PhD student in Medical Science: detection, pharmacology and biomarkers of new psychoactive substances (ref BKV-2026-00761)

Who can apply: READ THE LANGUAGE REQUIREMENT FIRST: the advert states applicants must have good written and spoken English AND SWEDISH, which rules out most applicants from outside Scandinavia. A Master’s level degree or at least 240 credits of which 60 are advanced, or essentially corresponding knowledge gained another way. The… What is funded: A salaried doctoral employment, not a tuition-charging degree place: in Sweden a PhD student is employed by the university. The post is normally four years full time, extendable to five years in proportion to teaching and departmental duties, which are capped at 20 per cent of full time. The first contract runs one… Deadline: 15 October 2026. The advert states the application must reach Linköping University no later than 261015, and the university’s own vacancy list prints the same date in full as 2026-10-15. No closing time is given. Round: Reference BKV-2026-00761, advertised by the Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences (BKV), Division of Clinical Chemistry and Pharmacology, Linköping. Starting date by agreement.

Read the full call and apply on the official page: Linköping University (Linköpings universitet), Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, official page.

Who can apply

• READ THE LANGUAGE REQUIREMENT FIRST: the advert states applicants must have good written and spoken English AND SWEDISH, which rules out most applicants from outside Scandinavia. A Master's level degree or at least 240 credits of which 60 are advanced, or essentially corresponding knowledge gained another way. The advert expects a three-year Bachelor's degree in Biomedical Laboratory Science plus a Master's degree of at least 60 advanced credits in a relevant field such as biomedical laboratory science, medicine, biomedicine, pharmacy or medical science. Experience with sample handling, chromatographic methods and basic pharmacological techniques is expected; documented experience in characterising pharmaceuticals or drugs, large-dataset analysis, metabolomics, chromatography and mass spectrometry is an advantage. The appointee is expected to teach and supervise up to 20 per cent of full time. No citizenship restriction is stated, but a non-EU appointee will need a Swedish residence permit for doctoral studies before starting.

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