Chalmers University of Technology has huge a campus in Gothenburg and widely known as for its contribution in top notch education and research. The contribution of Chalmers University of Technology is not only limited to natural sciences and engineering but it also offers high quality research as well as higher education in bio-medical sciences, social sciences, humanities, psychology, education, architecture etc.

1. PhD student positions in Industrial Digitalisation for Smart and Sustainable Production in Industry 5.0

Summary of Doctoral Project:

The Division of Production Systems addresses the challenges of industrial digitalization for smart, sustainable, and human-centred manufacturing. We work closely with industry to enable design, operation, and maintenance of future production systems. Our research focuses on several parts of the systems, for example collaborative robots, human work, automation, digital support tools, applied AI, and advanced connectivity. We analyse large and small production systems in terms of productivity, sustainability, reliability, and safety. We operate one of the most advanced manufacturing research labs in Sweden, Stena Industry Innovation Lab.

Last Application Date: 28 April, 2022

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2. PhD student position in advanced hydrometallurgy for metal recovery from the secondary sources

Summary of Doctoral Project:

Sustainability and reliability of raw material sources are significant problems of modern society, and securing the material supply is the bottleneck that we can solve by creative recycling approaches. As the team member of the research group, the PhD student will challenge to overcome this issue and support the society to reach sustainability goals. This position will allow the student to develop skills and knowledge on not only the batteries recycling, chemical/ metallurgical technologies, and advanced material characterization techniques but also communication, reporting, and creative thinking. The project aims to demonstrate a circular material flow for critical raw materials in the battery industry by developing efficient recycling and combined material production processes. The research challenges the current available technologies and aims to develop more sustainable and efficient methods in respect to material recovery rate and impact of the technology on the environment.

Last Application Date: 31 May 2022

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3. PhD or Postdoc position in terahertz electronics for wireless communication

Summary of Doctoral Project:

The Department of Microtechnology and Nanoscience (MC2) is a unique research department in micro- and nanotechnology, housing more than 200 researchers and PhD students. At the terahertz and millimetre wave division, main research activities are on technologies with applications ranging from basic science to future wireless sensors and communication systems. This research project is supported by the Swedish Foundation for strategic research (SSF) and aims to explore future solutions for wireless communication at terahertz frequencies. In particular, the focus is on emerging or future telecommunication applications that require disruptive technology with ultra-wide bandwidth and data rates far beyond the 5G and 6G roadmaps.

Last Application Date: 14 April 2022

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4. PhD student position in virtual predictions of sensor soiling

Summary of Doctoral Project:

In this project, we will speed up virtual predictions of sensor soiling by applying the so-called rCFD method. This method uses a minimal database of highly resolved simulation data to time-extrapolate the aerodynamic process in a very efficient way. In other applications, rCFD has been shown to improve simulation times by several orders of magnitude while maintaining acceptable accuracy. Our ambition is here to develop an experimentally validated rCFD methodology for virtual predictions of sensor soiling in automotive applications. The work will comprise high-fidelity simulations of vehicle aerodynamics, both for simplified test objects and for real vehicles, as well as experimental validation tests, plus implementation and optimization of the rCFD method for the current class of problems.

Last Application Date: 16 April 2022

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5. PhD student position in Digitalisation for Community Development in Rural Areas

Summary of Doctoral Project:

The PhD project is part of the project “Facilitating a new rurality beyond GDP through a Community Operating System”, funded by Formas. You will be part of the Division of Urban Design and Planning, in which we address urban design and planning in all scales and all types of settlements, from single urban spaces to the urban landscape and entire regions. Our main focus in both research and education is on how the built environment can support sustainable development. As cities and regions today face economic, social and ecological challenges – such as climate change, competition for land, increasing regional imbalance, segregation and gentrification – we develop theories, methods and tools with the aim to make a difference.

Last Application Date: 29 April 2022

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7. 2 PhD student positions in concurrent data abstractions for parallel data-stream analytics and machine learning

Summary of Doctoral Project:

The Department of Computer Science and Engineering is a joint department at Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg, with activities on two campuses in the city of Gothenburg. The department has around 270 employees from over 30 countries. Our research has a wide span, from theoretical foundations to applied systems development. We provide high quality education at Bachelor’s, Master’s and graduate levels, offering over 120 courses each year. We also have extensive national and international collaborations with academia, industry and society.

Last Application Date: 4 May 2022

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8. PhD student position in Food Science – Alternative proteins and 3D food printing 

Summary of Doctoral Project:

A shift toward production and consumption of foods with lower environmental impacts such as plant (green) and aquatic (blue) foods is necessary to promote sustainability of our food system. This transition is hindered by e.g., low efficiency in their production, extensively purified ingredients, unfavorable nutrients and taste of plant proteins, overpressure on aquatic resources, low diversity of plant alternatives and low attractability for consumer toward them. The FORMAS funded project called 3DMIX has gathered competences at Chalmers and Lund Universities and several food companies to address these issues. 3DMIX aims to benefit from the advantages of both green and blue resources to solve their respective drawbacks by integrating them into mixtures sharing advantages of each source. In this new approach, protein-rich functional fractions from agricultural side streams and underutilized aquatic resources will be precisely mixed and then formulated to healthy and hybrid personalized foods via high moisture extrusion and 3D food printing.

Last Application Date: 18 April 2022

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9. PhD student position in Astronomy

Summary of Doctoral Project:

As a PhD student you will be part of the Onsala Space Observatory Division of the Department of Space, Earth and Environment. Onsala Space Observatory is the Swedish national facility for Radio Astronomy, hosting the Nordic ALMA Regional Centre and also research groups in Advanced Receiver Development and Space Geodesy and Geodynamics. Astronomy and astrophysics research is hosted within two divisions at SEE, Onsala Space Observatory and Astronomy and Plasma Physics. Our members work in close connection and research covers a wide range of topics including astrochemistry, the birth and death of stars, exoplanets, formation and evolution of galaxies and the solar system. The research spans theoretical and computational studies, observational programs and instrumentation development for ground and space-based observatories. Physically, we are situated both at the observatory in Onsala south of Gothenburg and at the main Johanneberg campus in Gothenburg.

Last Application Date: 15 May, 2022

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10. PhD students in Quantum Nanophotonics

Summary of Doctoral Project:

Our approach to quantum computing uses high-fidelity cryogenic microwave qubits. However, it is currently impossible to connect the qubits well beyond a single refrigerator while preserving their fragile quantum properties – creating major challenges in scaling. Optical photons, with their long-distance and near-noiseless propagation along room-temperature fibers, are uniquely placed to tackle this challenge. We will study nanophotonic devices to connect several smaller quantum processors into a large quantum computer. Doing so, we will establish a new interdisciplinary team in photonics and quantum engineering.

Last Application Date: Open until filled

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11. PhD student position in Innovation Leadership

Summary of Doctoral Project:

We are now looking to recruit a PhD student in innovation leadership. The field of research lies in the intersection between leadership studies and innovation management, with a specific focus on the construction industry in Sweden. This industry is ongoingly berated for its lacking performance. A succession of governmental reports and research have concluded that the industry suffers from excessive production costs, low efficiency, slow delivery, unsafe workplaces, and failure to innovate, among other things. While the various stakeholders recognize the urgent need to address these shortcomings, transformation and change have remained slow and disappointing. Leadership research has established a convincing correlation between leadership and successful change on group-, organizational-, and industry levels. Despite these promises, the relation and role of leadership as a potentially central ingredient for change in the construction industry remains largely unexplored.

Last Application Date: 9 May 2022

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12. Doctoral student in Software Engineering

Summary of Doctoral Project:

The successful candidate will investigate under supervision challenges and opportunities related to a scalable and connected digital and physical infrastructure that are considered to be functional/non-functional enablers and inhibitors to provide safe L4 autonomous driving; the vision is to investigate and derive a methodology for evaluating, adjusting and digitalizing existing physical and digital infrastructure(s) for L4 autonomous driving. The successful candidate will participate in project meetings and will support in preparing scientific publications. The proposed work requires presence at the premises of the collaborating companies, and therefore the candidate must have good social skills and collegial qualities.

Last Application Date: 19 Apr 2022

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13. PhD student position in Formal Verification of Smart Contracts

Summary of Doctoral Project:

The Automation Group, within the Department of Electrical Engineering conducts research on formal verification of safety and security of smart contracts. Smart contracts are computer programs that change the way future business and trade are executed. The smart contracts are openly stored and executed in a blockchain ecosystem, enforcing a contractual agreement between mutually distrusting users, including the exchange of crypto currencies. An important feature of smart contracts is that once they are deployed on the blockchain they cannot be changed. Smart contracts successfully address the problem of guaranteeing the execution of agreements in a setting where parties neither need to trust each other, nor do they need to involve a third party (like bank, layer, or authority). At the same time, they provide a surface for security attacks.

Last Application Date: 31 March, 2022

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14. PhD student position in collaboration in major infrastructure construction projects

Summary of Doctoral Project:

This Ph.D. student project is part of an externally funded research project on inter-organisational collaboration in complex infrastructure and/or civil engineering projects in the AEC (architecture, engineering and construction) industry. Public infrastructure clients in Sweden are working more towards partnering and collaborative delivery models for complex infrastructure and/or civil engineering projects, for example early contractor involvement contracts. These new collaboration forms have impact on responsibilities, new roles, project management and project structure and on the development of new practices and the usage of digital technologies. For the proejct, the focus will be on studying collaboration between public clients, civil engineering consultants and contractors in relation to new ways of working, innovation, as well as digital practices and relevant competence for digital work in complex and major infrastructure and/or civil engineering projects.

Last Application Date: 1 April 2022

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15. PhD student position in pulping technology: Falling film evaporation

Summary of Doctoral Project:

The aim of the project is to understand the physical mechanisms behind the heat transfer and scaling rate in evaporation plants under different operating conditions and process changes in order to maintain a higher and more robust evaporation capacity of the mills. The PhD-student will conduct experiments at world-unique pilot evaporator, producing results relevant for industrial conditions, and utilize state-of-the-art numerical simulations to achieve this goal. The heat transfer and scaling rates dependence on temperature, dry solids and salt content are expected to be experimentally investigated. The PhD-student will also work with developing a numerical framework for simulating crystallization in liquid films under industrially relevant conditions to provide explanations for experimental observations on crystallization on the heat transfer surfaces.

Last Application Date: 31 March 2022

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16. PhD student position in quantum nanophotonics technology

Summary of Doctoral Project:

The Photonics laboratory at the Microtechnology and Nanoscience Department (MC2) is a dynamic and creative group with about 30 members working in an international and collaborative atmosphere. We perform both curiosity-driven and applied-research in the areas of silicon photonics, optoelectronics, nonlinear optics and fiber optic systems. We enjoy a state-of-the-art laboratory for nanophotonic characterization and have access to in-house cleanroom facilities to manufacture photonic devices. The past decade has witnessed impressive advances in technologies for quantum computing based on trapped-ion systems as well as superconducting circuit boards. These quantum computer systems can perform certain operation tasks at a rate exceeding what is possible with state-of-the-art classical hardware. An alternative technology for realizing quantum computation is based on photonics. Photonic quantum computing relies on a different class of algorithms and uses multi-photon squeezed states of light as the fundamental resource to implement Gaussian boson sampling.

Last Application Date: 15 April 2022

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17. PhD student position in Computer Vision and Machine Learning

Summary of Doctoral Project:

In this project, we will go one step further and develop disentangled latent representations, not just for individual objects, but for full three-dimensional scenes with multiple objects that might change over time. The goal is to provide support for operations like adding, modifying and removing objects, changing scene conditions, modelling scene dynamics, as well as automatically complete missing parts of the 3D scene.

Last Application Date: 27 March 2022

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18. PhD student position in usable privacy and security

Summary of Doctoral Project:

The Department of Computer Science and Engineering is a joint department at Chalmers University of Technology and the University of Gothenburg, with activities on two campuses in the city of Gothenburg. The department has around 270 employees from over 30 countries. Our research has a wide span, from theoretical foundations to applied systems development. We provide high quality education at Bachelor’s, Master’s and graduate levels, offering over 120 courses each year. We also have extensive national and international collaborations with academia, industry and society.

Last Application Date: 1 May 2022

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19. 2 PhD student positions in systems and languages for cybersecurity and privacy

Summary of Doctoral Project:

The Department of Computer Science and Engineering is a joint department at Chalmers University of Technology and the University of Gothenburg, with activities on two campuses in the city of Gothenburg. The department has around 270 employees from over 30 countries. Our research has a wide span, from theoretical foundations to applied systems development. We provide high quality education at Bachelor’s, Master’s and graduate levels, offering over 120 courses each year. We also have extensive national and international collaborations with academia, industry and society.

Last Application Date: 1 May 2022

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20. PhD student position in analog linearization of efficient microwave power amplifiers

Summary of Doctoral Project:

We are looking for a PhD student who wants to work in a research project where you will investigate different approaches to analog linearization and energy efficiency enhancements and design transmitters incorporating such circuits. You will get the opportunity to work with simulation tools to design and analyze microwave circuits that will be implemented either on printed circuit boards or as integrated circuits. You will then measure your circuits using the world class measurement capabilities at MC2, learning state of the art measurement techniques but also develop your own methods.

Last Application Date: 31st of March 2022

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21. PhD student position in Resilient stormwater management in a changing climate – optimizing gully pots

Summary of Doctoral Project:

In our built environment, stormwater runoff from roads must be handled to prevent flooding as climate changes cause increased precipitation. Current understanding on the capacity of gully pots to handle future increased stormwater flows and to retain particles and pollutants is limited. The main focus of the project is to model the flow and transport of particles in a gully pot to understand the processes in and optimize the function and design of gully pots for removal of particles. This requires knowledge and experience of multiphase flow modelling. The project also includes building an experimental set-up of a gully pot. The experimental measurements are used to validate the model.

Last Application Date: 3 April 2022

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22. PhD student position in in Systems Engineering Design

Summary of Doctoral Project:

We seek to strengthen the group in the areas of Digital Twin Driven Design of novel and radical technologies and solutions. Product development, especially in the space industry, needs to explore a large variety of design concepts, and to identify the most robust design alternative. However, exploring and predicting the performances of many different designs through physical testing is a very costly approach. As a PhD student you will learn and develop new methods and tools for exploiting the results from physical testing in digital models, as a means to reuse the results from physical testing to validate new designs and their ranges of validity. You are expected to develop your own scientific concepts and communicate the results of your research verbally and in writing, both in Swedish and in English.

Last Application Date: 4 April 2022

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23. PhD student position in multiphysics modelling of geostructures in FEniCSx

Summary of Doctoral Project:

We are looking for a highly motivated and talented individual to fill a PhD student position linked with a a research project funded by Formas (Swedish research council), which aims to develop a multi-physics model to assess the impact of climate change on the built environment in terms of stability and ground movements. A major component will be the development of an efficient scalable computational framework for multiphysics modelling of geostructures in FEniCSx, accounting for the spatial heterogeneity of the soil and the probabilistic nature of the environmental loading on its interfaces (atmosphere, lower and upper aquifer).

Last Application Date: 30 April 2022

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24. PhD student position in Design: Enabling re-use in Swedish households

Summary of Doctoral Project:

The position is tied to the project “Mining Garage Gold – exploring and expanding the potentials for increased reuse in Swedish households”. The project is based on the idea that there are unused resources in the form of useful, but unused, products in people’s homes, garages and storages, at the same time as many useful products are currently discarded or recycled. Increasing reuse by recirculating products between households is a key factor to achieve sustainable consumption patterns and optimise the use of produced objects. In the project, households’ unused resources will be inventoried and the process of recirculating products to new households will be charted.

Last Application Date: 15 April 2022

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25. PhD student position in Recycling of Li-ion batteries by supercritical fluid technology

Summary of Doctoral Project:

Sustainability and reliability of energy sources and portative energy storage devices are significant problems of the modern society, and securing the conflict-free material supply is the bottleneck that we can solve by creative recycling approaches. As the team member of the research group, the PhD student will challenge to overcome this issue and support the society to reach sustainability goals. This position will allow the student to develop skills and knowledge on not only the battery technologies, recycling, chemical/metallurgical technologies, and advanced material characterization techniques but also communication, reporting, and creative thinking.

Last Application Date: 30 April 2022

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