Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), Netherlands 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 Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), Netherlands.
Eligible candidate may Apply as soon as possible.
(01) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD position Safe Use of AI in Telecommunication Networks, NExTWORKx
Telecommunication networks are becoming increasingly programmable and automated. Various types of software can now be integrated to operate these networks in the cloud. While this enhances performance, for example through the use of AI-based algorithms, it also raises important questions about security and reliability. How can we use network modeling to ensure these technologies are operated safely and efficiently?
Scientific challenges for this exciting PhD project include: how to model the various interdependencies between hardware and software components, using network modelling; how to assess the safety of such interconnected critical infrastructure and how to design and implement efficient algorithmic implementations of the theoretical models.
You will be supervised by Dr. Caterina De Bacco from the Network Architecture and Services Group and Dr. Eric Smeitink from KPN, working closely with a collaborative team.
This PhD position is part of the NExTWORKx* partnership, a strategic collaboration between KPN and Delft University of Technology. Curious to learn more about the project? Feel free to visit our website, where you’ll also find other exciting PhD opportunities related to this collaboration.
You’ll become part of a diverse, enthusiastic team of academic staff, PhD students, and postdocs in the Network Architectures and Services Group. Together, we explore the characteristics of complex networks, from man-made infrastructures to biological, brain, and social systems. We foster a friendly, supportive environment where we regularly meet, exchange ideas, and collaborate. You’ll also receive comprehensive training to help you grow as a researcher.
Deadline : December 1, 2024
(02) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Position Resilient Cross-Domain Networks for Critical Infrastructures
Imagine contributing to making our connected critical infrastructures more resilient. Do you enjoy exploring mathematical models and working with network data? Join our team as we conduct innovative research on network models to address important challenges in connected critical infrastructures.
These infrastructures are composed of physical components, which are increasingly managed through automated systems and procedures. As digitalization continues, telecommunication networks are becoming more intertwined with these infrastructures, which, in turn, rely on stable power grids to function smoothly.
In this exciting PhD project, you’ll explore how to model these interconnected infrastructures and their control systems, understanding their dependencies in both physical and digital spaces. You’ll also investigate how to assess the resilience of these systems and help design automated controls that operate effectively across different infrastructures.
This PhD position is part of NExTWORKx, a strategic partnership between KPN, a leading Telecom and ICT service provider, and Delft University of Technology. You will be supervised by prof.dr.ir. Rob Kooij and an expert at KPN, working closely with a collaborative team. Curious to learn more about the project? Feel free to visit our website, where you’ll also find other exciting PhD opportunities related to this collaboration.
You’ll be part of a diverse and passionate team of academic staff, PhD candidates, and postdocs in the Network Architectures and Services Group. We value open discussions, sharing ideas, and collaborating regularly to advance our understanding of complex networks—whether they are technological, biological, or social. You’ll also receive comprehensive training to support your growth as a scientist.
Deadline : December 1, 2024
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(03) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Position Co-evolution of Telecommunication Networks and Urban Systems
Many cities leverage Internet of Things sensors and analytics platforms to gather data on infrastructure, processes, and operations. This data is used to better manage resources, assets and services and improve operations. To fully support the digitization of cities the telecommunications networks also need to evolve, offering e.g., ubiquitous connectivity and decentralised datacenter capabilities to optimize urban performance. This project aims to explore how telecommunications networks both influence and are influenced by urban systems, and to identify network designs that can further enhance global telecom and urban performance.
This exciting PhD project presents several scientific challenges, including: developing advanced models for co-evolution driven by real-world data, surpassing state-of-the-art synthetic models; collecting and integrating diverse datasets, including entity matching; and combining expertise from network data science, telecommunications, and urban studies to address aforementioned modeling and design questions.
You will be part of a leading team in network data science within the Multimedia Computing Group (MMC) in Computer Science. We share a drive to understand and optimize complex systems ranging from social, technical to economic systems.
The supervision team consists of Dr. Huijuan Wang from MMC and Dr. Eric Smeitink from KPN and Network Architectures and Services Group.
The PhD position is part of NExTWORKx*, the strategic partnership between the Telecom and ICT service provider KPN and Delft University of Technology. Curious to learn more about the project? Feel free to visit our website, where you’ll also find other exciting PhD opportunities related to this collaboration.
In your role, you will collaborate with NExTWORKx partners and external collaborators, such as those from Statistics Netherlands and experts in urban and regional studies. Fostering an inspiring, friendly and supportive environment, we meet regularly, and share ideas and knowledge. And you will receive all the training you need to evolve as a scientist.
Deadline : December 1, 2024
(04) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Position Investigating Cellular Dynamics in Engineered Cartilage
We are seeking a PhD researcher for a 4-year PhD trajectory to develop engineered (osteoarthritic: OA) cartilage models, characterize their mechanical properties, and study cellular responses to various types of stimuli in the developed models.
As part of a multidisciplinary team, you will be supervised by Dr. Nazli Tümer and Prof. Amir Zadpoor within the Biomaterials and Tissue Biomechanics Section, Department of Biomechanical Engineering at TU Delft, supplemented by input from several other faculty members within the section. You will collaborate closely with members of the LoaD project: Healthy Loading to combat osteoarthritis, led by Prof. Gerjo van Osch, and funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO).
This position offers numerous opportunities for academic growth through coursework, mentoring BSc/MSc students, participation in consortia, presenting at conferences, attending workshops, and engaging in teaching activities.
Deadline :15 November 2024
(05) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Position Robust Machine Learning for 6G mmWave Sensing and Communication in Smart Environments
This PhD position focuses on “robust mmWave communication and sensing in smart environments.” As part of this role, you’ll develop algorithms to detect and track objects using Doppler shift and Angle of Arrival (AoA) analysis of Channel State Information (CSI) at mmWave receivers. Additionally, you’ll work on dynamically configuring and allocating Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) elements to optimize sensing and communication. You’ll evaluate these solutions on TU Delft’s state-of-the-art testbed facilities, driving advancements in cutting-edge technology.
As part of the 6thSense MSCA Doctoral School, you’ll collaborate with top international research institutions and industry leaders, including Nokia, Bosch, and NI. Enjoy a highly competitive salary, access to a leading-edge lab with high-end SDRs, and a tailored soft-skills program designed to support your career development.
You’ll be joining an international team exploring groundbreaking solutions for next-gen 6G systems. Here, you’ll tackle exciting challenges in wireless technology, building on your strengths—whether they lie in theory (like optimization, machine learning, signal processing) or in hands-on skills (like software-defined radios and RF engineering).
This position also includes two unique research visits:
- 5-month visit to Prof. Yasaman Ghasempour’s lab at Princeton University
- 3-month visit to Nokia Bell Labs in Stuttgart
Your home base will be the Embedded Systems group at TU Delft, where you’ll be supervised by Dr. Arash Asadi, head of Wireless Communication and Sensing LAB (WISE). As part of this diverse and passionate group, you’ll work alongside academic staff, fellow PhD candidates, and postdocs who are dedicated to pushing the boundaries of network science. We prioritize open discussions, idea-sharing, and regular collaboration to deepen our understanding of complex networks—technological, biological, and social. To support your growth as a scientist, you’ll also benefit from comprehensive training throughout your PhD journey.
Deadline :December 1, 2024
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(06) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Ceramic Nanofiltration for the Management of Concentrate Streams from Drinking Water Treatment
Current membrane-based water treatment systems are essential for producing high-quality drinking water; however, they generate side streams containing elevated levels of emerging contaminants, such as PFAS and other micropollutants. These concentrate streams are often discharged into the environment without adequate treatment, posing risks to public health and ecosystems. This project aims to address this issue with ceramic nanofiltration technology for the safe management of emerging contaminants from concentrate streams. This approach will enhance clean water production and recover valuable resources. The project aligns with the UN Sustainable Development Goals 6 (Clean Water and Sanitation) and 13 (Climate Action), as well as HORIZON EUROPE Cluster 6 (Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment).
Deadline : 29 November 2024
(07) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Position on Justice Aspects of New Flexible Energy Consumption Systems
The 2022 energy crisis in Europe painfully illustrated that current electricity markets leave consumers exposed to extreme price risks. Even in a future electricity system free of fossil fuels, prolonged periods without wind and sun may lead to extreme electricity prices, which consumers are unable to hedge in current retail electricity markets. At the same time, capturing the value of consumer flexibility typically requires exposing them to short-term, volatile price signals, further contributing to their risk exposure.
The PhD-candidate will be studying justice aspects of new flexible energy consumption systems through exploring institutional changes in different countries and identify the expectations about roles, responsibilities, and relations of households vis-à-vis the expectations of other actors in the energy system. The project will involve case-studies, and use approaches such as Q-method, pattern modelling and institutional analysis. This PhD position is one of 15 positions funded under the MSCA Doctoral Network (DN) Consumer Energy Demand Flexibility in Electricity Use (CoDEF).
You will be supervised by dr.ir. Aad Correljé and dr.ir. Udo Pesch. The position is located at the Department of Values, Technology and Innovation (VTI), which focuses on the value dimension of comprehensive engineering, the overarching research theme of the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management (TPM). TPM studies and contributes to sustainable solutions for technical challenges in society by combining the insights from engineering with the humanities and the social sciences.
We foresee a secondment during this PhD trajectory with the University of Stavanger.
Deadline : 1 December 2024
(08) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Position on Dynamics of Inter-Organizational Networks for Standardization
The Section of Economics of Technology and Innovation at the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, Delft University of Technology, is opening a 4-year, fully funded Ph.D. position on the topic “Dynamics of inter-organizational networks for standardization”.
Our society is faced with grand challenges such as climate change, energy scarcity, and a housing crisis. One way to solve these challenges is to develop and commercialize innovative technologies such as smart grids and cheaper houses. However, to accomplish that, coordination between actors and components of systems is required. One way to achieve that is through standardization. Then, dominant standards and designs can be realized that have the potential to solve the major problems. Are you interested in studying the networking strategies that firms can apply in order to set dominant standards and designs?
You, as a successful applicant, will develop state-of-the-art skills in research by studying the influence of the dynamics of the composition and structure of inter-organizational networks of actors that support standards and designs on their dominance. Empirical analyses that combine quantitative research techniques (social network analysis, statistical analysis) and qualitative research techniques (secondary data analysis, process analysis) will be used. You will present the results of your research in a Ph.D. dissertation, to be completed within four years. A small teaching load is part of the job which will be spent on developing and teaching in a new master specialization course on the topic of the dissertation research.
Deadline : 21 November 2024
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(09) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Position on Modelling Human Behavior in Response to Changes in Urban Heat and Air Quality
Today, cities face significant challenges caused by climate change and environmental degradation. More frequent heat waves and human activities contribute to deteriorating air quality. The dense and high-rise urban fabric and the high population density in urban areas complicate maintaining healthy environments. Poor air quality and heat affect human health by increasing vulnerability to pandemics and reducinag lung function. Worse health outcomes also have economic consequences by affecting citizens’ economic productivity1. Poorer communities are disproportionately vulnerable, raising climate injustice concerns, and highlighting the crucial need for balanced decision making in urban design to ensure a healthy environment in modern cities. Urban design decisions ideally rely on a balanced evaluation of criteria, utilizing science-based scenarios for atmospheric flow and human behaviour from digital twins (DT). These decision support tools must represent Earth-system processes at high resolution. The UrbanAIR project empowers municipalities not only to understand the consequences of choices in urban design on the environment, but also to adapt the city landscape to climate change, and to ensure citizens’ safety in case of an extreme event (heat wave, excessive pollution).
This PhD project will focus on the socio-economic impacts of atmospheric climate change and hazards. It uses empirical methods (e.g. household surveys) to study private adaptation decisions with computational social science methods (e.g. spatial agent-based modelling) to explore how human behaviour evolves in various urban environments under climate stresses in particular heat. The PhD project will deliver two behavioral models one for city of Barclona and one for Antwerp. This modeling effort will be accompanied by survey on households (designed by the student and executed by external entities) and other data. Moreover, connecting behavioral insights to the DT developed in the UranAIR project and using environmental data from the DT to use in the behavioral models is an important aspect of this PhD project.
Deadline : 1 December 2024
(10) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Position 3D Super-resolution Microscopy
The PhD position is part of research of prof. Bernd Rieger and prof. Sjoerd Stallinga, in which we target 3D super-resolution microscopy by the “re-scan confocal” technique. Here the confocal spot that is scanned through the sample is re-imaged onto a conventional camera, enabling advances in resolution and signal-to-noise ratio.
We strive for improving this technique with optical engineering of the scan spots and/or scan patterns, by extending the technique to full 3D microscopy, and by applying it to single-molecule localization. The project builds on the lab’s track-record in the field of computational imaging techniques for super-resolution microscopy.
The project will run in collaboration with the company Confocal.nl that brings the re-scan confocal technique to microscopy users, and is part of a bigger consortium on 3D Nanoscale Imaging in which different academic groups run research collaborations with companies in this area.
Deadline : 22 November 2024
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(11) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Position – Dynamics of Design Interventions in everyday Heritage
The reuse of existing buildings is increasingly central to architectural practice. At the European level, the ‘Renovation Wave’ (part of the Green Deal) advocates improving the energy performance, climate resilience and affordability of buildings. Also, at the local level, governments encourage the improvement of individual homes by subsidising sustainable measures. Sustaining and improving buildings is not a new phenomenon, but the circular economy creates a new foundation to study interventions. What architectural means are used to adapt buildings? How can we effectively utilise resources while meeting future demands? Interventions can take many forms, from maintenance and restoration, to renovation, replacement or recycling. Previous research on residential buildings indicates significant spatial interventions in the first renovations, such as replacing building components, improving technical performance, and changing architectural appearance. Later, however, the approach evolves into more conservative or even reconstructive interventions as the valuation of the architecture increases. This implies that throughout the lifespan of a building, both the perception of the architecture and the nature of interventions evolve, resulting in the wasting of resources and energy, as well as the potential loss of social, aesthetic, and historical values. Can we identify a pattern in the relationship between perception and intervention? When does the perception of everyday buildings grow to valuation as heritage? Can we apply this understanding to inform future design interventions? And, ultimately, can we influence that process, favouring a more sustainable use of our resources and care for all our heritage?
Deadline : Open until filled
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(12) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Position Architecture and the Built Environment
This project not only addresses the post-COVID challenges that have altered rural dynamics but also provides an opportunity to engage with pressing issues such as energy transitions and the role of digital technologies in reshaping rural livelihoods. The outcomes of this research will inform the creation of public policies, enhance rural governance, and empower communities to better navigate socio-economic and environmental transitions.
As a PhD candidate, you will be based in the Section of Spatial Planning and Strategy (SPS) within the Urbanism Department at the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft. The SPS section is internationally recognised for its interdisciplinary approach, combining spatial planning, design, and social sciences to tackle complex challenges in urban and rural environments. You will work closely with Dr. Rodrigo Viseu Cardoso, whose research focuses on urban-regional development, governance, and spatial inequality, and Dr. Caroline Newton, an expert in planning and design for spatial justice, urban theory, and critical urbanism. Both supervisors bring extensive experience in applying innovative research to real-world contexts, ensuring your work is well-supported and impactful.
Deadline : 11 November 2024
About Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), Netherlands –Official Website
Delft University of Technology, also known as TU Delft, is the oldest and largest Dutch public technical university. Located in Delft, Netherlands, it is consistently ranked as one of the best universities in the Netherlands, and as of 2020 it is ranked by QS World University Rankings among the top 15 engineering and technology universities in the world.
With eight faculties and numerous research institutes, it has more than 26,000 students (undergraduate and postgraduate) and 6,000 employees (teaching, research, support and management staff).
The university was established on 8 January 1842 by William II of the Netherlands as a Royal Academy, with the primary purpose of training civil servants for work in the Dutch East Indies. The school expanded its research and education curriculum over time, becoming a polytechnic school in 1864 and an institute of technology (making it a full-fledged university) in 1905. It changed its name to Delft University of Technology in 1986.
Dutch Nobel laureates Jacobus Henricus van ‘t Hoff, Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, and Simon van der Meer have been associated with TU Delft. TU Delft is a member of several university federations, including the IDEA League, CESAER, UNITECH International and 4TU.
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