If you’re a Masters degree holder and seeking Fully Funded PhD Programs, University of Twente, Netherlands has several online applications open for PhD programs. Explore the PhD opportunities across diverse research areas and submit your application soon.
1. Fully Funded PhD Position in grain-size effects on coastal nourishment morphodynamics
Summary of PhD Program:
Are you interested in doing lab experiments and field measurements to better understand and model grain-size effects on coastal nourishment morphodynamics? The Marine and Fluvial Systems group in the Civil Engineering and Management Department is looking for a motivated PhD researcher to strengthen our team. We are an active group of researchers pioneering at the interface of fundamental research in marine and fluvial system and nature-based solutions.
Application Deadline: 31 May 2024
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Calibration in Deep Learning for Zero Downtime in Cyber-Physical Systems
Summary of PhD Program:
The vacancy is focused on calibration in deep learning. Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have demonstrated significant predictive capabilities across various domains including computer vision, speech recognition, and natural language processing. Existing sophisticated neural network architectures are frequently integrated into practical applications. However, recent research has highlighted a crucial issue: despite their high accuracy achieved through training, deep neural networks often have overconfident and underconfident predictions. Deploying uncalibrated models in real-world systems poses substantial risks, particularly in safety-critical contexts like monitoring critical infrastructure systems. Calibrating deep learning models is essential to mitigate this risk, ensuring that the model’s posterior distribution accurately represents uncertainty without being excessively overconfident.
Application Deadline: 19 May 2024
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Development of a BioArtificial Kidney device consisting of living membranes
Summary of PhD Program:
Patients with end stage kidney disease (ESKD) need kidney replacement therapy (KRT) to survive, but current solutions (dialysis, kidney transplantation) are insufficient. The majority of ESKD patients is dependent on dialysis which places a heavy burden on their life. Removal of uremic toxins is inadequate, as all current dialysis therapies only mimic the filtration by kidney glomeruli, and do not replace any functionality of kidney tubules. BAKtotheFuture aims to develop a Bioartificial Kidney (BAK) that mimics tubular functionalities as an indispensable addition to current dialysis techniques.
Application Deadline: 15 May 2024
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Machine Learning for Digital Fincance
Summary of PhD Program:
In your project, you will do research on and apply machine learning techniques to make a real-world impact in academia and at financial institutions. A potential research topic is the design of an intelligent search bot that maximises AI technologies to improve the accessibility and user experience of public data portals. Further research will focus on ML techniques and NLP to improve supervisory technology (Suptech) methods. Both topics are relevant and of interest to the ECB and BIS, e.g. as part of their tool Olympus, that provides support in various areas, such as advanced analytics, process automation and digital collaboration.
Application Deadline: 5 Jun 2024
5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Facilitating the co-creation of sponge measures and strategies
Summary of PhD Program:
Climate change exacerbates the frequency and intensity of both floods and droughts. Despite widespread recognition that improving the water retention capacity of landscapes or sponge functioning is a suitable approach to increase society’s resilience to climate change and its effects, implementation of such approaches is still lagging. A key challenge is to mobilise and involve all relevant actors for the inclusive and integrative design and implementation of effective sponge measures and to translate long-term, regional river basin strategies to practical action perspectives. To address this challenge, this fully funded PhD position aims to develop approaches for inclusive, integrative and effective co-creation and knowledge production processes and to support their implementation processes.
Application Deadline: 26 May 2024
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6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Micro-mechanics of dynamic friction in a single-grain contact
Summary of PhD Program:
Under highly accelerated slip, several physical phenomena contribute to the dynamic friction behavior of mechanical systems. Understanding friction in grain (micro)-scale contacts is relevant to several industrial and geo-mechanical systems. For example, loss of friction and slip causes errors in highly accurate positioning stages in lithography. Earthquakes also occur due to sudden slip when the frictional strength of the crushed rock granules in geological faults is overcome.
Application Deadline: 12 May 2024
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in value assessment of innovations in end-stage organ failure
Summary of PhD Program:
Competition for limited healthcare resources is a hallmark of any healthcare system. In practice, this translates into a waiting list problem: patients need to wait for a resource to become available, e.g. solid organ transplantation waiting lists and the associated staff and bed/room space needed for the surgery and post-operative care. Compared to timely patient management, delayed interventions commonly result in loss of quality of life, or even death, and additional costs and burden to the healthcare system.
Application Deadline: 17 May 2024
8. Fully Funded PhD Position in automated and alternate assessment in undergraduate mathematics
Summary of PhD Program:
We seek a PhD candidate who is passionate about mathematics education to engage in a project evaluating the affordances and constraints of different forms of automated and alternative assessment, comparing and contrasting assessment forms across mathematics courses and between courses in mathematics and other disciplines within the faculty and the UT. It is expected that the outcomes of the project will include practical implementation (or plans for implementation) of assessment reform which will have positive impact on teachers’ workloads, while maintaining, or even improving, the quality of assessment.
Application Deadline: 22 May 2024
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Robust, Generalizable AI for Medical Imaging
Summary of PhD Program:
Artificial intelligence is increasingly being used in medical applications, supporting doctors and other medical professionals in their work, facilitating the analysis of medical images and other data, for more rapid, comprehensive and accurate diagnosis, guidance of surgeries and more. Today, deep learning methods are achieving excellent results on many medical imaging problems, resulting in highly accurate segmentation, recognition, classification, anomaly detection. However, they do not always generalize, meaning they fail when faced with a dataset from a different source (e.g. a different brand of scanner).
Application Deadline: 17 May 2024
10. Fully Funded PhD Position in Remote Sensing of Aquatic Biophysics
Summary of PhD Program:
Under the SPARKLES project can be watched via this link we are seeking an emerging scientist to conduct interdisciplinary and innovative research to investigate the impact of floating solar on aquatic biophysics and their role in altering the thermal and mass balances of inland waters. The main aim is to unravel how floating solar panels may affect water biophysics. To achieve this aim, you will work on identifying and measuring key radiometric and biophysical properties that characterize the solar panels and the water before and after the installation of the floating solar.
Application Deadline: 19 May 2024
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11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Mechanical Alignment Strategies for Photonic Integrated Circuits
Summary of PhD Program:
A PhD position is available at the chair of Precision Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering Technology of the University of Twente. We are seeking a highly motivated PhD student to join our team in developing mechanical alignment structures for photonic integrated circuits. Your work will contribute towards efficient chip-to-chip coupling, chip-to-wafer coupling and experimental testing strategies.
You will become part of a team working on the development of various technologies for the alignment and coupling of integrated photonics. In particular, this PhD position is about efficient passive alignment of photonics chips. Your tasks in the project will range from the design of micro-mechanical kinematic couplings, on-chip mechanical features and flexure mechanisms for load application, to the characterization, tuning and experiment measurements of demonstrators.
Application Deadline: 19 May 2024
12. Fully Funded PhD Position in New thermal-infrared satellite missions for water, food, and climate
Summary of PhD Program:
We seek a PhD candidate who is interested in conducting field measurements and data analysis to investigate the added value of new thermal-infrared satellite missions for water, food, and climate. You will join a team of scientists working on similar challenges from different perspectives with partners worldwide.
Satellites are increasingly used to monitor events and processes on Earth. Thermal-infrared (TIR) remote sensing with satellites can be used to detect fires, evaporative cooling by plants, urban heat islands, and changes in sea surface temperature. Several space agencies are planning the launch of new satellites in the thermal domain in the coming years. This will enable a more detailed monitoring of the cycles of water and carbon dioxide and the anthropogenic influence on them.
Application Deadline: 1 Jun 2024
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in Software Security
Summary of PhD Program:
In this PhD project, we intend to research automated techniques to analyze, exploit, and patch software vulnerabilities, after the detection phase. In fact, current tools, such as fuzzers, detect more potential flaws than organizations can fix. We plan to design and develop automated techniques to analyze discovered vulnerabilities, assess their risk, prioritize the critical ones, and generate patches. Unlike prior work, we consider vulnerabilities in their context, including interactions between vulnerabilities and defenses, allowing for prompt mitigation.
Application Deadline: 31 May 2024
14. Fully Funded PhD Position in Cardiorespiratory Modelling and Simulation in Critical Care
Summary of PhD Program:
The Cardiovascular & Respiratory Physiology (CRPH) group of the University of Twente is looking for a PhD-candidate in a collaboration project with the Med-tech company Getinge AB, Sweden. In this 4-year project you will use computational modelling and simulations to create clinical decision support tools that will ultimately improve the daily care for critically ill patients. The focus of this ground-breaking research is on better understanding of heart-lung interactions and possible applications in acute and critical care (anaesthesiology and intensive care). In this project, 0-D computational models of the cardiovascular and respiratory systems including mechanical support will be used to optimize diagnostic and therapeutic solutions.
Application Deadline: 30 Jun 2024
15. Fully Funded PhD Position in Integrated mobility and healthcare capacity planning
Summary of PhD Program:
This fully-funded PhD project Integrated mobility and healthcare capacity planning, examines the implications of local and digital healthcare provision on health care operations. It involves the development of a planning support tool to examine integral healthcare capacity planning incorporating travel costs of patients, healthcare and home care workers. Coordination of treatment schedules, shared physical resources and digital healthcare services, and the interdependence of those resources in a patient’s healthcare process, is complex. A planning support tool, incorporating analysis and prediction models, will be developed in close collaboration with project partners. The tool will allow the development of integral mobility and healthcare capacity planning scenarios and impact estimations including health care cost.
Application Deadline: 31 May 2024
16. Fully Funded PhD Position in Physical and digital healthcare accessibility
Summary of PhD Program:
This fully-funded PhD project on Physical and digital healthcare accessibility. This Phd project focusses on user perspective of local and digital healthcare provision. It involves the development of a joint physical and digital healthcare accessibility decision support tool. The research should give insight in the mobility, accessibility, and wellbeing impacts of combinations of physical access to healthcare facilities (including hospital and local healthcare provision) and digital access (e.g., telemonitoring of patients at home, e-health services). Key aspects of healthcare accessibility to be examined include the needs of patients and healthcare staff, the (perceived) ease of reaching healthcare facilities and (physical and digital) possibilities of access healthcare.
Application Deadline: 31 May 2024
17. Fully Funded PhD Position in Industry 5.0 in manufacturing systems
Summary of PhD Program:
In this role, you will work closely with academic and industry partners to develop innovative digital enabled technologies and methods for the design and operation of future manufacturing. In line with the Industry 5.0 paradigm, aspects like sustainability in manufacturing (e.g. circular manufacturing systems, energy efficiency/flexibility) and human centricity (e.g. future workplace design, assistance systems) are of crucial importance in this context. As a PhD researcher, you will have the opportunity to work in a dynamic and collaborative research environment with leading researchers and industry partners in the field.
Application Deadline: 24 May 2024
18. Fully Funded PhD Position in Pioneering simulations of offshore wind farm turbulence
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD project, integral to the ERC consolidator WINDFLOW project, is dedicated to the development and application of novel large-eddy simulation techniques. Your research will illuminate the intricate dynamics between wind and waves, assessing their influence on the efficiency of offshore wind farms. This is a chance to advance knowledge in renewable energy and make a significant contribution to improving wind farm efficiency. Join us in shaping the future of sustainable energy.
Application Deadline: 31 May 2024
19. Fully Funded PhD Position in additive manufacturing of heat exchangers
Summary of PhD Program:
Motivated by the need for greater sustainability in data centers, the adoption of heat reuse has the potential to enhance organizational energy efficiency, reduce global energy consumption, and optimize services. In this context, our collaborative team aims to bring about a paradigm shift in the design, fabrication, and functionalization of 3D-printed structures to create an innovative thermochemical heat transformer. These will assist in temperature boosting of low-grade data center waste heat using an innovative process.
Application Deadline: 9 Jun 2024
20. Fully Funded PhD Position in IC Design group
Summary of PhD Program:
The University of Twente (UT) is located in the east of the Netherlands. It offers a dynamic campus, excellent facilities and the possibility to work in- and with- famous research groups. Professor Bram Nauta’s Integrated Circuit Design (ICD) group focuses on various aspects of analog and Radio Frequency (RF) Integrated Circuits (IC). The group’s motto is “fundamental solutions for practical problems” and under this vision, it has contributed many fundamental new ideas in circuit design. The IC Design group has made high-impact inventions in analog filters, thermal noise cancelling amplifiers, ultra-low power analog to digital converters, software-defined radio, mixer-first receivers, N-path filters and sub-sampling phase locked loops.
Application Deadline: 1 Jul 2024
21. Fully Funded PhD Position in Radio Systems
Summary of PhD Program:
This position is embedded in the Program Line 1 of intelligent components, within the framework of the large-scale Dutch national growthfund for FNS (Future Network Services). Join the frontier of innovation in 6G: the future of mobile networks technology! A unique Dutch alliance, comprising 60 leading ICT businesses, mobile operators, semiconductor manufacturers and research institutions, have united to spearhead the development of specific aspects of 6G: Software antennas, AI-driven network software, and groundbreaking 6G applications. Join us as a PhD student in this prestigious Future Network Services (FNS) flagship project, where research and entrepreneurial pursuits converge.
Application Deadline: 19 May 2024
22. Fully Funded PhD Position in Effective aperture of openings of systems in reverberant environments
Summary of PhD Program:
The Power Electronics and Electromagnetic Compatibility Group within the department Electrical Engineering has a vacancy for a Ph.D. researcher on Effective aperture of openings of systems in reverberant environments within the EU Horizon 2020 Marie Skiodowska-Curie Project NEPIT – Network for Evaluation of Propagation and Interference Training. Unintentional antennas such as openings, like windows, or holes for ventilation, can act as an antenna, allowing EM energy to penetrate opening and these unintentional antennas can radiate in all directions, and over a very, very, very large frequency range but the Electromagnetic effect are undesired therefore we would like that you help us to solve that problem!
Application Deadline: 1 Jul 2024
23. Fully Funded PhD Position in Closed-loop testing for faster and better EM evaluation
Summary of PhD Program:
The Power Electronics and Electromagnetic Compatibility Group within the department Electrical Engineering has a vacancy for a Ph.D. researcher on Closed-loop testing for faster and better EM evaluation of complex high-tech systems within the EU Horizon 2020 Marie Skiodowska-Curie Project NEPIT – Network for Evaluation of Propagation and Interference Training. To expose objects to electromagnetic fields we step to a new position, increase power level until a defined value is read by a meter but this very, very slow and the main problem is the slow meter response time therefore the key question is how electronic products react on electromagnetic interference and we would like that you help us to solve that problem!
Application Deadline: 1 Jul 2024
24. Fully Funded PhD Position in Machine Learning for Green Credit Scores
Summary of PhD Program:
The goal is to resolve how financial settings can adapt practices or propose solutions for designing green credit scoring models. This will facilitate improved access to investment and credit, thereby promoting fair and sustainable economic growth. You will be a member of the MSCA Industrial Doctoral Network on Digital Finance, a European Research and Training programme with several leading European universities and companies involved, such as the European Central Bank and the Bank for International Settlements. You will attend several European PhD courses and participate in extended research stays abroad.
Application Deadline: 31 May 2024
25. Fully Funded PhD Position in Fast and Accurate Integral Equation Methods for Computational Problems
Summary of PhD Program:
In this role, you will delve into the analysis, implementation, and application of novel numerical methods to efficiently and accurately compute volume integral operators that lie at the core of powerful integral equation formulations of acoustic, elastic, and electromagnetic wave equations. These methods hold the potential to significantly enhance the accuracy, geometric flexibility, efficiency, and implementation costs of wave equation solvers. As a result, you will have the opportunity to make significant contributions to cutting-edge research at the intersection of computational mathematics and its applications in physics, engineering, and material sciences, with a specific focus on addressing direct and inverse problems in nanophotonics and plasmonics.
Application Deadline: 9 May 2024
26. Fully Funded PhD Position in Sparse Training for Energy-Efficient Deep Learning
Summary of PhD Program:
The Department of Computer Science at the University of Twente invites applications for a 4-year fully funded PhD position in the area of Sparse Training for Energy-Efficient Deep Learning. The successful candidate will be a part of vibrant research team working on cutting-edge sparse training algorithms to reduce the computational and energy footprint of deep learning models without compromising their performance.
Application Deadline: 20 May 2024
27. Fully Funded PhD Position in Sparse Training for Deep Reinforcement Learning
Summary of PhD Program:
This doctoral research will be at the intersection of sparsity and artificial intelligence. The research will investigate the potential of sparse-to-sparse training of deep neural networks within reinforcement learning frameworks. This innovative approach holds promise for creating highly efficient and scalable AI systems capable of learning with limited data and computational resources, pertinent in areas such as autonomous systems, online resource allocation, and complex decision-making processes.
Application Deadline: 15 May 2024
