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 scholarship holder in the field of social demography
You actively work on the preparation and defence of a doctoral dissertation (PhD) in the social sciences. Your PhD is part of the BOF research project “Patterns of family formation among young adults with a migration background: how are they shaped by labour market opportunities and economic cycles?”. This project investigates how the timing of parenthood and further family formation vary by migration background, but also whether and to what extent this variation can be explained by the differential labour market opportunities of women with a migration background and their partners. To answer these questions, we use advanced statistical methods (e.g. hazard models, joint modelling) and innovative register data (i.e., longitudinal microdata at the individual and household level derived from population and social security registers).
Deadline : 25th of August 2024
(02) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral scholarship holder visual and digital cultures
You will work actively on the preparation and defence of a PhD thesis in the field of Visual and Digital Cultures. The project is called “Digital work and everyday life: The case of women homeworkers in Turkey”. The objective of the project is to investigate the consequences of home-based digital work on women’s everyday lives, on social institutions such as family, home, and friendships, and on broader processes of social change in Turkey. The project is grounded in long-term ethnographic fieldwork. It builds on the methods of anthropology and digital anthropology that emphasize direct observation of places, media, technologies, and practices. It will combine the ethnographic study of both offline and online places.
Deadline : 23 September, 2024
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(03) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral scholarship holder industrial biotechnology and biochemical engineering
You will work actively on the preparation and defence of a PhD thesis in the Biochemical Engineering. In this challenging research project, you will investigate the simultaneous detoxification of and microbial oil production from a lignocellulosic waste stream using fungi. A variety of techniques will be evaluated including flocculation, immobilisation using innovative support materials, fungal coculture techniques and adaptive laboratory evolution.
Deadline : 19 August 2024
(04) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral scholarship holder water electrolysis
You will work actively on the preparation and defence of a PhD thesis in the field of electrochemical reactor engineering. Electrochemistry is gaining more and more attention as a potential alternative to several traditional industrial processes because of its positive impact on global greenhouse gas emissions (mainly CO2), its ability to store periodic renewable energy and the production of alternative energy sources such as H2. More specifically you will actively participate in the design, development and/or testing of efficient electrocatalysts, membranes and/or electrodes for water electrolysis with a focus on improving the energy efficiency and the productivity.
Deadline : September 17th 2024
(05) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral scholarship holder environmental biotechnology, wastewater engineering and resource recovery
You will work actively on the preparation and defence of a PhD thesis in the field of wastewater engineering. In view of the much needed transition of conventional wastewater treatment systems to advanced water resource recovery facilities, this project develops the innovative concept of High-Rate Granular Sludge or HiGS. HiGS aims at various complementary resource recovery routes: 1) energy recovery via anaerobic digestion of the sludge operated at low sludge retention times, 2) nutrient recovery via the enhanced biological phosphorus removal process which is key to granulation, and 3) recovery of valuable gel-forming biopolymers that define the structure of the aerobic granules.
Deadline : September 5th 2024
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(06) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral scholarship holder molecular circularity of (bio)materials
You will work actively on the preparation and defence of a PhD thesis on the influence of molecular diversity and interactions on the circularity potential of new organic (bio)materials. In this doctoral study, you will connect the (geospatial) spreading, complexity and oxidation state of (bio)resources to that of derived (bio)materials, as indicators for economic feasibility. You develop new methods to support fast decisions in complex systems based on thermodynamic principles, by defining and quantifying circularity in a product- and process design workflow.
Deadline : 29 August 2024
(07) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral scholarship holder translation studies and media accessibility
- You will work actively on the preparation and defence of a PhD thesis in the fields of Translation Studies and Media Accessibility working on a project entitled “TAP: Tapping the audio description process”.
- This project takes an empirical and experimental approach, combining qualitative and quantitative methods used in Cognitive Translation Studies. The project has three aims:
- to conceptualize the AD process model(s);
- to conceptualize intersemiotic translation as a process;
- to test the reactivity of think-aloud protocols (TAP) in AD process research.
Deadline : 16 September 2024
(08) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral scholarship holder interpreting studies
Project: Multimodality in simultaneous interpreting: The effect of visual support on cognitive processing and performance. Abstract: In simultaneous interpreting (SI) incoming verbal and nonverbal information from the speaker is frequently complemented by supports such as a slide presentation (with or without captioning) or computer-assisted interpreting (CAI) tools (e.g., terminology software). Yet, the equation between the facilitating effect of these supports in terms of performance and the added cognitive load on information processing lacks empirical investigation. We attempt to fill this gap by investigating the effect of multimodality on interpreters’ performance, visual attention, cognitive load, stress, and user experience. To this end, we will conduct two experimental, within-subject studies involving 12 professional interpreters.
Deadline : 19 August 2024
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(09) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral scholarship holder in death studies
- You will work actively on the preparation and defence of a PhD thesis in the field of Death Studies. You will research the ethical aspects of different funeral methods, with a special focus on ecological concerns within sustainable and inclusive death care. You will collaborate with researchers from environmental studies, law, sociology and anthropology in an interdisciplinary SBO-FWO project called Death Care.
- 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 Centre for Ethics (like assessing Ba-thesis, attending work-in-progress seminars of the Centre for Ethics).
Deadline : September 5 2024
(10) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral scholarship holder dynamic economic impact assessment of seaweed biorefineries to support the protein shift
- You will work actively on the preparation and defence of a PhD thesis on the dynamic economic impact assessment of seaweed biorefineries. This PhD research is part of a larger FWO-SBO research project SUPROSEA (Sustainable Proteins from Seaweed) in which a solution is sought for the imminent shortage of protein by cultivating seaweed in Flanders. Seaweed is a promising alternative protein source and can contribute to global food sustainability. The main objective of SUPROSEA is to investigate the sustainability of different seaweed biorefineries in Flanders (North Sea). Within this project, you will contribute to an integrated sustainability impact assessment for seaweed biorefineries. This sustainability assessment will consist of several submodels, including the scaling up of the technology, an environmental assessment, and a dynamic economic assessment. The PhD research will focus on the dynamic economic evaluation of the seaweed biorefineries. In a first step, the economic feasibility of different value chains for the seaweed biorefineries is assessed in a static economic assessment. This static assessment will be combined with real options analysis, to account for the impact of uncertainties on the investment decision. Different types of uncertainties can be considered, including market uncertainty (e.g. fluctuation of prices) and technological uncertainty (e.g. learning effects). The results from the economic assessment reveal the optimal investment timing for various scenarios of the seaweed biorefineries. These results are combined with the environmental impacts in the integrated sustainability impact assessment.
Deadline : 11 September 2024
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(11) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral scholarship holder or postdoctoral researcher safe and sustainable industrial processes and value chain management
- You will work actively on the preparation and defence of a PhD/Postdoc grant application in the domain of safe and sustainable industrial process and value chain management.
- You will assist in ongoing research projects on techno-economic and techno-sustainability assessments and the operation of the EnvEcon research group and the Flanders Make End-to-End Core lab. Application domains will be related to renewable energy (energy transition), chemical industry and manufacturing industry.
- You will help coordinate project proposals in the fields of environmental economics and quantitative sustainability and circularity assessments with specific focus on the energy transition, chemical industry and manufacturing industry and you contribute to attracting external funding.
- Postdoc: You will assist in the supervision of PhD students and other team members.
- You will publish scientific articles related to the research project.
Deadline : 22 August 2024
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(12) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral scholarship holder built heritage and engineering/physics
- You will work actively on the preparation and defence of an interdisciplinary PhD thesis in the field of built heritage, engineering and/or physics.
- You will work on the detection of moisture in historic buildings, particularly on the application of hyperspectral imaging as an innovative method. You will do research on the data acquisition process, data analysis and validation, and application for studying moisture transport and retention processes in historic building envelopes.
- You will be supported in developing systems for data acquisition, trained for data analysis (using machine learning approaches), supported in the assessment of moisture in historic buildings and in laboratory and on-site assessment of moisture related decay processes.
- You will closely collaborate with researchers within the institute and outside the institute, amongst other in the framework of the Belspo 2.0 CLIMPACTH project (a project in collaboration with KIK-IRPA Monuments Lab and UGent Building Physics).
- 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 involved research groups.
Deadline :26/08/2024
(13) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral scholarship holder product development
- You will work actively on the preparation and defence of a PhD thesis in the field of Product Development. You will employ Research through Design to investigate how embodied interaction propels inclusive design. The practical context is the conception of a new product dedicated to one specific function, for example home banking, Ambient Assistive Living (AAL) applications, etc. The product uses an interaction style that fits people who are unable or unwilling to use today’s smartphone and tablet solutions. A more detailed description can be found via this link.
- 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 Product Development: design for user experience, design for interaction.
Deadline : 1 September 2024
(14) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral scholarship holder architecture, digitalisation and real estate markets
- You will work actively on the preparation and defence of a PhD thesis on the impact of digitalisation on the real estate market dynamics.
- The doctoral project (QuiVal research project 5b) addresses the digital expansion of valuation. Decentralised ledger technologies and blockchain have the potential to organize transparent and equitable supply and demand for housing solutions. Platforms such as AirBnB prove the potential of innovative digital tools in influencing trading dynamics and providing alternative models. Through blockchain or similar technology development and prototyping, this project aims to promote transparency, efficiency, equitability and accountability in real estate transactions by reducing transactions costs arising in particular from intermediaries and fraud.
- You will publish scientific articles related to the research project and an accessible report for real estate professionals.
Deadline : Sept. 12, 2024
(15) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral candidate in the interdisciplinary field of applied sciences and heritage science
- You will work actively on the preparation and defence of a PhD thesis dedicated to the study of historical impermeable coatings (in particular on carriages and sledges).
- More in particular, your work will focus on the chemical characterisation of the lacquer coatings found on historical horse-drawn vehicles (using mostly X-ray based and IR-based methods – also at synchrotron end stations – as well as MS methods) and on the production, artificial ageing and chemical characterization of historically accurate mock-up samples.
- This is a strongly interdisciplinary project with an international scope, this implies that the candidate will have to collaborate in an interdisciplinary manner with chemists, heritage scientists and conservators throughout the project. Therefore the candidate should have good communication skills and is expected to interact pro-actively with, and occasionally travel to, the European institutes and museums associated with this project.
- You will do most of your work at the City (CST) and Groenenborger (CGB) campuses of the University of Antwerp, under the guidance of professors Andrea Marchetti (heritage science) and Koen Janssens (natural sciences). You will closely collaborate with colleagues at the Royal Museum of Art and History (Brussels) and occasionally travel to partner institutions throughout Europe (Portugal, Germany, Italy, France,…).
Deadline : 9 September 2024
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(16) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral scholarship neurosciences and hypoxia-mediated disruption of the blood-brain barrier in multiple sclerosis
You will work actively on the preparation and defence of a PhD thesis in the field of (bio) medical sciences. The fellowship is part of a cutting-edge project aimed at uncovering the mechanisms underlying Multiple Sclerosis (MS), with a particular focus on the blood brain barrier dysfunction and hypoxia. In this project, you will (i) investigate the role of vascular endothelial dysfunction in MS using dynamic vessel analysis; (ii) develop advanced in vitro BBB models to study the effects of hypoxia-mediated oxidative stress; (iii) explore the regenerative potential of immune cells in enhancing BBB recovery under hypoxic conditions.. This allows us to better understand the underlyng disease mechanisms of neurological disorders, such as multiple sclerosis (MS), and develop new treatments for MS patients.
Deadline : August 22, 2024
(17) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral scholarship holder in vitro dermal scar research
You will work actively on the preparation and defence of a PhD thesis < on cellular and molecular responses of an in vitro dermal model following mechanotherapy (extracorporeal shockwave therapy (ESWT)). Every year, 40-70% of the more than 80 milliondermal scars produced after surgical procedures, trauma, or burns develop into problematic hypertrophic scars. Mechanical forces impact wound healing through mechanotransduction, triggering changes in gene transcription. Although mechanotherapy (e.g. ESWT) is currently used in clinical practice, the factors determining its effectiveness are not known. In this project, we aim to unravel how a mechanical stimulus provoked by ESWT influences cellular and molecular responses in different types of scar tissue. Using an in vitro dermal model, we will consider extracellular matrix stiffness and tissue traction forces. We will collect data on histological, cellular, and molecular scar responses after mechanotherapy.
Deadline : 19 August 2024
(18) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral scholarship holder medical sciences
There is a great need for a vaccine that can prevent or mitigate Mpox outbreaks in vulnerable populations. Recently, an Mpox strain of clade 1, which is sexually transmissible, has led to a cluster of infections in regions of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). As a result, the DRC is facing the largest ever increase in Mpox cases. Since 1 January 2023, nearly 19,000 suspected cases of Mpox and more than 1,000 deaths have been reported in the DRC. While Mpox often leads to limited disease, it can cause severe complications, particularly in vulnerable populations such as infants/children and pregnant women. The effectiveness of current vaccines against clade 1 Mpox is uncertain, but data from animal trials are promising.
As part of the PIPoxVac consortium (where Antwerp University is coordinator), we will conduct a phase 3 randomised vaccine trial of a two-dose Mpox vaccine in healthy pregnant and postpartum women and children between 6 months and 2 years old. This study will assess the safety, immunogenicity, and (if possible) efficacy of the vaccine in these populations. We are also conducting a social science study on vaccine hesitancy and participation in vaccine research to inform research design and implementation approaches.
To perform this high quality research within the PIPoxVac project, the Global Health Institute and the Centre for the Evaluation of Vaccination are looking for a doctoral scholarship holder in the field of medical sciences to join and strengthen their team.
Deadline : August 19th, 2024
(19) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral scholarship holder immunopsychiatry
- You will work actively on the preparation and defence of a PhD thesis in the field of immunopsychiatry. The research will focus on the role of inflammatory processes in mood and psychotic disorders and is embedded in an international research consortium. This consortium aims to elucidate how any type of infection or inflammatory process affects psychiatric vulnerability through big-data analysis of existing data and biosamples.
- You will mainly operate from SINAPS (Scientific Initiative for Neuropsychiatric and Psychopharmacologic Studies), a collaboration between the Collaborative Antwerp Psychiatric Research Institute (CAPRI) of the University of Antwerp and the University Psychiatric Centre Duffel and as such be located at the psychiatric hospital in Duffel.
- You will publish at least 3 scientific articles related to the research project.
- As a SINAPS team member, you will collegially contribute to other projects of our research group when opportune and carry out a number of limited teaching and research support tasks for CAPRI.
Deadline : 26th, Aug 2024
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(20) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral scholarship holder molecular oncopathology
- Innovative Research: You will work actively on the preparation and defense of a PhD thesis focused on methylation-based genomic sequencing and bioinformatics . The project aims to improve the diagnosis of patients with cancer of unknown primary (CUP) by designing, optimizing and validating a classifier that can predict the tumor of origin based on methylation sequencing of cancer tissue.
- Hands-on Experience: You will be responsible for patient sample collection, perform genomic sequencing and apply advanced bioinformatics including machine learning. Additionally, you will investigate and make suggestions to enhance the diagnostic and therapeutic care path of patients with CUP.
- Knowledge Sharing: You will publish scientific articles related to the research project and present your work at national and international workshops and conferences, contributing to the global scientific community.
Deadline : 15 August 2024
(21) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD molecular and computational neurogenomics
We are a highly motivated international team of researchers at the Molecular Neurogenomics group (Jordanova Lab) and the Computational Neurobiology group (Malysheva Lab) at the VIB CMN. We are excited to announce a call for a joint PhD student in our labs to work on a challenging project at the interface of neurodegeneration, genomics, computational and systems biology.
Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT) represents the most common genetic disorder of the peripheral nervous system. Patients experience progressive distal muscle weakness and wasting, sensory loss, and skeletal deformities ultimately leaving them severely disabled. This lifelong disorder is currently incurable. The largest protein family implicated in the etiology of CMT are aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases (ARS). Ubiquitous and essential enzymes, ARS catalyse a critical step in protein biosynthesis by charging tRNA with their cognate amino acid. Jordanova Lab reported that dominant mutations in the tyrosyl-tRNA synthetase (YARS) cause a clinical variant of CMT and so far six additional cytoplasmic ARS have been implicated in the same pathology.
The overarching goal of this proposal is to understand why and how dysregulation of omnipresent and constantly expressed ARS proteins leads to dying-back neurodegeneration and affects specifically the peripheral neurons (PNs). This neuronal population contains the most polarized cells in our body and their sophisticated morphology and function render them highly susceptible to degeneration. The preliminary data generated in-house as well as the available public data suggest mechanisms involving genetic, epigenetic and chromatin organisation factors governing the cell-type specific response to ARS mutations. Therefore, an integrative genome-wide cis-regulatory network analysis approaches, developed and employed in the Malysheva Lab, are required to reveal these mechanisms.
Deadline : Open until filled
(22) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral scholarship holder (PhD) entometabolomics: investigating the factors affecting the insect metabolome and its relationship with stress and welfare
The PhD project will be mostly executed at the Toxicological Centre (TC, UA), whose main competences relate to various aspects of the exposomics, such as human and environmental exposure risk assessment and monitoring, and metabolomics, where particular attention is given to the development and optimization of (bio)analytical comprehensive workflows for polar metabolites and lipids. We use MS-based metabolomics to elucidate toxicity mechanisms and pathways by identifying changes in cellular/tissue metabolites after exposure to toxicants and stress factors and providing essential input in the characterization of toxicity and exposure pathways of humans and other organisms to chemicals.
This PhD will also collaborate with the Livestock Technology group at the University of Leuven (KUL), responsible to develop, calibrate and validate a sensor platform that can measure indicators linked to the performance and behaviour of BSFL in commercial rearing conditions, and the insect research centre INAGRO.
Deadline :15 August 2024
(23) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral scholarship holder (PhD) assessing the chemical safety of new insect feed streams containing microplastics and related additives for rearing black soldier fly larvae
The Toxicological Centre (TC, UA) with extensive analytical expertise and instrumental capabilities related to environmental and human exposure assessment. The main competences of TC relate to various aspects of the exposomics, such as human biomonitoring, human exposure risk assessment, in vitro studies of contaminant metabolism, identification of (bio)transformation products, and environmental monitoring.
The Research Group for Insect Production and Processing (IP&P, KUL Campus Geel) focuses on biological and (bio)chemical challenges within the industrial insect production and processing value chain. These challenges range from the exploration of the biological and chemical safety of insects to improving/increasing production, processing and usage of insect and insect-based products. We employ biological strategies (e.g. probiotics, substrate fermentation) and/or new chemical/physical extraction procedures (e.g. for protein or chitin)
Deadline : 15 August 2024
(24) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral scholarship holder neuroscience with focus on the link between hearing loss and cognitive decline
You will work actively on the preparation and defence of a PhD thesis in the field of neurosciences in the Neurochemistry and Behaviour group at the Experimental Neurobiology Unit in collaboration with the Experimental Laboratory of Translational Neuroscience. This 4-year scholarship is focused on the link between hearing loss, cognitive decline and neurodegeneration. The association between hearing impairment and dementia has emerged as a major public health challenge and has triggered increasing interest with significant opportunities for earlier diagnosis, treatment and prevention. Hearing loss appears as a risk factor for cognitive impairment, and has been identified as a potential modifiable age-related condition linked to dementia. Few studies so far have examined the relationship between hearing loss and the molecular changes in the brain, and more specifically in the hippocampus, that lead to cognitive dysfunction. This project aims to unravel the molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying cognitive decline induced by inner ear dysfunction in valid mouse models for neurodegeneration.
Deadline : 22 August 2024
(25) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral scholarship holder analytical forensic toxicology
- You will work actively on the preparation and defence of a PhD thesis in the field of analytical forensic toxicology. Your research will be focused on developing, optimising & validating new analytical strategies for implementation in systematic toxicological analysis (STA) for judicial inquiries. STA is a vital screening step in forensic toxicology which requires the highest possible coverage of toxicants, including both novel and re-emerging legal & illicit drugs.
- You will develop analytical methods based on liquid and/or gas chromatography coupled to (high resolution) mass spectrometry for the reliable identification of toxicants in various sample types, including blood, urine, vitreous humour, organs, and hair.
Deadline : 22/08/2024
(26) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral scholarship holder functional and ecological morphology, behavior and genomics of cichlids
- You will work actively on the preparation and defence of a PhD thesis on functional trade-offs, behavior and genomics related to trophic flexibility in cichlids. You will work actively on the preparation and defence of a PhD thesis on functional trade-offs, behaviour and genomics related to trophic flexibility in cichlids. While most cichlid species have evolved behavioural and morphological adaptations to specific dietary niches, they also have retained the possibility to feed on other food types. Hence, the flexibility of the feeding apparatus to deal with different food types and the behavioural characteristics that promote opportunistic foraging are important factors in the feeding ecology of cichlids.
- You will study various cichlids with different feeding habits. You will combine behavioural observations and kinematical analyses of food capture with detailed morphometrics of preserved specimen, and analyses of genomic data. You will contribute to a better understanding of the evolution of feeding in this model system of fast, adaptive radiation.
Deadline : 5 September 2024
(27) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral scholarship holders (PhD students) 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 : 19 August 2024
(28) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral scholarship holder (PhD) phytohormone physiology and biochemistry
Plants are exposed to multiple abiotic stresses like drought, submergence, radiation and soil toxicity, resulting in growth adaptations. Several plant hormones are known as crucial players in the control of stress responses. Among these ethylene, ABA, and jasmonic acid are well-known. Hormone metabolism determines their steady state, and some metabolites serve particular additional roles. This project aims to unravel how and under which form ACC and jasmonic acid control responses to stress e.g. flooding and drought. The following techniques will be used: transcriptomics, metabolomics, in situ mass spectrometric imaging, live cell microscopy, and the analysis of oxidative stress markers.
- You will work actively on the preparation and defence of a PhD thesis on the above subject.
- 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 Biology.
Deadline : 29 August 2024
(29) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral scholarship holder in the field of applied mathematics
- You will work actively on the preparation and defence of a PhD thesis in the field of Applied Mathematics. In this project we will develop novel mathematical methods for the numerical bifurcation analysis of non-smooth dynamical systems. These methods will be used in various application areas. One example is soft-robotics where multiple non-linear aspects lead to complex dynamics. These novel methods will predict the dynamics in these and other applications.
- You will publish scientific articles related to the research project.
- You will carry out a limited number of teaching and research support tasks for Bachelor Mathematics and the Master Financial and Applied Mathematics.
Deadline : 29 August 2024
(30) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral scholarship holder experimental nanophysics and nonlinear optics
- You will work actively on the preparation of a PhD thesis in the field of nonlinear optical nanomaterials. This PhD project is part of an FWO project on the multi-scale alignment of carbon-nanotube-encapsulated molecular arrays for nonlinear optics.
- Research Topic: Organic dipolar molecules have attracted much interest over the past decades because of their very large nonlinear optical (NLO) response, holding promise for applications in photonics. Yet, a long standing issue is that to achieve a macroscopic NLO response, the asymmetry intrinsic to dipolar molecules needs to be extended from the molecular scale, over the supramolecular mesoscale, all the way to the macroscopic scale. This PhD project builds on an idea first demonstrated at UAntwerp, that dipolar NLO molecules spontaneously adopt an ideal head-to-tail alignment when confined as one-dimensional arrays inside carbon nanotubes, resulting in a dramatic enhancement of the NLO response by orders of magnitude through a coherent addition of molecular responses (results published in Nature Nanotechnology in 2015). In your PhD project this concept will be elaborated to form highly dipolar NLO nanohybrids (supramolecular scale), and these will be used by the partner at UGent to form aligned polymer fibers and films to extend the alignment throughout the mesoscale and macroscopic scale. The whole process will be modelled by the partner group at the KU Leuven in a multiscale approach, from atomistic simulations of the molecular alignment to large scale coarse grained calculations of the alignment of the nanohybrids. You will study the NLO molecules, nanohybrids and their aligned polymer composites by advanced spectroscopic techniques such as wavelength-dependent Raman scattering, and characterize their NLO properties by hyper-Rayleigh scattering and coherent second harmonic generation, all with world-wide unique setups using widely wavelength-tuneable laser systems. You will collaborate in a dynamic, multidisciplinary team at the interface between physics, chemistry, and materials engineering.
Deadline : September 16th 2024
(31) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral scholarship holder coastal wetland adaptability to sea level rise
- Project background and objective: Tidal marshes are vital wetland ecosystems but face serious threat from rising sea levels. To survive, they need a consistent supply of suspended sediment to build land and prevent submersion. However, understanding sediment dynamics is complex and remains under-explored, leading to uncertain models of marsh evolution. The project aims to deepen our knowledge of sediment dynamics over space and time, thereby enhancing our ability to better constrain and model sediment supply to tidal marshes. We will conduct field studies in the Scheldt estuary to collect new data on suspended sediment concentration, composition, and sinking speed, considering variations across a tidal marsh landscape and over time, from tidal cycles to multiple years. This data will be then integrated into an advanced numerical model that simulates the dynamic interactions between tidal hydrodynamics, sediment transport and elevation change, and marsh vegetation. By applying the model to different sediment supply scenarios, we aim to improve our assessments of marsh adaptability to sea level rise.
- Project organization: You will work in a team, interacting with prof. Jean-Philippe Belliard and other professors, field and lab technicians, PhD students and post-docs working on coastal wetland bio-geomorphology and other ecological processes in coastal, aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. As this project is in collaboration with the ECODAM research group of the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (Brussels, Belgium), you will also closely interact with researchers there working on monitoring sediment dynamics and ecosystem modelling.
Deadline : 19th of August 2024
(32) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral candidate in the interdisciplinary field of applied sciences and heritage science
- You will work actively on the preparation and defence of a PhD thesis dedicated to the study of historical impermeable coatings (in particular on carriages and sledges).
- More in particular, your work will focus on the chemical characterisation of the lacquer coatings found on historical horse-drawn vehicles (using mostly X-ray based and IR-based methods – also at synchrotron end stations – as well as MS methods) and on the production, artificial ageing and chemical characterization of historically accurate mock-up samples.
- This is a strongly interdisciplinary project with an international scope, this implies that the candidate will have to collaborate in an interdisciplinary manner with chemists, heritage scientists and conservators throughout the project. Therefore the candidate should have good communication skills and is expected to interact pro-actively with, and occasionally travel to, the European institutes and museums associated with this project.
- You will do most of your work at the City (CST) and Groenenborger (CGB) campuses of the University of Antwerp, under the guidance of professors Andrea Marchetti (heritage science) and Koen Janssens (natural sciences). You will closely collaborate with colleagues at the Royal Museum of Art and History (Brussels) and occasionally travel to partner institutions throughout Europe (Portugal, Germany, Italy, France,…).
Deadline : 9 September 2024
(33) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD researcher “track the twin” doctoral network on the use of “low-dose electron microscopy techniques for atomically precise characterisation of single quantum dots”
- You will work actively on the preparation of a PhD thesis.
Determination of atomically precise structures of single quantum dots- Use scanning transmission electron microscopy methods to determine the atomically precise structure of single core/shell QDs. Specific objectives include: determine conditions for STEM imaging of core/shell QDs without e-beam damage; realize 2D quantification of structure and composition from 4D STEM data; obtain the atomic structure of GEN1 QDs by 3D modelling of the atomic structure using molecular dynamics structure relaxation and alignment with other structure analysis methods; confirm envisaged structure changes in forward-engineered QDs using the developed methodology of STEM imaging, 3D modelling and method alignment.
- You will publish scientific articles related to the research project.
Deadline : September 2, 2024
About University of Antwerp, Belgium –Official Website
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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