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1. Fully Funded PhD Programs in Quantum Networks
Summary of PhD Project
The PhD positions are part of a collaboration between universities and industry partners on the topic of quantum networks. The programme is a so-called Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Network, funded by the European Union, and consists of 15 PhD positions in total who are divided over the different institutes and who all work on quantum network development. As part of this, both PhD positions at TU Delft include international research stays and training events at the partner institutes.
Application Deadline: 15 Aug 2025
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2. Fully Funded PhD Programs in Quantum Networks: Entanglement Distribution with Classical Communication Delays
Summary of PhD Project
Most applications of quantum networks (networks of quantum devices) require entanglement between nodes in the network. Such long-distance entanglement is typically constructed by a quantum repeater chain: first generating multiple entangled pairs of qubits at short distances, followed by using quantum teleportation to connect the short-distance pairs to long-distance entanglement.
Application Deadline: 15 Aug 2025
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3. Fully Funded PhD Programs in Silicon Based Electrodes for Lithium Ion Battery with Interphase Engineering
Summary of PhD Project
The selected candidate will work at the EWI faculty in the Photovoltaic Material and Devices (PVMD) group of Electrical Sustainable Energy department , and in close collaboration with the storage of electrochemical energy group at the Department of Applied Sciences. The PVMD group focuses on fundamental research and characterization of innovative materials and devices. The PVMD group is part of the Electrical Sustainable Energy department which is inspired by the technical, scientific, and societal challenges originating from the transition towards a more sustainable society.
Application Deadline: 14 Sep 2025
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4. Fully Funded PhD Programs in Governance and Design of a Public-Private Protective DNS Service (PDNS)
Summary of PhD Project
Your PhD project is embedded in an interdisciplinary team of over 20 researchers at the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management. This team includes researchers from computer science, social sciences, and other disciplines and is led by Professor Michel van Eeten. PhD candidates collaborate with several people on their research and publications. The team has a daily scrum session, a weekly colloquium, and a monthly sprint planning session. All of this fosters a culture of team-based research and innovation.
Application Deadline: September 8, 2025
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5. Fully Funded PhD Programs in Autonomous Reasoning on Robots Operating in the Real, Open World
Summary of PhD Project
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: 28 Sep 2025
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6. Fully Funded PhD Programs in AI Powered Methods and Models for Multi-Modal Assessment of Air Pollution
Summary of PhD Project
Energy- and transport-transitions aimed at reducing the CO2 emissions will bring changes to the pollutants and chemical composition in the atmosphere. Given the transitions are likely inducing new unknown pollutants, their health impact to human beings under long time exposure need to be modelled and understood. In this PhD project at TUDelft, in close collaboration with TNO, you will work on the development of methods and models to better assess and predict the exposure of people to air pollutants.
Application Deadline: 24 Aug 2025
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7. Fully Funded PhD Programs in Air Quality Impacts of Innovations within the Aviation Industry
Summary of PhD Project
This PhD position is part of the Dutch Aviation Systems Analysis Lab (DASAL project, a flagship collaboration between TU Delft and Royal NLR, funded through the Dutch national growth fund under the ‘Luchtvaart in Transitie’ programme. DASAL serves as a living lab for developing integrated models and simulations to support innovation throughout the Dutch aviation sector and public policy. Within this unique ecosystem, you will join a diverse and interdisciplinary team of PhD candidates and postdocs from across the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, collaborating closely with experts at NLR and the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management to analyse the complex interactions between sustainability, economics, and societal impact in aviation.
Application Deadline: 15 Aug 2025
8. Fully Funded PhD Programs in Haptics
Summary of PhD Project
The Haptic Interface Technology Lab (HITLab) is an interdisciplinary research group led by Dr. Yasemin Vardar at the Human-Robot Interaction Section of the Cognitive Robotics Department of the Delft University of Technology. Our overarching goal is to understand how tactile information, including the skin’s mechanical deformation and thermal responses, translates into human perception and how this information can be effectively simulated in digital environments.
Application Deadline: 15 Sep 2025
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9. Fully Funded PhD Programs in Multi-Scale Characterisation and Modelling of Clay – Water Interactions
Summary of PhD Project
This time-dependent (or “delayed”) mechanical behaviour is a major uncertainty in predicting the long-term performance of clay-based barriers, foundations, and geological repositories. Despite decades of study, the fundamental coupling between mineral-fluid interactions and mechanical response is not well captured in current models. A core challenge is the lack of experimental tools that probe the relevant scales—from atomic to macroscopic—while replicating in-situ stress and hydration conditions.
Application Deadline: 20 Aug 2025
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10. Fully Funded PhD Programs in Forecasting of Flow Extreme Events with Scientific Machine Learning
Summary of PhD Project
In this project, you will develop machine learning-based reduced-order models which can accurately forecast these extreme events across a series of complex flows. This will entail simulating flows with extreme events, developing hybrid physics-based/machine learning modelling techniques and the embedding of such models within data assimilation frameworks to enable their self-correction.
Application Deadline: 15 Aug 2025
11. Fully Funded PhD Programs in Experimental Investigation of Inertial Dense Suspensions
Summary of PhD Project
Inertial Dense Suspensions (IDeS) are very common in nature and industry, with examples including blood flow, recycling, waste slurry transport, additive manufacturing, and energy storage solutions. While they are of great practical importance, these suspension flows are poorly understood. A direct consequence is that we cannot predict even the most basic properties of these flows with sufficient accuracy. For instance, the current best models over- or underestimate the measured pressure drop in a suspension pipe flow by 30-40% for various flow rates.
Application Deadline: 15 Sep 2025
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12. Fully Funded PhD Programs in Multiscale Insights into Emulsion Stability
Summary of PhD Project
This project aims to develop an experimental framework to understand and predict the flow behaviour and stability of protein-stabilized emulsions. Advanced experimental techniques will be used including microfluidic tools and and a dynamic thin film balance, to unravel the complex fluid mechanics that govern emulsion stability. You will link key physicochemical parameters (temperature, pH and flow rate) to emulsion behavior via dimensionless analysis to generate stability maps. Ultimately, the experimental insights will be used to enrich theoretical coalescence models.
Application Deadline: 30 Sep 2025
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13. Fully Funded PhD Programs in Integrated Sensing Technology for Microphysiological Systems
Summary of PhD Project
The fabrication of MEMS (microelectromechanical systems) at wafer level using IC-inherited technology has led to the development of miniaturized sensors and actuators that revolutionized many fields, particularly including healthcare. Organ-on-Chip (OoC) systems are microfluidic cell culture devices that recapitulate in vivo-like microenvironments to support the expression of properties and functions of human tissues and organs. Such microphysiological systems represent more realistic models than existing in vitro cell cultures, and they should enhance pre-clinical screening of the effect of drugs and other compounds on the human body.
Application Deadline: 24 Aug 2025
14. Fully Funded PhD Programs in Simulations of Strongly Stratified Turbulence
Summary of PhD Project
Within this PhD, you will advance our understanding of hydrodynamic stability and turbulence in strongly stratified turbulent flows, such as fluids at supercritical pressures, where extreme property variations create strong stratifications. Using linear stability analysis and direct numerical simulations of the fully compressible Navier–Stokes equations, you will explore how inertial and gravitational baroclinic mechanisms interact to trigger or suppress the transition to turbulence and how they affect the fully turbulent flow.
Application Deadline: 15 Sep 2025
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15. Fully Funded PhD Programs in Experimental Studies of Supercritical Fluid Turbulence
Summary of PhD Project
This PhD project aims to advance our understanding of turbulence in stratified shear flows by studying a supercritical CO2 flow, differentially heated in a channel, using high-resolution optical experiments. You will design and conduct measurements with advanced techniques such as particle image velocimetry (PIV) and background-oriented Schlieren (BOS) to capture flow behavior in regimes that were previously inaccessible.
Application Deadline: 15 Sep 2025
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16. Fully Funded PhD Programs in Co-Designing Just, Liveable, and Inclusive Urban Futures
Summary of PhD Project
Local governments need to collaborate with residents in shaping urban futures that are just, liveable, and inclusive to all living species. On the other hand, citizens start their own initiatives to address local issues. Many contemporary societal challenges, for example the climate crisis, the fast emergence of AI, or the devastating loss of biodiversity, are so-called wicked problems. Such problems are characterised by their dynamic nature, have multiple problem owners, and do not have one straightforward solution.
Application Deadline: 24 Aug 2025
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17. Fully Funded PhD Programs in Modular Quantum Processing Units with Superconducting Qubits
Summary of PhD Project
We’re working on the realisation of a modular multi-chip quantum processing unit using superconducting qubit technology and experimentally demonstrating its performance. As a PhD researcher, you’ll be at the forefront of this exciting journey, focusing on design, simulation, and nano-fabrication of the MQPU. Along with developing novel designs and investigating their theoretical properties, you will also realise this chip using University’s cleanroom facilities, the Kavli Nanolab (KNL) and the Else Kooi Laboratory (EKL).
Application Deadline: 31 Aug 2025
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