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Ghent University, Belgium invites qualify applicants to submit their applications online for fully funded PhD scholarships at the various departments. Below is a list of fully funded PhD Programmes available at Ghent University, Belgium.
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PhD position summary/title: PhD Student
The European Green Deal aims at zero net greenhouse gasses emissions by 2050. The steel and chemical industries are responsible for a significant fraction of these emissions. Mechanical and chemical recycling of end-of-life waste streams is an important feature in reducing these emissions. While end-of-life steel can easily be recycled, this is not generally true for end-of-life plastics and other wastes. The project aims to reduce emissions by increasing the recycling of unrecyclable waste streams, thereby tackling multiple problems at once.
Deadline : June 30, 2022
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(02) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Student
The offered PhD position is embedded in the BOF-GOA project SOFTRESET (Soft and Flexible Technology for Responsive Epileptic Seizure Treatment), funded by Ghent University with 1.6 million Euros. This project aims to develop technology for targeted therapy of focal epilepsy based on the therapeutic effects of deep brain stimulation using innovative soft probes for both the recording of the epileptic brain region and its optical stimulation.
Deadline : September 30, 2022
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(03) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Student
The “AI for Energy” team (AI4E), led by prof. Chris Develder and prof. Bert Claessens at the Internet and Data Lab (IDLab) at Ghent University – imec is looking for a qualified and motivated candidate to pursue a Ph.D. in data analytics and machine learning for smart grid applications.
Deadline : December 31, 2022
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(04) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Student
The research group Materials Science and Technology-DyMaLab is looking for a PhD researcher to contribute to ongoing research on advanced materials used by the automotive and aeronautical industry. These materials include advanced high strength steels, lightweight alloys, polymer composites, nanocomposites, etc. which might be prone to impact or, more generally, high speed deformation processes. Main aim of the PhD is to obtain an enhanced understanding of the impact-dynamic mechanical properties of materials, including the microstructural factors lying at the origin of the observed behaviour. Understanding these properties will result in a better prediction of high speed forming processes, the crashworthiness of car components and impact incidents in the aeronautical industry.
Deadline : June 30, 2022
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(05) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral fellow
DECIDE will focuses on respiratory and gastro-intestinal syndromes in the three most important terrestrial livestock species (pigs, poultry, cattle) and on growth reduction and mortality in salmonids. For each of these, we will (i) identify the stakeholder needs; (ii) determine the burden of disease and costs of control measures; (iii) develop data sharing frameworks based on federated data access and meta-information sharing; (iv) build multivariate and multi-level models for creating an early warning system. Together, all of this will form the decision support tools to be integrated in existing farm management systems wherever possible and to be evaluated in several pilot implementations in farms across Europe.
Deadline : July 31, 2022
(06) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD student
For clinical research projects, 4BRAIN has a direct link with the Neurology Department of Ghent University Hospital and the affiliated Reference Center for Refractory Epilepsy (RCRE). This provides direct access to a large population of refractory epilepsy patients and to state-of-the-art clinical diagnostic and therapeutic tools relevant in the field (state-of-the art electrophysiology including scalp, depth and subdural EEG recording and MEG), all types of neuromodulatory treatments both invasive and non-invasive, presurgical evaluation and epilepsy-surgery).
Deadline : June 01, 2022
(07) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Student
Within ESME, the mechatronics research team is looking for a qualified and motivated candidate to perform academic research on fiber optics and predictable physical models towards better thermal characterization of electric motors, targeting a PhD. In this research, the accuracy of (mainly) thermal models of electric motors will be improved using measured data on prototypes. For these measurements, fibre bragg gratings will be integrated in the different parts of the electric motors. Since these sensors are relatively new, many effort will be spent to gain insights in the mounting and calibration in order to obtain reliable and repeatable measurements. Using inverse thermal modelling techniques, the uncertainty on the parameters and states of (finite element) thermal model will be reduced. To limit the computational burden in the inverse process, suitable (parametric) model order reduction techniques, taking into account the multi-rate aspect of the multiphysics models, will be developed.
Deadline : May 31, 2022
(08) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Student
You conduct research within the Horizon Europe-funded EU NAVIGATE project. This is an international and interdisciplinary project that aims to evaluate how to improve the quality of life of older people with cancer and their caregivers living at home by implementing a new care navigation model. Based on a successful Canadian intervention, older adults with cancer and their caregivers will be supported by a navigator in getting the right care and support throughout their care journey.
Deadline : June 17, 2022
(09) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Student
We are looking for a starting scientist that is interested in preparing and submitting a Baekeland mandate application on a topic related to dietary additives in animals to reduce inflammatory responses in the gut. Baekeland mandates support basic research that – if successful – have clear economic objectives and offers added value to the company involved in the project. The joint University-industry research project is directed towards obtaining a doctorate (PhD) diploma. In the project we aim to evaluate novel dietary additives on intestinal alkaline phosphatase (IAP) activity in the intestinal tract. IAP has been shown to detoxify LPS on the mucosal surface, and thus consequently reduce epithelial barrier defects associated with LPS-induced inflammation. In addition, the project will focus on anti-oxidant activities of these dietary additives, as oxidative stress has been associated with inflammation, unfavourable microbiota shifts towards mucosal expansion of Gram-negative Enterobacteriaceae that thus contain LPS and consequently can cause health problems. The animal species of focus is meat-type poultry, as the performance of these fast-growing animals is highly depending on a beneficial diet-host-microbiota interaction, and the poultry industry is seeking for alternatives to antimicrobials that were commonly used in the past to promote gut health and reduce inflammation. This research project offers a combination of in vivo work, wet lab and dry lab work, ranging from animal experimentation, in vitro work with cell cultures, QPCR, NGS sequencing, immunohistochemistry and histology, and a variety of other techniques, depending on the project progress.
Deadline : July 05, 2022
(10) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Student
We are looking for a full-time PhD student in cognitive science at Ghent University to study the selective reinforcement of cognitive flexibility and variable behavior. The position is for four years (provided positive periodic evaluation). The starting date of this project is flexible, but preferably around October 2022. The salary is according to standard Belgian regulations for PhD students (starting at around €2000 per month net salary). The project is funded by an ERC Starting Grant project (CoCoFlex) on cognitive flexibility. In this project, we will mainly develop and test experimental paradigms and computational models to study the selective reinforcement of flexible behavior. The main supervisor for this project will be Senne Braem. However, broader collaborations are also possible and encouraged.
Deadline : June 05, 2022
(11) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Student
The Ghent University research group 4BRAIN (Headed by Prof. dr. Paul Boon) has a vacancy for a researcher interested in neuro-epilepsy research. 4BRAIN has an intense collaboration with the Department of Neurology and the Center for Neurophysiological Monitoring of Ghent University Hospital. The researcher will join our translational research on the pathogenesis and treatment of epilepsy. Researchers at 4BRAIN are supported on a daily basis by a team of Clinical and Research Professors. For preclinical research projects 4BRAIN offers access to several preclinical models for epilepsy research and several preclinical research techniques, including stereotactic neurosurgery, in vivo and in vitro electrophysiological recording and neurostimulation techniques, microdialysis, in vivo (stem) cell and gene therapy (including optogenetics and chemogenetics) and state-of-the-art in vivo neuroimaging techniques (small animal fMRI, µPET, µSPECT, µCT, optical imaging).
Deadline : June 01, 2022
(12) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Student
The omnipresence of sensors causes an explosive growth of data that offers the potential for a revolutionary transformation in the health care sector. As biomedical monitoring devices are becoming more widespread, continuous measurements of critical biomarkers can be collected for the purpose of screening, medical diagnosis and prediction of disease progression. The availability of this time series data makes it possible to develop new systems, such as wearables, that can extract insights from data and transform them into actionable knowledge.
Deadline : August 31, 2022
(13) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Student
Within ESME, the electrical machines and power electronics research team is looking for a qualified and motivated candidate to perform academic research on cost effective, compact and integrated electric powertrains for the next generation EVs, targeting a PhD. In this research, the traction inverter and motor combination will be used to create an electric gear, as well as to introduce an on-board charger functionality. This will require adaptations to the traction inverter and motor. In the traction inverter, additional reconfiguration switches will be added to allow operation in the different modes. In the electric motor, the coils will be split up into multiple modules that can be rearranged as a function of the operation mode. Finally, this new traction inverter will be physically integrated into a (in-wheel) motor using the latest SiC-FET technology.
Deadline : May 31, 2022
(14) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral fellow
This vacancy concerns a doctoral fellowship that is part of a research project titled Recycle or perish? A multi-method investigation into the cultural value and industrial sustainability recycle film cultures in small Western European film industries, financed by Ghent University’s Special Research Fund (BOF). Since the beginning of the new millennium, a significant change took place in the production strategies of European film industries. It appears that many European film industries are increasingly focusing on what one could call “recycle film cultures”. Inspired by Hollywood-like production and distribution techniques, European film industries started to increasingly focus on producing film remakes, sequels, TV spin-offs, franchises, etc. This project aims to investigate the economic and cultural implications of these recently emerged film cultures in small Western European film industries. The main supervisor of this project is Professor Stijn Joye, the co-supervisors are Professor Gertjan Willems and Professor Eduard Cuelenaere. The starting date of the project is 1 September 2022 at the earliest.
Deadline : May 31, 2022
(15) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Student
The AI & Data Analytics (AIDA) group at Ghent University is seeking a motivated candidate for a fully funded four-year PhD student position in the areas of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Data Visualization.Our group conducts internationally top research in AI, in the areas of machine learning and knowledge discovery. An overview of our group and research portfolio can be found at https://aida.ugent.be . We are looking for a candidate for the following project: Machine learning for the job market. People are all unique and perhaps jobs are too. This and other aspects make the job market a difficult setting, for example for recommenders. This project aims to better understand and tackle the challenges of applying machine learning in the job market. The project is a collaboration with the VDAB (Flanders employment agency).
Deadline : May 31, 2022
(16) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Student
The AI & Data Analytics (AIDA) group at Ghent University is seeking a motivated candidate for a fully funded four-year PhD student position in the areas of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Data Visualization. Our group conducts internationally top research in AI, in the areas of machine learning and knowledge discovery. An overview of our group and research portfolio can be found at https://aida.ugent.be . We are looking for a candidate for the following project:Machine learning & interactive visualization for single-cell data. Single-cell data allows us to study biological processes in detail. This project aims to enable more generic use of expert knowledge in machine learning and visualization for biological data. The project is a collaboration with the DAMBI research group (VIB & Ghent University; https://www.dambi.ugent.be/).
Deadline : May 31, 2022
(17) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Student
imec is a world-leading research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technologies. The combination of our widely acclaimed leadership in microchip technology and profound software and ICT expertise is what makes us unique. By leveraging our world-class infrastructure and local and global ecosystem of partners across a multitude of industries, we create groundbreaking innovation in application domains such as healthcare, smart cities and mobility, logistics and manufacturing, and energy.
Deadline : July 31, 2022
(18) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral fellow
The Maritime Institute (situated within the Department of European, Public and International Law of the Faculty of Law and Criminology of Ghent University) is looking for a full-time PhD student who will work on the topic “Revising the international fisheries regime: optimum conservation and utilization of fish stocks through feasible legal measures, adequate implementation and effective enforcement” under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Klaas Willaert.
Deadline : June 15, 2022
(19) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Student
The Design group of the Ghent University-imec IDLab research group is currently looking for several new PhD and post-doc researchers. The Design team is internationally recognized as a leading research group on high-speed and high-frequency integrated circuits for next-generation communications systems. At this moment, the Design group is for example active in nine European projects, one ESA project and in direct research contracts with world-leading industry partners. These collaborations form the perfect basis for high-level and industry-relevant research in an environment with expert peers and top-notch test and measurement equipment. The main research lines focus on wired (fiber-optic, radio-over-fiber), wireless (5G, mmWave) and instrumentation for which custom CMOS or SiGe BiCMOS chips are developed and integrated in system demonstrators.
Deadline : August 31, 2022
(20) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Student
The research group Materials Science and Technology-DyMaLab is looking for a highly motivated PhD student to contribute to a European research project on advanced high strength steels for the automotive industry. The project aims at an enhanced understanding of the microstructural factors contributing to the energy absorption capacity of steels used in car components designed to protect car occupants in case of a crash. More specifically, advanced high strength steels which rely on the transformation of austenite to martensite during plastic deformation, also called transformation induced plasticity or TRIP effect, will be studied.
Deadline : June 30, 2022
(21) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Student
The Electrical Energy Laboratory (EELAB) at UGent is involved in a 4-year project “Digital twin for validation DT4V)”. When a company develops a new drivetrain, it must be validated: building prototypes and test them to be sure about well-functioning and lifetime. This costs a lot of time and money to the company. The main goal of the project is to avoid this long and costly procedure, by doing “virtual validation”. This means that we ‘ll predict performance and lifetime of a drivetrain that is not built yet (= not existing in reality). We will start from existing validated drivetrains and lots of measurements “from the field”. Then, virtual validation will be done in 3 scenarios: 1) change in load profile or ambient conditions: e.g. the drivetrain is used in tropic regions; 2) component replacement: e.g. another type of motor is used than in the validation tests, and 3) new family member: e.g. a scaled variant is developed that is 30% more powerful.
Deadline : May 31, 2022
(22) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Student
The Design group of the Ghent University-imec IDLab research group is currently looking for several new PhD and post-doc researchers. The Design team is internationally recognized as a leading research group on high-speed and high-frequency integrated circuits for next-generation communications systems. At this moment, the Design group is for example active in nine European projects, one ESA project and in direct research contracts with world-leading industry partners. These collaborations form the perfect basis for high-level and industry-relevant research in an environment with expert peers and top-notch test and measurement equipment. The main research lines focus on wired (fiber-optic, radio-over-fiber), wireless (5G, mmWave) and instrumentation for which custom CMOS or SiGe BiCMOS chips are developed and integrated in system demonstrators.
Deadline : August 31, 2022
(23) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD vacancy in deterministic low-latency wireless communication
As a PhD researcher, you will join the deterministic low-latency wireless communication team and participate in a variety of research projects on this topic. This ranges from the design of reliable and latency-bounded communication for real-time audio streaming applications in private professional environments to high-speed low-latency communication in mmWave Wi-Fi mesh networks.
Deadline : June 30, 2022
(24) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Research Topic: Optimization of exogenous dsRNA treatment to boost plant tolerance to abiotic stresses
Induction of RNA interference enables to downregulate the expression of particular genes to boost abiotic stress tolerance. In this project we will investigate how dsRNA delivery in plant cells and plant tissues can be optimized using novel types of carriers coupled to dsRNA. Furthermore we will study in detail the uptake of dsRNA, its fate in the plant cell or tissue, and optimize the conditions for targeting of gene down-regulation, aiming towards plants with improved tolerance to abiotic stresses.
Deadline : June 15, 2022
(25) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Student
The PhD student will be investigating the rights of the individuals in the context of secondary uses of health data for research purposes in the view of the applicable regulatory frameworks. In particular, the PhD researcher should identify and assess the relevant provisions in applicable regulatory frameworks in the EU, including the GDPR, upcoming Data Governance Act and the European Health Data Space, which can strengthen the rights of the individuals when their data are being processed for research purposes. This legal analysis should be based on the relevant theoretical framework on the principles of transparency, fairness and lawfulness in processing of health data.
Deadline : May 31, 2022
(26) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Student
The Ghent University research groups Medisip and 4BRAIN has a vacancy for a researcher interested in preclinical research in the domain of stroke and epilepsy. Both groups have an intense collaboration and perform translational research on the pathogenesis and treatment of epilepsy and stroke. Researchers are supported on a daily basis by a team of Clinical and Research Professors.
Deadline : June 01, 2022
(27) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD position on Artificial Intelligence for modulating human time perception
The goal of the current PhD position is to model, build and test the AI component that extracts features from the scene observed by the human as well as physiological signals (e.g. to derive stress), and that outputs an estimation of the subjective time as well as possible stimuli to modulate the subjective time experience in the desired direction. The computational model will be designed and tested in tight collaboration with another PhD researcher in our group.
Deadline : October 01, 2022
(28) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD vacancy in design of next-generation WiFi chip
imec is the world-leading research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technologies. The combination of our widely acclaimed leadership in microchip technology and profound software and ICT expertise is what makes us unique. By leveraging our world-class infrastructure and local and global ecosystem of partners across a multitude of industries, we create groundbreaking innovation in application domains such as healthcare, smart cities and mobility, logistics and manufacturing, and energy.
Deadline : July 01, 2022
(29) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Student
The PhD researcher will use a combination of marine geological research techniques, such as multibeam bathymetric mapping, sub-bottom and high-resolution reflection seismic profiling, and sediment (vibro)coring, followed by a multi-proxy core analysis, involving core scanning (CT, MSCL, XRF), geochemistry, mineralogy, fabric analysis, microfossil analysis, geochronology,… The aims will be i) to identify offshore tsunami deposits, which may require developing novel proxies for characterizing tsunami event layers in the offshore realm, ii) to map their extent and correlate them with tsunami deposits known from onshore on the Shetland Islands, and iii) to combine all information into a revised tsunami event stratigraphy for the region.
Deadline : June 10, 2022
(30) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Student
Ghent University is a top 100 university worldwide and one of the major universities in Belgium, with more than 44000 students and 15000 staff members. At the department of Electromechanical, Systems and Metal Engineering, we have an open vacancy for a PhD researcher in the mechatronics research group at the campus Kortrijk. The research in our group focuses on modelling, control and optimization of the electromechanical and control aspects of industrial machines, with an emphasis on using Industry 4.0 technologies such as machine vision, AI or digital twins. A digital twin is one of the key Industry 4.0 technologies. It can be defined as a digital replica of a physical system updated with actual sensing information and simulated in synchronism with its physical counterpart. Digital twins can provide deep insight in the behavior and condition of industrial machines, bringing considerable added value to the manufacturing industry. The creation of a digital twin involves properly determining its requirements, creating high fidelity simulation models, coupling with rich sensor data streams from the physical machine and time-critical execution on an edge or cloud platform. As digital twins are a new and promising concept in mechatronics, we have opened a vacancy for a strategic and challenging PhD position with the topic ‘Digital Twins of Mechatronic Systems in the Manufacturing Industry’ under the supervision of Prof. Jeroen De Kooning and Prof. Kurt Stockman. In this PhD, it is our intention to start from a CAD model of an industrial application, and upgrade it to a digital twin by combining a motion simulation with vision data. In the past years, the research group in Kortrijk has built up critical expertise and laboratory infrastructure to support this PhD.
Deadline : June 30, 2022
(31) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral fellow
The position is offered in the laboratory for Circular Process Technology on campus Kortrijk under the direction of Prof. Steven De Meester. The work will take place in a young and dynamic team of about 22 PhD students, 1 postdoc and 3 technicians focusing on better chemical engineering in the circular economy, with a focus on pre-treatment and downstream processing. This is important, as it is clear that waste is heterogeneous and mechanical and chemical recycling technologies are often very sensitive to certain contaminants. Prof. De Meester has strong ties to industry and knows the waste management landscape very well. The group brings fundamental science to the processes used in waste management companies, but also brings in more innovative approaches.
Deadline : May 31, 2022
(32) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD position on software-based networks for 6G
IDLab is a research group of Ghent University, as well as a core research group of imec. IDLab performs fundamental and applied research on data science and internet technology and counts over 300 researchers. IDLab is also part of imec, the world-leading research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technologies. The combination of our widely acclaimed leadership in microchip technology and profound software and ICT expertise is what makes us unique.
Deadline : August 31, 2022
(33) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD vacancy in scheduling and control algorithms for future networks
IDLab is a research group of Ghent University, as well as a core research group of imec. IDLab performs fundamental and applied research on data science and internet technology and counts over 300 researchers. IDLab is also part of imec, the world-leading research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technologies. The combination of our widely acclaimed leadership in microchip technology and profound software and ICT expertise is what makes us unique.
Deadline : August 31, 2022
