If you’re a Masters degree holder and seeking Fully Funded PhD Programs, Ghent University, Belgium 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 Physics and Astronomy
Summary of PhD Program:
Hard X-ray ptychography is one of the most advanced microscopy techniques to visualize materials in structures in 3D at a spatial resolution better than 100 nm. However, the technique is currently only available at synchrotron facilities, with very limited availability. In this project, we aim to bring hard X-ray ptychography to laboratory facilities. This project is an international collaboration between Ghent University, University College London (UK) and the Diamond Light Source (UK) and brings together different expertise and possibilities for experiments.
Application Deadline: Aug 31, 2024
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Biotechnology
Summary of PhD Program:
The FWO project MycoMatters aims to develop a robust process for production of 100% biobased and biodegradable mycelium-based materials with improved properties, such as mechanical strength and flexibility, durability but also visual and sensory attributes. In this specific PhD project, the main objective is to integrate a bacterial synthetic biology host in a co-cultivation approach to optimize cost-efficiency of the process and quality of the product. Furthermore, the bacterial host will be engineered to enhance material properties.
Application Deadline: Aug 24, 2024
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Criminology
Summary of PhD Program:
‘Big data policing’ can be seen as an innovative, information-driven policing strategy where advanced statistical methods analyze historical data to predict where and when there is a high risk of new crime. In current big data policing applications, algorithms are developed to “learn” from past crime patterns to predict future trends and patterns. Big data policing attracts the interest of many police forces in Europe. This research project funded by the European Research Council (ERC) aims to develop an evidence-based big data policing model that will be tested in various European cities.
Application Deadline: Aug 16, 2024
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Data Analysis and Mathematical Modelling
Summary of PhD Program:
Engineered and controlled in-vitro cell cultures will become key in future production of biologics, drug tests, tissue engineering, and even food production (e.g. artificial meat). The behaviour of those cells not only depends on their genetics; they also respond to changes of chemical signals, to their organization and embedding, and to bio-physical cues such as forces. Computational models to predict experimental outcomes have the potential to speed up our knowledge and reduce the costs of development. For example, Individual-Based Models (IBMs) can reproduce complex emergent behaviours of many species systems as a consequence of the interactions between the individual species (agents).
Application Deadline: Aug 15, 2024
5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Food Technology, Safety and Health
Summary of PhD Program:
In this specific PhD project, the main objective is to optimize the growth and production conditions of different selected strains to have maximum pigment production. Furthermore, emphasis will go on extraction of the pigments, and upscaling the optimized processes. If yields remain too low with natural microorganisms, synthetic biology tools will be used to increase the pigment production.
Application Deadline: Aug 10, 2024
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6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Political Sciences
Summary of PhD Program:
A long tradition of literature emphasizes that the stability of democracies rests upon its citizens. According to scholars like Easton (1975) and Norris (2011), citizens’ support for the political system and their commitment to democracy is vital for its functioning and endurance. Though citizens overwhelmingly support democracy as the most desirable form of governance (Wike et al. 2017; Wuttke et al. 2022), they are often willing to condone undemocratic acts as long as they stand to gain from them politically (Krishnarajan 2023).
Application Deadline: Aug 01, 2024
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in plant sensors and modelling for tomato
Summary of PhD Program:
DigiKas is dedicated to enhancing the efficiency and sustainability of greenhouse horticulture. By promoting the use of plant sensors, we aim to improve the monitoring of plant behaviour in climate-controlled greenhouses, and advance data-driven cultivation management among Flemish tomato growers. Our focus includes identifying and addressing bottlenecks in sensor application and digitalization, improving tomato growers’ competencies with sensor use, and increasing knowledge on resource-saving strategies related to light, energy, water, and CO2.
Application Deadline: Jul 31, 2024
8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Experimental Clinical and Health Psychology
Summary of PhD Program:
Children who are fluent at arithmetic are often also better readers. Furthermore, diagnoses of dyslexia (reading and/or spelling disorder) and dyscalculia (arithmetic disorder) often go hand in hand. In this research project we investigate which factors in preschool ameliorate or hinder the development of reading and arithmetic skills, and the extent to which these factors are shared between reading and arithmetic. We investigate both factors within the child (e.g., intelligence, language, executive functions, phonological and numerical skills, etc.), as well as factors in the child’s environment (e.g., home environment, school context, etc.). Depending on the acquisition of additional funding, there might be opportunities to investigate the neural correlates of reading and arithmetic (e.g., via fMRI research).
Application Deadline: Jul 31, 2024
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Movement and Sports Sciences
Summary of PhD Program:
You will conduct academic research in the field of Sport Policy and Sport Management and in particular on ethical challenges in sport, such as fraud in sport, good governance, diversity and integrity management. Research may involve both qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis techniques. You will participate in international academic conferences and publish scientific articles in high-quality academic journals.
Application Deadline: Jul 29, 2024
10. Fully Funded PhD Position in bioinformatic
Summary of PhD Program:
The HCRC laboratory is looking for a talented and motivated PhD student to join our group. The perspective will work closely with other lab members and our collaborators in the network to develop software tools and perform analysis of single-cell multi-omics and spatial transcriptomic data to generate new insights in the HIV viral reservoir at the single-cell resolution. With a combination of both experimental and computational approaches, our group provides an excellent environment for interdisciplinary research focusing on the understanding of the viral host factors influencing the SIV/HIV reservoir.
Application Deadline: Jul 26, 2024
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11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Geology
Summary of PhD Program:
As a PhD student performing fundamental research on this project, your task will be to design and perform new experiments to study the physics of fluid flows in porous materials. Specifically, you will investigate two-phase flow (e.g. simultaneous flow of water and air) and/or viscoelastic flow (flows of liquids that change their viscosity depending on the flow). You will characterize the different flow regimes that can occur due to the highly non-linear and fluctuating nature of these flows, and will investigate how this correlates to the pore geometry in real porous materials. To do this, you will apply novel 3D X-ray imaging techniques and will contribute to their development led by other researchers on this project. The work is meant to lead to a PhD degree after 4 years.
Application Deadline: Jul 15, 2024
12. Fully Funded PhD Position in Geology
Summary of PhD Program:
As a PhD student performing fundamental research on this project, your task will be to develop models of how tracers are transported in the network of pores, in order to interpret the experimental data and bridge the gap to the macroscopic scale. To do this, you will develop and use multiscale models (pore network models) to reproduce novel 3D imaging experiments. This requires efficient scientific computing, appropriate model reductions, and a good understanding of the experiments. You will collaborate closely with several other researchers working on various other aspects of this ERC project).
Application Deadline: Jul 15, 2024
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in Literary Studies
Summary of PhD Program:
Ghent University’s Department of Literary Studies (Section of Greek) is looking for a Doctoral Fellow. The fellow will become a member of the research team of the GOA (Concerted Research Action) project “Interconnected texts. A graph-based computational approach to Byzantine paratexts as nodes between textual transmission and cultural and linguistic developments” (Faculty of Arts, Department of Literary Studies).
Application Deadline: Jul 15, 2024
14. Fully Funded PhD Position in Archaeology
Summary of PhD Program:
This will be done based on the taxonomic identification of charcoal preserved in ancient charcoal kilns, combined with the spatial and chronological analysis of these archaeological features. This will result in a reconstruction of the past occurrence, composition and dynamics of woodlands in different regions in NW Europe over the last 2500 years. Finally, the role of human impact on these different elements of woodland dynamics will be studied.
Application Deadline: Jul 15, 2024
15. Fully Funded PhD Position in Hydrogels for cancer treatment
Summary of PhD Program:
Despite current therapeutic advances, head and neck cancer is still associated with a bad prognosis. Recently, the use of cold plasma was proven to kill a variety of cancer cells, including head and neck cancer (HNC) cells, without affecting healthy cells. This selective anti-cancer effect was mainly due to the reactive oxygen and nitrogen species (RONS) present in plasma. To prevent the side effects associated with direct plasma radiations, indirect treatments, in which plasma-activated liquids (PALs) are injected in the tumor as an off-the-shelf therapy, are preferred.
Application Deadline: Jul 15, 2024
16. Fully Funded PhD Position in Artificial Intelligence
Summary of PhD Program:
As part of an ongoing initiative of the regional government to boost Artificial Intelligence in Flanders, an ambitious research program has been initiated (https://www.flandersairesearch.be/nl). In the work package on “Interaction and Cognitive Systems”, one of the goals is to simulate human dialogue in social context, allowing human-machine communication to be more effective and enjoyable for humans. Language models, powered by recent revolutions in AI, are becoming increasingly more powerful and support language generation, summarization, classification, question answering, chatbots and more.
Application Deadline: Jul 15, 2024
17. Fully Funded PhD Position in Computer Science
Summary of PhD Program:
With the advent of new VR/XR technology, we foresee an increasing number of social interactions with AI-animated avatars. Interactive animation with avatars requires both verbal and non-verbal communication. Compared to the limitations of hardware humanoid robots, avatars’ body and facial expressions can be rendered in much more detail. While Large Language Models offer a mature technology to autonomously generate verbal responses, research into AI-driven communication via non-verbal communication cues is still in its infancy.
Application Deadline: Jul 14, 2024
