PhD Scholarship in Software for Sustainable Farming

Employment type: Full time. Requisition: 4288. Imagine a world where food production is in harmony with natural processes, farmers nurture healthy soils, and biodiversity thrives. In contrast, current monoculture farming systems undermine this future.

Can you see how Robotics and Digital Twins can open opportunities for autonomously operating agricultural robots? Are you passionate about making agriculture more sustainable? If you share our passion for technology and the difference it can make in meeting the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, perhaps you are our new PhD student.

At the Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute (MMMI), University of Southern Denmark in Odense, you will be part of the Robotic Intercropping (https://roboticintercropping.eu) team working to break new ground at the absolute forefront of what is possible in safe operation of autonomous agricultural vehicles. These are needed to enable better land use and management.

This project promotes sustainable economic growth and higher levels of technological innovation. It will benefit society and create a safer and smarter world by providing decent work for all.

Furthermore, autonomous robots will make current labor-intensive cultivation systems (e.g., strip-cropping, targeted mechanical weed control, etc.) profitable, contributing to increased biodiversity locally and reducing the need for insecticide use1 …