Fully-funded PhD scholarships for international students at KTH institute of Technology, Sweden.
- Omran Aburayya
- May 12, 2024
- 1 min read
Updated: May 15, 2024
KTH institute of technology is inviting international students pursuing PhD. studies to apply to fill several positions within multiple domains and fields. See below each position and click on any you find it of your interest to access the official position's page and associated details. A short description of the project is provided here along with Application deadline.
Project Description:
In this project, you will investigate the effects of drying and moistening on fibres and fibre joints during manufacturing and end-use. A particular focus will be on understanding how anisotropic constraints during drying influence the development of the network's mechanical properties and residual stresses. This project provides an exciting opportunity to gain insights into the complex behaviour of fibre networks and contribute to advancing our understanding of these widespread materials, which are integral to the transition towards sustainable development.
You will develop and extend our in-house computational tools for multiscale modelling of fibre networks. On the experimental side, you will have access to state-of-the-art facilities for material characterization, including advanced imaging techniques and mechanical testing equipment necessary for completing and validating the modelling efforts.
This project will establish close collaboration with industry partners such as Tetra Pak, Canon, RISE and FibriTech. The doctoral student is expected to disseminate their work through publications in scientific journals and contributions to national and international conferences.
Application deadline: 31.May.2024
Project Description:
The use of studded tyres during wintertime can cause significant wear of road surfaces. Some fraction of this wear is released in the form of airborne particulates, affecting the air quality in urban areas. The studs of today's winter tyres are manufactured from hard metal containing Cobalt. Cobalt is a material that should be phased out from an environmental perspective both at the use phase as well as the manufacturing phase. The project aims to study alternative Cobalt free hard metal studs that in the future also can reduce the particulate emissions. You will work together with industry and government agencies. This project is financed by the Swedish Transport agency.
Application deadline: 31.May.2024
Project Description:
This PhD project aims at understanding the behavior of LLM (Large Language Model)-powered agents, as they interact with humans or other agents. Unlike current research efforts at trying to explain AI models or their predictions, the approach of this project will consist in viewing the agents as black-box economic agents, or “utility maximizers”, and in employing tools from dynamical systems and control, microeconomics and social learning to test the rationality of their decisions and understand the pitfalls commonly encountered when rational agents interact in an environment.
Application deadline: 23.May.2024
Project Description:
This position is to a licentiate degree, with the possibility to extend to a PhD degree. The successful candidate will join a research team within the department of production engineering that is carrying out state-of-the-art research aiming to help the European manufacturing industry transform its linear model into circular manufacturing model. This entails a fundamentally new approach to resources and their conservation, initiated at the conceptual design stage of products with a rigorous insight into the entire lifecycle of the products.
The candidate will mainly work on a Horizon Europe-funded project, DiCiM (www.dicim.eu) that aims to digitalize the value recovery activities in major manufacturing sectors. The candidate will also contribute to nationally funded projects connected to the CMS research, in close collaboration with Swedish manufacturing industry. The candidate is expected to generate short-term research ideas for student projects and/or hypothesis testing that can lead to potential long-term research ideas.
Application deadline: 23.May.2024
Project Description:
The division of Mechatronics, KTH, announces a PhD position in robotics for fire risk estimation in rural environments. The department consists of around forty employees organized in several research groups working on topics connected to robotics, such as design, reliability and autonomy. We frequently work with research-related companies, and several examples of companies that have spun off from our research exists today.
One of our research groups works closely with the forest industry with a focus on robotics, sensor systems and artificial intelligence. In the spring of 2024, we will start a project funded by MSB with a focus on how autonomous and remote-controlled forest machines can improve the coarse-grained estimation of the risk of ignition of forest and grass fires that exist today. Those interested in applying should have an interdisciplinary background in robotics or mechatronics, and a keen interest in immersing themselves in a critical societal area.
Application deadline: 30.Jun.2024
Project Description:
The primary objective of the projects within this research environment is to investigate the impact of digitalization within educational settings, specifically examining its effects on learning and inclusion in group work for two specific demographics: pupils with concentration difficulties (for example due to ADHD) and pupils with visual impairment. The overarching aim is to scrutinize the prevailing conditions for these pupils concerning the influence of digitalization in schools. Additionally, the research seeks to explore whether the integration of multisensory interfaces alongside an inclusive pedagogical approach can enhance the capacity for these pupils to concentrate and to attain the educational objectives outlined in the school curriculum. The doctoral student is expected to engage in interview and observation studies in school settings and in development and evaluation of multisensory learning applications with pupils from the two demographics in this project.
Application deadline: 23.May.2024
Project Description:
At KTH Royal Institute of Technology/SciLifeLab, we are looking to fill the position as PhD student in data-driven cell and molecular biology covers research that fundamentally transforms our knowledge about how cells function by peering into their molecular components in time and space, from single molecules to native tissue environments.
The subject concerns spatial biology, which encompasses a wide range of technologies that quantify different types of biomolecules in situ. Available technologies provide information about distinct aspects of tissue anatomy, such as its morphology, genome, transcriptome, proteome, and metabolome. Comprehensively characterizing a tissue requires combining multiple technologies, which can be costly or challenging experimentally. The student will develop methods for multi-modal modeling of spatial biology data that integrate diverse data types and can be used for cross-modality data transfer.
Multi-modal generative models are likely to become an increasingly crucial biological research tool. Due to the complex nature of many biological systems, any single modality is unlikely to describe their properties fully. Therefore, leveraging a learned knowledge base that spans multiple modalities and anatomical conditions is crucial for interpreting the data and accelerating discovery. For this purpose, the PhD student will employ our unique spatial multimodal datasets of tissue morphology, gene expression, genome integrity, and metabolites. The primary goal for the PhD student is to explore spatial datasets and develop data-driven methods to improve our understanding of biological systems in health and disease. The position also includes teaching and other duties in the department.
Application deadline: 30.May.2024
