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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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1. PhD student in Computing Science on the topic of efficient and provably correct execution environments

Summary of Doctoral Project:

Managed languages (such as Java, Python, R and JavaScript) allow a high level of programming abstraction which allows rapid application development with fewer errors, in particular by presenting programmers with an abstract view of memory that can be managed automatically by the runtime system (aka execution environment). The efficiency of the algorithms at the core of runtime systems for managing memory, scheduling, etc. are imperative for the performance of managed languages. The strive for efficiency drives up complexity of the algorithms, stressing the need for a rigorous process for verifying their correctness. This project aims to develop efficient algorithms for key aspects of runtime systems related to memory management, task scheduling, compiler optimisations for specific runtimes with a strong focus on their formal verification. Thus, this project requires an understanding of and interest in both low-level aspects of program execution as well as mathematical underpinnings of verifying of algorithms operating at a low-level. There exist a wide range of interesting challenges to work on in the context of some specific runtime systems.

Last Application Date: 2022-09-01

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2. PhD student in the research group of Patrick Micke

Summary of Doctoral Project:

A PhD student position is available for highly motivated individuals with interest in molecular tumorbiology and tumor pathology at the laboratory of Professor MD PhD Patrick Micke at Uppsala University, Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology. The doctoral student will perform analyses overall aiming to identify novel prognostic as well as predictive biomarker for NSCLC patients. The main focus will be on components of tumor-immune/tumor-stroma-signaling in the context of early NSCLC progression as well as the development of resistance to checkpoint inhibiting therapy. Analytical approaches will involve to a large extend advanced RNA sequencing analyses including TCR and BCR sequencing. The transcriptomic data will be complemented with spatial in situ techniques such as multiplexed immunofluorescence (Vectra Polaris system), RNA scope and in situ sequencing for a comprehensive signaling-profiling of the tumor-immune microenvironment. A central aspect of the doctoral studies will be to learn how to set and discuss the generated data in a broader context. Additional tasks will include digital image analysis.

Last Application Date: 2022-07-18

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3. PhD position in English with a specialization in English Linguistics

Summary of Doctoral Project:

Research in English Linguistics includes both historical and present-day stages of the English language. Some recent and current research areas include corpus linguistics, Early and Late Modern English syntax and pragmatics, stylistics, heritage languages, and English as a second language. Our doctoral students in the Department of English are integrated into our research environment. Further, doctoral students are also expected to join national and international networks by, for instance, attending conferences where they present their research. Abstracts of recently completed doctoral theses are available online. Uppsala University invites applicants for a doctoral position in English, specializing in English Linguistics. We are looking for a dynamic and committed scholar who works well independently and who is willing to cooperate in and to contribute to the community of researchers working in the department. For this position, we particularly encourage research proposals on stylistics or corpus linguistics, two areas that may also be fruitfully combined in the same proposal.

Last Application Date: 2022-08-31

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4. PhD student in English with a specialization in American Literature

Summary of Doctoral Project:

Research in American Literature and Culture includes all literatures and related disciplines produced on the territory of what is now the United States from colonial times to the present, along with the work of Americans abroad. Some recent and current research areas include American literature and globalization, transnational American literature, the literature and culture of neoliberalism, American literature and the security state, postwar avant-garde poetry and poetics, the environmental and energy humanities, the New American Cinema, punk rock, and Archipelagic American Studies. Our doctoral students in the Department of English are integrated into our research environment. Further, doctoral students are also expected to join national and international networks by, for instance, attending conferences where they present their research. Abstracts of recently completed doctoral theses are available online.

Last Application Date: 2022-08-31

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5. PhD position in Biochemistry – structural biology supported by artificial intelligence

Summary of Doctoral Project:

Your goal will be to uncover the structure of photoreceptor proteins using cryo electron microscopy or time-resolved serial crystallography at free electron lasers. In particular, we plan to use cutting-edge methods at the forefront of artificial intelligence (AI) to solve the protein structure to finer detail; we may also use molecular dynamics simulations to underscore structural data. This project will be a at the crossroads of obtaining novel structural information and to advance the methods to obtain these structures. You are expected to be involved in all steps of the project, i.e. to prepare and to perform experiments and to analyze and publish the data. The choice of sub-projects will be adjusted to your interests and previous knowledge and experiences.

Last Application Date: 2022-08-15

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6. PhD student in diabetes research

Summary of Doctoral Project:

In this project you will work with methods for automated analysis of CT and whole-body MRI data from three large scale cohorts will be applied and further developed. In the analyses, you will focus on finding relations between the imaging data and non-imaging data relevant for type 2 diabetes (T2D), such as blood glucose level and genetic data. You will get to work with methods previously developed and applied in the research group -Imiomics, deep learning, and so-called cohort salience mapping. In this project, you will also be a part of extending these methods to find causal relations between the imaging data and T2D.

Last Application Date: 2022-08-15

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7. PhD student in “AI-aided computational chemistry”

Summary of Doctoral Project:

The main task for a doctoral student is to perform doctoral studies, which includes both participation in research projects and doctoral courses. The tasks may also include participation in teaching and other departmental work; however, normally to a maximum of 20% of working hours. The current PhD project concerns machine learning and computer simulations, with the objective to explore atomic-level phenomena. We will build strategies to speed up the way computer simulations are performed and use them to understand the physical/chemical processes that may be important for the functionality of future battery chemistries. Quantum-mechanical calculations, statistical-mechanical simulations, machine learning and data analysis will be tools used in the PhD project.

Last Application Date: 2022-08-15

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8. PhD student position in Nanotechnology with focus on 3D printing of oral dosage forms utiliziing microneedle injections

Summary of Doctoral Project:

The Department of Pharmacy at Uppsala University is an interdisciplinary environment at the center of the pharmaceutical arena. With frontline research, first-class education and extensive collaborations we constitute a driving force in the development of our academic field. In this inspiring environment our rich diversity of research groups, several of international prominence, develop and conduct work of great scientific importance. Among our core competences are computational modelling and simulations, in vitro ADME models, advanced in vivo methods and societal aspects from optimizing the use of drugs in individuals to societal pharmaceutical policies. Together, we form a unique cluster of academic competences within pharmaceutical sciences, playing a key role in shaping the future of pharmacy in both Sweden and globally.

Last Application Date: 2022-08-01

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9. PhD student within the area of Medical Humanities

Summary of Doctoral Project:

This position is one of five doctoral positions in Uppsala University’s graduate school in medical humanities. Medical humanities is an interdisciplinary field at the intersection of medicine, pharmacy, humanities, art/literature and social sciences. It tackles issues such as the individual’s experience of illness, the development of biomedical research and medical practices, and political perspectives on health care from different methodological and theoretical perspectives. Thus, the medical humanities create added value for biomedicine and healthcare by highlighting the social and cultural aspects of health and disease, and for the humanities and social sciences through a broader thematic approach to contemporary health-related societal challenges.

Last Application Date: 2022-09-01

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10. PhD-student in Rhetoric

Summary of Doctoral Project:

The PhD-student position is a 4-year full time appointment, and the candidate will primarily devote the time to their own research studies. Other departmental work, such as teaching or administration can be part of the position (maximum 20 %), but requires a working knowledge of Swedish. A doctoral (PhD) student is expected to conduct research and to contribute to the development of knowledge within the discipline. Expectations of a doctoral student include the capacity to develop independent ideas and communicate research results in oral and written form. The aim of the doctoral position is for the doctoral student to acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to be able to conduct research autonomously within Rhetoric and to contribute to the development of knowledge within the discipline through the production of a scholarly thesis. Another aim is for the doctoral student to develop an ability to apply the acquired knowledge and skills within post-degree research or other qualified professional work.

Last Application Date: 2022-08-01

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11. PhD student in experimental hadron physics

Summary of Doctoral Project:

The main physics interests of the Uppsala group are studies of hyperons – three-quark systems just like the protons but where one or several of the light quarks are replaced by one or several heavier quarks, e.g. strange quarks. By studying how hyperons are produced and how they decay, we can measure their internal structure at the femtometer level – that is, distances of 10-15 m! In this way, we gain insights into how the strong interaction bind quarks into the systems we are made of. Our group has recently taken the first “snapshot” of the creation of a hyperon and an antihyperon from the energy produced in an electron-positron collision. The next step is to reconstruct the full process. Electron-positron collider experiments such as BESIII and the Belle II experiment in Japan are excellently suited for this purpose.

Last Application Date: 2022-08-15

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12. PhD student in evolutionary biology

Summary of Doctoral Project:

We are seeking a Ph.D. student interested in combining the power of experimental evolution using Caenorhabditis elegans with genetic and high-throughput genomic approaches to investigate fundamental questions in evolution. Our research program is diverse and includes multiple ongoing projects investigating (but not restricted to) (i) the fitness effects and evolutionary dynamics of spontaneous mutations, especially copy-number variants, (ii) the fitness consequences of selfish mitochondria and the genetic basis of mitonuclear adaptation, (iii) genomic conflict and compensatory evolution, and (iv) the genetic basis of adaptation following fitness decline and recovery. The successful candidate will be involved in analyzing both whole-genome sequence and transcriptome datasets of experimentally evolved C. elegans populations but will also have opportunities to design and initiate novel projects of choice that fall within the umbrella theme of our expertise.

Last Application Date: 2022-07-21

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13. PhD in Chemistry targeting synchrotron and neutron studies of solid-state batteries

Summary of Doctoral Project:

The Department of Chemistry – Ångström Laboratory has for many years hosted a research environment focused on the development of materials and their applications within the energy storage area: the Ångström Advanced Battery Centre. We develop novel electrode and electrolyte materials, characterise them, evaluate and improve them with respect to battery performance, and study fundamental chemical processes and properties using both experimental and computational techniques. The research is, as such, both fundamental and applied.

Last Application Date: 2022-07-15

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14. PhD student in Physics with specialization in Physics Education Research

Summary of Doctoral Project:

The PhD student will investigate conceptual, procedural and epistemological challenges that accompany upper division physics courses (courses beyond the introductory year of studies, such as statistical mechanics, relativity, quantum mechanics, analytical mechanics, optics, etc.) taken by physics, engineering and upper-secondary-school teacher students. This area of research is relatively under-researched in comparison with introductory physics courses, particularly mechanics and thus offers valuable opportunities for novel research and curriculum development. Upper division courses often involve more abstract and advanced mathematical tools and students can rely less on their every-day experiences and intuition, which presents a significant challenge for learning. The PhD student will, among other things, investigate ways in which students make sense when solving problems in these courses. To do this, they will learn and employ a multimodal approach to studying student meaning making which has been developed at UUPER in the recent decades.

Last Application Date: 2022-08-15

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15. PhD student in multifunctional landscape governance

Summary of Doctoral Project:

The position is part of the the LANDPATHS programme: The multifunctional LANDscapes of the future: barriers and drivers for transformation PATHwayS (In Swedish: LANDSVÄGAR Framtidens multifunktionella landskap – hinder och drivkrafter längs omställningens vägar), funded by Swedish Environmental Protection Agency (Naturvårdsverket). The goal of the programme is to develop transformative governance strategies that foster sustainable practices in biodiverse, multifunctional landscapes. The PhD project will seek to understand how stakeholders and citizens can best deliberate over trade-offs and value conflicts when working in support of multifunctional landscape governance. Recognising that citizen engagement is a distinct and complementary strategy to stakeholder engagement, the project will examine the theory and practice of citizen identification and engagement, and contrast this with stakeholder-focused approaches.

Last Application Date: 2022-08-15

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16. 1-2 PhD positions in data-driven biodiversity research using metabarcoding

Summary of Doctoral Project:

The focus of this PhD position will be to apply and further develop existing environmental DNA sampling and processing techniques, with the aim to comprehensively capture the biodiversity at a given site across the whole tree of life. This work will take place in collaboration with other research groups specialized in environmental DNA, both based at Uppsala University as well as at other national and international institutions. Depending on the candidate’s background and interest, the PhD position may include the following tasks: i) testing combinations of different eDNA sampling techniques in the field, ii) developing lab-protocols to extract and amplify genetic markers for multiple organism groups from eDNA samples, iii) developing bioinformatic pipelines to automatically process, catalogue, and analyze samples (in collaboration with the SBDI ASV portal – https://asv-portal.biodiversitydata.se/about), iv) compiling diversity metrics based on taxonomic as well as genetic diversity. In case of multiple suitable applicants, up to two applicants with complementary backgrounds may be accepted for this call.

Last Application Date: 2022-08-31

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17. PhD position in data-driven biodiversity modeling

Summary of Doctoral Project:

The main focus of this PhD position will be to develop AI models and/or other modeling approaches with the aim to predict the biodiversity capacity/potential of a given site. Although biodiversity is very complex, a good starting point is to focus on species richness or richness on other taxonomic levels. The training data for these models will be biodiversity data generated within our group as well as by local and international collaborators, largely consisting of genetic data resulting from environmental DNA sequencing. Sample datasets for initial development work are ready to be compiled and analyzed immediately. Predictors used in these models will consist of biotic as well as abiotic features, including high-resolution data generated by modern remote sensing techniques (e.g., satellite images and airborne laser scanning data).

Last Application Date: 2022-08-31

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18. PhD student in geohydrology / environmental chemistry / biogeochemistry

Summary of Doctoral Project:

The PhD student will work with microbial degradation of PFAS for remediation of contaminated soil and groundwater within the research project bioPFAS. Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are extremely difficult to degrade at the same time as many of these substances are both harmful to human health and mobile in the environment. PFAS are or have been used in numerous products and constitute a growing environmental problem. In 2021, more than half of Sweden’s municipalities reported that they have PFAS in the raw water for drinking water production. At the same time PFAS continues to leak out into the environment from contaminated sites such as fire-fighting training areas and landfills. Natural degradation is an important process for the removal of many organic contaminant from the environment. So far, however, the natural degradation of PFAS all the way to non-toxic (completely de-fluorinated) end products has been deemed very slow or maybe not even possible, but on the other hand there is a lack of knowledge about the degradation processes and the organisms involved.

Last Application Date: 2022-08-15

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19. PhD student (Marie Curie PhD fellowship) in Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics and Machine learning

Summary of Doctoral Project:

The position is part of the European Commission-funded Doctoral Network EUSpecLab, a collaboration between 23 universities and companies. Salary conditions, travel/mobility allowances, and benefits follow the attractive EU amounts for Researchers in the HORIZON- MSCA-2021-DN-01 call. The EUSpeclab project contains a mix of 11 theoretical research- oriented PhD projects. The Phd student will be enrolled on the Physics PhD program at Uppsala University Science which has a strong expertise in computational materials studies including fundamental properties, materials for applications, and code development. The supervisor of the project will be Dr. Heike Herper (Uppsala University) and the co-supervisor within EUSpecLab will be Dr. Didier Sébilleau from CNRS (Rennes, France). As part of the project there will be mandatory visits at different academic and industrial collaborators within EUSpecLab

Last Application Date: 2022-07-22

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20. PhD student in Genetic Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Summary of Doctoral Project:

A PhD student position is available for highly motivated individuals experience in genetic, medical and/or molecular epidemiology and with large-scale data analyses. The position is in the laboratory of Associate Professor Åsa Johansson group at Uppsala University, Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology. The research group works with identifying risk factors for common diseases and building models for risk assessment or stratification of patients based on molecular data. The aim of the PhD project is to estimate the effect of risk factors that are associated with overweight and hormones (exogenous and endogenous) on cardiometabolic diseases and cancer. The project will utilize, and to some degree develop, methods aiming to estimate causal effects. The project includes analysing registry data from the National Swedish Registers, but also to utilize genetic data from international studies as instrumental variables in causal inference.

Last Application Date: 2022-08-10

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21. PhD position in diabetes epidemiology

Summary of Doctoral Project:

Type 2 diabetes is an important public health challenge, which results in considerable morbidity and premature mortality. Despite known socioeconomic inequalities in type 2 diabetes incidence and mortality, little is known about the relationship between socioeconomic position and complications of type 2 diabetes. Furthermore, how high-resolution, longitudinal trajectories of lifestyle and clinical risk factors are related to complications of type 2 diabetes is unclear, and if the addition of longitudinal risk factor trajectories can enhance prediction of complications of type 2 diabetes, or explain socioeconomic inequalities in complications of type 2 diabetes is unknown. The aim of this project is to address these gaps in knowledge using high-quality, long-term data from the Swedish National Diabetes Register, in linkage with other national registers and cutting-edge methodologies in epidemiology and artificial intelligence, including group-based trajectory modelling, causal mediation analysis, and machine learning based risk prediction modelling.

Last Application Date: 2022-07-21

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1. Up to 2 PhD positions Computer Systems focusing on Security at the Architectural Level

Summary of Doctoral Project:

The project focuses on memory protection that is becoming more critical as with the expansion of Non-Volatile memory technologies, a large amount of sensitive information is left exposed in mobile or Internet-of-Things devices, even when they are switched off. Today, implementations of a small set of fundamental concepts for encrypted (secure or protected) memory are commercially available but it is widely recognized that they come at a great performance and energy cost (e.g., over 3× slowdowns). For this reason, the applicability of memory protection is limited and reserved for specialized situations. This project aims to address this critical deficiency by exploring a range of architectural techniques to ameliorate the cost of protecting memory, with an ultimate goal of making memory protection accessible to a wider range of systems and applications. More broadly this project aims to improve the safety of our digital lives.

Last Application Date: 2022-05-31

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2. PhD student position on synthesis and study of low-dimensional composite systems based on magnetic oxides

Summary of Doctoral Project:

The overall goal of the project is to design new composite materials based on correlated electron oxide systems and two-dimensional materials to achieve increased functionalities related to applications in the electronics and environmental areas. The project includes the synthesis of such composites, as well as the characterization and investigation of their physical properties (magnetic and electrical). The project is expected to generate new knowledge and create ways to design new materials for the fields of nanoelectronics, magnetoelectronics, spintronics, and magnetocalorics. The project includes studies of both zero-dimensional nanocomposites (particulate systems) as well as nanostructured thin films and hybrid structures.

Last Application Date: 2022-06-23

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3. PhD student in Scientific Computing focusing on Secure Federated Machine Learning

Summary of Doctoral Project:

The position is hosted by the Division of Scientific Computing within the Department of Information Technology. As one of the world’s largest focused research environments in Scientific Computing the research and education has a unique breadth, with large activities in classical scientific computing areas such as mathematical modeling, development and analysis of algorithms, scientific software development and high-performance computing. The division is currently in an expansive phase in new emerging areas such as cloud and fog computing, data science, and artificial intelligence, where it plays key roles in several new strategic initiatives at the University. The division currently hosts 20 PhD students and have awarded more than 80 doctorates. Several PhD alumni from the division are successful practitioners in the field of scientific computing and related areas, in industry as well as in academia around the world.

Last Application Date: 2022-05-27

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4. PhD student in experimental particle physics at Uppsala University and the University of Göttingen

Summary of Doctoral Project:

We are looking for a qualified and highly motivated candidate who is willing to carry out research and studies towards a PhD degree in the field of experimental particle physics. The successful candidate will join two research groups participating in the ATLAS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC), at both Uppsala University and the University of Göttingen (Germany), in the framework of a double PhD degree. In particular, it is envisioned that the candidate will spend the first two years in Göttingen, before being based in Uppsala for the second half of the PhD thesis, up to and including the defence.

Last Application Date: 2022-05-31

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5. PhD student position in biomedical engineering focused on fabrication of organs-on-chip systems – with one year placement abroad in USA

Summary of Doctoral Project:

Organ-on-chip is a growing field of research with the ambition to eventually replace traditional animal experiments. Organ-on-chip systems are microfluidic systems that reproduce the microarchitecture of human organs so that cells can be cultured in them and enable functional studies in vitro. One of the research projects within the EMBLA group is focused on developing microfluidic methods with integrated acoustics for organs-on-chip. This is an interdisciplinary project involving five of the group’s members, funded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation.

Last Application Date: 2022-06-03

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6. Two PhD students in Main Group Chemistry and Organic Photochemistry

Summary of Doctoral Project:

We are looking for a Ph.D. student at Andreas Orthaber’s research group and one at Stefano Crespi’s research group, two of the six research labs in the unit for Synthetic Molecular Chemistry (SMC) at the Department of Chemistry – Ångström. At the SMC, highly interdisciplinary research is conducted at the border between molecular inorganic chemistry and organic chemistry, with a wide range of physical chemistry. The main duties of doctoral students are to devote themselves to their research studies which include participating in research projects and third cycle courses. Teaching on undergraduate and Master levels may be agreed upon, up to 20% of full time. For the position in Main Group Chemistry, the Ph.D project will focus on the investigation of heavier main group analogs of organic quinoidal structures, with a particular focus on group 15 derivatives. The studies include opto-electronic, coupled redox reactivity, and reactivity studies in small molecule and E-H bond activations. The multidisciplinary project covers aspects from organic synthesis, physico-chemical studies and theoretical investigations of these quinoidal/aromatic biradicaloid systems, with a strong focus of the Ph.D project on the synthesis and handling of highly reactive main group compounds.

Last Application Date: 2022-06-10

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7. Up to Three positions for PhD in Automatic Control

Summary of Doctoral Project:

At the Division of Systems and Control, we develop methodology for and applications of automatic control, system identification, and machine learning. Developing mathematical models that capture real-world dynamical phenomena evolving in and interacting with their environment is central to all these areas of information technology. Based on the models, algorithms are developed that allow machines and humans to operate efficiently in the world around us. Optimization methods are of central importance since they constitute the computational core of control, system identification, and machine learning. Model uncertainty quantification is an important aspect since it allows for design of algorithms with performance guarantees. The Division of Systems and Control enjoys a wide network of strong international collaborators all around the world, for example at the Delft University of Technology, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, Imperial College,´University of British Columbia, University of Sydney, University of Newcastle and Aalto University. We strive for all PhD students to get a solid international experience during their PhD.

Last Application Date: 2022-06-20

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8. PhD student in Chemistry – Specializing in Molecular Biomimetics

Summary of Doctoral Project:

The research project is focused the metalloenzyme [FeFe] hydrogenase, and involves biochemistry, biophysics (spectroscopy and electrochemistry) and bioinorganic chemistry. The hydrogenase enzymes are central to hydrogen metabolism, as they catalyze the formation and oxidation of H2 gas. This chemistry is enabled by a biologically unique organometallic cofactor. An increased understanding of these enzymes is critical for our understanding of the biological H2 cycle, and its impact on human health as well as general biodiversity. Due to their remarkable efficiencies they are also intensively studied in (bio)technological applications. The project follows one of the major project lines in the group, which focuses on the biochemical characterization of novel examples of this diverse enzyme family. In parallel, it will also involve the development of new methods for studying their mechanism using advanced, time-resolved, spectroscopic techniques.

Last Application Date: 2022-06-08

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9. PhD student in Scientific Computing focusing on positivity preserving and low-rank tensor approximation of fusion

Summary of Doctoral Project:

The goal of this project is to develop a structure-preserving low-rank tensor discretization for high-dimensional partial differential equations modeling fusion processes. The mathematical model that we mainly consider in this project is the Vlasov-Maxwell system. The specific goal of the project is the construction, analysis, and implementation of numerical approximations of the Vlasov-Maxwell system that preserve the basic physical properties such as the positivity of the plasma distribution function. The project will be carried out in cooperation with the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, and the candidate is expected to visit Bochum several times during the course of the project. Previous knowledge of numerical methods for partial differential equations and excellent programming skills are required.

Last Application Date: 2022-06-10

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10. PhD-student in Rhetoric

Summary of Doctoral Project:

The PhD-student position is a 4-year full time appointment, and the candidate will primarily devote the time to their own research studies. Other departmental work, such as teaching or administration can be part of the position (maximum 20 %), but requires a working knowledge of Swedish. A doctoral (PhD) student is expected to conduct research and to contribute to the development of knowledge within the discipline. Expectations of a doctoral student include the capacity to develop independent ideas and communicate research results in oral and written form. The aim of the doctoral position is for the doctoral student to acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to be able to conduct research autonomously within Rhetoric and to contribute to the development of knowledge within the discipline through the production of a scholarly thesis. Another aim is for the doctoral student to develop an ability to apply the acquired knowledge and skills within post-degree research or other qualified professional work.

Last Application Date: 2022-08-01

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11. 2–3 PhD positions in the History of Science and Ideas

Summary of Doctoral Project:

The Department of History of Science and Ideas is a vibrant and excellent research environment, with outstanding research groups in political history, history of medicine and history of science, as well as strong profiles in global intellectual history, media history and the history of education. Around 50 teachers, researchers and fellows work at the department, including 12 PhD students. See our website for more information. http://www.idehist.uu.se/. The department has also advertised 1 PhD position in History of Science and we encourage interested candidates to apply for both positions: https://www.uu.se/en/about-uu/join-us/details/?positionId=490345.

Last Application Date: 2022-05-31

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12. 1 PhD position in History of Science

Summary of Doctoral Project:

The Office for History of Science at the Department of History of Science and Ideas and announces one 4-year PhD position in a research programme on modes of natural inquiry in a global context from the late 17th until the early 20th Century. Techniques of knowledge production and interactions between knowledge communities are investigated with the object of analysing how, where and when the specific mode of natural inquiry called ‘science’ came into existence in the global past. Current research is exploring the historical and epistemological dimensions of the knowing body in the making, transmission and reconfiguration of knowledge between 1750–1850. The department announces 1 position for an applicant addressing any aspect of this broad field of inquiry. The department has also advertised 2-3 PhD positions in History of Science and Ideas, and we encourage interested candidates to apply for both positions: https://www.uu.se/en/about-uu/join-us/details/?positionId=490302.

Last Application Date: 2022-05-31

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13. 13-PhD student in Population genomics

Summary of Doctoral Project:

In total, 13 PhD students will be recruited to the centre and will collaborate with stakeholders representing the whole forest-based value chain, to build research excellence and knowledge for the Swedish energy and forest sectors, and society in general. Within this general framework, Uppsala University, in close collaboration with the the Forestry Research Institute of Sweden, will be more specifically responsible for developing genomics tools related to the establishment of genomic selection in birch breeding. This will require a fine-scale understanding of the genetic structure and the pattern of local adaptation in birch across Scandinavia. The project will be based on genome resequencing of extensive collection of birch trees along latitudinal gradients. The project will also benefit from the availability of range-wide collection of birch material and from previous resequencing efforts in birch. In addition to contribute to the establishment of genomic selection these data can also be used to address evolutionary questions.

Last Application Date: 2022-06-01

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14. PhD student in experimental hadron physics

Summary of Doctoral Project:

One of the most challenging problems in contemporary physics is to understand the strong force that binds together quarks and gluons into hadrons, e.g. protons and neutrons. Hadron physics is a wide, dynamic research field where the strong interaction is investigated in detail. The research of the Uppsala hadron physics group has so far been carried out within international collaborations at facilities in Italy (KLOE-2, Rome), China (BESIII, Beijing) and Germany (PANDA at FAIR, Darmstadt), and in close collaboration with local theoreticians. An overview of the research activities available at www.physics.uu.se/research/nuclear-physics/ .

Last Application Date: 2022-06-03

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15. Doctoral student position in environmental law with an interdisciplinary focus

Summary of Doctoral Project:

The doctoral student position takes place within VR-funded research environment 2020-04973 which proposes to combine law and conservation to help develop solutions to the biodiversity crisis. Most of the world’s nations have enacted environmental legal instruments to avert species extinctions. However, these legal instruments do not appear to be able to stop that crisis. Countries are consistently failing to meet agreed targets to reduce the loss of biodiversity. This failure raises the question of whether existing legal instruments, theories and methods are fit for the purpose of protecting species, populations and ecosystems and whether and how their effectiveness can be improved. The purpose of our research is therefore to develop a theoretical and applied understanding of the interplay between legal and ecological systems and document, analyze, model and improve our understanding of how law and conservation affect each other, with the goal of improving the ability of the law to conserve species. The legal topics that will be addressed in this research environment include ecological tort (“préjudice écologique”), public interest environmental litigation, rights of nature, and environmental constitutionalism.

Last Application Date: 2022-06-01

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16. PhD student in Medical Sciences in the field of Psychoneuroendocrinology

Summary of Doctoral Project:

Mood swings associated with the hormonal fluctuations of the menstrual cycle affect the daily lives of billions of women in their fertile age. The doctoral project includes neuroimaging studies of symptoms and drug-induced effects the woman’s brain. The focus of the doctoral project will be on premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD) and the following question: Are there diagnostic and remission-related neuromolecular markers, brain structure and function markers, and endocrine hormone markers? Magnetic resonance imaging and positron emission tomography are used to study the neural correlates of PMDD. Mass spectrometry will be used for the analysis of endocrine biomarkers. The aim is to advance our understanding from a mechanistic point of view of PMDD and its treatment.

Last Application Date: 2022-05-30

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17. PhD student in Diamond Semiconductor Physics

Summary of Doctoral Project:

The attractive material properties of diamond such as high band gap, high carrier mobilities, high thermal conductivity, high breakdown field strength, radiation hardness, etc., make it a very interesting semiconductor material. Recently, diamond has received great attention for applications in spintronics and valleytronics. This is because of the unique quantum mechanical properties of diamond, as well as the presence of defects, e.g. the N-V center, with extremely long spin coherence time. Specially, understanding the nature of the color-centers (impurities such as N-V, Si-V, Sn-V etc.) in diamond requires further investigation.

Last Application Date: 2022-06-15

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18. PhD student in Data Science for the analysis of online communication

Summary of Doctoral Project:

Network Science is an interdisciplinary scientific area focusing on the study of complex networks, i.e., the structure of the connections between entities, for example social relationships between individuals. The application fields of Network Science are numerous and span several sub-areas depending on the nature of the connected entities, including not only social networks but also biological, communication, and computer networks. The main objective of the field is to develop predictive models for physical, social, and biological phenomena. The research focus for the advertised position is directed towards integrating textual and temporal data with Network Science for online data analysis. Our aim is to develop novel theory and methodology for enabling the analysis of complex data from social media. The project involves fundamental research on the development of new network models and computational algorithms, as well as applied research to demonstrate the usefulness of the new methodologies to study online communication.

Last Application Date: 2022-05-31

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19. PhD student in Gender Studies with an orientation towards the Technologization of Everyday Life

Summary of Doctoral Project:

The Centre for Gender Research opens a position as PhD in Gender Studies, with an orientation towards the Technologization of Everyday Life, and more specifically towards one or more of the following areas: ethics and technologization, gender-sensitive design of technology, gender and everyday technologies, social robots, starting 1 September 2022 or according to agreement. The PhD program spans four years of full-time work, and is financed with a salaried position as doctoral student. The PhD candidate is expected to work full time in the program, and contribute actively to the Centre’s and the program’s activities and milieu. Additional service at the Centre for Gender Research, in administration and/or education, may apply (max 20%) which then prolongs the duration of the PhD programme with the corresponding time. The orientation of the thesis project pursued by the PhD candidate must be situated within the field of Gender Studies.

Last Application Date: 2022-06-07

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20. PhD student in applied geophysics with focus on reflection seismic methods

Summary of Doctoral Project:

PhD candidate 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 for natural and energy-storage exploration. Modern sensing methods on surface and boreholes will be experimented. The PhD candidate 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: 2022-05-31

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21. PhD student in computer science

Summary of Doctoral Project:

The Department of Information Technology has a leading position in research and education in a wide spectrum of areas, from information retrieval and methods for applying computers in a variety of contexts such as social network analysis, data science, and machine learning; to construction of computer systems, via programming of computers, storage and handling of data. The Department currently has about 300 employees, including 120 teachers and 110 PhD students. More than 4,000 students take one or more courses at the department each year. More info: https://www.it.uu.se. The position is hosted by the Uppsala University Information Laboratory (https://uuinfolab.github.io), a growing interdisciplinary research group that conducts basic and applied research at the intersection of data mining, social network analysis, and computational social science. The InfoLab is part of the EU-funded Nordic Observatory for Digital Media and Information Disorder and has several ongoing collaborations with the Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences at Uppsala University.

Last Application Date: 2022-05-31

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22. PhD student in Physical Chemistry with Focus on Organocatalysts for Fuel Production

Summary of Doctoral Project:

The Department of Chemistry – Ångström conducts research and education in the chemistry field. The department has more than 250 employees and has a turnover of 250 million SEK. At the department’s six programs, we conduct very successful research of a high international standard. We have a large number of externally funded research projects, often with international cooperation and we see continued good growth in our subject area. The department has education assignments in engineering programs and master’s programs.

Last Application Date: 2022-05-31

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23. PhD in Physical Chemistry

Summary of Doctoral Project:

The position is placed in the group of Dr Michal Maj at the Ångström laboratory of Uppsala University. We are a rapidly growing and highly productive research team, focused on studying biomolecular structure and dynamics with novel spectroscopic techniques. We take advantage of the rapid acquisition of femtosecond two-dimensional infrared (2D IR) spectroscopy to study the structure and aggregation kinetics of the toxic intermediate formed by the human islet amyloid polypeptide (hIAPP) – the pancreatic hormone whose aggregation is linked to the loss of insulin-producing cells in type 2 diabetes. We complement our spectroscopic studies with biochemical and cell assays and attempt solving the 3D structures of the most toxic peptide species with high-resolution cryogen electron microscopy.

Last Application Date: 2022-05-30

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