NTNU, Norway invites online Application for number of Fully Funded PhD Degree at various Departments. We are providing a list of Fully Funded PhD Programs available at NTNU, Norway.
Eligible candidate may Apply as soon as possible.
(01) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Candidate in Modern Economic History
PhD Candidate will focus on the work package Living Standards. This work package will examine the effect of blockade-induced shortages in order to establish the extent to which these shortages affected the standard of living and post-war consumption habits of households. The project will focus on one major blockaded belligerent (e.g., Germany, or Austria-Hungary) and on one blockaded neutral or occupied country (e.g., Norway, Poland, Belgium) in the First World War or in the Second World War. The PhD will have to develop meaningful indicators as standard concepts on measuring living standards do not work for wartime. They will also have to isolate blockade effects from larger wartime factors. Published and unpublished quantitative data, diaries, newspapers, government files, as well as files from municipal and regional archives will serve as source base.
The PhD candidate is encouraged to develop their own approach to these questions, for example by focusing on specific goods typically consumed by private households. The working package is one of four positions across the four BLOCKADE locations that should speak to the theme of violence/care that determines the impact of blockades on demographic developments and living standards, on their adoption as a seemingly ‘benign’ form of coercion by the League of Nations and on the humanitarian responses they evoked. The theme aims to offer new insights into the connection between blockades and the totalisation and civilianisation of warfare as well as the making of modern humanitarian law and practice. The team members will work together across locations to build a rich source base for BLOCKADE.
The PhD candidate will work with the project leader of the Trondheim team, Jonas Scherner, and their immediate ‘line manager’ will be the Head of Department.
Deadline : 15th September 2025
(02) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Candidate in Political Science
The position will investigate how responses to climate change, including both mitigation and adaptation efforts, may impact the risk of violent conflict. While the precise focus of the project will be decided in collaboration with the successful candidate, the project might explore how different actors and groups, such as governments, local community organizations and even rebel groups, relate to the increasing number of (aid) projects and global efforts aiming to strengthen vulnerable populations. As the availability of data on climate adaptation and mitigation efforts across initiatives such as the Green Climate Fund and The Global Environment Fund, as well as donors like the World Bank and individual OECD countries, remains limited, the project will likely involve collecting and systematizing data.
Deadline : 1st September 2025
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(03) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Candidate in Human-AI Interaction and Learning
The position is one of the two PhD fellowships belonging to a university-wide project called Symbiosis (Human-AI symbiosis as a means to tackle societal challenges). Symbiosis takes an interdisciplinary approach to address the opportunities, challenges, and risks associated with the use of AI in one of the main pillars of our society, that of human learning and participation.
The project follows the principles of Design-Based Research and Responsible Research and Innovation and will employ extensive case studies in collaborating schools and flexible learning arenas. Symbiosis aims to reinforce the foundations for responsible, trustworthy, and sustainable use of AI in our educational institutions by developing ethical and sustainable principles to guide human-AI collaboration and advancing AI literacy.
The goal for Symbiosis is to offer novel, interdisciplinary insights and knowledge into how to nurture humans-AI collaboration and symbiosis, which will lead to productive and sustainable embeddedness of AI technologies that are aligned with societal and cultural values.
This particular PhD fellowship will focus on exploring how learners and teachers intertwine with AI, what the main risks, adversities, consequences, and challenges emerging from this symbiosis, and how to guide the design and implementation of AI technology in our educational institutions.
Deadline : 1st September 2025
(04) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Candidates in Compiler Technologies
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.
Compiler technologies represent a convenient opportunity to automate complex code analyses and transformation to obtain improved characteristics in the output code. Modern initiatives rely on a multi-layer approach to code compilation, which offer a modular approach to domain-specific optimizations.
Your project is expected to contribute to cutting-edge research initiatives leveraging, analyzing, and exploiting wearable computing systems for harsh deployment conditions via code optimization and simulation technologies. You will join a team of international researchers with diverse backgrounds to address the challenges presented by a common problem, and to improve over the current state-of-the-art both with theoretical findings and with technological advances.
You will be expected to regularly engage in critical and constructive discussions with academics from your supervision team, members of your research group, and other research groups within the computer science department.
Deadline : 31st August 2025
(05) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Candidate in vocational education and training (VET)
We are seeking a PhD candidate for a three-year, full-time position affiliated with the International Vocational Education and Training Research Group at the Department of Teacher Education, NTNU. The position is part of a strategic research initiative focusing on vocational education and training (VET) in relation to national and international policy, social inequality, and global trends in education.
The position is for a period of three years. The candidate will undertake a doctoral education with the aim of completing a PhD.
The workplace will be at NTNU in Trondheim, and the candidate’s leader is the Head of Section Vocational Studies, School Development and Educational Leadership.
Deadline : 31st August 2025
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(06) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Candidate in Hydraulic Engineering
The Norwegian Research Centre for Renewal of Hydropower Technology, RenewHydro (www.ntnu.edu/renewhydro), has a vacancy for a PhD Candidate. RenewHydro is hosted by NTNU in Trondheim, Norway, and it is funded by the Research Council of Norway and the Norwegian hydropower industry.
The candidate will work with new technical designs for pumped storage plants. The main focus will be on the tailrace tunnel system and outlet structure (pumping intake), but the research includes the whole, overarching plant design, including tunnels, surge tanks and sand traps. The research will focus on how pump storage plants can be operated with high performance and efficiency, while also reducing environmental impacts. Hence, the candidate will work in cross disciplines with team members who work with fish behavior, engineering geology, turbine design, variable speed operation, etc.
It involves fundamental research including a literature study and CFD modelling with the use of real case-study hydropower projects.
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 : 31st August 2025
(07) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD position copper toxicity
Copper is an essential trace element that plays an important role in several physiological body functions, and copper deficiency has been linked to health problems. At the same time, an excess of copper is associated with the development of liver diseases, neurodegenerative changes, and other disease states. As both copper deficiency and excess can lead to health problems, homeostasis must be maintained through strict regulation. Interestingly, the known cellular mechanisms for copper cannot fully explain the cellular response to this element. This project aims to fill existing knowledge gaps and increase understanding of the cellular signaling pathways that result in copper toxicity.
Deadline : August 24, 2025
(08) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Candidate in Universal Design of Pedestrian Infrastructure
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (IBM) at NTNU is looking for a candidate for a full-time PhD position for three years. This research project focuses on the planning, maintenance, and operation of universally designed solutions for all pedestrians, as well as on how different user groups experience and utilize these solutions. Are optimal solutions being chosen today? Are the solutions being used as expected by the user groups they are intended to serve? Is the quality and functionality of the solutions maintained across seasons and over time?
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.
You will join the Road, Rail and Transport group at IBM, a welcoming and inclusive group with about 15 other PhD candidates specializing in different aspects of our discipline. Our working environment has a friendly and supportive atmosphere.
Deadline : 24th August 2025
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(09) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Candidate in Pavement Technology
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 Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (IBM) at NTNU is looking for a candidate for a full time PhD position for 3 years. You will join the Road, Rail and Transport group at IBM, a welcoming and inclusive group with about 15 other PhD Candidates specializing in different aspects of our field. Our working environment has a friendly and supportive atmosphere with regular formal and informal gatherings to discuss research, exchange ideas, celebrate milestones, and strengthen connections.
Your research aims to understand the impact of longer and heavier freight vehicles on pavement structures. Road freight transport is expected to increase considerably in the next 25 years. Considering that the current regulations limit the maximum axle load to 10 t and total weight of vehicles to 50 t, this will result in a significant amount of extra heavy vehicles compared to today. While authorizing heavier and longer lorries could provide a convenient solution in terms of both traffic volume, CO2 emissions and economy, there is limited knowledge on how this will affect the rate of degradation of the road infrastructure. You will conduct laboratory investigations, possible field work and numerical modeling to simulate the pavement response under different loading conditions. The research will support improvements of the existing specification for the maximum authorized axle load and mass of vehicles.
Deadline :24th August 2025
(10) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Candidate in geography with a focus on coastal geomorphology and plastic pollution
Plastic pollution falls within one of the seven planetary boundaries that have been transgressed as of 2025 but exacerbates the impacts of all nine, including climate change and loss of biodiversity. Marine plastic pollution on the hundreds of thousands of islands that form the outer Norwegian coast is spatially heterogeneous, but also widespread and abundant, due the large, plastic-carrying currents that flow into this relatively remote area. In some bays and inlets, plastic pollution has been accumulating for decades, now embedded in the organic-rich coastal soils and sediments, changing the geomorphology and physical (and attendant ecological) properties of the coastal zone. As such, the primary objective of this PhD project is to improve our understanding of the long-term consequences of plastics pollution on coastal landscapes in Norway. Depending on the candidate’s background and interests, a secondary objective could be to investigate how political, economic, and/or social decisions have impacted coastal landscapes via plastic pollution.
Deadline : 22nd August 2025
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(11) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD fellow in human geography
They are destroying society so much more than they think,’ a tearful student told NRK after the meeting in the County Council in the Inland Region last autumn where several upper secondary schools were decided to be closed. Those who represented the majority in the decision wrote in a column a few days later: ‘We have not “killed” the local community – but have reorganized it for the future’. But ‘the village should die’ was nevertheless written by Aftenposten in its commentator’s column at about the same time, as a contribution to what the commentator believed to be a failed district policy.
While many see it as a necessity, others are frustrated by the increasing centralization of institutions and decisions. Many feel a lack of fairness in these decisions, and through the media we have seen a number of political and social expressions of the dissatisfaction that people feel in large parts of District Norway. Many changes that are now taking place in District Norway challenge the very fundamental structures on which local communities are built.
As part of a larger research project, the PhD project will contribute to developing knowledge about the geographical and indigenous factors of the basic structure in District Norway, and through this further develop the understanding of spatial justice. The basic structure of society, a concept developed a few decades ago by the political philosopher John Rawls, is used precisely to refer to the fundamental structures that organize society, and thus the relationships between people. The basic structures are formal, such as legislation, education and welfare systems, economic organization and political institutions, or informal, such as norms, traditions and family. The basic structures lay the foundation for social interaction and individual behavior, and are absolutely crucial for how justice and injustice in a society are handled. This is thus relevant to the important and growing interdisciplinary research field of ‘spatial justice’, in which geography has a central role.
Deadline : August 20, 2025
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(12) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD in Modular DC/DC converters for Battery Energy Storage and Fuel Cells for Marine Applications
The mission of FME Maritime Energy Transition (MarTrans) is to accelerate the energy transition of the maritime sector through cutting-edge research, innovation, and value chain collaboration. This PhD project is a part of Research Area 2 (RA) and WP 2.1.
The maritime sector accounts today for 9% of Norway’s GHG emissions and 12% of global transport emissions. However, the urgently required decarbonization of the maritime transport sector imposes the need to phase out traditional fossil fuel powered propulsion. A way forward to address this challenge is to increase the degree of onboard electrification including electrification of propulsion. Such approach will necessitate the integration of modern energy carriers onboard, as for example battery energy storage systems and fuel cells, leading to a more environmentally friendly operation of the vessels. Integration of batteries and fuel cells with the vessel’s onboard DC distribution grid (1-1.5 kV or even MV) require power electronics, which enable power and voltage control. Designing high-efficiency and low-footprint power electronics is of outermost importance for maritime applications. To achieve these design constraints both Silicon (e.g., IGBTs) and wide bandgap (WBG) (e.g., Silicon Carbide (SiC) and Gallium Nitride (GaN)) power semiconductors will be utilized.
The PhD candidate will develop compact, cost-effective and high-efficiency modular and galvanically isolated DC/DC power electronic converters employing WBG power semiconductors for interconnecting batteries and fuel cells with the vessel’s onboard DC distribution grid. A particular focus of the project will be on delivering optimized converter designs in terms of voltage, power, specific topologies, their control methods and suitable power semiconductors technology.
The PhD candidate will work in the 300 MNOK Centre for Environment-Friendly Energy Research (FME) “Maritime Energy Transition (MarTrans)”, which is funded by the Research Council of Norway and industry.
Deadline : 18th August 2025
(13) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Candidate in Political Science/Sociology/Media & Communication Research
Sustainable, renewable energy—a promising vision for the future that has often turned into a polarizing issue, where the lines between truths and falsehoods have turned blurry. Experts and policymakers have often erroneously presumed that citizens would share their vision and arrange with the immediate problems and challenges.
The NOTRAP project is developing Energy Policy Incubators (EPIs)—a systematic evaluation tool for energy policies. EPIs systematically leverage insights frompolicymakers, experts, stakeholders, and the public to identify common ground and avoid policymaking traps that have roadblocked energy transition policies in the past.
The candidate will contribute to the following four work packages in the project:
• Work packages B/G: Current Policy Pathways & Redefining the Policy Landscape
• Work packages C/H: Socio-Political Contexts and Effects
We are looking for a candidate with strong quantitative methods skills, qualitative methods literacy and a willingness to learn and apply innovative methods (quantitative, qualitative, and mixed) in a multidisciplinary team. The role involves two primary research areas, with the possibility to specialize in one in consultation with the supervisors and the project leadership:
• Policy Document Analysis: Utilizing document and content analysis, including text mining, to identify policy proposals, arguments, frames, and discourses from relevant policy documents and other texts
• Public Opinion Research: Designing and conducting survey experiments to assess the impact of policy presentation, policy design, citizen involvement, and decision-making processes on acceptance of policy packages.
Deadline : 18th August 2025
(14) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Position within Investment and Policy Analysis under uncertainty for CCS Value Chains
The process of increasing CCS volumes from the megatonnes scale of today to gigatons in the future requires policies and governance structures that make investments that happen today a steppingstone towards projects that are investable on commercial terms. One important element in that process is the management and sharing of risk among agents in the CCS value chains like CO2, suppliers, shippers, infrastructure owners, storage owners, as well as regulators and governments. Risks are related to technological maturity, volumes and CO2 prices, as well as political risk. This project will address the instruments, policy measures, regulation and market design that stimulate the best investment choices and formation of robust cooperation designs needed to allow for scaling of the value chains.
The project requires knowledge of real options analysis, quantitative modelling skills and understanding of the CCS value chain.
Deadline : 17th August 2025
(15) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Candidate in Rock Engineering – IV-91/25
For a position as a PhD Candidate, the goal is a completed doctoral education up to an obtained doctoral degree. The work environment will be inspiring and international with other PhD candidates working within engineering geology, structural geology, hydrogeology and soil mechanics.
You will report to your closest supervisor.
The project focuses on developing an advanced, AI-integrated methodology for the design of Large Underground Structures (LUS), addressing the limitations of traditional empirical approaches. These structures are critical to sectors such as transportation, defense, mining, and urban development, yet their design is often hindered by complex geological conditions and evolving functional requirements. This project aims to create safer, more adaptable, and resource-efficient underground infrastructures.
Through collaboration with key national and Scandinavian stakeholders—including government agencies, research institutions, and industry partners—the project will establish a validated, data-driven design framework. This framework will support multifunctional and dual-use applications, enhancing the resilience of underground spaces for both civilian and defense needs. The outcomes will include best practice guidelines, a robust AI-based design tool, and a foundation for future innovation and funding in underground construction.
Deadline : 17th August 2025
(16) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Two PhD candidates within Cultural and Natural History
These PhD positions are for three years for doctoral work, with the possibility of extending up to four years including career-promoting work. You will benefit from an international and interdisciplinary work environment. In addition to the well curated and accessible scientific collections, you will have access to high quality research infrastructures like laboratories for molecular biodiversity and isotopic studies including radiocarbon dating, advanced field equipment for terrestrial and marine studies, research vessels and long-term data-series in biology.
The NTNU University Museum is the natural and cultural history museum of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim.
Deadline :15th August 2025
(17) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Phd position in Population Biology
The PhD position is associated with the Advanced Grant project “Eco-Evolutionary Rescue of Fragmented Populations” funded by the European Research Council and NTNU, with an overall aim of providing new understanding of factors affecting the viability of small populations in nature. The position is also expected to contribute to relevant research topics in the FME InterPlay (https://interplayresearch.no/), which aims to integrate energy system to reduce impact on biodiversity.
Specifically, the primary focus of the PhD will be to analyse and parameterize models describing the ecological and evolutionary dynamics of small and fragmented populations, and how the risk of extinction is affected by changes in the environment such as expected alterations of the climate and loss of critical habitat types. The primary model system for examining the validity of the models will be a unique long-term individual-based data set on house sparrows at the coast of Helgeland in Northern Norway. Here there will also be opportunities to contribute to fieldwork.
The PhD position provides an exciting opportunity to gain broad basic research experience and expertise in evolutionary ecology under a conservation biology context, while working in an interdisciplinary research environment. The successful candidate will acquire broad training in the necessary research skills, and the position will suit a candidate who is motivated to undertake high-level research in the interface between different research disciplines. The three-year position includes research time as well as course components corresponding to half a year of studies, and concludes with a PhD degree.
The position will be hosted within a dynamic research group based at NTNU, with strong collaborative links to many internationally leading research groups nationally and abroad. There will be opportunities for international mobility to the collaborating groups, and for conference and workshop participation.
The project supervisor will be Professor Bernt-Erik Sæther (Gjærevoll Centre, NTNU).
The co-supervisors will be Dr Yimen Araya-Ajoy (Department of Biology, NTNU) and Professor Henrik Jensen (Department of Biology, NTNU).
Deadline : 15th August 2025
(18) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Candidate in Timber Engineering
We have a vacancy for a Ph.D. Candidate within the timber structures’ group at the Department of Structural Engineering.
The timber structures group at NTNU has had a great development over the last years. The research interests of the group are focused on development of structural concepts for mid-rise timber buildings, timber bridges with long spans, development of high-performance connections based on threaded rods, static and dynamic testing of timber components and investigation of fracture and high-cycle fatigue. The research methods are based on both small-scale and full-scale experimental testing and on Finite Element Modelling.
Timber structures have gained increasing attention in the European construction field because of their sustainability, cost effectiveness, and reduced self-weight. The use of wood is particularly beneficial because of its low carbon footprint compared to other construction materials such as concrete and steel. Wood products can achieve high mechanical performance not only at the material level, but also at structural level, as it was proved by the recent efforts to design and construct high timber buildings in Europe. Such buildings require performant connections in terms of stiffness and resistance to achieve sufficient serviceability and safety. Performant moment-resisting connections can contribute to the lateral stiffness of the building, reducing the need for diagonal bracing or walls and allowing for more spacious buildings. An innovative moment-resisting beam-to-column connection has recently been developed at NTNU, based on friction, and utilizing threaded rods as fasteners.
The design life of load-carrying wooden structures is recommended to be up to 100 years by the Eurocodes. However, the long-term mechanical deterioration of wood driven by cyclic variations of the environmental conditions is a challenging topic for large structures. Furthermore, increasing circularity and prolonging the service life of buildings and structural components is a step forward towards more sustainable, resource-efficient, cost-effective, and environmentally friendly construction. Therefore, the response of the connection subjected to long-term loading and moisture effects should be investigated, as well as the potential for disassembling/reassembling. Moreover, design recommendations about the long-term performance need to be developed for the application of such connections.
Deadline : 15th August 2025
(19) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Candidate in Marine Technology
The position is being part of the project MAPLES: Multi-fidelity and Probabilistic Lifetime Estimation for Slender Marine Structures with NTNU, SINTEF Ocean and SINTEF Digital as research partners. The project is supported by the Norwegian Research Council and the industrial partners: Equinor, Petrobras, DnV, Subsea7, HMH drilling and Hellenic cables. Also, the project will work together with international research groups including Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Brown University and Newcastle University.
The joint marine structures research group formed by the Department of Marine Technology, SINTEF OCEAN and industry partners, is world leading with regards to the development of global and local response models as well as experimental methods that concerns the hydrodynamic/mechanical response of dynamic riser and power cable systems.
Deadline : 15th August 2025
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(20) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Candidate in Marine Electrification – Smart Onboard Energy Systems
The PhD project at the Department of Marine Technology is part of ongoing European initiatives to accelerate the transition to sustainable maritime transport.
The central objective is to develop smart onboard power systems enabling efficient electrification and decarbonization of marine vessels. Cutting-edge technologies are considered such as onboard power electronics, medium voltage DC (MVDC) grid architectures, and solid-state transformers, along with sustainable energy conversion systems such as fuel cells and batteries. Intelligent control and management systems will be designed to enhance efficiency, sustainability, and seamless integration. Developed models and strategies will be validated on laboratory testbeds and eventually demonstrated on ship in collaboration with industry partners.
You will be part of the Marine Electrification Lab at NTNU, a world-leading research environment, and will collaborate closely with top-tier academic and industrial partners in the maritime and energy sectors.
The PhD project is supervised by Professor Mehdi Zadeh. Your immediate Line Manager is the Head of the Department.
Deadline :15th August 2025
(21) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Candidate in Development of Aluminium Batteries for Stationary Energy Storage
The Department of Materials Science and Engineering (IMA) at the Natural Science Faculty, has a vacancy for a position as PhD candidate related to development of an emerging battery technology based on aluminium anodes and carbon cathodes. The PhD project is affiliated to the strategic research area TSO Energy at NTNU. The candidate will be part of a PhD pool devoted to various aspects of renewable energy technology. The overall aim of the PhD project is to evaluate selected material qualities (aluminium alloys, carbons, solvents and current collectors) with respect to applicability in aluminium carbon batteries, by combining electrochemical techniques and advanced materials characterization (post mortem or operando). The PhD project also includes evaluation of sustainability, scaleability, and adaptability to stationary storage for designed cells. This position is funded by NTNU’s strategic research area on Energy. Additional opportunities linked to this initiative can be found at https://www.ntnu.edu/energy/announcements.
The main supervisor of the candidate will be Prof. Ann Mari Svensson (IMA), NTNU. In addition, co-supervisors will be appointed, from the Industrial Ecology Group, Faculty of Engineering (Prof. Anders Strømman), Sustainable Electrical Energy Group, Information Technology and Electrical Engineering Faculty (Steve Völler), Department of Architecture and Technology (Prof. Arild Gustavsen)
Deadline : 15th August 2025
(22) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Fellow in Social Sciences
We have a vacancy for a PhD fellow in Social Sciences at the Department of Teacher Education, Section for Social Sciences. The position is linked to an interdisciplinary research project “Negotiations on Community: Norwegian Jewish Life and the Greater Community”, with participants from several departments, faculties and external research institutions. The project is part of the NTNU Community focus area, which will contribute to a viable democracy that safeguards the best interests of the community, strengthens trust and cohesion across different groups, and reduces exclusion and polarization: Community – Focus Area – NTNU . In addition, the fellow will become part of the DACED (Democracy and Citizenship in Education) research group at the Department of Teacher Education: Democracy and Citizenship in Education – Research – Department of Teacher Education – NTNU
Over the past year, there has been a rise in anti-Semitic attitudes, a heightened threat of terrorism against Jewish targets, and increased insecurity among Jewish Norwegians. These problems are triggered by recent events, but caused by historical developments that can only be understood with a longer and interdisciplinary perspective. This PhD project will examine how Norwegian-Jewish cultural heritage has shaped the national minority group’s identity, trust in the larger society, and experiences of inclusion in the community. The PhD project will place particular emphasis on the role and significance of cultural heritage in an educational perspective, such as:
- Local, national and global aspects in Norwegian-Jewish integration and identity processes
- Museum and other cultural communication aspects
- Subject-specific didactic perspectives related to Norwegian-Jewish cultural heritage
Are you motivated to take the step towards a doctorate and open up exciting career opportunities? As a fellow with us, you will work towards achieving your doctorate, while at the same time gaining valuable experience that qualifies you for a further career in higher education and research, in and outside of academia.
Deadline : August 12, 2025
(23) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD in condition assessment of medium voltage cables based on pulse detection and machine learning
Medium voltage extruded power cables are very important components in electricity distribution systems, especially in urban areas. Faults in distribution cable systems are rare but increase with service age and depend on the cable designs and environment. Because faults are generally costly to repair, methods that can precisely and rapidly locate faults or even faults under development are of great value.
Localization of very critical cable sections that are close to failure or other weak points where partial discharges have started can be made with advanced online detection methods. This includes both injection of high frequency signals and analysis of the response, or detection of current pulses generated by the weak spots in the cable section.
The PhD project consists of three parts: First, experimental studies of pulse propagation and its dependency on cable designs, materials and their condition. Second, simulation of pulse propagation in cables with variable parameters quantified in experimental studies. Third, utilizing signal processing and machine learning to develop detection and classification algorithms using measured and/or simulated data, such as current pulses from cable faults (breakdown), partial discharges and external noise.
In addition to being part of the research group High Voltage Technology, the PhD candidate will also work in close cooperation with SINTEF Energy Research and have access to first-class laboratories.
The main supervisor of the PhD candidate will be Professor Hans Kristian Høidalen (IEL). Co-supervisors will be Professor Øystein Hestad (IEL) and Senior Researcher Scientist Sverre Hvidsten (SINTEF Energy).
Deadline : 11th August 2025
(24) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Candidate – Design for co-creation of sustainable pathways for the green energy transition
The candidate will work within the VISTA center for Norwegian Transformative Energy Policy Development – NOTRAP which aims to establish Energy Policy Incubators (EPIs), which co-construct transformative, contextualized energy policies with citizens, policymakers, industry, scientists, and other stakeholders. NOTRAP is a cooperation between eight departments from four different NTNU faculties, and will house eight PhD students to be recruited in 2025, in the fields of design, psychology, sociology, social anthropology, economics and political sciences.
Within NOTRAP, the Department of Design will contribute with two PhD students to establishing EPIs by developing and using innovative design methods to extend the space of imaginable policy pathways. This vacancy concerns one of these two PhD positions.
The PhD candidate is expected to address the following research questions:
- How can innovative tools and methods like design fiction, speculative design, eco-visualizations, serious games, disruptive communication, deliberative polling and artificial intelligence contribute to extend the space of imaginable sustainable energy policy pathways for societal stakeholders?
- How can such methods contribute to securing engagement in democratic processes with foster dialogue and mutual sharing of perspectives on potentially conflicting positions, where more conventional methods of co-creation have not succeeded?
Deadline :3rd August 2025
(25) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Candidate in process modelling, simulation and feasibility studies
The project starts with the study of specific processes to help in the development of the tool. The successful project would develop new chemical engineering process models used to increase our understanding of how process design and inputs (like raw materials and availability of energy) will impact the process performance. This will enhance our knowledge and provide insights into the challenges and opportunities of new biotechnological processes, helping to identify development needs (materials, reactions, size, costs, etc.).
Deadline : 3rd August 2025
(26) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Candidate – Netnography-Driven User-Centered Design for the Green Energy Transition
The candidate will work within the VISTA center for Norwegian Transformative Energy Policy development – NOTRAP which aims to establish Energy Policy Incubators (EPIs), which co-construct transformative, contextualized energy policies with citizens, policymakers, industry, scientists, and other stakeholders. NOTRAP is a cooperation between eight departments from four different NTNU faculties, and will house eight PhD students to be recruited in 2025, in the fields of design, psychology, sociology, social anthropology, economics and political sciences.
Within NOTRAP, the Department of Design will contribute with two PhD students to establishing EPIs by developing and using innovative design methods to extend the space of imaginable policy pathways. This vacancy concerns one of these two PhD positions.
The PhD candidate is expected to address one or more of the following research questions:
- How can netnography be used to extract actionable insights about citizens’ attitudes, needs, perceptions, motivations, and barriers toward adopting green energy solutions?
- To what extent can netnography be of additional value in comparison to more conventional qualitative and quantitative methods used by designers and psychologists to uncover psychological and behavioral factors (e.g., trust, risk perception, social identity) that influence user engagement in sustainable behaviour and engagement in the green energy transition?
- How can user-centered design methods leverage netnographic data to co-create more effective, inclusive, and user-friendly green energy products/services?
- How can relevant narratives about the green energy transitions which are present in social media (and media in general?) be identified and exploited to shape public attitudes toward green energy policies and technologies?
Deadline :3rd August 2025
(27) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Candidate in Disordered Optical Metasurfaces for Energy Applications
We are searching for a creative, skilled and ambitious candidate for our activities on the optics of disordered resonant metasurfaces with applications in production of clean energy.
The aim of the candidate is to design and characterize disordered optical metasurfaces. Main focus will be theoretical and experimental understanding of the complex optics of plasmonic disordered metasurfaces as well as optical characterization using advanced spectroscopic modules. We will investigate the potential of these structures in photocatalysis pushing towards green energy sources.
The research will be performed at the Department of Electronic Systems, NTNU in close collaboration with scientific partners in Switzerland. The applicant will be encouraged to spend short exchange visits with the scientific partners.
Deadline :1st August 2025
(28) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Candidate in Building Integration of Solar Cells
The PhD candidate position is foreseen to carry out experimental laboratory and field work on building integration of solar cells. This research work will be carried out within the project ”A Toolkit for Sustainable Photovoltaics Integration in the Norwegian Built Environment” (SolKit) funded by the Research Council of Norway and several industrial and other partners.
The primary objective of the SolKit project is to facilitate the widespread adoption of building integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) in the Norwegian built environment. The SolKit project entails overcoming barriers linked to Norwegian conditions while addressing societal needs, economic goals and sustainability challenges. Furthermore, SolKit aims to develop essential knowledge and tools specifically tailored to address the conditions hindering the broad acceptance and deployment of BIPV technologies in Norway.
Deadline : 1st August 2025
(29) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD in the Geography of climate adaptation and sustainable development in the Himalayas
Your work will be part of the project “Threatened Lifelines”. Analyzing and managing the impacts of shrinking glaciers and snow cover on water flows, land use, and livelihoods in mountain communities of the Indian Himalayas.
This project is led by Martin C. Lukas in collaboration with Oddbjørn Bruland from the Faculty of Engineering and Pascal E. Egli from the Department of Geography and Social Anthropology. It is financed by NTNU Community.
The project investigates the impacts of climate change on mountain communities and fosters just and sustainable adaptation pathways. It focuses on communities in the semiarid Himalayan region of Ladakh, which are highly reliant on seasonal meltwater flows that are increasingly prone to change and decline. One project component analyses and models the effects of climate-induced cryospheric changes on water flows. The other project component, to which you will contribute significantly, examines how these changes intersect with broader societal transformations to impact mountain communities.
Taking transdisciplinary approaches, the project explores adaptation strategies and their implications for equity and community agency. The ultimate goal is to support sustainable water governance and development pathways embedded in the region’s social-ecological and cultural fabric as well as its long-standing community institutions.
Deadline :11th August 2025
(30) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Candidate in Hydrological and Water Resource Modelling in the Himalayan region of Ladakh
our work will be part of the project Threatened Lifelines. Analyzing and managing the impacts of shrinking glaciers and snow cover on water flows, land use, and livelihoods in mountain communities of the Indian Himalayas.
This project is led by Martin C. Lukas in collaboration with Oddbjørn Bruland from the Faculty of Engineering and Pascal E. Egli from the Department of Geography and Social Anthropology. It is financed by NTNU Community.
The project investigates the impacts of climate change on mountain communities and fosters just and sustainable adaptation pathways. It focuses on communities in the semiarid Himalayan region of Ladakh, which are highly reliant on seasonal meltwater flows that are increasingly prone to change and decline. The project component to which you will contribute significantly uses climate scenarios, regional climate modelling and glacio-hydrological modelling, calibrated with in-situ measurements, to quantify the impacts of climate-induced cryospheric changes on seasonal meltwater flows and water availability for mountain communities. The other project component examines how these changes intersect with broader societal transformations to impact mountain communities.
The ultimate goal is to support sustainable water governance and development pathways embedded in the region’s social-ecological and cultural fabric as well as its long-standing community institutions.
Deadline :31st July 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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