Are you a Master’s graduate looking for fully funded PhD opportunities? Explore the range of funded PhD programs available at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden. Apply online now and kickstart your doctoral journey!
1. Fully Funded PhD Position in Raptor ecology
Summary of PhD Program:
Eagles play a crucial role in northern ecosystems as they occupy the top position in the food chain, hence exerting control over the population dynamics of their prey species, and the distribution and abundance of other species within the ecosystem. Sweden, Finland, and Norway share the threatened Golden eagle population in Fennoscandia, and birds range freely between the three countries. The three countries also share primarily the same prey species and environmental challenges including the threats to the eagles. These threats include collisions of eagles with traffic, powerlines, and wind farms, conflicts with reindeer husbandry, illegal hunting, poisoning from heavy metals, and other emerging environmental pollutants. Yet, besides monitoring of eagle population by volunteers, there is little cooperation between the three countries on the conservation and management of this shared population.
Application Deadline: 2024-11-23
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in adhesive bonding
Summary of PhD Program:
Bond strength is the typical determinant used today that characterizes the ultimate failure properties of a glued product. Although bond strength is necessary for good products, it is not sufficient for most of their properties. Once bond strength achieves a sufficient level, the remaining product properties are more determined by bond stiffness and other interfacial properties of bond lines than by bond strength. For example, for properties like modulus or thermal and moisture expansion coefficients, bond stiffness is the most important property. Existing adhesive tests do not monitor sufficiently what happens prior to failure, which is a crucial stage playing a major role in quality of the bond.
Application Deadline: 2024-11-13
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in adhesive bond strength
Summary of PhD Program:
While numerous studies have investigated how adhesive strength is affected by sources of bond failure for the various fossil-based adhesives, such systematic knowledge is lacking in the case of bio-based adhesives. Common consequences are bond strength variability and difficulties in achieving reproducible adhesive strength in the laboratory where many factors must be accounted for and controlled for both the adhesive and the adherents. Compliance with laboratory test trials and standards that have been developed for fossil-based adhesives poses additional uncertainty since they do not fully identify mechanisms and chemistry underlying adhesion in the case of bio-adhesives.
Application Deadline: 2024-11-13
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in forage production, feeding and grazing
Summary of PhD Program:
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Applied Animal Science and Welfare, and the competence centre SustAinimal work together to explore the role of livestock for future increased, sustainable and competitive food production in Sweden. Focus is solutions delivering food and ecosystem services, which result in possibilities to run competitive enterprises in various parts of the food sector.
Application Deadline: 2024-12-10
5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Biology – Plant Pathology and Resistance Breeding
Summary of PhD Program:
We are looking for a highly motivated individual to join our ongoing research in breeding and development of new crops with resistance against diseases. Swedish pea cultivation must increase to meet future demands but is hampered by yield losses caused by soil-borne pathogens. These pathogens include oomycetes causing root rot diseases, but also fungi causing wilt disease. Wilt disease is expected to become more challenging in the future due to a changing climate with higher temperatures. This PhD project will therefore focus on developing tools for breeding new, disease-resistant varieties and shorten the time to their release on the market. This will be achieved through identifying new sources of resistance, method development and marker-assisted selection.
Application Deadline: December 4, 2024
