PhD Position in 3D Concrete Printing for Low-Carbon Buildings

Employment type: FULLTIME. SDU CREATE invites highly motivated candidates who wish to contribute to a more sustainable built environment to apply for a PhD position in 3D Concrete Printing for Low-Carbon Buildings. The position is expected to begin in January 2027, or as soon as possible thereafter. The application deadline is September 15, 2026, at 23:59 CET/CEST.

Scope of the work The PhD position is linked to the Villum CEBE programme, Civil Engineering and the Green Transition in the Built Environment, funded by the Villum Foundation. The overall ambition is to develop a new generation of low-carbon prefabricated building systems enabled by 3D concrete printing, rethinking how concrete structures are designed, fabricated, and assembled.

The research will bring together architectural design, structural optimisation, and artificial intelligence to generate materially efficient building systems in which geometry, structural performance, and fabrication are developed as an integrated whole.

It will address advanced toolpath generation, reinforcement integration, structural connections, and assembly through unified computational design and robotic fabrication workflows. The candidate will develop artificial intelligence-driven pipelines connecting structural evaluation, geometry generation, fabrication planning, and robotic production1 …