Two PhD students – on the future of work and design of future factories

Will you help us change the future of industrial work and influence future factory design? Chalmers is looking for two PhD candidates who want to explore the potential of Industry 4.0 with us!

Project description
Industry is facing great challenges, like effects of COVID-19, impact of automation, climate threat, and global market competition. We must create a solid base and resilience towards future crises, utilizing digitalisation and enabling technologies for the future of industrial work. Chalmers is a leading university in this area. We have strong international networks and high ambitions for sustainability, digitalisation, and human-centred technology.

We are now looking for two highly motivated PhD candidates to join the division of Production Systems:

- The first position is focused on the future of work in production and manufacturing. Your PhD research will focus on how increasing automation, new manufacturing technologies, and new COVID-safety needs create new work situations and skill-gaps. How can human-centred and resilient design of socially sustainable work, rapid re-skilling, and smart interaction between people and technologies like robots, be developed for Industry 4.0?

- The second position is focused on augmented and virtual reality technologies for design of sustainable production systems. Your PhD research will focus on development, demonstration of AR/VR solutions in real production environments. This includes digital tools for sustainability assessment; 3D Scanning, and VR/AR for design of production system design and assembly. You will also work with interoperability of shop-floor IT.

Main responsibilities
Your work as PhD candidate is performed in collaboration with researchers/supervisors, industry, and other PhD students within the Productino Systems division and IMS department. You will also collaborate with other departments and universities. More than 80% of your time will be dedicated to research and courses required for obtaining a PhD. Remaining time will be devoted to teaching or other tasks.

Your main tasks as a PhD student are to:
- Contribute to research projects (normally in collaboration with industry and other universities/institutes)
- Participate in national and international collaboration
- PhD course studies
- Publish research results in scientific journals
- Publish research results at international scientific conferences
- Develop your pedagogic and teaching skills and develop a personal pedagogical portfolio
- Teach courses within the scope of the Production Systems division
- Contribute to Chalmers University of Technology's vision for a sustainable society.

The division of Production Systems
The division of Production Systems is a dynamic team of 30 researchers, teachers, PhD candidates and support staff. The team is focused on challenges in industrial digitalization and Industry 4.0. We collaborate closely with industry on design, deployment, operation, and maintenance of future production and factories. We have built deep and strong knowledge about of smart and resilient production systems. This includes knowledge of system components like humans and how they interact with robots, automation, virtual reality tools, and future technologies for connectivity like 5G. We analyse large systems, looking at productivity, sustainability, reliability, and maintenance. We have also established the Stena Industry Innovation Lab, that will provide both PhD positions with advanced lab facilities for experimentation, demonstration, and industrial settings in research projects. You find more information about the lab and the team on our webpage: http://www.chalmers.se/en/departments/ims/research/production-systems/

The Division of Production Systems is part of the Department of Industrial and Materials Science - IMS. The expertise of IMS ranges from early industrial design phases to development and operation of Production systems. The department develops the industrial process – from need to finished product – while creating added value. We gather internationally renown researchers, in dynamic and outstanding research environments, as well as in national and international research networks.

Contract terms
Full-time temporary employment. You are expected to complete a PhD degree in 4 years, which may extend to a maximum of 5 years when including teaching or other tasks (<20%)

Chalmers continuously strives to be an attractive employer. Equality and diversity are substantial foundations in all activities at Chalmers.

Our offer to you
Read more about working at Chalmers and our benefits for employees.

Application procedure
To apply, please go to: https://www.chalmers.se/en/about-chalmers/Working-at-Chalmers/Vacancies/Pages/default.aspx?rmpage=job&rmjob=8982


Application deadline: 18 December