Graduate School positions open in 2026

The Faculty of Health, Science, and Technology is advertising a position within its doctoral program leading to a PhD in Computer Science. This PhD position is part of the Privacy and Security research group (PriSec) at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Karlstad University. Research within PriSec is specialized in privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) and privacy engineering, network security, and usable security and privacy.  

The PhD student will be part of the newly started Cybercampus Graduate School and will work on a joint PhD project in close cooperation with researchers from Jönköping University, who will particularly contribute as co-supervisors with their complementary interdisciplinary perspectives and expertise in usable security and privacy research, and in Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and AI / Robotics. 

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The Division of Secured and Networked Systems within the Department of Electrical and Information Technology at Lund University, the Faculty of Engineering, LTH, works broadly with research within Cryptography, Computer Security, Wireless and Fixed Networks. The security group has around 20 members. The main research directions are Cryptography, Privacy and System Security for Connected Systems. 

We now offer a doctoral student position in the area of Cybersecurity and Software Engineering. 

The position is in collaboration with the Department of Computer Science, which covers a broad range of topics, as Theoretical Computer Science, Parallel Systems, Robotics, Software Engineering and Technology. The software engineering group has around 15 members and work with both software and AI engineering topics, with a strong empirical focus and industry collaboration.

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The Swedish Defence University is an internationally leading higher education institution in the fields of defence, crisis management, and security. We offer a unique academic environment where civilian and military perspectives meet. We educate civilian and military leaders, experts, and researchers who will analyse and manage today’s and tomorrow’s crisis situations and security challenges. The Swedish Defence University trains Sweden’s officers and leads the academic development of the officer profession. We conduct research in law with a focus on operational law and international humanitarian law, defence systems, war studies, leadership and command, military history, and political science.

The PhD project aims to study a selection of cyber-related conflict applications in which systematic unpredictability is the key to success. Together, these studies span the breadth of cyber applications, contributing to a toolbox inspired by algorithmic game theory that will provide Sweden with an asymmetric advantage in terms of being able to address widely differing types of cyber threats—differing, for example, in symmetry/asymmetry, incentive structures, and more. Such differences may, for instance, mean that what is game-theoretically optimal in itself becomes suboptimal when taking into account a particular adversary’s limited depth of reasoning.

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(Note that the language in the linked site is in Swedish for the time being.)

Umeå University is one of Sweden’s largest higher education institutions with over 37,000 students and about 4,700 employees. The University offers a diversity of high-quality education and world-leading research in several fields. Notably, the groundbreaking discovery of the CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing tool, which was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, was made here. At Umeå University, everything is close. Our cohesive campuses make it easy to meet, work together and exchange knowledge, which promotes a dynamic and open culture.

Our societies rely on computer systems and on software stacks. Unfortunately, software systems contain bugs and vulnerabilities which can be exploited by malicious actors. This project will be conducted in the Software Engineering and Security (SES) group. The student will conduct an in-depth investigation of the software patching process and develop new methodologies to improve it. The project aims at reducing the negative impact on confidentiality, integrity and availability of software systems. Additional context specific constraints such as sensitive devices running in a medical environment could be considered.

Read more about the position and apply here.