On 29 April 2026, our annual career fair, PhD Career Day, will take place! We look forward to welcoming you to Aarhus University to meet our many PhD students and postdocs as well as many inspiring companies.
Are you a company and would like to participate in our career fair 2026, you can sign up here.
Are you PhD student or postdoc and would like to participate, you can sign up here. In the meantime, feel free to explore the companies and organisations that will take part in PhD Career Day 2026 below (updated continuously)
We look forward to seeing you at PhD Career Day 2026.
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PhD Career Day is an annual event where you as a PhD student or junior researcher can learn more about your career prospects by meeting company representatives face-to-face, and getting an understanding of what the companies stand and look for.
Who we are
Arla Foods is a big global dairy company with approximately 20,000 employees across 30 countries and over 8,450 dairy farm owners in Denmark, Sweden, United Kingdom, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. Thus, Arla is a cooperative, a global business, a family of brands and thousands of people working together across markets. While each of us have important individual roles to play, from farmers to marketeers, food scientists to distributors, it is our collective strength that sets us apart as a company that's more cooperative than corporate.
What we do and why we do it
In Arla Foods, our research and new product development teams work together to build science, new technologies, local knowledge, consumer tastes and regulatory frameworks to develop new product formulations for launch e.g., into a new market. At Arla Innovation Centre, along with product development teams in the UK, Sweden, China, Germany, Netherlands, Finland and the US, we passionately innovate from farm to plate to create the future dairy products to the world. We do this with state-of-the-art science and consumer labs and a 2000 m^2 pilot plant, with more flexibility to install any type of process needed for our innovation projects. Our researchers are strongly connected, and make innovation happen, all across Arla and its markets by working closely with suppliers, universities, and specialist technology companies.
Working as a PhD at Arla Foods
As a PhD in Arla Innovation you are a part of transforming knowledge of food science, technology and nutrition into business opportunities for Arla. This is done both by using current scientific knowledge but also by being part of conducting projects to gain new knowledge. In addition, within Arla Innovation we have numerous external research projects aimed to drive science forward and resulting in findings that are useful for the dairy sector. At the Arla Innovation Centre, you become part of a multicultural organization with a great working atmosphere.
What we are looking for in terms of new colleagues and collaborators are individuals that are self-driven, curious, smart-working and bring creative ideas.
We engineer tomorrow to build a better future
Decarbonizing with our customers and long-term value creation. With leading application know-how, and sustainable innovation, we set out to become our customers’ preferred decarbonization partner, with a focus on long-term value creation for our customers and employees.
Five global megatrends
Danfoss is more relevant than ever. We engineer solutions that increase machine productivity, reduce emissions, lower energy consumption, and enable electrification. Our solutions meet many of the challenges from Climate Change, Urbanization, and Food and Water Supply scarcity, while capturing opportunities in Digitalization and Electrification.
ESG initiatives
Decarbonization - We pioneer solutions for customers to enable decarbonization in an intelligent, cost-optimal manner and ensure carbon neutrality in our own operations
Circularity - We innovate best-in-class circular products as the default when developing, producing, sourcing, and selling to deliver new value propositions
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion - We offer a leading employee experience that values and respects diversity and inclusion to attract and retain top talent that can lead the green transition
Danish Technological Institute, founded in 1906, is a leading research and technology company, providing consultancy and services across various business domains. We are 1,100 specialists who work closely with companies and knowledge institutions, with our mission to develop the Danish business community and provide benefits to society at large.
When working as a PhD candidate at the Danish Technological Institute, you are the specialist in your field, and you have the opportunity to explore and expand your expertise even further, both within your specific domain and through interdisciplinary collaboration. You will experience a great deal of responsibility and freedom to create your own tasks, based on your professional qualifications and curiosity.
Join us and become a part of a committed community that aims to develop technologies and innovative solutions to ensure a better future.
HØIBERG is a European Intellectual Property firm, which counsels on all aspects of intellectual property rights including patents and IP strategies. We have both start-ups and multi-national companies as clients. A patent consultant ensures that the inventions of today become the products of tomorrow. We ensure that innovative ideas reach the market by giving inventors the right to their ideas. At HØIBERG, 90% of our Patent Attorneys have a PhD degree. You need a scientific degree to become a Patent Consultant - NOT a law degree. The job combines scientific skills with new knowledge on IP law and business development, so you are constantly challenged, occasionally also within your own scientific field.
How will a career as management consultant with McKinsey & Company be different from academia? Every McKinsey engagement demands the same qualities you need to succeed in academia: strong problem-solving skills, intellectual curiosity, and the drive to achieve results. The difference is, at McKinsey you’ll be working with and presenting your findings to business leaders. McKinsey consultants learn to solve problems quickly and make fast decisions, even when they don’t have all the information about a particular subject. Consultants with PhDs say one of the biggest challenges - and most attractive aspects - of a career with McKinsey is this shift in thinking. In the academic setting, you are diving deep into a subject, often spending years gathering and analyzing data. At McKinsey, consultants learn to work with the most important information, whittle a problem down to its core, and offer a solution that helps a client make better decisions, often when it’s not a clear-cut, easy answer.
AUPA works politically and strategically to improve well-being and conditions for PhDs across the five faculties at Aarhus University. They discuss the university's development, new or existing solutions, and how to improve them.
There are 1,000 good reasons to become a member of a union and an unemployment fund. These include job search assistance, affordable insurance, and the right to unemployment benefits.
Welcome to the Danish Association of Masters and PhDs (DM) and the Master’s unemployment insurance fund (MA).
We are here to guide and help you to get off to a good start in your working life. And we’re here to help in case you at some point lose your job.
