Employment as a doctoral researcher

The next application period for university-funded doctoral researcher positions will be in autumn 2025.

Other ways of funding a doctoral project is a salary paid by the supervisor or a personal grant from a private foundation applied by the doctoral researcher him/herself. Doctoral researchers may also fund their studies themselves or pursue their degree in tandem with work.
Call for salaried positions 2025

The next application period for university-funded doctoral researcher positions be opened in autumn 2025. More information be updated here later on.
De­cisions on salary po­s­i­tions 2024

ILS received altogether 50 applications. All eligible application completed a competency assessment, and their applications were evaluated by external evaluators. The ILS board decided to invite 17 top candidates to a critical thinking assignment that was arranged on October 30. The ILS board made the final decisions based on anonymized scores to ensure unbiased selection.

The positions were awarded to (in alphabetical order):

Ida Hilska, 4 years (main supervisor: Markku Varjosalo)

Zeynep Iloglu, 4 years (main supervisor: Takashi Namba)

Ziqi Kang, 4 years (main supervisor: Anniina Färkkilä)

Eira Karvonen, 3 years (main supervisor: Eliisa Kekäläinen)

Yrjö Koski, 2 years (main supervisor: Esa Pitkänen)

Monika Macáková, 1 year (main supervisor: Matjaz Barboric)

Alexandra Ritchie, 3 years (main supervisor: Pekka Katajisto)

Ville Tiusanen, 2 years (main supervisor: Baswajyoti Sahu)

 
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