Application deadline 27 May 2018
Our supporting member NTNU has made available 48 PhD positions to pursue transformative research on the development and application of digital transformation technology. These positions are distributed among 9 multidisciplinary projects with 4-6 PhD-positions involving 2-5 tenured researchers from at least two faculties with supervisor/co-supervisor roles.
6 PhD positions in the project
By a novel combination of exercise-, hypertension-, mathematical modelling-, machine learning-, statistical-, biosensor-, genetic epidemiology- and population based research we will develop a personalized Medical Digital Twin (MyMDT) that serve as a transformative platform for patient specific hypertensive intervention. MyMDT aims to identify, and implement, primary and secondary hypertension prevention schemes to improve individual health outcomes and reduce health care cost. MyMDT aim to radically improve prevention and treatment of hypertension. Six PhD positions are available in this project.
Project Leader: Ulrik Wisløff
Professor and Head of CERG and K.G. Jebsen Centre for Exercise in Medicine
6 PhD positions in the project
The concept of small autonomous passenger ferries in urban areas is a more flexible and environmentally-friendly alternative to bridges or manned ferries. Autoferry therefore aims to develop groundbreaking new concepts and methods which will enable the development of such ferries for urban water transport. NTNU has recently developed a 5-m long (1:2 scale) prototype of an autonomous all-electric passenger ferry which will be used as the main experimental platform in the project. Succeeding with the Autoferry project requires a broad multi-disciplinary approach and therefore involves six PhD positions.
Project Leader: Morten Breivik
Head of the Department of Engineering Cybernetics
5 PhD positions in the project
The transformative dimension in the digital economy appears when technologies are combined with market and business models, allowing radically changing capabilities for speed, scale and scope of economic activities, transactions, products and services:
Project Leader: Asgeir Tomasgard
Director at CenSES
Professor at the Department of Industrial Economics and Technology Management
4 PhD positions in the project
«Smart» digital infrastructures have been delegated more and more tasks and responsibility in society, at the same time as they become less transparent to public scrutiny. The DICE project aim to analyze and evaluate both the public benefits and risks that digital infrastructures pose to democracy and citizen empowerment across four key fields of social life: access to media and culture, enabling of new citizen-government relations, empowerment in social interaction and autonomy in working life.
Project Leader: Hendrik Storstein Spilker
Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology and Political Science
1 Post-doctoral position and 4 PhD positions in the project
ALLDESIGN will create a digital materials design platform for intermetallic alloy design. The project focuses on aluminium-based alloys, which are of great importance for the Norwegian industry, and investigates the physical processes behind slow-diffusion precipitation phenomena starting from atomistic scale and in silico. The goal is to develop efficient theoretical methods to understand materials properties at different length and time scales and to limit costly trial-and-error measurements in the laboratory. The data from the multiscale modelling approach will be used for digitalization of the alloy manufacturing process in the newly invested 3D stretch-bending machine.
Project Leader: Jaakko Akola
Professor at the Department of Physics
5 PhD positions in the project
The project is an interdisciplinary research programme that will develop tools and methods to improve the way that members of the general public collect data on what they observe in the natural world, and the way this data is used to inform us about the natural world and how it is changing. Massive amounts of data are being generated and uploaded to databases such as the Norwegian Artsobservasjoner (species observation system), and the huge quantities combined with the unsystematic way the data are collected present challenges when making inferences from the data. This project will (1) encourage citizens to collect data, (2) help scientists correctly interpret and use this data, and (3) provide information back to the citizens about how the data they have collected is being used.
Project Leader: Bob O'Hara
Professor at the Department of Mathematical Sciences
4 PhD positions in the project
Trondheim Analytica aims to provide state of the art insight into the possibilities for deriving key information about European citizens’ political viewpoints and associated emotions based on their social media profiles. We do this by: A) developing tools for studying public opinion through merging big data analysis with qualitative analysis; B) raising awareness among decision makers, academics, and the general public; and C) studying the strategies of successful social media campaigns.
Project Leader: Pieter de Wilde
Associate Professor at the Department of Historical Studies
6 PhD positions in the project
The overall aim of this project is to advance knowledge and understanding of the technology, societal impact, and application potential of blockchain technology. Blockchains are only relevant when they relate mistrusting entities in a social context and serve a real application. Therefore the planned research on blockchains takes a multi-disciplinary approach including technological aspects (cryptographic mechanisms, networking requirements, identity management), societal aspects and application areas. The project team involves 12 professors across several different departments and faculties. Six interconnecting PhD positions are available. All project researchers will work together to solve problems with a sound theoretical basis and practical impact.
Project Leader: Colin Boyd
Professor at the Department of Information Security and Communication Technology
7 PhD positions in the project
WoWW focus on gamification of natural hazards and aim at bringing together knowledge on physical and statistical behavior of Natural Hazards with knowledge on digital storytelling and human behavior to create immersive user experiences based on real data, realistic scenarios and simulations. Experiences to be used as basis for preventive and emergency measures to safe live and cost. WoWW aim at being the future tool for analyzing and communicating cause and effect of potential Natural Hazards as floods and landslides.
Project Leader: Oddbjørn Bruland
Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
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