Below you can find a list of vacant PhD project positions under the current call. The list is regularly updated and will be complete approx. two weeks before application deadline.

On 1 June 2020, the Graduate School of Science and Technology has split into two new graduate schools following the split of the faculty. Below you will find vacant PhD positions at Graduate School of Technical Sciences (GSTS).  

Application deadline is 1 August 2020 at noon (11:59 AM CEST).

 

Agroecology:

• Modelling N₂O emissions from soil: Explicit representation of organic hotspots (Position 1)
• Predicting N₂O emissions from soil: Experimental studies of organic hotspots (Position 2)

Animal Science:

• Export of weaned piglets – roof height and consequences for animal welfare
• Dam-rearing of dairy calves: the effect of duration of cow-calf-contact on the strength of the maternal bond
• Biochar produced from biorefined grass clover pulp for feed and technical purposes
• Indirect calorimetry for developing models to support industrial production of black soldier fly larvae (Hermetia illucens)

Bioscience:

• Cultivation of novel macroalgae with potential for reduction of ruminal methane production in cattle

Engineering:

• Analytics on Compressed IoT Data
• Frequency conversion and stabilization in photonic integrated circuits
• Spintronic neuromorphic computing
• MADE: Improving Filter Insert Performance and Quality using Simulation and Data Analytics (position 1)
• MADE: Online process control and optimization using X-ray and AI (position 2)
• MADE: Modular Digital Twins enhancing integration speed (position 3)
• MADE: Digital Twin of Movable Factory (position 4)
• Machine learning-based modelling of turbulence
• Advanced control of power electronics and future energy systems

Environmental Sciences:

• Micro, meso-and macro-scale variability of the albedo of rotting ice surfaces in the Dark Zone of the Greenland Ice Sheet
• The architecture of the weathering crust in the Dark Zone of the Greenland Ice Sheet: micro-environments for ice algal growth, particulate capture and nutrient retention
• Constructed wetlands for the treatment of cyanotoxins

Food Science:

• Effect of human milk proteome and glycome on infant health
• Quality and functionality of milk from cows with low climate footprint

Quantitative Genetics and Genomics:

• Optimization of insect production for animal feed through breeding