PhD in Environmental Science

At the Technical Faculty of IT and Design, Department of Sustainability and Planning, a PhD stipend is available within the general study program Development and Planning./nThe stipend is open for appointment from spring 2026, with a start date of March 1 or soon hereafter./nThe PhD stipend is financed by Aalborg University as part of a new initiative establishing a generative sustainability lab between the Department of Sustainability and Planning and the Department of Architecture, Design and Media Technology. This interdisciplinary lab will include two PhD students and a cross-disciplinary team of supervisors./nThe objective of the project is to explore how generative AI can be integrated into early-stage design workflows to improve sustainability-driven decision-making./nThe PhD student will join the Life Cycle Sustainability (LCS) group that brings together multiple competences within industrial ecology and sustainability science for the holistic and quantitative assessment of human systems in a life cycle perspective./nAalborg University is an international workplace. Our main campus is in Aalborg, but we also have campuses in Esbjerg and Copenhagen.