If you’re a Masters degree holder and seeking Fully Funded PhD Programs, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway 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 Project management for sustainable health care environments
Summary of PhD Program:
We are looking for a PhD candidate with a passion for sustainability and eagerness to develop deeper understanding of how practice can continue to implement sustainability in complex building construction projects. Our focus is on how hospitals in Norway can move in a more sustainable direction when financial resources are restricted and implement changes that ensure that built health care environments contribute to a sustainable, circular and regenerative world. Relevant themes for this PhD candidate include decision-making, users’ needs, innovation, organisational learning and the like.
Application Deadline: 2nd September 2024
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Environmental Humanities, Language Education and Artificial Intelligence
Summary of PhD Program:
Although AI has the potential to be a tool in climate modeling and remediation efforts, its extractive resource and supply chain costs, e-waste pathways, and carbon footprint actively contribute to pollution and global warming. This project examines how language education can be a site of critical information literacy around environmental climate research and the cost/benefits of AI technologies. The “Climate Change, Language Education, and AI” project explores how AI ed-tech (e.g., text-to-image generators DALL-E/MidJourney) influences students’ epistemic beliefs about environmental climate research and (mis)information in English in the school while also investigating the pedagogical potential of current trends in AI-climate-related natural sciences and humanities projects (e.g., biodiversity monitoring, pollution detection, AI in eco-literature, etc.).
Application Deadline: 2nd September 2024
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3. 02 Fully Funded PhD Position in Modern European Migration History
Summary of PhD Program:
The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU, Trondheim) is offering two PhD positions within the Department of Modern History and Society. These positions are part of the ERC project “InternalFortress: Regulating European Freedom of Movement within the Nation-State, 1950-1980,” which will trace the history of migration as part of the early process of European integration. Each PhD position will focus on one national case study in either France or West Germany, and applicants should specify which case they would like to examine in the research statement.
Application Deadline: 1st September 2024
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in artistic entrepreneurship
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD position will offer the successful candidate a unique opportunity to get involved in artistic research at the same time as they investigate the possibilities for entrepreneurship and innovation across disciplines with an artistic starting point. By building a bridge between the expertise at research environments in the NTNU department of design and the Trondheim academy of Fine art, the position will provide a comprehensive framework for examining the role of the creatives as entrepreneurs and change-makers in today’s society.
Application Deadline: 25th August 2024
5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Reference Systems for a Cyber-Physical Range
Summary of PhD Program:
Cyber Physical Systems are integral to Critical Infrastructures; however, their architectural and operational features are inadequately represented in current cyber ranges. These ranges are often limited in scope or intentionally focused on specific sections of target systems. The intended utilization of the physical reference environments examined, modeled, and integrated in this study will serve two purposes. These include functioning as educational and outreach demonstrators, as well as serving as experimental platforms for research and training endeavors. The research will be carried out within the context of SFI NORCICS, the research-based innovation Norwegian Center for Cybersecurity in Critical Sectors.
Application Deadline: 24th August 2024
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6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Aging Models and Reliability of Extruded HVDC Cables for Offshore Power
Summary of PhD Program:
The lack of established physics based ageing models for extruded HVDC cables presents a challenge in ensuring their long-term reliability. While extruded cable insulation for AC has been in use for decades, directly applying that knowledge to HVDC stresses is not straightforward. Understanding the intrinsic thermo-electric ageing mechanisms specific to HVDC cables is crucial for predicting their lifespan, which can extend up to 40 years or more. Furthermore, contaminants from production (e.g. scorch, cross linking by-products, protrusions from semicons etc.) may have a large impact on the ageing/degradation of the insulation.
Application Deadline: 18th August 2024
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Economic Geography, specializing in geographies of labour markets in the energy transition
Summary of PhD Program:
The Department of Geography at NTNU has a 3-year vacancy for a PhD position in economic geography, contributing to the project Making the Green Shift Work for Regions (GSW). Funded by the Research Council of Norway’s Welfare, Culture and Society programme, the GSW project seeks to better integrate localities and regions, labour markets and working lives as central elements within the green shift, rather than merely as outcomes of the energy transition. The overall objective is to help develop a new understanding of how regional labour markets are adapting to the challenge of green shift, using the example of Oil & Gas specialised regions.
Application Deadline: 15th August 2024
8. Fully Funded PhD Position in social anthropology
Summary of PhD Program:
The project may explore issues such as how people understand the role peatlands play in a sustainable future; what it means to restore peatland landscapes in a time of increasing pressure, degradation, and collapse; how people practically involve themselves with peatlands and how such efforts affect their knowledge and understanding; and what peatlands can tell us about the relations between science, policy, and society in times of global environmental change. We seek someone who is interested in newer environmental anthropology, open to theoretical innovation, and motivated to do in-depth ethnographic fieldwork.
Application Deadline: 15th August 2024
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Sports Engineering
Summary of PhD Program:
As part of the NRC IPN grant “FramSki – The future of responsible skiing” (FramSki), we have a vacancy for a 3-year PhD position at the Senter for Sports Facility and Sports Technology (SIAT), hosted by the NTNU, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. The transition to fluorine-free ski waxes in competitive and recreational skiing demands innovative solutions for reducing ski-snow friction. In the FramSki project, we tackle friction at the macro, micro and nano level in an interdisciplinary research project in collaboration with leading industry partners.
Application Deadline: 15th August 2024
10. Fully Funded PhD Position in Real Implementation of Model Predictive Control for Building Heating
Summary of PhD Program:
Buildings are energy-flexible in the sense that they can move their loads in time, typically to provide services to the electricity or district heating grids (also called demand response). For instance, one key objective can be to decrease energy use during peak hours while maintaining acceptable comfort for occupants. In cold climates, the space-heating is a dominant load and advanced control can adapt this load by changing the indoor temperature in time. Model Predictive Control (MPC) gets increasing interest in performing this control. While this solution has been extensively investigated using simulations (meaning virtual experiments), there are still limited examples where MPC has been deployed and tested in a real building and over a long period.
Application Deadline: 15th August 2024
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11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Fact Checking/Information Verification
Summary of PhD Program:
Fact checking or information verification is the basis for many pressing real-world problems such as fake news detection. False information that spreads very fast as news is a growing problem with serious real-world consequences. With the advancements of large language models (LLMs), this issue has become even more important. LLMs have proved themselves very useful in certain tasks and their usage in many areas is increasing. However, these models are not very reliable in means of the truthfulness of the information they generate. For whatever purpose it is, the importance of fact checking or information verification is increasing.
Application Deadline: 15th August 2024
12. Fully Funded PhD Position in Physical Education and Sport
Summary of PhD Program:
The successful applicant will engage in a research project examining the disability experience of students and recently graduated adults from Norwegian schools with an emphasis on understanding the disability experiences in physical education and sport contexts. A largely qualitative inquiry and exploration, the project may utilize diverse methodology to accomplish this goal. In concert with the data gathered and research published, this project will require the PhD student to consider the dissemination of material in order to reach teachers, connect the findings to the Norwegian curriculum, and collaborate with research group members to create opportunities for in-service workshops and learning opportunities in an effort to better the school environment that we’ve examined.
Application Deadline: 12th August 2024
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in sustainable and profitable business models development
Summary of PhD Program:
The position is anchored at NTNU in Ålesund and is part of the multi-partner SFI Harvest project – Technologies for sustainable biomarine value creation. We are looking for candidates with a background or experience within at least one of the following areas: Business strategy, sustainability / environmental management, sustainable supply/value chain management, management rules for the fisheries, marketing mechanisms for fish food products. You will report to the Head of Department.
Application Deadline: 11th August 2024
14. Fully Funded PhD Position in environmental analysis of a circular built environment
Summary of PhD Program:
A PhD position in environmental analysis of a circular built environment is now open at the Energy and Environment Group at the Department of Architecture and Technology, NTNU. The Energy and Environment Group lead centres/projects like the Research centre on zero emission neighbourhoods in smart cities (ZEN), syn.ikia – Sustainable plus energy neighbourhoods, and the Green Deal ARV project on Climate positive circular communities, and use real demonstration projects and our laboratory facilities (like the ZEB laboratory) extensively in our research. The group currently comprises 10 senior staff members (professors and associate professors), and around 20 research fellows (research assistants, PhD candidates, and post-doctoral researchers). The duration of the position is 3 or 4 years.
Application Deadline: 4th August 2024
15. Fully Funded PhD Position in absorption-based CO2 capture focusing on solvent management
Summary of PhD Program:
This position at the Department of Chemical Engineering at NTNU focuses on solvent management technologies for CO2 capture process. Carbon dioxide (CO2) is the primary greenhouse gas emitted through human activities, and the development and implementation of technologies for CO2 emission reduction is of great importance. Of the various methods to separate CO2 from industrial gases, absorption-based CO2 capture using aqueous alkanolamine solutions has reached the commercial stage. Two of the remaining challenges are closely linked: solvent (amine) degradation and equipment corrosion. Degradation is the irreversible transformation of an absorbent solution into other compounds that may cause equipment corrosion, amine loss, fouling, foaming, reduction of CO2 absorption capacity and more.
Application Deadline: 4th August 2024
16. Fully Funded PhD Position in Thermodynamics of ammonia-water mixtures
Summary of PhD Program:
Ammonia (NH3) is deemed by many to be a promising energy carrier to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from transport and a viable solution for global H2 transport. A challenge is the consequences of possible spills of liquid ammonia into water when it is transported on ships. Ammonia is often transported at a temperature well below the freezing point of water. A spill of ammonia in water will therefore rapidly evaporate. It will also react with water through a highly exothermic reaction. The interfacial dynamics and the thermo-physical properties will play a key role in how fast the ammonia spreads in both water and air, and where it ends up.
Application Deadline: 4th August 2024
17. Fully Funded PhD Position in Dynamic Decision Support for Positive Energy Buildings and Neighbourhoods
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD candidate will participate in the EU projects mentioned above and develop a framework for a Dynamic Decision Support Guideline for the planning, design, and operation of Positive Energy Neighbourhoods. The development will build on previous and ongoing work within the EU projects in which relevant frameworks and guidelines are being developed for sustainable plus energy buildings and neighbourhoods. This work will contribute with insight and knowledge about technologies and performances and the outcome will guide decision-makers towards life-cycle based and high performing buildings and neighbourhoods.
Application Deadline: 1st August 2024
18. Fully Funded PhD Position in Hybrid Machine Learning
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD opportunity offers a unique chance to be at the forefront of the transformative field of hybrid modelling, combining the power of machine learning with physics-based approaches. Unexpected high overpressures in the subsurface continue to challenge oil and gas exploration on the Norwegian Continental Shelf, posing risks such as mud loss, kicks, and well loss. This PhD will focus on developing innovative solutions by integrating 3D pressure stochastic simulations with advanced machine learning techniques to enhance pore pressure prediction workflows. By improving the accuracy and robustness of subsurface pressure predictions, this research aims to make drilling operations safer and more cost-effective.
Application Deadline: 31st July 2024
19. Fully Funded PhD Position in Compiler Technologies
Summary of PhD Program:
Your project is expected to contribute to cutting-edge research initiatives leveraging, analysing, and exploiting non-conventional computer architectures via digital simulation of the system behaviour or via established approximate computing techniques. You will join a team of international researchers with diverse backgrounds to address the challenges presented by a common problem, and to improve over the current state-of-the-art both with theoretical findings and with technological advances.
Application Deadline: 26th July 2024
20. Fully Funded PhD Position in artistic research
Summary of PhD Program:
The position requires a high level of commitment to contribute to a cutting-edge artistic research environment that experiments at the intersections of multiple forms of impact and value within the framework of knowledge production through the arts. The position should address challenges to contemporary ethics and aesthetics of participation and collaboration and explore the role of critical thinking and collective agency in responding to multiple societal challenges.
Application Deadline: 21st July 2024
21. Fully Funded PhD Position in Modelling of physical phenomena for safety analysis and risk assessment
Summary of PhD Program:
The Norwegian Government’s hydrogen strategy emphasizes clean hydrogen as essential to reach ambitious national and international emission targets by 2050 and provides a transition strategy for an energy-rich country. Several limitations concerning the storage and long-distance transport of electrical energy can be tackled by chemically converting it in form of hydrogen. Liquefied hydrogen (LH2) is stored close to atmospheric pressure and cryogenic temperature (around -253°C) and allows increasing storage capacity of more than 100% with respect to compressed hydrogen at 70 MPa when the same storage volume is considered.
Application Deadline: 21st July 2024
22. Fully Funded PhD Position in Sustainable Maritime Electrification
Summary of PhD Program:
You will work within a dynamic research group at a top university (NTNU) and gain valuable experience collaborating with world-leading partners on this multidisciplinary project. You will contribute to the design and optimization of power-barge solutions incorporating state-of-the-art battery technologies and alternative fuels for a zero-emission energy portfolio. You will develop and analyze system models to ensure safe integration and optimization of the power-barge system. Smart control and management systems will also be developed for seamless and sustainable operation.
Application Deadline: 14th July 2024
