Are you looking to take your education and career to the next level? Do you have a passion for research and a desire to make meaningful contributions to your field of study? If so, a Postdoctoral Fellowships may be the perfect choice for you.
Attention all aspiring scholars and researchers! The University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway is accepting applications for our prestigious funded PhD programs. Apply to the University of Bergen’s PhD program today and take the first step towards a rewarding and fulfilling academic career.
1. PhD Program in Media Production and Virtual Environments
About PhD Position
The PhD position will conduct research in the Center of Excellence in Digital Narrative (CDN), a world-leading center of research excellence funded by the Research Council of Norway. CDN focuses on algorithmic narrativity, new environments and materialities, and shifting cultural contexts. The center investigates how the interactions of human authors with non-human agents result in new narrative forms, how the materiality of digital narratives has changed, and how cultural contexts are reshaping the use and function of digital narrative. The candidate will work in Node 3, which explores computer games and other forms of interactive digital narratives. Candidates are advised to familiarize themselves with the Center of Digital Narrative project description, available on request.
Application Deadline: 11th June 2023
2. PhD Program in Marine Optics
About PhD Position
The PhD project will comprise one or more of the main activities of the optics group at the Department of Physics and Technology. 1) in situ measurements of inherent optical properties in optically complex waters, 2) Radiative transfer modelling of light in the atmosphere and water, using information acquired from in situ measurements, and 3) Improving remote sensing atmospheric correction and retrieval of aquatic constituents. Work tasks of this PhD position will include in situ optical measurements in optically complex waters, laboratory calibration and testing of advanced optical instruments.
Application Deadline: 26th May 2023
3. PhD Program in Thermochronology and Tectonics
About PhD Position
Low-temperature thermochronological studies such as fission-track and (U-Th)/He dating can be used to quantify exhumation histories of passive continental margins. The project aims at a comparative study of the Queen Maud Land passive continental margin escarpment in East Antarctica and the Norwegian continental margin. The Queen Maud Land escarpment forms a glaciated, more than 1000 km long sector in East Antarctica that shows a strong lateral variation in tectonic and topographic style.
The escarpment began to glaciate 35 Ma ago and formed one of the nuclei for the present Antarctic ice sheet. The project seeks to quantify the impact of long-lasting glaciation and glacial erosion with respect to older structural inheritance along the mountain range with the help of low-temperature thermochronological data. The project integrates with ongoing studies of the Norwegian continental margin.
Application Deadline: 20th May 2023
4. PhD Program in Mathematical Methods for Data
About PhD Position
Offshore wind energy is fundamental to achieve the goals of the European Green Deal. Although offshore wind energy has an important degree of maturity, this technology requires to experiment a change of paradigm to guarantee a sustainable development for the years to come. One pathway to achieve this paradigm shift relies on the development of data-driven approaches in computational mechanics. The research activities related to this position pursue the development of mathematical methods for data-driven computational mechanics that will be subsequently applied to the aerohydroelastic analysis of offshore wind turbines.
This novel computing paradigm enables the transition from standard data-starved approaches to modern data-rich approaches, in which the underlying initial-boundary value problem is reformulated in such a way that loads, boundary conditions and constitutive models are completely or partially replaced by some form of experimental data. The research activities associated to the position target also at a close collaboration with ongoing research at the BOW and GFI. It is expected that the results emerging from these research activities will be published in highly-ranked international journals.
Application Deadline: 14th May 2023
5. PhD Program in Computational Procedures for Data
About PhD Position
There is a vacancy for a PhD Research Fellow at the Geophysical Institute (GFI). The position is for a fixed-term period of 3 years with the possibility of a 4th year with compulsory other work (e.g. teaching duties at the Department) and will cover an important part of the activities at the Bergen Offshore Wind Centre (BOW) targeting at bridging fundamental and applied research within offshore wind energy. This position is associated to the ERC Consolidator Grant project Data-Driven Approaches in Computational Mechanics for the Aerohydroelastic Analysis of Offshore Wind Turbines.
Application Deadline: 14th May 2023
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6. PhD Program in Informatics: Visual Data Scienceto Master Complex Simulation Ensembles
About PhD Position
Our employees are expected to contribute to excellence with high-quality research and teaching. The working environment for this position is (1) UiB’s Center for Data Science, CEDAS, (2) the involved research groups of visualization and machine learning, as well as (3) the cooperation between UiB and the University of Stuttgart. Our cooperation with UiB’s Department of Geosciences is also important for this position. The PhD project is advised by Prof. H. Hauser (visual data science) and co-advised by Assoc.-Prof. N. Blaser (machine learning) as well as Prof. Th. Spengler (meteorology). Profs. Th. Ertl and M. Sedlmair from the Univ. of Stuttgart are also involved in the planned research.
The project synopsis is:To understand inherent uncertainties in weather prediction, it is common to consult stochastically perturbed simulation ensembles with highly detailed ensemble members. Extracting relevant conclusions from such ensembles is very challenging and depends on a successful condensation of the data. Especially when aiming at an interpretation of an entire ensemble in terms of domain-relevant features, such as cyclones, fronts, rain, etc., summarization is very difficult and only possible on the basis of expert knowledge. We foresee that new visual data science methods from this project will significantly support the study of such rich ensembles.
Application Deadline: 8th May 2023
7. PhD Program in wind engineering
About PhD Position
The PhD project aims among others, (1) to understand which environmental factors affect significantly the dynamic wind loading on the parabolic troughs; (2) to identify how the layout of parabolic throughs affectsthe spatialstructure of turbulence and (3) to develop novel methodsto model the wind loading on the solar collectors and the associated structural dynamic response.
In collaboration with associate professor Etienne Cheynet (UiB) as main supervisor, and Dr Ulrike Egerer (NREL) and associate professor Yan Li (UiB) as co-supervisors, the candidate will generate new knowledge on the wind-structure interaction in a CSP plant for improved structural and layout design. The PhD candidate will be given the necessary training to conduct this ambitious project, the opportunity to contribute to high-profile research publications, receive active mentoring for the development of their career and the opportunity to collaborate with international partners.
Application Deadline: 1st May 2023
8. PhD Program in Computer Science Education
About PhD Position
There is a vacancy for a PhD Research Fellow in Computer Science Education at the Department of Informatics. The position is for a fixed-term period of 4 years and offers the opportunity to design and be involved in transformative research focused on gender equity in computer science education. The project is expected to have a far-reaching impact and benefit for future students in computer science at UiB. As recent policy changes do now include programming in the upper secondary school curriculum in Norway, this is an interesting and timely opportunity to research their impact on bachelor level education. The project offers good opportunities for collaboration with local, national and European networks on gender equity in computer science education and contributes to the new and growing didactics field in computer science.
Application Deadline: 1st May 2023
9. PhD Program in Computational Mathematics
About PhD Position
Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is a key technology in the transition towards a carbon neutral energy system. Over the last decade this technology has matured into industrial scale projects like Longship and Northern Lights. Potentially the Northern Lights may inject >50Mt CO2 annually into the geological area of the Horda Platform in the North Sea consisting of many interconnected reservoirs. To succeed on this scale new and advanced digital technologies are needed to provide insight into optimal strategies for portfolio development and management.
The main objective of the project is to enable multi-site storage development on the Horda Platform and support risk-reduction activities and portfolio management strategies through improved regional simulation of interconnected storage sites and innovative assessment of system level uncertainty.
The PhD-candidate will take part in the development, implementation and analysis of simulation methods for the management of reservoirs interconnected by a regional aquifer and/or surface infrastructure for CO2 transport. The software development should be based open-access model concepts.
Application Deadline: 1st May 2023
10. PhD Program in seismological and remote sensing analysis of geohazards
About PhD Position
The main purpose of the position will be to develop methods for detecting landslides in Norway and determining their trigger mechanisms with a special focus on earthquake-induced landslides. The successful candidate will utilize state-of-the-art machine learning techniques to detect and determine the exact timing of landslide events from satellite data, aerial photographs and seismological data. Landslide triggers will be evaluated by combining e.g. seismological, InSAR and precipitation data. The developed methods will be applied to evaluate the relative importance of landslide trigger mechanisms in Norway.
Application Deadline: 30th April 2023
11. PhD Program in informatics (optimization)
About PhD Position
There is a vacancy for a PhD Research Fellow in informatics (optimization) at the Department of Informatics. The position is for a fixed-term period of 3 years with the possibility of a 4th year with compulsory other work (e.g. teaching duties at Department of Informatics). The position is associated with the project Ocean Charger financed by the Norwegian Research Council (NFR) and Norwegian industrial companies. This position is contingent upon funding for the Ocean Charger project being allocated according to plan.
Application Deadline: 30th April 2023
12. PhD Program in biosystematics of marine gastropods
About PhD Position
The primary objective is to understand the time and processes underlying the origin and diversification of Atlantic shallow-water soft-bottom species, using Haminoea gastropods as a case-study. A multidisciplinary approach using original morpho-anatomical data, micro-CT scan, phylogenetic inference based on mitogenomes, will be combined with biogeographic, oceanographic, and historical climatic data, and used as a proxy to answer questions about the diversity and distribution of species, as well as the time, mode, and geography of speciation.
Application Deadline: 28th April 2023
13. PhD Program in Evolutionary origin of neurosecretory cell types
About PhD Position
The Burkhardt group combines comparative biological systems in the laboratory to understand when and how first synapses, neurons and nervous systems evolved. The group is particularly interested in studying the evolutionary origin of neurosecretory cell types by using choanoflagellates, sponges and ctenophores as model organisms. We are looking for a highly self-motivated and enthusiastic PhD student with interests in evolutionary biology, neurobiology and cell biology.
The project will focus on the 3D reconstructions of serial electron microscopy sections (SBFSEM and TEM) using software as Amira or Fiji TrakEM2 to visualize choanoflagellate single, colonial cell types and early animal cell types. Special focus will be put on the distribution of secretory vesicles in these cell types.
In addition, the successful candidate will undertake research with the possibility to use light and advanced immunofluorescence microscopy on live and fixed organisms to characterize neurosecretory cell types. The successful candidate will work in close association with the group leader and other lab members with the aim to contribute to the further development of the project in line with her/his interests.
Application Deadline: 26th April 2023
14. PhD Program in Acoustics (Fiberoptic Distributed Acoustic Sensing)
About PhD Position
The PhD project is part of the Smart Ocean Centre. The overall aim of the Centre is to create a wireless observation system for multi-parameter monitoring of underwater environments and installations, based on a flexible and autonomous smart sensor network.
In contrast to electromagnetic and optical waves, acoustic waves travel great distances underwater, and therefore acoustic sensor technology forms the basis for many remote sensing systems designed for monitoring ocean man-made sources and marine creatures. As such acoustic sensor systems can satisfy a range of ocean monitoring applications, from monitoring the integrity of offshore wind farms and other industrial subsea installations, as well as in monitoring shipping traffic, the influence of ocean noise on animal behaviour, and climate studies.
Application Deadline: 25th April 2023