Are you holding Master’s degree and looking for fully funded PhD positions? Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium invites online application for multiple funded PhD Programs / fully funded PhD positions in various research areas.
Candidates interested in fully funded PhD positions can check the details and may apply as soon as possible. Interested and eligible applicants may submit their online application for PhD programs via the University’s Online Application Portal.
1. Fully Funded PhD Position
Summary of PhD Program:
COMPASS, coordinated by France Energies Marines, aims to develop a holistic decision-support platform for assessing the cumulative environmental, economic, and social sustainability of offshore wind farms (OWFs) across their full lifecycle. The platform will integrate life cycle assessment (LCA), marine ecosystem impact models, and a digital twin environment, and will be validated across multiple European case studies representing different offshore wind technologies.
Application Deadline: Sep 15, 2025
2. Fully Funded PhD Position
Summary of PhD Program:
The METAMIC project will embed Doctoral Candidates (DCs) in a unique training environment to advance microbiome science through metaproteomics. The program addresses One Health challenges by integrating research on microbial mechanisms, microbiome dynamics in various ecosystems, and translational applications in clinical and biotech fields. DCs will benefit from expertise across molecular biology, bioinformatics, clinical research, and environmental science, supported by collaborations among academia, industry, and public sector partners.
Application Deadline: Sep 15, 2025
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Information Technology
Summary of PhD Program:
Wireless systems are omnipresent in our daily life, but it is far from perfect, especially for professional applications, where stable quality of service with bounded latency, guaranteed packet delivery rate is a must. Today, we still see Wi-Fi coverage is far from uniform, high variations of the Wi-Fi signal strength can be observed at different locations. Co-located Wi-Fi access points sharing the same spectrum compete against each other rather than collaborate to serve users. In this PhD position, you will research solutions to tackle these issues and improve wireless performance and efficiency together with the members of Software-Defined Radio team in IDLab.
Application Deadline: Dec 31, 2025
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Political Sciences
Summary of PhD Program:
The project is grounded in an interpretive social science research design, in which methods such as interviews, ethnographic fieldwork, and discourse analysis play a central role. The research aims to result in scientific publications and ultimately culminates in a doctoral dissertation. Your PhD will be embedded in an interdisciplinary and engaged research group that approaches sustainability issues from a critical social science perspective. Within CDO, you will be part of a vibrant line of research on Responsible Research and Innovation, with a focus on imagination, narrative, and societal reflection in science and technology.
Application Deadline: Sep 30, 2025
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5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Geography
Summary of PhD Program:
The selected PhD student is expected to contribute to a FWO research project on geographic patterns of crimes and their environmental determinants, developing and employing (new) GeoAI and quantitative research methods . More specifically, the candidate will focus on 1) developing (new) GeoAI methods to enable fine-grained spatial data modelling of street environments, 2) elucidating the contribution of geographic environment to crimes and crime diversity, 3) large-scale spatio-temporal analysis based on big geospatial data. The PhD student will work closely with Prof. Haosheng Huang (https://users.ugent.be/~haohuang/) and Prof. Christophe Vandeviver (https://ircp.ugent.be/researchers/christophe-vandeviver/).
Application Deadline: Sep 01, 2025
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in computer science
Summary of PhD Program:
You will join the research team working on Human-Robot Interaction, to build and study the AI powering social robots. These robots interact with people in a natural manner by, for example, using speech, gestures, facial expressions and language. By using natural communication, these robots are easier to interact with and have many applications in entertainment, services, education, collaborative robotics and therapy
Application Deadline: Aug 31, 2025
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in bioinformatics
Summary of PhD Program:
The current focus of the computational branch of our research group is on improving the data preprocessing pipeline for metabolomics, with a specific emphasis on data preprocessing of liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) experiments (e.g., De Graeve et al. 2023, Analytica Chimica Acta; Vangeenderhuysen et al. 2023, 2025, Analytical Chemistry; Hughes et al. 2025, Analytical Chemistry). In your PhD research, you will continue this line of work, specifically by critically evaluating and further optimizing existing components of the preprocessing pipeline, such as peak detection, retention time alignment, and data normalization.
Application Deadline: Oct 10, 2025
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Law
Summary of PhD Program:
Prof. Hans De Wulf (Financial Law Institute, Department of Interdisciplinary Studies, Private and Business Law) is looking for a researcher willing to write a doctoral dissertation in law on the role of the financial sector (particularly banks and asset managers) in human rights and sustainability due diligence. The Ph. D. dissertation must therefore address the possible duties of financial sector actors to investigate their clients for possible (possibly indirect) involvement in human rights violations or unsustainable practices.
Application Deadline: Sep 02, 2025
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Plants and Crops
Summary of PhD Program:
Tetranychus urticae, the two-spotted spider mite, is among the most harmful pest insects worldwide. Due to its exceptional ability to adapt to various crops and pesticides, this mite serves as an excellent model system for studying the genetic and molecular basis of adaptation. Recently, our research group developed a groundbreaking CRISPR/Cas9 method called SYNCAS (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ibmb.2023.104068), which enables efficient genetic modification of spider mites — a feat that was previously unattainable. This technological breakthrough marks the beginning of a new era in functional genetics of chelicerates.
Application Deadline: Aug 31, 2025
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10. Fully Funded PhD Position in Electromechanical, Systems and Metal Engineering
Summary of PhD Program:
As a PhD student, you will contribute to the development of multiphysics (electromagnetic & thermal) models for windings of electric motors. Also, you will study how the motor design can be modified to make the windings in the machine more robust against thermal variations or mechanical vibrations. The work includes a significant experimental part, i.e. making prototypes of stators and test the concepts for sustainable windings. The project has a user group of companies, which are active in enameled wire, impregnation and potting techniques, electric machine design and electric machine manufacturing or repair.
Application Deadline: Sep 30, 2025
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