Are you holding Master’s degree and looking for fully funded PhD positions? KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 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 interoperability in power-electronics dominated power grids
Summary of PhD Program:
The traditional electric power grid is dominated by passive components such as synchronous generators, circuit breakers, and transformers. This worked well with traditional primary energy sources like coal, gas, and nuclear power, which connect to the grid through these large synchronous generators and can be located close to population centers. The future electric power grid will be power-electronics dominated. This is needed to massively connect renewable energy sources (wind and solar power e.g.) as well as energy storage and transmission assets such as high-voltage direct current (HVDC). Grid-connected converters take over the role of the traditional grid control components such as synchronous generators.
Application Deadline: 28.Feb.2024
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Applied Mathematics within Optimization & Systems theory
Summary of PhD Program:
In this project, we will develop theory, methods, and applications for optimal transport problems. Optimal transport is a rapidly growing area that historically mainly was used in logistics and economics, but with recent advances in algorithms and increased computational resources has been utilized in a large number of application areas such as multi-agent systems, machine learning, probability theory, and imaging. In this project we will consider multi-marginal optimal transport problems, a class of generalized optimal transport problems that has been particularly useful for formulating sensor fusion problems and modelling evolutions or flows in particle systems.
Application Deadline: 12.Feb.2024
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Quantum Skyrmionics
Summary of PhD Program:
The Materials & Nano Physics Division performs basic and applied research in various scientific areas, including quantum materials. The Ph.D. candidate will be part of the Quantum Technology & Materials group, which works on elaborating and characterizing quantum materials, ranging from superconductors to magnetic topological quasiparticles. Various experiments are conducted in in-house laboratories and large-scale facilities. Over the years, a fruitful collaboration with theoreticians has also been established.
Application Deadline: 12.Feb.2024
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in computational cognitive neuroscience
Summary of PhD Program:
The goal of the project is to develop mathematical models of the brain and use them for large-scale simulations of cortical memory function. Special focus is on coupling multiple neural networks to study neural interactions between different cortical regions supporting cognitive function. You are expected to build neural networks models, analyse simulation data, interpret the results and evaluation of the model’s compatibility with heterogeneous experimental data.
Application Deadline: 05.Feb.2024
5. Fully Funded PhD Position in underwater robotics, machine learning and navigation
Summary of PhD Program:
The student will join the team working in the Swedish Marine Robotics Centre, SMaRC. A complete robotic system is planned. The specific goal is to use machine learning to fuse sonar and other sensor data collected from multiple autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV) to build representations of the seafloor that will allow the detection of changes to be autonomously reacted to. We have already begun this by collecting much data and applying deep learning to it. We expect that a novel approach based on both the physics of the sonar and variational inference can yield latent space representations that will go well beyond the current state of the art.
Application Deadline: 05.Feb.2024
6. 05 Fully Funded PhD Position in Sustainable Materials Engineering
Summary of PhD Program:
Green Steel for a Fossil-free Future is a major Swedish and EU-financed initiative with objectives to shape advanced theory, models and practical knowledge for transforming the Swedish steel industry. The intent is to enable the production of new advanced, materials engineered, products – without the use of fossil fuels – in a way that avoids waste and uses recycled and sustainably sourced material inputs. Five PhD students at KTH will work together with PhD students and a range of experts from KTH, Luleå University of Technology and industry.
Application Deadline: 31.Jan.2024
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in development of lignin-based carbon materials for metallurgy
Summary of PhD Program:
The present PhD project brings together the two largest industrial sectors in Sweden: the metallurgical industry and the pulp and paper industry. The use of carbon is critical to the metallurgical and steel industries. Carbon is present in the form of aggregates (e.g. petroleum coke and needle coke) and binders (e.g. coal tar pitch and phenolic resins) in furnace electrodes, lining pastes and refractories. However, today it originates mainly from fossil sources and must be replaced by more environmentally friendly alternatives from renewable resources. Lignin from kraft pulp mill is a promising alternative due to its high carbon content and availability, and has the potential to function both as an aggregate and as a binder for their application in the manufacture of bio-carbon furnace electrodes.
Application Deadline: 31.Jan.2024
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in brain-like computing
Summary of PhD Program:
The goal of the project is to develop and study brain-like neural network architectures and biologically inspired learning for semi-supervised and unsupervised learning problems. Project tasks are to study relevant literature, design and simulate neural network models, analyse/interpret results and benchmark brain-like architectures against conventional machine learning approaches.Research will be conducted within the EU-project EXTRA-BRAIN Explainable Trustworthy AI for Data Intensive Applications, which is a collaborative effort involving other academic institutions and companies of varying size.
Application Deadline: 31.Jan.2024
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Incentive-driven Control, Optimization and Learning
Summary of PhD Program:
With the increasing integration of intelligent systems in human life, it’s urgent to investigate control, optimization, and learning systems coupling with strategic/human agents. Examples of such systems range from transportation systems to human-robot teaming, smart grids, and federated learning. In these mixed-autonomy systems, the human agents, rational and self-interest, actively participate in and significantly influence the operations and dynamics of the systems. To ensure the accuracy and efficiency of these systems, it needs an incentive-driven scheme to motivate and regulate the strategic agents, such that they behave in a voluntary, authentic, and non-malicious way.
Application Deadline: 31.Jan.2024
10. Fully Funded PhD Position in chemical engineering for recycling of permanent magnets
Summary of PhD Program:
This doctoral project is aimed at studying and developing novel, green and efficient methods for separating and recovering rare earth elements from spent permanent magnets and production waste. The core of the method is the selective leaching by deep eutectic solvents followed by controlled precipitation of metal salts for further processing to new raw materials for magnet manufacture. Important aspects include identifying, examining and characterizing potential deep eutectic solvent systems, studying how the metals can most efficiently be separated from the leach liquors, and regenerating the deep eutectic solvent to achieve a closed loop process. The project is financed by Formas.
Application Deadline: 31.Jan.2024
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Voltage control interactions in active distribution networks
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD student will work on identifying the causes of adverse voltage-control interactions among inverter-based resources, synchronous machines, and other power system components. Models of power system components that can adequately characterize the multiple-timescale and nonlinear dynamics of their voltage controllers will be developed. The models should be able to shed physical insights and contribute fundamental knowledge to the voltage control interactions between different power system components in active distribution and sub-transmission networks.
Application Deadline: 31.Jan.2024
12. Fully Funded PhD Position in Polymer Technology
Summary of PhD Program:
We are looking for a PhD student eager to work with the big plastic challenges. This includes the use of renewable resources, development of greener synthesis methodologies as well as chemical and mechanical recycling for the product, in an active research environment. Plastics are today irreplaceable materials that enable our lifestyle and a sustainable development. At the same time, plastics have a negative impact on our environment when we utilize depleting resources in their production and because the large volumes of plastic waste generated in linear material streams.
Application Deadline: 31.Jan.2024
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in applied and computational mathematics
Summary of PhD Program:
The Department of Mathematics at the Royal Institute of Technology seeks applications to a Ph.D student position in Applied and Computational Mathematics within a project on fast numerical methods for wave propagation problems. This is a fundamental problem in many branches of science and engineering involving waves of different kinds, for instance electromagnetics, acoustics, optics and seismology. The project will primarily consider iterative methods for wave propagation problems in the frequency domain, modeled by the Helmholtz equation. In particular it will concern a new type of methods which are constructed around the more fundamental time domain wave equation. Those methods can more easily exploit the power of high-performance computers, which allows the solution of bigger problems.
Application Deadline: 31.Jan.2024
14. Fully Funded PhD Position in Neuromorphic Computing in the IoT-Edge-Cloud Continuum
Summary of PhD Program:
Brain-inspired systems (also known as neuromorphic systems) combine theories from computer science, hardware design, and neuroscience in order to create computer systems that mimic the human brain. These systems are more energy-efficient compared to classical computer systems and have applications within brain-simulation, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and optimization problems.
Application Deadline: 26.Jan.2024
15. 02 Fully Funded PhD Position in Nuclear Power Safety
Summary of PhD Program:
We are looking for two doctoral students to carry out frontier research on (i) severe accidents of small modular reactors; and (ii) natural circulations in advanced water and lead cooled nuclear reactors. The doctoral student projects are supported by the funds announced in May 2023 by the Radiation Safety Authority (SSM) together with the Swedish Energy Agency (STEM) for research and innovation in radiation safety of new reactor technologies.
Application Deadline: 25.Jan.2024
16. Fully Funded PhD Position in Modelling of Modular Pod-based Rail and Road Transportation
Summary of PhD Program:
Recent research and development in autonomous and modular (“POD”) transport systems for both passenger and goods traffic has provided a number of concepts that provide the key building blocks for future automated, modular, and multimodal mobility systems, that integrate and coordinate rail-based and road-based transports, with the ability to combine goods and passenger transport, and combine the strengths of both planned and flexible (on-demand) systems.
