Are you holding Master’s degree and looking for fully funded PhD positions? University of Antwerp, 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 Biomedical Sciences
Summary of PhD Program:
You will work on an exciting project, aiming to decipher the role of spatial chromatin organization in alternative isoform choice in the human brain. Isoform expression is highly cell type-specific, drives cell fate trajectories and influences drug responses. Despite research traditionally focussing on alternative splicing, use of alternative transcription start sites (TSSs) and termination sites (TTSs) accounts for the majority of transcriptional diversity in humans. Yet little is known about the mechanisms governing alternative TSS and TTS choice. We hypothesise that chromatin organisation is a central coordinator of such cellular decision-making across distinct cell populations.
Application Deadline: 27th of July 2023
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in photoelectrochemical sensors for nucleic acid-based sequences
Summary of PhD Program:
The overall goal of this PhD is the development of strategies to enhance the sensitivity of novel photoelectrochemical biosensors that will pave the way to the construction of affordable, robust, and user-friendly platforms for healthcare applications, i.e. cancer diagnosis and infectious disease diagnostics. Due to the integration of recognition bioelements (e.g. DNA/RNA, antibodies or aptamers), electrochemical biosensors are ideally suited for the selective determination of a wide variety of clinically relevant targets such as biomarkers, pathogens, etc. The detection of the biomarkers of interest will be achieved by taking advantage of the cost-effectiveness and sensitive detection provided by photoelectrochemical strategies. This PhD will contribute to the efforts of getting insight into a yet unexplored biosensing and signal amplification strategies.
Application Deadline: June 29 2023
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in molecular pathology of pneumonia
Summary of PhD Program:
The Laboratory of Cell Biology and Histology at the University of Antwerp is a research centre within the Department of Molecular-Morphology-Microscopy (mVISION), and within this setting Prof. dr. Samir Kumar-Singh is heading the molecular pathology group, which collaborates closely with the Laboratory of Medical Microbiology/VAXINFECTIO (Prof. Surbhi Malhotra). The research group’s primary goal is to contribute to the knowledge of cellular and molecular mechanisms of respiratory diseases, including pneumonia caused by bacteria (e.g. Pseudomonas) or viruses (e.g. COVID-19).
Application Deadline: 24 July 2023
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in lymphology/ oncological rehabilitation
Summary of PhD Program:
The Department of Rehabilitation Sciences and Physiotherapy in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, MOVANT research group (Prof. An De Groef, dr. Tessa De Vrieze, prof. Mira Meeus) is looking for a full-time (100%) doctoral scholarship holder in the field of lymphology/oncological rehabilitation. Fulltime (100%) PhD researcher for the LymphSens project: The enigma of subjective lymphedema: Why do patients report lymphedema after breast cancer treatment without an objective measurable swelling? The role of sensory processing and subclinical lymphedema – LymphSens Trial. This is a joint PhD at the University of Antwerp (main institution) and KU Leuven (partner institution).
Application Deadline: 1st of August 2023
5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Health Economics with a focus on policy making on Covid-19 vaccination
Summary of PhD Program:
You will work actively on the preparation and defence of a PhD thesis in health economics, with a focus on policy making on Covid-19 vaccination. The PhD project aims to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of Covid-19 vaccination strategies at both pandemic and endemic stages, drawing on mathematical models developed at CHERMID, existing data sources and literature, and new data collections (eg, discrete choice experiments).
Application Deadline: July 12th 2023
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Health Economics with a focus on evaluating Covid-19 response in Europe
Summary of PhD Program:
You will work actively on the preparation and defence of a PhD thesis in health economics, with a focus on Covid-19 and pandemic preparedness. The project aims to explore the success/failure of the diverse Covid-19 pandemic response plans in Europe, and to evaluate their efficiency. An important part of your work consists of collating, analysing and interpreting Covid-19-related behavioural, economic, healthcare use and health impact data that have previously been collected in national and international projects CHERMID is involved in, using state of the art statistical and economic analyses (eg, data envelopment analysis).
Application Deadline: July 12th 2023
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in microenvironment in inflammatory- and triple negative breast cancer
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD scholarship clinical research allows young researchers to prepare a PhD thesis in the field the microenvironment in inflammatory- and triple negative breast cancer. Both these breast cancer subtypes are characterized by their aggressive behavior. Novel technologies, such as RNA single cell sequencing and spatial transcriptomics, will be used to particularly address mechanistic alterations of immune cells in these tumors, in attempt to find new modes of treatment. Samples will be collected in our local hospitals and in units contributing to the International Inflammatory Breast Cancer consortium. An expert group of (co)promotors with a large track-record in this field will guide the PhD student through this endeavor.
Application Deadline: June 29th 2023
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in ecological economics and the sustainable use of geological resources
Summary of PhD Program:
You will work actively on the preparation and defence of a PhD thesis ecological economics and the sustainable use of geological resources. The PhD research is part of a larger FWO-SBO research project DIAMONDS in which innovative hydrogeological methods will be integrated with economic, environmental, and social impact assessments to determine threshold values that must be met to respect subsurface, environmental, economic, and social criteria for the sustainable management of geological resources in Belgium and beyond. Within this project, the PhD research will focus on creating knowledge about sustainability indicators for geological resource use and the integration of these criteria in a multicriteria decision analysis.
Application Deadline: 6 July 2023
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in consumer behavior
Summary of PhD Program:
You will work actively on the preparation and defence of a PhD thesis in the field of consumer behavior. The doctoral project investigates how food perceptions in children and adults are formed from a biopsychosocial perspective. Summary: Research has shown that the belief that taste and health in food are negatively correlated, the Unhealthy = Tasty Intuition (UTI), increases consumers’ likelihood of being overweight. The question arises how this belief develops and to what extent this is a matter of nature or nurture. The project investigates its development in a nature-nurture context, ranging from children’s biological aptitudes for taste and nutrition (project 1), to the immediate home environment of children in their early life (project 2), to broader social and cultural influences (project 3).
Application Deadline: July 31st 2023
10. Fully Funded PhD Position in History of Wealth Inequality
Summary of PhD Program:
You will work actively on the preparation and defence of a PhD thesis in History. Your research is part of the interuniversity iBOF-project “An Ancestor’s Tale” (VUB-UAntwerpen-KULeuven), which aims to reconstruct and explain patterns of wealth ownership and its transmission across generations over a period of 200 years in Belgium. This specific PhD-project investigates the strategies households have used to settle their wealth after their death, how these strategies evolved over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and how they impacted the intergenerational mobility of wealth.
Application Deadline: 6 July 2023
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in History of Wealth Inequality
Summary of PhD Program:
You will work actively on the preparation and defence of a PhD thesis in History. Your research is part of the interuniversity iBOF-project “An Ancestor’s Tale” (VUB-UAntwerpen-KULeuven), which aims to reconstruct and explain patterns of wealth ownership and its transmission across generations over a period of 200 years in Belgium. This specific PhD-project investigates how, when and why Belgian parents between 1800 and 1920 supported their children in acquiring real estate, and how such transfers impacted the life course of the children, and fostered social mobility.
Application Deadline: 6 July 2023
12. Fully Funded PhD Position in industrial wastewater engineering
Summary of PhD Program:
You will work actively on the preparation and defence of a PhD thesis in the field of industrial wastewater engineering. The PhD project specifically deals with the biological removal of phosphorus from industrial wastewater via the enhanced biological phosphorus removal process (EBPR). The project aims at determining the potential, the efficiency and the stability of the EBPR process while treating industrial wastewater, including the analysis of the microbial community involved.
Application Deadline: 11 September 2023
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in artificial intelligence for renewable energy and climate change
Summary of PhD Program:
You will work actively on the preparation and defence of a PhD thesis in artificial intelligence for renewable energy and climate change. The goal of the thesis is to provide real-time solutions for discrepancies in energy supply and demand, based on a generic data-driven methodology in a world where the climate is changing. The idea is that the methodology, using environment-driven models (such as weather and human behaviour), predicts expected energy production and consumption and determines the appropriate control strategy at macro to micro level to eliminate discrepancies. It is important that this methodology is generic and ready for new production methodologies (such as new wind turbines, new forms of consumption behaviour (such as vehicle electrification) and climate change).
Application Deadline: 23 August 2023
14. Fully Funded PhD Position in electrocatalysis
Summary of PhD Program:
You will work actively on the preparation and defence of a PhD thesis in the field of electrochemical reactor engineering. Electrochemistry is gaining more and more attention as a potential alternative to several traditional industrial processes because of its positive impact on global greenhouse gas emissions (mainly CO2), its ability to store periodic renewable energy and the production of alternative energy sources such as H2. More specifically you will actively form part of the group of researchers within ELCAT that are working on reactor engineering and you will contribute to the optimisation, development and up-scaling of the electrochemical reactors currently being applied within ELCAT.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
15. Fully Funded PhD Position in digital media studies
Summary of PhD Program:
You will work actively on the preparation of a PhD thesis in Digital Media Studies. You will conduct qualitative and theoretically driven research on digital media and new communication technologies, and their role in societal challenges such as loneliness.
In collaboration with your supervisor, you will work on international scientific publications. You will contribute to the international research domain of digital media studies by participating in scientific gatherings and activities.
Application Deadline: 17 August 2023
16. Fully Funded PhD Position in “InfoCitizen” Brazilian case
Summary of PhD Program:
To join the ERC-funded Starting Grant project “InfoCitizen” (101076030) from October 2023 for a period of four years. InfoCitizen will conduct innovative research on the citizenship practices and technologies coalescing around model initiatives to produce and circulate data in the Global South. It aims to creatively develop a global ethnography that engages interdisciplinarity, applied networks, and multi-methods (archival, digital, audiovisual, and quanti-qualitative) to unveil the politics and poetics of informational citizenship across top-down and bottom-up data ecosystems in Brazil, Portugal, Germany, Kenya, and Tanzania.
Application Deadline: July 31, 2023
17. Fully Funded PhD Position in Quantitative in situ electron microscopy of metal halide perovskite materials
Summary of PhD Program:
Light detection and emission are crucial for displays, medical and security scanners. Given the societal relevance, there is an emerging need for novel opto-electronic materials with higher conversion efficiency and lower production cost. Metal halide perovskites (MHPs) are promising high-performance semiconductors due to their strong absorption and emission in a broad spectral range and their ease of manufacturing. So far, integration in opto-electronic devices was hampered by inherent stability issues such as the degradation from the optically active “black” phase into an inactive phase. In this project, we explore a fundamentally new route to stabilize the black phase under ambient conditions. The role of the PhD student is to develop and apply novel low-dose electron microscopy techniques and perform a quantitative analysis of the obtained data.
Application Deadline: August 3rd 2023
18. Fully Funded PhD Position in algebraic geometry
Summary of PhD Program:
You will work actively on the preparation of a PhD thesis in mathematics. You will work in the group of Ignacio Barros. You will be part of a collaboration between the University of Antwerp and Bielefeld University in Germany and as such you will be based in Antwerp but expected to spend at least six months (not necessarily consecutive) in Bielefeld working in the group of Charles Vial. You will carry out mathematical research in the context a research project entitled “Hyper-Kähler varieties and moduli spaces” financed by the Research Department of the University of Antwerp and the German Science Fundation.
Application Deadline: August 17th 2023
19. Fully Funded PhD Position in carbon and water balances of Flemish ecosystems and their vulnerability to climate extremes
Summary of PhD Program:
Natural ecosystems are currently absorbing almost half of the CO2 emitted by humans, but this service is increasingly compromised by climate change. This PhD scholarship allows a young researcher to prepare a PhD thesis on the carbon uptake and water balance of four Flemish ecosystems, their changes over time, and their sensitivity to climate extremes. Specifically, the researcher will analyze the ongoing eddy covariance – (and many other) measurements made by the FWO-funded ICOS-Flanders international research infrastructure project to study the exchanges with the atmosphere, while changes in soil carbon stocks are also a focus of the PhD study.
Application Deadline: July 12th 2023
20. Fully Funded PhD Position in bioscience engineering
Summary of PhD Program:
- You will work actively on the preparation and defence of a PhD thesis in the field of bioscience engineering.
- You publish scientific articles related to the research project.
- You will carry out a limited number of teaching, research and service support tasks for the Department of Bioscience Engineering.
Application Deadline: 16 Augustus 2023
21. Fully Funded PhD Position in signal enhancement strategies for photoelectrochemical sensors for nucleic acid-based sequences
Summary of PhD Program:
The overall goal of this PhD is the development of strategies to enhance the sensitivity of novel photoelectrochemical biosensors that will pave the way to the construction of affordable, robust, and user-friendly platforms for healthcare applications, i.e. cancer diagnosis and infectious disease diagnostics. Due to the integration of recognition bioelements (e.g. DNA/RNA, antibodies or aptamers), electrochemical biosensors are ideally suited for the selective determination of a wide variety of clinically relevant targets such as biomarkers, pathogens, etc. The detection of the biomarkers of interest will be achieved by taking advantage of the cost-effectiveness and sensitive detection provided by photoelectrochemical strategies.
Application Deadline: June 29 2023
22. Fully Funded PhD Position in Ecotoxicology Investigation
Summary of PhD Program:
You will work actively on the preparation and defense of a PhD thesis in the field of bioaccumulation and effects of PFAS on terrestrial invertebrates and birds under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Lieven Bervoets, Prof. Dr. Marcel Eens and Dr. Thimo Groffen. Although PFAS are known to be persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic, many critical gaps in our understanding remain. You will build on recent findings about the bioavailability, bioaccumulation and effects of PFAS (both legacy and emerging) to terrestrial invertebrates and songbirds under both laboratory and field conditions.
Application Deadline: July 31 2023
23. Fully Funded PhD Position in Analytical Chemistry and Toxicology
Summary of PhD Program:
The TC has a longstanding experience, analytical skills and instrumental capabilities related to environmental and human biomonitoring and assessment of environmental and human toxicology, with emphasis on legacy and emerging contaminants (including PFAS, phthalates and flame retardants). The ECOSPHERE research group aims to study both aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems that are continuously challenged by natural and anthropogenic stressors. Its research focuses on acquiring fundamental and applied knowledge at different levels of structural and functional organization to underpin environmental management decisions.
Application Deadline: 31 July 2023
24. Fully Funded PhD Position in Plant development and Ecotoxicology
Summary of PhD Program:
You will work actively on the preparation and defense of a PhD thesis in the field of plant responses to PFAS under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Els Prinsen and Prof. Dr. Kris Vissenberg. You will build on recent findings in plant ecotoxicological responses to environmental PFAS. You will investigate the bio-accumulation of PFAS in different plant species and plant organs using state-of-the art analytical methods, and aim for detailed mechanistic insights in their toxicology using transcriptomics and proteomics approaches coupled to molecular biology, microscopy and live cell imaging.
