KU Leuven, Belgium invites online application for multiple fully funded PhD programs in various research areas. Candidates interested in fully funded PhD positions can check the details and may apply as soon as possible.
1. PHD-POSITION: HEALTH EFFECTS OF FERMENTED FOODS
Summary of PhD Positions:
In this PhD project, which is part of a large European project, we will specifically investigate the role of short chain fatty acids in cardiometabolic health benefits. Short chain fatty acids are metabolites that are present in fermented foods but are also produced in the gut from fermetation of dietary fibre. They are considered as important mediators of human health. The project involves human intervention studies with either pure short chain fatty acids or fermented foods to evaluate their impact on health. Human samples collected during the interventions will be analysed with mass spectrometry based methods.
Application Deadlines: 15/06/2022
2. CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION OF NONLINEAR UNCERTAIN SYSTEMS
Summary of PhD Positions:
Taking into account various forms of uncertainty is a common challenge in the design of industrial systems: there can be uncertainty on the physical parameters of the model, on the manufacturing process, and/or on the load conditions. At the same time, the solution to design optimization problems involves the numerical solution of partial differential equations, which are already computationally expensive even without uncertainty. The goal of this thesis is to develop mathematical and numerical methods for solving large scale optimization problems featuring uncertainty. The most popular approaches today consist in replacing the objective and constraint functions by some statistically averaged quantities. In this thesis, we will develop more systematic methodologies for computing efficiently the statistics associated to the optima of a family of parameterized constrained optimization problems.
Application Deadlines: July 30, 2022
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3. DOCTORAL RESEARCHER IN ECONOMICS
Summary of PhD Positions:
The doctoral project aims to quantify the effectiveness of financial sanctions in China. The PhD candidate will have access to unique firm-level data and a complementary supervisory team. They will also be invited to develop their own research agenda in political economy or international/development economics. The project “Targeting the Corps: The Effectiveness of Humanitarian Sanctions in China” is financed by the Global PhD Partnership UCLouvain-KU Leuven, leading to a joint doctorate that will be obtained at both UCLouvain and KU Leuven. The candidate will write a doctoral thesis under the main supervisions of Johannes Van Biesebroeck (KULeuven) and Jean-François Maystadt (UCLouvain). The candidate will also benefit from interacting with Nele Warrinnier (KU Leuven) with a strong expertise in the economics of sanctions.
Application Deadlines: June 15, 2022
4. PHD STUDENT IN PRECLINICAL RESEARCH ON SARCOMA TREATMENT
Summary of PhD Positions:
Sarcoma is a heterogenous group of rare mesenchymal tumours with more than 90 distinct subtypes described. The limited treatment options available for advanced sarcoma patients underline the need for reliable preclinical models to test new therapeutic approaches. Our group established a unique panel of PDX models (XenoSarc)in nude mice, currently constituting of more than 70 different models from various human sarcoma subtypes. These models are well-characterised, making it a suitable platform for preclinical therapeutic target validation and drug evaluation in vivo, which are done in collaboration with academic centres and industrial partners. Your role in this project will be to perform in vivo experiments, testing novel therapeutic options in mouse models of sarcoma and analysing ex-mouse human tumours using histopathological and molecular techniques. Furthermore, you will be involved in creating and characterising novel PDX models.
Application Deadlines: July 15, 2022
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5. PHD STUDENT/POSTDOCTORAL POSITION ON MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR MECHANISMS UNDERLYING NEUROREPAIR IN THE FAST-AGING KILLIFISH (NOTHOBRANCHIUS FURZERI)
Summary of PhD Positions:
There is an unmet need for successful neurorepair in aged patients and therefore, for innovations in therapies. We use the African turquoise killifish (Nothobranchius furzeri), the shortest-living vertebrate laboratory species that displays all cellular and molecular aging hallmarks characteristic to humans, as a model for in-depth investigations into brain aging. Recently, we have discovered that although young killifish are capable of full-blown neurorecovery upon injury, aged killifish lose these abilities. Aged killifish rather mimic the restricted repair capacities of (aged) mammalian brains, including chronic inflammation and glial scarring. In addition, we show a change in the number, morphology and the gene expression of progenitor cells (PCs) in the telencephalon due to aging, indicating a change in the cellular composition of the telencephalon, possibly linked to changes in cell state concerning the potency/failure for full-blown neuro-regeneration upon age.
Application Deadlines: June 20, 2022
6. PRECISION LASER SPECTROSCOPY OF SHORT-LIVED ISOTOPES
Summary of PhD Positions:
Is a nucleus spherical or deformed? Do nucleons behave as individual entities or should they be considered as the building blocks of a collective state? How does the structure of an atomic nucleus change when extreme amounts of protons or neutrons are present? These are only a few examples of questions which our group is trying to answer. In cooperation with other international research teams and using the results of experimental and theoretical studies, we probe the unknown properties of the strong interaction. To reach this goal, our research focuses on the structure of exotic nuclei, i.e. nuclei with extreme proton to neutron ratios. Especially among these isotopes, new nuclear phenomena appear such as changes in the conventional shell structure, the presence of new magic numbers, configuration mixing, shape coexistence and nuclear deformation.
Application Deadlines: June 30, 2022
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7. PHD VACANCY IN RELIGIOUS, SOCIAL AND ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY: CATHOLIC WORKERS’ PARISHES AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN BELGIUM
Summary of PhD Positions:
The interfaculty centre KADOC, the Department of Architecture and the research unit History of Church and Theology (KU Leuven) aim to recruit a full-time four year PhD researcher in the framework of the project Reconquering the city. Pastoral agency and spatial impact of workers’ parishes in Belgium, 1884-1914. In the three decades before World War I, the Belgian Catholic Church sought to regain its influence on the industrial working class through a strategy of socio-pastoral proximity, competing with the growing resonance of the socialist labour movement. The number of Catholic parishes in (sub)urban working-class neighborhoods grew dramatically. By founding these so-called ‘workers’ parishes’, the Church tried to counteract the secularization of the working class and to reassert its claim on the urban territory. By studying a balanced set of case-studies across four dioceses, this project fosters an in-depth understanding of the changes in parish life and socio-pastoral care, evaluating their impact on community identities and the everyday experiences of religion.
Application Deadlines: June 30, 2022
8. PHD POSITION IN GEOMATICS FOCUSING ON COMPUTER VISION AND MACHINE LEARNING
Summary of PhD Positions:
There is a vacancy for a PhD researcher in the Geomatics research group of the Department of Civil Engineering of KU Leuven. The candidate will be active in projects that aim at the processing and interpretation of geolocated imagery e.g., assessing damages on construction sites or existing buildings through computer vision. The position starts October 1st 2022 and is for four years. The Geomatics group’s laboratory is based on the Technology Campus in Ghent, which is located at the center of Belgium, in the heart of Europe. The research group targets practical applications in the field of construction and surveying and focuses on data capture, processing and interpretation for the creation of semantically rich databases i.e., BIM and GIS and the analysis of the built environment. The emphasis is on the processing of geometry such as point cloud data and mesh data, and on information extracted from imagery taken from the built environment.
Application Deadlines: June 30, 2022
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9. PHD IN PHILOSOPHY OF TECHNOLOGY
Summary of PhD Positions:
As part of the forthcoming Chair Ethics and AI, the Institute of Philosophy at KU Leuven invites applications for a fully funded PhD position for 4 years about ethics of AI in a global context. Most people agree that ethical AI is about privacy, sustainability and justice, among other things. However, in the global context of developing AI systems one can distinguish multiple ethics guidelines, which has to do with the many conceptions of privacy, sustainability and justice across cultures, regions, and traditions. Moreover, questions often arise with respect to translating an ethical principle into a technological design. Can the principle be translated, and if so, how? Therefore, the research has two goals. The first is to pinpoint the differences and similarities between the many conceptions of moral values that are used in the global context of AI development; the second purpose is to explore the difficulties and possibilities of translating ethics guidelines into norms for developing AI systems.
Application Deadlines: June 15, 2022
10. PHD ON POLYGENIC ARCHITECTURE TO EXPLAIN CARDIAC ADAPTATION AND EXERCISE CAPACITY IN ELITE ENDURANCE ATHLETES.
Summary of PhD Positions:
You will conduct translational research on the effect of (long-term) physical exercise on cardiac structure and function in humans. More specifically, you will support the analysis of 2 prospective clinical trials (Pro@Heart, clinical trial registration number NCT05164328, and Master@Heart, FWO-TBM project T003717N) that investigate the effects of long-term endurance exercise on (1) atrial and ventricular remodeling (including fibrosis), (2) coronary vasculature and (3) atrial and ventricular arrhythmias. The Pro@Heart study (www.proatheart.be) aims to identify the impact of training load and genotype on the variance of exercise-induced cardiac remodeling in elite endurance athletes and (2) determine how exercise-induced cardiac remodeling and its determinants are associated with physical performance, health benefits and cardiac pathology.
Application Deadlines: June 30, 2022
11. THE ROLE OF THE TEACHER IN TECHNOLOGY-ENHANCED EDUCATION FOR COMPLEX LEARNING
Summary of PhD Positions:
In this PhD project you will focus on that teacher’s role driven by four interconnected research lines. First, a conceptual framework will be developed to theoretically consolidate the dimensions of support for complex skills including support from the teacher and the technology. Next, methodological research is needed to capture what teachers are doing and how teachers interact with the technology supporting learners. In that respect, the PhD aims to contribute to the methodological development of process oriented research methods in the field of learning and instruction including eye-tracking research and video analysis. Complementary to the conceptual and methodological work, rigorous empirical descriptive research will be conducted to better understand the interaction between teaching,technology and learning.
Application Deadlines: June 23, 2022
12. PHD POSITION ON MULTISCALE MODELLING OF ETHYLENE TRANSPORT IN TOMATO FRUIT
Summary of PhD Positions:
Tomato fruit has been successfully used for many years as a model system to study ripening of fleshy fruit at the molecular level. Given their relatively impermeable fruit skin, tomato fruit is expected to develop internal gas gradients, potentially leading to localised hypoxia and ethylene accumulation just beneath the skin. The hypothesis is that this triggers pore formation to facilitate gas transport and alleviate these gas gradients. The focus of the project is on 3D microstructural analyses using advanced X-ray microtomography techniques to visualise pore formation during fruit development, and extending an existing multiscale mathematical model for oxygen transport to describe ethylene transport. The model will then be used to quantify oxygen and ethylene concentration profiles in the fruit and relate them to pore formation.
Application Deadlines: June 15, 2022
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13. PHD POSITION ASTRONOMY EDUCATION RESEARCH
Summary of PhD Positions:
In primary and secondary education students are introduced to several concepts that help them explain astronomical phenomena such as the changing phases of the moon, seasonal changes or the apparent motion of the sun and the stars. A lot of research has been conducted focused on these topics. Less research has investigated the learning and teaching of the organization of the universe, i.e. the structures (planetary systems, star clusters, galaxies, galaxy fillaments), the orientation of those structures and their relationships. Additionally, the research is often focused on higher education.
Application Deadlines: July 8, 2022
14. PHD IN PHYSICS AT KU LEUVEN ON “QUANTUM COLOR CENTERS IN DIAMOND: UNRAVELING THE LINK BETWEEN THE ATOMIC-SCALE STRUCTURE AND FUNCTIONALITY”
Summary of PhD Positions:
During the last two decades, point defects in diamond – also referred to as color centers– have arisen as excellent building blocks for a wide variety of solid state quantum devices and quantum technologies. Indeed, it has been shown that various defects can be introduced, which show bright single-photon emission at room temperature. So far, the negatively charged NV- defect,consisting of a single nitrogen impurity neighbored by a vacancy, has been the most widely studied candidate. Despite a number of particular advantages of the NV- center, the long fluorescent lifetime and a weak emission of theNV- into the zero-phonon line (ZPL) set an upper limit to the achievable photon rates of the quantum devices.
Application Deadlines: June 16, 2022
15. PH.D. POSITION ON ROBUSTNESS EVALUATION WITH DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS IN VACCINE DEVELOPMENT
Summary of PhD Positions:
Current state-of-the-art vaccine development is based on the “Quality-by-Design” paradigm, where risk-based and data driven decisions are key. One important aspect in this context is to establish the “Design space”. Design spaces are subspaces of process parameter combinations “that have been demonstrated to provide assurance of quality.” In that context, the robustness of a process is its property to generate quality attributes within specification limits after a change in experimental conditions. The robustness of a process is its property to tolerate changes in experimental conditions without negative impact on quality. The goal of the Ph.D. is to develop methodology geared towards identifying design spaces under the frequentist and Bayesian paradigms, to compare them, and to identify design of experiments strategies for finding design spaces efficiently. The project will be in collaboration with the pharmaceutical company GSK.
Application Deadlines: May 31, 2022
16. PHD SCHOLARSHIP ‘WORKER FLOWS, JOB-TO-JOB TRANSITIONS AND LABOUR MARKET FLUIDITY’
Summary of PhD Positions:
As a PhD fellow in the Dynam team, you will collaborate on a new project about the impact of work-to-work transitions at the individual level as well as at the level of sectors and regions as a whole. The focus is on the characteristics and determinants of work-to-work transitions and their impact on workers’ careers. The research fits into the flow approach to labour markets and the literature on labour market fluidity and flexibility. The aim of the research is to develop new measures and test hypotheses for labour market fluidity based on worker flows. Empirically, it focuses on the Flemish and Belgian labour market.
Application Deadlines: June 19, 2022
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17. PHD POSITION GENOME EDITING AND SYSTEMS GENETICS
Summary of PhD Positions:
We are looking for an ambitious and highly motivated PhD student to join our group (Laboratory for Genome Editing and Systems Genetics – KU Leuven Center of Microbial and Plant Genetics, VIB Center for Microbiology). Our group develops cutting-edge CRISPR-based tools to precisely modify the genomes and transcriptomes of microbes at scale. With these technologies we aim to better understand how differences at the level of genotype translate to individual differences in phenotype, using the yeast S. cerevisiae as a model system. Our multidisciplinary research combines high-throughput genome editing, state-of-the-art genomics methods, and computational biology. The PhD position focuses on studying functional consequences of synonymous sequence variation and their relevance in shaping phenotypic diversity.
Application Deadlines: May 23, 2022
18. POSTDOC OR PHD RESEARCH POSITION ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TECHNIQUES FOR ENHANCED SORTING AND PLASTIC RECYCLING
Summary of PhD Positions:
In this project, KU Leuven will lead a “Data-driven plastic sorting, analysis and traceability” work package. The main objective of this work package is to enable a data-driven optimization of the sorting processes and higher traceability during the pre-processing of plastic recyclates. To achieve this, more detailed data is needed on the material composition and characteristics throughout the processing steps that are commonly adopted. Therefore, sampling procedures, artificial intelligence-driven sorting, and characterisation methods to define the composition of plastic recyclates during pre-processing will be developed.
Application Deadlines: June 1, 2022
19. PHD RESEARCH POSITION ON ADAPTIVE ROBOTIC DEMANUFACTURING
Summary of PhD Positions:
In this project, KU Leuven will lead the activities on lifecycleimpact and lifecycle costing analysis (LCA&LCC) andon computer vision driven robotic demanufacturing. These activities will becarried out within a multidisciplinary and multinational/multicultural team ofresearchers at KU Leuven, in which competences are already available to performthe LCA&LCC and the deep learning computer vision for component detectionand product identification. Therefore, we are looking for a new colleague tocomplement this team with the objective to investigate the most optimalapproaches for continuous feeding and clamping of electronic products orprinted wiring boards and for one or multiple robots to dismantle the products withmultiple unscrewing tools (or alternative dismantling technologies, such asmilling).
Application Deadlines: June 3, 2022
20. PHD: KNOWLEDGE-BASED AI FOR MANUFACTURING
Summary of PhD Positions:
In Logic-Based AI, we use the domain knowledge of human experts to develop smart systems. We help the expert write down her knowledge in a logic language, and then apply various forms of logical inference to it, in order to produce helpful conclusions. Using this methodology, we recently developed a prototype of a Logic-Based AI system to help engineers at one of our partner companies design machine components (see: https://lirias.kuleuven.be/retrieve/523033). In an up-coming project, we will use similar technology to help operators fine-tune machine. We are looking for a PhD-student to work on this project.
Application Deadlines: June 20, 2022
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21. PHD ON TOPOLOGICAL AND ELECTRON CORRELATION PHENOMENA IN 2D/LAYERED MATERIALS
Summary of PhD Positions:
This project deals with phenomena originating from electron correlations and non-trivial band topology, which have become one of the main research areas in modern condensed matter physics. Many classes of materials have emerged including topological insulators, Dirac/Weyl semimetals and quantum anomalous Hall insulators (QAHI). Moreover, when such materials are combined, new phenomena and functionalities emerge, such as topological superconductivty and Majorana states. While major research efforts have been dedicated to studying such phenomena in conventional 3D materials, the tremendous potential of 2D or layered materials remains largely unexplored. Since new phenomena emerge from interface-mediated coupling (e.g. interfacing a QAHI and a superconductor), 2D materials and related layered systems are an ideal platform.
Application Deadlines: May 31, 2022
22. TRANSDISCIPLINARY DOCTORAL RESEARCH PROJECT ON EXPERIENTIAL FUTURING AS A CO-CREATIVE METHODOLOGY TO RESPOND TO (DIGITAL) BLACKOUTS IN (UN)LIVEABLE CLIMATES
Summary of PhD Positions:
We are looking for a RESEARCHER with the ambition to complete a doctoral program in four years. You will be involved in a research project at the crossroads between art/design and social-behavioral sciences. Your task will be to investigate how young generations of citizens can be empowered to develop a response to the challenge of digital outage. Millions of young people exchange knowledge on social media and the internet to get their voice out. For people living in natural disaster sensitive or politically sensitive climates digital outage is a realistic scenario that impacts knowledge exchange.
Application Deadlines: June 30, 2022
23. SEVERAL PHD POSITIONS IN MACHINE LEARNING AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Summary of PhD Positions:
The Machine Learning group follows an artificial intelligence approach to the analysis of data. It investigates a wide variety of machine learning and data science problems. It mostly concentrates on problems that involve complex and structured data and background knowledge. It has expertise in areas such as Learning and Reasoning, Automated Data Science, Learning Constraints and Optimisation Criteria, (Constrained) Clustering, Probabilistic Programming, Statistical Relational Artificial Intelligence, Neural Symbolic Computation, Predictive Learning, Verification and Machine Learning and it is applying its expertise in areas such as Anomaly Detection, Sports Analytics, Robotics, Sensor data, Action and Activity Learning and Operations Research (see https://dtai.cs.kuleuven.be/ for more information).
Application Deadlines: June 20, 2022
24. ERC PHD POSITION IN MACHINE-LEARNING/AI-BASED AUTOMATED SYNTHESIS OF ANALOG INTEGRATED CIRCUITS
Summary of PhD Positions:
Within the frame of the ERC Advanced Research Grant “AnalogCreate” (https://www.kuleuven.be/english/research/EU/p/horizon2020/es/erc/analogcreate) of Prof. Georges Gielen, several PhD positions and one postdoc position are available. Analog, mixed-signal and RF electronic circuits are essential in many applications like IoT, biomedical, automotive, etc. Yet, their design remains time consuming and error prone due to the analog complexity and the lack of automation. The overall goal of the AnalogCreate ERC AdG research program is to drastically increase the productivity, optimality and correctness of designing integrated analog electronic circuits.
Application Deadlines: June 12, 2022
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25. STOCK-FLOW MODELLING IN THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY
Summary of PhD Positions:
The objective of the research is to build models of material flows in (parts of the) society in order to assess the possible effects of different future scenarios of the evolution in regulation, economic and technological changes, etc. You will gather relevant data to monitor the progress towards a circular economy in Flanders as a first step. Modelling of stocks and flows is crucial to gain insights in raw material use and in the potential to gain materials back. Such flows are determined by the amount of required materials and their lifetimes. With dynamic modelling you will assess material flows from the past and from the future to determine amounts, qualities and locations of materials in products and in society.
Application Deadlines: May 30, 2022
26. ERC PHD POSITION IN EFFICIENT FORMAL VERIFICATION OF ANALOG/MIXED-SIGNAL INTEGRATED CIRCUITS
Summary of PhD Positions:
Within the frame of the ERC Advanced Research Grant “AnalogCreate” (https://www.kuleuven.be/english/research/EU/p/horizon2020/es/erc/analogcreate) of Prof. Georges Gielen, several PhD positions and one postdoc position are available. Analog,mixed-signal and RF electronic circuits are essential in many applications like IoT, biomedical, automotive, etc. Yet, their design remains time consuming and error prone due to the analog complexity and the lack of automation. The overall goal of the AnalogCreate ERC AdG research program is to drastically increase the productivity, optimality and correctness of designing integrated analog electronic circuits. The novelty of the research is to explore and apply innovative algorithmic techniques, including AI and machine learning, to do this.
Application Deadlines: June 12, 2022
27. UNDERSTANDING HETEROGENEITY IN PRESCHOOLERS AT RISK FOR STRUGGLING WITH MATHEMATICS LEARNING VIA PROFILE ANALYSES
Summary of PhD Positions:
This project starts from the observation that some children already struggle with early mathematical competencies in preschool. These difficulties often lead to laterl earning disorders, such as dyscalculia. These early learning difficulties are characterized by a large heterogeneity. The aim of the current part of project is to investigate this heterogeneity in preschoolers at risk for learning difficulties via profile analyses. This allows us to identify risk as well as protective factors for future academic learning. The identification of potential profiles provides a ground for early diagnosis and intervention for children at risk for learning difficulties. This knowledge will also be relevant for another part of the project that deals with early interventions of learning difficulties through dynamic assessments.
Application Deadlines: June 26, 2022
28. DUTCH SPEAKING ASSISTANT FOR PHILOSOPHICAL SKILLS TRAINING AT THE INSTITUTE OF PHILOSOPHY
Summary of PhD Positions:
The Institute of Philosophy wants to hire an assistantfor Philosophical Skills training in the first BA Wijsbegeerte, to assist withthe courses ‘Dispuut- en Steloefeningen’ and ‘Onderzoeksvaardigheden’. Thesetasks will take about ½ of the assistant’s working time and will be conductedin Dutch. The successful candidate will also write a PhD inphilosophy, under supervision of one or the professors of the Institute ofPhilosophy.
Application Deadlines: June 1, 2022
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29. PHD IN AUTOMATED TEST GENERATION AND AI/ML-BASED TESTING FOR ANALOG/MIXED-SIGNAL ICS
Summary of PhD Positions:
This PhD will therefore investigate and explore the emerging capabilities of developing and applying novel algorithmic techniques towards the efficient testing and automated test generation for analog integrated circuits. This includes exploring techniques from machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI). Detecting outlying behavior will be a major focus to maximize test coverage. Also, solutions towards real-time monitoring and signal interpretation in the IC will be investigated. Reuse will also be a solution to master the design complexity. The PhD work will involve the development and application of novel algorithms and computer techniques, including AI/ML, to the testing and test generation of analog/mixed-signal ICs in close collaboration with industry.
Application Deadlines: June 30, 2022
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30. RU PRIVATE LAW, INSTITUTE FOR PROPERTY LAW, PHD RESEARCHER, FULL TIME
Summary of PhD Positions:
The Institute for Property Law under the direction of prof. Dr. Vincent Sagaert is part of the Private Law Research Unit. The Institute coordinates teaching assignments concerning property law and carries out research into topics relating to this subject of the law, such as ownership, the distinction between goods, emphyteusis, superficies, usufruct, etc.
Application Deadlines: May 19, 2022
31. PHD POSITION IN MEMBRANE PROCESS FOR ION RESOURCE RECOVERY
Summary of PhD Positions:
The PhD project will be carried out in the Group of Smart Responsive Separation with Hybrid Processes at KU Leuven under the supervision of Prof. dr. Xing Yang. We also form part of the larger Process Engineering for Sustainable Systems (ProcESS) group at the Department of Chemical Engineering with expertise in process intensification, multiphase microfluidics, use of alternative energy sources and membrane technology. The Yang Research Group focuses on process intensification strategies for designing low-emission and energy efficient separation systems utilizing smart responsive materials with nano/micro-structured interfaces, reactive kinetics and optimal separation units.
Application Deadlines: July 15, 2022
32. SECURITY AND AI: SMART ACCESS CONTROL WITH AI
Summary of PhD Positions:
Broken access control ranks the top place in the 2021 OWASP Top 10 web application vulnerabilities, and incorrect implementations or updates of access control policies are often the cause of such vulnerabilities. By joining our research team, you will play an important part in addressing increasingly sophisticated access control attacks with AI-driven authorization and auditing of next generation cloud, fog and edge applications. You will be challenged to make access control smarter by tackling authorization challenges in any of the following topics of interest: machine-learning based risk models for intelligent distributed policy enforcement in cloud, fog and edge environments,
Application Deadlines: June 30, 2022
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33. PHD-POSITION “PSYCHOSOCIAL AND SELF-DEVELOPMENT IN YOUTH WITH A CHRONIC ILLNESS”
Summary of PhD Positions:
Research at our center mainly focuses on two broad, interrelated topics. Both topics share an explicit focus on longitudinal, developmental research. The first research line mainly focuses on long-term longitudinal research in adolescents and young adults with a chronic illness, such as type 1 diabetes and congenital heart disease. Also survivors of childhood cancer are examined in our research. We focus on variables such as identity, bodily functioning, broader psychosocial functioning, treatment adherence, and relationships with parents. Several long-term longitudinal data-sets are at our disposal for investigating these variables and mechanisms.
Application Deadlines: July 6, 2022
34. SECURITY BY DESIGN THROUGH THREAT MODELING
Summary of PhD Positions:
Threat modeling (also called architectural risk analysis) is an activity to reason about software security at the design level, as a complement to code-level security practices. To improve state-of-practice threat modeling activities to better support and expedite the software development process, our research team is working on an increased degree of automation for threat modeling, based on rich system models and knowledge bases, and we are looking for your help. If you join us, you will perform research on security threat modeling and advance the state of the art in that domain.
Application Deadlines: June 30, 2022
35. MATERIAL CHARACTERIZATION AND TRANSFER PRINTING OF ELECTRODES ON THIN-FILM SEMIMETAL CRYSTALS
Summary of PhD Positions:
The framework of this project is the CONNECT project (https://www.eos-connect.be/?page_id=183), which deals with topological materials, including the recently discovered Dirac and Weyl semimetals (WSM). These materials present quantum effects leading to surprising energy and heat transport properties at cryogenic temperatures. In particular, they are potential excellent thermoelectrics, i.e., they can convert heat to charge current and vice versa with an efficiency much larger than traditional Peltier thermoelectric materials. Hence, they may find applications as disruptive sensors or very low temperature refrigerators for the next generation of quantum computers.
Application Deadlines: June 15, 2022
36. REAL-TIME MONITORING AND CONTROL OF MMC-BASED VSC HVDC SYSTEMS
Summary of PhD Positions:
The massive integration of renewable energy sources in the power system worldwide is pushing the transmission systems to their limits. Power electronics-based network components are playing a major role in this energy transition. They offer the possibility to control power flows and increase the reliability of the network under variable working conditions. On the transmission level, High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) technology is the candidate for reinforcing and upgrading the system. Long-term visions encompass rolling-out an offshore grid in the North Sea combined with so-called “electricity highways”, energy corridors with power ratings that are an order of magnitude higher than existing line ratings.
Application Deadlines: June 30, 2022
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37. RU ECONOMIC LAW, INST FOR COMMERCIAL AND INSOLVENCY LAW, ASSISTANT
Summary of PhD Positions:
The Institute for Commercial and Insolvency Law is part of the Research Unit of Economic Law and provides education and research in insolvency law, Belgian and international commercial law (mainly commercial transactions and investments), and notarial procedural law. Project Research in the domain of insolvency law, trade law, or international trade law. You will perform doctoral and other research in the field and provide educational support.
Application Deadlines: May 30, 2022
38. STUDYING POROUS METAL PHOSPHONATES VIA CRYSTALLINE AND MOLECULAR REFERENCE MATERIALS
Summary of PhD Positions:
We are looking for a motivated PhD candidate to study the synthesis and structure of porous metal phosphonates (PMPs). PMPs are a fascinating yet understudied class of hybrid materials. The exceptionally strong interaction of organophosphonate linkers to the metal nodes, especially for M(IV) centers (e.g., compared to M(IV)-carboxylates), yields robust materials that remain stable even under harsh conditions. The other side of the coin is that the strength of the M(IV)-O-P bond hampers synthesis control. Unlike for metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), the (partially) amorphous nature and diversity in chemical binding modes found in many PMPs challenge conventional analytical approaches.
Application Deadlines: May 30, 2022
39. SECURING THE DECENTRALIZED WEB WITH ADVANCED AUTHORIZATION
Summary of PhD Positions:
Client-centric decentralized systems, such as the Solid decentralized web technology, empower the end-users to control their own data. However, with great power comes great responsibility and many challenges, for both app developers and end-users. Controlling which application can use which data depends on the usage context and trust of both the application and organization controlling the application.
Application Deadlines: June 30, 2022
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40. 3 PHD POSITIONS ON THE TEXT, TRANSMISSION AND TRANSLATION OF 1 CORINTHIANS
Summary of PhD Positions:
The 1Cor project’s main goal is to produce full scientific text-critical editions and analyses of 1 Corinthians with an innovative multilingual perspective in order to come to a thorough text-critical understanding of the textual development and transmission of 1 Corinthians in the first millennium. This will include a full digital text-critical edition of the Greek text, providing the earliest attainable Greek text in the first millennium as part of the International Greek New Testament Project’s contribution to the Editio Critica Maior (ECM) and a full critical edition of the Old Latin text of 1 Corinthians in its earliest attainable revisions as part of the Vetus Latina (VL) series of the Vetus Latina Institut Beuron (Germany).
