项目介绍

2026年9月17日

About the position

Are you motivated to take a step towards a doctorate and open up exciting career opportunities? As a PhD Candidate with us, you will work to achieve your doctorate, and at the same time gain valuable experience that qualifies you for a further career in higher education and research, in and outside academia. Joining a newly formed research group will further provide you with the opportunity to become part of a growing team and contribute to an exciting new environment with plenty of new research opportunities.

Your immediate leader will be the Head of Department.

About the project

Corrosion represents a major economic burden, costing modern economies roughly 4% of their annual GDP. In Norway, this loss is estimated to be twice the total profits of the entire agricultural sector. Despite this importance, corrosion research remains dominated by case-specific studies and expert-driven intuition. This project aims to close that gap by generating, extracting and measuring corrosion data into a unified knowledge base. On the digital side, the project will employ natural language processing and AI-driven data extraction to automatically harvest corrosion data from the scientific literature. On the experimental side, it will design and refine electrochemical setups for rapid screening of corrosion rates. Given an existing interest for the university, the work will focus particularly on the electrochemical corrosion of alloys relevant to carbon capture and storage applications.

Duties of the position

• Complete the doctoral education until obtaining a doctorate
• Carry out research of good quality within the framework as described above
• Academic publications and popular science dissemination
• Participate in the newly formed research group of Corrosion and Corrosion Protection
• Participate in international activities such as conferences, workshops and discussions

Be prepared for changes to your work duties after employment.

Required selection criteria

• You must meet the requirements for admission to the faculty’s Doctoral Programme, see Section 6-1 of the PhD regulations for more information
• You must have a relevant Master’s degree in mechanical and industrial engineering, chemical engineering, chemistry, and materials science or equivalent. Your degree must include a major independent project (minimum 30 ECTS) equivalent to a master’s thesis
• Master students can apply, but the master’s degree must be obtained and documented before starting the position.
• You must have a strong and relevant academic background from your previous studies and have an average grade from your Master’s degree study, or equivalent education, which is equal to B or better compared to NTNU’s grading scale. If you do not have letter grades from previous studies, you must have an equally good academic foundation. If you have a weaker academic background, you may be considered if you can document that you are exceptionally suited for a PhD education, for example through relevant work experience and/or peer-reviewed academic works.
• Sound interest in either materials science, electrochemistry or the use of artificial intelligence in an engineering context
• Good oral and written presentation skills in English

The appointment is to be made in accordance with NTNUs guidelines for recruitment positions for general criteria for the position.

Preferred selection criteria

• Good analytical and computational capabilities, through course information or thesis deliverables in the application
• Skilled in either computational modelling or experimentation, paired with the willingness to work on both

Personal characteristics

To complete a doctoral degree (PhD), it is important that you are able to: 

• Show curiosity and a strong motivation for the subject
• Work in a structured way, set goals and make plans to achieve them
• Present and discuss your research with other professionals
• Be friendly and open-minded
• Be flexible and open to adjusting the plan for the project as needed

Emphasis will be placed on personal qualities.