Postdoc fellowships
Postdoc fellowships are part of the Digital Futures mobility program. With this program of funding, we aim to support talented early-career researchers in pursuing their research ideas in a new research group. The network, facilities and development opportunities provided through the program are carefully configured to boost the postdoc fellows’ future careers. The call is targeted towards applicants three years after the completion of their doctorate degree and is primarily aimed at bringing new talent to the Digital Futures environment.
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Children and sustainability: Designing digital tools for collaborative survival
Start August 2023: Karey Helms is an interaction designer and design researcher at KTH. Her PhD research draws upon care ethics and posthuman feminism to investigate how interaction design might be otherwise amid a world in crisis...
Data-Driven Design for Climate Action
Start October 2022: Haluk Akay completed his doctoral research at MIT in mechanical engineering. His doctoral thesis developed methods to represent textual design data for computation by extracting structured...
Data Work in Grassroots Community Organizing for Disability Justice
September 2021 - August 2023: Stacy Hsueh runs the project Role of data-intensive methods in health advocacy efforts for disabled communities...
Decentralized Learning: Second-order, Online and Robust Algorithms with Convergence Guarantees
Jiaojiao Zhang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, runs the project Decentralized Learning: Second-order, Online and Robust Algorithms with Convergence Guarantees...
Deep Learning Approaches for Long-term Future Forecasting
Hao Hu is a postdoc researcher at KTH RPL working with Hossein Azizpour. Before joining KTH, he worked as a research scientist in FX Palo Alto Laboratory (FXPAL), California, United States.
Deep Wetlands
March 2022 - December 2023: Francisco J. Peña is a postdoctoral researcher working in the field of artificial intelligence and remote sensing. He works jointly at the Software and Computer System (SCS) division of KTH...
Designing AI Technology for Interdependence with Sighted Guiding Companions
Start October 2022: Beatrice Vincenzi, University of London, runs the project Designing AI Technology for Interdependence with Sighted Guiding Companions...
Design guidelines for recognisable digital social touch from soft robotic haptic technologies
Start October/November 2022: Caroline Yan Zheng, Royal College of Art, runs the project Design guidelines for recognisable digital social touch from soft robotic haptic technologies...
Designing Gamified Robot-Enhanced Interventions for Children with Neurodevelopmental Difficulties
Arzu Guneysu Ozgur is a Postdoctoral researcher at Digital Futures. Arzu got a PhD in Robotics on “Designing Gamified Activities with Haptic-Enabled Tangible Robots for Therapy and Assistance” from EPFL, in 2021...
Digital Transformations for Optimizing the Post-Pandemic Sustainable Smart City
March 2021 - February 2023: Stacy Vallis completed her doctoral studies in architecture at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Her doctoral research responded to the risks to public urban safety...
Distributed Optimization and Federated Learning in Emerging Smart Networks
December 2020 - November 2022: Xuyang Wu is a Postdoctoral researcher at KTH Digital Futures, co-supervised by Prof. Mikael Johansson at KTH (DCS, EECS) and Prof. Sindri Magnússon at SU (DSV).
Foreignness as a conceptual framework for interaction design
March 2020 - October 2023: Claudia Núñez-Pacheco is an interaction design researcher and artist. She holds a PhD and a master’s degree from the Sydney School of Design at the University of Sydney...
Fusion of Radar and Optical Remote Sensing Time Series for Wildfire Monitoring with Deep Learning
November 2020 - October 2022: Puzhao Zhang received his PhD degree in Pattern Recognition and Intelligent Systems from Xidian University, China at the end of 2019. His PhD research was focused on remote sensing...
Gender inclusive cybersecurity
June 2021 - May 2023: Asreen Rostami holds a PhD in the area of HCI from Stockholm University. Her doctoral research was focused on the incorporation of interactive technologies...
How people are making the city smart – the role of algorithms in urban space
December 2020 - August 2022: Mareike Glöss main research interest is understanding digital transformations and their diffusion into everyday life. She looks at how novel computing technologies are appropriated...
Intelligence through reasoning
September 2021 - August 2023: Patrick Hammer is a postdoc researcher at Stockholm University, Department of Psychology, with a PhD in Computer Science (AI track) at Temple University, Pennsylvania, United States...
Intelligent wireless communications and high-accuracy positioning systems
January 2021 - October/December 2022: Deyou Zhang is a Digital Futures Postdoc at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of KTH, supervised by Dr Ming Xiao, Co-supervised by Prof. Lihui Wang, and Dr Zhibo Pang...
On The Feminist Design of Social Robots and Designing Robots For Young People, With Young People
September 2020 - May 2022: After originally studying to be a mechanical engineer, Katie Winkle undertook a PhD in social robotics at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory in the UK, where she...
Patient empowerment and patient-reported outcomes through mHealth in NCDs in Uganda
Johnblack Kabukye, University of Amsterdam, runs the project Patient empowerment and patient-reported outcomes through mHealth in NCDs in Uganda...
Personalized Companion Robot for Open-Domain Dialogue in Long-Term Elderly Care
June 2022 - June 2024: Bahar Irfan is a Postdoctoral researcher at KTH Digital Futures. Her research focuses on creating personal robots that can continually learn and adapt to assist in everyday life...
Privacy of online proctoring systems in higher education settings
March 2022 - December 2023: Chantal Mutimukwe is a postdoc researcher at the Department of Computer Systems and Sciences (DSV), Stockholm University. Before joining Stockholm University, she worked at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology...
Relational Aspects of Care in Intimate Digital Health Technologies
October 2021 - August 2023: Deepika Yadav completed her PhD from the computer science department, IIIT-Delhi, India, in August 2021...
Secure-by-Construction Controller Synthesis of Cyber-Physical Systems
Start November 2022: Siyuan Liu is a Postdoctoral researcher at the Division of Decision and Control Systems at KTH. Before joining KTH, she worked as a research assistant in the Institute of Informatics at Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich (LMU), Germany, from 2019 to 2022...
Supporting students’ self-regulation to improve their academic performance in online higher education settings through personalised feedback
Start November 2022: Shadi Esnaashari, University of Auckland, runs the project Supporting students' self-regulation to improve their academic performance in online higher education settings through personalised feedback...
Unraveling the potential of AI and Earth Observation for accurate population predictions in urban regions (POPAI)
September 2021 - August 2023: Stefanos Georganos is a research fellow at the Division of Geoinformatics, Royal Institute of Technology. He does research in quantitative human geography, remote sensing...
Wearable, textile-based self-powered sensors for health monitoring
Lorenzo Travaglini completed his PhD at the School of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of New South Wales in 2021 with his thesis entitled “Flexible Organic Electronics for Biosignal Amplification”...