What is MIELi?
The scientific and societal impact of microelectronics is significant, and we need more doctoral level experts in Finland. MIELi is a microelectronics doctoral school pilot that aims to speed up and improve doctoral education in microelectronics by collaborating with industry and academia. The doctoral school pilot aims at graduation in 3 years with industrially relevant research topics and immediate employment to companies and business after graduation.
MIELi doctoral education pilot involves Finland’s key players in microelectronics research: Aalto University, Tampere University, University of Oulu and VTT. The universities offer the doctoral positions and education, and VTT supports the pilot by offering visiting researcher positions, infrastructures, and guidance. Altogether 30 doctoral positions are open for applications, ten in each partner university.
Microelectronics is a constructive and complex research field that requires teamwork, advanced infrastructures and tools, and highly skilled and experienced workforce. Microelectronics is the key enabler for ICT and other sectors, such as healthcare, energy, and transportation. The demand for experts in the field of microelectronics is already very high and growing, and the opportunities in the job market are numerous and versatile. Microelectronics experts can make a real impact on the world by contributing to technologies critical for the future.
Microelectronics covers four interdependent technology layers:
- Materials, process technologies, and devices built on the material science. For example, printed electronics, transistors, MEMS, and standard cell libraries. The scope is on basic building blocks like single transistors.
- Components and circuits that compose the layer of electronics based on the foundational devices. For example, macros and circuits of thousands of transistors.
- System-on-Chip and processors. Build on top of previous layer with large and complex constructs like processors and RF Transceivers. The SoC itself can include billion transistors.
- Applications that essentially require one or more of the other layers to be realized.
MIELi doctoral pilot programme has the following objectives:
- Increasing the number of doctoral level experts in microelectronics in Finland
- Shortening the doctoral education to three years
- Immediate employment of the graduates in industry and business
- Developing and harmonizing doctoral education in Finland and contributing it to the EU programs
- Elevating doctoral degree appreciation among students as the basic level of education, and
- Growing strategic partnerships with companies enabling and deploying microelectronics.
To reach these goals and support the doctoral candidates, the pilot will have clearly defined doctoral thesis topics, network-wide training and joint courses, personal career development plans and supervision. The project will also aim at streamlining the evaluation process and enhancing research infrastructures.
For whom?
The pilot is targeted for experienced life-long learners currently working in companies, as well as for candidates that have just graduated. The pilot aims at rapid graduation, for which reason the students must have firm master level education in the field without need for any preparatory or completing studies before the doctoral education.
Positions
MIELi offers in total 30 doctoral positions distributed as ten positions for each university (Tampere University, Aalto University and University of Oulu). There are several pre-defined topics available and possibility to propose student’s own topic. Pre-defined topics are provided by the research groups and supervisors listed with the topic title and description.
We at Tampere University are looking for 10 Doctoral Researchers, and successful candidates will pursue a doctoral degree at Tampere University. The positions are full-time and for three years, during which doctoral studies are expected to be completed. Find more information about the positions at Tampere University at the end of this webpage.
Schedule
- 5 April 2024: Call opens
- 15 May 2024: Call ends
- Work contract starts flexibly between 1 August and 31 December 2024
How to apply
The positions are offered by the three universities, and you need to send your application for the university offering the topic. The university specific links are following:
Contact persons
Contact person at Tampere University:
Head of the Computing Sciences Unit, professor Timo Hämäläinen, timo.hamalainen [at] tuni.fi