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New interdisciplinary PhD projects strengthens DTU's strategic areas

The new strategic PhD projects will support DTU's ambitions within transformative digitalisation and sustainability, which are both focus areas in Handlingsplan 2024.

Tree in bloom in front of a building at DTU Lyngby Campus. Photo: Bax Lindhardt
 DTU funds 28 strategic PhD projects within sustainability and transformative digitalisation. Photo: Bax Lindhardt

Friday 09 August 2024

Mie Harthing Egefelt

DTU's Executive Board has decided to fund 28 new strategic PhD projects. The grant from DTU is seed funding to establish new research areas, activities and collaborations that can eventually attract further funding for development.

"I am pleased that we have found funding for the strategic PhD projects," says provost Rasmus Larsen. "The mid-term evaluation of DTU's strategy recommended, among other things, that we must define unique positions of strength in sustainability and digitalisation in 2024. We are approaching this task from different angles, and with the strategic PhD projects, the departments now have the means to develop new, innovative research and to combine DTU's research fields in new ways."

Interdisciplinarity is a focal point

During the spring, the departments have worked on project proposals and submitted them for evaluation. The criteria for the final project grant included a focus on digitalisation and/or sustainability and that the project supervisors should come from different departments or centres to ensure interdisciplinary collaboration.

Before the summer holidays, a selection committee for each strategic area evaluated all project proposals received and selected the final projects.

Recruitment

The new PhD positions will be filled during 2024 and recruitment process has started. DTU wants to hire the most talented people from Denmark and abroad and therefore the positions are also advertised internationally. Vacancies are continuously posted at DTU's website.

The projects

The project grants are distributed across eight strategic areas:

  • Linking pressure from mixture toxicity of shipping discharges to loss of biodiversity in the marine environment
    DTU Aqua & DTU Sustain (CfAS associated)
  • Absolute Environmental Sustainability Assessment of ICT technologies and services
    DTU Electro & Center for Absolute Sustainability
  • Designing trajectories towards absolute sustainable and healthy diets
    DTU Food & DTU Sustain (CfAS associated)
  • DESERTLE: Developing Absolute Environmentally Sustainable Roadmap Scenarios for the Electrification of Long-Haul Transport in Europe
    DTU Management & Center for Absolute Sustainability
  • Assessing Absolute Environmental Sustainability of the Green Energy Transition
    DTU Management & DTU Sustain (CfAS associated)
  • System analysis for absolute sustainability of electric vehicles in the energy systems
    DTU Wind & Center for Absolute Sustainability
  • Biomethanation of pyrolysis gas: A sustainable route for the conversion of residual biomasses to carbon negative fuels Energy
    DTU Chemical Engineering & DTU Construct
  • Dislocation Functionalized ion conductors for Solid State Battery Electrolyte (DIFUSSE) Energy
    DTU Energy & DTU Nanolab, DTU Physics
  • Developing AI-based Dynamic Blackout Anticipation and Prevention Methods on a Digital Twin of Future Power Systems Energy
    DTU Wind & DTU Compute
  • Generative AI Learning Technology Improving the Teaching-Learning Experience of First Year Polytechnical Foundation Courses
    DTU Compute & DTU Learning Lab
  • DTU students’ construction of conceptual understanding in introductory physics, DTU Energy & DTU Learning Lab, DTU Physics
  • Building the coastal ARGO (ARGO+)
    DTU Aqua & DTU Electro
  • TeraCoat – Enabling the future of sustainable coatings using terahertz spectroscopy
    DTU Chemical Engineering & DTU Electro
  • SAILOR - Situational Awareness Augmentation with Foundation AI Models for Enhanced Sea Safety
    DTU Electro & DTU Compute
  • Electrochemical Pyroprocessing of Spent Nuclear Fuels in Molten Chloroaluminates
    DTU Energy & DTU Chemistry
  • Thermophysical Properties of Fluoride Fuel Salts for Molten Salt Reactors
    DTU Physics & DTU Chemistry
  • Joint quantum and classical communication
    DTU Electro & DTU Physics
  • QUANTRA - QUAntum-based TRAffic systems Analysis
    DTU Management & DTU Compute
  • Thiophosphate thin films for quantum technology
    DTU Nanolab & DTU Electro
  • Revolutionizing Crowd Counting through Remote Sensing and Vision, DTU Compute & DTU Space
  • ARGUS - Collaborative autonomous surveillance of critical maritime 3 infrastructure in GNSS and communication degraded environments
    DTU Electro & DTU Aqua
  • Arctic and Maritime Surveillance – from Space to Seabed
    DTU Space/Security DTU & DTU Compute, DTU Electro, DTU Space, DTU Aqua
  • Harvesting the unused potential of single-cell sequencing using machine learning, DTU Compute & DTU Health Tech
  • Harnessing AI to Identify Superior Strains for Plant-Based Starter Cultures
    DTU Food & DTU Health Tech
  • A Digitalization Approach for Wall Shear Stress Estimation
    DTU Health Tech & DTU Compute
  • Green Chips - Optimizing Microfabrication for Sustainability
    DTU Nanolab & DTU Sustain
  • DegrAId: Forecasting Bioplastic Degradability with Machine Learning for Sustainable Innovation
    DTU Sustain & DTU Chemical Engineering, DTU Compute
  • Greenhouse gas emission monitoring with satellite remote sensing (GasSat)
    DTU Sustain & DTU Space

Contact

Rasmus Larsen

Rasmus Larsen Professor Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science