Are you holding Master’s degree and looking for PhD positions? Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden inviting online application for funded PhD Programs / fully funded PhD positions.
Interested and eligible applicants may submit their online application for PhD programs via the University’s Online Application Portal.
1. PhD Position in human geography focusing on sustainability and transitions for a changed forest landscape
Summary of PhD Program:
With climate change the risk of forest damages by for example fire, pest, and pathogens increases. There is thus a need to adjust forest management to also in the future ensure the supply of biodiversity, recreation and sustainable biomass production. The position involves work in an ongoing research project about a large-scale increase of the share of broadleaves, including fast growing broadleaves, with the purpose to contribute towards a transition towards a sustainable forest management and energy system. A large-scale transition of forest management will be affected by the forest owner’s willingness to adapt but also to what extent the change is perceived to be legitimate by society.
Last Application Date: 2022-10-12
2. PhD Position in medical science with a focus on virology
Summary of PhD Program:
The overall aim of the project is to gain an in depth understanding of the mechanisms of virus infection in mosquitoes. The project is encompassing e.g. determination of the vector competence of mosquitos for different viruses, cellular tropism, gene expression, and immune responses at both cellular and molecular level. Co-infection in the mosquito with other microorganisms will also be studied. The study will employ advanced, virological and molecular techniques, e.g. single cell sequencing. Results from this study can be applicable in prevention and control strategies for vector-borne diseases.
Last Application Date: 2022-10-13
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3. PhD Position in Comparative Political Sociology of Climate Policymaking
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD project will be carried out as part of the larger research project “In Search of Decoupling.” The candidate will conduct case studies with the purpose of understanding how some societies have succeeded in mitigating some environmental problems, including climate change to varying extents. Under what conditions have these successes, including key policy decisions that contributed to them, been possible? And to what degree have these achievements and policy choices reflected public opinion, come at an economic cost, and/or influenced levels and types of employment?
Last Application Date: 2022-10-15
4. PhD Position in Medical Science with an orientation towards Pharmacology
Summary of PhD Program:
Cannabinoid CB1 and dopamine D2 receptors can physically interact to form CB1/D2 heteromers that could constitute important therapeutic targets for a wide range of CNS disorders. However, the pharmacological importance of this interaction is yet to be determined on a molecular level. The main hypothesis we are addressing is that bidirectional allosteric interactions within CB1/D2 heteromers have functional consequences for the activity of receptor complexes in both the healthy and diseased brain. Hence, the main goal of this project is to use pharmacology to characterize the effects of different CB receptor ligands on CB1/D2 heteromer-specific signalling. The project will take advantage of the key strengths of different model systems – from transfected human cell lines, mouse/human stem cell-derived neuronal models, to a pharmacological model of schizophrenia in vivo using zebrafish.
Last Application Date: 2022-10-16
5. PhD Position in Computing Science with focus on responsible machine learning
Summary of PhD Program:
This project aims to investigate, develop and integrate responsible AI framework with learning from multiple representations by taking advantage of the complementarity, the redundancy, and specific characteristics of different representations. LMR seeks to improve performance as well as ensure responsible learning from multiple representations in comparison to methods operating on a single representation only. Typical examples of LMR include the combination of numerical and symbolic formalisms, the representation of data and models on different levels of abstraction, and the combination of different types of supervision of the learner.
Last Application Date: 2022-10-17
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6. PhD Position in chemistry, focus organic chemistry
Summary of PhD Program:
The main objective with this doctoral research project is to develop these molecules further in terms of their activity and selectivity but also to introduce chemical groups/features that make them more valuable as research tools with the aim to unravel the exact mode of action. The work thus mainly concerns synthetic organic chemistry and method development. However, because the evaluation of the compounds activity and selectivity are so central to the project you will also learn different methods to test the compounds. You will also attend group meetings with focus on the design and synthesis of the molecules as well as project meetings with collaborators where the use of the molecules in biological studies will be discussed.
Last Application Date: 2022-10-21
7. PhD Position in Experimental Physics
Summary of PhD Program:
The selected candidate will work within the research project ‘Relativistic nanophotonics’. The unique combination of sub-two optical cycle laser pulse duration (<5 fs) and ultra-high intensities (>10^18 W/cm^2) – more details can be found here D. E. Rivas et al., Sci. Rep. 7, 5224 (2017) – opens the way towards field-controlled relativistic interactions. When nanometer-sized solid targets are used, the so-called relativistic nanophotonics regime – D. E. Cardenas et al., Sci. Rep. 9, 7321 (2019) –, these interactions involve the acceleration of electrons with highest fields beyond TV/m strength and shortest duration below 1 fs.
Last Application Date: 2022-10-21
8. PhD Position in Applied Physics with focus on laser-based combustion diagnostics
Summary of PhD Program:
Combustion of solid biomass together with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) has the potential to drastically reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from renewable heat and electricity production. The most promising way to achieve this is to implement oxy-fuel biomass combustion and CCS in existing plants for heat and power generation and waste incineration. Oxy-fuel combustion produces a flue gas that consists of highly concentrated CO2, which can be directly compressed at low cost for permanent storage. However, systematic experimental studies of solid biomass oxy-fuel combustion, and studies on larger scale are scarce. The objective of this project is to acquire essential knowledge to implement BECCS in the energy system.
Last Application Date: 2022-10-28
9. PhD Position in Medical Sciences with a research profile in Radiation Physics
Summary of PhD Program:
The main goal of this PhD project is to decrease the physical uncertainties in radiation therapy with protons, which lead to unnecessary irradiation of healthy tissue and thus potential negative side-effects for patients after cancer treatment. To achieve this goal, we will explore the possibilities to estimate human tissue characteristics with high accuracy using PCCT image data and machine learning. Through better knowledge of tissue characteristics, more accurate determination and modelling of proton range can be achieved in proton therapy treatment planning. Furthermore, this project will also cover a comparison between physical models, previously developed by the research group, and machine learning for evaluation of the impact of more accurate quantitative methods in radiation oncology.
Last Application Date: 2022-10-30
10. PhD Position in chemistry with a focus in biogeochemistry
Summary of PhD Program:
This research project fully supports a PhD student to study mechanisms for formation of methylmercury in anaerobic microbial biofilms. This work will focus on experimental molecular level studies on mercury uptake and methylation in biofilms. The spread of mercury in ecosystems constitutes a severe threat to wildlife and human health. The problems are largely caused by formation of neurotoxic methylmercury which accumulates in aquatic food webs. Methylmercury is formed intracellular in a select group of anaerobe microorganisms by methylation of inorganic mercury. However, we still lack a detailed understanding of the molecular mechanisms for cellular uptake and methylation of mercury.
Last Application Date: 2022-10-30
