Do you have a Master’s degree and are looking for fully funded PhD opportunities? Delft University of Technology, Netherlands is now accepting applications for several funded PhD programs across a range of research areas.
1. Fully Funded PhD in Analog In-Memory Brain-Inspired Edge Processors for Edge AI
Summary of Funded PhD Program
Deploying AI on resource-constrained platforms such as wearable and implantable devices requires the development of new energy-efficient computing engines, which make use of both new computing paradigms and new device technologies. The Computer Engineering (CE) section of the Quantum & Computer Engineering (QCE) department is looking for a highly-motivated PhD candidate who wants to work on design activities of Analog in-memory brain-inspired AI accelerators.
Application Deadline: 15 Dec 2024
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2. Fully Funded PhD in CFD Water Electrolysis
Summary of Funded PhD Program
Hydrogen generated from green electricity in water electrolysers is currently widely considered as an essential ingredient for a successful energy transition. Hydrogen bubbles form, coalesce, rise, and move through various parts of the electrolyser, influencing the distribution of flow, current, dissolved gas, and heat. Various problems associated with gas bubbles can arise, including flow maldistributions, the formation of hot spots, and the unwanted crossover of gas. To minimise energy losses and improve safety, you will build a comprehensive computational multiphase flow model including heat and mass transport.
Application Deadline: 5 Jan 2025
3. Fully Funded PhD in Digital Twins for Enhancing Climate Resilience in Port and Hinterland Connections
Summary of Funded PhD Program
The accelerating impacts of climate change pose significant threats to port infrastructure and operations as well as its critical hinterland connections, which form the backbone of global trade and logistics. Rising sea levels, increased storm intensity, and extreme weather events disrupt port operations, damage infrastructure, and hamper the efficient flow of goods, creating far-reaching economic and logistical challenges. Port-hinterland connections, essential for the efficient transfer of goods between ports and inland destinations, are especially vulnerable.
Application Deadline: 12 Dec 2024
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4. Fully Funded PhD in Resilient Consumer-Centric Electricity Market Design Under Deep Decarbonization
Summary of Funded PhD Program
The 2022 energy crisis in Europe painfully illustrated that current electricity markets leave consumers exposed to extreme price risks. Even in a future electricity system free of fossil fuels, prolonged periods without wind and sun may lead to extreme electricity prices, which consumers are unable to hedge in current retail electricity markets. At the same time, capturing the value of consumer flexibility typically requires exposing them to short-term, volatile price signals, further contributing to their risk exposure. In this PhD, we focus on a key challenge in the design of consumer-centric electricity markets: how do we allow consumers to hedge their long-term price risk, while providing sufficient incentives for operational efficiency and investments through real-time electricity price signals?
Application Deadline: 15 Dec 2024
5. Fully Funded PhD in Autonomous Reasoning on Robots Operating in the Real, Open World
Summary of Funded PhD Program
You will work within the OpenBots laboratory creating autonomous robots that operate in the real world with various other PhDs and engineers. The OpenBots laboratory aims to develop a common sense capability for robots making them able to understand their surroundings and plan proper actions to execute their inspection task, even when part of their surrounding world is unknown and dynamic. The inspection task deals with a robot walking around a perimeter and, meanwhile, detecting abnormal events based on vision or sound, after which a detailed investigation of the siutation might be required.
Application Deadline: 19 Jan 2025
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6. Fully Funded PhD in Developer-centred Just-in-Time Test Generation
Summary of Funded PhD Program
Software developers are asked to write comprehensive tests for the code they are creating, which can be a tedious and time-consuming task for them. To help them, researchers are developing a variety of automatic test generation tools. However, current state-of-the-art test generation methods often require the code under test to be fully completed before tests can be generated. This conflicts with our requests to developers to create tests directly when they are writing their production code.
Application Deadline: 12 Jan 2025
7. Fully Funded PhD in Field of Future Wind Farms Control
Summary of Funded PhD Program
Wind energy is crucial for realizing climate neutrality, energy independence, and energy security. Optimal operation of wind energy systems is challenging because of their inherent complexity, fast-changing operating conditions, as well as conflicting requirements for the cost of investment and energy generation. Novel optimization-based controllers have the potential to tackle these challenges. In particular, the controllers leverage the properties of feedback to take into account recent data instead of relying on mathematical models of the system, making them a good candidate for future wind farm control. At the same time, long-term performance of these controllers remains an open question.
Application Deadline: 5 Jan 2025
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8. Fully Funded PhD in AI-driven Nanoparticle Design for Drug Delivery
Summary of Funded PhD Program
This PhD position is aimed at candidates with a Master’s degree in data science, computer science, bioinformatics, biomedical engineering, or related fields, with a strong interest in machine learning (ML), computational modeling, and biomedical applications. The successful candidate will be based at the Department of Engineering Systems and Services (ESS) at the Delft University of Technology under the supervision of Sepinoud Azimi and Katerina Stankova. This PhD project involves close collaboration with partners across Europe, and candidates will have the opportunity to engage with interdisciplinary teams in the fields of AI, neuroscience, pharmacology, and regulatory science.
Application Deadline: 15 Dec 2024
9. Fully Funded PhD in Microstructural and Fracture Characterization of Welded Green Steels
Summary of Funded PhD Program
Future green steels will be manufactured using an increased amount of scrap, likely of lower quality and containing higher concentrations of residual elements. This will modify the chemical composition and thus the response of the material to thermal cycles, such as imposed by welding. There is therefore a need to identify what amount of residual elements can be tolerated in the weld, particularly in the HAZ of future clean steels. The ultimate goal of this project is to create steels with improved weldability, toughness, and strength, even when recycled from lower-quality scrap. Advanced microstructure and mechanical characterization will play a key role for this development, ensuring the steel can meet thorough safety and performance standards.
Application Deadline: 15 Jan 2025
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10. Fully Funded PhD in Signal Processing for Low-power Digital Radars
Summary of Funded PhD Program
Currently, automotive radars use fully digital receiver architectures with up to 16 antennas. While increasing the number of antennas enhances angular resolution, fully digital radars with large arrays suffer from high power consumption. This project will explore emerging low-power radar designs and develop signal processing techniques optimized for these architectures.
Application Deadline: 15 Jan 2025
11. Fully Funded PhD in Scale-resolving Simulation of Wind-assisted Ships and Low-fidelity Model Optimization
Summary of Funded PhD Program
The project focuses on scale-resolving simulations (SRS) of wind-assisted ships at drift angles, moving from model to intermediate scales, to better understand the complex flow dynamics of WASP under realistic conditions. Compared to ships advancing on a straight course, vessels under leeway and heel angles experience more complex hydrodynamic forces, resulting in multiple vortex systems that are difficult to model accurately. This research will utilize large-eddy simulation (LES) with wall modeling (WMLES) in conjunction with a modern multi-GPU high-order computational fluid dynamics (CFD) solver to overcome the accuracy limitations of conventional Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) methods and the high computational cost of SRS.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
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12. Fully Funded PhD in Propeller and Rudder Performance in Wind-assisted Ship Propulsion
Summary of Funded PhD Program
In response to this challenge, TU Delft recently launched a multi-disciplinary, interfaculty research program on Wind Assisted Ship Propulsion (WASP) focusing on three research themes: 1) Fluid dynamics, 2) Design and operation, and 3) Sustainable and societal impact. We are a young, international and diverse team within the Faculties of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering. We approach problems in a horizontal “team spirit” and continuously traverse boundaries between theory, simulations, and experiments.
Application Deadline: 5 Jan 2025
13. Fully Funded PhD in Microstructural Modelling of Steel Fracture
Summary of Funded PhD Program
A prior PhD study developed a statistical model that relates certain aspects of steel microstructure (e.g. grain size, size and properties of subgranular particles) to the low-temperature toughness of the material. In this project, you will extend the work by introducing a microstructurally-informed model for the high-temperature toughness into the same material. You will then update both the low and high temperature toughness models with mechanical behavior of subgranular particles based on their chemical composition.
Application Deadline: 5 Jan 2025
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14. Fully Funded PhD in Benchmark Model Tests and Performance Assessment of Appendages for Wind-assisted Ships
Summary of Funded PhD Program
In response to this challenge, TU Delft recently launched a multi-disciplinary, interfaculty research program on Wind Assisted Ship Propulsion (WASP) focusing on three research themes: 1) Fluid dynamics, 2) Design and operation, and 3) Sustainable and societal impact. We are a young, international and diverse team within the Faculties of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering. We approach problems in a horizontal “team spirit” and continuously traverse boundaries between theory, simulations, and experiments. We strive for a co-creative and stimulating environment where you can develop further skills as a scientist, team member and teacher.
Application Deadline: 5 Jan 2025
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