PERSEUS, a Marie Skłodowska-Curie funded program, is a collaboration between NTNU - Norway’s largest university, 11 top-level academic partners in 8 European countries, and 8 industrial partners within sectors of high societal relevance.
PERSEUS aims to educate top-level researchers contributing to solve societal challenges within the areas of energy, healthcare, manufacturing, mobility, and ocean-based technology, through the use of digital technologies. Call 2, with vacancies for 17 PhD candidates, will be launched in August 2022 (start of PhD period approximately January 2023).
PERSEUS has published an extra call (as below): start of PhD period August 2022. Check the call per theme below:
Big Data and AI
- PhD Candidate in “Optimal Hydropower Scheduling using Advanced Machine Learning"
- PhD Candidate in AI for Databases
- PhD Candidate in Algorithms for Large-Scale Processing of Dynamic Graphs
- PhD Candidate in Natural Language Processing for Personalized Content Summarization
- PhD Candidate in Social Robots
Internet of Things
- PhD Candidate in Radio Channel Measurements and Modeling in Maritime Scenarios
- PhD Candidate in Digital Twin for Maritime Communication System Performance Prediction
Information and Cyber Security
- PhD Candidate in “Reference Systems for a Cyber-physical Range”
- PhD Candidate within “Dynamic Interdependency Models for Critical Infrastructures”
What?
As part of the PERSEUS team you will work alongside other highly motivated and talented PhD candidates and researchers. You will also have access to the knowledge base, state-of-the-art research infrastructure and impact orientation of the partners in the team. In addition to your education and development within the thematic research area, you will gain transferable skills within project development and management, science communication, research ethics, innovation and entrepreneurial thinking as well as basic university didactics.
As a PERSEUS PhD candidate, you will be employed by NTNU. During your stay, you have the opportunity to a 2-3 month international stay and 1-2 month national stay with one of the PERSEUS partners. This will allow you to extend your network within academia and industry, and to learn about your research area from both an academic, innovation and societal perspective.
- Duration of PhD employment: 36 months
- Salary: Starting gross salary is 491 200 NOK/year (equal to approx. 47.900 EUR/year by the exchange rate of September 2021)
Who?
We are looking for PhD candidates from all nationalities, who want to contribute to our quest to create knowledge for a better world. PERSEUS recruit candidates according to EU’s mobility rule, meaning that applicants cannot have spent more than 12 months in Norway during the last 3 years.
Education requirements:
- 5 years of complete higher education (BSC and MSC) or education equal to (300 ECTS)
- grade requirements are B or higher (based on NTNU’s grading scale) (the education must be completed before the call deadline)
- diploma supplement or equivalent documentation in English and include a description of the educational system (Chinese diplomas to be verified using CHSI). The degrees and diplomas from other countries will be evaluated by NTNU Office of International Relations.
- the applicants must not yet have been awarded a doctoral degree and/or have accumulated more than four years of full-time research experience counting from the date the degree enabling the candidate to embark upon a doctorate was obtained, and to the date of the deadline of the call.
Language skill requirements: An evidence of good English language skills, written and spoken: TOEFL, IELTS or Cambridge Certificate in Advanced English (CAE) or Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English (CPE). Minimum scores are: TOEFL: 600 (paper-based test), 92 (Internet-based test); IELTS: 6.5, with no section lower than 5.5 (only Academic IELTS test accepted); CAE/CPE: grade B or A. (In extraordinary circumstances, formal documentation of language skills can be relinquished. In such cases, the candidate’s language skills will be assessed in a personal interview).
Export of Knowledge Control: The PhD candidates who, based on a comprehensive first-hand assessment, might come into conflict with legislation governing exports of knowledge, technology and services will not advance further from the first stage in the recruitment process.
Webinar for candidates
There will a webinar for candidates on 19 April 2022. Register here.
Deadline: 1 May 2022.