12 Aug 2024

The second call for WISE industrial PhD student and postdoc projects is now open for applications

Up to 16 projects will be financed by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg foundation and conducted starting in 2025.

-We are looking forward receiving high-quality joint applications from industry and academia. Through collaborations with industry and society, WISE will promote and activate a transition towards a sustainable society and at the same time advance the scientific frontier in materials science, says Magnus Berggren, Director of WISE.

Call details

The call text is available at the link below. The call opens for application on August 12, 2024, and closes on November 19, 2024, at 14:00. Grant decisions are expected in April 2025.

This call is open for partnerships between academic and industrial researchers, where each proposal must include a main academic PI as well as a main industry PI.

The academic PI (with qualification to be main supervisor according to the respective university) must be affiliated at one of WISE’s six partner universities (Chalmers University of Technology, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Linköping University, Uppsala University, Stockholm University, and Lund University), at Luleå University of Technology, or be a pre-selected researcher at Karlstad University, Umeå University, or Örebro University.

For further information and instructions please visit the call page.

About WISE

The Wallenberg Initiative Materials Science for Sustainability (WISE) is the largest ever investment in materials science in Sweden and includes major investments at the leading universities in Sweden over the course of at least 10 years. The aim is to create the conditions for a sustainable society by researching the next generation of eco-friendly materials and manufacturing processes.

Contact

For general questions please contact us at info@wise-materials.org

For questions related to activity at a specific university, see the University Representative Group contacts for each WISE university at https://wise-materials.org/about/organization/