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 complex textile materials
Summary of PhD Program:
We are looking for a PhD student for a research project on textile modelling. In this project, the main purpose is to develop a multi-scale textile modelling framework that allows accurate simulation of textile manufacturing processes such as yarn unwinding from a bobbin, weft insertion during weaving, stitching and tufting. This framework is implemented using finite element modelling as well as virtual fibre modelling. Big challenges here are the high anisotropy, low bending stiffness and non-linear behaviour of most textile materials, as well as the dynamics of manufacturing systems as most production happens at very high speeds. Moreover, the approach should entail both kinematics as well as mechanics such that predictive simulations of textile manufacturing can be made. This is still a very new research topic and many scientific questions remain unanswered. The PhD researcher will be part of a team of 4 researchers (3 PhD students and one postdoctoral researcher) who will all work on this large research project.
Application Deadline: Sep 30, 2023
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Biomedical Sciences
Summary of PhD Program:
The Lung Research Lab of the Department of Respiratory Medicine at Ghent University Hospital is looking for a highly motivated PhD student to join the team. The candidate will perform translational research into the pathogenesis of asthma. This is a chronic inflammatory airway disease that affects around 334 million individuals worldwide and that has a significant economic burden. Within the framework of an FWO funded project, the PhD student will unravel the importance of cell adhesion molecules in severe asthma by combining analyses on human samples with mechanistic studies in a mouse asthma model.
Application Deadline: Sep 15, 2023
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Biotechnology
Summary of PhD Program:
We are offering a PhD scholarship to unravel the molecular-genetic mechanisms that shape herbivory and reproduction in insects and mites. Arthropods are associated with a diverse set of bacteria. Certain intracellular bacteria infect the reproductive tissues of their arthropod host and spread rapidly through host populations by manipulating reproduction. Symbiont-mediated reproductive phenotypes will be a major focus of this PhD scholarship. Bacteria can further influence the evolution and ecology of arthropods by facilitating novel feeding ecologies, such as herbivory. Bacteria promote arthropod herbivory by horizontal gene transfer, or by initiating a long-term symbiotic relationship. This project will contribute to resolving the enigmatic genetic, molecular, and biochemical mechanisms that shape these host-symbiont interactions, with an emphasis on haplodiploid arthropods.
Application Deadline: Sep 11, 2023
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Information Technology
Summary of PhD Program:
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 twelve 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.
Application Deadline: Dec 31, 2023
5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Electronics and Information Systems
Summary of PhD Program:
We live in a society that is driven by computer science, artificial intelligence, data science and STEM. It is time to adapt our educational system to shape creators of the future! Together with you we want to make programming and computational thinking more accessible in the classroom. More specifically, with AI, we want to give teachers insight in the learning process of their students.
Application Deadline: Aug 31, 2023
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Literary Studies
Summary of PhD Program:
Applications are invited for a PhD position at Ghent University in the field of Children’s Literature. The research project on which the PhD candidate will be employed is supervised by Prof. Dr. Elly McCausland. Candidates are invited to propose their own project, which must be in the field of children’s literature, and combine theoretical inquiry with textual analysis. Possible topics include, but are not limited to, children’s literature and the environment; young adult dystopia; adaptations of canonical texts for children; medievalism in children’s literature; nineteenth-century children’s literature; representations of risk and adventure in children’s literature; play in children’s literature; fantasy and fairytale.
Application Deadline: Aug 31, 2023
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Electronics and Information Systems
Summary of PhD Program:
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: Sep 30, 2023
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Information Technology
Summary of PhD Program:
As a group, we have been active in this field for over 10 years, both at the simulation level and at the experimental level. E.g., we were the first to fabricate silicon photonics chips based on reservoir computing (a variant of recurrent neural networks) [Vandoorne et al., Nature Communications 5 3541, 2014]. We also used neuromorphic chips to show the experimental realisation of nonlinear dispersion compensation in a directly-modulated telecom link [S. Sackesyn et al., Optics Express, 29, 20, 30991, 2021]. Recently, we used neuromorphic principles to speed up the classification of different particles in flow cytometry [M. Gouda et al., JSTQE, 29, 2, 7600608, 2023].
Application Deadline: Aug 01, 2023
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Bioscience Engineering
Summary of PhD Program:
Plant tissue culture and regeneration is used to propagate selected plant material, to create transgenic crops, to preserve species and varieties, and to rescue or select unique genotypes for breeding. While this method works well from some crops, many plant species and varieties are rather difficult to regenerate. Researchers vary the media composition and hormones to obtain a successful protocol. However, environmental factors such as temperature are also important. In recent years it has been shown that high temperature conditions can improve the efficiency of plant regeneration. We want to know how heat stress regimes increase the competence of callus to regenerate. In this project, we investigate HEAT SHOCK FACTORS (HSF) transcription factors and how they are involved in shoot regeneration from callus.
Application Deadline: Aug 01, 2023
10. Fully Funded PhD Position in computational linguistics
Summary of PhD Program:
Applications are invited to apply for a PhD candidate position to perform research in the field of computational linguistics at the LT3 – Language and Translation Technology Team at the Department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication at Ghent University. LT3 conducts fundamental and applied research in the domain of language and translation technology and has extensive expertise in the use of machine learning for a wide range of language technology problems, int.al. terminology extraction, word sense disambiguation, sentiment and emotion detection and irony detection.
Application Deadline: Aug 29, 2023
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Diagnostic Sciences
Summary of PhD Program:
The research group of Prof. Tom Taghon (www.taghonlab.ugent.be), located in Ghent, Belgium, is looking for a talented and highly motivated PhD student to join our team. Research in our lab is focused on uncovering the molecular mechanisms that control hematopoiesis and particularly T cell development in human in normal and malignant settings (Liang et al., Nature Immunology 2023; Roels et al., Nature Immunology 2020; Lavaert et al., Immunity 2020; Goossens et al., Haematologica 2019; Van de Walle et al., Nature Communications 2016). Some transcription factors that are important for normal blood cell differentiation are indeed also implicated in leukemic transformation when mutated or misexpressed.
Application Deadline: Jul 31, 2023
12. Fully Funded PhD Position in Information Technology
Summary of PhD Program:
We imagine a future world of connected autonomously driving vehicles, AR/VR devices, smart clothing, cooperative robots in industry, or drones delivering packages at your doorstep. These applications are expected to be possible from novel techniques in wireless networking resulting into an increased spectrum, but also from the deep integration of the network with all types of computing power in the cloud and at the edge of the network.
Application Deadline: Aug 31, 2023
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in Mathematical Modelling
Summary of PhD Program:
Mathematical models predicted an increase of Dengue cases under the social restrictions imposed to counter COVID-19. Opposed, such increase was not observed and Dengue cases were historically low. This implies the current knowledge on the influence of mobility patterns on dengue transmissions is incomplete and more research is warranted. To this end, qualitative data on public space use and quantitative data on vector prevalence and mobility patterns in Cienfuegos, Cuba will be funneled into a mathematical model co-developed at Ghent University and ITM Antwerp.
Application Deadline: Sep 30, 2023
14. Fully Funded PhD Position in Computer Science Engineering
Summary of PhD Program:
The Internet Technology & Data Science Lab (IDLab) is an imec research group at Ghent University and the University of Antwerp. IDLab focuses its research on internet technologies and data science. Bringing together more than 300 internet experts, we develop technologies outperforming current solutions for communication subsystems, high speed and low power networking, distributed computing and multimedia processing, machine learning, artificial intelligence and web semantics. IDLab has a unique research infrastructure used in numerous national and international collaborations.
Application Deadline: Aug 31, 2023
15. Fully Funded PhD Position in Study of Law
Summary of PhD Program:
The Ghent Institute for Legal History is looking for 5 PhD Candidates who will be working within the project ‘Rethinking emergency from a legal historical perspective: contexts, actors, practices 1914-2020’ (EMERGE), which is funded by the European Research Council (ERC, ERC Consolidator Grant 2022, no 101087876). Set within the Faculty of Law and Criminology, a faculty home to many academics of diverse backgrounds, the Institute is a dynamic venue fostering rigorous ground-breaking research in legal history with a focus on legal theory and contextual analysis. You will develop and grow in research, both individually and as part of a team of ambitious scholars.
Application Deadline: Aug 31, 2023
16. Fully Funded PhD Position in Green Chemistry and Technology
Summary of PhD Program:
The study is part of large multidisciplinary project in collaboration with researchers of other UGent and VIB departments aimed at understanding the biotic interactions and molecular processes that drive the extraordinary species diversity and ecological success of benthic diatoms. Given the importance of biofilm functioning for global biogeochemical cycling, understanding the nature of underlying microbial interactions and their susceptibility or resilience to climate parameters are urgent questions that need to be addressed.
Application Deadline: Jul 28, 2023
17. Fully Funded PhD Position in Mathematical Modelling
Summary of PhD Program:
The water sector is under increasing pressure worldwide. To ensure water security and sustainable development, major paradigm shifts are in progress. A first important shift is the transition towards a circular water and resource economy. This transition is inherently a multidisciplinary and multi-objective effort that implies bridging historical silo’s (for example drinking water, wastewater, hydrology for rainwater harvesting, agriculture, industry). The second paradigm shift is the digital transformation and the emergence of powerful and automated model simulations that support real-time smart decision making.
Application Deadline: Aug 31, 2023
18. Fully Funded PhD Position in Environment
Summary of PhD Program:
Soil biology is the new frontier in environmental sciences, and received overwhelming and ever increasing attention in recent years, but despite the rapidly evolving knowledge on soil biodiversity as such, its relation with crucial soil functions remains largely unexplored. The carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) cycles in soil are tightly coupled and determine crucial processes with respect to agricultural production (e.g. N availability) and to environmental problems (N leaching losses, emissions of the greenhouse gases CO2, N2O and CH4, C sequestration, …). It has been frequently suggested that soil microfauna (nematodes, protists) play a very important part in C and N cycling, but research in this field has largely ignored the role of microfauna and their interactions with plant roots, bacteria and fungi, mostly as a result of the phenomenal methodological challenges in this type of research.
Application Deadline: Aug 24, 2023
19. Fully Funded PhD Position in Plants and Crops
Summary of PhD Program:
Predictive Breeding is an ambitious research group that is focused on the development and application of data-driven plant breeding methods. This is a rapidly evolving domain of science that aims to integrate high-througpout phenotyping and genotyping technology to maximise the rate of genetic progress for traits of agronomic importance. In this respect, scientific advancement in the field of data-driven breeding is considered to be a pivotal catalyst for the short-term realisation of the European Green Deal ambitions and the transition towards a sustainable agrifood system.
Application Deadline: Aug 31, 2023
20. Fully Funded PhD Position in Electromechanical, Systems and Metal Engineering
Summary of PhD Program:
We have opened a vacancy for a PhD researcher position with the topic ‘Online efficiency maximization of drivetrains using a Calorimeter in the loop’ under the supervision of Prof. Jeroen De Kooning and Prof. Kurt Stockman. The key novelty of the research is to use a Calorimeter in an iteration loop to obtain an accurately validated loss model, to quantify losses in dynamic operation and/or to optimize settings on the drivetrain. The main research challenges are to speed up the iteration process using new algorithms which make use of dynamic thermal modelling and Design of Experiments. In the past years, the research group in Kortrijk has built up critical expertise and laboratory infrastructure to support this PhD.
Application Deadline: Aug 25, 2023
21. Fully Funded PhD Position in Plants and Crops
Summary of PhD Program:
Heat waves have become a common occurrence that is seriously affecting the production of seeds and fruits, and in general agricultural productivity. Even very short periods of high temperatures during sexual reproduction have already a devastating impact. Why in particular the process of meiosis and gamete development are highly sensitive to heat is an important unanswered question in plant biology. Horticell investigates the underlying molecular processes that are the cause for heat inflicted loss of fertility, and in this context, we identified several genetic factors involved. The proposed PhD project dives into the study of these genes with the aim to reveal how the reproductive system responds to heat stress and what signaling and repair pathways are being activated to mitigate the damage.
Application Deadline: Aug 01, 2023
22. Fully Funded PhD Position in Marketing, Innovation and Organisation
Summary of PhD Program:
The research group “Consumer Behavior” of the department Marketing, Innovation and Organization is looking for a motivated doctoral researcher to conduct research on “the belief in quantification.” The project starts from the idea that people differ in how much they believe that everything important in life is quantified or quantifiable (belief in quantification). This project aims (1) to develop a measurement instrument of that belief, (2) to examine several potential consequences of the belief in quantification, and (3) to investigate potential consequences of this belief in terms of specific choices consumers make. You will be supervised for this project by the professors Maggie Geuens (UGent) and Mario Pandelaere (Virginia Tech, VS and UGent).
Application Deadline: Aug 15, 2023
23. Fully Funded PhD Position in Criminal Law
Summary of PhD Program:
The Institute for International Research on Criminal Policy is looking for a motivated doctoral researcher to conduct research in the field of European criminal law. The Fund for Scientific Research – Flanders is financing a study into the interpretation methods used by the European Court of Justice to help shape European criminal law. In concrete terms, the research will concern the interpretation of the concept of ‘criminal matters’, which determines the scope of application of instruments such as the European Arrest Warrant, the European Investigation Order, but also the directive on the presumption of innocence and the instruments on the cross-border execution of criminal sanctions. For the research, a collaboration will be set up with colleagues from other EU countries.
Application Deadline: Jul 28, 2023
24. Fully Funded PhD Position in Pharmaceutics
Summary of PhD Program:
The research team of Prof. Koen Raemdonck (Full Professor) is embedded in the Ghent Research Group on Nanomedicines at the laboratory for General Biochemistry and Physical Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences at Ghent University. The group is a world-leading research lab on macromolecular drug delivery by nanomedicines. The lab hosts 6 professors and their multidisciplinary research teams, with on average 40 researchers with diverging scientific background, who collaborate closely on a daily basis. You will be part of a dynamic, pluralistic and multidisciplinary team that is highly motivated to perform high-level research on drug delivery. The credo of Ghent University is ‘Dare To Think’, a philosophy that is infiltrated into its daily activities of science and education and which we adopt in our own lab vision statement as well.
Application Deadline: Aug 25, 2023
25. Fully Funded PhD Position in Mathematical Modelling
Summary of PhD Program:
WaterFRAME (Water Fit for Reuse Architecture and Modelling Ecosystem) is a FWO Strategic Basic Research (SBO) project that aims at developing an interoperable holistic digital framework for the water domain that is able to bridge historical data and modelling silo’s to support high-level decisions on water management. The WaterFRAME decision support system will be realized through standardized data formats and the concept of ontologies (a conceptual structure of a domain of interest including all objects and the semantic relationship between them).
Application Deadline: Aug 31, 2023
26. Fully Funded PhD Position in Information Technology
Summary of PhD Program:
Working as a scientist within this environment of the IDLab group can be a truly enriching experience. You will gain a lot of expertise within different application domains and the stimulating interdisciplinary environment at IMEC will allow you to work with important players in the field, giving you a valuable insight in the industry. We work with a very diverse range of industrial and governmental actors: big companies like Arcelor-Mittal, Proximus, Western Digital, Nokia, Telenet; small and medium sized enterprises like Androme, Be-Mobile, Comsof, DigiPolis, OneAccess, Televic, ZapFi; as well as organizations and institutions like De Lijn, city of Ghent, Farys, different hospitals, etc.
Application Deadline: Sep 30, 2023
27. Fully Funded PhD Position in Information Technology
Summary of PhD Program:
Working as a scientist within this environment of the IDLab group can be a truly enriching experience. You will gain a lot of expertise within different application domains and the stimulating interdisciplinary environment at IMEC will allow you to work with important players in the field, giving you a valuable insight in the industry. We work with a very diverse range of industrial and governmental actors: big companies like Arcelor-Mittal, Proximus, Western Digital, Nokia, Telenet; small and medium sized enterprises like Androme, Be-Mobile, Comsof, DigiPolis, OneAccess, Televic, ZapFi; as well as organizations and institutions like De Lijn, city of Ghent, Farys, different hospitals, etc.
Application Deadline: Sep 30, 2023
28. Fully Funded PhD Position in Information Technology
Summary of PhD Program:
The Internet Technology & Data Science Lab (IDLab) is an imec research group at Ghent University and the University of Antwerp. IDLab focuses its research on internet technologies and data science. Bringing together more than 300 internet and data experts, we develop technologies outperforming current solutions for communication subsystems, high speed and low power networking, distributed computing and multimedia processing, machine learning, artificial intelligence and web semantics. IDLab has a unique research infrastructure used in numerous national and international collaborations.
