PhD Opportunities in Electrical Engineering in Norway

This PhD position at Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) is part of the Norwegian Maritime AI Centre , led by NTNU and bringing together researchers, industry, and public partners to develop AI applications for the maritime sector. The project focuses on intelligent navigation and risk-based route planning for safer and more sustainable maritime operations. The doctoral work will develop AI methods for navigational situational awareness and decision support, with attention to h...

This PhD opportunity is based at the Department of Technology Systems at the University of Oslo and is part of a collaborative project on energy transitions under changing climate conditions. The project brings together the UiO Energy-Climate and Energy Systems Modeling groups with the Climate Physics Group at ETH Zurich , creating a research setting that combines energy-system analysis with climate science. The two available PhD projects focus on complementary questions: one addresses iterative...

This PhD project at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) explores the microstructural origin of ductility in recycled aluminium alloys. The successful candidate will join the TEM Gemini Centre and the characterization activities in SFI FAST , working in close collaboration with researchers at NTNU and SINTEF as well as Norwegian and international industrial partners in the aluminium value chain. The research focuses on how microstructural constituents such as precipitates, p...

This PhD research fellow position is based at the Department of Science and Industry Systems at the University of South-Eastern Norway in Kongsberg, within the Faculty of Technology, Natural Sciences and Maritime Sciences. The project sits in SFI CELECT – the Centre for Effective Engineering and Learning in Complex Systems – and is also connected to the Industrial Research School in Complex Systems (INRESCOS) . The doctoral project addresses a major challenge in complex industrial development: i...

The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) is offering PhD positions in Trondheim focused on the testing and modelling of lithium-ion batteries under both operational and abuse conditions. The research combines computational mechanics, advanced experimental testing and numerical modelling to improve understanding of battery behaviour. The doctoral work will contribute to safer and more reliable energy-storage solutions by examining how lithium-ion batteries respond during normal o...

The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Ålesund is offering a PhD project in multi-robot informative planning for coastal monitoring . The research is part of NTNU Ålesund’s ocean-intelligence activities, which use autonomous systems to collect data for applications including fish-spawning-ground monitoring, microplastic and suspended-contamination mapping, and water-quality assessment. The project will develop methods for teams of heterogeneous unmanned surface vehicles (US...

The University of Oslo invites applications for two PhD Research Fellowships in Climate Risk and Energy Systems at the Department of Technology Systems in Kjeller, near Oslo, with a planned move to the Blindern campus in spring 2027. The fellowships are part of the project “Energy system transitions under evolving climate conditions: drivers, impacts, and solutions” , funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation and the Norwegian Research Council. The research aims to build the knowledge base...

The Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) invites applications for a PhD position in Safe AI for Robotic Autonomous Systems within the university’s Robotics Group at the Faculty of Science and Technology (REALTEK) in Ås, Norway. The doctoral research is part of PREVAIL—Predictive Runtime Verification of AI-enabled Systems—an initiative funded by the Research Council of Norway. The project addresses the safety, uncertainty, accountability, and runtime-assurance challenges created by artifi...

The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) is offering a three-year PhD research fellowship in materials physics , focused on the microstructural origin of ductility in recycled aluminium alloys. The position is based in the Department of Physics in Trondheim and starts in August or September 2027. The project investigates how microstructural constituents affect plastic deformation, strain localisation, damage evolution and ductile fracture in alloys containing increasing amounts ...