If you’re a Masters degree holder and seeking Fully Funded PhD Programs, Umeå University, Sweden has several online applications open for PhD programs. Explore the PhD opportunities across diverse research areas and submit your application soon.
1. Fully Funded PhD Position in Experimental Physics
Summary of PhD Program:
The ‘Ultrafast Nanoscience’ group at Umeå University is looking for a highly motivated PhD candidate interested in performing research on ultrafast spectroscopy in condensed matter nanosystems. The project interfaces exciting fields of research, including ultrafast science, photonics and magnetism, with an overarching goal to understand the dynamics of electronic degrees of freedom (charges and spins) in nanostructured materials.
The PhD student will study the physical mechanisms underlying light-matter interactions in nanoscale magnetic materials. By combining time-resolved (pump-probe) spectroscopy, finite element method and micromagnetic modelling, the candidate will design and realize plasmonic excitations affecting magnetic phenomena on ultrafast timescales. The project will disclose novel mechanisms which might have a huge impact on forthcoming light-driven data processing technologies.
Application Deadline: 2024-06-30
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Medical Science
Summary of PhD Program:
The main goal of the project is to develop an AI system for rehabilitation of patients with impaired arm and hand function. At the hand surgery clinic in Umeå, patients with impaired function in their arm and hand are treated. This may include traumatic amputation injuries as well as congenital absence or underdevelopment of a part of the upper extremity, a condition sometimes referred to as dysmelia. Injuries to the arm’s nerve plexus (plexus injury), or other nerves, can lead to a dramatic reduction in motor functions in the arm and hand.
Application Deadline: 2024-06-30
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Mathematics focusing on geometric deep learning
Summary of PhD Program:
Deep learning has enjoyed tremendous success on an impressive number of complex problems. However, the fundamental mathematical understanding of deep learning models is still incomplete, presenting exciting research problems spanning areas such as differential geometry, numerical analysis, and dynamical systems. Neural ordinary differential equations (NODEs) mark a recent advance in geometric deep learning, the pursuit to incorporate symmetries and non-Euclidean structures in machine learning using geometrical principles. NODEs describe the dynamics of information propagating through neural networks in the limit of infinite depth using ordinary differential equations (ODEs) on manifolds and offer several appealing properties.
Application Deadline: 2024-06-10
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Mathematics focusing on complex geometry and optimal transport
Summary of PhD Program:
In the 80’s and 90’s a surprising phenomenon was observed by physicists: It seemed like certain complicated geometric objects (Calabi-Yau manifolds) appeared in pairs, one taking the form of a mirror image of the other. The phenomenon was dubbed mirror symmetry and similarly as for other duality principles in mathematics, for example the duality of time and frequency in Fourier analysis, researchers quickly realized it could be very useful. An important branch of research with the aim of understanding mirror symmetry is the SYZ-conjecture, which gives a detailed description of a conjectural structure in Calabi-Yau manifolds. To show that this description is true has turned out to be very difficult.
Application Deadline: 2024-06-10
5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Experimental Physics with focus on Optical Frequency Comb Spectroscopy
Summary of PhD Program:
We are now seeking a PhD student to work on the project aimed at high-resolution broadband spectroscopy of molecules of importance in astrophysics. Satellite- and ground-based observations of hot-Jupiter exoplanets revealed the presence of molecular species in their atmospheres. The observed spectra carry information about the composition, conditions and photo-chemistry in the exoplanetary atmospheres. To extract this information, accurate theoretical models of high-temperature spectra are needed. These, in turn, must be verified by data obtained from high-precision laboratory measurements. Such data are missing for many molecular species, because high-temperature spectra are difficult to obtain and very congested, and therefore hard to analyze.
Application Deadline: 2024-06-10
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6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Chemistry, with a specialization in the structural biology of viruses
Summary of PhD Program:
In your PhD studies, you will carry out research aimed at dissecting how virus particles assemble. You will characterize multi-component complexes involved in the assembly of viruses from the family Pneumoviridae and compare these to related viral families. Using a multi-modal structural biology and biophysics approach you will analyze structure and dynamics of these complexes to dissect the steps of viral assembly. You will employ both reduced in vitro systems to gain high resolution information, as well as large assemblies to gain ultrastructural insight. You will be provided opportunities to learn operation of cryogenic electron microscopes, 3D structure refinement, and model refinement. You will characterize interactions of viral proteins with lipids and their crosstalk with other binding events. The results of the project will provide a significant advance in our understanding of how virus building blocks come together to produce pathogenic progeny.
Application Deadline: 2024-06-03
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in medical sciences, occupational and environmental medicine
Summary of PhD Program:
Cardiovascular diseases are one of the four most important diseases for the global burden of disease (non-communicable diseases) and is currently the leading cause of death. Both air pollution and physical inactivity are among the 10 leading risk factors according to the WHO. Air pollution as a result of vehicular traffic is a significant cause of the cardiovascular effects of morbidity and premature death resulting from exposure to particles. A large part of the dose was obtained in the home because infiltration is high in buildings. The exposure to the highest levels, however, occurs in a traffic environment. Motorized transport increases physical inactivity which plays a significant role in the development of chronic diseases.
Application Deadline: 2024-05-31
8. Fully Funded PhD Position in chemistry with a specialization in biochemistry
Summary of PhD Program:
In your PhD studies, you will use molecular biology/biochemistry and analytical chemistry approaches to characterize the glycosylation patterns that are prevalent in surface proteins of one of the major species groups of the human microbiome (species of the Bacteroidota phylum). This will involve using mass spectrometry and NMR based approaches, as well as synthetic biology techniques, to gain molecular insight into this protein modification. You will also identify and characterize the enzymatic pathways responsible for this modification. You will learn how to use advanced bacterial culture conditions to grow the species of the human gut microbiome in the absence of oxygen. You will also learn how to analyze large datasets.
Application Deadline: 2024-05-31
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in medical sciences, Biomedical Engineering
Summary of PhD Program:
In this research project, the relationship between DBS, treatment outcomes in people with ET and underlying mechanisms is investigated. Within the research project, movement measurement (with motion sensors and optical motion capture systems) and brain imaging with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) are used to better understand the relationship between electrode placement, stimulation settings, treatment results and the patient’s specific motor dysfunction at brain and body level. This research is expected to give keys to more effective DBS treatments for ET and a better overall understanding of the disease.
Application Deadline: 2024-05-31
10. Fully Funded PhD Position in physical geography, with a focus on fluvial geomorphology and ice dynamics
Summary of PhD Program:
In the project “Flood Seasons: Impact of seasonality shifts of flooding and ice on river dynamics” we aim to assess how current and future changes in the flooding and ice regime in Nordic rivers impact streambank erosion and sediment transport. In high-latitude and high-altitude rivers, winter ice cover and its break-up can have a large impact on bank erosion and sediment transport. Climate change will affect the ice regime by decreasing the duration of ice cover, altering the number of 0° C-crossings and thus ice break-up events, and change the timing of ice break-up/cover in relation to high flows. In order to understand how climate change will affect ice-related bank erosion and sediment transport, this project will combine various methods, including environmental seismology, river-ice modelling, evaluating historical ice cover data, and field work to examine ice- versus flood-induced bank erosion.
Application Deadline: 2024-05-23
