05 Postdoctoral Fellowship at NTNU, Norway

The postdoctoral fellowship position is a temporary position where the main goal is to qualify for work in senior academic positions. The postdoctoral fellows will work on research and development within the context of the EDF-funded Project “Federated Advanced Cyber physical Test range (FACT)”. There are a number of cyber test ranges available (including in Europe) but the federated approach and advanced cyber physical test range capability are two elements of the FACT project which makes it disruptive and unique. The focus on Operational Technology (OT) is increasing when it comes to military systems, and the cyber physical aspect is thus of greatest importance for the FACT project. Military platforms are not easily transferable to a relevant location for test. However, the federated approach in the FACT project will allow the physical part to be implemented at more than one location, and still make use of the full capability of the partners capabilities during the testing. To ensure that the equipment is used and has a required level of protection, the FACT project will design, prototype and demonstrate a federated cyber physical test capability which can be maintained and become a sustained capability to the European nations after the project. Our approach is fully user-centric, with the end-user’s needs as the starting point for the whole capability and every consideration. Examples of test scenario setups where the federated aspect of FACT is an advantage are numerous: larger partners wanting to cooperate in larger system deliveries, smaller companies cooperating with several partners within their complimentary field of expertise, sharing vulnerabilities and mitigating actions on equipment across partners and nations for shortening time to market.

The postdoctoral fellows will work on research and development within the context of the EDF-funded Project “Adapting cyber situational awareness for evolving computing environments (NEWSROOM)”.  The core objective of CSA in cyber defence is to provide all stakeholders and personnel of all levels and forces in the chain of command (e.g., in headquarters, in security operation centres (SOCs) on battlefields, or governmental organizations) accurate information about the current threat landscape and threat level to support establishing an appropriate cyber defence strategy and allow timely adaptation according to changes in the current operational picture and the evolving threat landscape. CSA in cyber defence must collect all available data from the internal military network infrastructure, and devices used by military units in operation and on battlefield, which includes structured and unstructured data in the form of logs, sensor data, network traffic, internal intelligence (e.g., context information), and external information from both clear and dark net, such as cyber threat intelligence (CTI), vulnerability and malware reports, security bulletins, etc. To address all these challenges, NEWSROOM studies and designs technologies and processes related to all aspects of CSA in cyber defence, including data and CTI collection, attacker behaviour and capability classification, human computer interfaces (HCIs) and visualisations, and information sharing. 

The postdoctoral fellowship position is a temporary position where the main goal is to qualify for work in senior academic positions. The successful applicant will work for the 3S battery project: “Super selective separators for battery applications”. This project is funded by the Research Council of Norway through the Technological Convergence  call.  SINTEF industry (Norway) and Uppsala University (Sweden) are the project partners. The objective of the 3S battery project is to develop and engineer tailored separators enabling high electrochemical performances and long cyclic life in Li-S batteries. The successful applicant will be involved in the design, fabrication, and characterization of separators with nano-scale architectures and functionalities to address the challenges in Li-S batteries. The tasks may require experience in membrane and thin film fabrication, characterization, nanocomposite design, and battery assembly and testing. The selected candidate will join the Membrane Laboratory in the Department of Chemical Engineering and work closely with the Battery Laboratory in the Department of Material Sciences at NTNU. These laboratories are equipped with state-of-the-art facilities for the fabrication and characterization of nanocomposite, membranes and thin films, and battery assembly and evaluation. The position will report to Prof. Liyuan Deng.  The immediate leader of the position is the Head of Department of Chemical Engineering.

We have a vacancy for a Postdoctoral Fellow in Atomistic Modelling of Electrolytes for Battery Applications, at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. The project is funded by the Research Council of Norway and is a collaborative project with industrial partners. The postdoctoral fellowship position is a temporary position where the main goal is to qualify for a senior academic position. The accepted fellow will do research on electrolytes for aluminium anode batteries using classical molecular simulations, DFT, and Machine Learning. The project will focus on fundamental understanding of solvation- and transport properties of aluminium ions in liquid electrolytes. As part of the project, the fellow will develop a strategy to search for and identify new electrolyte mixtures with improved performance.

We are seeking a highly motivated postdoctoral fellow to join our team for a two-year fellowship position. The primary objective of this position is to qualify for senior academic roles while contributing to the project “SIMPLEX: The role of simulation in assurance of intelligent and complex systems”. This collaborative initiative involves DNV, Zeabuz, and NTNU, and focuses on the development of a comprehensive framework for simulation-based testing of autonomous systems.  The need for new sustainable modes of urban transportation is driven by factors such as growing coastal cities, congested roads, increased demand for personal mobility, the establishment of zero-emission zones in urban areas, and the general public’s call for sustainable transport solutions. To address this, one promising solution is the utilization of urban waterways for small and medium-sized electric passenger ferries. However, realizing the potential benefits of these ferries hinges on reducing or eliminating the need for on-board manning. Despite the rapid development of technology for autonomous passenger ferries, the lack of trust in their safety remains a primary obstacle to their widespread deployment. The main goal of the SIMPLEX project is to address this challenge by developing a framework for holistic simulation-based testing of autonomous systems that will help build the trust needed to deploy the systems into society.  The postdoc’s role in the project will be to contribute to this framework by focusing on the development of methods and tools for automatic simulation-based testing. This includes the building and automatic adaptation of relevant scenarios, developing ways of ensuring sufficient scenario exploration and coverage, and research how to evaluate test outcome automatically in an efficient manner. The candidate will also contribute towards testing the developed tools and methods on real-world use cases focused on urban passenger ferry systems.