Are you a Master’s graduate looking for fully funded PhD opportunities? Explore the range of funded PhD programs available at the University of Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway. Apply online now and kickstart your doctoral journey!
1. Fully Funded PhD Position in Psychology
Summary of PhD Program:
In this position you will be affiliated with a project within the field of infant and child psychology under the supervision of Associate Professor Francesco Margoni (main supervisor) and Associate Professor Lilla Magyari (co-supervisor). You will work at the Stavanger Baby and Child Lab on a research project named ‘Discovering the foundations of politics in human mind’ aiming to explain how children understand the social world around them. In the project we will address the question of how and when children start to show a sensitivity to concepts like individual freedom and social equality, concepts that are fundamental for the adult social and political thinking.
Application Deadline: 20th September 2024
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in CO2 Flow Dynamics in Fractured Porous Media
Summary of PhD Program:
The main objective of this project is to advance the understanding of CO2 transport mechanisms in fractured geological media, enhance predictive models, and develop effective control strategies for managing CO2 leakage pathways. This is done through a series of experimental and numerical simulations that can determine the potential interaction during or after storage and help to understand how the CO2 plume migrates in geological porous media.
Application Deadline: 29th August 2024
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Geophysical Techniques for CO2 and Energy Storage
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD is associated to the work package 1 of the Centre for Sustainable Utilization of Energy Resources on the Norwegian Shelf (NCS2030). The primary motivation behind this PhD project is to address critical challenges in the sustainable management of subsurface resources, particularly in the context of energy and CO2 storage. As the world transitions towards cleaner energy solutions and seeks to reduce CO2 emissions associated with hydrocarbon production, there is a growing need to develop safe and effective methods for the storage of CO2, and energy in near field environments, including depleted hydrocarbon reservoirs, shallow aquifers and salt sequences.
Application Deadline: 29th August 2024
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Material Physics
Summary of PhD Program:
The project aims to design molecular-based ordered structures for efficient CO2 capture and storage. The PhD candidate will use atomistic modeling to, among other things, study surface-adsorbed aromatic macrocycles, especially cyclophanes, which will be functionalized with chemical functions to create suitable adsorption sites for CO2. Graphene, graphene oxide and related substrates as well as silicon oxide-based surfaces will be investigated as supports for these macromolecules. Later this will be extended to the third dimension. Research questions include both modifications of the substrate, the 2D adsorbates of the macrocycles and 3D structures.
Application Deadline: 26th August 2024
5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Management of Future Tourism
Summary of PhD Program:
The goal is for the Norwegian tourism and hospitality industry to develop in a sustainable manner concerning climate, environment, and social factors. To achieve this goal, many businesses must implement significant changes in strategy, objectives, and operations. The management of these businesses plays a central role in driving these changes forward. The purpose of the doctoral project is to map out leaders’ approaches and attitudes towards this shift, the challenges they face in implementing the changes, and the factors they perceive can be helpful. Another purpose of the project is to develop and test interventions that can propel businesses towards more sustainable operations. The project will use a combination of qualitative and quantitative research methods.
Application Deadline: 23rd August 2024
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Sustainable Development within Tourism
Summary of PhD Program:
This project aims to examine the PEBs of AirBnB hosts and guests in Norwegian tourism destinations and to measure the influence of AirBnB guests’ PEB on their perceived value and satisfaction with their tourism experiences in communities. By examining these dynamics, this project seeks to provide actionable insights for promoting sustainable practices within the Airbnb community and beyond, enhancing sustainability of tourism destinations.
Application Deadline: 23rd August 2024
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7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Analysis of Archaeological Wood and/or Charcoal
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD candidate will therefore work to develop a method to identify driftwood in the archaeological record, allowing us to better understand its past use. This will involve working with a primary material of archaeological charcoal and/or wood from western and northern Norway and the North Atlantic islands (the Faroe Islands, Iceland and Greenland). The candidate will be jointly supervised by Dr. Dawn Elise Mooney (UiS) and Dr. María Martín-Seijo at the Spanish Research Council’s Institute for Heritage Sciences (INCIPIT-CSIC). The position includes a 3-month research stay at INCIPIT in Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
Application Deadline: 16th August 2024
8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Super-Control of Floating Wind Turbine Farms
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD Fellow will be affiliated with the following project Offshore wind@UiS – Phase II – Data-driven planning, operations and maintenance (part of the Equinor Academia Agreement). The PhD project intends to create super-controllers for floating wind turbine farms, focusing on optimising real-time control at the wind farm level. This approach could significantly improve the overall performance of wind farms by boosting power generation and extending the lifespan of components. The research will focus on creating relevant super-controllers that can be used for early-phase concept optimisation at the wind farm level, particularly for floating wind farms with shared mooring and power cable systems.
Application Deadline: 12th August 2024
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Jazz and Improvised Music
Summary of PhD Program:
Recent jazz research (so-called ‘new jazz studies’), improvisational research, and the field of artistic research in general, have in recent years raised the level of knowledge, increased our understanding of diverse practices, and lifted the overall discourse considerably. At the same time, we see the need for a more thorough study of improvisational practices, especially how the improvising musician develops in relation to aspects such as learning, process, communication, collaboration and technology. Based on the idea of improvisation practice as an aurally-based ‘language’, we want the candidate to develop new approaches, for example in relation to tradition, repertoire, culture, education, technology and instrumentation.
Application Deadline: 12th August 2024
10. Fully Funded PhD Position in Petroleum Technology
Summary of PhD Program:
When wells reach the end of their life-cycle, they are permanently plugged and abandoned. When all the wellbores present in a field are permanently plugged and abandoned, decommissioning takes place, and the area is delivered back to the relevant authorities. The main goal of well abandonment is to seal all the identified formations which contain fluid with barriers. In this project, we aim to understand the processes of fluid migration near wells, which is crucial to achieving sustainability of marine resources from the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS), particularly when planning to repurpose depleted reservoirs for carbon storage.
Application Deadline: 9th August 2024
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Trustworthy AI: Security, privacy and robustness in AI models
Summary of PhD Program:
This research aims to create innovative solutions that enhance security and resilience in AI systems. The research seeks to move beyond theoretical models and test the effectiveness of these solutions in real-world settings. While the potential research areas provide a comprehensive framework, the specific research topics can be customised based on the candidate’s expertise and the evolving trends within the AI security domain. The goal is to tailor the research trajectory to the candidate’s unique background to achieve the best possible outcome. The research is committed to promoting an environment that encourages innovation and flexibility in addressing recent challenges in AI security.
Application Deadline: 1st August 2024
12. Fully Funded PhD Position in Materials Physics
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD Fellow will be affiliated with the project “Neutron Scattering and Atomistic Simulations for a SUPERior Understanding of SUPERionic Conduction (SUPER2)” funded by the Norwegian Research Council. In this project, scientists at the University of Stavanger, the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC in the UK), the University College London (UCL in the UK) will work together to develop a new methodology to gain a deeper understanding of ionic diffusion in a broad range of advanced functional materials. This methodology relies on combining polarized quasielastic neutron scattering (pQENS), inelastic neutron scattering (INS), and molecular dynamics with machine-learned potentials to gain insights into ion conduction processes crucial to the performance of many existing and emerging green technologies, from batteries to fuel cells to thermoelectric generators.
Application Deadline: 26th July 2024
