32 Fully Funded PhD Programs at Lund University, Sweden

32 Fully Funded PhD Programs at Lund University, Sweden

Are you holding Master’s degree and looking for fully funded PhD positions? Lund University, Sweden invites online application for multiple funded PhD Programs / fully funded PhD positions in various research areas.

Candidates interested in fully funded PhD positions can check the details and may apply as soon as possible. Interested and eligible applicants may submit their online application for PhD programs via the University’s Online Application Portal.

1. Fully Funded PhD Position in Physics on Quantum information with micro-cavities

Summary of PhD Program:

The focus of this project is to realize a small quantum processor node, where the qubits consist of individual ions of rare earth’s (Lanthanides). Such a processor node is a key unit that can be used in several quantum technologies, e.g. both as a quantum computer and for quantum communication. In order to be able to detect individual ions, the project uses an optical micro-cavity to amplify the emission. To ensure good quantum operations, the system is cooled down to about 2 K in a custom designed cryostat.

Application Deadline: 17.May.2023

2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Water and Environmental Engineering

Summary of PhD Program:

The subject of Water and Environmental Engineering presupposes elementary knowledge of hydrology, hydraulics, microbiology, mathematics and chemistry. Research studies within the subject can include experimental studies ranging from laboratory work to pilots and industrial applications, modelling and simulation of technical processes, as well as process design and system analysis. Focus of research can be e.g. separation of nutrients and micropollutants, sludge treatment, separation engineering, infrastructure and technical processes for treatment of drinking water, urban runoff and wastewater.

Application Deadline: 16.May.2023

3. Fully Funded PhD Position in mathematics

Summary of PhD Program:

This project is aimed at better understanding of so-called plurisubharmonic func-tions and their possible singularities. Plurisubharmonic functions appear in a natural way when studying holomorphic functions of several complex variables, and as solutions to a Dirichlet problem for the complex Monge-Ampère equation — an elliptic fully non-linear partial differential equation. In particular, we will study how different types of singularities for the boundary data affects the solutions to this Dirichlet problem. The idea is to attack this problem using a combination of mathematical theory and numerical analysis to do explicit computations. Depending on the candidate’s background and interests, the ratio of theory to computations can be adjusted. Contact person: Frank Wikström (frank.wikstrom@math.lth.se)

Application Deadline: 16.May.2023

4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Electrical Engineering with a focus on ferroelectric devcies for RF- and neuromorphic applications

Summary of PhD Program:

The main duties of doctoral students are to devote themselves to their research studies which includes participating in research projects and third cycle courses. The work duties will also include teaching and other departmental duties (no more than 20%). The studies will focus on experimental processing of ferroelectric devices integrated on a III-V platform at very scaled geometries. Both fabrication in the Lund NanoLab and electrical characterization of materials and devices will be included. The development of new concepts for device operation will be a central part.

Application Deadline: 16.May.2023

5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Economic History – Innovation, technology, and mobility

Summary of PhD Program:

The Department of Economic History is a research-intensive department that employs about 100 people: researchers, teachers, technical/administrative staff, and Ph.D. candidates. The department has a large PhD programme and co-ordinates three international Master programmes. The Department has a well established reputation for wide-ranging research with an emphasis on long-term processes, and with economic theory and quantitative methods as important methodological tools. Strong research areas at the department include economic growth and structural change, innovation, energy and sustainability, development economics, and economic demography, as well as financial history and education and the labour market.

Application Deadline: 15.May.2023

6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Economic History – Innovation and firm performance

Summary of PhD Program:

Those appointed to doctoral studentship shall primarily devote themselves to their studies, aimed to result in a doctoral degree. Work carried out during the studentship consists of participation in research projects as well as successful participation in postgraduate (third-cycle) courses. Those appointed to doctoral studentships may also work, to a limited extent, with educational tasks and administration at the Department of Economic history. However, duties of this kind may not comprise of more than 20 percent of a full time post.

Application Deadline: 15.May.2023

7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Electrical Engineering

Summary of PhD Program:

The main duties of doctoral students are to devote themselves to their research studies which includes participating in research projects and third cycle courses. The work duties will also include teaching and other departmental duties (no more than 20%). The studies will focus on experimental processing of RRAM integrated on a III-V platform at very scaled geometries. Both fabrication in the Lund NanoLab and electrical characterization of materials and devices will be included. The development of new concepts for device operation will be a central part where analog memory operation is attractive for training and calculation.

Application Deadline: 15.May.2023

8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Biology

Summary of PhD Program:

The main duties of doctoral students are to devote themselves to their research studies which includes participating in research projects and third cycle courses. The work duties can also include teaching and other departmental duties, up to 20%. Ancient DNA (aDNA) has changed history studies, enabling us to analyze early genetic variation directly. In recent years, there has been a sharp increase in the amount of collected aDNA and high-profile investigations. Still, insufficient information about the geographical origin and admixture has limited the usefulness of the collected data.

Application Deadline: 15.May.2023

9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Vulnerability in the Automated State

Summary of PhD Program:

Digital government aims to promote efficiency, reduce bureaucracy, and improve communication between citizens and governments. However, this is not always true for citizens placed in vulnerable situations (e.g., low-income, sudden death of loved ones, low digital literacy, illness) who are not always able to engage independently with digital technology. This project starts with the premise that administrative vulnerability is a new form of inequality, of particular relevance as public administration turns to increasing automation and AI-supported assessments and that it is an urgent problem that needs to be addressed.

Application Deadline: Open until filled

10. Fully Funded PhD Position in Biochemistry

Summary of PhD Program:

The main duties of doctoral students are to devote themselves to their research studies which includes participating in research projects and third cycle courses. The work duties will also include teaching and other departmental duties (no more than 20%). The activities of proteins in our cells are orchestrated to a large extent by chemical modifications catalyzed by specific signaling enzymes. A modification called ADP-ribosylation is catalyzed by 17 human PARP enzymes; bacterial toxin:antitoxin systems can contain toxins that catalyze the same modification of either proteins or nucleic acids. Both PARP enzymes and toxins are interesting from a pharmacological point of view. Despite rapid progress during the past decade, it is yet unclear how the ADP-ribosylating enzymes and toxins are regulated.

Application Deadline: 12.May.2023

11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Automatic Control

Summary of PhD Program:

The department of Automatic control has a stimulating and international environment with PhD students, postdocs, and teachers coming from all corners of the world. Research and teaching are conducted in an open and progressive atmosphere with collaborations both within academia and with industry, nationally as well as internationally. A PhD degree from the Department of Automatic control gives you the perfect base for an exciting career, be it in academia or industry. Lund University and the Department of Automatic Control welcome applicants with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We regard equality and diversity as a strength and an asset.

Application Deadline: 11.May.2023

12. Fully Funded PhD Position in experimental cardiovascular research

Summary of PhD Program:

The PhD position is placed at the Cardiovascular Research – cellular metabolism and inflammation with labs at the Clinical Research Centre (CRC), a dynamic and inspiring research environment on the Skåne University Hospital Malmö Campus. The research group collaborates closely with scientists and research groups in experimental and clinical cardiovascular research and diabetes research.

Application Deadline: 15.Jun.2023

13. Fully Funded PhD Position in Strategic Communication and Psychological Defence

Summary of PhD Program:

The main duties are to devote themselves to their own research education, which includes both own research and third cycle courses. In addition to doctoral studies, participation in teaching and other departmental work (max 20%) may also be included. Strategic communication deals with the study of organizations’ conscious communication efforts to achieve their overall goals. The research will highlight, create an understanding of and critically examine the communication processes that govern and shape organizations in our society and the effects of strategic communication.

Application Deadline: 15.Jun.2023

14. Fully Funded PhD Position in MKV with focus on strategic communication

Summary of PhD Program:

The main duties are to devote themselves to their own research education, which includes both own research and third cycle courses. In addition to doctoral studies, participation in teaching and other departmental work (max 20 %) may also be included. Strategic communication deals with the study of organizations’ conscious communication efforts to achieve their overall goals. The research will highlight, create an understanding of and critically examine the communication processes that govern and shape organizations in our society and the effects of strategic communication.

Application Deadline: 15.Jun.2023

15. 03 Fully Funded PhD Position in Early Languages, Digital Philology (DigPhil)

Summary of PhD Program:

The aim of DigPhil is to create a strong and state-of-the-art doctoral research environment in early languages (up to and including the eighteenth century), educating modern philologists who are well aware of the disciplinary traditions but also have solid competence in language technology. The doctoral school broadly defines philology as the integrated study of languages and texts in their historical contexts. Philology continues a tradition founded in the Library of Alexandria in the third century BCE and consists in a dynamic and cross-disciplinary interaction between textual criticism and book history, historical linguistics, various forms of textual analysis (metrics, rhetoric, narratology etc.) and hermeneutics.

Digital methods and tools can be developed and applied in all of these areas, e.g. using AI to restore fragmentary texts, making use of computational approaches in comparative historical linguistics, performing automized stylometry or narrative analysis, or reading and extracting facts from texts with data-mining methods.

Application Deadline: 07.Jun.2023

18. Fully Funded PhD Position in Biophysical Chemistry

Summary of PhD Program:

The main duties of doctoral students are to devote themselves to their research studies which includes participating in research projects and PhD courses. The work duties will also include teaching and other departmental duties (no more than 20% on average). The division is responsible for courses in physical chemistry, NMR spectroscopy and biophysical chemistry.

The biological function of many proteins is regulated by specific modifications of amino acid side chains. The modifications are often reversible and made in response to different types of cellular stress. Our research is focused on obtaining detailed knowledge of how specific posttranslational modifications (PTMs) of proteins regulate protein function and change the properties of proteins. We study whether PTMs make proteins prone to aggregation or prevent them from misfolding, as a means to unravel the role of PTMs in amyloid formation associated with protein misfolding disease.

Application Deadline: 02.Jun.2023

19. Fully Funded PhD Position in Business Administration, Marketing

Summary of PhD Program:

The Department of Business Administration is the largest department at Lund University School of Economics and Management with about 180 employees and 4,000 students at undergraduate and graduate level. We conduct extensive research and postgraduate education and have about 40 doctoral students. The department has the following research areas: accounting, corporate finance, entrepreneurship, marketing, organisation and leadership, research policy, and strategy.

Application Deadline: 02.Jun.2023

20. Fully Funded PhD Position in Biology

Summary of PhD Program:

The aim of this PhD project is to investigate the potential that agricultural practices have to increase deep (30-100cm) soil carbon (C) stocks, while also improving mechanistic understanding of the soil microbial processes that determine soil organic matter (SOM) persistence. Specifically, we will determine how agricultural paradigms with perennial crops, supporting deep rhizospheres, can provide a means to both store C and maintain soil fertility. We will test fundamental soil science theory, and attempt to optimize the contradictive ecosystem services of mitigating climate change by storing C while provisioning plant nutrients.

Application Deadline: 02.Jun.2023

21. Fully Funded PhD Position in Business Administration

Summary of PhD Program:

The Department of Business Administration is the largest department at Lund University School of Economics and Management with about 180 employees and 4,000 students at undergraduate and graduate level. We conduct extensive research and postgraduate education and have about 40 doctoral students. The department has the following research areas: accounting, corporate finance, entrepreneurship, marketing, organisation and leadership, research policy, and strategy.

Application Deadline: 01.Jun.2023

22. Fully Funded PhD Position in theoretical computer science and/or combinatorial optimization

Summary of PhD Program:

The MIAO research group has a unique profile in that we are doing cutting-edge research both on the mathematical foundations of efficient computation and on state-of-the-art practical algorithms for real-world problems. This creates a very special environment, where we do not only conduct in-depth research on different theoretical and applied topics, but where different lines of research cross-fertilise each other and unexpected and exciting synergies often arise.

Much of the activities of the group revolve around powerful algorithmic paradigms such as, e.g., Boolean satisfiability (SAT) solving, Gröbner basis computations, integer linear programming, and constraint programming. This leads to classical questions in computational complexity theory—though often with new, fascinating twists—but also involves work on devising clever algorithms that can exploit the power of such paradigms in practice.

Application Deadline: 01.Jun.2023

23. Fully Funded PhD Position in Pyrogeography of Middle East

Summary of PhD Program:

Pyrogeography is an interdisciplinary research field that studies fires across time and space at the intersection between natural and social sciences. Research on vegetation fires, their spatiotemporal patterns, and their links to biophysical as well as political and socio-economic factors is limited, especially in dryland areas such as the Middle East. Recent research has started to look into vegetation fires in the Middle East, and how they relate to e.g. armed conflict, but no overall regional assessment, that takes into account biophysical, socioeconomic and political factors, has been carried out.

Application Deadline: 26.May.2023

24. Fully Funded PhD Position in Fire Safety

Summary of PhD Program:

The doctoral position relates to the area of fire safety in complex scenarios and environments. The position refers to the development, use and testing of tools and models for fire risk analysis and decision support related to fire safety design and/or firefighting in complex scenarios and environments (e.g., tunnels and/or wildfires). This includes both fire modelling as well as evacuation/human behaviour in fire modelling tools. Research in this field is performed through several projects that Lund University is conducting, including a collaboration project together with Cantene s.r.l. in the domain of fire risk analysis in tunnels and several international projects in the domain of fire safety.

Application Deadline: 26.May.2023

25. Fully Funded PhD Position in environmental science

Summary of PhD Program:

This PhD project in environmental science is part of the MISTRA-funded project BIOPATH, which aims to map, evaluate and co-develop existing and new approaches through which biodiversity is integrated into financial decision-making, in the same way as is often done nowadays with climate impact. The aim is to contribute to creating incentives for companies and financial investors to reduce their negative impact on biodiversity, by developing methods that reliably and quantitatively describe how their activities affect biodiversity. The focus is on sectors with an impact on land use, such as the food, forestry and energy sectors.

Application Deadline: 22.May.2023

26. Fully Funded PhD Position in functional breast cancer genomics

Summary of PhD Program:

We are looking for a well-organised and ambitious PhD student with good knowledge of bioinformatics and programming. The main task will be to conduct research studies within the subject of breast cancer. The project involves bioinformatic analyses of high-throughput sequencing data using existing and custom-made software, including analyses of genetic variation, mutations, and alternative splicing. Statistical analyses will be a substantial part of the work. Scientific writing and reading of current scientific literature are also included. The PhD student is furthermore expected to participate and present their research in research group meetings, seminars, and at international scientific conferences. Teaching may also be included in the tasks.

Application Deadline: 22.May.2023

27. Fully Funded PhD Position in thnology within the ERC project Conspirations: Conflicts Over Conspiracy Theories

Summary of PhD Program:

In recent years, conspiracy theories have become an important issue not only to the people who propagate them, but also to those who fear their consequences and design initiatives to push back against the ‘post-truth’ era. The objective of CONSPIRATIONS is to analyse this growing tension over conspiracy theories in Europe. The project proposes an innovative approach which moves beyond an exclusive focus on ‘truthers’ to examine the perspective of ‘truth defenders’ as well. This approach goes beyond the question of who is wrong and what to do about it. Instead, it offers a deeper understanding of the conflicts themselves, which are clearly of urgent importance for contemporary Europe.

Application Deadline: 21.May.2023

28. Fully Funded PhD Position in Organic Chemistry

Summary of PhD Program:

Are you interested in joining a research team that develops reactive organometallic complexes for small molecule activation? Are you interested in designing systems that can intercept molecules that have traditionally been considered unstable or even non-existent? Would you like to explain what triggers bond-forming and bond-breaking reactions to proceed in the “right” or in the “wrong” direction? As a doctoral student in the Reinholdt group, you will explore low-valent transition metal complexes, main group elements, electrophilic nitrogen fragments, and phosphorus-based multiple bonds, among other things. You will become an expert in inert-atmosphere synthesis, spectroscopy, electronic structure, and reaction mechanisms. The Swedish Research Council and The Centre for Analysis and Synthesis at Lund University fund the position, which spans 4 years, starting July 1, 2023 or as soon as possible.

Application Deadline: 19.May.2023

29. Fully Funded PhD Position in Biology

Summary of PhD Program:

In this project, we will build on this approach to answer how essential decision making circuits can be adapted to match ecological needs, revealing which elements are evolvable and how phylogenetic constraints affect functional diversification and convergence in the insect central complex. The project will also aim at further optimizing data analysis and imaging methods, strengthening the comparative connectomics approach. Using our recent advances in data acquisition and analysis methods, we will generate connectomics datasets of the central complex of so far uncharted branches of the insect phylogeny, directly complementing our existing data.

Application Deadline: 19.May.2023

30. Fully Funded PhD Position in Translational Medicine

Summary of PhD Program:

The employment of doctoral students is regulated in the Swedish Code of Statues 1998: 80. Only those who are or have been admitted to PhD-studies may be appointed to doctoral studentships. When an appointment to a doctoral studentship is made, the ability of the student to benefit from PhD-studies shall primarily be taken into account. In addition to devoting themselves to their studies, those appointed to doctoral studentships may be required to work with educational tasks, research and administration, in accordance with specific regulations in the ordinance.

Application Deadline: 19.May.2023

31. Fully Funded PhD Position in industrial automation with focus on electric power systems

Summary of PhD Program:

The expansion of renewable generation and electrification of transports and industry are central to the energy transition in society. An immediate consequence is a need for increased transfer capacity in the existing grid while new lines are built. The doctoral student will initially work in SPS4SE (System Protection Schemes for Sweden) which is a three-year collaborative project involving RISE in Göteborg, Division of Electric Power and Energy Systems at KTH and IEA at LTH. System protection schemes, uses automation to increase the transfers in the transmission grid beyond the N-1 criterion. The reference group of the project gathers representantives from Svenska Kraftnät, Statnett and Fingrid, the three major Swedish DSOs and a major manufacturer. The focus for the doctoral student at LTH is development of new algorithms for control of active and reactive power. The doctoral student at KTH will work with control room aspects of system protection schemes.

Application Deadline: 19.May.2023

32. Fully Funded PhD Position in Industrial Engineering and Management

Summary of PhD Program:

The work as a doctoral student in this project involves participating in research on circular economy and sustainable consumption linked to retail logistics and the role of the store/warehouse as circular logistics nodes. The research will take place under the supervision of associate professor Joakim Kembro and Dr. Ebba Eriksson, and the doctoral student will be part of a smaller research group (3 senior researchers and 1-2 doctoral students) focused on retail logistics and material handling. Among other things, the project will examine how stores and warehouses can be used as circular logistics nodes in logistics networks and what is required to scale up circular flows. The research project will be carried out in close collaboration with retail companies that have taken a leading role in this transformation.

Application Deadline: 17.May.2023

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