Are you holding Master’s degree and looking for fully funded PhD positions? Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway 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 Value Delivery Analysis in Megaprojects
Summary of PhD Program:
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at NTNU has a vacancy for a PhD candidate position focusing on Value Delivery Analysis in Megaprojects. The research is associated with the research program Bedre megaprosjekter (Better megaprojects). The research group collaborate closely with the centre Project Norway: a comprehensive research network in project management.
Application Deadline: 10th April 2025
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in through-process modelling of aluminium alloys
Summary of PhD Program:
Are you motivated to take a step towards a doctorate and open up exciting career opportunities? As a PhD Candidate with us, you will work to achieve your doctorate, and at the same time gain valuable experience that qualifies you for a further career in higher education and research, in and outside academia. A PhD Candidate position within the frame of the SFI PhysMet (Centre for Sustainable and Competitive Metallurgical and Manufacturing Industry; https://www.ntnu.edu/physmet) is offered at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering (DMSE). The funding is 3 years.
Application Deadline: 1st April 2025
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in digital technologies for insights into port-city energy interactions
Summary of PhD Program:
This Doctoral Candidate will be based at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology working with Niki Gaitani and Henrik Madsen as project leads and will focus on the topics of urban building energy modeling, energy systems dynamics and port-city interactions. You will be applying methods such as digital twins modelling, optimization, and state-space models as you work on your project. The successful candidate will be seconded with the Technical University of Denmark and the Trondheim Municipality (Norway) during the project.
Application Deadline: 31st March 2025
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Market design and tariff structures for unlocking flexibility in harbors
Summary of PhD Program:
This research project provides a fantastic opportunity for researchers interested in the energy transition. It aims to integrate knowledge of engineering (e.g., mechanical and electrical engineering) and social sciences (economics, sociology, and anthropology) in a doctoral training programme across 8 European research institutions and 15 industry actors. The POTENT consortium brings together a multidisciplinary research team from across Europe to train experts in port energy systems and develop key skills to deliver a just and sustainable energy transition.
Application Deadline: 31st March 2025
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5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Development of Batteries for Stationary Energy Storage
Summary of PhD Program:
The Department of Materials Science and Engineering (IMA) at the Natural Science Faculty, has a vacancy for a position as PhD candidate related to development of an emerging battery technology based on aluminium anodes and carbon cathodes. The PhD project is affiliated to the strategic research area TSO Energy at NTNU. The candidate will be part of a PhD pool devoted to various aspects of renewable energy technology. The overall aim of the PhD project is to evaluate selected material qualities (aluminium alloys, carbons, solvents and current collectors) with respect to applicability in aluminium carbon batteries, including perspectives of sustainability, scaleability, and stationary storage profiles.
Application Deadline: 23rd March 2025
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Hybrid PET/MR Technology for Targeted Breast Cancer Imaging
Summary of PhD Program:
The candidate will have a key role in the collaboration with the multidisciplinary breast cancer team and the clinical staff at the PET centre at St. Olavs hospital. The main aims of the project are to implement 18F-FAPI-PET/MRI as a new diagnostic method for breast cancer patients at St. Olavs Hospital and evaluate its diagnostic performance. Tasks of the successful candidate will include patient inclusion, extracting relevant clinical data, and PET/MRI acquisition and analysis. The PhD candidate, together with the project group, will assess the method against established clinical criteria for breast cancer.
Application Deadline: 21st March 2025
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Safety Checklist for Maritime Industry
Summary of PhD Program:
This project aims to develop comprehensive safety checklists tailored for the maritime industry, with a particular focus on labor-intensive vessels, such as fishing vessels, and zero-emission vessels, including hydrogen-fueled ships. In collaboration with the Korea Maritime Transportation Safety Authority (KOMSA), NTNU will conduct research to establish advanced safety protocols that enhance operational safety and regulatory compliance for marine operators. The project’s outcomes will contribute to the safe and sustainable operation of various vessel types, supporting the maritime industry’s transition towards cleaner and more efficient technologies.
Application Deadline: 20th March 2025
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Risk Analysis of Liquified Hydrogen Storage Tanks
Summary of PhD Program:
This project focuses on the safe and efficient use of liquefied hydrogen (LH2) storage tanks for both maritime and land-based applications, ensuring compliance with emerging international safety standards. Through a collaboration between NTNU and KRISO (Korea Research Institute of Ships and Offshore Engineering), the research will analyze existing hydrogen demonstration projects, conduct safety and risk assessments, and develop globally recognized guidelines for hydrogen storage and bunkering systems. The outcomes will contribute to the advancement of hydrogen as a clean energy source, supporting global decarbonization goals and the IMO’s 2050 strategy.
Application Deadline: 20th March 2025
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Clinical Systems Neuroscience and Epilepsy
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD project is part of a groundbreaking research endeavor focused on integrating ultra-high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and invasive neurophysiological data to optimize epilepsy surgery. The work involves interdisciplinary collaborations, creating a dynamic research environment at the forefront of neuroimaging, invasive neurophysiology, translational and systems neuroscience, and computational modeling.
Application Deadline: 18th March 2025
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10. Fully Funded PhD Position in hybrid AI methods for ship performance modelling
Summary of PhD Program:
Would you like to work together with researchers and industry to create more accurate and efficient computational approaches for predicting the performance of ships in a seaway? In that way you will contribute to safer and more energy-efficient ship operations. That is a great challenge in the ongoing quest for making future shipping sustainable. Are you also interested in ships, first-principle physics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning? Then this job is for you!
Application Deadline: 16th March 2025
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in cancer cell biology/ biotechnology
Summary of PhD Program:
The Beckwith group develops new microscopy-based approaches to deeply characterize the complex biology of individual human cells. The aim of this interdisciplinary project is developing high throughput, multiplexed fluorescence microscopy approaches to study drug responses in multiple myeloma patient samples. The project will be carried out in an active and collaborative environment working on both clinical and translational multiple myeloma research at NTNU and St. Olav’s University Hospital. The position is funded by the Central Norway Regional Health Authority.
Application Deadline: 16th March 2025
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12. Fully Funded PhD Position in risk perception analysis for the offshore industry in green transition
Summary of PhD Program:
The objective of this PhD project is to obtain a deeper understanding of the offshore oil and gas industry’s perceptions and concerns regarding these risks. The successful candidate will conduct interviews with industry experts to investigate the vulnerability of the offshore industry during the green transition to natural hazards, as well as the varying perceptions and experiences of stakeholders regarding relevant accidents. Additionally, the candidate will design and implement a survey to collect data on offshore employees’ acceptance of green transition technologies, their concerns about potential issues, and their views on the quality of emergency response programs and risk communication strategies.
Application Deadline: 15th March 2025
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in NATECH risk modeling and assessment of the offshore industry in green transition
Summary of PhD Program:
Natural hazard triggered technological (NATECH) accidents, led by extreme events such as typhoons, hurricanes, storms, and rouge waves, present significant threats to offshore platforms, pipelines, other offshore facilities that handle, store, or transport hazardous substances. The threat of NATECH accidents is further magnified in the offshore oil & gas industry when developing new technologies and innovative applications for green transition. This PhD project is aiming to develop new knowledge for modeling, analyzing, and controlling the cascading process from the occurrence of natural events to the offshore accidents that threat human safety and environment and/or result in huge economic loss, and understand the interdependencies in such potential NATECH accidents.
Application Deadline: 15th March 2025
14. Fully Funded PhD Position in Synthetic Biology for DNA as Data Storage
Summary of PhD Program:
The goal of the position is that the PhD will complete a doctoral education programme and obtain a doctoral degree. The PhD candidate will work as part of the PolySpore project funded by the NovoNordisk Foundation. In the project we will develop novel biological and hybrid materials as well as new data-storage concepts using bacterial spores. The PhD candidate will work on genetically optimizing and manipulating the Gram-positive bacterium Bacillus subtilis to explore concepts of data storage in DNA.
Application Deadline: 10th March 2025
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15. Fully Funded PhD Position in Analysis
Summary of PhD Program:
Multiplicative analysis concerns systematic study of Dirichlet series from the point of view of modern operator-related function theory and lies in the intersection of complex analysis, operator theory, and analytic number theory. The main objective of the research project is to solve problems reinforcing the interplay between these different branches of analysis using tools such as multiplicative chaos, resonators to the Riemann zeta function, almost periodicity, and infinite-dimensional harmonic analysis.
Application Deadline: 10th March 2025
16. Fully Funded PhD Position in Electrochemistry (electrocatalysis)
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD candidate will work on the development of anode electrocatalysts for use in the production of nickel, zinc, and copper (aqueous electrowinning), metals which are all highly relevant for the green transition. The objective of the PhD project is to develop advanced novel anode catalysts for the oxygen evolution in acidic conditions, which makes the project also highly relevant for water electrolysis.
Application Deadline: 9th March 2025
17. Fully Funded PhD Position in Building Integration of Solar Cells
Summary of PhD Program:
The primary objective of the SolKit project is to facilitate the widespread adoption of building integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) in the Norwegian built environment. The SolKit project entails overcoming barriers linked to Norwegian conditions while addressing societal needs, economic goals and sustainability challenges. Furthermore, SolKit aims to develop essential knowledge and tools specifically tailored to address the conditions hindering the broad acceptance and deployment of BIPV technologies in Norway.
Application Deadline: 7th March 2025
18. Fully Funded PhD Position in statistical modeling for genomic data
Summary of PhD Program:
The position is part of the research project “Prediction of genetic values and adaptive potential in the wild” funded through a Consolidator Grant by the European Research Council (ERC). A major goal of the project is to develop cutting-edge statistical methodology to analyze large-scale genomic data, which is currently generated for many wild animal populations. To this end, the project combines modern statistical methodology and builds on the current state-of-the art in animal breeding, human genomics, ecology and evolutionary biology.
Application Deadline: 4th March 2025
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19. Fully Funded PhD Position
Summary of PhD Program:
Dr. Zong established his group at the Kavli Institute in 2023, focusing on developing cutting-edge optical tools to monitor and manipulate neural activity in naturally-behaving animals to understand the neuronal computation rulesets in cortical microcircuits. Dr. Zong has extensive experience in cutting-edge optical and lasers instrumentation and mice experiments, including the optical development and neuroscience application of a miniature portable 2-photon miniscope (MINI2P) for high-resolution multiplane imaging of thousands of neurons in the cortical tissue of freely moving mice (W. Zong et al., Cell, 2022).
Application Deadline: 2nd March 2025
20. Fully Funded PhD Position in absorption-based CO2 capture focusing on modelling of solvent degradation
Summary of PhD Program:
This position at the Department of Chemical Engineering at NTNU focuses on chemical absorption and, more specifically, on the modelling of solvent degradation. Carbon dioxide is the primary greenhouse gas emitted through human activities, and the development and implementation of technologies for emission reduction are of great importance. Of the various methods to separate CO2 from industrial gases, absorption-based CO2 capture using aqueous alkanolamine solutions has reached the commercial stage.
Application Deadline: 2nd March 2025
21. Fully Funded PhD Position in Human-Centric Manufacturing; Cognitive Behavior in Human-AI Manufacturing Systems
Summary of PhD Program:
The rapid integration of AI and robotics in manufacturing presents significant challenges and opportunities for enhancing human-technology collaboration. While these technologies can improve efficiency and productivity, their impact on human workers—particularly concerning stress, behavior, and personality—remains underexplored. Understanding these factors as enablers or barriers is critical for fostering effective human-robot/AI interaction and for advancing cognitive AI systems that align with human needs and capabilities.
Application Deadline: 2nd March 2025
22. Fully Funded PhD Position in Sustainable Real-time Anomaly Detection for Practical Applications
Summary of PhD Program:
Are you motivated to take a step towards a doctorate and open up exciting career opportunities? As a PhD Candidate with us, you will work to achieve your doctorate, and at the same time gain valuable experience that qualifies you for a further career in higher education and research, in and outside academia. We are looking for a highly motivated PhD candidate in Sustainable Real-time Anomaly Detection for Practical Applications at the Department of Information Security and Communication Technology.
Application Deadline: 1st March 2025
23. Fully Funded PhD Position in Molecular Modeling
Summary of PhD Program:
The project focuses on implementing the recently developed ∞RETIS algorithm into an advanced computer code to simulate and analyze the dynamics of rare molecular events, rather than just their thermodynamics. By integrating path sampling simulation techniques with a novel approach for parallelizing “non-parallelizable” algorithms, we aim to drastically reduce the computational resources required for such simulations. This groundbreaking method has already enabled simulations that previously took over a year to converge to be completed within weeks or even days, depending on the available High-Performance Computing (HPC) resources.
Application Deadline: 1st March 2025
24. Fully Funded PhD Position in Metabolomics/ Biological Mass Spectroscopy
Summary of PhD Program:
The main aim and task of the PhD position is to develop analytical methods (mainly LC-MS based and both targeted/quantitative and untargeted/ qualitative methods) and apply these methods on the already available samples. There will be a particular focus on abundance and diversity of human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs) and how these bioactive compounds vary with exercise both during pregnancy and after birth/ during lactation. HMOs are a diverse class of carbohydrates that can be found in high concentrations in human milk and induce multiple benefits for the infant via prebiotic effects, meaning that they feed the microbes in the infant gut.
