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1. Two PhD Scholarships at the SDU Centre for Business History

Summary of PhD Program:

Department of History at the University of Southern Denmark invites applications for two PhD scholarships at the SDU Centre for Business History, beginning on February 1, 2023. The SDU Centre for Business History is a research center established by the University of Southern Denmark and the Danish Museum of Industry. Researchers in the center specialize in Danish business history since the 19th century, and we have a special interest in understanding the complex histories behind the wide variety of strongholds in the Danish business system in the context of globalization and Europeanization: How were these strongholds developed in interaction with the surrounding society, and what are the characteristics of that form of capitalism that came to be the economic foundation for the welfare states in Denmark and Northern Europe?

Last Application Date: 2022-Dec-01

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2. PhD Position in Mechanical Engineering – Maritime Technology

Summary of PhD Program:

The Department of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, University of Southern Denmark invites applications for a fully-funded 3-year PhD position in mechanical engineering located in Odense, Denmark with a preferred starting date of February 1st, 2023, or soon thereafter. The PhD position is funded by SDU Maritime Research Platform, which was established in 2022 based on a donation from A/S Dampskibsselskabet Orient’s Fond. The platform consists of maritime research projects in four faculties across the University of Southern Denmark, mostly PhD and postdoc projects. All work packages in the project are related to the maritime sector with a special focus at the offshore industry. The work packages, though separate in their research focus, are interconnected and important to the project, as the breadth and interdisciplinarity of the initiative is very important.

Last Application Date: 2022-Nov-06

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3. Two PhD Position in Environmental Toxicology and Endocrine Disruptors

Summary of PhD Program:

We invite enthusiastic applicants for two full PhD scholarships in Environmental Toxicology with focus on Endocrine Disruptors. The three-year scholarships are funded by research projects in the Ecotoxicology group at the Department of Biology, University of Southern Denmark (SDU) in Odense where the primary work will also be carried out. The starting date of the PhD positions is as soon as possible and no later than December 2022.

Last Application Date: 2022-Oct-24

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4. PhD Position in Sports Science

Summary of PhD Program:

The overall aim of the Generation Healthy Kids (GHK) Intervention Program is to promote healthy weight and wellbeing in school-aged children (6-11 years, 1st to 3rd grade). The program combines a randomized controlled trial targeting several important risk factors for excessive weight gain with systems approaches. Co-creation processes is merged with systems thinking to take the complexity of childhood into account and support long-term sustainability of the developed program. GHK will contain intervention components on balanced diet, physical activity, healthy sleep and screen media use. There will be a strong focus on empowering involved children and families and at the same time reduce obesogenic risk factors in the environment, together with capacity building at community levels.

Last Application Date: 2022-Oct-24

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5. PhD Position in Developing a Federated Metadata Repository for Clinical Data

Summary of PhD Program:

We are seeking outstanding candidates with strong analytical and problem solving skills, who are strong in written and oral communication (in English), and have documented experience in the development of complex compute systems. The applicant should be fluent in the state-of-the-art web-development frameworks, virtualization techniques as well as database technologies. Expertise in clinical data science and machine learning, as well as computer security and data privacy are welcome.

Last Application Date: 2022-Oct-19

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6. PhD Position in Soft Robotic Tactile Perception

Summary of PhD Program:

Unlike humans that rely primarily on vision, Nature has developed versatile sensing modalities such as auditory and touch to perceive shapes and interact with complex environments. This project draws inspiration from the active touch sensing of Nature’s tactile specialists to develop a sensate soft robot that can infer tactile information through a sequence of exploratory movements. The result of this project equips the skin of soft robots with rich tactile sensing capabilities that can improve their functionality in manipulation, locomotion, and collaborative tasks. This project requires system-level development of hardware and software to integrate actuation, sensing, control, and learning in a unified soft robotic system.

Last Application Date: 2022-Oct-15

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7. PhD Position in National Institute of Public Health

Summary of PhD Program:

We are looking for a candidate with strong flair for quantitative methods and a high interest in epidemiology and adolescent health. Specific experience with statistical modelling is prerequisite and preferably, the candidate has some published work or documented experience with scientific writing in English. We value personal competencies such as good communication skills, a positive and problem-solving mindset and personal drive.

Last Application Date: 2022-Oct-10

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8. PhD Position in Smart Manufacturing / Industry 4.0 for Power-to-X equipment production

Summary of PhD Program:

There is a double urgency to transform Europe’s energy system: ending the dependence on fossil fuels and tackling the climate crisis. Green PtX solutions are seen as a cornerstone of Europe’s green transition and as main building block for reaching carbon neutrality by 2050. The PhD candidate will work actively in the project “Green H2 and MeOH in DK – realizing cost leadership and scalability (GREMEOH)” funded by Innovation Fund Denmark’s InnoMission2 Partnership. The aim of the GREMEOH project is to bring Denmark and EU a step closer to leveling the cost of green hydrogen and methanol to fossil parity to serve a rapid increase in demand for these green fuels. The accelerate cost-efficient scaling of manufacturing and assembly of H2O-electrolysis and H2- and CO2-based methanol processing units is a key building block of the GREMEOH project. The PhD project will focus on scaling up the smart manufacturing and assembly of green PtX production units, i.e., electrolysers for the green hydrogen production and H2- and CO2-based methanol processing units.

Last Application Date: 2022-Oct-02

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1. PhD Scholarship to Study Enhancers Communities in Lineage Determination of Stem Cells

Summary of Doctoral Project:

The ability of higher eukaryotic cells to control transcription is a prerequisite for specialization during development, and for maintenance as well as plasticity of cellular identity. It is becoming increasingly clear that this important regulation is dependent on physical compartmentalization of the genome into functional units and on elaborate cooperativity between transcription factors within these units. Understanding the interplay between chromatin topology and transcriptional activity constitutes one of the major current challenges in the transcription field. We have recently applied enhancer capture Hi-C to investigate enhancer interactions in human mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) undergoing adipocyte differentiation. We showed that enhancers form highly interconnected enhancer communities that appear to act as hubs driving adipocyte lineage determination. Ongoing work in our group now focuses on delineating the interplay between chromatin topology and transcriptional regulation during adipocyte differentiation.

Last Application Date: 2022-Aug-08

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2. Declaration of interest regarding two PhD projects: The National Institute of Public Health at SDU

Summary of Doctoral Project:

The title of the two PhD projects is The Mindhelper Study: Evaluating the effectiveness of Mindhelper.dk, and it is funded by grants from several funding agencies and the National Institute of Public, University of Southern Denmark. Mindhelper.dk is a national online youth mental health promotion service. The Mindhelper Study consists of three sub studies: an effectiveness study, a chat interview study, and an in-depth interview study. The aim of the first PhD project is to evaluate the effectiveness of the webpage Mindhelper.dk. This scholarship concerns the effectiveness study. The aim of the second PhD project is to explore how young people use and integrate information and self-help tools from Mindhelper.dk into their everyday life and coping strategies towards mental health and well-being. This scholarship concerns the chat interview study and the in-depth interview study.

Last Application Date: 2022-Aug-01

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3. PhD Position in Fundamental Characterization of Pharmaceutical Suspensions

Summary of Doctoral Project:

Disperse system are two immiscible components mixed into one by the use of a stabilizer, with emulsions and suspensions being the classic examples. Disperse systems have found their use in practically all industries ranging from food over paint to pharmaceuticals. Despite their wide use, the full potential of disperse systems remains to be fulfilled as we have little to no understanding of the elementary constrains of these thermodynamically unfavourable mixtures. The stability of emulsions and suspensions is continuously challenged by a multitude of destabilizing phenomena, comprising sedimentation, Ostwald ripening, secondary nucleation, droplet fusion and aggregation. The current theoretical framework to define their stability relies on the DLVO theory for aggregation of aqueous dispersions from 1941 which is known to have a number of shortcomings. As basic research has been sparse in the field for many years, working with these systems relies on empirical observations.

Last Application Date: 2022-Aug-01

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4. PhD Position in Long-acting Injectable Formulations

Summary of Doctoral Project:

Long-acting injectables (LAIs) are a drug formulation option that provides a slow, sustained release of the active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) after administration. LAI formulations have several advantages relative to classical oral formulations, including reduced frequency of administration, enhanced therapy adherence and patient compliance, and potentially also a lower level of adverse effects when these are associated with peak plasma concentrations. Experience from the antipsychotic area has shown that these attributes of the LAIs often lead to improved therapeutical effect, whereby the formulation approach provides improved quality of life for the patients using them.

Last Application Date: 2022-Aug-01

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5. PhD Position in Structure of siRNA/ ASO’s in Pharmaceutical Formulations

Summary of Doctoral Project:

We are looking for a candidate with a strong interest in working on the boundary between pharmacy and chemistry focused on formulation design for ONTs and analytical characterisation of what this may do to the drug molecule during and after manufacturing of the formulations. The candidate will hold an MSc in pharmacy, chemistry, physics, or a closely related area. Previous experiences with one or more of the following is considered an advantage: formulation design of liposomes, lipid nanopartciles or similar, circular dichroism and other relevant analytical techniques.

Last Application Date: 2022-Aug-01

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6. PhD Position in Pharmaceutical Formulations for the Eye

Summary of Doctoral Project:

Flux is a function of time, i.e. one way to optimize ocular drug absorption after topical administration is to increase the viscosity of the applied formulation. The viscosity would, however, slow down the diffusion of the compound through the formulation, hence the purpose of the concrete project is to investigate diffusion as a function of viscosity, compound vehicle affinity and compound size for “solutions” and particle size for suspension systems.

Last Application Date: 22-Aug-01

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7. PhD Position in Computational Epigenomics

Summary of Doctoral Project:

The Madsen group is currently relocating from the Functional Genomics & Metabolism Research Unit at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, SDU to the Section for Data Science and Statistics (DSS) at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, SDU. The DSS currently hosts sixteen independent research groups focusing on various aspects of data science, including three groups working with bioinformatics and computational biology. The section constitutes an international, ambitious, highly dynamic, and well-equipped working environment having access to state-of-the-art computing facilities, including high performance computing systems, such as ABACUS 2.0.

Last Application Date: 2022-Aug-01

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8. PhD Research Fellow in 2D materials

Summary of Doctoral Project:

The proposed project is concerned with theoretical explorations of two-dimensional monolayer and bilayer materials that are hosting intriguing electronic and opto-electronic phenomena, where in particular the twist angle of bilayers offering a new knob that can change both single-particle properties as well as many-body properties of the electron system. This has already manifested in the intriguing observation of superconductivity in twisted graphene bilayers. This project expands beyond condensed-matter physics and into the domain of optical sciences by hypothesizing that the twist angle can also be used to manipulate opto-electronic properties. In particular, the project focuses on semiconducting 2D materials, such as hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) or transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), that can interestingly host excitons even at room temperature. The aim is to theoretically explore the formation of electron-hole pairs in twisted bilayers and to investigate how the excitons manifest in polaritons when hybridized with light fields.

Last Application Date: 2022-July-31

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9. Declaration of interest regarding PhD project: Neurobiology Research

Summary of Doctoral Project:

This PhD project is an integrated part of the interdisciplinary collaborative project entitled ‘Development of new diagnostic tools and therapies in Alzheimer’s disease’. With new pharmacological approaches, we aim to slow down detrimental neuroimmune responses, with the aim to ameliorate neuropathology and preserve cognitive abilities in Alzheimer’s disease. The animal experimental part of the project will make use a well-characterized transgenic rat model for Alzheimer’s disease. Treatment effects will be assessed by behavioral testing, neuroimaging, evaluation of blood and CSF biomarkers, and by neuropathological/microscopic, immunological, molecular, and biochemical analysis of the brains. Molecular techniques, such as RNASeq, will be applied pending the question. The aim is to obtain mechanistic understanding.

Last Application Date: 2022-July-29

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10. PhD position in Circular Economy and Women Entrepreneurship

Summary of Doctoral Project:

The CEWE-UN SDGs project is a research project (2022-2025) primarily funded by Carlsberg Foundation Young Researcher Fellowships category. The project will be led by Associate Professor Devika Kannan together with a team of a Post-Doctoral researcher, a PhD student, and few student / research assistants. For a brief description about the project, please refer to the webpage at the Carlsberg Foundation. The main objective of CEWE-UN SDGs is to launch a new research agenda exploring the nexus of women entrepreneurship (WE) and circular economy (CE). The project also aims to develop a novel toolkit for women entrepreneurs to perform circular business, which contributes to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs).

Last Application Date: 2022-Aug-15

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11. PhD position in Artificial Intelligence and Innovation

Summary of Doctoral Project:

The applications of artificial intelligence and data driven decision-making is gaining prevalence in society and organizations including inside innovation processes. AI is for example used to scape and analyze data for identifying, ranking and risk assessing innovation prospects and controlling innovation processes. However, AI applications in innovation processes is often constructed from compilations of codes that obscures transparency and makes it hard to understand the decision-making basis. Therefore, less is known about how AI design choices come to shape innovation processes in organizations. The main objective of the PhD project is to explore the role of AI applications in shaping innovation processes. You will be combining data science methodologies with interview-based and observation-based explorations to gain knowledge on how AI design elements, such as coding structures, enable decision-making outputs, how these outputs come to be trusted or distrusted by decision-makers and how they shape decision-making in sourcing, funding and controlling innovation processes. This will also include exploring biases in application of AI in innovation processes that negatively affects decision-making.

Last Application Date: 2022-Aug-10

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12. PhD fellowship in “Roll-to-Roll (R2R) development of high performance tandem photovoltaics”

Summary of Doctoral Project:

The PhD position is a part of the Roll-to-Roll (R2R) activities within the new SDU CAPE research center, which aims to develop new sustainable energy technologies using scalable and green Roll-to-Roll processing techniques. This includes the H2020 project CITYSOLAR (led by CNR-ISM, Prof. Aldo di Carlo), where the focus is to develop the next-generation transparent photovoltaics for windows, focusing on novel organic-hybrid perovskite tandem solar cells and modules with high power conversion efficiencies (15%), and high average visible transmittance (AVT). CITYSOLAR is conducted by an international consortium of leading academic (CNR – Institute of Structure of Matter (ISM), FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, University of Southern Denmark (SDU), Tor Vergata University of Rome, CNRS – The Institut Photovoltaïque d’Île-de-France (IPVF)) and industrial (ENI, EDF, Hglass) partners, together with two non-EU partners (Brilliant Matters, KAUST) belonging to Mission Innovation countries.

Last Application Date: 2022-Aug-15

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13. PhD position on mobile 3D shotcreting in harsh and space-restricted environments

Summary of Doctoral Project:

The candidate will be part of the European project RobetArme funded by Horizon Europe. The project takes place in the context of SDU’s newly established center for Large Structure Production (LSP). LSP’s central ambition is to provide a physical “go-to” lab for companies in the sectors maritime, construction and energy to carry out research, development and testing of novel solutions in the production of large structures, such as buildings, ships and offshore platforms. The project RobetArme is integrated in the unit SDU Robotics that is at the core of the Odense Robotics Cluster involving 130+ startups and established companies in robotics. We are specialized in robot solutions involving modelling, simulation and control of advanced robot technologies (systems and services) for industrial, welfare and medical applications.

Last Application Date: 2022-Aug-15

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14. PhD position on model-, simulation-, and data-based control of gantry-based robotic operations

Summary of Doctoral Project:

The PhD will address the issue of dynamic structural stresses and strains on gantry-based robotic systems, which may limit the accuracy and agility of operations due to deformations. Over the course of the PhD, the candidate will analyze, model and simulate such stresses and strains with the aim to counter their impact with targeted planning and online control measures. In addition to model- and simulation-based approaches with digital models, the candidate will be given access to a large-scale, physical gantry system equipped with high-precision measurement systems, to validate, verify and further optimize the on- and offline control with empirical data.

Last Application Date: 2022-Aug-15

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15. PhD position in experimental capacitor technology

Summary of Doctoral Project:

The Faculty of Engineering at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU) invites applications for one or more 3-year positions as PhD in the area of Power Capacitors and their applications. The positions are located at the section Electrical Engineering in Sønderborg within the Centre for Industrial Electronics (CIE). Starting date is September 15th, 2022, or as soon as possible thereafter. The task portfolio of the PhD will be linked to several projects within CIE. CIE is embedded in a powerhouse in electronics, which includes researchers and developers at universities and industries on both sides of the Danish-German border. CIE is a new initiative striving for high quality and great impact of its research, innovation, and education. Central to achieving this objective is access to state-of-the-art facilities and close collaborations with industries.

Last Application Date: 2022-Aug-15

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16. PhD position in capacitor theory

Summary of Doctoral Project:

The Faculty of Engineering at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU) invites applications for one or more 3-year positions as PhD in the area of Power Capacitors and their applications. The positions are located at the section Electrical Engineering in Sønderborg within the Centre for Industrial Electronics (CIE). Starting date is September 15th, 2022, or as soon as possible thereafter. The task portfolio of the PhD will be linked to several projects within CIE. CIE is embedded in a powerhouse in electronics, which includes researchers and developers at universities and industries on both sides of the Danish-German border. CIE is a new initiative striving for high quality and great impact of its research, innovation, and education. Central to achieving this objective is access to state-of-the-art facilities and close collaborations with industries.

Last Application Date: 2022-Aug-15

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17. Ph.D. fellowships at Department of Law

Summary of Doctoral Project:

At the Department of Law, a number of Ph.D. fellowships will be available as of 1 January 2023 or by further agreement. The place of work is at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense. The applicant’s Ph.D. project must be within one or several of the fundamental areas of law or in the cross field between law and economics. The project must contribute to the research within one (or several) of the institute’s four research groups and must be relevant to the future employers of our students. However, the applicant determines the specific content of the project. The applicant is expected to have academic qualifications corresponding to the level obtained by completing a relevant Master’s degree programme. A Ph.D. is a research degree at the highest international level. The Ph.D. fellow will become part of active learning environments, in Denmark as well as abroad, and he or she will obtain an extensive academic knowledge e.g. by participating in relevant Ph.D. courses. Furthermore, the Ph.D. fellow will gain teaching experience since part of the program involves teaching certain courses. The Ph.D. fellow is expected to be able to teach in Danish and/or English.

Last Application Date: 2022-Aug-15

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