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 Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark is accepting applications for our prestigious funded PhD programs. Apply to the Technical University of Denmark (DTU)’s PhD program today and take the first step towards a rewarding and fulfilling academic career.
1. PhD Program in Efficient Numerical Modelling of Smart Hearables Fitted to Users
About PhD Position
Are you interested in learning and extending on state-of-the-art numerical modelling techniques and, at the same time, contribute to improving the listening experience of smart hearable users and hearing impaired? As a PhD candidate with us you will create models of audio devices that are worn in or over the ear and include the wearer’s acoustical and mechanical influence. You will deal with a large modelling task with uncertain input data, and to do this you will acquire knowledge on fields like advanced numerical modelling techniques, improvement of model efficiency and numerical optimization, among others.
We offer a 3-year PhD position at the Centre for Acoustic-Mechanical Microsystems (CAMM), Technical University of Denmark (DTU). At CAMM, and at the associated Acoustic Technology group at DTU Electro, you will experience a lively university environment with other PhD projects that are related to yours. CAMM has a solid background on sensors, transducers, modelling, acoustical and mechanical measurement, fabrication and materials, while DTU Electro runs top-level research and education in different fields of Acoustics. You will have access to world-class facilities and experienced, internationally recognized staff. Additionally, you will collaborate with Danish hearing aid companies that are global technological leaders in their field.
Application Deadline: 18 June 2023
2. PhD Program in Uncertainty Estimation in Computational Dosimetry
About PhD Position
Are you interested in contributing to novel methods for medical image analyses and personalized medical treatment planning? Do you thrive in multi-disciplinary environments where you closely interact with experts from complementary fields to develop and apply your methods? Are you eager to work in a dynamic international research team where you can contribute to major open-source software platforms? If yes, you should send us your application.
Computational estimation of the treatment dose, informed by medical image data such as MR images, is often an important step during treatment planning. This requires an accurate extraction of the relevant information about the individual anatomy from the medical images. Errors and biases in this first step will propagate and also affect the calculated doses, rendering the overall results uncertain.
Application Deadline: 12 May 2023
3. PhD Program in Nanoengineered 2D TMDs-based Quantum Light Sources for Optical Quantum Information Technology
About PhD Position
You will participate in a project team with several Postdocs and PhD students, which will design and develop TMD-based single-photon sources and detectors meeting all the requirements of the quantum information applications. Your overall responsibility will be the experimental activities, including the nanofabrication and the quantum optical characterization of the fabricated devices using the state-of-the-art cleanroom as well as optical laboratory facilities. You will have an additional opportunity to contribute to research activities on the state-of-the-art quantum light sources based on III-V single quantum dots.
Application Deadline: 15 June 2023
4. PhD Program in In-silico Strategies for Battery Recycling
About PhD Position
The successful candidate will break new ground in developing methodologies to accelerate the recycling of batteries. By combining Density Functional Theory (DFT) methods, machine learning models, and experimental data, the student will first understand the End of Life (EOF) of the battery due to the degradation of the interface between the cathode and the electrolyte. Afterward, the student will inverse engineer this knowledge to identify strategies for restoring the lost properties and will verify them experimentally. The student will also be integrated in the group efforts in developing a data infrastructure to collect sensing information during the lifetime of the battery. Moreover, the candidate will engage with and contribute to the concept of absolute sustainability in relation with battery materials and their recyclability.
Application Deadline: 31 May 2023
5. PhD Program in Development of methodology to track and solve microbial issues in the dairy industry
About PhD Position
As our PhD student, you will become a part of the DDRF project TrackNSolve, which seeks to develop a diagnostic methodology that enables the dairy industry to rapidly identify, detect and mitigate microbial issues. You will do so by combining metagenomics, phenotypic screening and microbial genetics to improve our understanding of the responsible problem organisms and how they can be detected by rapid molecular methods. The usefulness of this approach will be demonstrated by solving cases of microbial problems that are common in the dairy industry.
Application Deadline: 1 June 2023
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6. PhD Program in theory, fabrication, and optical characterization of nano-electro-mechanical photonics
About PhD Position
We are now looking for up to three PhD students, who have excelled in their studies, to join our group, working towards new and highly ambitious research goals at the forefront of silicon photonics. Our research activities are focused on exploring the potential of NOEMS for achieving unprecedented control over light propagation at the nanoscale. Specifically, we are working on combining extreme nanofabrication with nanomechanics to shape and route light at the sub-wavelength level to overcome the limitations of traditional approaches in nanophotonics.
Application Deadline: 14 May 2023
7. PhD Program in analyzing weather dependencies and their impacts on future energy systems
About PhD Position
In this project, you will study the weather dependencies in key energy system components on a pan-European level. The components include wind and solar generation, temperature-driven load, and hydropower. With other researchers, you will then apply the component models and data in an energy system model and analyze the system-level weather dependencies and their impacts, e.g., on system adequacy and optimal investments. You will also study how the relevant metrics change in different future scenarios, driven, e.g., by the level of sector coupling, VRE penetration and interconnection expansion between countries. You will use both reanalysis weather data and climate projections, to also include the impact of climate change on the results.
Application Deadline: 31 May 2023
8. PhD Program in Fermentation of Carbon Monoxide to Chemical Precursors
About PhD Position
Are you a highly competent, ambitious, and hard-working young scientist wanting to excel in the exciting field of gas fermentation in one of the best foundations and collaboration schemes to accomplish this? Then this advertisement is for you. At DTU Chemical Engineering a PhD position is available in the frame of a research project funded by the European Innovation Council. The project is in close collaboration with top class scientific groups in Europe and it addresses the development of a process chain targeting valorization of carbon dioxide to plastic precursors. We, at DTU Chemical Engineering, will focus on fermentation of carbon monoxide in a novel reactor type.
Application Deadline: 15 May 2023
9. PhD Program in the Synthesis of Metal-Organic Framework Nanoparticles for Drug Delivery Applications
About PhD Position
Blood is crucial for our survival and the only way to substitute for blood loss occurring during accidents or surgery is by using blood from donors. However, blood transfusions have some limitations and risks: before blood can be transfused, there is a need for typing and matching due to the different blood groups causing fatal delays in emergency situations. Also, blood has a short storage lifetime, which makes it impossible to create large blood supplies to be used in acute disasters such as earthquakes or plane accidents. Furthermore, blood transfusions can help spread new viral infections, like it happened with HIV in the 80s.
Application Deadline: 10 May 2023
10. PhD Program in in Vitro and in Vivo Investigations of Nanomedicines
About PhD Position
Blood is crucial for our survival and the only way to substitute for blood loss occurring during accidents or surgery is by using blood from donors. However, blood transfusions have some limitations and risks: before blood can be transfused, there is a need for typing and matching due to the different blood groups causing fatal delays in emergency situations. Also, blood has a short storage lifetime, which makes it impossible to create large blood supplies to be used in acute disasters such as earthquakes or plane accidents. Furthermore, blood transfusions can help spread new viral infections, like it happened with HIV in the 80s.
Application Deadline: 10 May 2023
11. PhD Program in manufacturing process modelling of fiber composite structures
About PhD Position
We seek a PhD student who can contribute to a research team working on the improvement of the manufacturing process of hybrid fibre composite structures (pultruded carbon beam segments combined with glass fibres/epoxy resin materials). You will work in a team of experts in the field of manufacturing and simulations of fibre composite materials at DTU Wind Energy to develop a physics-based simulation framework to model the phenomena taking place in the manufacturing processes. Moreover, your PhD project will be part of the AIOLOS research consortium consisting of the top universities Technical University of Denmark and Aalborg University and world-leading industrial partners and research unites (Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy, Pontis Engineering and Force Technology) offering to a broad and deep collaboration with leading experts in the field.
Application Deadline: 15 May 2023
12. PhD Program in Data Science Pipeline for Digital Phenotyping
About PhD Position
Your research will focus on establishing an end-to-end pipeline for data science in digital phenotyping with a special focus on cardiology, neurology, and mental health. This pipeline will consist of three main parts: (i) collection of mobile, wearable, and behavioral data from patients, (ii) ground-truth annotation from clinicians, and (iii) a self-optimizing and extensible data science analysis engine containing models for identification of digital biomarkers and prediction of clinically relevant events. The primary focus is on the overall software architecture and distributed system design of the pipeline, secondary on the user experience (UX) design of the use of digital biomarkers both by patients and clinicians, and tertiary on the design of data science methods.
Application Deadline: 11 June 2023
13. PhD Program in Enzyme Assisted CO2 Capture
About PhD Position
We are seeking a PhD student with background and interest in enzymology, molecular biology and/or enzyme technology. During the 3-year project, the PhD student will center on enzyme assisted carbon capture, and the planned work includes both improvements of known enzyme classes and the discovery of novel enzymes that may assist carbon capture. Specific research activities include heterologous enzyme production, enzyme engineering, enzyme immobilization, kinetic characterization and -modeling as well as performance testing under application relevant conditions.
Application Deadline: 22 May 2023
14. PhD Program in Fisheries Technology
About PhD Position
Towed fishing gears, especially demersal trawls, are responsible for a large portion of unwanted catches, globally. Consequently, there is a large focus on improving their environmental sustainability while ensuring that the fisheries remain economically viable, i.e. that they are efficient in catching the species and sizes of interest while resulting in a low amount of unwanted by-catch and minimum impact on the surrounding environment. The development of technical solutions is key to achieving a sustainable utilization of the seas’ resources and plays a central role in most fisheries and fisheries management systems.
Application Deadline: 15 May 2023
15. PhD Program in Reinforcement Learning for Intelligent Traffic Signal Control
About PhD Position
Reinforcement learning (RL) constitutes a promising solution for alleviating the problem of traffic congestion and associated greenhouse gas emissions by producing adaptive traffic signal controllers that outperform conventional systems. However, the existing solutions are merely reactive. This project aims at developing a new generation of proactive traffic control approaches by integrating into a RL framework a novel fully-Bayesian context-aware traffic prediction model that can forecast the future evolution of traffic and provide uncertainty estimates for its predictions, while accounting for contextual information (e.g. about planned events, incidents and weather), traffic network flow theory and the traffic signal control actions. The core idea is that, by accounting for the effects of external factors on future traffic conditions, the RL agent can learn to be proactive and take preemptive measures to alleviate (or even mitigate) future congestion scenarios and reduce emissions.
Application Deadline: 16 May 2023
16. PhD Program in Porous sorbents for CO2 post combustion capture
About PhD Position
The goal of the PhD project is to develop robust, high performance sorbents for a small-scale thermal swing adsorption (TSA) process and device, which enables the efficient separation of CO2 from automotive exhaust gas. The focus of the project is on the synthesis, structuring and characterization of hierarchical porous Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) as sorbents for the carbon capture process. You will identify, synthesize (or source) and characterize MOF materials to efficiently capture CO2 close to ambient pressure and temperatures from exhaust gas streams.
Application Deadline: 15 May 2023
17. PhD Program in Synchrotron based X-Ray Microscopy
About PhD Position
We are looking for an outstanding and motivated candidate to join our interdisciplinary and international group, where we combine X-ray physics, simulations of experiments and scientific computing with dislocation dynamics simulations. Based at the Technical University in Denmark you will be working closely with beamline scientists at ESRF and your modelling oriented colleagues at DTU and in the US. You will also be part of a Danish Center-of-Excellence on hard materials in 3D, SOLID, where you will interact with 15 other PhDs and post docs, all exploiting the latest 3D methods based on large scale x-ray and neutron facilities, within a broad range of fields.
Application Deadline: 15 May 2023
18. PhD Program in Electrocatalyst Development for High-Temperature Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel cells
About PhD Position
The focus of this PhD project is to develop cost-effective synthesis processes to produce highly active and durable Pt-based catalysts for methanol-powered HT-PEMFC. Aiming for the quick adoption of research results by our industry partner, Blue World Technologies, we will focus on synthesis processes that have excellent control of catalyst structures and can be readily scaled up. Another focus is to improve the performance, especially the durability, of the catalysts, and at the same time, with significantly reduced usage of Pt. We will use a variety of in situ and operando techniques, including operando XRD, Raman, IR, X-ray tomographic microscopy, µ-CT/nano-CT imaging techniques, to investigate the degradation mechanisms of the catalysts under industrially relevant operating conditions. Based on that, we will explore optimized catalyst structures as well as mitigation strategies, and verify the catalyst performance in single-cell and stacks of HT-PEMFC.
Application Deadline: 15 May 2023
19. 02 PhD Program in Computer Vision with Deep Learning for Human-Machine Collaboration
About PhD Position
Learning visual recognition models requires huge amounts of data, especially when relying on data-hungry deep neural networks. These data need to be manually and passively annotated by humans. This labeling procedure is one of the most important steps in a machine learning pipeline and is tedious, expensive, and susceptible to noise leading to erroneous labels. Our goal is to establish a deeper human-machine collaboration for all stages of the learning pipeline via two PhD projects:
Project A: Human-machine labeling. In this project, you will first develop an active labeling and learning scheme where each step of the learning procedure is actively assisted by a learning algorithm. Then, you will advance the capabilities of current labeling schemes towards a deeper human-machine collaboration. This PhD project will be co-supervised by Associate Professor Dimitrios Papadopoulos (DTU) and Professor Serge Belongie (KU).
Project B: Multimodal labeling and learning. The goal of this project is to leverage information from different modalities that naturally occur near web images to assist the image annotation. You will develop state-of-the-art multimodal models for self-supervision with human-in-the-loop text supervision. This PhD project will be supervised by Associate Professor Dimitrios Papadopoulos (DTU).
Application Deadline: 15 May 2023
20. PhD Program in (Un)sustainable Behaviour Mechanisms
About PhD Position
Your focus will be to support the identification of the behavioural mechanisms of rebound effects triggered by efficiency, effectiveness, and sufficiency design strategies, building upon existing cases with empirical evidence of rebound effects occurring at the product, product/service system and socio-technical levels.
More specifically, you will focus on expanding the current understanding of the triggers, drivers and mechanisms giving rise to rebound effects, further advancing current knowledge of rebound effects with a strong behavioural perspective. In collaboration with the research team, you will support the development of behavioural mechanisms causing the observed rebound effects.
Application Deadline: 12 May 2023