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.
Eligible candidate may Apply as soon as possible.
(01) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral grant (Fund for Scientific Research-Flanders (FWO)) in family sociology
Population ageing has required European policy makers to gear towards a more central role of informal care in old adulthood, curbing the public expenditures on care service provisions. The presence of close relatives, such as spouses or close-living children, is known to postpone older persons’ uptake of professional care. This suggests that informal caregivers substitute, at least temporarily, for formal care alternatives. However, to date, there is limited research looking at the specific non-professional care arrangements that older persons can rely on before taking up professional care. In Europe, this is expected to depend upon the country of consideration, as the availability of public care services and cultural norms about who bears the care responsibility vary strongly. Moreover, professional and informal old age care are often combined, but there exists a lack of research on how informal care intensity evolves when taking up professional care. To address these gaps in knowledge, this project draws on the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe to pursue three aims: (1) to assess the process of informal care receiving in relation to the uptake of at-home professional old age care, (2) to examine the process of informal care receiving in relation to the entry into residential care and (3) to study how informal care receiving evolves when taking up professional old age care. All three objectives strongly focus on country differences and LTC policies.
Deadline : August 13th 2025
(02) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral scholarship holders in political science
The two PhD positions are part of the DEMO-LIES project, “Deception in Democracy: Political Lying Accusations and Their Effects on Democratic Citizenship”, led by Prof. Dr. Maurits Meijers. Funded by a European Research Council Starting Grant, this five-year project (2025–2030) investigates how political elites use accusations of lying and disinformation, how citizens perceive such accusations, and what effects these dynamics have on democratic attitudes and behaviours.
DEMO-LIES addresses urgent questions about political communication and democratic integrity. It seeks to understand when and why political actors engage in disinformation accusations, how these accusations influence public perceptions, and what this means for democratic participation and trust. The project aims to generate insights that can strengthen democratic resilience in the face of manipulative political discourse.
The research employs a mixed-method approach. Elite discourse will be studied using advanced quantitative text analysis techniques, including natural language processing (NLP) and large language models (LLMs). To examine citizens’ responses, the project will combine qualitative focus groups, cross-sectional surveys, and survey experiments. This integrated design allows for a comprehensive analysis of both top-down (elite-driven) and bottom-up (citizen) dynamics of political disinformation.
Deadline : 21 August 2025
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(03) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral scholarship holder in the field of redox flow batteries
- You will work actively on the preparation and defence of a PhD thesis in the field of redox flow batteries for renewable energy storage. To guarantee energy supply in the future and keep on incorporating windmills and solar panels in our energy mix, it is crucial that we can store electricity for moments when production levels are too low. Redox flow batteries stand out in the field of energy storage but their charge/discharge rate can still be improved. In this, battery design, electrolyte composition and hydrodynamics are an important area and still need to be improved. You will study new redox chemistries and develop novel electrodes accordingly. You will study the effect of flow fields, scale-up and stacking on the battery’s performance to accurately steer, understand and improve it. In-dept understanding of the hydrodynamics and utilising in situ characterization techniques will be an important part of the workload. Scalability studies may be part of the research activities.
- You will publish scientific articles and/or patents related to your research.
- You also assist in a limited number of teaching tasks and research support to aid in the good day-to-day functioning of the research group and the Faculty of Applied Engineering.
Deadline : August 11th 2025
(04) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral scholarship holder modern German literature and culture
- You will work actively on the preparation and defence of a PhD thesis on the Intersections of Jewish and Working-Class Emancipation in 19th Century German Writing (1830-1860). In this project you will investigate the complex entanglements of Jewish and working-class emancipation in 19th century literary writing. This research combines an archival search for new literary sources and biographical data with close readings of selected works. With the help of an intersectional research framework that is focused on the categories of race, class and gender, you will explore literary texts by authors from different social backgrounds, analyzing their portrayals of mutual struggles for social and political equality. Your study will contribute to Literary and Jewish Studies, expand the canon of 19th-century literature and offer insights into broader questions of identity and diversity.
- You will publish scientific articles related to the research project.
- You will carry out a limited number of teaching and research support tasks for Department of Literature in the areas of German Literature and/or Jewish Studies.
Deadline : 31 Juli 2025
(05) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral scholarship holder molecular exercise physiology
The PhD research project is conducted in collaboration with the MovAnt research group (Prof. Sebastiaan Dalle), the Laboratory of Experimental Medicine and Pediatrics (Prof. Annelies Van Eyck) and the laboratory of Physiopharmacology (Prof. Pieter-Jan Guns).
This PhD project aims to uncover the unexplored role of the endocannabinoid (eCB) system in systemic and peripheral metabolic and inflammatory adaptations following exercise (in obesity). Methodological approaches include 1) a murine (diet-induced obesity) model, 2) acute and chronic exercise paradigms, 3) treatment with peripherally restricted enzyme-based eCB modulators, 4) multi-tissue molecular analyses and 5) functional assays of in vivo metabolism and exercise capacity. This project will generate a multi-tissue eCB atlas in response to acute exercise & obesity, taking into account sexual dimorphism, and fundamental insights in the mechanisms that underlie acute and chronic metabolic and inflammatory exercise adaptations (in obesity).
Deadline : 31 July 2025
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(06) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral scholarship holder vaccine immunology and omics technologies
- You will actively prepare and defend a PhD thesis in the field of vaccine immunology with a specific focus on omics approaches to vaccine responses. You will actively participate in dissecting systemic and mucosal immunology, evaluating unique samples from participants enrolled in human in vivo challenge studies. The PhD project will explore systemic and mucosal immune mechanisms in response to challenge agents or vaccination, using cutting-edge technologies to identify molecular signatures and pathways involved in protective or dysregulated immunity.
- You will publish scientific articles related to the research project.
- You will carry out a limited number of teaching and research support tasks for Vaccinopolis.
Deadline : 1 September 2025
(07) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral scholarship holder epidemiology and public/global health
- You will work actively on the preparation of a PhD thesis with a focus on describing the endemicity, clinical presentations and parasitological features of these filarial infections in selected study sites as well as investigating whether they are associated with neurological disorders and adverse pregnancy outcomes. The research findings will inform clinicians and public health practitioners on better ways to prevent and/or reduce the morbidity caused by filarial infections.
- You will publish scientific articles related to the research project.
- You may be required to attend some courses that are relevant for the research project.
- You may be required to travel for fieldwork in remote endemic areas in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Deadline : 24th July 2025
(08) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral scholarship holder inherited neuromuscular disorders
- Join our motivated team to investigate how mutations in SPTAN1, a key cytoskeletal protein, cause a broad range of neurogenetic disorders. You will use iPSC-derived neurons to study cytoskeletal abnormalities through cutting-edge microscopy and image analysis, functional assays, and electrophysiology. You will perform transcriptomic profiling to reveal disrupted networks, and candidate genes which will be validated against large, unsolved NGS datasets. This project offers a unique opportunity to explore disease mechanisms at the interface of stem cell biology, neurogenetics, and functional genomics, contributing to both fundamental neuroscience and improved diagnostics in rare neurological diseases.
- You will work actively on the preparation of a PhD thesis in Medical Sciences.
- 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 Translational Neurosciences.
Deadline : 31st July, 2025
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(09) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Position in Biostatistics
Are you passionate about Biostatistics to support real-world problems? Do you have a broad interest in health policy analyses, including health economic evaluation and pandemic preparedness? Do you want to contribute to early detection of respiratory viruses and optimize pandemic response strategies?
Then we are looking for you! Join our FWO-SBO project ANTICIPATE, a collaboration between the University of Antwerp, VUB and the Brussels University Hospital, starting October 2025.
The University of Antwerp (UAntwerp is a dynamic, forward-thinking university. We offer an innovative academic education to more than 20 000 students, conduct pioneering scientific research and play an important service-providing role in society. We are one of the largest, most international and most innovative employers in the region. With more than 6000 employees from 100 different countries, we are helping to build tomorrow’s world every day. Through top scientific research, we push back boundaries and set a course for the future – a future that you can help to shape.
Deadline : August 8, 2025
(10) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Position in Biostatistics/Data Science
Are you passionate about Biostatistics and Data Science to support real-world problems? Do you want to contribute to early detection of respiratory viruses and optimize pandemic response strategies?
Then we are looking for you! Join our FWO-SBO project ANTICIPATE, a collaboration between the University of Antwerp, VUB and the Brussels University Hospital, starting October 2025.
The University of Antwerp (UAntwerp is a dynamic, forward-thinking university. We offer an innovative academic education to more than 20 000 students, conduct pioneering scientific research and play an important service-providing role in society. We are one of the largest, most international and most innovative employers in the region. With more than 6000 employees from 100 different countries, we are helping to build tomorrow’s world every day. Through top scientific research, we push back boundaries and set a course for the future – a future that you can help to shape.
Deadline : August 8, 2025
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(11) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral scholarship holder with a project focused on biomarker discovery in neurological disorders
Growing evidence suggests that allergic immune responses in the gut can influence the brain, but how these signals are transmitted and whether they contribute to brain disorders remains unclear. This project explores how food allergy during early life alters the gut microbiota, reprograms immune cells, and promotes their trafficking to the brain, ultimately triggering neuroinflammation. The PhD student will help uncover the molecular and cellular pathways linking the allergic gut to the inflamed brain, and how these pathways shape disease risk later in life.
The successful candidate will work closely with experts in food allergy, neuroimmunology, gut physiology, and computational biology to characterize immune cell responses, construct spatial maps of inflammation along the gut-brain axis, and identify immune-mediated drivers of brain dysfunction.
Deadline : Open until filled
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(12) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD position in neuroimmunology
The Gut-Immune-Brain Axis Lab (Prof. Seppe De Schepper, VIB-UAntwerp) and the Brain and Systems Immunology Lab (Prof. Kiavash Movahedi, VUB) have a vacancy for a full-time (100%) co-joint doctoral project to study tissue-resident macrophages in neurological disorders. This collaborative doctoral project is embedded within the Faculty of Pharmaceutical, Biomedical and Veterinary Sciences of the University of Antwerp and the Brussels Center for Immunology at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
This project will investigate how peripheral immune signals shape brain and brain-border immunity and drive neuroinflammation in synucleinopathies and other neurodegenerative diseases. The candidate will employ advanced in vivo models and spatial technologies to dissect the roles of tissue-resident macrophages and infiltrating immune cells along the periphery–immune–brain axis.
Deadline : 20 August 2025
(13) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral scholarship holder in immunoparasitology and vaccine development
- You will join a dynamic and interdisciplinary team working at the intersection of immunology, parasitology, and genetics, with a strong emphasis on vaccine development and natural transmission with insect vectors. The project focuses on human protozoan parasites Plasmodium and Leishmania that express pro-inflammatory factors, which hyperactivate the host immune system and hinder the establishment of long-term immunologic memory. Strategies such as immunoneutralization or genetic deletion of these parasitic factors have enhanced host immune memory and provided protection against severe disease and reinfection. Notably, host cells also produce pro-inflammatory factors during parasitic infection, further complicating the immune landscape. This research aims to dissect these interactions to inform the design of next-generation vaccines.
- The successful candidate will work actively on preparing and defending a PhD thesis closely with international experts in parasitic diseases, inflammation, and public and private laboratories investigating vaccines for infectious diseases.
Deadline : 24 July 2025
(14) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral scholarship holder in the field of neuroscience
Charcot-Marie-Tooth neuropathy can be caused by mutations in different genes. Clinical studies have demonstrated that hereditary neuropathies can also involve muscle pathologies, complicate diagnosis and hamper therapy development. We have developed advanced in vitro cell models, such as co-cultures, microfluidics, and neuromuscular organoids that incorporate motor neurons, skeletal muscle, and supporting cells (Schwann cells and macrophages) generated from patient induced pluripotent stem cells to elucidate the pathogenicity of peripheral neuropathies. Your role will be to investigate the impact of novel therapeutics in the cell models. For this you will apply stem cell and neuronal culturing techniques, immunohistochemistry, confocal and electron microscopy, transcriptomics and electrophysiology on monolayer micro-fluidic devices and neuromuscular organoids to determine the effect of therapeutic molecules.
Deadline : 31 July 2025
(15) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: doctoral scholarship holder in the field of molecular quenching strategies for photoelectrochemical sensing
This PhD project aims to fundamentally explore the quenching dynamics of photosensitizers by various compounds and (nano)materials. The research will investigate both direct and indirect quenching strategies, with a focus on singlet oxygen production and suppression in photoelectrochemistry and sensing applications. By evaluating different quenching mechanisms (e.g., proximity-based singlet oxygen quenching and wavelength-specific energy transfer), this project seeks to develop novel insights into molecular quenching dynamics. This fundamental research project will advance the understanding of photosensitizers in electrochemistry. Moreover, it will have a potential impact in novel biosensor technologies for detecting multiple biomolecules, including nucleic acids, proteins, and other clinically relevant analytes.
Deadline : Open until filled
(16) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: doctoral scholarship holder in the field of novel bio-electrochemical sensing strategies
The overall goal of this PhD is to develop novel biosensing strategies that will pave the way to the construction of affordable, robust, and user-friendly biosensors. The main focus will be on amplified singlet oxygen-based photoelectrochemistry for the detection of nucleic acid-based biomarkers in healthcare applications (e.g. cancer diagnosis and infectious disease diagnostics). This PhD will contribute to the efforts of gaining insight into yet unexplored biosensing and signal amplification strategies, with an emphasis on innovation in the field of electrochemistry and bio-analytical research.
Deadline : Open until filled
(17) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD position in the domain of Quantitative Computational Imaging (perfusion MRI)
We are seeking for a motivated and talented PhD student to develop model-based reconstruction methods for quantitative super-resolution perfusion magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Specifically, you will develop model-based image reconstruction methods for quantitative arterial spin labeling (ASL) MRI images. ASL is a promising, non-invasive perfusion magnetic resonance imaging technique for quantifying cerebral blood flow (CBF). Unfortunately, ASL suffers from an inherently low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and spatial resolution, undermining its potential. Increasing spatial resolution without significantly sacrificing SNR or scan time represents a critical challenge towards routine (pre)clinical use. In this PhD research, you will develop model-based super-resolution reconstruction methods for accelerated and quantitative high-resolution ASL MRI, thereby breaking the traditional SNR/resolution/scan-time trade-off. Alongside purely physics-based models, you will explore physics-informed deep learning approaches.
Deadline : July 23, 2025
(18) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD position in the area of “Light-induced Reactivity and Redox Transformations of Minium (Pb3O4, red lead), an artists’ pigment employed in many historical periods”
With the aim of answering research questions such as:
- In which conditions does minium form lead soaps/lead carbonates? Is the resulting mixture of secondary lead compounds similar for minium and for PbO? Which half-reactions are taking place in the presence/absence of environmental factors such as light, moisture and specific paint binding media?
- Can the reactivity of minium be completely attributed to an excess of PbO in case of absence or presence of activation by light? How essential is the latter for minium to react with reduced biomolecules such as lipids and fatty acids?
- Under which circumstances (pCO2) is the formation of lead carbonates favoured over that of (large and small) lead carboxylates?
- What is the willingness of museum visitors to pay for environmentally friendly art conservation methods (in order to minimize spontaneous degradation phenomena)?
Deadline : Open until filled
(19) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral scholarship holders (PhD students) in the field of bioscience engineering
- You work actively on the preparation and defence of a PhD thesis in the field of bioscience engineering.
- You publish scientific articles related to the research project.
- You carry out a limited number of teaching, research and service support tasks for the department of bioscience engineering.
Deadline : 17 August 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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