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 Networked Systems Security
Summary of PhD Program:
We invite applications for doctoral student positions with the Networked Systems Security (NSS) lab at EECS/SCS. We are looking for highly motivated individuals to pursue a PhD in security and privacy. The positions involve activities leading to original research and results in peer-reviewed publications. The research topics can relate with any of the NSS group areas. The NSS group designs and builds trustworthy networked systems, with a research agenda covering a gamut of security and privacy problems and results that got significant attention by the research community. NSS introduced a new security curriculum at KTH. Candidates with experimental/systems or theoretical profiles and research interests in any aspect of security and privacy are welcome to apply.
Application Deadline: 04.Sep.2023
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Accessibility and Equity in Sustainable Transportation Planning
Summary of PhD Program:
Planning for accessibility is principal to this research project building on what it means for planning for sustainable transport and regions built around the key concepts and sole purpose of ensuring accessibility to employment, education and services? Also how accessibility differs in its meaning and effects for different sections of the population, e.g. for children and young adults? We will populate key indicators and indices to accessibility to education and employment with sustainable transport options, bicycling in particular. Empirical evidences will be documented in scientific publications and disseminated with stakeholders beyond academia.
Application Deadline: 31.Jul.2023
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Behavioural change and gamification in transport
Summary of PhD Program:
With a focus on sustainable transport the doctoral candidate will contribute in developing a thorough and multifaceted understanding of the theories of behavioral change critically reflecting on the development, successes and failures of interventions in travel demand management and in motivating sustainable (travel) behavior as applied to date. The role of gamification and incentives will be explored in extensive detail with efficient living lab designs. Empirical evidences will be documented in scientific publications and disseminated with stakeholders beyond academia. The candidate will work on several European innovation projects, collaborate with other doctoral students in the group studying accessibility planning as well as partners in Sweden and abroad.
Application Deadline: 31.Jul.2023
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Brain-Inspired Hardware on FPGAs
Summary of PhD Program:
We are seeking a Ph.D. student that will work on a project that focuses on creating brain-inspired systems and applications on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), funded by the Swedish Research Council (VR). The Ph.D. student will work with several aspects of brain-inspired systems, including their design, benchmarking, and evaluating them. The Ph.D. student will also explore emerging technology (e.g., 3D stackable memory) as well as novel applications (e.g., BCPNN) in order to quantify the performance improvements and power consumption benefits of future brain-inspired systems.
Application Deadline: 31.Aug.2023
5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Robotics
Summary of PhD Program:
The position is at the Division of Robotics, Perception and Learning | KTH with Jana Tumova’s research group that focuses on designing planning, decision making, and control algorithms to enable safe, purposeful and trustworthy autonomous behavior. The core of our approach is the use of formal methods-inspired techniques that allow for rigorous specification of a rich set of goals, constraints, and preferences, and automated synthesis of plans, policies, and controllers with performance guarantees. We utilize them in applications ranging from autonomous driving, exploration with UAVs or navigation around people, to network control.
Application Deadline: 15.Aug.2023
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in learning for autonomous robots
Summary of PhD Program:
Three fully funded doctoral student positions are available in a new robotics research group at KTH that will explore how to adapt recent advances in AI/ML to improve the capabilities of real autonomous robots in real-world workplaces and public spaces. Autonomy requires a high level of robustness and real-time computation. The students will focus on one of the following research directions:
- Learning to plan and interact with objects (e.g., reinforcement learning/sim2real)
- Learning to plan and interact with people
- Learning scalable semantic maps of real world environments
Application Deadline: 15.Aug.2023
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Multimodal generative models for graph data
Summary of PhD Program:
The broader project is related to training multimodal data including graphs that aim to generate graphs or other modalities – with applications to Biology, Medicine, Energy/Telecoms etc. The prior work of the supervisor in the area will support futher achievements in this field.
Application Deadline: 17.Aug.2023
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Industrial Economics and Management
Summary of PhD Program:
The Ph.D. student will perform research in a project financed by the EU Horizon program (MultiClimact). The project investigates built environments and related future materials, and technical solutions to respond to extreme climate events. The Ph.D. student will identify critical supply chains that have to adapt to these strategies, hence, ensuring continuous replenishment in a resilient and sustainable manner. The project will collect data and develop models from demonstrators in the EU, e.g., Spain, Italy, and Latvia, where stakeholders have taken a leading role in ensuring a sustainable and resilient transformation.
Application Deadline: 10.Aug.2023
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Biomaterials for carbon anode in aluminum production
Summary of PhD Program:
Aluminum is one of the world’s most widely used and recycled metals. Commercial primary aluminum manufacture involves reducing alumina to aluminium in a reduction/electrolysis cell. This process is achieved by running electricity between a negative cathode and a positive anode, both made of fossil carbon. The process is highly energy intensive, requiring 13,500-15,000 kWh per ton of aluminium. For the gas-powdered aluminum smelters of Europe, the corresponding carbon emission intensity is estimated to be 4-10 tons of CO2 per ton of aluminium. The secure supply of carbon anodes and the associated emissions from carbon anode consumption serve as the remaining major challenge for aluminium production.
Application Deadline: 18.Aug.2023
10. Fully Funded PhD Position in applied mathematics for electromagnetic design for antennas
Summary of PhD Program:
The research group, led by Professor Lars Jonsson, is dedicated to developing state-of-the-art designs, algorithms, and solutions for challenging design problems in array antennas, filters, and sensors. We use and develop mathematical theories, optimization tools, and computational realization to create innovative solutions that are often validated through measured prototypes. Our research is conducted in collaboration with industrial partners. Currently, we’re focused on accelerating the extraction of properties of large systems by utilizing inherent ‘sparse’ properties as identified by model order reduction and energy passive (Herglotz-Nevanlinna) representations.
Application Deadline: 28.Aug.2023
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in coupled hydrogeochemical processes under dams
Summary of PhD Program:
The Department of Sustainable Development, Environmental Science and Engineering is seeking a highly qualified candidate to pursue a 4-year PhD project, generously funded by the Swedish Centre for Sustainable Hydropower. This project is conducted in collaboration with partners from Luleå University of Technology, Fortum, and Vattenfall. The objective of this project is to enhance dam safety through an improved understanding of the interplay between groundwater flow and geochemistry, and the resulting impact on cement grout degradation under hydropower dams.
Application Deadline: 10.Aug.2023
12. Fully Funded PhD Position in building energy system control
Summary of PhD Program:
In the transition toward low-energy buildings and the 5th generation of district heating, using data-driven approaches to integrate decentralized renewables with optimal control will play a vital role. You will join an exciting research team and interdisciplinary EU project to develop and apply machine learning (ML) techniques, novel system control and optimization methods to integrate/operate various thermal storage and building HVAC systems. You will perform dynamic simulations of energy operation (both thermal and power), as well as testing the developed ML methods/control solutions in multiple live-in-labs across Europe. You will work closely with a large number of industry partners and other researchers to manage project deliverables.
Application Deadline: 11.Aug.2023
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in proton therapy planning using photon-counting x-ray CT
Summary of PhD Program:
Photon counting spectral CT is now revolutionizing medical x-ray imaging, and at KTH we are at the forefront of this research. We are looking for a PhD student for developing methodology for using photon-counting CT to predict dose distributions in proton therapy. We will use physics modeling, machine learning and experiments in collaboration with industry and healthcare, with the aim of improving cancer treatment.
Application Deadline: 20.Jul.2023
14. Fully Funded PhD Position in Optimization of Electric Railway and Smart Energy Hub
Summary of PhD Program:
The objective of this project is to develop and integrate innovative solutions (including the use of energy storage system, formation of an energy hub with renewable energy, active participation in electrical grids, optimisation and management tools) into the legacy railway system, to improve and enhance the infrastructure traction power supply. The PhD candidate working in this project will develop advanced optimization tools for electrical railway systems, and energy management systems for smart energy hubs.
Application Deadline: 31.Jul.2023
15. Fully Funded PhD Position in geotechnical engineering
Summary of PhD Program:
We are searching for a doctoral student to the Division of Soil and Rock Mechanics. The work tasks are related to doctoral studies leading to a Licentiate degree, if the study plan is followed. The studies are connected to the research project “Developed compaction control for future quality assurance”. Compaction is most common ground improvement method and is used extensively in construction of roads and railways. An important part of the process is to quantify and verify the compaction result. However, the current methods for acceptance control of compaction are ineffective and uncertain. This project aims to develop the continuous compaction control (CCC) technique to better correlate with tests like Plate load tests (PLT) and thus decrease the need of manual acceptance control. Machine development moves more and more toward automatic adjustment of compaction.
Application Deadline: 11.Aug.2023
16. Fully Funded PhD Position in Cyber Security
Summary of PhD Program:
This thesis aims at developing and implementing large-scale analysis for improving security in the software supply chain of libraries and applications. We will research static and dynamic code-level analysis which are targeted to specific classes of attacks, e.g., code injection, remote code execution, insecure deserialisation, prototype pollution, and more. To identify these attacks we will explore a range of technologies including taint analysis, property graphs, program slicing, and runtime monitoring.
Application Deadline: 10.Aug.2023
17. Fully Funded PhD Position in Liquid-infused surface in flowing fluids
Summary of PhD Program:
A lubricant-infused surface (LIS) is a structured surface infused with a viscous liquid layer. These slippery surfaces are partially inspired by the carnivorous Nepenthes pitcher plant. LISs have shown great promise for reducing fluid friction, preventing biofouling and increasing heat transfer in fluid flows. However, the behaviour of LISs in realistic flow environments is very difficult to predict. LUBFLOW will therefore investigate LISs in fluid flows that include turbulence, surfactants, and bacteria. This could lead to better control of fluid flows and broad technological advancements.
Application Deadline: 07.Aug.2023
18. Fully Funded PhD Position in Electroactive Cellulose Composites Towards Future Green Devices
Summary of PhD Program:
The combination of cellulose, not the least nanocelluloses, and electrically conducting materials such as PEDOT:PSS, carbon nanotubes, and 2D materials (e.g. graphene, and MXene) has attracted considerable interest over the last decade for applications in various devices, for example for energy storage, actuators, and sensors. The nanometre dimensions of the particles in combination with their excellent mechanical properties, allowing for a bottom‐up design of different devices, have been the major driving force for this renewed interest in cellulose materials, allowing for the preparation of conducting films and composites.
Application Deadline: 31.Aug.2023
19. Fully Funded PhD Position in extreme conditions by shock wave implosion
Summary of PhD Program:
The project aims at developing robust, reliable and effective techniques for generation of extreme conditions. Having developed an experimental facility based on electrical wire explosion huge pressures in fluids are to be produced with limited resources available in everyday research environment. A unique integration of approaches and resources in high voltage engineering and plasma physics applications will be applied towards classical problems of compressible fluid mechanics. The project investigates by experiment, computation and theory the major physical properties of imploding shock waves in liquids, offers approaches to enhance efficiency of the focal energy concentration, and studies the behavior of matter at such extreme states.
Application Deadline: 24.Jul.2023
20. Fully Funded PhD Position in glide symmetry for power distribution network
Summary of PhD Program:
A 4-year PhD position is available in the framework of the MSCA Doctoral Network GENIUS “Glide-symmetric mEtamaterials for iNnovative radIo-frequency commUnication and Sensing”, funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe Programme and by the UK Research and Innovation.
Application Deadline: 15.Aug.2023
21. Fully Funded PhD Position in Power system optimization
Summary of PhD Program:
The Alternating Current Optimal Power Flow (AC OPF) problem is at the heart of economically efficient and reliable electricity transmission network operation. The AC OPF and its variants are large-scale nonconvex optimization problems which are hard to solve. However, efficient AC OPF calculation could save billions of euros per year and reduce harmful emissions. Today, the major AC OPF computational challenge is to consistently find a global AC OPF solution using fast and robust solution techniques.
Application Deadline: 10.Aug.2023
22. Fully Funded PhD Position in computer vision
Summary of PhD Program:
In this project we will develop methods for modelling non-verbal communication from video. The doctoral student will be responsible for developing a 3D embodied, integrated representation of head pose, gaze and facial micro expression that can be extracted from high-speed video, as well as deep generative models for inferring the latent emotional state of the human from the non-verbal communicative behavior. The position is financed by WASP and entails participation in the WASP doctoral school and activities for doctoral students, and also involves collaboration with researchers in Perceptual Neuroscience at the Karolinska Institute.
Application Deadline: 29.Aug.2023
23. Fully Funded PhD Position in High Voltage Engineering
Summary of PhD Program:
The project is part of KTH’s strategic collaboration with IIT Madras in Chennai, India and the doctoral candidate is expected to stay in total a period of 12 months at IIT Madras. The period can be divided into shorter period, depending on the need from the project. Within the project there will also be collaborations with leading transformer manufacturers and utilities of power transformers.
Application Deadline: 07.Aug.2023
24. Fully Funded PhD Position in deep generative models for cancer research
Summary of PhD Program:
Variational autoencoders (VAEs), the newest version of the Variational inference (VI) methodology, is becoming increasingly important in analysis of large single-cell and spatial biological data. Yet, employing them for posterior approximations in Bayesian phylogenetics is a difficult problem, and clear examples of successful applications are still outstanding. Following the recent trends in VAE research, one may hypothesize that this may be addressed by incorporating inductive biases, modeling more advanced prior distributions, and/or via architecture design.
Application Deadline: 15.Aug.2023
25. Fully Funded PhD Position in algorithms and architectures for high-performance machine-learning
Summary of PhD Program:
This research project aims at developing fast, scalable and resource-efficient methods for machine learning in wireless systems. The research includes algorithm development, mathematical analysis, implementation and performance evaluation. Working together with experts in wireless communication, we will investigate how machine learning algorithms and communication systems can be improved and re-designed for unprecedented efficiency.
Application Deadline: 15.Aug.2023
26. Fully Funded PhD Position in Smart Visual Model Learning
Summary of PhD Program:
We need new ways to explain and understand the behavior of smart contracts, which are small programs that run on blockchains and handle assets worth billions of Euros. SmartVis will achieve this by learning, modeling, and visualizing their detailed behavior. This is possible by extending our previous award-winning work with new technologies (LearnLib, Graphviz, and Eclipse Trace Compass) to build a full modeling and visualization framework.
Application Deadline: 16.Aug.2023
27. Fully Funded PhD Position in Human-Centered AI for video games
Summary of PhD Program:
This project addresses the question of how to elicit and incorporate human feedback in the development of autonomous agents, with a specific focus on the design of believable Non-player Characters (NPCs) in video games. While NPCs typically follow pre-scripted actions or dialogue that can affect gameplay, the gaming industry has a large interest in using AI to increase the autonomy and believability of these characters.
Application Deadline: 01.Sep.2023
28. Fully Funded PhD Position in communication networks and machine learning
Summary of PhD Program:
Machine learning solutions have matured tremendously lately, but we still do not know how to learn efficiently when data and agents are spread out over large physical areas. This scenario is not uncommon, think about all the health monitoring devices we wear, or monitoring traffic in a city or crops growing on the fields. Since agents in this case need to be connected through communication networks, like 6G or software defined networks, machine learning and network design need to advance together.
Application Deadline: 15.Aug.2023
29. Fully Funded PhD Position in Enzyme design and synthesis driven by CO2 and light
Summary of PhD Program:
With a growing population and a reduction in the available natural resources on our planet, there is a great need for an innovative way of producing sustainable chemicals. The main purpose of this research project is to develop methods for sustainable enzymatic production of added-value chemicals driven by CO2 and LEDs. The position is an opportunity to join the enzyme design and engineering team in Syrén’s group to develop new-to-nature biotransformations by designer enzymes. The research area includes enzyme discovery, sequence-based enzyme design, ancestral sequence reconstruction and development of chemoenzymatic cascades, enzyme technology.
