PhD Candidate in AI for Hydrocarbon Process Systems Engineering
Martha Aftret Karlsvik • trondheim, trøndelag • Posted June 19, 2026
About the Role
About the position
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.
Your immediate leader will be the Head of Department. The successful candidate will be supervised by Thomas A. Adams II (EPT) and co‑supervised by Ashkan Jahanbani Ghahfarokhi (IGV) and Evan Solbraa (EPT).
About the project
The position is a part of the AI‑Powered integrated Reservoir, flow, and process Optimization (AI‑PRO) project. The goal of the project is to produce generalisable methods at the intersection of scientific machine learning, reservoir/production engineering, and process systems engineering. This position will focus on the research of physics‑informed AI‑based models of surface‑level processes and their ...