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 statistics/ machine learning
The BIOSTAT research group of the Faculty of Bioscience Engineering at Ghent University is seeking for a highly motivated and talented PhD student working at the interface of mathematical statistics and machine learning. The group (www.biostat.ugent.be) is part of the Department of Data analysis and Mathematical Modelling which has a long tradition in the development and application of statistics in the field of bioscience engineering.
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.
Deadline : Sep 15, 2024
(02) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Student electrophoresis in advanced configurations
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. The experimental work is accompanied by theoretical and computer modelling. A performant model will allow a more realistic simulation of electrophoretic systems, widening our understanding of the phenomena and enabling the improvement of current designs and or development of new designs.
Deadline : Sep 30, 2024
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(03) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral fellow
- You conduct research on the development of reading and arithmetic skills in children (end of kindergarten, beginning of primary school) in collaboration with supervisor prof. dr. Lien Peters.
Children who are fluent at arithmetic are often also better readers. Furthermore, diagnoses of dyslexia (reading and/or spelling disorder) and dyscalculia (arithmetic disorder) often go hand in hand. In this research project we investigate which factors in preschool ameliorate or hinder the development of reading and arithmetic skills, and the extent to which these factors are shared between reading and arithmetic. We investigate both factors within the child (e.g., intelligence, language, executive functions, phonological and numerical skills, etc.), as well as factors in the child’s environment (e.g., home environment, school context, etc.). Depending on the acquisition of additional funding, there might be opportunities to investigate the neural correlates of reading and arithmetic (e.g., via fMRI research). - You will be part of the Research in Developmental Diversity Lab (RiDDL) at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences at Ghent University.
- You will write scientific articles, prepare a doctoral dissertation, and will present your work at (inter)national conferences.
Deadline : Jul 31, 2024
(04) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Student
The research group Mechanics of Materials and Structures at Ghent University (UGent-MMS) has 4 vacancies for PhD research in the field of fibre-reinforced composites. The vacancies are linked to research on composite hydrogen tanks, micromechanical testing of composites and finite element modelling of textile connections.
Deadline : Sep 30, 2024
(05) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Student
Ghent University is a world of its own. Employing more than 15.000 people, it is actively involved in education and research, management and administration, as well as technical and social service provision on a daily basis. It is one of the largest, most exciting employers in the area and offers great career opportunities.
With its 11 faculties and more than 85 departments offering state-of-the-art study programmes grounded in research in a wide range of academic fields, Ghent University is a logical choice for its staff and students.
Deadline : Feb 15, 2025
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(06) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD student Causal Machine Learning
The Causal Inference research lab at Ghent University is seeking a highly motivated and talented PhD student to join its team. Ghent University has a long tradition of research in causal inference since the mid 90’s, and now has a vibrant causal inference community comprising over 20 statisticians dedicated to advancing this field.
This PhD position is one of multiple positions being opened in connection to Advanced ERC Grant ACME ‘Assumption-lean (Causal) Modeling and Estimation’. In an era where the focus on causal inference is increasingly turning away from modeling towards quantifying population-level intervention effects, there is a risk of oversimplifying causal queries and of neglecting the rich history and efficacy of statistical modeling techniques. 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 the foundations of an assumption-lean modeling paradigm, with a strong focus on the analysis of repeated measures outcomes, in interaction with fellow researchers on this project.
Deadline : Sep 01, 2024
(07) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Student
Engineered and controlled in-vitro cell cultures will become key in future production of biologics, drug tests, tissue engineering, and even food production (e.g. artificial meat). The behaviour of those cells not only depends on their genetics; they also respond to changes of chemical signals, to their organization and embedding, and to bio-physical cues such as forces. Computational models to predict experimental outcomes have the potential to speed up our knowledge and reduce the costs of development. For example, Individual-Based Models (IBMs) can reproduce complex emergent behaviours of many species systems as a consequence of the interactions between the individual species (agents). Currently, these methods are more and more combined with machine learning techniques.
Deadline : Aug 15, 2024
(08) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Student
Ghent University is a world of its own. Employing more than 15,000 people, it is actively involved in education and research, management and administration, as well as technical and social service provision on a daily basis. It is one of the largest, most exciting employers in the area and offers great career opportunities. With its 11 faculties and more than 80 departments offering state-of-the-art study programs grounded in research in a wide range of academic fields, Ghent University is a logical choice for its staff and students.
The Centre for Synthetic Biology (CSB, www.csb.ugent.be) is part of the Faculty of Bioscience Engineering at Ghent University, a top 100 university in most rankings. CSB has a long tradition in in the application of synthetic biology for industrial biotechnology, particularly directed towards the biocatalytic synthesis of chemicals through either microbial fermentation or the use of isolated enzymes. The area of expertise includes the screening for novel biocatalysts (enzymes and micro-organisms), the optimization 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.
Deadline : Aug 24, 2024
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(09) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral fellow
BIOCHROMA, Exploring the functional potential of bacterial pigments for innovative food and feed applications, is a Flemish-funded project involving several research groups of Ghent University and University of Antwerp. BIOCHROMA will explore the functional potential of bacterial pigments for innovative food and feed applications, aiming to find natural pigments to replace synthetic ones. While numerous studies have focused on plant-based pigments, the potential of bacterial-derived pigments remains underexplored. Therefore, BIOCHROMA will focus on the potential of pigments derived from unusual bacteria.
Deadline : Aug 10, 2024
(10) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Student
Ghent University is a world of its own. Employing more than 15.000 people, it is actively involved in education and research, management and administration, as well as technical and social service provision on a daily basis. It is one of the largest, most exciting employers in the area and offers great career opportunities.
With its 11 faculties and more than 85 departments offering state-of-the-art study programmes grounded in research in a wide range of academic fields, Ghent University is a logical choice for its staff and students.
Deadline : Sep 30, 2024
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(11) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Student
The Centre for Synthetic Biology (CSB, www.csb.ugent.be) is part of the Faculty of Bioscience Engineering at Ghent University, a top 100 university in most rankings. CSB has a long tradition in in the application of synthetic biology for industrial biotechnology, particularly directed towards the biocatalytic synthesis of chemicals through either microbial fermentation or the use of isolated enzymes. 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.
Deadline :Oct 01, 2024
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(12) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral fellow
The European Research Council has awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant to Prof. Dr. Wim Hardyns from the Department of Criminology, Criminal Law, and Social Law (Ghent University). ERC projects are known as the most prestigious research projects in Europe. The BIGDATPOL project will conduct research on big data and crime. As part of this project, we are looking for a full-time (100%) doctoral researcher (m/f/x) with prior knowledge in statistics or data science.
Deadline : Aug 16, 2024
(13) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Student
Flanders is heavily dependent on imported raw materials, mainly fossil fuels, which has significant economic and environmental implications. Transitioning to a circular and bio-based economy is crucial to improve self-sufficiency and reduce environmental impact. In recent years, there has been a notable shift in waste management practices. The focus has moved from traditional waste disposal to reclaiming and repurposing residual streams into valuable resources and materials. While energy generation from waste has been a priority, there is emerging interest in converting organic waste into chemicals and materials.
The EFFECTIVE project addresses this need. It aims to develop technologies and processes to bridge gaps in the organic waste-to-products value chain. The project includes the development of a fermentation process for the conversion of waste streams to isobutyric acid, and the application of novel technologies for product separation and purification. In addition to experimental advancements, the project evaluates the technical, economic, and circular aspects of the process. It stands at the forefront of scientific research in bio-based chemical production, laying the groundwork for a new generation of processes to convert organic waste into bio-based chemicals.
Deadline : Jul 13, 2024
(14) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral fellow
You will conduct academic research in the field of Sport Policy and Sport Management and in particular on ethical challenges in sport, such as fraud in sport, good governance, diversity and integrity management. Research may involve both qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis techniques. You will participate in international academic conferences and publish scientific articles in high-quality academic journals.
You will collaborate with the other researchers in the Sport Management team and researchers outside the collaborating team. You will therefore join the Sport Management research group at the Department of Movement and Sports Sciences of UGent.
This research group’s mission is to excel in research, education and service amplifying professionalism and integrity of sports organizations.
Deadline : Jul 29, 2024
(15) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Student
AgriLoop is a Horizon Europe research project that aims to improve the recovery of highly functional native molecules from primary and secondary residues and to tailor bioconversion schemes towards microbial proteins and polyesters, to overcome the limitations related to feedstock complexity, processes eco-efficiency and end-products performances. This PhD project will contribute to Agriloop by developing novel microbial-based pre-treatement and fermentation technologies for the production of short- and medium-chain carboxylic acids from agri-food residues.
Deadline : Jul 13, 2024
(16) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Student
Ghent University is a world of its own. Employing more than 15.000 people, it is actively involved in education and research, management and administration, as well as technical and social service provision on a daily basis. It is one of the largest, most exciting employers in the area and offers great career opportunities.
With its 11 faculties and more than 85 departments offering state-of-the-art study programmes grounded in research in a wide range of academic fields, Ghent University is a logical choice for its staff and students.
The HCRC laboratory is looking for a talented and motivated PhD student to join our group. The perspective will work closely with other lab members and our collaborators in the network to develop software tools and perform analysis of single-cell multi-omics and spatial transcriptomic data to generate new insights in the HIV viral reservoir at the single-cell resolution. With a combination of both experimental and computational approaches, our group provides an excellent environment for interdisciplinary research focusing on the understanding of the viral host factors influencing the SIV/HIV reservoir. – You are involved in patient-related (clinical) HIV/SIV research projects together with an international team of postdocs, PhD students and laboratory technicians.
Deadline : Jul 26, 2024
(17) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral fellow
As part of an ongoing initiative of the regional government to boost Artificial Intelligence in Flanders, an ambitious research program has been initiated (https://www.flandersairesearch.be/nl). In the work package on “Interaction and Cognitive Systems”, one of the goals is to simulate human dialogue in social context, allowing human-machine communication to be more effective and enjoyable for humans. Language models, powered by recent revolutions in AI, are becoming increasingly more powerful and support language generation, summarization, classification, question answering, chatbots and more. In this work, we will capitalize on recent developments in NLP build applications which focus on language and linguistic interaction, such as interactive learning with embodied agents. We will explore multimodal interaction, in which language is combined with other modalities, such as vision and tactile interaction to integrate paralinguistic cues such as prosody, gestures, affect and emotion. These will allow users to have interactions that transcend classic written conversations with interactive AI systems.
Deadline : Jul 15, 2024
(18) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Student
Ghent University is a world of its own. Employing more than 15.000 people, it is actively involved in education and research, management and administration, as well as technical and social service provision on a daily basis. It is one of the largest, most exciting employers in the area and offers great career opportunities.
With its 11 faculties and more than 85 departments offering state-of-the-art study programmes grounded in research in a wide range of academic fields, Ghent University is a logical choice for its staff and students.
The IDLab Ghent research group is seeking a highly motivated and talented PhD student to join the distributed machine learning team. Our team focuses on developing efficient machine learning algorithms for perception and control; with diverse applications in industry, robotics, remote sensing and agriculture.
Deadline : Dec 31, 2024
(19) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Student Hydrogels for cancer treatment
We are looking for a highly motivated PhD candidate to develop and study plasma-treated hydrogels used in the treatment of head and neck cancer in a joint project between the Research Unit Plasma Technology at Ghent University (promotor: Prof. Dr. ir Nathalie De Geyter) and the FIERCELab at Hasselt University (promotor: Prof. dr. Esther Wolfs)
Deadline : Jul 15, 2024
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(20) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Student
Given the generally high standard of living in Europe, protein shortage is imminent. Today, protein-rich crops such as soy are imported to meet the high demand, leading to unsustainable practices. Europe, including Flanders, is committed to growing protein seeds, legumes, etc. but is far from self-sufficient in protein. SUPROSEA is a collaborative research project between Ghent University, Antwerp University, Biobased Europe Pilot Plant and ILVO, framed within the Flemish Protein Strategy which sets the 40%-60% animal versus plant protein target. The project aims to develop a promising and sustainable protein biorefinery from seaweed. This specific PhD position at Ghent University will focus on the production of microbial protein from seaweed residues.
Deadline : Jul 13, 2024
(21) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Student
We are looking for an enthusiastic student keen on working on developing both hardware and software aspects of this novel technique. As a PhD student working on this project, you will set up experiments at different types of state-of-the-art X-ray sources and detectors, in different facilities (synchrotron and laboratory) and you will develop methods to improve the acquisition and processing/analysis of the data.
The selected candidate will be offered a 4-year employment, with an intermediate evaluation after the first year (1+3 years). The salary is competitive and will be determined by the university salary scales. In addition, staff members can count on several benefits, such as a broad range of training and educational opportunities, 36 days of vacation leave, bicycle allowance, and more. The finality of the position is to obtain a doctoral degree.
Deadline :Aug 31, 2024
(22) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral fellow
A long tradition of literature emphasizes that the stability of democracies rests upon its citizens. According to scholars like Easton (1975) and Norris (2011), citizens’ support for the political system and their commitment to democracy is vital for its functioning and endurance. Though citizens overwhelmingly support democracy as the most desirable form of governance (Wike et al. 2017; Wuttke et al. 2022), they are often willing to condone undemocratic acts as long as they stand to gain from them politically (Krishnarajan 2023). Citizens are, for instance, inclined to vote for undemocratic candidates that align with their partisan preferences (Graham & Svolik 2020), and they are willing to accept flawed democratic processes as long as they are on the winning side (Werner et al. 2023). Another crucial part of citizens’ democratic commitments is losers’ consent (i.e. the consent of those who did not achieve their desired outcome in a political process), which seems to be increasingly under pressure following events in, for instance, the US and Brazil.
Deadline : Aug 01, 2024
(23) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral fellow
We are looking for a motivated PhD student for the UGent funded project WOODCHAR. The aim of this project is to study woodland dynamics in NW Europe during the last 2500 years through the analysis of archaeological remains of charcoal kilns.
This will be done based on the taxonomic identification of charcoal preserved in ancient charcoal kilns, combined with the spatial and chronological analysis of these archaeological features. This will result in a reconstruction of the past occurrence, composition and dynamics of woodlands in different regions in NW Europe over the last 2500 years. Finally, the role of human impact on these different elements of woodland dynamics will be studied.
The job includes fieldwork and participation to international workshops and scientific conferences. The ultimate goal of your research is to obtain a doctoral degree.
Deadline :Jul 15, 2024
(24) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Student
Ghent University’s Department of Literary Studies (Section of Greek) is looking for a Doctoral Fellow. The fellow will become a member of the research team of the GOA (Concerted Research Action) project “Interconnected texts. A graph-based computational approach to Byzantine paratexts as nodes between textual transmission and cultural and linguistic developments” (Faculty of Arts, Department of Literary Studies). The project is based upon the corpus of Byzantine book epigrams available at https://www.dbbe.ugent.be/. It aims to investigate book epigrams as texts at the threshold between the material and the textual, and to explore the possibilities of innovative technologies to pursue multifaceted humanities research. The project brings together linguistic, literary, historical and computational experts. For the next years (2024-2028), we want to expand our team with a doctoral student in Byzantine Greek philology.
Deadline :Jul 15, 2024
(25) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Student plant sensors and modelling for tomato
DigiKas is dedicated to enhancing the efficiency and sustainability of greenhouse horticulture. By promoting the use of plant sensors, we aim to improve the monitoring of plant behaviour in climate-controlled greenhouses, and advance data-driven cultivation management among Flemish tomato growers. Our focus includes identifying and addressing bottlenecks in sensor application and digitalization, improving tomato growers’ competencies with sensor use, and increasing knowledge on resource-saving strategies related to light, energy, water, and CO2. We also target to develop and implement innovative data analysis techniques that integrate mechanistic plant modelling with machine learning, translating sensor data into cultivation strategy actions to boost production efficiency. Additionally, DigiKas is building an online knowledge platform for sensor applications in horticulture. We are committed to coaching and mentoring the tomato sector towards the next step in smart farming.
Deadline : Jul 31, 2024
(26) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Student
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. However, there is a major challenge to study this: how do you measure fluid flow in minuscule pores inside a material? In this project, new techniques will be developed to solve this using high-resolution X-ray CT, based on principles used in hospitals to image patients, but at a hundred times higher resolution. By introducing specially designed particles into the flow and tracking their motion with new computer algorithms, we will be able to measure fluid flows that are representative of realistic processes in the subsurface, leading to better models of groundwater flows, and of how CO2 and hydrogen can be stored in porous rock layers in the subsurface.
Deadline : Jul 15, 2024
(27) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Student
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. However, there is a major challenge to study this: how do you measure fluid flow in minuscule pores inside a material? In this project, new techniques will be developed to solve this using high-resolution X-ray CT, based on principles used in hospitals to image patients, but at a hundred times higher resolution. By introducing specially designed particles into the flow and tracking their motion with new computer algorithms, we will be able to measure fluid flows that are representative of realistic processes in the subsurface, leading to better models of groundwater flows, and of how CO2 and hydrogen can be stored in porous rock layers in the subsurface.
Deadline :Jul 15, 2024
(28) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Student Causal Machine Learning
The Causal Inference research lab at Ghent University is seeking a highly motivated and talented PhD student to join its team. Ghent University has a long tradition of research in causal inference since the mid 90’s, and now has a vibrant causal inference community comprising over 20 statisticians dedicated to advancing this field.
This PhD position is one of multiple positions being opened in connection to Advanced ERC Grant ACME ‘Assumption-lean (Causal) Modeling and Estimation’. In an era where the focus on causal inference is increasingly turning away from modeling towards quantifying population-level intervention effects, there is a risk of oversimplifying causal queries and of neglecting the rich history and efficacy of statistical modeling techniques. 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.
Deadline :Sep 01, 2024
(29) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Student
The interdisciplinary research group imec-mict-UGent is looking for a full-time researcher at junior level to start in September 2024 as part of a project-based research team that studies the interaction between humans and AI agents.
With the advent of new VR/XR technology, we foresee an increasing number of social interactions with AI-animated avatars. Interactive animation with avatars requires both verbal and non-verbal communication. Compared to the limitations of hardware humanoid robots, avatars’ body and facial expressions can be rendered in much more detail. While Large Language Models offer a mature technology to autonomously generate verbal responses, research into AI-driven communication via non-verbal communication cues is still in its infancy.
In order to research and develop the underlying control algorithms, there is a need for a good understanding of the non-verbal communication signals that we as humans intuitively experience. In addition, XR technology also offers more possibilities for measuring these signals that can then be used to develop, train and test new algorithms.
Deadline : Jul 14, 2024
(30) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Student
VIOLENCE WORK is an in-depth explorarion of everyday violence in former Belgian Central Africa—Burundi, Congo, and Rwanda (19th-20th C). Though colonial violence has been studied widely, few have explored how everyday violence enabled colonialism and allowed it to persist (notable exceptions e.g. Moyd 2014; Muschaleck 2019). This project combines hitherto neglected source materials and a novel conceptual entry point—violence work(ers)—to foreground the everyday violent practices crucial to creating and maintaining the colonial state. The project’s core claim, is that violence work (a concept lend from critical police studies, see Seigel 2018) was not performed exclusively by formal violence workers—the men in uniform—but rather by a range of actors (colonizer and colonized) in- and outside the state. Everyday violence work includes not only direct acts of physical violence (e.g., whipping) but also other forms of punishment, such as incarceration and coercion through the threat of violence, as well as subtler forms of aggression forcing compliance (e.g., harassment) and the ways these different levels of violence reinforced each other. The aim is to open up new questions about the centrality of violence in theorizing, creating, and maintaining colonialism and the colonial state.
Deadline :Aug 15, 2024
(31) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Student
Our research group works on system dynamics and control; and more specifically on the modelling, control and design of mechatronic systems, robots and energy systems. We are part of the department of Electromechanical, Systems and Metal Engineering within the Faculty of Engineering of Ghent University (www.ugent.be/ea/emsme/en). Ghent University is a top 100 university worldwide and one of the major universities in Belgium, with more than 44000 students and 15000 staff members. Our campus is situated in in Ghent, a lively city at the heart of Europe (visit.gent.be/en/HOME). Our research group is also associated to Flanders Make (www.flandersmake.be/en), a non-profit organization, funding precompetitive research for the betterment of the Flemish manufacturing industry. The candidate will be directly embedded in an international research group (https://dynamics.ugent.be/), working together as a team and will have the possibility to collaborate with many other people active at Ghent University and within Flanders.
Deadline : Jul 07, 2024
(32) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral fellow
Ghent University is a world of its own. Employing more than 15.000 people, it is actively involved in education and research, management and administration, as well as technical and social service provision on a daily basis. It is one of the largest, most exciting employers in the area and offers great career opportunities.
With its 11 faculties and more than 85 departments offering state-of-the-art study programmes grounded in research in a wide range of academic fields, Ghent University is a logical choice for its staff and students.
Deadline : Jul 05, 2024
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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