17 Postdoctoral Fellowship at NTNU, Norway

The Industrial Ecology Program (IndEcol), Department of Energy and Process Engineering (EPT) at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) is seeking a Post-Doctoral Scholar for the continued development, updating and scientific application of the environmentally extended multiregional input-output model EXIOBASE and the global life cycle impact assessment methodology LC-IMPACT. EXIOBASE and LC-IMPACT  are two major pillars of the digital research infrastructure of the Industrial Ecology Programme as well as of the Industrial Ecology community (together over 80,000 downloads in the last years). The successful applicant will take responsibility for maintaining and extending this infrastructure, with a focus on Open Science/FAIR data and code management. The outcome of this process will be a fully automated, parallelized data pipeline integrated into the NTNU digital infrastructure (OpenStack and HPC cluster). Another major part of the work will be the further increase of the uptake of these databases through web-presence development, development and end-user focused software and workshops/presentations of these at relevant conferences.

We have a vacancy for a postdoctoral fellowship position at the Department of Education and Lifelong Learning, at the Faculty of Social and Educational Sciences. The position is fully dedicated to research over a two-year period starting first half of 2023 and ending in 2025. The position is linked to the DROPOUT project, which has a grant from the Research Council of Norway in the period 2021-2026. The overall goal of the DROPOUT project is to uncover actual causes of dropout in upper secondary school through the use of large, prospective studies, with data from parents, teachers, and children themselves from kindergarten age to adulthood (The Early Secure in Trondheim Study; https://www.ntnu.edu/tess). We also investigate factors from generations back in time through the use of HUNT data (the Health Survey in Trøndelag; https://www.ntnu.edu/hunt).

The Norwegian Research Centre for Hydropower Technology, HydroCen, has a vacancy for a Postdoctoral Fellow position at Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. HydroCen is hosted by NTNU in Trondheim, Norway, and it is funded by the Research Council of Norway and the Norwegian hydropower industry. The research is both theoretical and experimental and it is mainly focused on hydropower technology. However, the market, environmental impact and social acceptance is also part of the research. The postdoctoral fellowship position is a temporary position where the main goal is to qualify for work in senior academic positions.

The postdoctoral fellowship position is a temporary position where the main goal is to qualify for work in senior academic positions.  As companies collect data in ever increasing amounts in order to monitor and potentially improve performance in different aspects of their business, there is a need for methods that automate the analysis of data and the subsequent decision-making process. The objective of this post-doctoral research project is to develop general methods for real-time optimization and control in the intersection between control theory and machine learning. This position is associated with the center for research-based innovation DigiWells: Digital Well Center for Value Creation, Competitiveness and Minimum Environmental Footprint. The center provides a collaborative environment consisting of researchers at NORCE, experts from industry, professors from UiS, NTNU and UiB and a total of 17 PhD students and postdocs.

The research scientist position is foreseen to carry out experimental work on material synthesis, characterization and component development within smart windows (e.g. electrochromic windows), and if considered appropriate at the time being, also on other relevant fields within the project. In addition, a PhD candidate within the same field will also be employed, who will be working together with the research scientist and other researchers and professors at our department.

We have a vacancy for a postdoctoral fellow position at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (IBM). The estimated building performance in the design phase usually deviates from its actual performance after implementing the suggested interventions and while it is being used afterwards. Many causal factors can be identified by using analytical method and AI tools. The main objective of this position is to support the H2020 EU-funded project (ARV) to identify the causal factors of possible performance gaps within the ARV’s demonstration communities during the construction and operation phases. Where, ARV is aiming at creating climate positive circular communities in Europe and increasing the building renovation rate in the continent.

The postdoctoral fellowship position is a temporary position where the main goal is to qualify for work in senior academic positions. The current Postdoc position will be affiliated to the Concrete group which is a team of scientists dedicated to the study of all aspects of concrete. The Concrete group conduct research on concrete from material to structural level based on theoretical, numerical and experimental investigations. The Concrete group is involved in several national and international research projects, it has a close collaboration with the industry, and it has extended laboratory facilities with a rich history.

Postdoktorstillingen er en kvalifiseringsstilling der hovedmålet er å kvalifisere for arbeid i vitenskapelige toppstillinger. Kandidaten ansettes i tre år, inklusive ett år undervisningsplikt. Forskning: Postdoktoren vil være en del av prosjektet «Styring av og gjennom digitale helsedata i Norge.» Den datadrevne økonomien er et viktig slagord. Med fokus på helsedata undersøker dette prosjektet hva det å bli datadrevet betyr for relasjonene mellom innbyggere, offentlige og private aktører i Norge. Tidligere forskning viste at nordiske land har som mål å posisjonere seg i den globale helsedataøkonomien. Å gå fra et felleskapsprinsipp til en tiltakende kommersialisering ville bety et taktskifte i norsk samfunn og politikk, som kan ha konsekvenser for maktforholdet mellom offentlig sektor og private selskaper, og muligheten til likeverdig tjenestetilgang. Ved å studere denne utviklingen bidrar prosjektet til å si noe om generelle trekk i samfunnet og utfordringer for demokratisk styring i dag.

Postdoktorstillingen er en kvalifiseringsstilling der hovedmålet er å kvalifisere for arbeid i vitenskapelige toppstillinger. Ved Institutt for nevromedisin og bevegelsesvitenskap (INB)  har vi ledig stilling for postdoktor i 50 % stilling over 6 år.  Stillingen er tilknyttet Norsk senter for hodepineforskning – NorHEAD. Institutt for nevromedisin og bevegelsesvitenskap er tverrfaglig sammensatt og driver utdanning og forskning innen medisin og helsefag.  Forskningen involverer både helsepersonell, pasienter og friske personer med og uten funksjonsnedsettelse. Innen nevrologi drives forskning bla. demenssykdommer, Parkinsons sykdom, Huntingtons sykdom og motornevronsykdom.

One/two post-doctoral researcher positions are available at the Department of Energy and Process Engineering, in the Thermofluids research group. Each appointment has a duration of 4 years and its supported by the Department. To meet the rising global energy demand in a sustainable manner, one way is to improve phase change heat transfer, which has therefore been the object of increasing engineering research over the last years. Phase change is the most efficient way to increase heat transfer since latent heat is typically much large than sensible heat. The recent development of micro and nanotechnologies has made the high-resolution control of surface texture and chemistry feasible over different length scales. These complex surfaces may significantly affect several multiphase processes of high practical interest, e.g., evaporation, boiling, condensation and freezing. In a field where experiments are complex, a deep understanding of the mechanisms underlying wetting and compressible multiphase flows with phase change, may therefore be achieved through high-fidelity numerical simulations.

We are hiring a 3-year postdoctoral fellow to research digitalization and robotization of work in a portfolio of projects at NTNU KULTs research group Digitalization and robotization of society (DigiKULT). We are looking for a postdoc with educational background in Science and Technology Studies (STS) or related fields in the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH), with excellent understanding of- and documented experience researching digitalization and/or robotization processes.

1. BIAS (2022-2026), funded by Horizon Europe

The BIAS-project investigates the use of Artificial Intelligence in the labor market and how biases in hiring and promoting processes based on personal characteristics are potentially reproduced with AI-based systems. E.g. by analyzing text created by an employee or recruitment candidate in order to assist management in deciding to invite a candidate for an interview, training and employee engagement, or to monitor for infractions that could lead to disciplinary proceedings. It is therefore necessary to identify and mitigate biases that occur in applications used in a Human Resources Management (HRM) context. The project will (1) investigate this from a technical perspective by identifying how current AI systems are biased and propose solutions to make them less biased, and (2) from a social scientific side with extensive ethnographic fieldwork concerning the lived experiences of employees, Human Resource managers, and technology developers. The project will then (3) provide substantial training for HR managers and technology developers regarding the responsible development and implementation of AI. (The latter two points are primarily the area in which the postdoc will work, with fieldwork in select country(s), and arrangement of workshops and knowledge building).

2. Robotics4EU (2021-2023). Funded by Horizon 2020

The Robotics4EU project is creating and empowering the EU-wide responsible robotics community representing robotics innovators from companies and academia in the four application areas, as well as citizens/users and policy/decision-makers by: (1) raising awareness about non-technological aspects of robotics by organizing community building and co-creation events bringing together the robotics community and citizens; (2) advocating for the responsible robotics among all stakeholders groups; (3) developing a responsible robotics maturity assessment model and bringing the project results to the standardization bodies. KULT is a project partner leading the healthcare and Societal Readiness part of the project. The postdoc will work on analyzing data and contributing to knowledge building of the robotics community through event organizations and outreach activities.

3. AUTOWORK (2020-2025). Funded by the Research Council of Norway

This project investigates how  new technologies of automation are changing work-life, as digital technologies are changing societies and work-life in rapid ways. Increasingly advanced, complex, and intelligent machines prove capable of performing work previously mastered by humans alone. The effects and implications of this for both individual workers and society are not yet known. NTNU and Monash University in Australia, explores this transformation across three sectors poised to be particularly impacted by automation: Building, Sale, and Healthcare. The postdoc fellow will conduct some fieldwork, analyze data, and contribute in writing up research, as well as help organize future scenario workshops, and will work primarily in the health care work package of the project.

The postdoctoral fellowship position is a temporary position where the main goal is to qualify for work in senior academic positions. Department of Geoscience and Petroleum (IGP) of NTNU has a vacant Postdoctoral Position within engineering geology with the research focus on in-situ rock stress for “Gaining deep understanding of the in-situ rock stress as a large picture of regional stress (deep stress), as well as local stress variations (shallow stress) due to local geological, topographical, and geo-tectonic features”. The position is two years long.

Postdoktoren skal gjennomføre forskning som skal gi mer kunnskap om grenseflaten mellom IT-sikkerhet (cyber security) og sikkerhet (safety) i samfunnet og i arbeidslivet. Digitalisering i samfunn og arbeidsliv gir forbedrete muligheter for beskyttelse av menneskelig og materielle verdier, men åpner også opp for sårbarheter i digital teknologi. Eksempler på digitalisering av sikkerhetsarbeidet er knyttet til anvendelse av sensorer for overvåkning av naturfarer, bruk av kunstig intelligens for bedre kunnskap om risikoforhold og automatisering. Samtidig skaper de innovative digitale sikkerhetsløsningene sårbarheter med tanke på tilsiktede angrep og utilsiktede hendelser som gjør at IT-sikkerhet blir essensielt for de digitale sikkerhetsløsningene.