PhD Research Fellowships in Energy Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway

The University of Oslo is Norway’s oldest and highest rated institution of research and education with 28 000 students and 7000 employees. Its broad range of academic disciplines and internationally esteemed research communities make UiO an important contributor to society.

The Department of Informatics (IFI) is one of nine departments belonging to the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at the University of Oslo. IFI is Norway’s largest university department for general education and research in Computer Science and related topics. The Department has near 950 students on bachelor level, near 450 master students, and over 180 PhD students. The overall staff of the Department is close to 250 employees, about 200 of these are full time positions. The full time scientific staff is 60, mostly Full/Associate Professors.

PhD Research Fellowships in Energy Informatics, 2 positions
Two PhD Research fellows are available at Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Oslo, Norway. The fellowships are for a period of 3 years. Starting date preferably no later than 01.02.2018.

No one can be appointed for more than one PhD Research Fellowship period at the University of Oslo.

Project description:
The two research fellows will be working in the project SmartNEM (“Smart Community Neighborhood – driven by energy informatics”) funded by the Research Council of Norway. SmartNEM is a joint project with University of Stavanger, Norway. The project will employ a total of seven PhD scholars of which three will be employed by University of Oslo UiO). One of the PhD scholars supported by the SmartNEM project will be supervised in collaboration with the Faculty of Computer Sciences at the Østfold University College in Halden and the Norwegian Centre of Expertise Smart Energy Markets (NCESmart). An industrial advisory board with members including Statnett (the Norwegian TSO), Lyse Energy, DNV-GL and the NCE Smart cluster will offer industrial guidance to the PhD scholars.

The vision of the research is to exploit state-of-the-art ICT methods, tools and techniques for the future sustainable energy systems. We have particular interest in the following technologies for efficient and secure energy systems: fog computing, machine/deep learning, data analytics, blockchain and software defined principles. We will develop new models and algorithms to provide the power grid operators with intelligent energy management with privacy preservation in local regions.

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PhD Research Fellowship in Health Psychology, University of Oslo, Norway

A PhD research fellowship in health psychology is available at the Department of Psychology. The positon forms part of the research project “Healthy sexual aging: A mixed-method study of sexual function and sexual well-being in older European adults” financed by the Norwegian Research Council. The appointment is for a period of three years (with no teaching requirement). The fellowship period may be reduced if the candidate has previously been employed in a research fellowship position.

Although the topic of sexual health is increasingly gaining legitimacy and importance, our knowledge regarding sexuality in older age is lacking, especially when it comes to the question of how biopsychosocial age-related changes may affect the body and sexuality in older age. The expressions of sexuality vary between and within different societies and cultures. In this new research project, the sexual well-being and sexual function of older adult men and women in Northern, Southern, and Central Europe will be compared. Quantitative sub-studies will be carried out as national, representative cross-sectional questionnaire surveys in Norway, Denmark, Portugal and Belgium. A qualitative sub-study will involve in-depth interviews of 25-35 men and women of different sexual orientations in different countries. The PhD research fellow in Norway will be affiliated to the quantitative project in Norway.

The findings from the different components will be contextualized to highlight cultural and policy-related differences between European regions, and their societal challenges and implications for health will be considered. Based on this analysis, the results will be used to inform the design and development of scalable, culturally appropriate awareness-raising interventions for the public and a professional intervention program for health practitioners working with aging populations.

The research fellow will be part of a research group led by Professor Bente Træen (principal investigator) and Associate Professor Ingela Lundin Kvalem at the Department of Psychology. The PhD-student will collaborate with the other principal investigators and participants in this international project.

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PhD Research Fellowship in Fluid Mechanics, University of Oslo, Norway

Position as PhD Research Fellowship in Fluid Mechanics available at the Department of Mathematics.

The PhD fellowship will be for a period of 3 years, with no compulsory work (teaching). Starting date no later than 01.09.2016. No one can be appointed for more than one fixed-term period at the same institution.

Job/ project description:
The position is connected with the project « Multiphase Flow in Concentric and Eccentric Annulus Spaces (ANNULUS) » funded by the Research Council of Norway. The project is a collaboration between UiO, Institute for Energy Technology (IFE, www.ife.no) and Imperial College London, Department of Mechanical Engineering. Joint supervision will be given by Mikael Mortensen (UiO), Murat Tutkun (UiO and IFE) and Jan Nossen (IFE) with additional support by Professor Berend van Wachem (Imperial College).

The primary objective of the project is to provide fundamental understanding of physical mechanisms and flow regimes in two-phase flow in annulus spaces in near horizontal oil wells at realistic conditions and provide experimental data that later can be used for developing engineering models. An “annulus” is the space between an outer pipe and an inner pipe inserted into the outer pipe all along the pipe length.

The PhD student will pursue detailed simulations of two-phase gas-liquid flow in the annulus configuration through theoretical analysis and detailed CFD. The CFD work will be based on the code Multiflow from Imperial College London. We will stay in close contact with professor van Wachem at Imperial, who has kindly offered free support and a few months’ visit to his group by the PhD student. To ensure that the PhD work maintains a focus on industrially relevant issues, the student will also spend extended periods at IFE to enable daily interaction with highly experienced permanent staff.

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PhD Research Fellowship in Mycology / Microbiology, University of Oslo, Norway

Position as PhD Research fellow available at the Department of Biosciences.

The fellowship will be for a period of 4 years, with 25% compulsory work. Starting date no later than 01.10.2016. No one can be appointed for more than one fixed-term period at the same institution.

The PhD research fellowship will be linked to the Norwegian Centre for Digital Life initiative, as well as the Centre for Integrative Microbial Evolution (CIME), which is an inter-disciplinary research group supported by the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences.

Job / project description:
Most fungi reside in natural habitats, but some species have expanded their habitats into buildings. Dampness- and mold-related indoor air quality problems are associated with adverse health effects, such as allergies, asthma and other respiratory symptoms. The main aim in this project is to improve the knowledge about indoor fungal communities (i.e. the indoor mycobiome) by implementing state-of-the-art high throughput DNA sequence (HTS) analyses. Using DNA metabarcoding and other DNA based approaches we will analyze the spatiotemporal variation in the indoor mycobiome within single buildings and on broader geographic scales and identify the main determinants of the indoor mycobiome. We want to improve reference DNA sequence collections for indoor fungi and improve and adapt existing bioinformatics tools for DNA metabarcoding analyses of the indoor mycobiome.

In the compulsory work (25% of total time) the hired PhD fellow will mainly focus on how the characterization of the indoor mycobiome can be streamlined for commercial applications. The hired PhD fellow will be affiliated with the University of Oslo and will also collaborate with staff at the firm Mycoteam (https://www.mycoteam.no/) that are experts on biodeterioration and indoor fungi in buildings and building materials.

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PhD Research Fellowship in Semiconductor Physics, University of Oslo, Norway

Position as PhD Research fellow in opto-electronic characterization of semiconductors is planned at Centre for Materials Science and Nanotechnology (www.smn.uio.no) and Department of Physics (www.fys.uio.no), University of Oslo.

The fellowship period is for 3 years. The position is funded by the Norwegian Research Council through the project “Oxygen complexes in solar silicon (OxSil)”. Preferable starting date is in August 2016.

No one can be appointed for more than one fixed-term period at the same institution.

The experimental infrastructure at the University of Oslo includes the Micro- and Nanotechnology Laboratory (MiNaLab) with a clean room area in excess of 400 m2 as well as a range of advanced characterization facilities.

Qualifications:

  • Applicants must hold a Master’s degree or equivalent in Physics, materials science or similar, at least by 1st of August 2016.
  • A good understanding of semiconductor physics is required.
  • Candidates with both experimental and theoretical/modelling experience are welcome.
  • A background in opto-electronic characterization techniques, such as FTIR, PL, DLTS or similar, is an advantage.

The work will focus on characterization of oxygen-related complexes in silicon.

A good command of English is required, while speaking Norwegian or another Scandinavian language is an advantage.

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PhD Research Fellowship in Social Anthropology, University of Oslo, Norway

One Ph. D. fellowship in social anthropology is vacant at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo.

The position is funded by the Research Council of Norway as part of the project Materializing Kinship: Cycles of life at the Norwegian ‘hytte’ (MATKIN), directed by Prof. Marianne Lien. The successful applicant will design and undertake an independent sub-project based on fieldwork situated in selected hytte areas in Norway, with a focus on material and landscape practices, kin relations, everyday life and mobility in relation to the life at the hytte. The PhD candidate will form part of a project research group and will take part in workshops, conferences and an exhibition convened as part of the project. Applicants must have good spoken and written command of a Scandinavian language and of English.

The position is for three years. A four-year position with 25% teaching, supervision and examination can be offered to candidates where the Department has suitable work load, depending on teaching abilities and language.

Requirements
Applicants must have at least five years higher education including a two-year master’s degree or equivalent in social anthropology. The successful candidate must participate in the research training organised by the Faculty of Social Sciences (the PhD programme) and undertake research that will lead to the award of a PhD in social anthropology. Applicants are referred to the Guidelines for appointment as a PhD candidate at a university or university college. The candidate who is offered the PhD position will automatically be accepted for the PhD programme. When evaluating the application, emphasis will be given to the applicant’s academic and personal prerequisites to carry out the project and to the project description.

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PhD Research Fellowship in Mathematics, University of Oslo, Norway

A position as PhD Research Fellow is available at the Department of Mathematics of the University of Oslo. The fellowship will be for a period of 3 years, with no compulsory work. Starting date no later than 01.08.2016. No one can be appointed for more than one fixed-term period at the same institution.

Job / project description:
The research fellow will be attached to the Section for Stochastic Analysis, Finance, Insurance and Risk, and be part of the project “Challenges in Stochastic Control, Information and Applications (STOCONINF)”. STOCONINF is a project funded by the Norwegian Research Council. Information about STOCONINF can be found at http://www.mn.uio.no/math/english/research/projects/stoconinf/index.html. The fellow will perform research within one or more of the topics of STOCONINF’s research plan.

Requirements/qualifications:
The Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences has a strategic ambition of being a leading research faculty. Candidates for these fellowships will be selected in accordance with this, and expected to be in the upper segment of their class with respect to academic credentials.

Applicants must hold a Master’s degree or equivalent in mathematics, with an excellent background in stochastic analysis and stochastic control. Knowledge of white noise analysis and Malliavin calculus for Lévy processes is an advantage. The purpose of the fellowship is research training leading to the successful completion of a PhD degree.

The fellowship requires admission to the PhD programme at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences. The application to the PhD programme must be submitted to the department no later than two months after taking up the position.

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PhD Research Fellowship in Paleontology, University of Oslo, Norway

Position as PhD Research fellow available at Natural History Museum, University of Oslo.

The fellowship is for a period of up to 4 years, with 25 % compulsory work. Starting date no later than 1. August 2016.

Job/ project description:
The candidate will study Lower to Middle Triassic ammonoid faunas of the Arctic region, with a focus on Svalbard. The aims of the project are to revise the ammonoid taxonomy and biozonation and to improve our understanding of the paleobiogeography and paleoenvironment of the High Boreal Triassic. The project will involve field and laboratory work, taxonomic description, statistical and ecological analysis, and quantitative biostratigraphy. Integration with geochemistry and other background data will also be important. The project is a cooperation between the University of Oslo, the University of Zürich and the University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS). The candidate will be part of active Triassic research groups in Oslo and Zürich.

Requirements/qualifications:
Applicants must hold a Master’s degree or equivalent in geology or biology, with specialization in invertebrate paleontology. Physical ability for field work in the Arctic is required. Previous experience with some or all of the following subjects is desired: The Triassic system, ammonoids, Arctic geology, taxonomic description and statistical analysis.

We seek a highly motivated, hardworking and creative student who is able to think and work independently, but who is also able to work well as part of a team. The candidate has to have good communication skills and will collaborate with researchers across disciplines.

The purpose of the fellowship is research training leading to the successful completion of a PhD degree.

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Doctoral Research Fellowship, Faculty of Humanities, University of Oslo, Norway

Up to 20 PhD positions are announced at the Faculty of Humanities.

The Faculty has approximately 130 PhD students divided into seven departments:

  • Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History
  • Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages
  • Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas
  • Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages
  • Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies
  • Department of Media and Communication
  • Department of Musicology

The advertised positions are open for all research fields at the Faculty of Humanities. In the actual processing of the applications, however, strategic considerations may be applied in the selection process, such as imminent need for recruitment within certain disciplines or subjects. The candidate’s doctoral project should affiliate with research at the Faculty, and it is essential that the faculty has the supervisory expertise and capacity in the field.

The appointment is for a period of 3 years and the doctoral thesis is expected to be completed within the given time frame.

The person appointed will be affiliated with the Faculty’s organized research training. The academic work must result in a doctoral thesis that will be defended at the Faculty with a view to obtaining the degree of PhD. The successful candidate is expected to join the existing research milieu or network and contribute to its development.

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PhD Research Fellow in Image Analysis of Glacier Flow, University of Oslo, Norway

Position as PhD Research fellow (Stipendiat SKO 1017) is available at Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo, Norway. The fellowship is for a period of 3 years.

The geosciences are the studies of planet Earth – the atmosphere, the hydrosphere (including oceans, freshwater and glaciers), the earth’s surface and its interior. The span of the work at the Department is well illustrated by the research sections: Meteorology and Oceanography, Environmental Geology and Hydrology, Physical Geography, Petroleum Geology and Geophysics Tectonics, Petrology and Geochemistry. The faculty consists of 40 professors and lecturers. In addition, there are Postdoctoral fellows, Ph.D. students, technical staff and administrative personnel.

Job/project description
We invite applications for a challenging PhD research fellowship for radar image analysis of glacier flow. The candidate will develop, evaluate and apply so-called offset-tracking methods for quantifying glacier flow based on satellite radar imagery.
The candidate will be part of a lively research environment in cold regions sciences, in particular in remote sensing, geoinformatics, glaciology and geomorphology. The position includes collaboration with a number of Norwegian and international partners, and the successful candidate will have opportunity to participate in research networks such as an Nordic excellence centre, or an ESA research initiative The project is funded by the Norwegian Research Council.

The position is affiliated with the Section for Physical Geography which has longterm experience in investigating the climate impact on the terrestrial cryosphere (snow, glaciers, permafrost) and is involved in various high-level research projects and centers.

Qualifications
The candidate should have a strong background and interest in the following fields:

  • Geometric and numeric aspects of remote sensing (photogrammetry, remote sensing, geomatics, computer vision, etc.), and in programming of related algorithms e.g. using MATLAB, IDL or similar languages.
  • Radar remote sensing, in particular synthetic aperture radar (SAR), and microwave response to snow and ice.
  • Glaciology, in particular glacier dynamics, not least in polar environments.

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