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1. Fully Funded PhD Programs in Electromechanical, Systems and Metal Engineering
Summary of PhD Project
As a PhD student, you will contribute to the development of multiphysics (electromagnetic & thermal) models for windings of electric motors. Also, you will study how the motor design can be modified to make the windings in the machine more robust against thermal variations or mechanical vibrations. The work includes a significant experimental part, i.e. making prototypes of stators and test the concepts for sustainable windings. The project has a user group of companies, which are active in enameled wire, impregnation and potting techniques, electric machine design and electric machine manufacturing or repair.
Application Deadline: Sep 30, 2025
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2. Fully Funded PhD Programs in Law
Summary of PhD Project
Prof. Hans De Wulf (Financial Law Institute, Department of Interdisciplinary Studies, Private and Business Law) is looking for a researcher willing to write a doctoral dissertation in law on the role of the financial sector (particularly banks and asset managers) in human rights and sustainability due diligence. The Ph. D. dissertation must therefore address the possible duties of financial sector actors to investigate their clients for possible (possibly indirect) involvement in human rights violations or unsustainable practices.
Application Deadline: Sep 02, 2025
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3. Fully Funded PhD Programs in Geography
Summary of PhD Project
The GeoAI Research Center (https://geoai.ugent.be/) and UGent Crime Lab of Ghent University, Belgium are looking for a full-time PhD student in the field of Geospatial AI (GeoAI) and Geography of Crime. The joint research team hosts more than 30 researchers, focusing on GeoAI, spatio-temporal data analysis, location based services (LBS), urban analytics, and spatio-temporal and quantitative criminology. The position will start on 01 Oct 2025, or as soon as possible thereafter.
Application Deadline: Sep 01, 2025
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4. Fully Funded PhD Programs in Electronics and Information Systems
Summary of PhD Project
You will join the research team working on Human-Robot Interaction, to build and study the AI powering social robots. These robots interact with people in a natural manner by, for example, using speech, gestures, facial expressions and language. By using natural communication, these robots are easier to interact with and have many applications in entertainment, services, education, collaborative robotics and therapy
Application Deadline: Aug 31, 2025
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5. Fully Funded PhD Programs in Plants and Crops
Summary of PhD Project
Tetranychus urticae, the two-spotted spider mite, is among the most harmful pest insects worldwide. Due to its exceptional ability to adapt to various crops and pesticides, this mite serves as an excellent model system for studying the genetic and molecular basis of adaptation. Recently, our research group developed a groundbreaking CRISPR/Cas9 method called SYNCAS (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ibmb.2023.104068), which enables efficient genetic modification of spider mites — a feat that was previously unattainable. This technological breakthrough marks the beginning of a new era in functional genetics of chelicerates.
Application Deadline: Aug 31, 2025
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6. Fully Funded PhD Programs in Human Structure and Repair
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The current PhD position is available for a highly motivated candidate to work on Foundation against Cancer grant within the research group of Prof. An Hendrix. The main aim of the PhD project is to address the role of extracellular vesicles in cancer progression. You will apply state-of-the-art technologies to analyze extracellular vesicles.
Application Deadline: Aug 26, 2025
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7. Fully Funded PhD Programs in Bioscience engineering
Summary of PhD Project
The current PhD position is available for a highly motivated candidate to work on an EU-funded ERC consolidator grant within the research group of Prof. An Hendrix. The main aim of the PhD project is to address the role of bacterial extracellular vesicles in cancer. You will apply state-of-the-art technologies to analyze bacterial extracellular vesicles.
Application Deadline: Aug 26, 2025
8. Fully Funded PhD Programs in Architecture and Urban Planning
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We are hiring a doctoral fellow on the topic of building stock modelling. Starting from reviewing the existing building stock modelling approaches, you will develop a building stock model for Flanders that allows to analyse the carbon emissions of the stock, both operational and embodied. You will then use this model to assess the impact of various energy conservation measures and policy choices on the overall carbon emissions of the stock. The aim of the research is to obtain a PhD diploma.
Application Deadline: Aug 25, 2025
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9. Fully Funded PhD Programs in Green Chemistry and Technology
Summary of PhD Project
For a project focused on degradation of additives (and NIAS) during mechanical and chemical recycling, we are looking for a researcher that aims at obtaining a PhD degree. There is a strong focus on analytics and chemical degradation pathways, so in initial stages this involves a lot of lab work at the pyro GC-MS and other equipment. In second stages the experiments will be combined with statistical/kinetic modelling.
Application Deadline: Aug 20, 2025
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10. Fully Funded PhD Programs in Information and Communication Technology
Summary of PhD Project
You conduct doctoral research in the area of Augmenting Learning Environments Using Generative AI and Neuroadaptive Systems, with the aim to obtain a PhD after at most 4 years. This PhD project focuses on the augmentation of learning environments through generative AI, with the goal of enhancing cognitive efficiency, engagement, and flow in learners. The central aim is to design intelligent systems that dynamically adapt the environment to support optimal learning conditions, based on real-time neurophysiological feedback.
Application Deadline: Aug 15, 2025
11. Fully Funded PhD Programs in Economic or Applied Economic Sciences
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Given the rising numbers of burnout, it is essential to investigate how organizations can cultivate a productive, happy, and healthy workforce. What role do HRM practices play in this regard? How do these practices influence employees’ emotions and, consequently, their well-being and performance? The goal of this doctoral dissertation is to generate in-depth insights into these pressing questions. We are specifically looking for a candidate who is eager to work with complex data from emotion measurements conducted in a lab.
Application Deadline: Aug 15, 2025
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12. Fully Funded PhD Programs in Languages and Cultures
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Applications are invited for one full-time PhD research position of 4 years within the ERC Starting Grant project “Corpora in Greater Gandhāra: Tracing the Development of Buddhist Textuality and Gilgit/Bamiyan Manuscript Networks in the First Millennium of the Common Era” (Gandhāra Corpora) led by Professor Charles DiSimone at the Department of Languages and Cultures, Ghent University located in the center of the beautiful and historic city of Ghent, Belgium.
Application Deadline: Aug 15, 2025
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13. Fully Funded PhD Programs in Marketing, Innovation and Organisation
Summary of PhD Project
Although an increasing number of organizations are paying attention to sustainability, the successful implementation of sustainability policies remains a significant challenge. It is essential that teams and employees within the organization support and contribute to the implementation of these policies. The aim of this doctoral research is to gain insight into how consensus can be fostered regarding the (importance of) sustainability goals across different hierarchical levels within an organization, and how this consensus can enhance both the implementation and the positive impact of sustainability policies.
Application Deadline: Aug 15, 2025
14. Fully Funded PhD Programs in Social Work and Social Pedagogy
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The ChildMove project (www.childmove.eu) has generated important and innovative insights into the experiences of unaccompanied minor refugees. However, this research focused primarily on the perspectives of the young people themselves, leaving the viewpoint of their parents largely unexplored. This PhD project aims to shift the focus to the perspectives of parents whose child has migrated as an unaccompanied minor. These parents often still reside in the country of origin or in another country, separate from their child.
Application Deadline: Aug 15, 2025
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15. Fully Funded PhD Programs in Social Psychology
Summary of PhD Project
Emerging adulthood is a transitional period between adolescence and adulthood, characterized by the ongoing development of identity and personal values. It is also a phase marked by unique challenges—successfully navigated by many, though not by all. This variability may, in part, be explained by difficulties in emotion regulation, defined as the set of processes involved in adjusting the duration, intensity, onset, and recovery of current or anticipated emotional experiences. One of the key objectives of the Odysseus project is to strengthen emotion regulation skills and identity through virtual reality (VR) interventions.
Application Deadline: Aug 15, 2025
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16. Fully Funded PhD Programs in Bioscience engineering
Summary of PhD Project
Soils are the foundation of our health & wealth, with 95% of food coming from this belowground ecosystem. Yet, 60-70% of soils in the EU are degraded, a situation exacerbated by unsustainable management practices and the impacts of climate change, representing €50 billion lost yearly due to soil degradation. The EU Soil Strategy for 2030 outlines a bold vision to ensure all EU soil ecosystems are healthy by 2050. Linked to the massive soil health issues is the unsuitable, intensive animal farming as a key driver of soil degradation, depleting nutrients, increasing erosion, and disrupting ecosystems essential for long-term agricultural sustainability.
Application Deadline: Aug 10, 2025
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17. Fully Funded PhD Programs in Chemistry and Bioprocess Technology
Summary of PhD Project
You will develop and optimize methods to extract, purify, characterize and structurally identify these compounds from chicory to allow the study of their potential as biobased insecticides. You will work in a multidisciplinary team with researchers, technicians and other PhD students from ILVO, Ghent University and Wageningen University & Research, and maintain contact with an industrial advisory group.
Application Deadline: Aug 10, 2025
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18. Fully Funded PhD Programs in Biotechnology
Summary of PhD Project
Are you fascinated by genetics and plant biotechnology? Do you want to contribute to tomorrow’s sustainable food supply? Ready to be part of a team that will work on more efficient plant breeding? Then this is your moment to make a difference – both in the lab and in the field. You will be part of a groundbreaking FWO-SBO research project (MeioCOntrol) on meiotic recombination in maize – one of the world’s most cultivated and economically relevant crops, as well as an important model organism in genetics.
Application Deadline: Aug 10, 2025
