PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in Mining Engineering in Finland

Aalto University’s Department of Energy and Mechanical Engineering, within the School of Engineering, is seeking a Master’s thesis worker for the Energy Conversion and Systems research group. The project focuses on optimizing an SO2-depolarized electrolyser (SDE) stack for renewable hydrogen production. SDE technology is a polymer electrolyte membrane electrolyser that uses electricity to produce hydrogen with sulfuric acid as a by-product. Compared with conventional electrolysis, the system off...

The University of Oulu’s Faculty of Technology is seeking a postdoctoral researcher for a three-year project in hydrological and ecosystem modelling within the Water, Energy and Environmental Engineering Unit. The research investigates how hydrological and biogeochemical processes interact with terrestrial ecosystems and climate systems in Arctic and boreal environments. The researcher will develop and apply numerical models to simulate water and nutrient fluxes, carbon mobilisation and lateral ...

The University of Oulu is seeking a Doctoral Researcher in Peatland Restoration Hydrology and Biogeochemistry for a three-year project in the Water, Energy and Environmental Engineering Unit of the Faculty of Technology. The research investigates how restoration and rewetting of former peat extraction areas influence carbon cycling, water quality, lateral greenhouse-gas emissions, water storage, runoff dynamics, and catchment hydrology. The project centres on the intensively monitored Turvesuo–M...

Electronics Integration and Reliability (EILB) at Aalto University School of Electrical Engineering is seeking a doctoral researcher to work on the next generation of high-density power electronics. The group develops innovative materials, device design, and bonding technologies for wide-bandgap and ultra-wide-bandgap semiconductor systems, with applications extending to RF devices and smart sensors. The project centers on miniaturised heterogeneous integration for power electronics, using novel...

The Department of Psychology at the University of Jyväskylä is recruiting a doctoral researcher for the STN-funded Planetary Mind project. The project examines environmental agency — the ability to make sustainable everyday choices — and its relationship to mental health across different age groups. The doctoral researcher will work in a multidisciplinary consortium and develop a dissertation linked to the project’s research themes. The role combines original research with publication, collabora...

The Doctoral Researcher will join the Global Change and Biotic Interactions Ecology group at the University of Oulu to work in the Research Council of Finland-funded project “Mechanisms of Plant Biodiversity Change.” The project investigates why plant biodiversity responds differently to global change across sites and time, with a particular focus on the combined roles of spatial context, dispersal in space and time, biotic interactions, and intraspecific trait change. The research is designed t...

The Department of Biological and Environmental Science at the University of Jyväskylä is recruiting one doctoral researcher to join a project on disease ecology and zoonotic risk. The project uses a One Health perspective to examine how urbanisation and forest management shape wildlife–pathogen–human interactions across Finland’s urban, rural and forest environments. The doctoral researcher will work on quantitative analysis of large, heterogeneous ecological datasets, including long-term wildli...

This postdoctoral position is based in the Global Change and Biotic Interactions Ecology group at the University of Oulu and is part of the Research Council of Finland-funded project “Mechanisms of Plant Biodiversity Change” . The project is led by Prof. Anu Eskelinen and focuses on understanding why plant biodiversity changes unevenly across space and in response to global change. The successful researcher will work on questions about the mechanisms shaping plant community change, including the...

This postdoctoral position is part of Aalto University’s Cloud and Network Computing group and focuses on research at the intersection of multimodal large language models and networking. The successful researcher will define and lead an independent agenda in areas such as semantic and context-aware networking, resource management in edge computing systems, and AI-native network control. A substantial part of the work involves designing and building realistic simulation environments to generate d...