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1. Fully Funded PhD Position in Nordic languages
Summary of PhD Program:
For employment as a doctoral student, it is required that the holder is accepted or will be accepted to education at doctoral level. Eligible to be admitted to postgraduate education in Nordic languages is anyone who has both basic and special qualifications. The basic eligibility is for those who have taken an advanced level degree, completed course requirements of at least 240 ECTS credits, of which at least 60 ECTS ECTS credits at advanced level, or otherwise acquired essentially equivalent knowledge within or outside the country. The special eligibility is regulated in the general study plan for postgraduate education in Nordic languages at Uppsala University.
Application Deadline: 2024-09-16
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Materials Chemistry at the Program for Inorganic Chemistry
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD project involves research on new types of surface coatings for demanding environments, including nuclear fuel rods for use in nuclear power plants. The work is part of a larger research program with Uppsala University, Linköping University, and Chalmers University of Technology. Collaborations with other doctoral students and senior researchers are an important part of the research. The materials will mainly be produced using chemical vapor deposition (CVD). The research project will involve fundamental materials science studies of thin films produced with CVD, as well as application-oriented studies in collaboration with industry partners.
Application Deadline: 15.Aug.2024
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Molecular Pharmaceutics
Summary of PhD Program:
The purpose of the doctoral project is to develop new molecules that can be used for more effective uptake of orally administered drugs, particularly therapeutic peptides. This will be done by using new methods within artificial intelligence for molecular design, in combination with physically-based modeling of interactions between model peptides and the intestinal environment, as well as in combination with cell profiling data from a related project.
Application Deadline: 31.Jul.2024
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Molecular Pharmaceutics
Summary of PhD Program:
The purpose of the doctoral project is to develop new molecules that can be used for more effective uptake of orally administered drugs, particularly therapeutic peptides. This will be achieved by using various types of cell profiling methods to examine how cells react in different ways to these so-called permeability enhancers and how permeability is affected by this. The data generated will be used in combination with artificial intelligence methods for molecular design in a related project to generate new molecules with tailored properties for increased absorption of therapeutic peptides.
Application Deadline: 31.Jul.2024
5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Evolutionary Genomics
Summary of PhD Program:
Global estimates suggest that less than 5% of the true fungal diversity is currently described, largely because the majority of the up to 5 million fungal species on earth have no visible fruiting structures and cannot easily be cultured using established methods. Because the hidden majority of species defy established protocols for species recognition, we cannot effectively communicate about the majority of fungal species, many of which are frequently and abundantly detected in environmental samples. The proposed project uses species hypotheses built on environmental DNA (eDNA) data for targeted high-resolution microscopy and single cell genomics to infer evolutionary history and life cycle dynamics of hitherto undescribed fungal species and lineages.
Application Deadline: 30.Aug.2024
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Field of Diagnostics and Therapy for Neurodegenerative Diseases
Summary of PhD Program:
The overall goal of the doctoral project is to identify and study proteins whose expression or distribution is altered in neurodegeneration and then generate brain-penetrating antibodies that bind to these proteins. These antibodies will then be used to develop new diagnostics, such as PET and SPECT radioligands, or for therapeutic applications to investigate whether the antibodies affect pathology in models of neurodegenerative diseases. The work thus involves both in vitro work, primarily immunological and histological methods, and in vivo studies in models of neurodegenerative diseases.
Application Deadline: 31.Jul.2024
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7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Biochemistry
Summary of PhD Program:
The project is a part of a larger EU-funded doctoral network (SPIDoc’s, https://www.ms-spidoc.eu/). The purpose of the network is to advance virus-related structural biology, where a considerable challenge lies in that the proteins change between different conformations over their life time and that their dynamics are very important for the virus’s life cycle. Using mainly native mass spectrometry, ion mobility, imaging with X-ray free electron lasers, and molecular dynamics simulations, viral particles with be interrogated in the gas phase, that is, taken out of solution, which circumvents a number of difficulties faced in solution-based methods.
Application Deadline: 26.Jul.2024
8. Fully Funded PhD Position in physics
Summary of PhD Program:
Uppsala University hereby declares a PhD student position, at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, to be open for application. The PhD project will focus on studies of kinetic processes for hydrogen and other light chemical species in energy materials. The work will include both studying the fundamental thermodynamically aspects which govern, for example how hydrogen is absorbed and transported in materials on an atomic scale, but also improvement of analytical methods for detection of light chemical species with high resolution and sensitivity. An important aspect will be to develop methods for tracking processes in a specific environment in real-time, referred to as in-situ and in-operando techniques. The work will be of primarily experimental character.
Application Deadline: 12.Aug.2024
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in vertebrate palaeontology
Summary of PhD Program:
The Program of Evolution and Development studies the evolution and developmental biology of vertebrates, both separately and as an interdisciplinary research domain that aims to illuminate the assembly of the vertebrate body plan. There is particular focus on the deep part of the vertebrate family tree and correspondingly the early fossil history of the group, from the origin of vertebrates up to the fish-tetrapod transition, but we also study the development of Mesozoic terrestrial ecosystems. A major current research effort is a systematic multidisciplinary reinvestigation of the origin of tetrapods, supported by an ERC Advanced Grant awarded to the Program Head, Per Ahlberg.
Application Deadline: 12.Aug.2024
10. Fully Funded PhD Position in lymphatic developmental biology
Summary of PhD Program:
Lymphangiogenesis, the process of lymphatic vessels formation from pre-existing vessels, is marked by the onset of Prox1 expression. Recently we have discovered the induction of Prox1 is a progressive process. This is coupled with bipotential LEC progenitors undergoing a cell division before sprouting from the cardinal vein (CV). We have further teased out that Vegfc signalling is apical to this process and drives cell division and Prox1 expression in lymphatic daughter cells. This work posed a question of how Vegfc signalling and Prox1 transcriptional cascade together coordinate the lymphatic fate. This PhD project will involve dissecting this question using transcriptomics and imaging base approaches in zebrafish.
Application Deadline: 01.Aug.2024
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Machine Learning and Computer Vision
Summary of PhD Program:
In this project, the selected candidate will join us in conducting fundamental machine learning research and developing principled foundations of vision-language models, with opportunities to validate the methods on challenging real-world problems involving computer vision. There will be a strong focus on deep learning, image analysis and neural language modeling within the project. Some topics of interest within the project scope include, but are not limited to, designing efficient algorithms for integration of visual and textual modalities, aligning visual and text embeddings into a cohesive embedding space and representation learning. We will consider various forms of data, including text, images and videos.
Application Deadline: 12.Aug.2024
12. Fully Funded PhD Position in Human-Computer Interaction
Summary of PhD Program:
The doctoral position is located at the unit for human-computer interaction in the project “Controlling the uncontrollable: the impact of reproductive health apps on experiences of pregnancy, midwives’ working conditions and data privacy”. The project focuses on understanding the importance of personal technology such as apps on reproductive health experiences. The project aims to study these new technological players in reproductive health. We want to know what role they play for healthcare professionals and healthcare institutions, as well as for women’s and men’s interpretation of and experiences with reproduction and partnership.
Application Deadline: 12.Aug.2024
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in Automatic Control focusing on Data- Driven Methods
Summary of PhD Program:
This project is dedicated to the development and analysis of data-driven methods for decision and control of dynamical systems. It will utilize tools from control theory, estimation theory, and statistical learning, with the aim of generating new ideas that can be applied to a broad range of dynamical systems. The theoretical development will be grounded in key application areas, ensuring the practical relevance of our research in real-world settings.
Application Deadline: 30.Aug.2024
14. Fully Funded PhD Position in Solid Mechanics, with focus on dislocation dynamics of hydrogen embrittlement in steel
Summary of PhD Program:
Hydrogen Embrittlement refers to the scenario where hydrogen enters metallic materials, interact with the microstructure and degrade the mechanical properties. It poses a significant threat to the safety of engineering structures for hydrogen transport and storage. However, the underlying mechanism of hydrogen embrittlement is still under debate. The project is funded by Swedish Research Council and entitled “Interplay between hydrogen, precipitates and dislocation substructures in pipeline steel”. The project aims to improve the safety of hydrogen transport via pipelines, by gaining a solid mechanistic understanding of hydrogen embrittlement in pipeline steels.
Application Deadline: 12.Aug.2024
15. Fully Funded PhD Position in evolutionary biology and palaeontology
Summary of PhD Program:
This project will aim at reconstructing the evolution of limb-bone microanatomy of Devonian-to-Carboniferous tetrapods in three dimensions using a 3D work-station available at the Evolution and Development (EO) program and the software VGStudioMax. Segmentation and 3D rendering of bone histological structures will be conducted by the PhD student on a synchrotron tomographic dataset acquired by the main supervisor.
Application Deadline: 08.Jul.2024
