March 2012 on the Appointment of Academic Staff at Universities.

Interviews are expected to be held in week 43-44

The University of Copenhagen wish to reflect the diversity of society and encourage all qualified candidates to apply regardless of personal background.