How do mobility systems respond when everyday travel is disrupted? Who loses access, where, for how long, and how can planning reduce these impacts?

We are looking for a Doctoral student in Complex Mobility Systems. The position is part of a Swedish Research Council-funded project developing dynamic synthetic populations and mobility digital twins for resilient and equitable transport planning. The project combines agent-based modelling, large-scale mobility data, transport networks, generative modelling, resilience indicators, and equity analysis.

This doctoral student position is particularly suitable for a candidate who wants to develop strong theoretical and computational expertise while working on real-world problems in mobility, cities, resilience, and sustainability.

About Us

The candidate will be based at the Division of Physical Resource Theory at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden. With around 50 staff members, including faculty and doctoral students from engineering, natural sciences, and social sciences, the division promotes challenge-driven,



multidisciplinary research and offers courses linked to its research areas. Our group, STEAM – Sustainable Transport, Energy Analytics and Modelling, studies the transformation of transport and energy systems using data-driven, computational and policy-relevant approaches. We work at the intersection of mobility systems, energy systems, electrification, resilience, equity and sustainability, combining large-scale empirical data, modelling, simulation and systems analysis.

In Energy, Environment, and Systems PhD program, you will learn the use of techniques and analytical methods regarding the workplace, energy, nature and society. The graduate school offers different specializations, Energy Conversion, Industrial Energy Systems, Energy and Material Systems, Physical Resource Theory, Environmental Systems Analysis and Complex Systems.

The graduate school is organised within the Departmen

📌 Doctoral student in Resilient and Equitable Mobility Systems (Burdwan)
🏢 Emerging Scholars Council
📍 Burdwan