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 in Computer Science Engineering
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
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Electromechanical
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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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Computer Science
Summary of PhD Program:
Many industrial and healthcare applications demand real-time knowledge of the location, status, and activities of both people and equipment. Traditionally, this has required separate, specialized wireless systems for communication, radar-based sensing, and localization—each relying on dedicated hardware. However, the emerging field of joint wireless communication, sensing, and localization offers a unified approach that combines data transmission with simultaneous environmental awareness and position estimation. Ultra-Wideband (UWB) technology, in particular, stands out as a strong candidate for this integration due to its large bandwidth, which enables high-precision localization, robust communication, and fine-grained sensing.
Application Deadline: Sep 01, 2025
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Information Engineering Technology
Summary of PhD Program:
Wireless audio streaming is omnipresent in many application domains: from listening podcasts on headphones and providing an assistive listening experience via hearing aids, to achieving audio distribution in venues. You will be performing research in the domain of wireless audio streaming, striving to deliver robust and uninterrupted wireless audio transfers.
Application Deadline: Aug 31, 2025
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5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Information and Communication Technology
Summary of PhD Program:
You conduct doctoral research in the area of Augmenting Learning Environments Using Generative AI and Neuroadaptive Systems, with the aim to obtain a PhD after at most 4 years. This PhD project focuses on the augmentation of learning environments through generative AI, with the goal of enhancing cognitive efficiency, engagement, and flow in learners. The central aim is to design intelligent systems that dynamically adapt the environment to support optimal learning conditions, based on real-time neurophysiological feedback.
Application Deadline: Aug 15, 2025
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Economic or Applied Economic Sciences
Summary of PhD Program:
Although an increasing number of organizations are paying attention to sustainability, the successful implementation of sustainability policies remains a significant challenge. It is essential that teams and employees within the organization support and contribute to the implementation of these policies. The aim of this doctoral research is to gain insight into how consensus can be fostered regarding the (importance of) sustainability goals across different hierarchical levels within an organization, and how this consensus can enhance both the implementation and the positive impact of sustainability policies.
Application Deadline: Aug 15, 2025
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Bioscience engineering
Summary of PhD Program:
Tumor models include the use of three-dimensional cell aggregates (also named spheroids) (Peirsman&Blondeel et al. Nature Methods 2021), patient-derived tumor fragments (Vermeulen et al. Sci Rep 2024) and patient-derived orthotopic xenograft mouse models (Fischer et al. Clin Trans Med 2023). Patient-derived models are obtained from surplus tissues in full collaboration with our clinical partners.
Application Deadline: Aug 01, 2025
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in political science
Summary of PhD Program:
Democracies depend on the premise that all citizens, even losers (i.e., those who did not obtain the desired outcome in a decision-making process), comply with the law and retain a certain level of support for the political system and its procedures. In established democracies with high levels of electoral integrity, such as Belgium, obtaining losers’ consent in the context of elections has not been challenging so far.
Application Deadline: Aug 01, 2025
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in engineering
Summary of PhD Program:
We are looking for a motivated and talented PhD student to delve into the field of thermal energy, specifically high-temperature industrial heat pumps. Heat pumps are widely recognized as a key technology for sustainable heat supply. Nevertheless, many aspects still need to be explored in order to fully unlock their potential. Only recently has attention shifted towards high-temperature (>100°C) industrial heat pumps for process heat applications. Within the framework of several national research projects (UPheat-INES 1.0 & 2.0, RethinkEnergy4Food) and international collaborations (IEA Annex 57), the research group has built up extensive expertise in this area. Through this PhD position, we aim to further expand and strengthen our research position.
Application Deadline: Aug 01, 2025
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10. Fully Funded PhD Position in Medicine
Summary of PhD Program:
Mineralization of soft tissues such as skin or blood vessels leads to destruction of the affected tissue and hence important morbidity and mortality. It is a feature in common disorders such as chronic kidney disease, atherosclerosis and diabetes mellitus. A more extreme presentation of soft tissue mineralization can be seen in genetic disorders, of which pseudoxanthoma elasticum (PXE) is considered a hallmark disease.
Application Deadline: Jul 31, 2025
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in computer science
Summary of PhD Program:
For our international interdisciplinary research team focused on computer vision and surgical video analysis, we are looking for a motivated research assistant. This is a full-time, one-year position that is renewable once (upon a favorable evaluation) for a maximum total period of four years. The ultimate goal of the research is always to obtain a doctoral degree. The funding for this position primarily comes from the following BOF-funded interdisciplinary research project: “Computer Vision Metrics for Objective Evaluation of Surgeon Performance in Robotic Pancreatic Surgery”.
Application Deadline: Jul 15, 2025
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12. Fully Funded PhD Position in Political Sciences
Summary of PhD Program:
Understanding politicians’ ideological positions is a crucial element in a representative democracy. Inaccurate estimations of these positions can have detrimental consequences, e.g. incorrect voting, lowering political trust and exacerbating affective polarisation. Citizens lack, however, time and energy to thoroughly analyze all politicians. As a result, they rely on information shortcuts (or cues) when assessing ideological positions of politicians. Due to processes such as partisan decline, personalisation and increased intra-party competition, individual cues have become more important as information shortcut.
Application Deadline: Jul 11, 2025
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in Biomedical Engineering
Summary of PhD Program:
To this end, we will perform cutting-edge proteomics analyses on post-mortem human retinal tissues and use bioinformatics and deep learning tools to integrate it with complementary omics datasets to identify novel translation-regulatory elements and proteoforms. Next, a selection of these elements will be functionally validated through cellular, functional and activity assays. Novel translation-regulatory elements and proteoforms will then be investigated on the presence of potential causal variants in both in-house and international patient cohorts (e.g. through access of the Genomics England genomes).
Application Deadline: Jul 11, 2025
14. Fully Funded PhD Position in Electromechanical
Summary of PhD Program:
We are currently working on two-phase expansion for power generation in an Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC). The goal is to model this complex process using computational fluid dynamics (CFD), taking into account thermodynamic non-equilibrium. The developed method can then serve as the foundation for a new generation of ORC systems with improved efficiency. These cycles are particularly well-suited for converting waste heat into usable energy, thereby contributing to the renewable energy transition.
Application Deadline: Jul 07, 2025
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15. Fully Funded PhD Position in Developmental, Personality and Social Psychology
Summary of PhD Program:
This project aims to address this fundamental gap by (a) implementing a large randomized controlled trial, and (b) involving stakeholders (adolescents, teachers, parents, organizations) via focus group interviews. In a first phase, we will collect qualitative data via focus groups to identify the best conditions for a feasible intervention. Subsequently, the controlled trial will test the immediate and longer-term benefits of resonant breathing on momentary affect and stress-related symptoms in 250 high-risk adolescents by delivering resonant breathing in adolescents’ daily life via a mental health app during a 2-week period.
Application Deadline: Jul 06, 2025
16. Fully Funded PhD Position in Operations Research
Summary of PhD Program:
Imagine a world in which production companies do not have to worry about their energy supply. Not just because they have their own renewable energy sources (e.g., solar panels, wind turbines) and energy storage (e.g., industrial batteries), but more importantly because their entire production system has been designed and is managed to optimally use the available electrical and thermal energy. In essence, focus has shifted from optimizing production goals and subsequently determining where and how to get energy from, to optimizing production and energy goals together.
Application Deadline: Jul 06, 2025
17. Fully Funded PhD Position in biomedical sciences
Summary of PhD Program:
We are looking for enthusiastic candidates to perform research on a closed-loop and non-invasive ultrasound neuromodulation treatment of focal epilepsy. The candidate will perform fiber photometry imaging and focused ultrasound insonication experiments in epileptic mice, to explore the potential for cell-type selective neuromodulation. The non-invasive neurorecording technique, realized through acousto-electric heterodyning, will be validated with depth and EEG electrode measurements. Finally, the closed-loop ultrasound technology will be tested in the intrahippocampal kainic acid mouse model in this Ph.D. project.
