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PhD Courses in the "Computer Science" Subject and its Specialisations

The PhD subject Computer Science and its five specialisations (Computer Communication; Computer Science Education Research; Database Technology; Embedded Systems; Human-Computer Interaction) offer a selection of regularly offered core PhD-level courses as an important component. Broad introductory courses are marked as such. These courses are complemented by courses on specialised topics that are offered when the need or opportunity arises, by recommended MSc-level courses, and by individual study courses.

Regularly Offered Core PhD-level Courses

Ad-hoc phd-level courses in the academic year 2020/2021.

Archive of ad-hoc PhD-level courses in previous academic years

Regularly Offered MSc-level Courses

The following advanced MSc-level courses are given each year : PhD students who have not already included them (or equivalent ones) in their MSc degrees may take them as PhD-level courses, if needed.

Further information regarding the specialisations

• Computer Communication -- Contact: Thiemo Voigt
• Computing Education Research -- Contact: Mats Daniels
• Database Technology -- Contact: Di Yuan
• Embedded Systems -- Contact: Wang Yi
• Human Computer Interaction -- Contact: Anders Arweström Jansson

Further information regarding other research areas within computer science

• Computer Architecture -- Contact: David Black-Schaffer
• Data Science -- Contact: Matteo Magnani
• Optimisation -- Contact: Di Yuan and Pierre Flener
• Programming Language Technology -- Contact: Tobias Wrigstad
• Verification -- Contact: Parosh Abdulla

PhD Courses

New PhD students at the Department of Business Studies follow a obligatory course program of 30 credits (SUBS). The SUBS Program (Stockholm Uppsala Business Studies) is a joint effort between the Department of Business Studies at Uppsala University, Stockholm School of Economics and Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU).

Some of our PhD students also follow mandatory courses given within The Research Schools: Management och IT  (MIT), Nord-IB  (PhD program in International Business) and FIRE (The Research School in Accounting).

Doctoral Courses offered in the Spring 2024

• Your research - How to engage an audience - FHS0222 (7,5 hp)

The course will be given on Campus Gotland 15-16/2, 29/3-1/3 och 14-15/3 2024.

Course director: Jenny Helin

Other teachers: Christine Mackay Tircomnicu, Doris C. Rusch, Olle Jansson

The course is now full.

Doctoral Courses offered in the Autumn 2023

These courses within the SUBS-programme are obligatory for PhD students from the Department of Business Studies, Uppsala University.

• Perspectives on Science and Research - FHS0021 (7,5 hp)

The course will be given in Uppsala 31/8-27/9 2023.

Course director: Professor Fredrik Tell.

The course is obligatory for PhD students within the SUBS-program and within the Research School MIT and since there is a limited number of students who can attend the course these students are given priority.

You can sign up to Perspectives on Science and Research here until 13 August 2023.

• Qualitative Methods - FHS0022 (7,5 hp)

The course will be given in Uppsala 28/9-27/10 2023.

Course director: Professor Linda Wedlin.

The course is obligatory for PhD students at the Department of Business Studies and since there is a limited number of students who can attend the course these students are given priority. The course is offered within the MIT Research School.

You can sign up to Qualitative Methods here until 10 September 2023.

• Introduction to Multivariate Statistics - FHS0024 (7,5 hp).

The course will be given in Uppsala 1-16/11 2023.

Course director: Professor James Sallis.

The course is obligatory for PhD students within the SUBS-programme and since there is a limited number of students who can attend the course these students are given priority. The course is offered within the MIT Research School.

You can sign up to Introduction to Multivariate Statistics here until 8 October 2023.

• The Research Process - PHD200 (7,5 hp)

The course will be given at Stockholm School of Economics and starts in December 2023 and will continue during the spring 2024.

Course director: Professor Udo Zander.

Please contact Stockholm School of Economics to sign up to the course.

Other courses offered in the Autumn 2023

• Seminars and Thesis Work (the course page from 2022, a new will soon come for 2023) - FHS0040 (7,5 hp)

The course dates have not been confirmed yet, but preliminary the course will be held ca: 23/10-21/11 2023 in Uppsala.

Course director: Professor Christina Keller.

The course is obligatory for PhD students within the Research School MIT and since there is a limited number of students who can attend the course these students are given priority.

You can sign up to Seminars and Thesis Work here until 24 September 2023.

• Theory Building - FHS0147 (7,5 hp)

The course will be given in Uppsala 13/10-8/12 2023.

Course director: Professor Stefan Arora-Jonsson.

All PhD students are welcome, subject to availability of places.

You can sign up to Theory Building here until 10 September 2023.

Doctoral Courses offered in the Spring 2023

Research on Information Technology in Organization and Management   - FSA0002 (7.5 hp) (replaces the course Management, Organisation and ICT).

The course will be given in English in 28-29/3, Stockholm 24-25/4, Karlstad 16-17/5 and online 14/6.

Course director: Associate Professor Einar Iveroth (UU)

Other teachers: Jan Lindvall (UU), David Sörhammar (SU), Jan Löwstedt (SU), Peter Magnusson (KAU) and others.

The course is obligatory for PhD students within the Swedish Research School of Management and IT (MIT) and since there is a limited number of students who can attend the course these students are given priority.

• Organisation Outside Organisations - FHS0133 (7,5 hp)

The course will be given in Uppsala 12/4-13/6 2023.

Course director: Professor emeritus Nils Brunsson

• Research in Information Systems and Informatics - FHS0091 (7,5 hp).

The course will be given in Visby, Uppsala och Lund 19/1-24/3 2023.

Course director: Pär Ågerfalk.

The number of places at the course are limited. The course is obligatory within the MIT Research School.

To register

To sign-up, see the registration link next to the respective syllabus. Contact Golondrian Janke if you have any queries.

Doctoral students from other universities are welcome to participate, subject to availability of places. To sign up please follow the instructions to each course.

PhD Courses offered at other Universities

• Stockholm School of Economics: HHS
• Stockholm University, Stockholm Business School: SBS
• Göteborg University; Handelshögskolan

Link to other PhD courses within organisation theory

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PhD Programme in Gender Studies

The PhD programme in Gender Studies comprises of four years full-time study. The programme includes courses and an independent research project that should generate new knowledge within an area of scientific interest.

At the Centre for Gender Research there are both PhD students in Gender Studies, as well as PhD students “shared” with other disciplines at Uppsala University, but with a gender studies orientation. The Centre also hosts guest PhD students  enrolled at other universities in Sweden or abroad. 

When PhD positions are available they are advertised on Uppsala University's website . The Centre also welcomes PhD students with external funding, in line with the University's admission guidelines .

Do you have questions about the PhD programme in Gender Studies? Contact the Director of PhD studies, Gabriele Griffin .

PhD projects

Read more about the PhD students that are, and have been, active at the Centre for Gender Research.

Graduate School in Gender, Humanities and Digital Cultures

Read more about the Graduate School in Gender, Humanities and Digital Cultures

PhD courses

Read more about the PhD courses given at the Centre for Gender Research.

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PhD courses

Phd-seminar.

As part of the PhD programme, each students gives three seminars within their research area. The seminars take place during the second, third and fourth year of the programme and give a total of 6 credits. 

PhD seminars at the Department of Mathematics

Essén Lectures

These lectures are presented by distinguished experts and directed to a general audience of PhD students. Students who complete the assignments get 3hp. The lecture series is named after Professor Matts Essén (1932-2003), who worked at Uppsala University until his retirement in 1997.

More about the Essén lectures

Spring 2024

Phd course in topology and geometry 7.5 credits.

Teacher: Georgios Dimitroglou Rizell

Clifford algebra, spinors and applications in analysis 7.5 credits

Teacher: Douglas Lundholm

Autumn 2024

Phd course in algebra 7,5 credits.

Teacher: Hankyung Ko

Probabilistic combinatorics 7,5 credits

Teachers: Annika Heckel, Fiona Skerman

Operads and their geometric models 5 credits

Teacher: Alex Takeda

Topological defects 5 credits (Period 2+3)

Teacher: Michele del Zotto

Spring 2025

Phd course in probability and statistics 7,5 credits.

Teachers: Shaobo Jin, Fiona Skerman

Previous PhD courses

Here you can find previous PhD courses.

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PhD student in the area Pharmacokinetic-Pharmacodynamic modelling - Antibiotics

Job Information

Offer description.

The Department of Pharmacy at Uppsala University has an interdisciplinary environment at the center of the pharmaceutical arena. With frontline research, first-rate education and extensive collaborations we constitute an important driving force in the development of our academic field. IFF has approximately 150 employees and a revenue of nearly 160 million SEK. In this inspiring environment our rich diversity of research groups, several of international prominence, develop and conduct work of great scientific importance. Among our core competences are computational modelling and simulations, PKPD, in vitro ADME models, advanced in vivo methods, development of biological medicines, as well as patient and societal aspects, from optimizing the use of drugs in individuals to societal pharmaceutical policies. Together, we form a unique cluster of academic competences within pharmaceutical science, playing a key role in shaping the future of pharmacy in both Sweden and globally.

More information www.farmaci.uu.se

Duties/Project: A doctoral position focusing on the characterization of pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic relationships for the translation of antibiotic effects from advanced preclinical experimental systems to patients is available in the research area pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamics, specialization antibiotics, at the Department of Pharmacy.

Antibiotic resistance is rapidly increasing globally and improved methods are needed that can accelerate the development of new antibiotic therapies. The experimental models most commonly used today to study pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic relationships of antibiotics focuses on the bactericidal effect in the medium and ignore the impact on tissues and the impact of the immune system, i.e. the processes that affect the clinical picture of the infection. In vitro systems that can mimic the physiological processes are therefore under development. An important next step is to clarify how the information from these systems should be translated into appropriate dosing strategies in patients. Via pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic relationships, we have previously demonstrated the possibilities of integrating different types of experimental data into pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic models to predict dosage regimens. Through these new experimental systems, we expect the translational capacity to improve further.

The overall aim of the project is to develop mathematical models of value for translation of antibiotic effects of antibiotics in 3-dimensional cell models (including lung) in bacterial infections into clinical outcome variables. The project will involve close collaboration with a Swiss consortium consisting of experimentalists, drug developers and clinicians. The models will be developed based on antibiotics that are currently used clinically to subsequently be used to predict the outcome of new substances that are under development.

Requirements:

To meet the entry requirements for doctoral studies, you must

• hold a Master’s (second-cycle) degree in pharmaceutical sciences, biomedicine, medicine, or engineering, or alternatively a Master’s education in pharmaceutical modelling or in drug development,
• have completed at least 240 credits in higher education, with at least 60 credits at Master’s level including an independent project worth at least 15 credits, or
• have acquired substantially equivalent knowledge in some other way.

We attach great importance to personal suitability as well as motivation and experience in research in pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic characterization / pharmacometrics. Completed courses should include pharmacokinetics, physiology, pharmacology, modelling and programming (e.g. in R). Experience in research around antibiotic therapy and/or cell systems is valuable. Applicants must be able to express themselves well, both orally and in writing, in English. Furthermore, the applicant must have good cooperation skills and demonstrated skill in conducting a scientific project in a structured and methodical manner.

Further information about the research-level education, eligibility requirements, and admission regulations can be found at Doctoral studies . Applications will be ranked by the supervisors in consultation with the Department Research-level Education group. The committee for Research-level Education at the Disciplinary Domain of Medicine and Pharmacy will admit the PhD student. Salaries will follow local guidelines at Uppsala University. Rules governing PhD candidates are set out in the Higher Education Ordinance Chapter 5, §§ 1-7 and in Uppsala university's rules and guidelines Policies and Regulations at Uppsala University . The holders of PhD student position primarily devote their time to own research-level education. Other duties at the Department involving teaching and administrative tasks maybe included in the framework of the position (max 20%). The PhD program normally lasts for 4 years research, plus maximally one year of teaching.

Application: The application should include (i) a motivation letter with a brief description of the candidate and research interests as well as experiences in relation to the requirements and qualifications listed above, and the topics pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, pharmacometrics, and anticancer treatment, (ii) the candidate’s CV, (iii) copies of diplomas and certificates, (iv) two recommendation letters (where at least one should preferably would be from a supervisor of the Master thesis) and (v) thesis, as well as other relevant documents that the applicant wish to refer to, such as proficiency in English.

About the employment The employment is a temporary position according to the Higher Education Ordinance chapter 5 § 7 . Scope of employment 100 %. Starting date 15 August 2024 or as agreed. Placement: Uppsala

For further information about the position, please contact:  Professor Lena Friberg, [email protected] .

For questions around the employment, please contact Human resource coordinator Pernilla Larsson [email protected] .

Please submit your application by 20 May 2024, UFV-PA 2024/1550.

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Recent KU graduate receives Fulbright Award; 3 others named alternates

Fri, 05/17/2024.

Christine Metz Howard

LAWRENCE – One recent University of Kansas graduate accepted a prestigious Fulbright award as a teaching assistant in Austria, and two other alumni and a doctoral candidate were named alternates to study or conduct research abroad.

Finn Finnerty, who graduated in May with a degree in foreign language education, accepted a U.S. Teaching Assistantship through Fulbright Austria. Alicia Houser, a doctoral candidate in history; Theresa Read, a recent graduate in chemistry and biochemistry; and Samantha Brant, an education alumna, were named alternates for Fulbright Awards.

The Fulbright program is the flagship international educational exchange program sponsored by the U.S. government and is designed to increase mutual understanding between Americans and people of other countries. The Fulbright U.S. Student Program operates in more than 160 countries worldwide.

Since the program’s inception in 1946, KU has had nearly 500 students selected for Fulbright awards. KU International Affairs coordinates the applications for Fulbright grants. 

“The Fulbright Program offers exceptional opportunities to teach, pursue a graduate degree or conduct research abroad,” said Rachel Sherman Johnson, KUIA director of internationalization and partnerships. “KU’s applicants put together creative and academically rigorous proposals and were outstanding representatives of the university in this year’s highly competitive application cycle.”

Recipients of Fulbright grants are selected based on academic or professional achievement as well as their record of service and demonstrated leadership in their respective fields. Fulbright grants provide funding for round-trip travel, maintenance for one academic year, health and accident insurance and, where relevant, tuition.

The 2024-2025 Fulbright recipients and alternate:

Finn Finnerty was selected for two Fulbright awards. 

They were offered an English teaching assistantship in Germany and a U.S. Teaching Assistantship through Fulbright Austria. 

Finnerty has accepted the Fulbright award in Austria, where they will be teaching English and U.S. culture this fall. 

From Lee’s Summit, Missouri, Finnerty graduated in May with a bachelor’s degree in foreign language education and minors in German and Spanish. 

Their parents are Miranda and Scott Finnerty.  

Samantha Brant was named an alternate to study and conduct research in education at Durham University in the United Kingdom. 

Her research explores how a school's curriculum and instruction are perceived by intermediate and middle-level students. 

From Topeka and currently living in Kansas City, Missouri, Brant received a master’s degree in education from KU in 2015. 

Her parents are David and Deba Brant.

Alicia Houser was selected as an alternate to study and conduct research in history in Tanzania. 

Her research examines how women have transformed Moshi, Tanzania, from a town built to serve colonial purposes into an African urban center of commerce and transportation. 

Houser is a doctoral candidate in history. 

She has a master’s degree in public and international affairs from the University of Pittsburgh and bachelor’s degrees in international relations and African studies from Austin College. 

Her parents are Bryan Houser and Janice Hileman.

Theresa Read was selected as an alternate to study and conduct research in chemistry in Sweden. 

She proposed enrolling in Uppsala University's master’s program in chemistry for renewable energy. 

Read lives in Shawnee and graduated in May with bachelor’s degrees in chemistry and biochemistry. 

Her husband and son are Justin and Dalamar Read.

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Astronomers Are on the Hunt for Dyson Spheres

AI-generated image of a theoretical Dyson sphere

There's something poetic about humanity's attempt to detect other civilizations somewhere in the Milky Way's expanse. There's also something futile about it. But we're not going to stop. There's little doubt about that.

One group of scientists thinks that we may already have detected technosignatures from a technological civilization's Dyson spheres, but the detection is hidden in our vast troves of astronomical data.

A Dyson sphere is a hypothetical engineering project that only highly advanced civilizations could build. In this sense, "advanced" means the kind of almost unimaginable technological prowess that would allow a civilization to build a structure around an entire star. These Dyson spheres would allow a civilization to harness all of a star's energy.

A civilization could only build something so massive and complex if they had reached Level II in the Kardashev Scale. Dyson spheres could be a technosignature, and a team of researchers from Sweden, India, the U.K., and the U.S. developed a way to search for Dyson sphere technosignatures they're calling Project Hephaistos. (Hephaistos was the Greek god of fire and metallurgy.)

They've published their results in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. The research is titled "Project Hephaistos—II. Dyson sphere candidates from Gaia DR3, 2MASS, and WISE."

The lead author is Matías Suazo, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Uppsala University in Sweden. This is the second paper presenting Project Hephaistos. The first one is here.

"In this study, we present a comprehensive search for partial Dyson spheres by analyzing optical and infrared observations from Gaia, 2MASS, and WISE," the authors write. These are large-scale astronomical surveys designed for different purposes.

Each one of them generated an enormous amount of data from individual stars. "This second paper examines the Gaia DR3, 2MASS, and WISE photometry of ~5 million sources to build a catalogue of potential Dyson spheres," they explain.

Combing through all of that data is an arduous task. In this work, the team of researchers developed a special data pipeline to work its way through the combined data of all three surveys. They point out that they're searching for partially completed spheres, which would emit excess infrared radiation.

"This structure would emit waste heat in the form of mid-infrared radiation that, in addition to the level of completion of the structure, would depend on its effective temperature," Suazo and his colleagues write.

The problem is, they're not the only objects to do so. Many natural objects do, too, like circumstellar dust rings and nebulae. Background galaxies can also emit excess infrared radiation and create false positives. It's the pipeline's job to filter them out.

"A specialized pipeline has been developed to identify potential Dyson sphere candidates focusing on detecting sources that display anomalous infrared excesses that cannot be attributed to any known natural source of such radiation," the researchers explain.

The pipeline is just the first step. The team subjects the list of candidates to further scrutiny based on factors like H-alpha emissions, optical variability, and astrometry.

In the last cut, 368 sources survived. Of those, 328 were rejected as blends, 29 were rejected as irregulars, and four were rejected as nebulars. That left only seven potential Dyson spheres out of about 5 million initial objects, and the researchers are confident that those seven are legitimate.

"All sources are clear mid-infrared emitters with no clear contaminators or signatures that indicate an obvious mid-infrared origin," they explain.

These are the seven strongest candidates, but the researchers know they're still just candidates. There could be other reasons why the seven are emitting excess infrared. "The presence of warm debris disks surrounding our candidates remains a plausible explanation for the infrared excess of our sources," they explain.

But their candidates seem to be M-type (red dwarf) stars, and debris disks around M-dwarfs are very rare. However, it gets complicated because some research suggests that debris disks around M-dwarfs form differently and present differently.

One type of debris disk called Extreme Debris Disks (EDD) can explain some of the luminosity the team sees around their candidates. "But these sources have never been observed in connection with M dwarfs," Suazo and his co-authors write.

That leaves the team with three questions: "Are our candidates strange young stars whose flux does not vary with time? Are these stars' M-dwarf debris disks with an extreme fractional luminosity? Or something completely different?"

"After analyzing the optical/NIR/MIR photometry of ~5 x 106 sources, we found seven apparent M dwarfs exhibiting an infrared excess of unclear nature that is compatible with our Dyson sphere models," the researchers write in their conclusion.

There are natural explanations for the excess infrared coming from these seven, "But none of them clearly explains such a phenomenon in the candidates, especially given that all are M dwarfs."

The researchers say that follow-up optical spectroscopy would help understand these seven sources better. A better understanding of the H-alpha emissions is especially valuable since they can also come from young disks.

"In particular, analyzing the spectral region around H-alpha can help us ultimately discard or verify the presence of young disks," the researchers write.

"Additional analyses are definitely necessary to unveil the true nature of these sources," they conclude.

More information: Matías Suazo et al, Project Hephaistos – II. Dyson sphere candidates from Gaia DR3, 2MASS, and WISE, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (2024). DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stae1186

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