NTNU, Norway invites online Application for number of Fully Funded PhD Positions at various Departments. We are providing a list of Fully Funded PhD Programs available at NTNU- Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway.
Eligible candidate may Apply as soon as possible.
(01) PhD Positions – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD position – Bridging Adaptive Planning and Human-Centred Design Strategies
Are you motivated to explore how adaptive planning and human-centred design can come together to make climate change adaptation equitable and inclusive? As a PhD Candidate at the Department of Architecture and Planning, you will work towards achieving your doctorate alongside motivated colleagues working to solve pressing urban planning challenges in diverse Global North and South contexts through transdisciplinary means. In addition to academic training in research skills a close engagement with societal stakeholders, you will also gain experience within a highly relevant field for practice, which holds professional value. This means that the position can further your career in higher education and research, but also in industry.
Deadline : 5th January 2026
(02) PhD Positions- Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Candidate in mucus – microbiota interactions
Are you excited by the possibilities to promote human, animal and environmental health by furthering our understanding of host microbiota interactions? And are you intrigued by how soft materials can provide strong defenses? The Department of Biotechnology and Food Science (IBT) has a vacancy for a 100% position as a PhD candidate working on a interdisciplinary project within the field of mucosa – microbiota interactions across the Biopolymer and Biomaterials (Biopolymers and Biomaterials – NTNU), and Microbial Biotechnology (Microbial Biotechnology – NTNU) research groups. Your main supervisor will be Associate Professor Catherine Taylor Nordgård, and your co-supervisor will be Professor Ingrid Bakke.
As a PhD Candidate with us, you will work to achieve your doctorate, and at the same time gain valuable experience that qualifies you for a further career in higher education and research, in and outside academia.
Deadline : 31st December 2025
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(03) PhD Positions – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Candidate in Synthetic Biology and Metagenomics
This position is part of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Doctoral Network (MSCA-DN) project MetaExplore – Ultrahigh-throughput exploration of metagenomic sequence space to discover and engineer novel biocatalysts and bioactive compounds, coordinated by the University of Cambridge in England.
The MetaExplore consortium, 23 partners across Europe, aims to unlock the hidden potential of global metagenomic sequence space using a combination of synthetic biology, machine learning (ML), and ultrahigh-throughput screening (microfluidics) to discover new enzymes and bioactive molecules with applications in biotechnology, medicine, and sustainability. The network brings together leading academic and industrial partners across Europe and offers world-class training and mobility opportunities.
Deadline : 31st December 2025
(04) PhD Positions – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Ph.D. Candidate in Reinforcement Learning for Project Scheduling Problems
Are you motivated to take a step towards a doctorate and open up exciting career opportunities? As a PhD Candidate with us, you will work to achieve your doctorate, and at the same time gain valuable experience that qualifies you for a further career in higher education and research, in and outside academia.
The position will specifically focus on Reinforcement Learning for Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling Problem (RCPSP). The Ph.D. candidate will be a member of the group of Civil Engineering and Geomatics at NTNU and will tightly cooperate with other Ph.D./post-docs in projects (such as HEU-CIRCULess) and research groups at the department. The Ph.D. position will offer opportunities to develop high-quality research within the field of digitalization of circular construction.
Deadline : 17th December 2025
(05) PhD Positions – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Candidate in Mutli-Agent Communication to Enhance Human Learning
Are you motivated to take a step towards a doctorate and open up exciting career opportunities? As a PhD Candidate with us, you will work to achieve your doctorate, and at the same time gain valuable experience that qualifies you for a further career in higher education and research, in and outside academia.
This PhD fellowship is part of the newly established AI Centre for the Empowerment of Human Learning (AI LEARN).Six national research centers for Artificial Intelligence are set to launch in the fall of 2025. These centers will foster interdisciplinary collaboration among researchers to address societal challenges, understand the impact of AI, develop new technologies, and drive innovation across both the business and public sectors. This initiative is established and financed through the government’s significant investment in artificial intelligence over the next five years (regjeringen.no) (in Norwegian).
Deadline : 12th December 2025
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(06) PhD Positions- Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Candidate in Human-AI Interaction and Learning
Are you motivated to take a step towards a doctorate and open up exciting career opportunities? As a PhD Candidate with us, you will work to achieve your doctorate, and at the same time gain valuable experience that qualifies you for a further career in higher education and research, in and outside academia.
This PhD fellowship is part of the newly established AI Centre for the Empowerment of Human Learning (AI LEARN).Six national research centers for Artificial Intelligence are set to launch in the fall of 2025. These centers will foster interdisciplinary collaboration among researchers to address societal challenges, understand the impact of AI, develop new technologies, and drive innovation across both the business and public sectors. This initiative is established and financed through the government’s significant investment in artificial intelligence over the next five years (regjeringen.no) (in Norwegian).
Deadline : 12th December 2025
(07) PhD Positions – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Candidate in Algorithmic Fairness in Recommender Systems
Are you motivated to take a step towards a doctorate and open up exciting career opportunities? As a PhD Candidate with us, you will work to achieve your doctorate, and at the same time gain valuable experience that qualifies you for a further career in higher education and research, in and outside academia.
In today’s digital world, extremely large amounts of content overwhelms users, and it becomes a challenge for the end users to find the most suitable content for themselves. Recommender systems help users to find the most relevant items according to their browsing history and personal preferences. Today, recommender systems are frequently used and embedded in many digital services regardless of the domain. While these systems aim to help people by suggesting the most suitable content, the concerns about their effects on people and society becomes more prevalent. Especially in domains like job recommendations, which could have a direct effect on people’s life, it becomes extremely important to pay attention to concepts like fairness.
Fairness is a subjective concept and changes according to the domain, context and point of reference, which makes it an interesting and challenging research problem. In addition, fairness is not a standalone concept and has close connections to diversity, transparency and bias. In this position, the PhD candidate will work on algorithmic fairness in job recommender systems, collaborating with Vend AS that operates FINN.no. The candidate is expected to develop a good understanding of the general domain of fairness in recommender systems and extend their research to the domain-specific features of job recommendations. The candidate is expected to develop and test recommender systems, therefore good programming skills are required.
Deadline : 12th December 2025
(08) PhD Positions – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Candidate in AI Enhancement of Game-Based Learning
Are you motivated to take a step towards a doctorate and open up exciting career opportunities? As a PhD Candidate with us, you will work to achieve your doctorate, and at the same time gain valuable experience that qualifies you for a further career in higher education and research, in and outside academia.
This PhD fellowship is part of the newly established AI Centre for the Empowerment of Human Learning (AI LEARN). Six national research centers for Artificial Intelligence are set to launch in the fall of 2025. These centers will foster interdisciplinary collaboration among researchers to address societal challenges, understand the impact of AI, develop new technologies, and drive innovation across both the business and public sectors. This initiative is established and financed through the government’s significant investment in artificial intelligence over the next five years (regjeringen.no) (in Norwegian).
Deadline : 12th December 2025
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(09) PhD Positions – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Fellow: Socially Inclusive Neighbourhoods – Architectural Dimensions
We invite talented candidates to apply for an exciting PhD position at the Institute of Architecture and Planning. This position would suit architecture graduates and practicing architects who wish to explore the relationship between policy, neighborhood design and housing provision. This position will open exciting career opportunities. As a PhD candidate with us, you will be able to obtain a PhD, and at the same time gain valuable experience that qualifies you for a further career in and outside academia.
This three-year position is part of the research project ANCHOR: Advancing Neighborhood, Community, and Housing for the integration of Refugee families, an interdisciplinary project funded through the strategic focus area NTNU Community. ANCHOR looks at how housing and neighbourhoods in Norway can support refugee families’ quality of life, inclusion processes and sense of belonging.
Deadline : 11th December 2025
(10) PhD Positions – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Candidate in maritime fleet optimization under regulatory uncertainty
The Department of Marine Technology at NTNU has a PhD position related to optimal strategic fleet renewal and retrofit under regulatory uncertainty towards zero emission shipping, as part of the research center FME MarTrans.
You will be part of a world leading, vibrant research community in Marine Technology, together with more than 60 PhD students from all over the world.
With the IMO goal of zero emission shipping in 2050, shipowners face the challenging task of developing their fleet within a complex and uncertain technical, commercial and regulatory landscape, while maintaining their competitiveness and profitability. At the same time, IMO, EU and other are developing regulations that provides both incentives and constraints for the maritime energy transition and emission reduction.
The research objective of the PhD is to develop models that capture the interaction between strategic fleet models, alternative operational strategies, and regulatory frameworks and taxes, offering decision support for both shipowners and policy makers.
Deadline : 10th December 2025
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(11) PhD Positions – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Candidate in Metallurgical Processes for Battery Recycling
This PhD position is a collaborative effort between the Department of Material Science and Engineering at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway, and the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at Chalmers University of Technology (CTH), Sweden. This collaboration is part of the Nordic Five Tech (N5T) alliance, which brings together the leading technical universities in the Nordic region. Both departments have strategic initiatives in sustainable metallurgy and applying material science and chemical engineering to extract and recycle valuable elements from secondary resources, including EV batteries.
The selected candidate will join the Resources, Energy & Environment (IMA-REM) research group at NTNU and work alongside co-supervisors from the Nuclear Chemistry/Industrial Materials Recycling research group at CTH.
Deadline : 7th December 2025
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(12) PhD Positions – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Position – Climate Change Mitigation in the Maritime Sector
The Industrial Ecology Program (IndEcol), Department of Energy and Process Engineering (EPT), at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) has an opening for a PhD position on Climate Change Mitigation in the Maritime Sector.
The position will be part of the broader work within the Norwegian R&D centre for Maritime Energy Transition (FME MarTrans) on climate change mitigation in the transport sector. The objective of the research is to identify mitigation strategies in the interface between the maritime and energy sectors. The work includes collaborative opportunities with the Energy, Climate, and Environment Program at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis(IIASA).
The research will build on the existing MariTeam framework and its integration with MESSAGEix to investigate mitigation options for the sector. Key tasks for the PhD position involve applications of the existing framework and advancement in the interface towards integrated assessment and energy system models for scenario analysis. The selected candidate will join a team of interdisciplinary researchers working on bridging engineering sciences with life cycle assessment and climate sciences. The duration of the position is 3years.
Deadline : 5th December 2025
(13) PhD Positions – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Candidate in Communication Technology
PhD project: Intra-body Semantic Communication Theory and Principles for Receiver Design
This PhD project aims to develop a theoretical framework for biocommunication using semantic communication theory and principles. The foundational framework will provide insights into developing a receiver system that can continuously and precisely sense and process molecular signals among infectious bacteria colonies for diagnosis. The receiver development will consider novel design principles combining approaches in biosensors, communication systems, and machine learning.
Are you motivated to take a step towards a doctorate and open up exciting career opportunities? As a PhD Candidate with us, you will work to achieve your doctorate, and at the same time gain valuable experience that qualifies you for a further career in higher education and research, in and outside academia.
Deadline : 5th December 2025
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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