Image: Mattias Pettersson
Image: Mattias Pettersson
The Industrial Doctoral School for Research and Innovation creates opportunities for collaboration between Umeå University researchers, business and the public sector through jointly funded research projects. Together with an external part, the doctoral student and supervising researcher work for four years with a common problem that needs to be explored. We have trained almost 100 researchers together with more than 70 external partners.
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We have PhD students represented at all four faculties. Read more about our projects.
Some people naturally have higher levels of proteins that protect them from covid-19.
Develop methods for detecting harmful chemical agents in the field.
Forges stronger ties between academia and industry, and contributes to relevant research.
Common PFAS substances are difficult to capture once they have entered the environment, new thesis shows.
Doctoral thesis provides important knowledge to reduce carbon dioxide emissions in cement and lime production.
New thesis shows how AI can be used to categorise news articles and improve contextual advertising.
Region Västerbotten is investing in AI research in close collaboration with the University.
"The Industrial Doctoral School will always be close to my heart,” remarks Kristina Sehlin MacNeil.
Jonas Westberg was one of the first doctoral students at IDS. Today, he works in the industry in Norway.
