Find your best PhD match.
Stop scrolling through dozens of university job boards. Drop your resume and we'll rank every open PhD by how well it fits you.
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How it works
From resume to AI-ranked matches in seconds.
Step 01
Build your profile
Drop your resume. We extract your research experience, skills, and projects to build a structured profile of who you are.
Step 02
We scout the web
We continuously monitor 1000+ open PhD positions across major aggregators and university pages, refreshed weekly.
Step 03
AI-powered matching
Our AI compares your profile to every position's research themes, methods, and supervisor focus, scoring fit semantically.
Step 04
See ranked matches
Positions ordered from best to worst fit, each one with clear reasoning for why your background aligns.
Sources
Where the listings come from.
Major academic job boards and direct university sources.
jobs.ac.uk
UK
The leading academic job board for UK universities and research institutions.
AcademicTransfer.nl
Netherlands
The central job board for academic positions across Dutch universities and research institutes.
Varbi (Swedish universities)
Sweden
Shared recruitment platform powering most Swedish research universities including Lund, Uppsala, KTH, and Umeå.
Jobbnorge (Norwegian universities)
Norway
Norway's national recruitment platform serving Bergen, NTNU, UiT, Stavanger, NMBU, and most other Norwegian universities.
Technical University of Munich
Germany
Germany's leading technical university, with PhD positions across engineering, life sciences, and computing.
Nature Careers
Global
Nature's academic and industry jobs board, with PhD positions in life sciences, physics, and other research domains worldwide.
ETH Zürich
Switzerland
Open PhD positions across all departments at one of Europe's top technical universities.
Inria
France
France's national institute for digital science, with PhD openings across AI, systems, and applied mathematics.
KU Leuven
Belgium
Belgium's largest research university, with funded PhD positions across all faculties.
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Why DoctorateScout
Smart matching, not keyword search.
We read your full research profile and find positions that genuinely align.
The old way
Generic PhD boards
Matching
Keyword search misses nuance and over-matches on common terms.
Input
Resume parsed as a flat list of words.
Transparency
Opaque 'relevance' scores you can't interrogate.
Built for serious applicants
DoctorateScout
Matching
Semantic understanding of research themes, methods, and supervisor focus.
Input
Multi-source profile. Resume now, with GitHub, Google Scholar, and ORCID coming.
Transparency
Concrete reasoning on every match, so you know why a position fits.
See your fit
What you'll see.
PhD in Multimodal AI for Scientific Discovery
Foundation Models Lab · MIT CSAIL · Prof. Sara Chen
Why this match
Your transformer architecture work and published evaluation of cross-modal retrieval align directly with this lab's focus on multimodal foundation models applied to biological data.
PhD: Generative AI for Drug Discovery
Karsten Group · ETH Zürich · Prof. Lukas Karsten
Why this match
Your AlphaFold-related projects and PyTorch fluency match the lab's pivot toward generative protein design. A biology background would help, but isn't required.
PhD in Reinforcement Learning for Robotics
Adaptive Agents Group · University of Cambridge · Prof. Nora Beck
Why this match
Strong overlap on RL theory and PyTorch. The lab expects significant ROS and robotics hardware experience, which you'd build during the program.
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