PhD in Clinical Trials

The Department of Public Health at the University of Copenhagen offers a PhD fellowship in biostatistics with special focus on biostatistical methods for clinical trials. The anticipated hiring date is April 1, 2026, or as soon as possible thereafter. The PhD student is expected to develop and apply statistical methodology for group-sequential trials and will be part of the SMARTbiomed Pioneer centre (https://SMARTbiomed.dk/about-SMARTbiomed)./n/nProject focus: design and analyze group sequential clinical trials, with a focus on challenges coming from pipeline data and non-standard survival endpoints. The PhD student will work on two specific case studies, provide rigorous and pragmatic solutions, and develop methods, recommendations, software implementation and tutorials to increase the rigor of group sequential trials./n/nSupervisors: Principal supervisor Associate Professor Paul Blanche; Co-supervisors Professor Thomas Scheike and Senior Statistical Director Henrik Ravn./n/nStart: April 1, 2026. Duration: 3 years as a PhD student. Place of employment: Section of Biostatistics, Department of Public Health, CSS, University of Copenhagen.