Are you holding Master’s degree and looking for fully funded PhD positions? Eindhoven University of Technology, 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 GaN-based Power Electronics for Reliable Next-Generation Actuation Systems
Summary of PhD Program:
Within this project, we are looking for a talented power electronics PhD-candidate. Your main goal will be to research and develop gallium-nitride (GaN) based power electronics that cause low transient electric fields, in order to mitigate partial-discharge induced failures in linear actuators. Such linear actuators are used in high-tech motion systems, for example to allow nanometer-accurate positioning in lithography machines. However, increasing requirements on actuator acceleration and precision lead to higher mechanical, electromagnetic and thermal stresses as well as non-recoverable failures. Actuator reliability therefore has become a major concern, but failure mechanisms are currently poorly understood.
Application Deadline: 16/06/2024
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in streaming data management
Summary of PhD Program:
This is a 5-years paid PhD position. The position will be with the Database group of the TU Eindhoven. You will join a vibrant team of 5 permanent researchers/academics and 8 PhD students, and collaborate with other top research institutes across Europe. You will participate in cutting-edge research, publish your work in leading conferences and journals for data management (SIGMOD, VLDB, TODS, TKDE), and contribute to open-source tools. You will travel to present your work to international conferences, and to meet world-class academics.
Application Deadline: 02/06/2024
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Spiking integrated photonics for neuromorphic sensing and processing
Summary of PhD Program:
Rapid advances in artificial intelligence technologies have led to powerful models and algorithms that have revolutionized many applications across all fields of science and technology. Deep learning performed within artificial neural networks has yielded new ways to process data, leading to sophisticated systems with impressive functionality and benefits. However, conventional computing hardware is reaching its limits in terms of energy efficiency and speed. A new approach to computing hardware is needed. Novel brain-inspired or neuromorphic chips working with biologically inspired spiking neural networks have gained attention as they promise highly efficient ways to process data.
Application Deadline: 18/06/2024
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Explainable AI in Machine Vision for Autonomous Driving
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD project is designed to identify, systemize and evaluate XAI methods, and to identify best-practices for machine vision in the context of autonomous driving, while taking into account human factors and societal norms. To this end, it will be necessary to not only consider mathematical and technical details, but also relevant insights from e.g. psychology of human decision-making, regulation & standardization of explainability, and ethical principles of safety, transparency, privacy, and fairness.
Application Deadline: 26/05/2024
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5. Fully Funded PhD Position in ultra-reliable intra-aircraft wireless communication
Summary of PhD Program:
The project will investigate techniques to guarantee high levels of reliability in wireless networks inside aircrafts, comprising robustness for interference, failure and attacks, and with high levels of availability, flexibility, and dealing with stringent latency constraints. Besides making use of well-known diversity techniques at the physical layer such as channel coding and multiple antennas, the project will investigate diversity techniques at the link and network layers. It is the intention to investigate intelligence mechanisms embedded in the network that will be able to detect, localize, analyze and predict connectivity disruptions and attacks and consequently take the necessary countermeasures. The proposed techniques will be validated using simulation tools and experimental set ups.
Application Deadline: 09/06/2024
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in InP photonic devices and circuits directly grown on Si
Summary of PhD Program:
Photonics is widely regarded as the key enabling technology of the 21st century and its application and use in many scientific and industrial fields is accelerated through Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs), which combine many optical components into a miniaturized chip format. Similar to electronic ICs, PICs are revolutionizing areas such as healthcare, communication and sensing and have the potential to be disruptive to the whole society. While InP technology promises highest efficiency and speed, its scalability is constrained by its native substrate size (industrial mainstream 4 inch). A promising research direction in this field is to explore the method to scale up towards the Si substrate sizes (200-300mm), using direct growth of InP epitaxial layers on Si.
Application Deadline: 16/06/2024
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Algorithms for complex networks
Summary of PhD Program:
As a PhD-TA candidate, you will work on new distributed algorithms for large networks, in particular, computing the stationary distribution of random walks and policy evaluation. Random walks are used in network analysis for ranking vertices, community detection, and embedding of the vertices in multi-dimensional space for machine learning tasks. Policy evaluation is widely used in reinforcement learning, for instance, for training large language models. Your challenge is to develop, analyze and implement algorithms where the network vertices act independently by learning from their local observations. You will mathematically analyze the algorithms on random graph models and implement them on large real-life networks.
Application Deadline: 16/06/2024
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Novel bipolar membranes by electrospinning
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD project is driven by the pressing need for innovative solutions to meet current and future demands for bipolar membranes in the transition towards a circular society. Our focus lies in developing a novel electrospun bipolar membrane capable of significantly enhancing water dissociation rates. Our aim is to engineer a membrane chemistry and structure that optimizes water transport and dissociation, particularly at the 3D junctions, thereby achieving a tenfold increase in the dissociation rate of water molecules into protons and hydroxyl ions for above mentioned applications.
Application Deadline: 24/05/2024
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in plasma-driven CO2 upgrading – 1a. Pulsed power design
Summary of PhD Program:
Using sustainable energy, back-conversion of CO2 to organic materials is a very interesting, but highly challenging concept. The aim is not to regenerate fuels but synthesize essential building blocks for specialty organics like e.g. pharmaceutics, vitamins and advanced polymeric materials. Plasma technology, especially our fast pulse power plasma concept, could provide pathways of lower activation energy than conventional thermal activation. By choosing the right combination of plasma parameters, feedstock recipes and reactor topology, plasma-driven hydrocarbon synthesis from CO2 may be a very attractive, near future concept to secure the availability of advanced organic materials without dependence on fossil sources. The focus of this PhD project will be on the pulsed power development for this process.
Application Deadline: 09/06/2024
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10. Fully Funded PhD Position in plasma-driven CO2 upgrading – 2. Plasma chemistry & engineering
Summary of PhD Program:
Using sustainable energy, back-conversion of CO2 to organic materials is a very interesting, but highly challenging concept. The aim is not to regenerate fuels but synthesize essential building blocks for specialty organics like e.g. pharmaceutics, vitamins and advanced polymeric materials. Plasma technology, especially our pursued fast pulse power plasma concept, could provide pathways of lower activation energy than conventional thermal activation. By choosing the right combination of plasma parameters, feedstock recipes and reactor topology, plasma-driven hydrocarbon synthesis from CO2 may be a very attractive, near future concept to secure the availability of advanced organic materials without dependence on fossil sources.
Application Deadline: 09/06/2024
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Revenue Management for Complex Stochastic Systems
Summary of PhD Program:
Today, many companies in various industries need to manage highly complex stochastic systems where uncertainties are inherent and data is ubiquitous. These systems span various domains, from manufacturing equipment, to rental systems, to production systems and beyond. In such environments, decisions must be made repeatedly to maximize profits while balancing conflicting outcomes and exploiting real-time data. For instance, in manufacturing operations, decisions regarding production speeds directly impact production outputs on the one hand, and factors such as equipment deterioration and energy consumption on the other hand. Similarly, in rental systems, optimizing pricing strategies to match real-time demand with supply is crucial for revenue maximization.
Application Deadline: 09/06/2024
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12. Fully Funded PhD Position in Wellbeing and justice implications of innovations and transitions
Summary of PhD Program:
Are you fascinated by the question of how we can transition to a circular and sustainable society without creating further damage and injustice? And are you interested in quantifying a range of environmental effects? This PhD project develops improved methods to include future developments and justice aspects into environmental impact assessment methods and applies them to real-world challenges. The research takes place in a multidisciplinary research group, involving social and natural scientists as well as humanities scholars, with a focus to work on sustainability transitions.
Application Deadline: 02/06/2024
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in Circular and climate neutral pavement strategies– an assessment framework
Summary of PhD Program:
Major aim of the PhD position is to develop a framework to assess the environmental footprints of circular roads building on prospective life cycle assessment and material flow analysis, and to apply this framework to assess contributions to circularity and climate targets (2030; 2050). You will develop an approach to compare eco-efficiencies of technological innovations and current and future road pavement scenarios. By applying this approach you will be able to answer questions like: To what extent does lifetime extension and improved circularity of roads help to reach climate neutrality? How much can be gained in terms of GHG reduction compared to the current situation?
Application Deadline: 02/06/2024
14. Fully Funded PhD Position in Hybrid-Photonic Neural Networks on Chip
Summary of PhD Program:
We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated candidate to investigate and implement conventional and novel concepts of neuromorphic computation to be translated on the InP membrane on Silicon (IMOS) platform, relying on the possibility to co-integrate lasers, modulators and PDs and still reach ultra-compact form-factor and interfacing to ultra-fast electronics. Concepts of the in-memory computing will also be investigated and developed for this same platform and for the first time. This PhD research will enable mapping neural network models on monolithically integrated ultra-fast and ultra-compact chips, leading to highly efficient and parallel processing ultra-compact engines.
Application Deadline: 30/05/2024
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15. Fully Funded PhD Position in Circular manufacturing logistics for industrialized construction 4.0
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD candidate will develop modelling tools to analyse, (re-)design and control the manufacturing processes and the underlying value chain processes. This entails the development of a modelling framework to analyse and redesign the value chain by focusing on the alignment between assets, processes and stakeholders based on system engineering approaches. The digital twin of the off-site/on-site manufacturing and logistics processes, will enable scenario analysis for decision-making to develop coordinated production (manufacturing of modules), offsite logistics (inventory/storage and transport) and onsite assembly/disassembly planning which include the return and reuse of parts in a reverse flow.
Application Deadline: 16/06/2024
16. Fully Funded PhD Position in Electrical Energy Systems
Summary of PhD Program:
The goal of the RESONATE project is to investigate how the network can be operated in real-time and adaptive to minimize the required safety margins and use the available network capacity as efficiently as possible. The project will define prerequisites for the implementation of real-time system operations and develop an appropriate system architecture for TSO and DSO. Real-time system operations uses available network capacity more efficiently than is possible in the present paradigm. It therefore will be possible to connect more customers to the network when real-time becomes the dominant system operation methodology.
Application Deadline: 14/06/2024
17. Fully Funded PhD Position in permanent-magnet-free electrical drives for heavy-duty applications
Summary of PhD Program:
In contrast to conventional internal combustion engines, electric traction vehicles offer a more environmentally friendly solution for mitigating global warming. Due to their high power density, permanent-magnet-based electrical machines are commonly used in electric vehicles. However, these machines have several disadvantages, such as the high cost of the permanent-magnet (PM) material and decreased performance at higher temperatures. Specifically, the electrification of heavy-duty vehicles, such as agricultural tractors, requires a large amount of rare-earth material to satisfy the high-torque demand. One of the strong candidates for PM-free high-torque electrical drive is the variable flux reluctance machine (VFRM) because of its robust and cost-effective structure.
Application Deadline: 23/06/2024
18. Fully Funded PhD Position in Probabilistic Machine Learning
Summary of PhD Program:
The Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI) group is a growing group embedded in the Data and AI (DAI) cluster at the Eindhoven University of Technology (https://dai.win.tue.nl). In the DAI cluster, we aim at developing foundations of AI for the present and the future. This includes the design of new AI methods, development of AI algorithms, and tools with a view at expanding the reach of AI and its generalization abilities. In particular, we study foundational issues of robustness, safety, trust, reliability, tractability, scalability, interpretability, and explainability of AI.
Application Deadline: 23/06/2024
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19. Fully Funded PhD Position in Learning Analytics-based dashboards for supporting students blended learning
Summary of PhD Program:
In this PhD project, you will design student-facing dashboards based on students’ clickstream data as a (partial) solution to this problem. Learning Analytics-based student dashboards offer the potential to motivate students, encourage self-regulated learning, and provide personalized feedback, but they are currently not reaching their full potential. In our research team, you proceed with a theory-guided design of dashboards in combination with a student-centered co-design and a thorough statistical evaluation in field experiments. We will consider, among others, educational theories that focus on planning activities, such as goal-setting theory, feedback theories that offer ‘actionable’ guidance, and motivational theories, such as self-determination theory.
