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18 Fully Funded PhD Positions at Ghent University, Belgium

Are you holding Master’s degree and ready to elevate your academic journey to the highest level? Ghent University, Belgium, has announced a multiple fully funded PhD positions awaiting talented individuals like you. Don’t miss your chance to be part of our vibrant academic community. Explore the exciting PhD positions available and submit your application today!”

Candidates interested in fully funded PhD positions can check the details and may apply as soon as possible. 

 

(01) Fully Funded PhD Position 

PhD position summary/title:–PhD Student

The position is offered in the laboratory for Circular Process Technology on the Kortrijk campus under the leadership of Prof. Steven De Meester. The work will take place in a young and dynamic team of approximately 30 researchers who focus on better chemical engineering in the circular economy, with a focus on pretreatment and downstream processing. This is important as it is clear that waste is heterogeneous and mechanical and chemical recycling technologies are often very sensitive to certain contaminants.
For several projects involving the recycling of plastic waste, we are looking for a researcher that aims at obtaining a PhD degree. More specifically, the topic concerns the removal of contaminants such as additives from plastic waste such as packaging waste or textile waste.
You spend at least 90% of your assignment on scientific research in the context of the preparation of a doctoral thesis. In addition, this position will also include some other assignments, such as contacts with companies, services, supervision of master thesis students, etc. A practical mindset with good laboratory skills such as chemical analysis is a plus.

Deadline : Nov 27, 2024

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(02) Fully Funded PhD Position 

PhD position summary/title:– PhD Student

The INCAT team at Ghent University (https://incat.ugent.be) is looking for a qualified and motivated candidate to pursue a Ph.D. in catalyst development and catalytic testing of lignin and its performance testing in lignin depolymerization.

INCAT aspires to advance the catalytic conversion of biomass-derived streams, focusing on their upgrading and separation into valuable chemicals, with a strong application-oriented goal. The group has extensive experience in the depolymerization and modification of lignin, utilizing advanced techniques to characterize lignin and its reaction products during depolymerization. Moreover, INCAT is pioneering novel analytical methods (e.g., 2D-LC, pyrolysis-GCxGC-MS) to enable even more comprehensive analyses.

Your research will focus on developing innovative catalysts for lignin depolymerization. Specifically, you will design, synthesize, and characterize novel heterogeneous catalysts, and evaluate their performance. The screening will cover both mild reductive and oxidative depolymerization, conducted in both batch and continuous-flow reactors. Additionally, you will perform detailed analyses of the resulting product pools. Following the initial screening, a more thorough investigation of the impact of operating conditions will be carried out on one or two of the most promising catalysts.

Deadline :Nov 15, 2024

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(03) Fully Funded PhD Position 

PhD position summary/title:– Doctoral fellow

  • The Doctoral Fellow will be embedded in the English Section of the Department of Literary Studies. They will work with Prof. Andrew Bricker (executive supervisor), a scholar of English literature, satire, and humour, and Prof. Jeroen Vandaele (co-supervisor, a scholar working at the intersections of translation, ideology, and humour. The Doctoral Fellow will work on a specific doctoral project, leading to a dissertation, as part of “DELIAH: Democratic Literacy and Humour,” a multi-university research project funded by Horizon Europe (Call: HORIZON-CL2-2024-DEMOCRACY-01-08), which will run from 1 March 2025 – 29 February 2029.
  • The Doctoral Fellow’s PhD project within DELIAH will be “Analysing gender and stand-up comedy in the 21st-century Anglophone world, online and offline.”
  • Description: This PhD project seeks to understand how women and non-cis-gendered comedic practitioners have created new venues for and new forms of stand-up comedy in the 21st-century Anglophone world and how they have, in the process, created new spaces, forms, and practices of democratic participation. The growth of niche spaces for comedy, both online (message boards, microblogs, YouTube channels) and offline (small-venue comedy clubs, improv groups), has created alternative spaces for cultural and democratic expression. These new spaces have also created new opportunities for humour produced by women and non-cis-gendered individuals, particularly in the exploration of new comedic affects beyond the aggressive energy of either traditional satire or male-dominated stand up, personal trauma, and formal experimentation.
  • Tasks: Construct a bibliography of scholarship on stand-up comedy and database of women and non-cis-gendered comedic performers; select and analyze representative case studies and write up (academic) findings (a dissertation leading to a doctoral degree); and write a summary (public) report on research findings.
  • The Doctoral Fellow will also be (in part) responsible for DELIAH’s website and social-media profiles; and will take an active part in DELIAH’s annual meetings (in Ghent in April 2025; in Tartu, Estonia in 2026; in Bratislava, Slovakia in 2027; and in Bilbao, Spain in 2028); and will contribute to the successful advancement of the DELIAH project as a whole and to the spirit of interdisciplinary exchange that characterizes the project.
  • The Doctoral Fellow will also engage in some part-time teaching in English Literature and will take an active part in the life of the Department of Literary Studies and English Section, including volunteering for exam invigilation and evaluating BA and MA theses.

Deadline :Dec 01, 2024

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(04) Fully Funded PhD Position 

PhD position summary/title:– Doctoral fellow

As part of the highly prestigious ERC Starting Grant NEFELI (Neuromorphic Flexible Electro/chemical Interface for in-Memory Bio-Sensing and Computing), a Ph.D. position is available at Ghent University from January 2025. The project aims to develop and validate implantable devices for sensing neurodegenerative disease-related biomarkers. The PhD candidate will be part of an interdisciplinary team working towards this objective at the IMEC-associated research lab Centre for Microsystems Technology (CMST) (https://www.cmst.be/) at the Department of Electronics and Information Systems (ELIS) of the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture.

The PhD candidate will perform research on the development of miniaturized, biocompatible neuromorphic device arrays (design, in-house fabrication and testing) and device characterization (electrical, morphological, mechanical, biocompatibility…). He/she will be in charge of the implementation and experimental validation of the system for biosensing. Specifically, he/she will lead experiments to detect and monitor biomarker concentrations, identify key parameters for effective sensing, and design a comprehensive biosensing framework with standardized protocols. The whole system can be realized using micro- and nanotechnologies in the state-of-the-art cleanroom at Ghent University. The PhD candidate will continuously interact with other researchers working on the project.

In addition to these primary research responsibilities, the PhD student will actively contribute to the educational mission of our institution by providing (limited) support for courses and taking on a mentoring role by supervising master theses related to the subject of the PhD.

Deadline : Nov 15, 2024

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(05) Fully Funded PhD Position 

PhD position summary/title:– Doctoral fellow

We are seeking highly motivated and talented PhD students to join the AI-bioinformatics research cluster, with profs. Thomas Demeester, Jan Fostier, and Kathleen Marchal, combining their respective expertise in machine learning, high-performance compute in bioinformatics, and AI for biology.
The PhD fits within the recently launched imec Health Mission, a strategic research track aiming to advance the discovery and development of novel therapeutics over the next 10 years. IDLab Ghent is a key partner in the Health Mission, and leads the first mission project ADAPT (for “Affinity and Developability through AI for Protein Therapeutics”). ADAPT aims to develop AI-based models to design and optimize antibodies and nanobodies with high binding affinity and optimal developability properties, in a collaboration with several imec research groups and key industrial partners from the Ghent area specialized in nanobody technology.

The main tasks for the PhD students will include:
• Studying state-of-the-art techniques and benchmarks in the domain of antibody design with machine learning models (including protein language models and/or protein diffusion models).
• Design, implementation, and training of new models, focusing on one of the topics listed above.
• Collaboration towards proof-of-concept implementations of the created models for validation by experts in the domain of antibody engineering.
• Writing high quality publications, targeting top journals and international conferences.
In addition to these primary research responsibilities, the PhD student will actively contribute to the educational mission of our institution by providing (limited) support for courses in the area of AI and/or bioinformatics, and taking on a mentoring role by supervising master theses related to the subject of the PhD.

Deadline : Dec 31, 2024 

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(06) Fully Funded PhD Position 

PhD position summary/title:– PhD Student

The “WAVES” research group (http://www.waves.intec.ugent.be/) of the department of Information technology of imec-Ghent University is the expertise center in Belgium for decision making, recommender systems, personalization and information filtering (which are subtopics in the research domain of machine learning).
Current research within the WAVES group is focused around the recent trends emerging in the current online and offline world where users have to cope with an overload of information (blogs, social networks, audio-visual content providers, …). At the same time, we observe that the presence on the web becomes more personal and online identity and activities gain importance. As a result, assisting and adaptive intelligent software tools and techniques get an increasingly important role in online services. Tools for decision making assistance are emerging to process the vast amounts of data and provide the human decision maker insights into the data to make the optimal decision. One type of tools for decision making assistance is a recommender system. Recommender systems are commonly-used solutions that generate personal suggestions for users based on their preferences, thereby alleviating the problem of information overload.

The researcher will work within an Inter-University project on artificial intelligence in collaboration with other Flemish Universities. This project will investigate if AI systems can really equal human performance when it comes to complex tasks. AI systems have to be capable of complex reasoning in a way that is autonomous, intelligent and trustworthy. Therefore, we need systems that can integrate and interpret, represent and understand their complex environment in multiple domains, over large timescales and in shared human-machine contexts. A good example of human-machine interaction based on AI is the automatic generation of content recommendations, used by systems such as Amazon and Netflix. The focus of our research group in this project is on this topic of decision making and especially recommender systems.

Deadline : Jan 31, 2025

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(07) Fully Funded PhD Position  

PhD position summary/title:–PhD Student

This PhD student position is part of the NATRPRIME EU Horizon Europe Funded Doctoral Network (https://www.natprime.org). We are seeking 20 ambitious, curious, and creative individuals to join our research and training activities focused on the targeted delivery of nucleic acid therapeutics. These doctoral candidates will receive training from world-leading experts in academia and industry within this field. The position offers a fully funded 4-year PhD scholarship, including opportunities for secondments (research visits of several months) at other consortium members.

Under the guidance of Prof. Bruno De Geest, the lab operates at the intersection of chemistry, nanotechnology, and immunology, with a mission to enhance the immune system’s response to internal threats such as cancer and external threats like viral pathogens and harmful drug substances.

The main objective of this PhD project will be to develop cancer immunotherapies based on mRNA formulated in lipid nanoparticles. Dthe PhD stundent will design and produce mRNA’s encoding for immunologically relevant proteins and seek ways to formulate and deliver them to immune cells either systemically or locally in tumors. This project will involve animal experiments in preclinical mouse tumor models.This project will be performed in close collaboration with the lab of Prof. Robin Shattock (Imperial College London, UK). Secondments will be planned at other consortium members.

Further information on the research interests of the lab of Prof. Bruno De Geest can be found on their website: https://brdegeest.wixsite.com/biopharmtech-degeest
Further information on the research interests of the lab of Prof. Robin Shattock can be found on their website: https://profiles.imperial.ac.uk/r.shattock

Deadline : Dec 01, 2024 

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(08) Fully Funded PhD Position 

PhD position summary/title:– PhD student

This PhD student position is part of the NATRPRIME EU Horizon Europe Funded Doctoral Network (https://www.natprime.org). We are seeking 20 ambitious, curious, and creative individuals to join our research and training activities focused on the targeted delivery of nucleic acid therapeutics. These doctoral candidates will receive training from world-leading experts in academia and industry within this field. The position offers a fully funded 4-year PhD scholarship, including opportunities for secondments (research visits of several months) at other consortium members.

Under the guidance of Prof. Bruno De Geest, the lab operates at the intersection of chemistry, nanotechnology, and immunology, with a mission to enhance the immune system’s response to internal threats such as cancer and external threats like viral pathogens and harmful drug substances.

The primary objective of this PhD project is to develop ligand-functionalized lipid nanoparticles for immunotherapy applications, utilizing mRNA as the therapeutic cargo. The PhD student will focus on synthesizing ionizable lipids for mRNA complexation and will explore chemical or biochemical methods to conjugate small molecules, peptides, or protein-based ligands onto the surface of lipid nanoparticles. The study will investigate how ligand density influences the immunobiological behavior of these particles in both in vitro and in vivo settings, including animal experiments using preclinical mouse tumor models.

Deadline : Dec 01, 2024

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(09) Fully Funded PhD Position 

PhD position summary/title:– PhD Student

The Law & Technology research group of the Faculty of Law is looking for a full-time PhD student (m/f/x) for a research project on the right to (not) use the internet, starting in early 2025 (start date to be agreed).

We are looking for a motivated PhD student to participate in an innovative project that will establish a European observatory around the emerging fundamental human rights to use the internet and the right not to use the internet. The project aims to explore and shape how these two rights should be understood and applied in today’s increasingly digital world.

As part of the project, you will conduct normative research into the conceptualisation and practical application of these rights, with a particular focus on the impact on vulnerable groups. Through a mix of traditional legal and empirical research, you will critically analyse legal and policy developments around these rights in Council of Europe member states. The observatory will serve as an important knowledge hub for the research community and formulate valuable recommendations for policymakers. You will have the opportunity to help shape the future of rights in the digital environment and contribute to a project that can influence digital policy-making at the European level.

Deadline :Nov 25, 2024

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(10) Fully Funded PhD Position 

PhD position summary/title:–  PhD Student

We are looking for a PhD candidate in the field of computational electromagnetics, a field on the crossroads of scientific computing, electrical engineering, and numerical analysis.
At the electromagnetics group at Ghent University, we aim to accelerate the development of the time-domain boundary element method into a method that can model highly non-linear, strongly radiating systems and that unlocks the modelling capacity with applications in for example emerging technologies in THz communications and imaging. In this doctoral project, you will develop novel modelling methodologies that allow the integrated simulation of complex sensors made from multiple materials, and including ports, coatings, and two-dimensional materials such as graphene. This requires the numerical analysis of novel boundary element methods, the design of efficient algorithms for their implementation on state-of-the-art distributed computing infrastructure, and their application to real world devices accounting for the highly complex semiconductor physics that gives rise to their behavior. This project is part of a larger European ERC consolidator project BET3D.
We offer the opportunity to conduct full-time research in an international research environment at Ghent University. You will be working towards the academic degree of Doctor in Applied Sciences. As part of the requirements for awarding the PhD degree, you will publish your work in peer reviewed journals and present your work at international conferences. You have four years to meet the requirements for awarding the PhD degree, at which point you will defend your research in front of a panel of experts.

Deadline : Nov 30, 2024

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(11) Fully Funded PhD Position 

PhD position summary/title:– Doctoral fellow

We are seeking a motivated candidate for a fully-funded PhD researcher position (1 year + 3 additional years after a positive evaluation) focused on applying advanced AI techniques (incl. LLMs, vision transformers, multimodal AI, etc.) to enrich and interact with data from the heritage domain.
Team:
The research group led by Prof. Steven Verstockt and Prof. Dieter De Witte, focuses on Applied AI projects in heritage, (mental) healthcare, media, and sports. Recent projects include the enrichment of historical maps, enhancement of plant herbarium collections, use of LLMs to interact with mental health patients, application of multimodal AI for image retrieval, and development of AI-supported annotation interfaces for museums.
Your mission:
As a PhD researcher, you will:
• Stay informed about the latest advancements in AI, computer vision, and FAIR data practices
• Apply cutting-edge technology to enrich and interact with digital collections
• Attend and speak at international conferences

Deadline : Dec 31, 2024

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(12) Fully Funded PhD Position 

PhD position summary/title:– PhD Student

We are looking for enthusiastic candidates to perform research on the development of experimentally validated and morphologically detailed computational models of the ultrasound-sensitive hippocampal formation. The models will include a comprehensive set of underlying ultrasound-neuron coupling mechanisms (e.g., mechanosensitive ion channels, radiation force induced membrane bending, intramembrane cavitation).

Two PhD positions are available:
1. Development of a computational framework and transducer/waveform design for ultrasound neuromodulation.
2. Modeling and optimization of acoustoelectric neurorecording (electrode arrays, decoding strategies, etc.).

The applicant should hold an M. Sc. (or equivalent) degree in biomedical, electrical, or physics engineering, or in a related field. The candidate should have excellent programming skills (e.g., Python) and fluency in English (speech and writing). Prior knowledge of neuroscience and/or machine learning is an advantage.

Deadline :Dec 31, 2024

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(13) Fully Funded PhD Position 

PhD position summary/title:– PhD Student

Ghent University is seeking a candidate for a PhD position to research high-frequency electronic integrated circuits which will be co-designed and co-integrated with complementary photonic integrated circuits for next-generation frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) LiDAR transceivers.

Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) is a 3D sensing technology based on laser light to measure the distance between an object and the sensor that holds great promise for allowing autonomous machines to see and navigate the world with very high precision. Typically, LiDAR designs comprise a multitude of moving parts (e.g., an assembly of lasers, optics, electronics, and detectors) on a mechanically rotating stage. The need to assemble and align all these parts leads to high costs and relatively low manufacturing volumes, while the wear and tear on the mechanical components limits long-term reliability, and all these factors have been hindering a wide adoption of this technology. To solve these problems, one of the big trends that industry is witnessing is the drive to higher levels of integration enabled by semiconductor technologies, and the move away from discrete and mechanical components.

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 : Jan 31, 2025

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(14) Fully Funded PhD Position 

PhD position summary/title:– PhD Student

You will actively work on the preparation and defense of a PhD thesis in (Applied) Linguistics under the supervision of prof. Irene Cenni. The doctoral project is situated in the field of multimodal communication and focuses on specialized Italian discourse in online environments. Multimodality, the use of multiple semiotic resources in communication, plays a crucial role in today’s digital context, where meaning is constructed not only through (spoken) language but also through the integration of visual, auditory, and interactive modes.

The overarching aim is to analyze how Italian content creators utilize the multimodal affordances of popular social media platforms to effectively convey their message, manage their relationship with the audience, and construct and negotiate their digital identity as experts and professionals. Your research will be embedded in the activities of the MULTIPLES (https://research.flw.ugent.be/en/multiples) research group.

Deadline : Nov 18, 2024

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(15) Fully Funded PhD Position 

PhD position summary/title:– Doctoral fellow

We are looking for one bright and motivated PhD student for TripleQ project. The project is financed by the Independent Research Fund Denmark, and it is a collaboration between IDLab – Ghent University / imec (Belgium), Alea quantum technologies (Denmark), DTU (Denmark), and DFM (Denmark).


TripleQ is an ambitious research and innovation project aiming to develop, test and validate secure, low-cost, and ultra-fast 10 Gigabits/second Quantum Random Number Generators (QRNGs) for next-generation cryptographic applications. In today’s highly digitalized societies, information security is crucial as the current cybersecurity infrastructure is under constant pressure from financially and politically motivated hacking. Moreover, the rapid development of quantum computing poses a significant threat, potentially breaking many existing cryptographic protocols and rendering current techniques obsolete. Quantum cryptography offers a solution, which relies on high-quality, certified randomness. Both classical and quantum cryptographic protocols depend on random numbers that are unpredictable to adversaries. TripleQ aims to create QRNGs with a high-security level rooted in the laws of quantum physics, making the technology compact, affordable, and ready for a range of applications. Funded by Innovation Fund Denmark, the project unites leading expertise from four academic and industry partners, working at the forefront of quantum cryptography.

Deadline : Dec 31, 2024

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(16) Fully Funded PhD Position 

PhD position summary/title:– Doctoral fellow

We are looking for one bright and motivated PhD student for CyberQ project. The project is financed by the Independent Research Fund Denmark, and it is a collaboration between IDLab – Ghent University / imec (Belgium), DTU (Denmark), SiPhotonicIC (Denmark), DFM (Denmark) and GlobalConnect (Northern Europe).

CyberQ is an ambitious research project focused on developing next-generation Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) systems that address challenges in scalability, performance, and practicality. In the modern digital age, secure communication is vital for global commerce, effective governance, and overall security. Traditional cryptographic techniques, though effective, are vulnerable to advancements in computing, especially the upcoming quantum computing era. QKD with AES encryption offers a robust, quantum-resistant solution. CyberQ targets enhancing the security of Continuous Variable (CV) QKD systems, refining multi-party protocols for broader network applications, and improving system resilience and miniaturization for widespread deployment. By identifying vulnerabilities and integrating higher levels of practical security, CyberQ paves the way towards fully device-independent CVQKD systems. CyberQ unites the leading expertise of six international partners and is funded by Innovation Fund Denmark.

Deadline :Dec 31, 2024 

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(17) Fully Funded PhD Position 

PhD position summary/title:– PhD Student

The IDLab Ghent research group is seeking a highly motivated and talented PhD student to join the Software-Defined Radio (SDR) research team. Digital communication plays a pivotal role in professional environments, supporting both persons, machines to interact with each other over a communication network. In professional environments, such as industry automation (industry 4.0), communication becomes increasingly diverse, and demands more reliable and time-critical end-to-end wireless connectivity, that can seamlessly adapt to dynamic environments and application needs. What is also lacking in today’s wireless network is uniform coverage, users often rely on connection to a specific access point, and performance varies when moving around. The next generation Wi-Fi needs to support distributed and coordinated AP architectures, whereby multiple APs can simultaneously serve a single user with coherent beamforming. In short, we want to advance wireless communications to the next level on these aspects: uniform coverage, end-to-end latency, time synchronization accuracy among distributed applications across diverse network segments, reliability/QoS for high-priority and safety-critical traffic. Today, we are far from achieving that vision, as most research is limited to theoretical or simulation studies, ignoring real-world impairments. Individual access points produced by different vendors rarely cooperate, features such as coherent beamforming among different access points have great potential but cannot be realized in real-life.

In recent years, software-defined radio becomes a popular tool in research community, the SDR team of UGent has created the full stack open-source Wi-Fi chip design openwifi (https://github.com/open-sdr/openwifi). Many innovations has been built above openwifi, such as support of synchronization and Time Sensitive Network (TSN), MIMO diversity, for a complete list of publications using openwifi please refer to (https://github.com/open-sdr/openwifi/blob/master/doc/publications.md).
This PhD vacancy targets to use openwifi to deliver solutions of the advanced WiFi chip for professional end-to-end communication networks that stand out in fulfilling, guaranteeing the challenging requirements of ultra-reliable and time-and-safety-critical applications running on top.

We offer the opportunity to do this research in an international and stimulating environment. The IDLab research group belongs to both Ghent university and IMEC. Ghent University consistently ranks among the best 100 universities in the world. And IMEC is world’s leading independent R&D research hub. Our research center is located in the heart of Europe, Ghent is a beautiful and welcoming city (https://www.lonelyplanet.com/articles/ghent-belgiums-best-kept-secret) with plenty of cultural and leisure activities.

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 a number of benefits, such as a broad range of training and educational opportunities, 36 days of vacation leave, bicycle allowance, and more.

Deadline :Feb 15, 2025

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(18) Fully Funded PhD Position 

PhD position summary/title:– PhD Student

We are seeking a motivated PhD student (1+3 year appointment) for the project titled ‘Geophysics-Driven Digital Twins for Contaminated Soil and Groundwater Systems’, funded by the Ghent University Special Research Fund.
As a PhD candidate, you will dedicate at least 90% of your time to conducting scientific research with the primary goal of obtaining your doctoral degree. The remaining time of your appointment may involve supporting the Department of Environment through teaching, research, and service tasks.

Deadline : Nov 15, 2024

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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.

 

 

 

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