87 projects

FORSKSYSTEMET-FORSKSYSTEMET

Stipendiatstilling 18 SINTEF (2021-2023)

Diffuse glioma is the most common group of malignant primary tumors of the central nervous system (CNS) in adults, and glioblastoma is the most aggressive form. Standard treatment comprises maximal safe surgical resection, followed by radiotherapy and chemotherapy. Still, the prognosis of this di...

Awarded: NOK 4.2 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

STIPINST-Stipendiatstillinger i instituttsektoren

Stipendiatstilling 3 NIBIO (2021-2023)

The forest sector needs a well-developed and maintained network of forest roads to be able to supply the processing industry with raw materials from the forest. Transport of timber from the forest to the industry takes place by timber wagon train. Today, such a timber truck has a total weight of ...

Awarded: NOK 4.2 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Akershus

FORSKSYSTEMET-FORSKSYSTEMET

Stipendiatstilling 3 NGI (2021-2023)

Understanding how soil behaves is vital for building safe and reliable infrastructure, as well as predicting and reducing the consequences of geohazards such as landslides and earthquakes. This is not a trivial task. As the cartoonist and engineer Randall Munroe humorously noted when asked why so...

Awarded: NOK 4.2 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Oslo

FORSKSYSTEMET-FORSKSYSTEMET

Stipendiatstilling 4 NORCE (2021-2023)

Climate change presents a significant challenge to human societies and ecosystems globally, with agriculture and food systems particularly vulnerable. The need to increase global food production by 70% by 2050 to meet the demands of a growing population is met by increasing climate- variability a...

Awarded: NOK 4.1 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Vestland

FORSKSYSTEMET-FORSKSYSTEMET

Stipendiatstilling 1 NGI (2021-2023)

Concrete is one of the most widely used building materials in the world and also accounts for a large proportion of the waste generated in the construction industry. There is a clear desire from both industry and the authorities to increase the recycling of concrete for more sustainable use of re...

Awarded: NOK 4.2 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Oslo

FORSKSYSTEMET-FORSKSYSTEMET

Stipendiatstilling 1 NORCE (2021-2025)

The position is related to ongoing strategic initiatives in the field of Digital Aquaculture. The candidate will be given flexibility to develop research questions around modelling fish feeding and appetite. The candidate will be expected to take into consideration some of the following biologica...

Awarded: NOK 4.3 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Vestland

FORSKSYSTEMET-FORSKSYSTEMET

Stipendiatstilling 6 SINTEF (2021-2023)

Title: Technology impacts on the Sustainable Development Goals in an integrated perspective Nowadays, the topic of sustainable development is on the forefront of the agenda of both society, industry, and research institutes. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) initiated by the UN is a frame...

Awarded: NOK 4.2 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

STIPINST-Stipendiatstillinger i instituttsektoren

Stipendiatstilling 2 NIBIO (2021-2024)

Title:Molecular breeding for pathogen resistance in strawberry The garden strawberry, Fragaria × ananassa, is a highly popular and economically important berry crop cultivated in various climates worldwide. It first occurred during the 1700s in western Europe as the result of accidental hybridiz...

Awarded: NOK 4.2 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2024

Location: Akershus

STIPINST-Stipendiatstillinger i instituttsektoren

Stipendiatstilling 3 NIVA (2021-2023)

Literature suggests a Kuznets relationship between plastic pollution and economic growth, where plastic pollution will grow as income levels per capita grows, before it starts decreasing at a certain point, corresponding to an inverse U-shaped relationship. However, expecting economic growth in t...

Awarded: NOK 4.2 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2027

Location: Oslo

FORSKSYSTEMET-FORSKSYSTEMET

Stipendiatstilling 1 CICERO (2021-2023)

Project objective This PhD project aims to improve the understanding of the role of large-scale warming on near-surface meteorology in Norway, Sweden, and Finland (Nordic Fennoscandia). It investigates land-atmosphere interactions with a focus on the recent opposing hydroclimatic extremes – the d...

Awarded: NOK 4.2 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Oslo

FORSKSYSTEMET-FORSKSYSTEMET

Stipendiatstilling 3 NINA (2021-2023)

Water is a major ecological requirement for life on Earth. It covers more than 70% of the planet?s surface, albeit only approximately 2% of it is occupied by freshwater. Freshwater ecosystems are regarded as biodiversity hotspots, providing a habitat to approximately 10% of all described metazoa...

Awarded: NOK 4.2 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FORSKSYSTEMET-FORSKSYSTEMET

Stipendiatstilling 5 SINTEF (2021-2023)

Norwegian seaweed industry has great growth potential. Firstly, the Norwegian coastline is the second longest worldwide, and includes many areas suitable for seaweed, which prefer the cold, nutrient rich water with high salinity we have here. Secondly, we have a deep understanding of the life cyc...

Awarded: NOK 4.2 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FORSKSYSTEMET-FORSKSYSTEMET

Stipendiatstilling 17 SINTEF (2021-2023)

Modeling and simulation of physical systems provide insights into their design, troubleshooting, and predictive maintenance. Traditionally, numerical and analytical methods have been the primary approaches, but they often require simplifying assumptions to remain computationally feasible or they ...

Awarded: NOK 4.1 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FORSKSYSTEMET-FORSKSYSTEMET

Stipendiatstilling 2 NIVA (2021-2023)

The PhD project of Jacqueline Knutson connected with the project 'Global Change at Northern Latitudes' has the tentative title: "Transport and Processing of Terrestrial Organic Matter in Northern Ecosystems Under Climate Change; a Catchment Perspective". The main objective of this project is to b...

Awarded: NOK 4.2 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Oslo

STIPINST-Stipendiatstillinger i instituttsektoren

Stipendiatstilling 2 NORCE (2021-2023)

Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) and geothermal energy production are now extensively developed industries contributing to sustainable energy production. Both CCS and geothermal industries operate wells drilled in the subsurface and used to inject fluids (CO2 or water) and, in some cases, to prod...

Awarded: NOK 4.2 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Vestland

FORSKSYSTEMET-FORSKSYSTEMET

Stipendiatstilling 2 NGI (2021-2023)

Observations and decisions made by engineering geologists can be subjective due to varied experiences, knowledge, and human bias. The advancement in the application of Artificial Intelligence in geosciences can provide engineering geologists with helpful tools to carry out an unbiased characteris...

Awarded: NOK 4.2 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Oslo

STIPINST-Stipendiatstillinger i instituttsektoren

Stipendiatstilling 1 SINTEF (2021-2023)

Metasurfaces are about to revolutionize the way we make optics. By use of numerical calculations it is now possible to design nanostructured surfaces with special optical properties, for example a 1 micrometer (one thousandth of a mm) thin chip which acts as a lens, where you previously would nee...

Awarded: NOK 4.2 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2024

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

STIPINST-Stipendiatstillinger i instituttsektoren

Stipendiatstilling 4 SINTEF (2021-2023)

Big Data analysis enables new value-creation opportunities and feeds modern IT ecosystems. Today’s Large Language Models (LLMs) require data in the order of hundreds of Terabytes. Additionally, the rapid proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, anticipated to exceed 32 billion by 2030, ...

Awarded: NOK 4.2 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2024

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

STIPINST-Stipendiatstillinger i instituttsektoren

Stipendiatstilling 10 SINTEF (2021-2023)

When testing new designs of floating structures, an unavoidable step is model testing in hydrodynamic laboratories. The experimental reproduction of open ocean waves in a small working area around the model to be tested is a topic generally well understood. Many projects have recently aimed at bu...

Awarded: NOK 4.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2024

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

STIPINST-Stipendiatstillinger i instituttsektoren

Stipendiatstilling 19 SINTEF (2021-2023)

Using the network as a reliable backbone for distributed real-time systems. Industrial automation and control systems (IACS) are more interconnected now than ever before. This requires a scalable, fast and deterministic network medium. Common Off the shelf (COTS) network hardware are currently ...

Awarded: NOK 4.2 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2024

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FORSKSYSTEMET-FORSKSYSTEMET

Seaweed Cultivation as a Climate Positive Solution

Title: Seaweed Cultivation as a Climate Positive Solution - The role of seaweed farms in the production of recalcitrant organic carbon with implications for carbon sequestration and carbon markets By Luiza Neves, NTNU Department of Chemistry and SINTEF Ocean This PhD project investigated how sea...

Awarded: NOK 4.2 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

STIPINST-Stipendiatstillinger i instituttsektoren

Stipendiatstilling 1 Nofima (2021-2024)

Industrial food quality measurements open new possibilities for improved sustainability in food production processes, by optimizing the use of raw materials and reducing food loss and waste. There are usually many quality attributes and process parameters representing different stages of the prod...

Awarded: NOK 4.2 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2024

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

STIPINST-Stipendiatstillinger i instituttsektoren

Stipendiatstilling 3 IFE (2020-2023)

The focus of Kine Reegårds PhD is on employees' perceptions of and responses to automation technology being introduced at work. Currently, the debate regarding introduction of advanced automation technologies in the workplace seems preoccupied with the potential displacement of human workers. Ho...

Awarded: NOK 4.2 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Akershus

STIPINST-Stipendiatstillinger i instituttsektoren

Stipendiatstilling 1 NILU (2020-2023)

Satellites are incredible tools for studying the atmosphere, offering a global perspective on air quality. However, most satellite instruments measure the total amount of a pollutant across the entire atmosphere, making it difficult to estimate air quality directly at the ground level—where it im...

Awarded: NOK 4.1 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2024

Location: Akershus

FORSKSYSTEMET-FORSKSYSTEMET

Stipendiatstilling 1 NINA (2021-2023)

I am researching how communication can encourage more environmentally friendly behavior in protected nature areas, with a focus on Femundsmarka National Park in Norway. My work looks at littering and campfire behavior, particularly how visitors source firewood and the damage this can cause to tre...

Awarded: NOK 4.2 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

STIPINST-Stipendiatstillinger i instituttsektoren

Stipendiatstilling 1 NERSC (2020-2023)

Algae blooms are a part of the natural annual cycle in marine and coastal waters and play an essential role in the marine ecosystem. The aim of this institutional doctoral study is to be able to predict the evolution of harmful algae blooms in Norwegian coastal waters from one to three weeks ahea...

Awarded: NOK 4.1 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2023

Location: Vestland

FORSKSYSTEMET-FORSKSYSTEMET

Stipendiatstilling 3 NORCE (2021-2025)

This project explores a new media model as a foundation for large-scale production of uniquely tailored media experiences. In today’s media landscape, there is a growing demand for flexibility and personalization in time-driven media experiences (i.e., audio and video). New technological possibi...

Awarded: NOK 4.2 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Vestland

STIPINST-Stipendiatstillinger i instituttsektoren

Stipendiatstilling 2 NINA (2021-2023)

The use of genetic methods in research on wild animal species has opened up a new world of possibilities. In this project, we wanted to develop new analytical opportunities, and explore how genetic data can be used to give us better knowledge about kinship relationships and migration within wild ...

Awarded: NOK 4.1 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2024

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

STIPINST-Stipendiatstillinger i instituttsektoren

Stipendiatstilling 1 NIBIO (2020-2023)

Soils provide several ecosystem services such as food production, carbon storage and water filtration. However, soil degradation threatens the delivery of soil ecosystem services worldwide. Soil health implies that the physical, chemical and biological components of the soil are functioning optim...

Awarded: NOK 4.1 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2024

Location: Akershus

FORSKSYSTEMET-FORSKSYSTEMET

Stipendiatstilling 1 NR (2020-2023)

The objective is to propose a new method to generate synthetic data, which allow to train a classification or regression model similarly well as the true data (utility) but preserve privacy. We propose to use vine copulas with a specific model structure to model the true data, and then use trunca...

Awarded: NOK 4.1 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Oslo