PhD Opportunities in Chemical Engineering

This PhD project at the Department of Biosystems and Technology , Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), explores how green biomass from agriculture can be used more sustainably in integrated systems for green biorefineries and biogas production . The project is rooted in the transition toward a circular, fossil-independent bioeconomy and focuses on biomass sources such as crop residues and catch crops , which may be available without increasing competition for farmland and food prod...

This PhD project is based at the Department of Biosystems and Technology at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and is connected to the national Biogas Solutions Research Center (BSRC). The work sits at the interface of agricultural science, biomass supply, and biogas-oriented bioeconomy systems. The project will investigate how agricultural crop biomass can be used as a substrate for biogas while supporting the development of sustainable cropping systems. Using a field experiment pl...

This PhD project is hosted within the Biogas Solutions Research Center (BSRC) at Linköping University and focuses on how biogas initiatives develop into viable business ventures and how they can contribute to wider diffusion of biogas systems. The research links sustainability transitions with international business development from a company perspective, asking why some projects succeed while others stall or fail. The student will investigate how business models, partnerships, and local institu...

CarbonLab at Aalborg University is seeking one or more PhD candidates to help advance Direct Air Capture (DAC) technologies. The project addresses the scientific and engineering challenges that remain before DAC can be deployed at very large scale, with a focus on developing energy-efficient, economically viable systems built on a deeper understanding of how materials, processes and system integration interact. The PhD work is linked to two research directions: developing process-aware methods f...

The Somyajit laboratory at the University of Southern Denmark invites applications for a fully funded PhD fellowship in the Quantitative Cell Biology and Bioimaging research unit at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. The project sits at the intersection of cell cycle control, DNA replication, and genome surveillance, and is designed around a fundamental question in how cells cope when their genome doubles. The PhD student will investigate how whole-genome doubling reshapes the...

The Department of Engineering Science at the University of Skövde offers a creative and collaborative research environment with modern facilities, strong industrial links, and a track record of applied research and high-quality education. The successful doctoral student will join a team whose work is relevant to industry, society, and academia, and will be based in the area of information technology as defined by the university. This PhD project focuses on smart grids in the context of industria...

This PhD position is based at RWTH Aachen University within the Chair of Thermodynamics of Mobile Energy Conversion Systems (TME) and the Institute of Thermodynamics , in the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering. The research environment is embedded in the chair’s broader work at the Center for Mobile Propulsion (CMP) , where the focus lies on mobile propulsion systems, including internal combustion engines with synthetic fuels, fuel cells, and battery-electric drives. The advertised project is cen...

This PhD project at AMOLF investigates how phase transitions can be harnessed for optical information processing . The research asks how proximity to a continuous phase transition can amplify weak optical signals, while also accounting for the trade-off with speed, accuracy, critical slowing down, and enhanced fluctuations. The work builds on recent observations of phase-transition signatures in the nonlinear response of a laser-driven optical cavity containing a perovskite crystal. You will stu...

This PhD project explores how living microorganisms can be used as environmental sensors and memory systems . Rather than relying on conventional disposable electronics, the research asks whether organisms that naturally integrate environmental signals can be decoded to reveal the conditions they have experienced over time. The student will work on understanding the visual and structural responses of microorganisms to different environmental conditions, then build computational methods that can ...