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 statistics/ machine learning
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD student will work on the development of spatio-temporal data analysis techniques tailored to the challenges that can arise in environmental settings. The research is defined within the context of the Flanders AI (artificial intelligence) Project (FAIR2) and will be concerned with ways to compute optimal data collection strategies in space and time through e.g. the use of Bayesian methodologies. Besides, the study and occurrence of extremes can be of interest. Computational methods (e.g. resampling methods, Monte Carlo theory among others) will play an important role in this research next to Bayesian statistical modelling with e.g. hierarchical modelling, GAMMs or Gaussian processes.
Application Deadline: Sep 15, 2024
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in electrophoresis in advanced configurations
Summary of PhD Program:
In the LCP group of Ghent University (lcp.elis.ugent.be) we have a long history of modelling and testing electrophoretic motion of particles in polar and nonpolar liquids. Our goals are to understand the underlying physical mechanisms and to develop or improve new technologies based on this knowledge, such as electronic ink displays, smart windows, manipulation of particles at the microscale and electrodeposition. In recent experiments and prototypes we noticed that phenomena occur that cannot be explained by the one-dimensional models that we developed and commonly use. The PhD candidate will continue our recent research in these new phenomena by designing and creating new microstructures that highlight the observed novel effects and that lead potentially to promising new applications.
Application Deadline: Sep 30, 2024
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Business Economics
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 effects of the Nutri-Score on consumer choices. The project focuses on the Nutri-Score, the front-of-pack nutrition label considered as most promising to stimulate healthy food choices in the grocery store. We expect the Nutri-Score to work, but possibly in different ways for different people at different moments. The goal of this project is to develop research on whether, why and for whom the Nutri-Score works. You will be supervised for this project by the professors Iris Vermeir (UGent) and Maggie Geuens (UGent) and the post-doc Eva Heeremans (UGent).
Application Deadline: Aug 15, 2024
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in History
Summary of PhD Program:
The 3 PhD-projects (‘Micro-histories of violence workers within networks of coercion, 1870-1970)’ are each concerned with a micro-history of violence in a given rural location, one project in Rwanda, one in Burundi, and one in Congo. The exact locality will be decided together with the PI and the team. Most importantly, these projects are aimed at obtaining a better bottom-up grasp of the broad landscape of violence work(ers) in different local contexts. This will enable researchers to observe and analyse the extent to which everyday violence work under Belgian colonialism was entangled with other European systems of colonial oppression and isolate those elements that were specific to the Belgian approach.
Application Deadline: Aug 15, 2024
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5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Applied Mathematics
Summary of PhD Program:
This ERC project aims to bridge this gap by leveraging the flexibility and power of statistical models to accurately represent intervention effects or facets of the causal data-generating mechanism, integrating it with recent insights from debiased machine learning and causal inference. Besides laying foundations for a novel paradigm for causal/statistical modeling, this project seeks to enhance the robustness and efficiency of debiased machine learning methods. This PhD project will primarily focus on this latter component, in interaction with fellow researchers on this project.
Application Deadline: Sep 01, 2024
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in computer science
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD fits within the recently launched imec Health Mission, a strategic research track aiming to advance the discovery and development of novel therapeutics over the next 10 years. IDLab Ghent is a key partner in the Health Mission, and leads the first mission project ADAPT (for “Affinity and Developability through AI for Protein Therapeutics”). ADAPT aims to develop AI-based models to design and optimize antibodies and nanobodies with high binding affinity and optimal developability properties, in a collaboration with several imec research groups and key industrial partners from the Ghent area specialized in nanobody technology.
Application Deadline: Dec 31, 2024
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Electrical Engineering
Summary of PhD Program:
Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) is a 3D sensing technology based on laser light to measure the distance between an object and the sensor that holds great promise for allowing autonomous machines to see and navigate the world with very high precision. Typically, LiDAR designs comprise a multitude of moving parts (e.g., an assembly of lasers, optics, electronics, and detectors) on a mechanically rotating stage.
Application Deadline: Aug 31, 2024
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Geology
Summary of PhD Program:
You will perform cutting-edge scientific research in the context of the ERC Starting Grant “FLOWSCOPY: Unravelling unsteady fluid flows in porous media with 3D X-ray micro-velocimetry”. Fluid flows in porous materials are a widespread phenomenon, just think of groundwater flow in the subsurface. The behavior of the flow on the large scale, for example how a pollutant spreads in a soil after an environmental disaster, is controlled by how fluids work their way through a maze of minuscule, interconnected pores in the material. Such flows involve complex fluid physics that are currently far from being fully understood.
Application Deadline: Sep 30, 2024
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in engineering
Summary of PhD Program:
– At least 90% of your assignment will be spent on academic research in preparation of a doctoral dissertation
– You have an interest in computational research that contributes to the development of new nuclear reactor types (i.c. MYRRHA).
– You will apply ab initio modeling (density functional theory and post-Hartree-Fock methods) and possibly artificial intelligence (training and using machine learning potentials) to study the structure and stability of polonium oxyhdydrides in environments characteristic for the MYRRHA reactor.
– You communicate both with the (experimental) researchers who approach the same question from a chemistry point of view.
Application Deadline: Aug 27, 2024
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10. Fully Funded PhD Position in Hard X-ray ptychography
Summary of PhD Program:
Hard X-ray ptychography is one of the most advanced microscopy techniques to visualize materials in structures in 3D at a spatial resolution better than 100 nm. However, the technique is currently only available at synchrotron facilities, with very limited availability. In this project, we aim to bring hard X-ray ptychography to laboratory facilities. This project is an international collaboration between Ghent University, University College London (UK) and the Diamond Light Source (UK) and brings together different expertise and possibilities for experiments.
Application Deadline: Aug 31, 2024
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Electronics and Information Systems
Summary of PhD Program:
The research group led by Prof. Steven Verstockt and Prof. Dieter De Witte, focuses on Applied AI projects in heritage, (mental) healthcare, media, and sports. Recent projects include the enrichment of historical maps, enhancement of plant herbarium collections, use of LLMs to interact with mental health patients, application of multimodal AI for image retrieval, and development of AI-supported annotation interfaces for museums.
Application Deadline: Dec 31, 2024
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12. Fully Funded PhD Position in statistics
Summary of PhD Program:
‘Big data policing’ can be seen as an innovative, information-driven policing strategy where advanced statistical methods analyze historical data to predict where and when there is a high risk of new crime. In current big data policing applications, algorithms are developed to “learn” from past crime patterns to predict future trends and patterns. Big data policing attracts the interest of many police forces in Europe. This research project funded by the European Research Council (ERC) aims to develop an evidence-based big data policing model that will be tested in various European cities.
Application Deadline: Aug 16, 2024
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in Electromechanical
Summary of PhD Program:
UGent received an industry research and valorisation acceleration fund from Flanders Make to investigate the winding damage of the electric machines due to thermal and electric stresses. The trend towards higher DC bus voltages and faster switching power electronics by SiC/GaN results not only in high efficiency and compactness, but also in an increased probability of damage in electric motor windings due to partial discharges in the insulation layers. It is also shown that another cause for degradation, thermal cycling, accelerates the damage caused by electrical partial discharges.
Application Deadline: Oct 31, 2024
14. Fully Funded PhD Position in Political Sciences
Summary of PhD Program:
This position is part of the Energy Transition Fund project BE-Wise, which aims to develop policy recommendations for Belgian policies towards the offshore wind industry to stimulate economic competitiveness, decarbonization, and supply security.
Application Deadline: Sep 01, 2024
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15. Fully Funded PhD Position in Biotechnology
Summary of PhD Program:
The area of expertise includes the screening for novel biocatalysts (enzymes and micro-organisms), the optimisation of fermentation strains through metabolic engineering, the engineering of enzymes through rational design and directed evolution, as well as process development, up-scaling, and downstream processing. Prof. De Mey leads a group of 8 PhD students and 5 postdocs and has a strong track-record in translating her basic research into real-life applications, including patents and spin-offs.
Application Deadline: Oct 01, 2024
16. Fully Funded PhD Position in Political Sciences
Summary of PhD Program:
We offer a full-time position for initially one year. Upon positive evaluation, the position can be extended for three additional years to allow the researcher to complete a PhD on the topic of the project within four years. You will work under the joint supervision of Prof. Thijs Van de Graaf and Prof. Ferdi De Ville (GIES). You will have the opportunity to follow trainings (including through Doctoral Schools), attend international conferences and spend a research stay abroad.
Application Deadline: Sep 01, 2024
17. Fully Funded PhD Position in Electromechanical, Systems and Metal Engineering
Summary of PhD Program:
For the fifth generation of axial flux permanent magnet synchronous machines, the goal is to enhance the sustainability of the axial flux motor by limiting critical materials in the design. Specifically, in the fifth generation, the copper winding will be replaced with an aluminum-based one, and the rotor design will be adjusted to reduce the use of rare earth permanent magnets.
Application Deadline: Sep 30, 2024
