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 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
2. 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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3. 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
4. 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
5. 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
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6. Fully Funded PhD Position in plant science with a focus on small proteins
Summary of PhD Program:
We are recruiting a PhD student to work on a project aimed at manipulating plant development using microProtein engineering. MicroProteins are small single-domain proteins that have been shown to control diverse biological pathways. While some microProteins are encoded as individual genes, we have evidence that other microProteins might be hiding in genes and are dynamically expressed in response to changes in the environment. We aim to dissect light and magnetosensing signaling pathways to understand the biotechnological potential of these small proteins and aim to use them as tools to engineer biosynthetic pathways. In the project we will employ forward, and reverse genetics approaches in Arabidopsis plants and yeast, protein biochemistry and biochemical engineering.
Application Deadline: 2024-05-15
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Applied Physics with specialization in biomedical engineering and neuroscience
Summary of PhD Program:
The project is part of the activities within the Center of Biomedical Engineering and Physics as well as Umeå Center for Functional Brain imaging and is carried out in close collaboration with medical expertise at the University Hospital. One of the overall goals with our research in this area is to develop new MRI strategies to study vascular and cerebrospinal fluid flows with applications towards neurological diseases.
Application Deadline: 2024-05-10
8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Computing Science with focus on Cybersecurity
Summary of PhD Program:
The multilayer cloud-edge continuum poses several challenges, such as smart placement, workload prediction and relocation, energy usage prediction, and security for critical applications and infrastructures. Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) is one of the critical threats that disrupt the benign services provided by servers based on distributed resources across the Continuum. The key security challenges faced by existing methods, particularly when it comes to DDoS attacks and defence strategies for the cloud-edge continuum. Challenges include unlimited reassignment of resources for microservices under attack, slow reaction time, lack of methods for validation in real environments, and weak kernel architecture in virtualised instances.
Application Deadline: 2024-05-08
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Computing Science with focus on Interactive Systems that Reason Spatially
Summary of PhD Program:
Current AI technology surpasses humans in pattern recognition tasks, but it falls short on general world knowledge understanding, common sense reasoning, and the human capabilities of explaining the process followed to solve a problem. Our project goal is to design and develop interactive systems that reason spatially and which are centred in the human user (e.g. to expand their skills, instead of replacing them). This project will make contributions to an enriching user interaction with autonomous systems in a bidirectional way: (i) users’ interaction enhances the spatial reasoning by the autonomous system; and (ii) users’ spatial skills are improved by interaction with the system.
Application Deadline: 2024-05-06
10. Fully Funded PhD Position in Physical Geography with a focus on groundwater dynamics in subarctic palsa mires
Summary of PhD Program:
In this project, we will investigate how water levels in lakes and wetlands are affected by the climate in northern Fennocandia, with a particular focus on the hydrological dynamics of palsa mires. We will combine field measurements with remote sensing and GIS techniques to better estimate the sensitivity of water levels to climate throughout northern Fennoscandia. The results from this project are intended to provide a better understanding of how groundwater levels in palsa mires respond to changes in climate, making it possible to better predict future changes in permafrost and the carbon cycle in these areas.
Application Deadline: 2024-05-04
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11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Computing Science with focus on machine learning for continuous and discrete structures
Summary of PhD Program:
The focus of the project is graph based machine learning for discrete and continuous structures, led by Frank Drewes, Johanna Björklund, and Henrik Björklund. The PhD student will work within the context of the STING (Synthesis and Analysis with Transducers and Invertible Neural Generators) project, financed by WASP (Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program). The project conducted in collaboration with the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm and Lindköping University.
Application Deadline: 2024-05-02
12. Fully Funded PhD Position in Discrete Mathematics
Summary of PhD Program:
The candidate will conduct research in discrete mathematics and combinatorics (understood broadly) as part of a project supervised by Associate Professor Istvan Tomon. The specific research questions will be determined based on the candidate’s interests. Possible areas of research include (but are not limited to):
Ramsey theory: the study of unavoidable substructures in large systems such as graphs, hypergraphs, integer sequences, and set families.
Extremal graph and hypergraph theory: the study of the maximum number of edges of graphs and hypergraphs avoiding certain forbidden subconfigurations.
Application Deadline: 2024-04-30
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in Environmental Science – blue carbon policy in SE Asia
Summary of PhD Program:
Poverty and climate change are inextricably linked, so they must be tackled together. Nature-based solutions could achieve this, and blue carbon – the storage of carbon by coastal ecosystems such as mangrove forests – is a favoured candidate because of its wide-ranging benefits such as income diversification, improved ecosystem health and spillover effects for other economies such as fishing. Least Developed Countries (LDCs) have the greatest potential for benefit gain because of their significant blue carbon ecosystem extent, capacity for extensive blue carbon restoration and strong ambition for sustainable development.
Application Deadline: 2024-04-30
14. Fully Funded PhD Position in Architecture
Summary of PhD Program:
Architecture as a research subject is anchored to both technical and natural scientific research and practice as well as the more artistic research tradition. Its profound influence on human and non-human social interactions and experiences also means an inescapable connection to the humanities and social science research field. The interdisciplinary nature of the subject encompasses and celebrates a wide diversity of foci and methodological choices.
Application Deadline: 2024-04-28
15. Fully Funded PhD Position in Architecture with a focus on Critical Studies in Architecture and Urbanism
Summary of PhD Program:
Are you interested in a doctoral project where problematising and speculating how visions, norms, policies, and regulations in relation to urgent societal issues, e.g., inequalities, ageing population, welfare provision, segregation, mental health, and wellbeing, have been, are, and could be spatially translated are in focus? Are you willing to engage in investigating and theorising architectural agency, i.e., the performative, relational and caring aspects of the spatial organization and design? This doctoral project will be part of the research group Infrastructures of care: architecture, liveable lives and just environments at Umeå School of Architecture, which main interest is in the spatial, social, cultural, political, and experiential dimensions of architecture and urbanism.
Application Deadline: 2024-04-28
16. Fully Funded PhD Position in Architecture with a focus on Climate Adaption and the Water-Energy-Food Nexus
Summary of PhD Program:
At 64° latitude, interior landscapes offer interesting possibilities to extend growing seasons and diversify crops, while reducing energy consumption and providing hybrid living spaces between inside and outside. Retrofitting the existing building stock, repurposing vacancies, and expanding our building performance through circular systems may accumulatively have a positive systemic impact both in terms of reducing water and energy consumption, as well as food miles, while buffering existing infrastructure networks and enabling local food production on site. Climate change demands a recalibration of our built environment to become more resource-efficient and more resilient. The research group Designing Cycles at 64° (DC64°) is set out to turn buildings and their inhabitants from being consumers to becoming producers to transform our ecological footprint into a positive one.
Application Deadline: 2024-04-28
17. Fully Funded PhD Position in Architecture with a focus on Biobased Building Materials
Summary of PhD Program:
The research project “Biobased Building Materials: Enhancing Circular Economy in the Swedish Construction Industry” is part of the Digital Materials Research group at Umeå School of Architecture. Comprising a team of researchers in architecture investigating new, traditional, and waste materials for innovative building applications and our experience cover biobased waste including paper, cardboard, and sawdust, as well as emerging smart materials such as bistables.
Application Deadline: 2024-04-28
