PhD Scholarships in Trait-Based Marine Ecology

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label Burse autorenew 2025-09-29, 17:01 history_edu Silviu Marinescu
Centre for Ocean Life offers a number of 3-year PhD scholarships within the general topic of Marine Ecology. The PhD students will be employed at DTU Aqua (The National Institute for Aquatic Resources, Technical University of Denmark, Charlottenlund, Denmark), or at one of the collaborating institutes or universities in the Copenhagen area.

The overarching goal of the Centre is to develop trait-based models of marine ecosystems. We do this through three interconnected main activities: (i) Identification of essential traits and quantification of the associated tradeoffs for the main life forms in the ocean (from microbes to mammals); (ii) development of trait based models of marine populations, communities, and ecosystems; (iii) descriptions of spatio-temporal patterns and distributions of species and ‘traits’ in marine systems. Further information on these main activities and examples of possible projects can be found on the Centre’s homepage.



We currently have a group of about 20 young researches associated with the Centre (PhD and Postdocs). They are working on various aspects of marine life using diverse approaches (observational, experimental, theoretical) while collaborating through weekly science meetings, annual science retreats, numerous working groups, and collaborative projects.

Their scientific backgrounds are as diverse as are those of the principal investigators of the Centre; from physics and mathematics to biology and chemistry, and we spend considerable effort developing cross-disciplinary communication and projects as we believe that the potential for discovery and progress may be achieved by confronting the different disciplines. We invite applications from experimental, observational or theoretical ecologists and from students with relevant basic training in a natural science discipline. You can apply with your own project ideas (as long as they accord with the goal of the Centre), perhaps inspired by the current running projects outlined on our home pages. Candidates are selected based on their qualifications and commitment.