Do you have a Master’s degree and are looking for fully funded PhD opportunities? Ghent University, Belgium is now accepting applications for several funded PhD programs across a range of research areas.
1. Fully Funded PhD in Computer engineering
Summary of Funded PhD Program
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.
Application Deadline: Jan 31, 2025
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2. Fully Funded PhD in Electromechanical
Summary of Funded PhD Program
The performance of industrial gearboxes often varies due to subtle manufacturing differences, lubricant property changes, assembly inconsistencies, and fluctuating operating conditions. These variations, even in gearboxes of the highest quality, can affect durability and NVH (Noise, Vibration, and Harshness) performance unless carefully mitigated. Traditional gear design approaches, governed by standards such as DIN 3990, ISO 6336, or AGMA 2001, fall short in addressing the impact of within-tolerance surface roughness, geometric deviations, and changes in lubricant properties. As a result, these factors significantly influence contact dynamics and overall gearbox performance.
Application Deadline: Dec 20, 2024
3. Fully Funded PhD
Summary of Funded PhD Program
The key hypothesis of MIGJUST is that there is a fundamental conflict in human rights case law on migration between the human rights approach, adopted by the Inter-American Court and Commission of Human Rights and the African Court and Commission of Human and Peoples’ Rights, and on the other hand the sovereignty approach of the European Court of Human Rights. The difference is also at work in the case law of the UN human rights bodies. The two approaches are reflected in, and are in turn reinforced by, political theory on migration justice. In academic studies, the conflict has not been noted because the case law of the European Court of Human Rights is considered to constitute the most developed version of international human rights law.
Application Deadline: Jan 12, 2025
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4. Fully Funded PhD in Electronics and Information Systems
Summary of Funded PhD Program
Are you passionate about Machine Learning, AI, Computer Vision, and FAIR data management? Do you aspire to make a meaningful impact in Belgian and European heritage enrichment? Join our team AI4Heritage at IDLab Ghent University, and embark on an exciting journey to transform historical data into valuable insights and innovative AI apps with societal impact! 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.
Application Deadline: Dec 31, 2024
5. Fully Funded PhD in biomedical
Summary of Funded PhD Program
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).
Application Deadline: Dec 31, 2024
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6. Fully Funded PhD in Polymathy and Interdisciplinarity in Premodern Islamic Epistemic Cultures
Summary of Funded PhD Program
The KNOW project examines the interaction between scholarly disciplines in the post-formative period (1200–1800 CE), a time marked by the rise of new institutions of learning, the expansion of libraries, the establishment and integration of academic disciplines, and an increase in scholarly travel. These developments fostered interdisciplinary cooperation, competition, and conflict, shaping the intellectual landscape of the era. Previous scholarship on this period has generally focused on intellectual products (i.e., doctrines and texts) and has tended to project our contemporary disciplinary divisions onto the premodern period (e.g., humanities v. sciences; religious v. secular).
Application Deadline: Dec 31, 2024
7. Fully Funded PhD in computer science
Summary of Funded PhD Program
In this PhD you will focus on designing new conversational AI models, based on recent foundation models. The key research question is how these state-of-the-art language models (including multi-modal versions) can be leveraged and adapted to create an AI-powered voicebot in a recruiting context. Key challenges are to achieve (1) controlled adaptation of the question sequence in the conversation; (2) personalization of dialog flow as well as language; and (3) improving engagement to ultimately limit drop-out of potential candidates. As an underlying building block to address (1) and (2), it is crucial to be able to incorporate external knowledge, in terms of domain knowledge (e.g., specific vocabulary, ontologies of skill sets and/or job titles), and conversation-specific information (e.g., on the interviewee, the organization, a predefined conversation structure).
Application Deadline: Apr 30, 2025
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8. Fully Funded PhD in Science in Electrical Engineering
Summary of Funded PhD Program
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.
Application Deadline: Jan 31, 2025
9. Fully Funded PhD in Information Technology
Summary of Funded PhD Program
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.
Application Deadline: Dec 31, 2024
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10. Fully Funded PhD in Information Technology
Summary of Funded PhD Program
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.
Application Deadline: Dec 31, 2024
11. Fully Funded PhD in Linguistics
Summary of Funded PhD Program
You will conduct research in Swedish linguistics with the primary goal of obtaining a doctoral degree under the supervision of Prof. Andreas Widoff. The doctoral project will be part of the project “Space, polyvalence and domain-neutrality in the organisation of linguistic meaning”. You will be allowed to formulate independent research questions and research tasks that fall within the scope of this project.
Application Deadline: Dec 18, 2024
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12. Fully Funded PhD in Information Technology
Summary of Funded PhD Program
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.
Application Deadline: Feb 15, 2025
13. Fully Funded PhD in Engineering
Summary of Funded PhD Program
We are looking for a PhD student for a research project on microscale mechanical characterization of fiber reinforced polymer composites using in-situ microscopic techniques. Much more fundamental insights and measurements at the micro-scale are necessary to enable fully predictive multi-scale modelling and faster adaptation of composites. Therefore, we have developed advanced micromechanical test methods for fibre reinforced polymer composites based on in-situ optical and electron microscopy during loading. This includes micro-scale Digital Image Correlation (DIC) which gives full-field strain information at the sub-micron scale, force measurement and correlation of the damage mechanisms at micro- and macro-scale.
Application Deadline: Jan 31, 2025
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14. Fully Funded PhD
Summary of Funded PhD Program
Research will be done within the framework of the ERC Starting Grant project Star-Grasp, which aims to constrain the formation processes of gravitational wave sources by combining theoretical modelling of stellar populations with observations of intermediate evolutionary stages. Successful applicants will carry out extensive computer simulations of single and binary star evolution from birth to the possible coalescence of compact objects, design new methods to efficiently compute the evolution of stars, and develop techniques to perform comparisons against large observational datasets.
Application Deadline: Jan 31, 2025
15. Fully Funded PhD
Summary of Funded PhD Program
The key hypothesis of MIGJUST is that there is a fundamental conflict in human rights case law on migration between the human rights approach, adopted by the Inter-American Court and Commission of Human Rights and the African Court and Commission of Human and Peoples’ Rights, and on the other hand the sovereignty approach of the European Court of Human Rights. The difference is also at work in the case law of the UN human rights bodies. The two approaches are reflected in, and are in turn reinforced by, political theory on migration justice.
Application Deadline: Jan 12, 2025
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