PhD in Cybersecurity

Are you motivated to take a step towards a doctorate and open up exciting career opportunities? As a PhD Candidate with us, you will work to achieve your doctorate, and at the same time gain valuable experience that qualifies you for a further career in higher education and research, in and outside academia./nThe position is a part of the HAT-CI project (Human-AI Teaming Framework in Cyber Security for Critical Infrastructures: Enhancing Resilience and Autonomy), funded by the Norwegian Research Council (RCN) for 2025–2029./nThe HAT-CI project addresses critical gaps in cybersecurity by developing a novel framework for human-AI collaboration in Security Operations Centers (SOCs) protecting critical infrastructures. Rather than relying on AI systems alone or purely human oversight, HAT-CI advances the paradigm of adaptive, ethically grounded human-AI teams. The project tackles persistent challenges such as high false-positive rates, limited AI adaptability to evolving threats, and poor contextual awareness by integrating human expertise with AI capabilities./nThe project is led by the Institute for Energy Technology (IFE) in collaboration with NTNU, in partnership with industry leaders (NC-Spectrum, Netsecurity) and the Norwegian Centre for Cybersecurity in Critical Sectors (SFI-NORCICS)./nYour immediate leader is the Head of the Information Security unit at Department of Information Security and Communication Technology. The place of work will be campus Gjøvik.