Are you holding Master’s degree and looking for fully funded PhD positions? Ghent University, 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 in Information Technology
Summary of PhD Program:
The omnipresence of sensors causes a growth of data that offers the potential for a significant transformation in the health care sector. As wearable devices are becoming more widespread, continuous measurements of critical biomarkers can be performed to collect longitudinal data. This data can be analyzed using deep learning techniques to facilitate patient screening, support medical diagnosis, and forecast important medical events. Furthermore, by considering the longitudinal aspect of the data, patient health trajectories can be identified that allow the tracking of disease progression over time. Potential application areas include the prediction of heart arrhythmias, such as atrial fibrillation, or the assessment and monitoring of cardiovascular health through analysis of various parameters that are measured with novel hardware devices.
Application Deadline: Dec 31, 2024
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Electromechanical, Systems and Metal Engineering
Summary of PhD Program:
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.
Application Deadline: Jun 30, 2024
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Information Technology
Summary of PhD Program:
The IDLab Ghent research group is seeking a highly motivated and talented PhD student to join the Text-to-Knowledge (T2K) team. The team has worked for many years on natural language processing tasks (NLP), especially on advanced information extraction. Over the last few years, T2K research tracks have widened towards other subfields of AI, including neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI, and with health as an important application domain.
Application Deadline: Jun 30, 2024
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Computer Science
Summary of PhD Program:
In this PhD you will focus on designing new conversational AI models, based on recent foundation models, and in a multi-modal context, i.e., targeting use cases in human-robot interactions. The key research question is how state-of-the-art language models (including multi-modal versions) can be leveraged and adapted for specific knowledge-grounded tasks in human-robot communication. One of the target applications, is to support conversations with an educational goal, i.e., a robot as teaching assistant in interaction with students.
Application Deadline: Jun 30, 2024
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5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Experimental Psychology
Summary of PhD Program:
An important challenge for psycholinguistics is to explain the cognitive processes that underlie speakers’ ability to quickly and accurately plan sentences, select words, and to say them out loud. Several influential theories of language production have been proposed that capture important aspects of this skill. But strikingly, they ignore an extremely salient aspect of everyday speech: the fact that it is full of disfluencies. This project will test key mechanisms that we hypothesize to play a role in the production of disfluencies, such as self-monitoring of speech and the coordination between speech planning and execution. The mechanisms discovered in the empirical work will inform a computational model, and we will try to simulate both our own findings and data reported in the literature.
Application Deadline: Apr 30, 2024
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Geology
Summary of PhD Program:
You will perform cutting-edge scientific research in the context of the ERC Starting Grant “FLOWSCOPY: Unravelling unsteady fluid flows in porous media with 3D X-ray micro-velocimetry”. Fluid flows in porous materials are a widespread phenomenon, just think of groundwater flow in the subsurface. The behavior of the flow on the large scale, for example how a pollutant spreads in a soil after an environmental disaster, is controlled by how fluids work their way through a maze of minuscule, interconnected pores in the material. Such flows involve complex fluid physics that are currently far from being fully understood.
Application Deadline: Jul 15, 2024
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Geology
Summary of PhD Program:
You will perform cutting-edge scientific research in the context of the ERC Starting Grant “FLOWSCOPY: Unravelling unsteady fluid flows in porous media with 3D X-ray micro-velocimetry”. Fluid flows in porous materials are a widespread phenomenon, just think of groundwater flow in the subsurface. The behavior of the flow on the large scale, for example how a pollutant spreads in a soil after an environmental disaster, is controlled by how fluids work their way through a maze of minuscule, interconnected pores in the material. Such flows involve complex fluid physics that are currently far from being fully understood. However, there is a major challenge to study this: how do you measure fluid flow in minuscule pores inside a material? In this project, new techniques will be developed to solve this using high-resolution X-ray CT, based on principles used in hospitals to image patients, but at a hundred times higher resolution.
Application Deadline: Jul 15, 2024
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Movement and Sports Sciences
Summary of PhD Program:
This fellowship is in the scope of INDEEP. INDEEP (INtervention on the DEterminants of, and Expertise in, Physical activity behaviours) is an EU-funded MSCA Doctoral Network that seeks to generate excellence in research and training, providing future graduates that can advance the state-of-the-art in Physical Activity promotion, through a comprehensive understanding of the determinants associated with Physical Activity Behaviours, innovative methodologies, and data analytics. The main aims of the INDEEP doctoral network are ultimately to provide an intervention development toolbox, supporting the integration of determinants of Physical Activity Behaviours, behaviour change theory and intervention co-creation to aid in the development of evidence-based interventions which integrate top-down and bottom-up interventional approaches.
Application Deadline: Apr 24, 2024
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Movement and Sports Sciences
Summary of PhD Program:
This fellowship is in the Scope of the INDEEP project. INDEEP (INtervention on the DEterminants of, and Expertise in, Physical activity behaviours) is an EU-funded MSCA Doctoral Network that seeks to generate excellence in research and training, providing future graduates that can advance the state-of-the-art in Physical Activity promotion, through a comprehensive understanding of the determinants associated with Physical Activity Behaviours, innovative methodologies, and data analytics. The main aims of the INDEEP doctoral network are ultimately to provide an intervention development toolbox, supporting the integration of determinants of Physical Activity Behaviours, behaviour change theory and intervention co-creation to aid in the development of evidence-based interventions which integrate top-down and bottom-up interventional approaches.
Application Deadline: Apr 24, 2024
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10. Fully Funded PhD Position in Bioscience Engineering
Summary of PhD Program:
Tree canopies are one of the most recognizable features of forests, providing shelter from external influences to a myriad of species that live in the understorey. Canopy disturbances are now accelerating across European forests, and climate-change induced drought is a key driver. These disturbances are opening the canopy and exposing forest biodiversity to no-analog light regimes and drought – light and drought levels they have never been exposed to before. As the majority of forest plant species occur in the shade below tree canopies, the combination of altered light regimes and intensifying droughts can strongly impact forest biodiversity. However, the interactive effects of novel light regimes and drought on temperate forest biodiversity have never been investigated before.
Application Deadline: Apr 17, 2024
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Languages and Cultures
Summary of PhD Program:
The project “The Mosques of Kerala: Artistic Vocabularies in the Identity-Building of Muslim Communities” aims to study the mosques on the Malabar coast of India, particularly those erected along the coastline of the modern state of Kerala and southern Karnataka, in southern India, from the initial spread of Islam in the 7th century (according to legends) to the presente day, their peculiar style, their recent transformation and their role in the processes of identity building of the local Muslim communities. The structures to be investigated generally display unique formal elements. They seem to be the result of a remarkable combination of artistic vocabularies apparently borrowed from other Muslim regions – the Arabian Peninsula and Central Asia – and fused with elements drawn from local and South East Asian vernacular and temple architecture.
Application Deadline: Apr 30, 2024
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12. Fully Funded PhD Position in Information Technology
Summary of PhD Program:
The IDLab Ghent research group is seeking a highly motivated and talented PhD student to join the distributed machine learning team. Our team focuses on developing efficient machine learning algorithms for perception and control; with diverse applications in industry, robotics, remote sensing and agriculture. As part of our ongoing research, we identified a trend towards adaptive techniques for deep neural networks. These techniques dynamically adjust the computational cost of processing new input samples, based on factors such as input complexity, desired accuracy, or remaining battery capacity. This approach, compared to traditional architectures with fixed inference paths, proves to be more efficient in terms of latency and energy consumption, especially for resource-constrained devices like embedded compute platforms on drones and robots.
Application Deadline: Aug 31, 2024
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in Physics and Astronomy
Summary of PhD Program:
Hard X-ray ptychography is one of the most advanced microscopy techniques to visualize materials in structures in 3D at a spatial resolution better than 100 nm. However, the technique is currently only available at synchrotron facilities, with very limited availability. In this project, we aim to bring hard X-ray ptychography to laboratory facilities. This project is an international collaboration between Ghent University, University College London (UK) and the Diamond Light Source (UK) and brings together different expertise and possibilities for experiments.
Application Deadline: Aug 31, 2024
14. Fully Funded PhD Position in Biology
Summary of PhD Program:
We have an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated PhD student to optimize genome editing techniques and study carbon capture mechanisms in the green seaweed Ulva. The PhD project is part of an FWO ERC Runner-up project (Starting Grant) that has emerged from existing research lines in Phycology Research Group and Plant Genome Editing Group at Ghent University on Ulva functional biology. More specifically, we want to understand the cellular processes that allow Ulva compressa to control carbon fixation. To achieve this, we first need to expand our toolset: we are able to activate the expression of genes (gain-of-function), but are limited by the efficiency of technology enabling inhibition of gene function (loss-of-function). Ulva is currently the only macroalgae where gain- and loss-of-function mutants can be generated and an emerging model in molecular biology.
Application Deadline: May 15, 2024
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15. Fully Funded PhD Position in Information Technology
Summary of PhD Program:
IDLab is a core research group of imec, a world-leading research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technologies, with research activities at Ghent University. IDLab performs fundamental and applied research on data science and internet technology, and is, with over 300 researchers, one of the larger research groups at imec. Our major research areas are machine learning and data mining; semantic intelligence; multimedia processing; distributed intelligence for IoT; cloud and big data infrastructures; wireless and fixed networking; electromagnetics, RF, and high-speed.
Application Deadline: Jul 31, 2024
16. Fully Funded PhD Position in Electromechanical, Systems and Metal Engineering
Summary of PhD Program:
As a PhD student, your task will be to modify the design of the electrical machine to achieve the predefined motor key performance indicators (torque density, efficiency, cost). The research will introduce and simulate new concepts and further improve and adapt existing design tools for axial flux motors. Additionally, a new prototype will be built to implement and validate these new concepts. You will take part in the daily operation of the research group and participate in collaborative research with industrial and academic partners. Furthermore, you will publish your research results at major international conferences and in journal papers, as part of meeting the requirements for your Ph.D.
Application Deadline: Sep 30, 2024
17. Fully Funded PhD Position in Electronics and Information Systems
Summary of PhD Program:
Within the framework of a newly funded ERC Consolidator Grant (PASTIME project), we are seeking several motivated PhD students in biophysical modeling. The students will perform theoretical and computational research using simulations at the molecular scale. In the PASTIME project, we will search for methodologies to study the kinetics of drug transport. Since experiments often are too expensive or lack sufficient detail, molecular simulations can give insight in the dynamics of drug binding to proteins, or the permeation kinetics of those drug molecules through membranes. While such computational methodologies exist, new fundamental developments are needed to understand the ‘time’ aspects and to make the computations feasible with present-day computer power.
Application Deadline: Apr 30, 2024
18. Fully Funded PhD Position in Computer Science
Summary of PhD Program:
In this PhD you will focus on designing new conversational AI models, based on recent foundation models, and in a multi-modal context, i.e., targeting use cases in human-robot interactions. The key research question is how state-of-the-art language models (including multi-modal versions) can be leveraged and adapted for specific knowledge-grounded tasks in human-robot communication. One of the target applications, is to support conversations with an educational goal, i.e., a robot as teaching assistant in interaction with students.
Application Deadline: Jun 30, 2024
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19. Fully Funded PhD Position in Electromechanical, Systems and Metal Engineering
Summary of PhD Program:
The envisioned PhD focuses on accurate and reliable 3D Thermo-Elastohydrodynamic lubrication modelling, involving precise constitutive modelling of relevant thermomechanical and electrical properties, for rolling contacts. It builds upon existing CFD-FSI models constructed in the open-source software OpenFOAM. The existing models need to be further developed by implementing electrostatic/electrodynamic equations. The model will be used to analyse the effects of electrical currents and discharges on the lubricant film and vice versa, as well as to determine a metric for the severity of the initial discharge damage.
Application Deadline: Apr 20, 2024
20. Fully Funded PhD Position in Electromechanical, Systems and Metal Engineering
Summary of PhD Program:
The envisioned Ph.D. focusses on the development of reliable though computationally efficient and fast simulation tool to simulate 2D/3D Thermo-Elasto-Hydrodynamic Lubrication (TEHL) in lubricated contacts, such as lubricated contacts in meshing gears. The dual-use solver should allow standalone calculations as well as serve as a plug-in contact solver to other software. The computational efficiency should be maximal, aiming for a Parallel C/C++ implementation relying on existing scientific computing C++ libraries and potentially GPU acceleration.
Application Deadline: Apr 20, 2024
21. Fully Funded PhD Position in Languages and Cultures
Summary of PhD Program:
Ghent University seeks to appoint a doctoral fellow whose research focuses on body politics in Muslim majority societies in the contemporary Middle East, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Lisa Maria Franke. We invite proposals for PhD research projects on any aspect of body politics, society and culture in the modern/contemporary Middle East, including, but not limited to the following areas: emotions, fashion, sexuality and gendered body experiences in Muslim majority societies; notions of sociability; social transformations, identity, beauty, processes of individualisation, embodied practices, (non-)religiosities.
