Are you holding Master’s degree and looking for PhD positions? Uppsala University, 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 Natural Resources and Sustainable Development, focus on Biodiversity and Landscape Governance
Summary of PhD Program:
The program aims to promote and provide knowledge on sustainable and integrated practises in landscape planning and management. The PhD student will primarily work in the subproject “Transformative landscape governance pathways”, which explores questions regarding landscape and biodiversity governance and policy in general, and transformative pathways for forest, agricultural, sea and coast, urban or mountain landscapes. The work includes collaboration with other PhD students as well as senior researchers in other subprojects in LANDPATHS. The work will span from policy-related studies to participatory research with stakeholders in Sweden. The PhD student is also expected to help organising and coordinating activities in which stakeholders take part, as well as to actively contribute to communication and other outreach activities.
Last Application Date: 2022-09-30
2. PhD Position in Scientific Computing focusing on Secure Federated Machine Learning
Summary of PhD Program:
The main objective of federated machine learning is to train a global machine learning model based on data that is distributed across heterogeneous data providers, but without requiring the raw data to leave the local data provider. While the FedML paradigm has been shown to preserve confidentiality of the data between the local data providers and the global model aggregator, there are still open challenges in ensuring that the training process is secure and private against malicious data providers, as well as to monitor the integrity of the training process without having access to the local data.
Last Application Date: 2022-09-27
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3. PhD Position in Information Studies
Summary of PhD Program:
The recruited doctoral student will be working in research project The Multifaceted Life of Digital Health Records: Between Official Documentation, Personal Information and Cultural Objects as a part of a new graduate school in medical humanities at the Centre for Medical Humanities. The doctoral student is expected to conduct empirical research (incl. interviews and co-creation) in the nexus of different meanings assigned to digital health records (medical records, electronic health records) by different actors in different parts of the lifetime of the records as medical and cultural artefacts. The project is multidisciplinary and combines perspectives from medical informatics and archival and heritage studies. Supervisors of the project are professor Isto Huvila (Department of ALM) och associate professor Maria Hägglund (Department of Women’s and Children’s Health).
Last Application Date: 2022-10-07
4. Two PhD Position in Applied Geophysics
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD candidate(s) will conduct research within a series of planned projects inside and outside Sweden sponsored by a number of industry and research funding organizations with focus on reflection seismic imaging of large-scale structures and for geological carbon storage (GCS). Modern sensing methods on the surface will be experimented. The PhD candidate(s) will work within a larger research team including experts from different countries. In the continuation of the PhD study, additional experiments and imaging solutions are also envisaged.
Last Application Date: 2022-09-30
5. PhD Position in the medical humanities/ immunology
Summary of PhD Program:
The proposed project will investigate scientific understandings of the cells of the immune system and how these notions affect research and education in life sciences and health care. The objective is to determine the extent to which metaphorical images of the function of immune cells influence current research approaches in the life sciences, and education for health care professionals. Further, the project will explore the potential of alternative ‘scientific narratives’ that acknowledge the crucial functions of immune cells for development and homeostasis by formulating novel research questions on the generated multi-omics data available in the Phillipson laboratory, by collaborators and public domains.
Last Application Date: 2022-09-29
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6. PhD Position in technical development of e-Health
Summary of PhD Program:
As a PhD student, you will participate in the design, testing, and evaluation of CRI for systematic e- Health research in collaboration with system developers, researchers, healthcare staff, and representatives for participants in research studies. You will contribute to the information systems and health informatics research communities by conveying descriptive and prescriptive knowledge about designing CRI systems for e-Health research. For this position, research within e-Health with a focus on sustaining the usefulness of CRI systems for e-Health research in the academic research context is of particular interest.
Last Application Date: 2022-09-30
7. PhD Position in Physics
Summary of PhD Program:
Our research program in Chemical and Bio-Molecular Physics at the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Uppsala University focuses on understanding the fundamental properties and ultrafast processes of matter at the atomic length and time scales of Ångströms and femtoseconds. We have a leading position in the use of X-rays for probing atoms, molecules and chemical and biomolecular systems. We develop and apply novel X-ray methods and instrumentation and aim at revealing how the properties of a system result from its electronic structure and dynamics with applications in environmental, biophysical and chemical systems.
Last Application Date: 2022-10-14
8. PhD Position in electromobility
Summary of PhD Program:
The electrification of the transport sector is vital for a successful transition to a fossil-free society. A lack of capacity in the electric grid threatens to slow down the shift towards a more sustainable energy system. The project aims to study how increased demand flexibility through smart charging can benefit the different actors involved. Moreover, it aims to investigate technical possibilities and challenges with smart charging by means of tests and analyses in real environment. The research team at Uppsala university will work in tight collaboration with the industrial partners of this project, including Volvo Cars and CEVT. The project is financed by the Swedish Electromobility Centre (SEC), a national research centre for electromobility, founded by the Swedish Energy Agency in partnership with Swedish automotive industry and academia.
Last Application Date: 2022-10-18
9. PhD Position in antibiotic resistance
Summary of PhD Program:
Thomas Tängdén’s research group conducts in vitro studies on antibiotics and resistant bacteria. The purpose of the planned project is to find antibiotic combinations that are effective against multidrug-resistant bacteria and can suppress emergence of resistance. Also, we will investigate how antibiotic dosing can be optimized. In the studies, we use clinical isolates as well as laboratory strains in which we have modified the setup of genes encoding enzymatic resistance and impermeability (porin loss). The effect of antibiotics is investigated by MIC-testing, static and dynamic time-kill experiments and automated time-lapse microscopy with subsequent image analysis. The project also includes handling and analysis of whole-genome sequencing data.
Last Application Date: 2022-09-23
10. PhD Position in Economic History, within Uppsala University’s graduate programme in medical humanities
Summary of PhD Program:
Laboratories of the future? Complex buildings, flexible organizations and the research and education of life science. While research and education within the field of biomedicine are constantly evolving, they must be housed in capital-intensive, permanent physical infrastructure. Beginning in the latter part of the 20th century, notions of ‘flexible buildings’ have therefore developed alongside new ideals of ‘flexible organizations’. The purpose of this PhD project is to investigate the historical development, and consequences of, this dynamic relationship: between the ways in which biomedical research and education have been organised, and the physical environments constructed and adapted for such pursuits. It is proposed that the focus of such a study would consist of analysing the planning, funding, adaptations and uses of the laboratory facilities at Uppsala Biomedical Centre (1966-).
Last Application Date: 2022-10-07
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11. PhD Position in Chemistry with specialization Organic Chemistry
Summary of PhD Program:
PhD students with employment in our department are normally expected to teach and participate in general departmental work, such as instrument maintenance, to a level corresponding to a maximum of 20% of the employment time. The successful candidate is expected to actively engage in all aspects of the research, tasks will include the synthesis of reaction precursors and catalysts, reaction optimization and application, analysis and interpretation of the results, full characterization of new products, precise documentation, as well as reporting the results on a regular basis and forward planning.
Last Application Date: 2022-10-24
12. PhD Position in development of non-flammable electrolytes
Summary of PhD Program:
This project is part of a European research & innovation project named SuSaNa, aiming to develop Na-metal based batteries with non-flammable electrolytes. The main focus will therefore be on development and understanding of non-flammable liquid and gel electrolytes with improved safety and electrochemical properties in Na-metal based batteries. The project follows our recent studies and progresses on development of non-flammable liquid electrolytes for sodium-ion batteries. The work will mostly be to conduct experimental research including development of non-flammable liquid electrolyte, use of various electrochemical techniques (e.g. galvanostatic cycling, cyclic voltammetry, electrochemical impedance spectroscopy), and characterization of interfacial layers by analytical tools such as X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy, and mass spectroscopy.
Last Application Date: 2022-09-22
13. PhD Position in electrification of aircraft and airports
Summary of PhD Program:
In this research project, you as a doctoral student have the opportunity to contribute to research and development for future electrified and sustainable transport system, with a focus on aviation. In the future, more electrified aircraft are expected to require access to safe charging. Electric aircraft for two passengers are already available today. In the future, electric aircraft are expected to be developed and designed for more passengers. Future electric aircraft can initially go shorter distances than today’s traditional aircraft. Electric aircraft can contribute to tourism, business collaborations, goods transport, etc. The design development of electric aircraft is expected to take place together with further development of battery- and hydrogen technology. New electric aircraft open up questions regarding the future role of airports and the possibility of charging several electric aircraft in a fast, safe and efficient way based on flight schedules.
Last Application Date: 2022-10-17
14. PhD Position in Chemistry – Specializing in Molecular Biomimetics
Summary of PhD Program:
The research project is part of an EU funded network (PhotoSynH2), which aims at developing novel methods for the production of green H2 as a solar fuel. The hydrogenase enzymes are key components in any such technology, as these are central to H2 metabolism and catalyze the formation and oxidation of H2 gas. To realize their biotechnological potential, we need highly efficient hydrogenase enzymes that are well integrated into the metabolic pathways of technologically relevant host organisms. The project will address this challenge via characterization of novel examples of this diverse enzyme family, followed by their optimization via rationale design to ensure stable and high H2 productivity in photobioreactors.
Last Application Date: 2022-09-30
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15. PhD Position in Chemistry – Specializing in Microbial Chemistry
Summary of PhD Program:
The research project is part of an EU funded network (PhotoSynH2), which aims at developing novel methods for the production of green H2 as a solar fuel. The hydrogenase enzymes are key components in any such technology, as these are central to H2 metabolism and catalyze the formation and oxidation of H2 gas. To realize their biotechnological potential, we need highly efficient hydrogenase enzymes that are well integrated into the metabolic pathways of technologically relevant host organisms. The project will address this challenge via characterization of novel examples of this diverse enzyme family, followed by their optimization via rationale design to ensure stable and high H2 productivity in photobioreactors.
Last Application Date: 2022-09-30
16. PhD Position in Human-Computer Interaction
Summary of PhD Program:
The position is placed at the unit for Human-Computer Interaction at the Department of Informatics and Media, Faulty of Social Sciences, in the project “No Man’s Land: Young Women’s Mental Health” at the Department of Women’s and Children’s Health at the Faculty of Medicine, and WOMHER: Uppsala University Center for Women’s Mental Health: https://uu. see/research/womher. WOMHER is an interdisciplinary research center that promotes women’s mental health, and the project “No Man’s Land” focuses on understanding the significance of young women’s mental ill-health as well as on explanatory factors and mechanisms behind this. The project also studies the consequences of mental illness, where the aim is to contribute with both preventive and mitigating measures. The project forms an interdisciplinary base for research on prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and other societal impact and is expected to become a resource for future generations of researchers.
Last Application Date: 2022-10-14
17. PhD Position in systematic biology
Summary of PhD Program:
The Burki lab was recently awarded an ERC Consolidator grant (PlastidOrigin) that aims to study one of the most transformative events in eukaryote evolution–the origin of the photosynthetic organelles (the primary plastids). The main aims of this PhD position are to study the roles of genetic transfers in the integration of an endosymbiont into an organelle. For this we will study the lineage Paulinella–a lineage of amoebae (unicellular eukaryotes) that established primary plastids relatively recently. While most of the research on Paulinella has been done on the photosynthetic species, i.e. the species that diverged after the establishment of plastids, we will instead look at the heterotrophic species that diverged close but before plastid establishment to test the hypothesis that gene transfers facilitating the endosymbiotic integration occurred before the establishment of the plastids from varying food sources. A suite of methods will be employed, including long-read metabarcoding, transcriptomics, phylogenomics, cultivation, microscopy.
Last Application Date: 2022-10-17
