Are you holding Master’s degree and looking for fully funded PhD positions? University of Twente, Netherlands 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 Biophysics
Summary of PhD Program:
Join the NBP group, a multidisciplinary team at the University of Twente, where physics, chemistry and biology converge. We are dedicated to understanding intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) and their roles in biological processes. Our focus is on the study of IDPs in the context of neurodegenerative diseases, using advanced microscopy and spectroscopy techniques. We offer a collaborative, supportive, and professional working environment, encouraging interactions among our diverse team members, including PhD students, research technicians, and principal investigators.
Application Deadline: 22 Jun 2024
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Integrated Assessment of Drought Resilience
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD position aims to assess and improve drought resilience in abovementioned cross-border region. Together with stakeholders, you will co-develop an indicator framework to assess drought resilience, building on resilience and collaboration literature, as well as on prior knowledge developed by students and colleagues in our department working on related questions. You will use this framework to assess to what extent pilot measures currently implemented in the region are contributing to drought resilience. Next, you critically evaluate the pilot measures with a focus on trade-offs and synergies with other key sectoral challenges, developments and ambitions (such as flood defense, water quality, biodiversity, agriculture).
Application Deadline: 12 Jun 2024
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Constitutive Modelling for Press Forming Simulations
Summary of PhD Program:
Thermoplastic composite materials are considered a prime candidate for the next generation of commercial aircraft. Compared to thermoset composites, these materials offer improved toughness, dustless assembly through welding, and improved recycling opportunities. Press forming is a manufacturing technology for small to medium-sized thermoplastic composite components in high volumes. Process simulation software allows virtual optimization of tool design and material handling in order to achieve first-time-right manufacturing. The predictive quality of these tools relies on accurate constitutive models to describe the material behavior during forming. With the ever increasing need to manufacture more complex components, a step-change is required in the accuracy of these models and the associated material characterization methods.
Application Deadline: 21 Jun 2024
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Economic Life Cycle Costing and Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment
Summary of PhD Program:
This is one of two PhD positions that are part of an international and multidisciplinary research project funded by the European Commission’s Horizon Europe programme entitled “Innovative Storage Technology and Operations in Hydropower”. The overall project goal is to develop innovative and sustainable pumped storage technologies and control strategies to support the flexibility and resilience of the EU energy grid. This is achieved by enhancing the lifetime and recyclability of components and equipment, devising operation strategies for unconventional conditions (e.g. salt water or coal mine applications), and through sensor-based condition monitoring systems. Furthermore, digital tools for operational management are employed to consider the dynamics of renewable energy generation and demand as well as improving efficiency and reliability.
Application Deadline: 10 Jun 2024
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5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Environmental Life Cycle Assessment of Hydropower
Summary of PhD Program:
The specific focus of your PhD project is the analysis of the environmental effect caused by the innovations developed in the project by means of life cycle assessment (LCA). You get the chance to work with technological and operational hydropower experts from the early development stages of technologies to inform and influence the design processes. Next to analysing global environmental impacts along the supply chain, you will develop ways to analyse local impacts on water quality and aquatic biodiversity as well as the contribution of the technologies to circular economy. Finally, you can compare the environmental performance of the innovations developed in the project to conventional hydropower technologies and to alternative energy storage solutions like batteries and hydrogen.
Application Deadline: 10 Jun 2024
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Game-based approaches for drought resilience in the Eastern Netherlands
Summary of PhD Program:
The specific focus of your PhD project is to develop a conceptual framework to express multiple values of water use, in the geographic and policy context of the Eastern Netherlands, with the aim to aid resilience assessments. You will be able to build on literature about value assessment and valuation techniques from social, economic, and environmental research domains, as well as prior knowledge developed by other PhD candidates in our group working on related questions.
Application Deadline: 9 Jun 2024
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Modelling Micropollutant Removal using Charge-Mosaic Nanofiltration Membrane
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD student in this project will closely collaborate with at least 3 other PhD students within the larger ERC-CoG MOSAIC project. While this PhD project will focus on the transport model for these membranes systems, others will focus on materials science, membrane fabrication and membrane process design. This team oriented research project is intended to be a highly collaborative environment. Moreover, the project will be well integrated in the MSuS and SFI groups and the MST Department, allowing extensive collaboration and knowledge exchange.
Application Deadline: 15 Jun 2024
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Capabilities and diversity in ethics of technology
Summary of PhD Program:
The aim of this research project is to develop an approach for ethically assessing the disruptive impact of technologies on individuals. The project centers on two key ideas. The first is that the personal interests of individuals center on not only the protection of rights, but also on support for the development of capabilities. Therefore, we need to develop an ethics of capability development in relation to technology. This approach should consider various impact dimensions of technology on human capabilities – both positive and negative – and should develop approaches for ethically assessing these dimensions. For example, impacts on health, social relations, cognition and learning, self-understanding, work and play, etc.
Application Deadline: 11 Jun 2024
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Reconceiving rights, duties and well-being
Summary of PhD Program:
Are similar conceptual innovations that go beyond individualism needed in the domain of moral philosophy? Is there a need to revise individualist conceptions of moral rights and duties, of the determinants of human wellbeing, and of meaning in life? What is the role of technology in supporting this conceptual change, if various technologies have partially constituted the liberal consumerist ethos? These are the questions to be addressed in this PhD project. Grounded in moral philosophy, this wide-ranging project may involve the examination of alternative value systems that emphasise communitarian values (MacIntye 1981), relational conceptions of wellbeing and sustainability (Pascual et al. 2023), and the value of non-human nature (Taylor 1986).
Application Deadline: 6 Jun 2024
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10. Fully Funded PhD Position in IC Design group
Summary of PhD Program:
Professor Bram Nauta’s Integrated Circuit Design (ICD) group focuses on various aspects of analog and Radio Frequency (RF) Integrated Circuits (IC). The group’s motto is “fundamental solutions for practical problems” and under this vision, it has contributed many fundamental new ideas in circuit design. The IC Design group has made high-impact inventions in analog filters, thermal noise cancelling amplifiers, ultra-low power analog to digital converters, software-defined radio, mixer-first receivers, N-path filters and sub-sampling phase locked loops. The group is a world leader and initiator of many new research directions which also find their application in industrial products. The group has a strong collaboration with the global semiconductor industry.
Application Deadline: 1 Jul 2024
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Effective aperture of openings of systems in reverberant environments
Summary of PhD Program:
The objectives are to develop validated models to predict EM coupling into and out of (random) apertures (and random wires) using Monte-Carlo deterministic and statistical techniques for EM waves. Validation via comparison to known antennas and canonical structures and measurements. Key application to airplane structures and automotive windows and openings, but model shall be general for any complex, electrically large (w.r.t. wavelength) apertures.
Application Deadline: 1 Jul 2024
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12. Fully Funded PhD Position in Closed-loop testing for faster and better EM evaluation
Summary of PhD Program:
The Power Electronics and Electromagnetic Compatibility Group within the department Electrical Engineering has a vacancy for a Ph.D. researcher on Closed-loop testing for faster and better EM evaluation of complex high-tech systems within the EU Horizon 2020 Marie Skiodowska-Curie Project NEPIT – Network for Evaluation of Propagation and Interference Training.
To expose objects to electromagnetic fields we step to a new position, increase power level until a defined value is read by a meter but this very, very slow and the main problem is the slow meter response time therefore the key question is how electronic products react on electromagnetic interference and we would like that you help us to solve that problem!
Application Deadline: 1 Jul 2024
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in Dynamic On-Body and In-Body Compression Systems
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD’s objective is to develop technologies for dynamic and adaptable actuation in compression devices. Initially, we will consider ‘on-body’ applications, which can be realized with a controlled (yet adaptable) compression level and change the loading condition to patients in occupational domain or patients with chronic pain. Common joints that are biomechanically supported by the devices include the ankle, knee, hip, spine, shoulder, elbow, and wrist. Therefore, the system must be designed in such a way that it is modular, scalable, compact and can be easily applied to different parts of the body.
Application Deadline: 9 Jun 2024
14. Fully Funded PhD Position in Reinforcement learning for digital finance
Summary of PhD Program:
We are looking for a highly motivated and creative Ph.D. candidate interested in developing and applying Reinforcement Learning (RL) models that support financial service providers in making better decisions under uncertainty. The implementation of such models requires resolving various issues regarding the digital ecosystem, regulatory compliance, and explainability. This Ph.D. project aims to address such implementation obstacles and thereby propel the field of digital finance. During the project, you will closely collaborate with industry and a doctoral training network spread throughout Europe, including extended research stays abroad.
Application Deadline: 31 Jul 2024
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15. Fully Funded PhD Position in Machine Learning for Digital Finance
Summary of PhD Program:
In your project, you will do research on and apply machine learning techniques to make a real-world impact in academia and at financial institutions. A potential research topic is the design of an intelligent search bot that maximises AI technologies to improve the accessibility and user experience of public data portals. Further research will focus on ML techniques and NLP to improve supervisory technology (Suptech) methods. Both topics are relevant and of interest to the ECB and BIS, e.g. as part of their tool Olympus, that provides support in various areas, such as advanced analytics, process automation and digital collaboration.
Application Deadline: 5 Jun 2024
16. Fully Funded PhD Position in Cardiorespiratory Modelling and Simulation in Critical Care
Summary of PhD Program:
The Cardiovascular & Respiratory Physiology (CRPH) group of the University of Twente is looking for a PhD-candidate in a collaboration project with the Med-tech company Getinge AB, Sweden. In this 4-year project you will use computational modelling and simulations to create clinical decision support tools that will ultimately improve the daily care for critically ill patients. The focus of this ground-breaking research is on better understanding of heart-lung interactions and possible applications in acute and critical care (anaesthesiology and intensive care). In this project, 0-D computational models of the cardiovascular and respiratory systems including mechanical support will be used to optimize diagnostic and therapeutic solutions.
Application Deadline: 30 Jun 2024
17. Fully Funded PhD Position in additive manufacturing of heat exchangers
Summary of PhD Program:
One challenge involves designing and manufacturing new materials to create mechanisms with unique functional properties across multiple length scales. A potential solution to address these limitations is employing 3D printing methods, also known as additive manufacturing, to produce 3D architectures based on a digital model. This technology can fabricate structures ranging from micro to macro scales using various materials such as polymer, metal, ceramic, and composites. The advantage lies in the ability to create complex geometries in a single production run, offering operational scalability and design flexibility. Thus, this Ph.D. focuses on exploring the benefits and challenges of additive manufacturing in developing efficient structures for thermochemical materials and heat exchangers for heat transformers.
Application Deadline: 9 Jun 2024
18. Fully Funded PhD Position in Digital Resilience in Supply Chains
Summary of PhD Program:
In the DReSC project, you will need an interdisciplinary approach, combining psychology, economics, and operations research. Skills in game theory, agent-based simulation, or behavioural experiments are desirable. We seek a candidate skilled in at least one of these fields and with a keen interest in the others.
You will work as part of the Digital Resilience in Supply Chains (DReSC) project, which is an interdisciplinary initiative jointly funded by TKI Health~Holland and TKI DINALOG under dcypher’s CS4NL program. The project is a collaboration between the University of Twente, the Jheronimus Academy of Data Science (JADS), and various public-private stakeholders from health care and logistics.
Application Deadline: 7 Jun 2024
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19. Fully Funded PhD Position in Interactive Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Image-guided Interventions
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD project will focus on designing and integrating new technologies and methods from the domains of physics, electrical engineering as well as computer sciences to serve the next generation of interventional MRI systems. The project will build on the MRI facilities available at the TechMed and will involve clinical tests in collaboration with interventional teams from various clinics. An important aspect in this project is therefore to work across the borderlines of disciplines, e.g. in collaboration with both technology as well as application-oriented groups.
Application Deadline: 9 Jun 2024
20. Fully Funded PhD Position in geo artificial intelligence for planetary health
Summary of PhD Program:
Planetary Health, which focuses on the health of human civilization and the natural systems it relies on, underscores the interconnectedness between environmental issues and human well-being. Climate change is behind many environmental issues, such as heat waves, noise pollution, or longer or more intense pollen seasons that negatively affect human health. Even when data availability is increasing, modelling, and monitoring those environmental issues at meaningful spatiotemporal scales is challenging. Some challenges are related to data heterogeneity (including having to work with data at various spatial and temporal scales) and the general lack of data-driven approaches that can natively capture complex spatiotemporal relations.
Application Deadline: 4 Jun 2024
21. Fully Funded PhD Position in Monitoren van lopen bij artrose (TopTreat)
Summary of PhD Program:
As a PhD candidate in this research, you are the spider in the web. You oversee the data collection, develop algorithms to extract relevant outcome measures from the data, and use advanced data analysis techniques to gain insight into changes over time. You will work in a very enthusiastic team with other junior researchers, patient partners, doctors, sports scientists, and data scientists. The supervision within this PhD program will mainly be done by Dr. Katrijn Smulders (Sint Maartenskliniek), Dr. Jasper Reenalda (University of Twente) and Prof. Dr. Noël Keijsers (Radboud University and Sint Maartenskliniek).
