PhD Position(s) in Bioreceptive Design and Robotic 3D Printing for Living System Integration in Architecture

Employment type: FULLTIME. Requisition: 3119201. SDU CREATE invites highly motivated candidates who wish to contribute to a regenerative built environment to apply for one or more PhD positions in Computational Design and Fabrication for Living System Integration in Architecture.

The position

(s) is expected to begin in January 2027, or as soon as possible thereafter. The application deadline is 15 October 2026 at 23:59 CEST. Scope of the work The PhD position(s) is linked to the Villum CEBE programme, Civil Engineering and the Green Transition in the Built Environment, funded by the Villum Foundation.

Within Research Field 2, Design for Regeneration, Circularity and Longevity, the research will develop architectural interfaces that support the establishment and growth of living systems, particularly photosynthetic communities, as a strategy for regenerative architecture. The focus is on enveloping surfaces in the built environment.

The project will focus on designing, testing and demonstrating, at architectural scale, porous mineral interfaces combined with hydrogels. Computational design, fabrication and environmental monitoring will be combined with cultivation experiments and biological assessment, targeting mosses, algae and cyanobacteria in collaboration with partner researchers in biology1 …