Ghent University, 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 Ghent University, Belgium.
Eligible candidate may Apply as soon as possible.
(01) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Student
We are seeking a dedicated PhD candidate on advanced material modelling in the textile domain. In this project you will dive deep into a cutting-edge research area, exploring the complexities of advanced textile material modelling. You will collaborate closely within a research team comprising 3 PhDs and 1 postdoc all working on this project. The research project focusses on the development of a robust multi-scale textile modelling framework, utilizing finite element analysis combined with virtual fibre modelling. Simulations encompass both the manufacturing side (e.g. weaving, stitching, bobbin unwinding, etc.) as well as the performance side (e.g. strength prediction of specialized technical fabric connections). Such simulations are very challenging due to the use of diverse materials (natural and synthetic fibers, yarns and fabrics) combined with high anisotropy and non-linearity. Furthermore, the dynamics of high-speed manufacturing processes need to be included in the modelling framework, ensuring its applicability to real-world processes. This is still a very new research topic and many scientific questions remain unanswered.
Deadline : Dec 31, 2023
(02) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Student
- In close collaboration with the supervisors as well as another PhD student, the PhD candidate will contribute to in the above-mentioned FWO-funded research project, by conducting research of the use of AI by courts and/or the use of AI for predicting corporate distress and potential bankruptcy.
- The candidate will contribute to pilot projects on the use of AI by Belgian (Commercial) Courts.
- The candidate will present research results at major international conferences and publish in international peer reviewed journals, as part of meeting the requirements for the PhD.
Deadline : Dec 01, 2023
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(03) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral fellow
Applications are invited for two PhD research positions of one-year, starting as early as possible in 2024 and renewable once with three additional years, to carry out (historical-comparative) linguistic research within the ERC-funded CongUbangi project led by Prof. Dr. Sara Pacchiarotti at the Department of Languages and Cultures at Ghent University in Ghent, Belgium (http://www.talenenculturen.ugent.be). Within this department, both students will operate in the UGent Centre for Bantu Studies (http://research.flw.ugent.be/en/bantugent), associated with the UGent African Studies program (http://www.africanstudies.ugent.be). All nationalities are welcome to apply; selected candidates are expected to relocate to Ghent, Belgium.
Deadline : Dec 20, 2023
(04) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral fellow
Applications are invited for one PhD research position of one-year, starting as early as possible in 2024 and renewable once with three additional years, to carry out ethnographically informed archaeological research within the ERC-funded CongUbangi project led by Prof. Dr. Sara Pacchiarotti at the Department of Languages and Cultures at Ghent University in Ghent, Belgium (http://www.talenenculturen.ugent.be). Within this department, the student will operate in the UGent Centre for Bantu Studies (http://research.flw.ugent.be/en/bantugent), associated with the UGent African Studies program (http://www.africanstudies.ugent.be). All nationalities are welcome to apply; selected candidates are expected to relocate to Ghent, Belgium.
Deadline : Dec 23, 2023
(05) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Student
The HIV Cure Research Center (HCRC), headed by prof. Linos Vandekerckhove (PI) and prof. Sarah Gerlo (co-PI), is dedicated to multifaceted research with the ultimate objective of achieving an HIV cure. Research activities at HCRC are profoundly translational, characterized by the fusion of studies conducted on samples derived from individuals living with HIV, complemented by in vitro and in vivo validation in experimental model systems. Our endeavours encompass three pivotal domains: 1) fundamental research into the establishment and perpetuation of HIV reservoirs, 2) refinement and creation of novel assays for HIV reservoir monitoring in patients, and 3) the development of innovative strategies for eradicating HIV reservoirs. In addition, we aim to take our innovations to the clinical stage, conducting trials that push the boundaries of HIV cure research. The proposed PhD project centers on the generation of camelid nanobodies engineered to target the HIV Env viral glycoprotein. The performance evaluation of these nanobodies will be carried out both in vitro and in vivo, utilizing models of HIV infection. The ultimate goal of the project is to develop a novel nanobody-based toolbox with applications both in HIV diagnostics and curative strategies.
Deadline : Dec 31, 2023
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(06) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral fellow
The History Department at Ghent University is recruiting 3 doctoral fellows for the ERC Starting Grant Project ‘CATTLEFRONTIERS – (Post)Colonial Cattle Frontiers: Capitalism, Science and Empire in Southern and Central Africa, 1890s-1970s’ (2023-2028), under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Samuël Coghe. CATTLEFRONTIERS explores how colonialism, global capitalism and science transformed cattle production in Southern and Central Africa during the colonial and early postcolonial period. From the 1890s to 1970s, (post)colonial governments, scientists, entrepreneurs and settlers promoted a broad range of interventions to overcome the allegedly uneconomic attitudes of African pastoralists and turn cattle into profitable commodities. Adopted, adapted, contested or eluded by African cattle herders and owners, these interventions transformed pre-existing cattle economies, pastoralist societies, rural ecologies and animal populations in many and often unexpected ways.
Deadline : Dec 18, 2023
(07) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Student
The Laboratory of Protistology and Aquatic Ecology (Ghent University) and Comparative Network Biology group (VIB) invite applications for a fully-funded PhD studentship for 4 years to study life cycle dynamics in coastal diatom populations. Diatoms are major primary producers in freshwater and marine ecosystems but little remains known about the role of endogenous and external factors triggering life cycle transitions, and in particular how global change affects the growth and life cycling of diatom populations. Recent pioneering work in our lab has revealed the genes involved in life cycle transitions (sexual reproduction, resting spore formation, dormancy,…), suggesting a high degree of conservation in several of them. This makes it possible to monitor the expression of these genes to track the growth and life cycle dynamics of multiple species simultaneously. This PhD will take a (meta)transcriptomics approach to track life cycle events of dominant diatoms species in benthic and planktonic coastal ecosystems along the East-Atlantic coasts and link these to the dynamics of population-level cell size structure and local environmental conditions. In parallel, laboratory bulk- and single cell RNA-seq experiments will be set-up to identify and validate environmental factors triggering life cycle events. The successful candidate will participate in field work, laboratory essays, the analysis of metatranscriptome data and the design and testing of molecular probes to track life cycle events in natural conditions.
Deadline : Jan 01, 2024
(08) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Student
- Fundamental and applied research will be performed at Ghent University under the supervision of prof. Joke Baeck (Faculty of Law and Criminology), prof. Klaas Mulier (Faculty of Economics and Business Administration) and prof. Thomas Demeester (Faculty of Engineering and Architecture).
- The proposed research fits within the FWO-funded research project “Evaluation of distressed enterprises using explainable machine learning: construction of an artificial intelligence algorithm to assist judges in Belgian Enterprise Courts”.
- The activities of the PhD are embedded in a stimulating interdisciplinary environment, with the focus on contributions on the use of AI by courts and/or the use of AI (machine learning) for corporate bankruptcy prediction.
- The PhD candidate will thus work on the intersection between AI & Law / Bankruptcy Law, Data Science and Corporate Finance. Depending on the candidate’s preference, emphasis can be placed either on the legal aspect (within the Private Law department), the economic aspect (within the Corporate Finance research group), or on the computer science part (within the Internet and Data Science research group).
Deadline : Dec 01, 2023
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(09) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Student
The Design group of the Ghent University-imec IDLab research group is currently looking for several new PhD and post-doc researchers. The Design team is internationally recognized as a leading research group on high-speed and high-frequency integrated circuits for next-generation communications systems. At this moment, the Design group is for example active in twelve European projects, one ESA project and in direct research contracts with world-leading industry partners. These collaborations form the perfect basis for high-level and industry-relevant research in an environment with expert peers and top-notch test and measurement equipment. The main research lines focus on wired (fiber-optic, radio-over-fiber), wireless (5G, mmWave) and instrumentation for which custom CMOS or SiGe BiCMOS chips are developed and integrated in system demonstrators.
Deadline :Dec 31, 2023
(10) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Student
Within the joint EU Horizon project “INF4INiTY – Integrated Designs for Future Floating Offshore Wind Farm Technology” structural solutions for the current techno-socio-enviro-economic challenges in the floating offshore wind sector will be developed. In particular, within INF4INiTY, critical technologies for the offshore wind farm of the future are related to balancing human needs (clean energy) with nature’s and society’s demands (decreased negative environmental and social impact), resulting in two major innovations: (1) an innovative nature inclusive design for gravity anchors and their associated scour protection system and (2) an innovative primary artificial reef structure (ARS) combined with the floating structure of a floating offshore wind turbine (FOWT). The INF4INiTY project is a collaborative project with 13 international project partners from Norway, Turkey, Spain, Italy, Denmark, Poland, Belgium, and Germany, involving academic and industrial partners. This opening for PhD research at the Coastal Engineering Research Group of the Department of Civil Engineering is an integral part of the project. The PhD research will focus mainly on numerical and experimental modelling of the FOWT with ARS.
Deadline : Dec 08, 2023
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(11) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Student
The activities of the Ph.D. position are embedded in this stimulating environment with a focus on data-efficient machine learning (or surrogate modeling) techniques to solve complex problems in science and engineering. The proposed Ph.D. research is defined within the context of several national and international research projects on Automation in Machine Learning (AutoML). As a Ph.D. candidate, you will extend and use machine learning algorithms such as generative models, neural networks, Gaussian Processes, Bayesian optimization, and more to solve challenging problems in science and engineering. You will take part in the daily operation of the research group and participate in collaborative research with industrial and academic partners. Furthermore, you will publish your research results at major international conferences and in journal papers, as part of meeting the requirements for your Ph.D.
Deadline : Jul 31, 2024
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(12) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Student
- In close collaboration with the supervisors as well as another PhD student, the PhD candidate will contribute to in the above-mentioned FWO-funded research project, by conducting research of the use of AI by courts and/or the use of AI for predicting corporate distress and potential bankruptcy.
- The candidate will contribute to pilot projects on the use of AI by Belgian (Commercial) Courts.
- The candidate will present research results at major international conferences and publish in international peer reviewed journals, as part of meeting the requirements for the PhD.
Deadline : Dec 01, 2023
(13) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Student
The candidate will develop computational models and new methods for (engineered) biological systems that aim to capture bio- physical characteristics of cells, their internal machinery, environment effects such as gradients of chemical species and hydrodynamic stresses from fluids. In addition, hybrid strategies whereby these mechanistic modelling approaches and machine learning methods are combined to generate surrogate models, can be investigated.
Deadline : Dec 04, 2023
(14) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Student
The Belgian offshore wind industry to stay as competitive as they currently are, needs to fully enter the emerging and promising market of floating wind. But to do so, they require a competent and long-term academic base, which the BEL-Float project (funded by the Belgian Energy Transtion Fund)will provide: a select group of junior researchers, and their surrounding ecosystems, will, in close collaboration with industry, acquire knowledge and skills to face the most urgent challenges in floating wind. A unique bonus is the extensive cooperation with Norwegian universities, strengthening the Belgian-Norwegian energy alliance. This opening is for PhD research at the Coastal Engineering Research Group of the Department of Civil Engineering. Within the BEL-Float project, this PhD research will focus on the development and optimization of simulation tools for operation of a floating offshore wind turbine (FOWT) in extreme conditions, using numerical and experimental modelling of the involved aero- and hydrodynamics.
Deadline : Dec 08, 2023
(15) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Student
The Horizon Europe research project DuneFront (4 years) will demonstrate blue-grey coastal and marine infrastructure as a new generation of sustainable, inclusive, and aesthetics solution to ensure coastal safety under climate change. The project has the ambition to co-create hybrid Dune-Dike Nature Based Solutions (DD-hybrid NbS) that can efficiently integrate static hard infrastructure with adaptive, dynamic aeolian and vegetated sediments. Mainstreaming biodiversity into marine and coastal DD-hybrid NbS is essential to jointly safeguard human assets, blue economy activities and biodiversity gain and restoration. DuneFront will achieve this challenge by identifying key biological, physical, and socio-economic boundary conditions, and by translating evidence on biodiversity, morphodynamics and safety from 12 Demonstrators along vulnerable European coasts into new roadmaps for DD-hybrid NbS design and installation. The integration of this multidisciplinary knowledge into physical and digital twins will pilot the development of a Decision-Support-System, coastal and marine infrastructure Blueprints, and the installation of new prototypes along one of the most recreated coasts. The DuneFront consortium brings together 16 partners (10 universities, 3 research organisations, 2 large enterprises and a government agency) from 6 different European countries in a co-creation scenario. The project is coordinated by the Terrestrial Ecology (Fac. Sciences) and Coastal Engineering (Fac. Engineering and Architecture) research groups from Ghent University (UGent). Besides a coordinating role, the Coastal Engineering research group from UGent will contribute to the quantification of storm hydrodynamic boundary conditions, stability and resilience of hybrid Dune-Dike Nature Based Solutions along European coasts, and to design blueprints for Nbs.
Deadline : Dec 08, 2023
(16) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Student
The PhD student will participate in an international team in an EU-funded Doctoral Network project called NiteLiDAR. The project consists of 10 PhD students at 3 universities, an international R&D organization, and a company. The project has partners from four different EU countries. All 10 Phd projects are within the overall theme of photonic and electronic integrated circuits for next-generation LiDAR technologies. This PhD project will take place at Ghent University. Apart from the time at UGent there will be secondments at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU Electro) and at Bright Photonics, The Netherlands. There will also be common meetings with the other 9 PhD students in the doctoral network, including 3 training schools. As a participant of the project, the PhD student will become part of the IDLab-Design team at UGent and imec with extensive expertise in the design and characterization of high-speed integrated circuits for optical transceivers in various applications. The activities within the project will benefit from synergies with other projects in the group as well as with other activities in the department. The main supervisor will be Prof. Johan Bauwelinck.
Deadline : Nov 27, 2023
(17) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Student
Our research group currently is involved in research projects in the energy domain, including mostly smart grid applications. The focus of our AI4E team in these projects is on data analytics, as well as coordination algorithms for, e.g., demand response. A major objective of the applications we want to support is to accommodate large penetration of renewable sources (wind mills, solar panels, etc.) without requiring excessive investments in the power grid infrastructure. This involves characterizing and eventually predicting both power generation (from renewables) and consumption behavior (and its flexibility, e.g., what portion thereof can be shifted in time), using data analytics techniques, constructing generative models, applying machine learning, etc. The next step is to actively control power consumption, e.g., by developing algorithms for energy management systems (to steer power consumption and/or decide what to use local production for, e.g., push into the grid or local storage).
Deadline :Dec 31, 2023
(18) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Student
Our research group currently is involved in research projects in the energy domain, including mostly smart grid applications. The focus of our AI4E team in these projects is on data analytics, as well as coordination algorithms for, e.g., demand response. A major objective of the applications we want to support is to accommodate large penetration of renewable sources (wind mills, solar panels, etc.) without requiring excessive investments in the power grid infrastructure. This involves characterizing and eventually predicting both power generation (from renewables) and consumption behavior (and its flexibility, e.g., what portion thereof can be shifted in time), using data analytics techniques, constructing generative models, applying machine learning, etc. The next step is to actively control power consumption, e.g., by developing algorithms for energy management systems (to steer power consumption and/or decide what to use local production for, e.g., push into the grid or local storage).
Deadline : Dec 31, 2023
(19) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Student
Estuaries are complex and highly dynamic systems significantly modifying the riverine nutrient and carbon fluxes to the sea through various physical and biogeochemical processes. In particular, the tidal freshwater zone (TFZ) is an often overlooked part of this aquatic continuum from rivers to the sea. Plankton composition and dynamics in the TFZ is influenced not only by abiotic factors such as nutrients and light availability but also strongly by hydrodynamics, affecting both abiotic conditions as well as food web structure. This PhD project will investigate the functional diversity and activity of microbial plankton in the Scheldt tidal freshwater zone, a unique system which has been studied for decades in a multidisciplinary effort to understand and predict the estuary’s response to environmental change. Analysis of long-term monitoring data of phytoplankton has revealed the role of de-eutrophication, altered hydrodynamics and in particular extreme weather events as main drivers of community change in this system.
Deadline : Jan 01, 2024
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(20) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Student
The availability of novel sensors causes an important growth of data that offers the potential for a revolutionary transformation in the biomanufacturing sector. A bioreactor is a device or vessel used in biotechnology for the cultivation of biological organisms. Conventional methods to monitor and control the evolution of the process are typically involve labor-intensive and based on infrequent measurements. At imec, a probe is currently being developed that is equipped with multiple sensors to provide continuous monitoring of bioreactor processes. The availability of this time series data makes it possible to develop a dynamic digital twin that can forecast key process parameter, such as the future evolution of cell growth, or the future quality of the bioreactor broth, etc. The aim is to extract relevant insights from this data and to transform them into actionable predictions or forecasts that can be used to optimize the working of the system.
Deadline : Mar 31, 2024
(21) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Student
Laser frequency combs are arguably the biggest advance in precision frequency synthesis in metrology since the invention of the laser. Nowadays, microcombs offer the prospect to reach a similar level of performance at the chip scale. This technology has a disruptive potential for a vast range of markets: optical interconnects, environmental sensing, quantum information processing, lidar and navigation systems. What does it take for microcombs to be widely deployed? This overarching question is addressed within the context of the EU-funded Marie Sklodowska Curie Doctoral Network (DN) “MicrocombSys”. The research in the network focuses on new technologies based on photonic integration and aims to advance the state of the art in this exciting field by addressing several new research directions, from heterogeneous integration to system-level applications. Within this PhD research topic, you will establish several standardized photonics packaging building blocks for reaching the full potential of chip-scale microcombs. You will develop flip-chip bonding techniques of high-power laser sources on SiN integrated photonic circuits, stable optical fiber interfaces with edge couplers and thermal management solutions in standardized PIC package modules.
Deadline : Dec 15, 2023
About Ghent University, Belgium –Official Website
Ghent University is a public research university located in Ghent, Belgium. It was established in 1817 by King William I of the Netherlands. After the Belgian revolution of 1830, the newly formed Belgian state began to administer the university. In 1930, the university became the first Dutch-speaking university in Belgium, whereas French had previously been the standard academic language in what was Université de Gand. In 1991, it was granted major autonomy and changed its name accordingly from State University of Ghent (Dutch: Rijksuniversiteit Gent, abbreviated as RUG) to its current designation.
In contrast to the Catholic University of Leuven or the Free University of Brussels, UGent considers itself a pluralist university in a special sense, i.e. not connected to any particular religion or political ideology. Its motto Inter Utrumque (‘In Between Both Extremes’), on the coat of arms, suggests the acquisition of wisdom and science comes only in an atmosphere of peace, when the institution is fully supported by the monarchy and fatherland.
Ghent University is one of the biggest Flemish universities, consisting of 44,000 students and 9,000 staff members. The University also supports the University Library and the University Hospital, which is one of the largest hospitals in Belgium. It is one of the greatest beneficiaries of funding from the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO). Ghent University consistently rates among the top 100 universities in the world.
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