Are you holding Master’s degree and looking for fully funded PhD positions? Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 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 Area of Edge Intelligence for Dynamic Digital Twins
Summary of PhD Program:
The Department of Electronic systems (IES) is looking for a Ph.D. candidate in the area of dynamically updated digital twins for a sustainable and carbon-neutral mobility future. A digital twin is defined as a virtual representation of a physical asset or process enabled through data and simulations for real-time prediction, optimization, monitoring, control, and improved decision making. For real-time operation, the twin requires continuous updating with new measurements from its observation platforms. However, different sensors produce significantly different amounts of data, with different time-criticality and importance for the twin.
Application Deadline: 28th August 2023
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Secure, Human-Centered XR Experiences in Critical Sectors
Summary of PhD Program:
Efforts to strengthen cybersecurity and resilience of critical sectors such as healthcare, smart districts, or manufacturing go hand in hand with technological innovations and novel approaches and measures.Technologies enabling remote presence like Extended Reality (XR), encompassing the whole spectrum of immersive technologies (augmented reality, AR; virtual reality, VR; mixed reality, MR) are seen as a key enabler allowing to reduce physical human involvement, for instance in dangerous or life-threatening environments. XR is also expected to support new ways of professional collaboration and communication or to create new opportunities for training and education, like increase preparedness through VR trainings.
Application Deadline: 28th August 2023
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Machine Learning and Signal Processing
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD project will focus on machine learning and signal processing techniques for effective analysis of massive-size geophysical data. The goal is to develop algorithms for classification and predictions that enable early warning systems in various geosciences applications. Special focus will be devoted on the interpretability of the predictions.
Application Deadline: 28th August 2023
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Fair and Sustainable Biometrics
Summary of PhD Program:
As a PERSEUS PhD candidate, you will be employed by NTNU. During your stay, you will do a 2–3 month international stay and a 1-2 month national stay with one of the PERSEUS partners. This will allow you to extend your network within academia and industry, and to learn about your research area from an academic, innovation, and societal perspective. We are looking for PhD candidates from all nationalities, who want to contribute to our quest to create knowledge for a better world. PERSEUS recruits candidates according to the EU’s mobility rule, i.e. applicants cannot have spent more than 12 months in Norway during the last 3 years, be within the first four years of their research careers and not yet be awarded a doctoral degree.
Application Deadline: 28th August 2023
5. Fully Funded PhD Position in AI for Databases
Summary of PhD Program:
The aim of this PhD position is to work with research topics at the interface between machine learning and databases, and develop techniques that use AI to improve efficiency of database algorithms or database systems. Examples of topics in this direction from recent years include learned indexes, machine learning for query optimization, data cleaning, and algorithm selection. The PhD student will work with challenges related to these or other emerging topics within AI for databases, in cooperation with industry partners in the NorwAI research center. The research outcome is expected to produce high-quality publications in top database/data mining venues.
Application Deadline: 28th August 2023
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in social studies
Summary of PhD Program:
The position of Research Fellow is a temporary position for a period of three years. The position is an educational position that will give promising researchers the opportunity for professional development. The research field for the position is within social science, focusing on the development of democratic citizenship and social science didactics within the Norwegian education system.
Application Deadline: 21st August 2023
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in data practices and information systems
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD-project aims to produce new empirical knowledge about data practices and use of information systems among managers in the Norwegian primary/municipal health services. Knowledge about how healthcare managers use data materials in their work is important for future health services to meet high demands in a time of resource scarcity. The project will also contribute to conceptual and theoretical developments about data practices and information systems as a particular challenge for healthcare managers in the primary (municipal) health service.
Application Deadline: 20th August 2023
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in sediment-large element interaction
Summary of PhD Program:
In this specific PhD project, the interaction of larger sized elements with the sediment particles (such as rocks used for coastal and river bank protection) will be described using the discrete element method (DEM) including collision physics, incorporating element contact, the direction of forcing due to collision, and the orientation of the involved elements. Together with the underlying high-resolution and turbulence resolving flow solver as well as the particle-based sediment transport, the large elements will be connected to the hydrodynamics model through direct forcing.
Application Deadline: 20th August 2023
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in particle resolving soil-sediment interaction
Summary of PhD Program:
In this specific PhD project, the sediment dynamics are approached from a soil mechanical viewpoint where the influence of the hydrodynamic loading and erosion on the soil continuum, the slope stability and the stresses in the soil continuum are studied. The general idea of the particle-in-cell methods is followed to discretize the soil continuum using Lagrangian points and a Cartesian background mesh. The soil model will consider strain-rate effects to capture the slope failure and slide mechanism encountered in scour holes due to excessive sediment erosion. Together with the underlying high-resolution and turbulence-resolving flow solver as well as the particle-based sediment transport, this will take a step towards a more realistic representation soil-sediment interaction processes.
Application Deadline: 20th August 2023
10. Fully Funded PhD Position in Predictive Digital Twin for Offshore Wind Energy
Summary of PhD Program:
The Norwegian government is presenting a major initiative in 2023 to promote offshore wind power. The plan is to install 1,500 offshore turbines that will produce a total of 30GW energy by 2040. Even though considered as a promising sustainable energy source, wind power is highly intermittent and non-dispatchable because it is a variable power source. Digital twin is an enabling technology to accurately forecast energy production from a wind farm by providing a comprehensive and detailed understanding of the behaviour of the wind farm and its components under different weather conditions and operational scenarios. The aim of the research is to leverage digital twin technology for offshore wind farms to enable accurate wind energy forecast through modelling, simulation, and optimization of wind farms’ behavior under uncertain weather conditions and operational scenarios.
Application Deadline: 20th August 2023
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in HISTORY
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD project should investigate how the human relationship with the natural environment of Mjøsa has changed over time. Among the topics that can be investigated are what kind of ideas of nature, and particularly of Mjøsa as a large body of water, enabled its use as a dumping site? How and when did concerns first arise over the deteriorating health of the lake and its potential impact on the human population in the region? When and why did such concerns lead to changes in behavior, political action or regulation at a local, regional and national levels? How does this fit into a broader international history of environmental mis(use) and interventions?
Application Deadline: 20th August 2023
12. Fully Funded PhD Position in Modelling Capital Dynamics for Resource Efficiency
Summary of PhD Program:
The aim of the work is to improve the empirical understanding of how materials are used to produce machinery and equipment and how this machinery and equipment contributes to the generation of welfare. Ultimately, disused machinery is to be recycled, and we would like to understand how much material will become available at the end of life. The work will be based on various statistical data sources including those of national economic and environmental accounts, geological surveys, and industry surveys. May also provide recommendations for how to harmonize data collection to trace the attainment of circular economy objectives.
Application Deadline: 17th August 2023
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in semantic rich digital twins from 3D Lidar point clouds data
Summary of PhD Program:
In this project, a novel framework will be developed to generate digital twin with detailed geometries, attributes, and semantic information from laser scanning point clouds data. Among others, new deep learning-based algorithms for semantic segmentation and 3D outline extraction will be proposed for traffic related objects (i.e. traffic signs, road marks, urban facilities, etc.) in urban area. This will be integrated together with the existing work for building reconstruction and individual tree detection (ITD) into the framework, so that 3D digital models can be generated with high quality and efficiency.
Application Deadline: 15th August 2023
14. Fully Funded PhD Position in Sociology or Political Science
Summary of PhD Program:
The position is connected to the research of CHAIN (Centre for Global Health Inequalities Research). CHAIN brings together researchers from diverse regions and disciplines, public health experts, the UN system and civil society organizations, to examine the causes and magnitude of health inequalities, and to identify solutions to decrease these inequalities. It aims to empower governments, businesses and civil society to act on evidence-based solutions to increase health equity.
Application Deadline: 15th August 2023
15. Fully Funded PhD Position in Climate Change Mitigation in the Aviation Sector
Summary of PhD Program:
The position will be part of the broader work in the Norwegian Centre for Energy Transition Strategies (FME NTRANs) on climate change mitigation in the transport sector. The objective of the research is to identify climate change and air pollution mitigating pathways for regional and global segments of the aviation sector. This includes investigation of operational, technological and demand side scenarios. The research will extend on the existing AviTEAM modelling frameworks, that combine engineering models, combined with ADS-B data to perform geospatially explicit emissions modeling serving as inputs to Atmospheric Chemistry and Earth system modeling. Key tasks for the PhD position involve applications of the existing framework and advancement in the interface towards integrated assessment and energy system models for scenario analysis.
Application Deadline: 14th August 2023
16. Fully Funded PhD Position in Hydrogen-Based Zero-Carbon Marine Power Systems
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD position at the Department of Marine Technology is dedicated to the development of zero-carbon marine power systems based on hydrogen fuel. The position is connected to the Centre for environment-friendly energy research – FME HYDROGENi[MZ1] as a cross-disciplinary effort between research areas “Transport and storage” and “Maritime end-use”. The research will be performed in collaboration with the project partners and other researchers at NTNU and SINTEF. Given the emerging and dynamic research field, the PhD scope may cover flexible research themes including both onboard power systems and port infrastructure, such as modeling and design of marine power and energy system, energy management and optimization for decarbonization, green port energy system, and smart hydrogen integration. The detailed scope of PhD will be defined based on the background and interest of the successful candidate.
Application Deadline: 10th August 2023
17. Fully Funded PhD Position in Learning Control Policies for Evolutionary Design of Aerial Robots
Summary of PhD Program:
Aerial robotics have scored some major successes, yet – interestingly – they have long employed designs that merely represent miniaturizations of manned aviation concepts or have resorted to biomimic designs. However, an alternative paradigm is possible if we combine the forces of evolutionary robot design (airframe, sensing) and data-driven navigation policy learning in an iterative loop that can allow us to identify the novel designs and autonomy functionalities necessary towards aerial robots that are best tailored to their environment. Within this broader scope, the PhD candidate in this position will work on the challenging problems of defining the process for evolving rotorcraft-like aerial robot designs (genotype/phenotype and evolutionary algorithms) in combination with “closing the design loop” through reinforcement learning for the stabilization control of the dynamics of such novel designs.
Application Deadline: 6th August 2023
18. Fully Funded PhD Position in Developmental Neuroscience
Summary of PhD Program:
The Quattrocolo group at the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience has an opening for a PhD student in developmental neuroscience. The main research interest of the lab is the development of cortical circuits, specifically investigating the role of different cell types in the wiring of neuronal networks. The project will focus on the development and the diversity of GABAergic interneurons in the entorhinal cortex. We aim to combine different techniques, such as immunohistochemistry, transcriptomic analysis, cell-type specific viral vectors and transgenic mouse lines. The position is a full time (100 %) position, with a 3-years contract, and the position should start before the end of 2023.
Application Deadline: 30th September 2023
19. Fully Funded PhD Position in Digitalization of Healthcare Services
Summary of PhD Program:
The position is connected to the newly established project Sustainable Digital Transformations (SustainDiT). The PhD candidate is expected to contribute to deliverables in this project. The academic discipline is computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW) and information systems (IS). Envisaged publications will be in high-quality journals within the CSCW, IS and related disciplines. The research will be based on real-world case studies from the Norwegian healthcare services, with a focus on digitalization aspects such as healthcare platforms, use of algorithms and sensor data in healthcare. The candidate is expected to contribute to dissemination and publication in healthcare-related channels in addition to the above-mentioned disciplinary journals.
Application Deadline: 22nd September 2023
20. Fully Funded PhD Position in Cryptography Engineering
Summary of PhD Program:
The field of cryptography has shown to be the key enabling technology in securing communication systems. Cryptographic functionality realized in microcontrollers and embedded systems has become essential to our daily use of communication networks. The theory and practice of engineering of cryptographic systems include encryption/decryption, authentication, digital signatures, random number generators, and their utilization in practical security protocols. New cryptographic algorithms propounding security against quantum computers are under development and being standardized internationally, denoted quantum-safe algorithms. However, plain implementations turn out to be vulnerable to various physical and electrical signal processing attacks, denoted side-channel attacks.
Application Deadline: 15th September 2023
21. Fully Funded PhD Position in Environmental Psychology
Summary of PhD Program:
The Department of Psychology announces a PhD position in Environmental Psychology with a focus on the role of social processes in the energy behavior domainfor a period of 3 years. This is an educational position that shall provide promising research recruits the opportunity for professional development through studies towards a PhD. The position is connected to the PhD-program at the Faculty of Social and Educational Sciences. The working place will be at the Department of Psychology.
Application Deadline: 14th September 2023
22. Fully Funded PhD Position in Environmental Psychology
Summary of PhD Program:
The Department of Psychology announces a PhD position in Environmental Psychology for a period of 3 years. This is an educational position that shall provide promising research recruits the opportunity for professional development through studies towards a PhD. The position is connected to the PhD-program at the Faculty of Social and Educational Sciences, the working place will be at the Department of Psychology.
Application Deadline: 14th September 2023
23. Fully Funded PhD Position in Chalk mechanics
Summary of PhD Program:
We have a vacancy for a 3-year PhD fellowship at the Department of Geoscience and Petroleum (IGP). The position is within the area of mechanics of chalk for wellbore stability, chalk influx and solids production, and methods of failure mitigation. The study can be experimental, analytical, or numerical depending on the background, qualifications, and interests of the candidate.
Application Deadline: 3rd September 2023
24. Fully Funded PhD Position in Environment
Summary of PhD Program:
Aerial robotics have scored significant successes yet – interestingly – they have long employed designs that merely represent miniaturizations of manned aviation concepts or have resorted to biomimetic concepts. An alternative paradigm however is possible if we combine the forces of evolutionary robot design (airframe, sensing) and data-driven navigation policy learning in an iterative loop that can allow us to identify the novel designs and autonomy functionalities necessary towards aerial robots that are best tailored to their environment or a certain task of interest.
Application Deadline: 3rd September 2023
25. Fully Funded PhD Position in SUBPRO-Zero Team
Summary of PhD Program:
SUBPRO-Zero (SUstainable Bridge PROgram towards Zero emissions) is a research center that funds 10-12 PhD students and postdocs in the next 3-years. Its mission is to conduct fundamental and applied research to contribute to net-zero emissions in the offshore industry.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
26. Fully Funded PhD Position in HYDROGENi team
Summary of PhD Program:
HYDROGENi’s main objective is to accelerate the research and innovation needed to deliver a new hydrogen-based energy and technology export industry for Norway, reducing emissions while boosting industry competence and creating new green jobs.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
27. Fully Funded PhD Position in Semantics-aware Exploration
Summary of PhD Program:
Robotic inspection of large-scale marine vessels, such as tanker ships or floating production systems necessitates efficient behaviours that are attuned to the specific information that certain structures of the facility offer for the assessment of its overall health. However, existing autonomy methods fail to incorporate the specific information associated with certain “semantics” in the environment (e.g., structures in the context of marine vessel inspection). Therefore, the state-of-the-art in tasks such as exploration or inspection treats the environment in a unified way without explicit focus on the areas that truly matter from the perspective of top-down motivations (e.g., for an inspection mission).
Application Deadline: 1st September 2023
28. Fully Funded PhD Position in Redefining Multi-Robot Search And Rescue Autonomy
Summary of PhD Program:
Search And Rescue (SAR) has long represented a core challenge and opportunity for robotics. Despite the efforts, however, robots are rarely and sparsely used in real-life SAR operations. Beyond logistical aspects or issues of social acceptance the fact is that SAR tasks are extremely demanding, time-critical and often take place in particularly harsh environments. Building upon our experiences from the DARPA Subterranean Challenge, and within the scope of a new soon-to-start European project on Search and Rescue, this PhD position calls to redefine how diverse multi-robot teams undertake SAR missions autonomously. Focusing on the collaboration of legged and flying robots, in this research we seek to equip such robots with semantic reasoning, enhanced multi-modal perception and the planning & decision-making autonomy that shall render robots “mission-complete” for real-life complex SAR missions. Alongside algorithmic contributions, there is a major element of field deployments within the scope of this position.
Application Deadline: 1st September 2023
29. Fully Funded PhD Position in Human Geography
Summary of PhD Program:
The goal of this position is to complete a doctoral education leading to the attainment of a doctoral degree. The successful candidate is expected to develop a PhD project that investigates the interplay between policies for green energy transitions in Norway and the EU, and the extraction of critical minerals in the Global South. Of particular importance is examining the role of civil society organizations in shaping political and corporate governance strategies concerning energy transitions and mineral extraction.
Application Deadline: 1st September 2023
30. Fully Funded PhD Position in Simulation and analysis of drop-turbulence interactions
Summary of PhD Program:
The understanding of droplet dynamics in turbulent flow is important for a variety of industrial processes. In this project we are interested in the detailed analyses of drop-turbulence interactions. We are particularly interested in understanding the drop-turbulence interactions in the cases where such interactions result in breakup of droplets. Numerical simulations of turbulent flow (resolved scales) with dispersed droplets (described by the phase field method) can provide the necessary flow fields needed to analyse the drop-turbulence interactions. Canonical flows such as the channel will be adopted for the multiphase flow simulations.
Application Deadline: 31st August 2023
31. Fully Funded PhD Position in Advance Machine Learning for Face Presentation Attack Detection
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD position is available at the Institute of information security and communication technology (IIK), NTNU, Gjøvik in the field of face presentation attack detection (also known as spoofing attack detection). The primary focus of research activities includes the development of advance machine learning algorithms to achieve the scalable, generalisable and reliable presentation attack detection algorithms for face especially on the smartphones.
Application Deadline: 31st August 2023
32. Fully Funded PhD Position in Mass Transfer in Gas Fermentation Bioreactors
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD position is part of a research-based innovation centre on industrial biotechnology (SFI-IB) which is constituted by universities, research organizations, and industry. This PhD project focuses on gas fermentation where gases with low solubility challenge economical and viable large-scale operation of the multiphase bioreactor. To realize new viable industrial-scale fermentation processes, the multiphase bioreactor must be designed and operated such that the mass transfer between bubbles and liquid is optimized. This project aims to use both experimental and computational techniques to understand the favorable operation window for gas fermentation processes.
Application Deadline: 31st August 2023
33. Fully Funded PhD Position in STS
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD project is part of FME NorthWind (Norwegian Research Centre on Wind Energy) that has as aim to bring forward outstanding research and innovation to create jobs and grow exports, and to facilitate the sustainable development of wind power. The Centre is led by SINTEF, with research partners NTNU (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), UiO (University of Oslo), NINA (The Norwegian Institute for Nature Research), and NGI (Norwegian Geotechnical Institute). The Centre involves more than 40 national and international industrial partners that, together with the research partners, comprise a world leading consortium for the development of a sustainable wind energy future.
Application Deadline: 31st August 2023
34. Fully Funded PhD Position in Atomic Scale Photonics
Summary of PhD Program:
The aim of the candidate is to design, study and assemble nanoscale photonic devices that will utilise molecules to detect radiation in atomic-size volumes. Main focus will be theoretical and experimental understanding of nanophotonic devices as well as optical characterisation using advanced spectroscopic modules. The research will be performed at the Department of Electronic Systems, NTNU and supported by scientific partners in Belgium, Switzerland and Greece. The applicant will be encouraged to spend short exchange visits with the scientific partners.
Application Deadline: 31st August 2023
35. Fully Funded PhD Position in Digital Twins
Summary of PhD Program:
This project is part of “Mission Mjøsa”, a large interdisciplinary project that is led by NTNU and the Innlandet county. The aim of the project is to integrate data acquired from a variety of imaging sensors (e.g., drone, surface or underwater robots equipped with cameras or sonar devices) into eXtended reality environments (virtual reality, augmented reality, mixed reality) in the form of a dynamic digital twin of the lake Mjøsa. A combination of several data/image processing methods combined with novel computer vision approaches based on deep learning will be used to build and deploy the 3D digital twin for visualisation and analyses in various contexts. The 3D model will be attributed with the capability of receiving and updating data from various platforms.
Application Deadline: 28th August 2023
36. Fully Funded PhD Position in Statistics
Summary of PhD Program:
The position is associated with the Centre for Geophysical Forecasting (CGF) at NTNU, which is one of the Norwegian centres for research-driven innovation, funded by the research council of Norway and industry partners. The goal of the CGF is to become a world-leading research and innovation hub for the geophysical sciences, creating innovative new products and services in earth sensing and forecasting domains. As the global ecosystem enters a period of dramatic change, there is a strong need for accurate monitoring and forecasting of the Earth. Statistical modelling and methodologies play important roles here, enabling reliable predictions and uncertainty quantification that aid decision support.
Application Deadline: 28th August 2023
37. Fully Funded PhD Position in Dynamic Graph Analytics
Summary of PhD Program:
For many important applications, data is presented as graphs, with dynamic relationships between nodes. Examples include graphs representing the power grid, financial transaction relationships, social networks, and transportation networks. The nodes in the graphs can also have attached dynamic data, for example time series, adding further challenges. The PhD student will develop techniques for efficient analytics on dynamic graphs, in cooperation with industry partners in the NorwAI research center. The expected results include prototypes in collaboration with industry partners as well as high-quality publications in top database/data mining/machine learning venues.
Application Deadline: 28th August 2023
38. Fully Funded PhD Position in Area of Radio Channel Measurements and Modeling in Maritime Scenarios
Summary of PhD Program:
With insights gained from measurements, the main objective of the research is to identify current solutions’ weaknesses and suggest improvements, design concepts, and deployment strategies for large antenna maritime communication systems, in collaboration with SINTEF Digital and Telia. As part of the research activities, you will collaborate actively with some of our partners. Also, you will have the opportunity to be affiliated with the IoT@NTNU and with the Norwegian Open AI lab, and will be encouraged to have a research stay with one of the collaborating universities outside Norway during the research period.
