Are you holding Master’s degree and looking for fully funded PhD positions? Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden invites online application for multiple funded PhD Programs / fully funded PhD positions in various research areas.
Candidates interested in fully funded PhD positions can check the details and may apply as soon as possible. Interested and eligible applicants may submit their online application for PhD programs via the University’s Online Application Portal.
1. Fully Funded PhD Position in Network Security
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD opportunity is dedicated to uncovering novel network attacks targeting the latest Internet applications and developing effective countermeasures. Today’s Internet is not strictly speaking a “safe” place. New attacks on connected infrastructures are reported daily, leading to loss of connectivity, reduced performance, or violation of privacy. Thus, identifying and patching new attacks before malicious actors can exploit them has become more crucial than ever.
Application Deadline: 2025-03-31
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Nanocience and Nanotechnologies
Summary of PhD Program:
We are looking for four highly motivated and skilled graduates interested in nanoscience and nanotechnology. The selected candidates are awarded with a PhD position, which they can place at any Nano research group at Chalmers and with which they coordinate their specific PhD program. This is the tenth in a yearly recurring call. These positions are special in the sense that most PhD student positions at Chalmers are announced by a specific research group, funded by a specific research project. However, with an Excellence PhD student position you have your own funding, which of course gives you far more freedom in choosing both research group and research project.
Application Deadline: 16th of March 2025
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Quantum experiments with levitated particles
Summary of PhD Program:
The project is supervised by Prof. Dr. Witlef Wieczorek and conducted within QTlab at the Department of Microtechnology and Nanoscience (MC2). You will have access to state-of-the-art cleanroom facilities for micro- and nanofabrication and benefit from WACQT’s internationally leading research in quantum technologies.
Application Deadline: March 16, 2025
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Resource-Efficient Design of Concrete Structures
Summary of PhD Program:
The Concrete Structures research area at the Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering focuses on advancing sustainable construction through the extension of service life in existing structures, innovative material and method development, and minimizing environmental impact via efficient design. Our team comprises a dynamic and diverse group of researchers dedicated to excellence and interdisciplinary collaboration. We conduct both fundamental and applied research across various fields, including assessment of existing structures, structural health monitoring, and the use of novel reinforcement types.
Application Deadline: 20 January, 2025
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5. Fully Funded PhD Position in biological wastewater treatment
Summary of PhD Program:
As a PhD student, you will immerse yourself in the fascinating world of microbial communities and their role in nitrogen removal processes. In wastewater treatment, nitrogen removal is typically accomplished by the biological processes nitrification, denitrification, and anammox. You will focus on the interplay between bacteriophages and the bacteria crucial for these processes. The project will both involve sampling at full-scale treatment plants and operatation of laboratory-scale systems. Additionally, you will employ various molecular biology techniques, such as metagenomics, to analyze the microbial communities.
Application Deadline: 2025-01-18
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Cognitive Ergonomics of Prehospital Care
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD candidate position will be carried out within the research project called PreKo-2, which is carried out in collaboration with PICTA Arena for prehospital care, based in Göteborg, Sweden. The project aims to improve the conditions for understanding and assessing the level of cognitive load in ambulance emergency services. The starting point is a previously developed model (called PreKo) for assessing cognitive load, which was originally aimed at evaluating assembly work. This project aims to adapt and refine the model for the presumably more complex and dynamic work context that ambulance healthcare missions entail.
Application Deadline: 2025-01-16
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Sustainable transportation services
Summary of PhD Program:
To accelerate the transition to sustainable transport, it is vital that transport providers develop appealing green services tailored to the short- and long-term needs of transport buyers. This project aims to generate new knowledge on the development of environmentally sustainable and efficient inland transport services that are integrated with shipping. The focus will be on joint value creation with the key stakeholders and transport buyers’ service expectations including environmental requirements. The project outcome will include the green service development process, environmental service offerings, need for collaboration and quantitative effects, where the goal is to facilitate the adoption of green door-to-door transport solutions.
Application Deadline: 2025-01-15
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in AI and LLM for Automated Design and Validation of Automotive Software Systems
Summary of PhD Program:
This project will leverage LLMs and LLM agents to automate and streamline the development, refactoring, generation, and testing of automotive software. By utilizing LLMs for tasks such as parsing, program synthesis, and fuzzing, the approach reduces the need for extensive manual engineering of automation tools. This enables faster iteration, improves clarity, and manages the complexity of integrating diverse software components in large-scale automotive projects.
Application Deadline: 2025-01-15
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Integration of Quality and Sustainability
Summary of PhD Program:
This position is part of the research project “New Roles for Integrating Quality, Sustainability, and Work Environment – A Rewarding Opportunity or Increased Stress and a Sense of Inadequacy?” The project aims to develop tools to identify skill needs and foster competence development for professionals managing combined responsibilities for quality and sustainability. The ultimate goal is to empower these professionals to contribute meaningfully to the green transition while thriving in supportive work environments.
Application Deadline: January 15, 2025
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10. Fully Funded PhD Position in Innovating Safety Evaluation for High-Severity Collisions
Summary of PhD Program:
This project, a collaboration between Chalmers, industry partners, and the Swedish Transportation Administration (Trafikverket), focuses on improving vehicle safety standards through the European New Car Assessment Program (Euro NCAP). While Euro NCAP has driven significant advancements in passenger car safety, this project seeks to extend those benefits to larger vehicles. You will develop innovative methods—both physical and numerical—to assess how truck designs protect passenger car occupants in severe collisions. By addressing the unique challenges posed by high-energy crash events, your work will contribute to creating safer vehicles for all.
Application Deadline: January 12, 2025
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Intelligent and Sustainable Transportation System Management
Summary of PhD Program:
We offer a great opportunity for a highly motivated PhD student to join our team working at the forefront of intelligent transport systems. As a PhD student, you will work with a passionate and ambitious team focused on improving the efficiency and sustainability of urban transport systems. Here, we address challenging transportation problems with state-of-the-art technologies, such as autonomous driving, connected vehicles, and smart charging solutions. In addition, you will benefit from our strong ties to industry (e.g., Volvo), enabling your research to achieve greater real-world impact. Based in a beautiful Nordic city, you will benefit from a competitive salary, an outstanding training program, and a wide collaboration network.
Application Deadline: 2025-01-10
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12. 02 Fully Funded PhD Position in single molecule biophysics
Summary of PhD Program:
We are offering two exciting PhD positions to explore the fascinating world of DNA and RNA at the single-molecule level using optical tweezers. By delving into their thermodynamics, kinetics, and dynamics, you will uncover how these biomolecules function and interact with small molecules, including potential drug candidates. The project is part of a European doctoral network consisting of in total 15 PhD students and includes common courses and secondments in other labs.
Application Deadline: January 10, 2025
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in organic chemistry of DNA- and RNA-modifications
Summary of PhD Program:
The position is part of a European doctoral network (MSCA-DN) consisting of in total 15 PhD students in 8 universities in 6 countries. You will use organic chemistry to synthesize novel DNA/RNA nucleobases/nucleosides and perform basic biophysical characterization of the new compounds. The overall goal of the doctoral network is to understand how to develop next generation therapeutics based on nucleic acids and their interactions. The international and interdisciplinary context of the project means that you will spend time in at least two other labs as part of the PhD studies.
Application Deadline: January 10, 2025
14. Fully Funded PhD Position in Oxygen Carrier Mechanisms for CLC
Summary of PhD Program:
When burning fuel, oxygen is usually supplied through air, which is mostly nitrogen—resulting in nitrogen-heavy off-gases. By using solid oxygen carriers (metal oxides), oxygen is delivered in solid form, eliminating nitrogen from off-gases. This enables efficient CO₂ storage, pure H₂ production, and oxygen-rich processes. These carriers can repeatedly absorb and release oxygen, offering advantages like high density and easy gas-solid separation. Chalmers is a global leader in this innovative research.
Application Deadline: January 10, 2025
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15. Fully Funded PhD Position in Secure and cognitive communication network infrastructure
Summary of PhD Program:
Critical network infrastructure supporting global Internet communications relies on optical fiber networks, the only future-proof solution for bandwidth-hungry applications, ultra-high capacity, and massive data transmission over long distances. Shared among various network layer services, this infrastructure often operates in harsh, unsecured environments, making it vulnerable to external tampering. Security breaches at the optical layer can disrupt multiple upper layers, jeopardizing services despite application-level security measures.
Application Deadline: 2025-01-10
16. Fully Funded PhD Position in Material science challenges in realistic loading of railway steels
Summary of PhD Program:
The project focuses on the materials science behind deformation, stress, and cracking in wheel and rail surfaces, including methods to simulate operational loading in the lab. These studies are crucial for material selection, maintenance strategies, and lifespan prediction. Repeated rolling contact loading creates a highly deformed microstructure near the contact surfaces, increasing strength but also causing anisotropy and fracture susceptibility. Cracks, such as head checks in rails and RCF cracks in wheels, often originate in this layer.
Application Deadline: 2025-01-07
17. Fully Funded PhD Position in Multi-scale modelling of polydisperse cloud cavitation
Summary of PhD Program:
This research will develop new simulation models to improved simulations accuracy and facilitate development of e.g. more efficient ship propulsion systems, turbines and pumps as well as wastewater treatments; all important tasks towards a more sustainable society. One of the main challenges is due to their wide range of scales pres: microscopic vapor bubbles play a critical role even in large-scale systems like ship propellers. A modern and natural way to address this complexity is through a multi-scale modelling approach. This technique resolves large-scale structures on a computational grid while modeling smaller bubbles at a sub-grid scale.
Application Deadline: January 6, 2025
18. Fully Funded PhD Position in Micro and Nanoplastic Particles as Carriers of Stormwater Pollutants
Summary of PhD Program:
Microplastic and nanoplastic particles (MNPs) as carriers of urban stormwater pollutants and their removal mechanisms in sorption filters are studied in batch column tests in the laboratory. Mixtures of selected MNPs (e.g. tyre wear particles, PE, and PVC) are tested to determine the sorption capacity, kinetics, and isotherms of selected stormwater pollutants (e.g. PAH-16, Cu, Cr, Cd, Ni, Pb, and Zn). Data are then fitted to kinetic and isothermal models to determine the type of sorption processes involved for each pollutant. The sorption capacity of MNP on sustainable materials, such as biochar, bark, and ash, is also being tested.
Application Deadline: 2025-01-06
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19. Fully Funded PhD Position in Flexibility Services in Multi-Energy Systems
Summary of PhD Program:
The Division of Electric Power Engineering at the Department of Electrical Engineering conducts research across a broad range of electric power technologies, aiming to advance interdisciplinary research within the university and with external partners. Our research is organized into four main areas: electric power systems, power electronics, electric machines, and high-voltage engineering. Our research is rooted in strong theoretical foundations, complemented by extensive experimental verification in both laboratories and real-world applications. We strive to expand knowledge on electrical systems for renewables, vehicles, buildings, and industrial applications. Recently, the division has participated in numerous projects on smart energy buildings, microgrids, and transmission system monitoring and protection, funded by the EU, Swedish power industry, and government agencies.
Application Deadline: January 2, 2025
20. Fully Funded PhD Position in lignin-based wood adhesives
Summary of PhD Program:
This project focuses on green chemical engineering techniques for converting heterogeneous lignin into versatile and uniform lignin building blocks, followed by the development of advanced wood adhesives. A critical aspect of this work involves structural characterization and the preparation of wood composite. The utilization of quantitative structure-property relationship modelling will be an integrated part in this work. The project may also encompass a comprehensive life cycle assessment to evaluate the environmental impacts of obtained wood composite. The BioGlue Center, provides a network for collaboration with other researchers who are experts in different areas.
Application Deadline: 2024-12-31
21. Fully Funded PhD Position in AI for Privacy-Enhanced Network Systems
Summary of PhD Program:
The project, AI in the Dark: Making Our Packet-Processing Systems More Secure aims to develop a groundbreaking approach to the ambitious challenge of creating machine learning techniques capable of “seeing in the dark”—classifying encrypted network traffic without access to network headers. By leveraging advanced probabilistic models and deep learning, you will develop innovative methods for packet flow separation, enabling robust AI classification of packet sequences in realistic and complex network environments, even when network-layer information is concealed. The project’s outcomes will support proactive countermeasures against emerging surveillance and censorship systems while unlocking new possibilities for traffic classification in high-performance packet-processing infrastructures.
Application Deadline: 2024-12-31
22. Fully Funded PhD Position in Chemical Process Engineering: Advancing Sustainability Through Protein Research
Summary of PhD Program:
The project is aligned with broader sustainability goals, including the development of innovative processes to manufacture chemicals, materials, and fuels from renewable sources. These challenges also extend to areas such as recycling, process intensification, and energy-efficient systems. Achieving these objectives requires a detailed understanding of fundamental unit operations (e.g., separation, mixing, distillation, drying, filtration) and heat/mass transfer mechanisms.
