PhD Stipend within Dynamic Recipes for Sustainable Plastics

Employment type

Temporary position more than 6 months · Full time. Requisition: 2026/1123. Country: Denmark. In this PhD position, you will help design the next generation of circular plastics systems by combining hands-on polymer processing with data-driven modelling.

The PhD study is a full-time, fixed-term position of three years, including merit for previous work, and is expected to start on 1 December 2026 or as soon as possible thereafter. The position is based at the Department of Materials and Production, Aalborg University, campus Aalborg, and is part of TRACE 2025:

A Path to Resilience, Call 4:

• International Scaling of Proof-of-Concept Circular Economy Systems.
• Your work tasks In this PhD project, you will work at the intersection of polymer processing, materials science and Machine Learning to develop dynamic recipes for sustainable plastics.
• In a typical plastics production line, several types of materials are fed into the machines at the same time.
• These may include virgin materials from different suppliers, recycled content of varying quality, colourants, stabilizers and other masterbatches.
• Together with variations in processing parameters, this complexity makes it challenging to ensure that specific material properties remain stable from batch to batch1 …