University of Antwerp, Belgium invites online Application for number of Fully Funded PhD Degree at various Departments. We are providing a list of Fully Funded PhD Programs available at University of Antwerp, Belgium.
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(01) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral scholarship International Relations and Conflict Studies
- You will work actively on the preparation and defense of a PhD thesis in the field of International Relations and Conflict Studies. You will write your thesis in the context of the research project ‘Tracing the Realities of Algorithmic Warfare: From Innovation to Deployment and its Impact on Civilian Harm,’ funded by the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO). Our project conducts independent academic research and delivers original data on how algorithmic technology in warfare is made and made actionable by an increasingly diverse group of actors (involving, e.g., computer programmers and data scientists, military startups, technology firms) and how it leads or has led to new and compounding forms of civilian harm in Ukraine and Gaza. It is co-led by Dr. Marijn Hoijtink (University of Antwerp), who will act as the principal supervisor, and Dr. Lauren Gould, who will act as co-promotor (Utrecht University).
- As a PhD researcher in the project, you will conduct independent and collaborative field research to analyze the work and experiences of various actors involved in the innovation and use of algorithmic technology across recent theaters of war. You will also focus on defining and tracing the reverberating and compounding civilian harm effects concerning these cases.
Deadline : 10 April 2025.
(02) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral scholarship holder in the field of film studies
- You will work on the preparation and defence of a PhD thesis at the intersection of the field of amateur filmmaking and the field of media culture and migration.
- This is a joint PhD between the University of Antwerp (main institution) and the VUB – Vrije Universiteit Brussel (partner institution).
- You will conduct research within the framework of the FWO project ‘HomeFrames: Amateur film, migration and home-making in post-war Belgium’ with supervisors prof. Gertjan Willems (UAntwerp) and prof. Kevin Smets (VUB). This project examines how migrants in post-war Belgium (1944-1974) used amateur film to reflect, construct and make sense of their migrant identities and experiences. The objectives include mapping of amateur films made by migrants (in public and private archives), investigating the production and circulation practices of these films, analysing their representational and stylistic features, and evaluating their cultural heritage value. The project, which will be executed in close collaboration with heritage partners, integrates archival research, crowdsourcing, oral history interviews, film analysis and participatory video research.
Deadline : 24 April 2025
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(03) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral scholarship holder working on health communication in birth care, taking a linguistic ethnographic and interactional linguistic angle
- You will work actively on the preparation and defence of a PhD thesis in Linguistics on communication and language in birth care. The central research question of this project is how people that are pregnant or have just given birth talk about and communicate when giving birth, in the socioculturally diverse context of the city of Antwerp. For this project, you will observe and interview participants during pregnancy and during and after labour and birth. You will analyse this data set using qualitative linguistic methods, under the supervision of prof. Jana Declercq.
- You will publish scientific articles related to the research project and will present your findings at national and international conferences.
- You will carry out a limited number of teaching and research support tasks for the department of Linguistics.
Deadline : 27 May 2025
(04) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral scholarship planning and scheduling of in-orbit service missions
- You will work actively on the preparation and defence of a PhD thesis in the domain of operations research for space logistics. With the development of mathematical models and optimisation algorithms, we aim to support strategical, tactical and operational decisions in the context of the deployment of in-orbit service centres.
- You will publish scientific articles related to the research project.
- You will carry out a limited number of teaching (e.g., master thesis supervision) and research support tasks for the Department of Engineering Management.
Deadline : 22 April 2025
(05) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral scholarship holder in the field of private law
- You will work actively on the preparation and defence of a PhD thesis, in which you critically compare the legal framework of family and economic relationships regarding the protection against power imbalances between the parties. You conduct research in family law, family property law, contract law and economic law, under the supervision of supervisors Prof. Dr. Elise Goossens and Prof. Dr. Britt Weyts. You combine a deep knowledge of the law with a research interest in the broader social context. For more information on the project, please contact [email protected].
- You will publish scientific articles related to the research project.
- You will carry out a limited number of teaching and research support tasks and service duties (e.g. examination supervision, sitting on committees or councils) within the Faculty of Law, and in particular within the research group on Personal Rights and Property Rights.
Deadline : April 23th 2025
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(06) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral scholarship holder in the field of constitutional law
- You work actively on the preparation and defence of a PhD thesis within the research group Government & Law. The subject of your PhD thesis is the added value of the Legislative Section of the Belgian Council of State: the black box of constitutional law.
‘[We] need an independent legal service to make it clear that the Constitution or international laws are not a rag of paper’, stated a 2022 Tweet by a future Flemish Minister in response to a Constitutional Court judgment. But what about the Legislative Section of the Belgian Council of State? It has shown itself to be the so-called ‘black box’ of Belgian constitutional law since (1) few people understand how it functions and (2) in order to spot why a rule ‘crashed’ one should consult the Council’s advisory opinion. The project will apply an in-depth legal doctrinal and comparative research into the added value of this judicial body supplemented and enriched by empirical insights via coded advisory opinions and interviews. For more information on the specifically designed project, please contact Prof. dr. Cedric Jenart via [email protected].
Deadline : 28 April 2025
(07) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD in the field of Molecular and Computational Neurogenomics
We are a highly motivated international team of researchers at the Molecular Neurogenomics group (Jordanova Lab) and the Computational Neurobiology group (Malysheva Lab) at the VIB CMN. We are excited to announce a call for a joint PhD student in our labs to work on a challenging project at the interface of neurodegeneration, genomics, computational and systems biology.
Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT) represents the most common genetic disorder of the peripheral nervous system. Patients experience progressive distal muscle weakness and wasting, sensory loss, and skeletal deformities ultimately leaving them severely disabled. This lifelong disorder is currently incurable. The largest protein family implicated in the etiology of CMT are aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases (ARS). Ubiquitous and essential enzymes, ARS catalyse a critical step in protein biosynthesis by charging tRNA with their cognate amino acid. Jordanova Lab reported that dominant mutations in the tyrosyl-tRNA synthetase (YARS) cause a clinical variant of CMT and so far six additional cytoplasmic ARS have been implicated in the same pathology.
The overarching goal of this proposal is to understand why and how dysregulation of omnipresent and constantly expressed ARS proteins leads to dying-back neurodegeneration and affects specifically the peripheral neurons (PNs). This neuronal population contains the most polarized cells in our body and their sophisticated morphology and function render them highly susceptible to degeneration. The preliminary data generated in-house as well as the available public data suggest mechanisms involving genetic, epigenetic and chromatin organisation factors governing the cell-type specific response to ARS mutations. Therefore, an integrative genome-wide cis-regulatory network analysis approaches, developed and employed in the Malysheva Lab, are required to reveal these mechanisms.
Deadline : Open until filled
(08) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral scholarship holder analytical toxicology and wastewater-based epidemiology
- You will work actively on the preparation and defence of a PhD thesis in the field of analytical toxicology and wastewater-based epidemiology. The project aims to provide unprecedented insights into the behavior of xenobiotics in influent wastewater, focusing on the distribution between the liquid and solid phase of influent wastewater. To achieve this, innovative analytical workflows will be developed to quantify three model chemicals (THC-COOH, fluoxetine, methadone) and modeling experiments will assess interfacial equilibrium dynamics and partitioning of these compounds between the liquid and solid phase of influent wastewater under different conditions. The knowledge of these modelling experiments will be transferred to a real-life scenario to determine the relevance of distribution of xenobiotics from a wastewater-based epidemiology perspective. Therefore, this project will fill existing knowledge gaps in wastewater-based epidemiology to allow more accurate and reliable spatio-temporal assessment of chemical exposure at the population-scale.
- You will publish scientific articles related to the research project.
Deadline : 1st April 2025
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(09) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral scholarship holder signal enhancement strategies for photoelectrochemical sensors for nucleic acid-based sequences
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 biorecognition elements (e.g. DNA/RNA), electrochemical biosensors are ideally suited for the selective determination of a wide variety of clinically relevant targets. The detection of the biomarkers of interest will be achieved by taking advantage of the cost-effectiveness and sensitive detection provided by photoelectrochemical strategies. Singal enhancement strategies such as hybridization chain reaction and loop-mediated isothermal amplification will be explored. This PhD will contribute to the efforts of getting insight into yet unexplored biosensing and signal amplification strategies.
Deadline : Open until filled
(10) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral scholarship holder in the field of the synthesis and property testing of B,N-containing flame retardant candidates
- You will work actively on the preparation of a PhD thesis in the field of experimental and applied organic chemistry within the Organic Synthesis (ORSY) division. Your research project will focus on synthesizing novel B,N-containing flame retardant candidates and evaluating their properties in pure form, as well as their performance in various polymer matrices.
- You will publish scientific articles related to the research project.
- You will carry out a limited number of teaching and research support tasks for the department of Chemistry.
Deadline : 31st of March 2025
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(11) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral scholarship holder Design, upscaling and optimization of environmentally friendly and economically viable photo-electrochemical technologies
The A-PECS research group at the Department of Bioscience Engineering in the Faculty of Science and the EnvEcon research team at the Department of Engineering Management in the Faculty of Business and Economics are looking for a full-time (100%) doctoral scholarship holder in the field of Design, upscaling and optimization of environmentally friendly and economically viable photo-electrochemical technologies
Deadline : 27 March 2025
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The University of Antwerp (Dutch: Universiteit Antwerpen) is a major Belgian university located in the city of Antwerp. The official abbreviation is UAntwerp. The University of Antwerp has about 20,000 students, which makes it the third-largest university in Flanders. The University of Antwerp is characterised by its high standards in education, internationally competitive research and entrepreneurial approach. It was founded in 2003 after the merger of three smaller universities.
The university’s roots go back to Sint-Ignatius Handelshogeschool (Saint-Ignatius School for Higher Education in Commerce) founded by the Jesuits (Society of Jesus) in Antwerp in 1852. This was one of the first European business schools to offer formal university degrees. It later opened a Faculty of Literature and Philosophy (including Law) and a Faculty of Political and Social Sciences. It was renamed Universitaire Faculteiten Sint-Ignatius Antwerpen (UFSIA) in the 1960s when the Belgian government granted it university status. In the early 1970s UFSIA joined into a confederation with “Rijksuniversitair Centrum Antwerpen” (RUCA) and “Universitaire Instelling Antwerpen” (UIA), public institutions.
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