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20 Fully Funded PhD Positions at NTNU, Norway

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Are you holding Master’s degree and ready to elevate your academic journey to the highest level? NTNU, Norway, has announced a multiple fully funded PhD positions awaiting talented individuals like you. Don’t miss your chance to be part of our vibrant academic community. Explore the exciting PhD positions available and submit your application today!”

Candidates interested in fully funded PhD positions can check the details and may apply as soon as possible. 

 

(01) Fully Funded PhD Position 

PhD position summary/title:–PhD Candidate in molecular dynamics simulation in mineral processing – IV-99/24

We are seeking a highly motivated and talented candidate for a 3-year PhD position in molecular dynamics simulation with a focus on mineral processing. This position offers an exciting opportunity to contribute to cutting-edge research aimed at advancing our understanding of mineral behavior and interactions at the molecular level. Sustainable mineral processing is critical for the efficient and environmentally friendly extraction of critical raw materials, essential for the green shift and the development of renewable energy technologies. The successful candidate will work within a multidisciplinary team, utilizing advanced simulation techniques to explore the fundamental processes governing mineral processing. 

The successsful candidate will be supervised by Professor Pshem Kowalczuk and will be part of the Mineral Processing Laboratory at NTNU (Mineral processing Laboratory – IGP – NTNU). Research and education at the Mineral Processing Laboratory at NTNU provide vital knowledge on sustainable processing of ores and minerals and the recovery of valuable components from industrial waste. The laboratory is unique in Norway and plays a strategically important role in the shift towards a greener and more circular economy.

Deadline : 30th September 2024

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(02) Fully Funded PhD Position 

PhD position summary/title:–  Ph.D. Candidate in Geography with focus on climate resilience

The Department of Geography at NTNU is looking for a Ph.D. candidate to join the RETRACE project funded by the Belmont Forum and the Research Council of Norway. RETRACE is an international collaboration that seeks to investigate resilience to climate risks by drawing lessons from the lived experiences of indigenous Arctic and Pacific communities. The doctoral researcher will be part of an international team.

The Ph.D. candidate will be responsible for the collection and analysis of qualitative data on resilience and visions of climate risks from communities in Northern Norway. The candidate is expected to use a narrative approach, to collect and analyze testimonials, memories, experiences, sensitivities and expertise on climate resilience and visions of climate risks from minority/indigenous communities.
The Ph.D. candidate will also contribute to the collection, analysis and presentation of quantitative resilience indicators. RETRACE combines human geography, climate science and Geographical Information Systems (GIS). This is a project involving partners in Norway, France and the United States of America, and it will be important that the candidate has a proactive stance toward cooperation with the partners. Based at the Department of Geography, the candidate will find an international, friendly and supportive environment. Some travel for fieldwork, conferences and project meetings is to be expected.

For a position as a PhD Candidate, the goal is a completed doctoral education up to an obtained doctoral degree.
Your immediate leader is the Head of Department.

Deadline : 5th September 2024

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(03) Fully Funded PhD Position 

PhD position summary/title:–  PhD Candidate in Project management for sustainable health care environments

We are looking for a PhD candidate with a passion for sustainability and eagerness to develop deeper understanding of how practice can continue to implement sustainability in complex building construction projects. Our focus is on how hospitals in Norway can move in a more sustainable direction when financial resources are restricted and implement changes that ensure that built health care environments contribute to a sustainable, circular and regenerative world. Relevant themes for this PhD candidate include decision-making, users’ needs, innovation, organisational learning and the like. 

The candidate will have the opportunity to continue developing a framework for sustainability knowledge  to ensure it fits organizations who wants to develop and implement common understanding and actions within the built environment. The research shall have particular focus on health care facilities, such as hospitals. The focus for this PhD candidate is not directly related to the facilities and how to construct them. The focus is on understanding the perspectives of different roles and actors that links to this issue at hand. Based on this understanding it is expected that the PhD candidate develops frameworks and knowledge that others (later research projects and practitioners) can use to improve their strategies and processes and as such advance their journey towards a sustainable, circular and regenerative built environment. 

Researchers and construction industry actors have desire to create sustainable business models and value chains. Many innovative solutions and state-of-art ideas exist that tend to be expensive. The high cost makes the funding organizations reject such ideas and solutions, thereby hampering the transformation into a sustainable future. So, what can we do? What projects and actions are possible to implement? In this PhD project, we aim to develop deeper understanding for the possibilities enabling project owners to contribute to a sustainable built hospital environment when they are constrained by limited funding.

Deadline :2nd September 2024

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(04) Fully Funded PhD Position 

PhD position summary/title:– PhD Candidate in Environmental Humanities, Language Education and Artificial Intelligence

The Department of Teacher Education, Section for English and Foreign Languages, offers a full-time, 3-year position as a Ph.D. candidate to take part in the project “Climate Change, Language Education, and AI” in cooperation with the research group on technology and learning in education: NTED-DIGIT. The project leaders are Associate Professor Tom NurmiAssociate Professor Fredrik Mørk Røkenes,  and Postdoctoral Researcher Han Han.

Although AI has the potential to be a tool in climate modeling and remediation efforts, its extractive resource and supply chain costs, e-waste pathways, and carbon footprint actively contribute to pollution and global warming. This project examines how language education can be a site of critical information literacy around environmental climate research and the cost/benefits of AI technologies. The “Climate Change, Language Education, and AI” project explores how AI ed-tech (e.g., text-to-image generators DALL-E/MidJourney) influences students’ epistemic beliefs about environmental climate research and (mis)information in English in the school while also investigating the pedagogical potential of current trends in AI-climate-related natural sciences and humanities projects (e.g., biodiversity monitoring, pollution detection, AI in eco-literature, etc.).  

Deadline : 2nd September 2024

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(05) Fully Funded PhD Position 

PhD position summary/title:– Two PhD Candidates in Modern European Migration History

Migrants’ uneven access to social welfare is one of the most pressing concerns in today’s European Union. InternalFortress will uncover the role that this issue played in the early history of regional integration in the European Economic Community (EEC), focusing on social security, union participation, and skill development.

European rules on ‘freedom of movement’ allowed migrant workers from an EEC member state to claim social protection anywhere in the bloc. The PhD case studies will hone-in on one specific national context – either France or West Germany – to trace how these general rules that were set in Brussels were carried out or contested in practice. What steps were taken in national and local institutions to help European migrants gain access to social services on the ground or to block them from doing so?  Who participated in that process, for example, state administrators, employers, unions, NGOs, churches, or migrant-led mutual aid organizations? Did these actors differentiate between different groups of European and non-European migrants?  

The PhD fellows are encouraged to develop their own approach to these questions, for example by focusing on a particular group of migrants, a locality, an economic sector, or an organization. These in-depth national case studies will complement work by the PI on European and international migration policy and work by the project’s postdoc on Europe’s place in global NGO networks. The team members will work together to build a rich source base that will combine official documents with material from private associations such as Caritas or International Social Service. 

Deadline : 1st September 2024

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(06) Fully Funded PhD Position 

PhD position summary/title:– Ph.D. Candidate in Work and Organizational Psychology

We have a vacancy for a four-year Ph.D. position at the Department of Psychology in the area of Work and Organizational Psychology. The Ph.D. student will take part in a research project focused on occupational anxiety and employee health promotion. Specifically, the successful candidate will contribute to developing a measure of occupational anxiety, investigating the predictors and outcomes of occupational anxiety longitudinally, and carrying out an intervention for occupational anxiety. Other aspects of job-related distress may be examined as well. 

We anticipate the starting date for the candidate to be early 2025. The candidate’s broader goal is to complete a doctoral education up to the validation of a doctoral degree. The specific objectives and research questions linked to the Ph.D. project will be developed in consultation with the supervisors during the first months of the doctoral training.

Deadline : 26th August 2024

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(07) Fully Funded PhD Position 

PhD position summary/title:– PhD position in artistic entrepreneurship

We are looking for applicants with a drive to explore, articulate and document the capacity of art and culture and creativity not only to adapt and contribute but to drive societal transformation processes. 

We think of artistic entrepreneurship as a dynamic agency that promotes innovative collaboration between artists, designers, researchers, public and private actors, and that transcends traditional boundaries to create new possibilities for action. Artistic entrepreneurship involves a collective effort to act together across sectors, disciplines, and society’s actors. Artistic entrepreneurship encourages shared response, shared production methods and creative solutions, and inspires individuals to address society’s most pressing challenges.

The PhD position will offer the successful candidate a unique opportunity to get involved in artistic research at the same time as they investigate the possibilities for entrepreneurship and innovation across disciplines with an artistic starting point. By building a bridge between the expertise at research environments in the NTNU department of design and the Trondheim academy of Fine art, the position will provide a comprehensive framework for examining the role of the creatives as entrepreneurs and change-makers in today’s society. The doctorate will support, unfold, and document the development of the joint master’s program in artistic entrepreneurship and give input to the Horizon Europe-funded research project PACESETTERS, https://pacesetters.eu

The position is expected to make use of the TV-studio research infrastructure available in the department and interact with and connect to the PACESETTERS research project and the artistic entrepreneurship master program. The position thus requires a high level of commitment to contribute to an artistic research environment that experiments at the intersections of multiple forms within the framework of knowledge production through the arts.

Deadline : 25th August 2024

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(08) Fully Funded PhD Position 

PhD position summary/title:– PhD in the Gonzalo Cogno Group

For a position as a PhD Candidate, the goal is a completed doctoral education up to an obtained doctoral degree.

The Neural Dynamics and Computation group, led by Soledad Gonzalo Cogno, is a computational neuroscience group recently established at the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience.

The institute is part of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at NTNU. It was established as a Centre of Excellence in 2002, 2012, and again in 2023. Our new Centre of Excellence, the Center for Algorithms in the Cortex will be funded for 10 years by the Norwegian Research Council. The scientific goal of the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience is to understand neural circuits and systems in the cortex and to identify neural-population mechanisms underlying high-level cognitive functions. 

Deadline : 25th August 2024

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(09) Fully Funded PhD Position 

PhD position summary/title:– PhD Candidate in Reference Systems for a Cyber-Physical Range

Cyber Physical Systems are integral to Critical Infrastructures; however, their architectural and operational features are inadequately represented in current cyber ranges. These ranges are often limited in scope or intentionally focused on specific sections of target systems. The intended utilization of the physical reference environments examined, modeled, and integrated in this study will serve two purposes. These include functioning as educational and outreach demonstrators, as well as serving as experimental platforms for research and training endeavors. The research will be carried out within the context of SFI NORCICS, the research-based innovation Norwegian Center for Cybersecurity in Critical Sectors. These sectors include electricity production and distribution, oil & gas production and distribution, manufacturing, healthcare, industrial production, smart districts. NORCICS follows a holistic, comprehensive and systemic approach addressing people, processes and technology to protect critical sectors throughout the cybersecurity core functions (identify, protect, detect, respond, recover). NORCICS has partners from academia, research, the public sector and the industry

Deadline : 24th August 2024

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(10) Fully Funded PhD Position 

PhD position summary/title:– PhD Candidate in AI-powered Digital Monitoring Systems for Small-Scale Fisheries in East Africa

Work package 1 of the Asia-Africa Blue Tech Superhighway (COAST) project aims to develop digital information systems for effective management of small-scale fisheries in Kenya, Zanzibar and Tanzania. These fisheries are multi-species, geographically dispersed and exhibit flexible and dynamic fishing patterns. This makes data collection, stock assessment and data-informed management difficult. To address this, a high resolution near real-time digital catch monitoring system will be designed and implemented, including trackers to be installed on a selection of fishing vessels. 

This PhD position will focus on improving the existing monitoring system, and develop dynamic maps of ocean conditions plus predictions of good fishing zones, based on catch and effort data plus partially simulated and partially measured oceanographic data. This system will furthermore be used to provide input to fisheries management though the use of AI methods and control theory.

The position reports to Associate Professor Morten Omholt Alver, morten.alver@ntnu.no , who will be the main supervisor. Prof. Damiano Varagnolo will be co-supervisor.

Deadline : 20th August 2024

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(11) Fully Funded PhD Position 

PhD position summary/title:– PhD Candidate in Aging Models and Reliability of Extruded HVDC Cables for Offshore Power

The lack of established physics based ageing models for extruded HVDC cables presents a challenge in ensuring their long-term reliability. While extruded cable insulation for AC has been in use for decades, directly applying that knowledge to HVDC stresses is not straightforward. Understanding the intrinsic thermo-electric ageing mechanisms specific to HVDC cables is crucial for predicting their lifespan, which can extend up to 40 years or more. Furthermore, contaminants from production (e.g. scorch, cross linking by-products, protrusions from semicons etc.) may have a large impact on the ageing/degradation of the insulation. Furthermore, establishing the effect of humidity on the ageing process is important as the most established water barrier for subsea cables, extruded lead sheath, is not compatible with dynamic cables and the use of lead is likely going to be severely restricted in the EU in the near future. Alternatives may include wet or semi-wet designs, and for this to be possible under HVDC the short- and long-term effect on the reliability of the cable system needs to be established. Moreover, without well-established ageing models, conducting effective condition assessments becomes challenging, potentially leading to unforeseen failures and costly repairs. As the adoption of extruded HVDC cable systems increases, there is an urgent need for comprehensive research and development efforts to address this knowledge gap and ensure the continued reliability of HVDC transmission infrastructure. 

The position is sponsored by the LowEmission Research Centre. This centre will develop new technologies and concepts for offshore energy systems, energy efficiency and integration with renewable power production technologies for application on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS). The prospective candidate will be part of a project team that works in close collaboration with the LowEmission consortium. The PhD candidate will be employed at NTNU, and the workplace will be in Trondheim, in connection with this research centre. 

The main supervisor for the PhD candidate is Professor Øystein Hestad, and co-supervisors are Professor Frank Mauseth and Dr. Torbjørn Andersen Ve (SINTEF Energy Research). 

Deadline :18th August 2024

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(12) Fully Funded PhD Position 

PhD position summary/title:– PhD in Economic Geography, specializing in geographies of labour markets in the energy transition

The Department of Geography at NTNU has a 3-year vacancy for a PhD position in economic geography, contributing to the project Making the Green Shift Work for Regions (GSW). Funded by the Research Council of Norway’s Welfare, Culture and Society programme, the GSW project seeks to better integrate localities and regions, labour markets and working lives as central elements within the green shift, rather than merely as outcomes of the energy transition.  The overall objective is to help develop a new understanding of how regional labour markets are adapting to the challenge of green shift, using the example of Oil & Gas specialised regions. 

Drawing on a geographical labour markets perspective, the GSW project aims to better understand how labour markets processes vary between places, operating and performing differently based on their industrial histories, social and institutional contexts, and regulatory settings.  In particular, the research will explore and develop the regional skills ecosystem as an analytical framework to help develop both theory and policy prescription. As the green shift unfolds, the ways in which different regional skills ecosystems adapt and change will vary and have important implications for processes of regional competitiveness and labour market inclusion. 

In collaboration with the project’s research partners Newcastle University, Sintef Digital and FAFO, the NTNU-led PhD will provide research insights into the evolution and adaptation of the regional skills ecosystems within and across the O&G and green energy sectors.  Particularly important will be identifying the evolving institutional contexts, structure and configuration of regional Oil and Gas labour markets and the extent to which key actors’ develop adaptive strategies and responses to the shifting market and emerging growth of green energy activities.  Within which, the PhD will contribute to the project’s novel international comparative analysis of energy transition in carbon intensive regions across Norway (Rogaland, Trøndelag) and Scotland (Aberdeen and North East Scotland). Applicants are encouraged to conduct research stays abroad and acquire mobility funds from Research Council Norway.

Deadline : 15th August 2024

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(13) Fully Funded PhD Position 

PhD position summary/title:– PhD candidate in social anthropology

We seek a candidate to do ethnographic research on issues related to peatlands, peatland restoration, and sustainability in Norway.

We are currently in the UN Decade for Ecosystem Restoration and peatlands are an especially important part of Norway’s restoration efforts. There is a widely felt sense that a lot – climate change, flood risk, biodiversity – hinges on what happens with peatlands. At the same time, uncertainties revolve around peatlands, and especially restored peatlands. 

The project may explore issues such as how people understand the role peatlands play in a sustainable future; what it means to restore peatland landscapes in a time of increasing pressure, degradation, and collapse; how people practically involve themselves with peatlands and how such efforts affect their knowledge and understanding; and what peatlands can tell us about the relations between science, policy, and society in times of global environmental change. We seek someone who is interested in newer environmental anthropology, open to theoretical innovation, and motivated to do in-depth ethnographic fieldwork.

Deadline : 15th August 2024

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(14) Fully Funded PhD Position 

PhD position summary/title:– PhD Candidate in Sports Engineering

For a position as a PhD Candidate, the goal is a completed doctoral education up to an obtained doctoral degree.

As part of the NRC IPN grant “FramSki – The future of responsible skiing” (FramSki), we have a vacancy for a 3-year PhD position at the Senter for Sports Facility and Sports Technology (SIAT), hosted by the NTNU, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. The transition to fluorine-free ski waxes in competitive and recreational skiing demands innovative solutions for reducing ski-snow friction. In the FramSki project, we tackle friction at the macro, micro and nano level in an interdisciplinary research project in collaboration with leading industry partners.

This specific PhD project focuses on the development of innovative ski designs and ski sole structuring techniques. You will be part of an innovative team of makers, and you will learn a lot about ski technology and innovation. In this project you will combine analytical thinking, advanced ski-snow friction testing and fast prototyping to experimentally develop innovative new ski designs and ski-sole structuring techniques.

Deadline : 15th August 2024

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(15) Fully Funded PhD Position 

PhD position summary/title:– PhD Candidate in Real Implementation of Model Predictive Control for Building Heating

Buildings are energy-flexible in the sense that they can move their loads in time, typically to provide services to the electricity or district heating grids (also called demand response). For instance, one key objective can be to decrease energy use during peak hours while maintaining acceptable comfort for occupants. In cold climates, the space-heating is a dominant load and advanced control can adapt this load by changing the indoor temperature in time. Model Predictive Control (MPC) gets increasing interest in performing this control. While this solution has been extensively investigated using simulations (meaning virtual experiments), there are still limited examples where MPC has been deployed and tested in a real building and over a long period. However, real buildings can differ significantly from simulations. Firstly, the amount of measurement data can be limited, and not properly structured or standardized. Secondly, the building may not be built and operated exactly as originally planned. Thirdly, physical phenomena may be more complex in reality than in simulation, for instance regarding the heating system and the occupant behavior. Finally, the existing “legacy” automation system may not be suited. Therefore, this PhD aims to define an MPC setup (or technical pathway) that can support some of these limitations and to test it in a real non-residential building. The final objective is to provide thorough documentation of the test case.

The PhD thesis is part of Green2050, the Centre for Green Shift in the Built Environment. This centre aims to be an arena of networking and collaboration between academia and the industry. A hub for accelerating existing, planned, and new projects. The goal is to transition into a carbon-neutral built environment by 2050.

Deadline : 15th August 2024

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(16) Fully Funded PhD Position 

PhD position summary/title:– PhD Candidate in Fact Checking/Information Verification

For a position as a PhD Candidate, the goal is a completed doctoral education up to an obtained doctoral degree. 

Fact checking or information verification is the basis for many pressing real-world problems such as fake news detection. False information that spreads very fast as news is a growing problem with serious real-world consequences. With the advancements of large language models (LLMs), this issue has become even more important. LLMs have proved themselves very useful in certain tasks and their usage in many areas is increasing. However, these models are not very reliable in means of the truthfulness of the information they generate. For whatever purpose it is, the importance of fact checking or information verification is increasing. External knowledge sources, such as knowledge graphs (KGs) can be used for fact checking purposes, also in combination with LLMs. However, this process has its challenges such as KGs being the bottleneck and not being novel enough in certain domains. In this position, the PhD candidate will work towards fact checking/information verification where one of the important use cases is trustworthy LLMs. The candidate might explore the use and integration of knowledge graphs and other external knowledge resources with LLMs as well as using the fake news domain as a use-case. 

The candidate will work in cooperation with the partners of NorwAI at NTNU. The SFI NorwAI is a research-based innovation Center for AI Innovation hosted at NTNU in Trondheim, Norway. NorwAI joins forces with 15 partners from industry, universities and research institutes. Research areas cover competences that the Norwegian industry needs to develop cutting-edge theories, methods and technology, for efficient, effective and responsible exploitation of data-driven AI in innovative industrial solutions.

Deadline : 15th August 2024

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(17) Fully Funded PhD Position 

PhD position summary/title:– PhD Candidate in Physical Education and Sport

For a position as a PhD Candidate, the goal is a completed doctoral education up to an obtained doctoral degree.

The International Disability Research in Education and Teacher Training (IDRETT) research group  has a vacancy for a 3-year PhD position in the Department of Teacher Education within the physical education and sport group. 

The successful applicant will engage in a research project examining the disability experience of students and recently graduated adults from Norwegian schools with an emphasis on understanding the disability experiences in physical education and sport contexts. A largely qualitative inquiry and exploration, the project may utilize diverse methodology to accomplish this goal. In concert with the data gathered and research published, this project will require the PhD student to consider the dissemination of material in order to reach teachers, connect the findings to the Norwegian curriculum, and collaborate with research group members to create opportunities for in-service workshops and learning opportunities in an effort to better the school environment that we’ve examined.

Deadline :12th August 2024

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(18) Fully Funded PhD Position 

PhD position summary/title:– PhD Candidate in in sustainable and profitable business models development

For a position as a PhD Candidate, the goal is a completed doctoral education up to an obtained doctoral degree.

The position is anchored at NTNU in Ålesund and is part of the multi-partner SFI Harvest project – Technologies for sustainable biomarine value creation. We are looking for candidates with a background or experience within at least one of the following areas: Business strategy, sustainability / environmental management, sustainable supply/value chain management, management rules for the fisheries, marketing mechanisms for fish food products. You will report to the Head of Department.

Sustainability within the value chains in biomarine sector becomes and increasingly overall requirement for production of sustainable fish products.

The main purpose of the PhD is to build a prospective and comprehensive business model for sustainability for the development of sustainable feed production.

Deadline :11th August 2024

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(19) Fully Funded PhD Position 

PhD position summary/title:– PhD Candidate in environmental analysis of a circular built environment

For a position as a PhD Candidate, the goal is a completed doctoral education up to an obtained doctoral degree.

A PhD position in environmental analysis of a circular built environment is now open at the Energy and Environment Group at the Department of Architecture and Technology, NTNU. The Energy and Environment Group lead centres/projects like the Research centre on zero emission neighbourhoods in smart cities (ZEN)syn.ikia – Sustainable plus energy neighbourhoods, and the Green Deal ARV project on Climate positive circular communities, and use real demonstration projects and our laboratory facilities (like the ZEB laboratory) extensively in our research. The group currently comprises 10 senior staff members (professors and associate professors), and around 20 research fellows (research assistants, PhD candidates, and post-doctoral researchers). The duration of the position is 3 or 4 years.

The construction sector urgently needs to transition towards a circular economy to achieve sustainability goals. This includes ensuring climate neutrality and minimizing negative impacts of pollution and biodiversity loss. Key strategies for increased sustainability include material-efficiency measures such as material-efficient building design, material circularity, design for circularity, or using materials that store biogenic carbon. There is a need for better quantification of the environmental implications of novel circular and material-efficient practices. 

The main objective will be to improve existing methods for evaluating the environmental consequences of material-efficient solutions for buildings and infrastructure and apply them to relevant case studies. Research will be highly data-driven through quantitative research and model development. The work will be linked to ongoing activities in International Energy Agency TCP Cities – Task Climate Neutral Districts.    

Deadline : 4th August 2024

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(20) Fully Funded PhD Position 

PhD position summary/title:–PhD Candidate in Thermodynamics of ammonia-water mixtures

The period of employment of this position is 3 years, with possible extension due to teaching.

The position will be in the Thermodynamics group at the Department of Chemistry at NTNU.

Ammonia (NH3) is deemed by many to be a promising energy carrier to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from transport and a viable solution for global H2 transport. A challenge is the consequences of possible spills of liquid ammonia into water when it is transported on ships.

Ammonia is often transported at a temperature well below the freezing point of water. A spill of ammonia in water will therefore rapidly evaporate. It will also react with water through a highly exothermic reaction. The interfacial dynamics and the thermo-physical properties will play a key role in how fast the ammonia spreads in both water and air, and where it ends up.

The PhD candidate will work with the fundamental details of the mixing process, in particular the interfacial thermodynamics both at and beyond equilibrium and how the exothermic reaction comes into play into the spreading and dissolution of ammonia in water.

This challenging topic will give the candidate the opportunity become proficient in an arsenal of different modeling tools, which may include equations of state, classical density functional theory and molecular simulation.

Deadline : 4th August 2024

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About NTNU- Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway- Official Website

The Norwegian University of Science and Technology  is a public research university in Norway with the main campus in Trondheim and smaller campuses in Gjøvik and Ålesund. The largest university in Norway, NTNU has over 8,000 employees and over 40,000 students. NTNU in its current form was established by the King-in-Council in 1996 by the merger of the former University of Trondheim and other university-level institutions, with roots dating back to 1760, and has later also incorporated some former university colleges. NTNU is consistently ranked in the top one percentage among the world’s universities, usually in the 101–500 range depending on ranking.

NTNU has the main national responsibility for education and research in engineering and technology, and is the successor of Norway’s preeminent engineering university, the Norwegian Institute of Technology (NTH), established by Parliament in 1910 as Norway’s national engineering university. In addition to engineering and natural sciences, the university offers higher education in other academic disciplines ranging from medicine, psychology, social sciences, the arts, teacher education, architecture and fine art. NTNU is well known for its close collaboration with industry, and particularly with its R&D partner SINTEF, which provided it with the biggest industrial link among all the technical universities in the world. The university’s academics include three Nobel laureates in medicine, Edvard Moser, May-Britt Moser and John O’Keefe.

 

 

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