PhD Positions, Aalto University, Finland (2017-2018)

Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Built Environment, at the School of Engineering, Aalto University, invite applications for full-time doctoral student positions in the area of connected vehicle technology and smart mobility. The doctoral positions are funded through the support from the Henry Ford Foundation Finland.

Research context
Advances in in-vehicle sensing, processing, and communication technology in the last decades is enabling rapid development of connected vehicle technology and related smart mobility services. This represent an attractive opportunity to develop future methodologies and technologies aiming at improving the performance and efficiency of vehicles, accounting for traditional and novel indicators, the in-vehicle experience of users, as well as the performance of the overall traffic system, both at local and network level. Particular emphasis is devoted in the interaction among these three aspects, accounting also for the role of humans in these processes.

Doctoral students will be encouraged to determine their research focus in relation to connected vehicle technology and to the abovementioned broad areas. In addition, doctoral students will be encouraged to implement a multidisciplinary approach in their research and cooperate with colleagues within Aalto University, but also across the world. In particular, students will have opportunities for research collaboration with peers from TU Delft, Virginia Tech, and UC Berkeley. However, the increased freedom in determining the area of research interest is required to be accompanied with responsibility for intellectual merit and approval through peer-review publication practice.

Requirements
Prospective student should have a Master’s degree in one, and identifiable research experience in one of the following (or related) fields:

- Transportation Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering
- Computer Science
- Statistics/Mathematics/Physics
- Electrical/Communications Engineering

Further details:
http://www.jobs.ac.uk