235 PhD positions in Belgium

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Job description As a PhD student at Ghent University, you will join the ERC-Consolidator Grant project ‘' A New Connoisseurship: Smart ways to detect forgeries (ARTDETECT 2024-2028) (https://research.ugent.be/web/result/project/9c25c11e-9c48-49b9-ae44-5b57f8a0f364/details/en )', under the...

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Job description Long-Read Sequencing for the detection of cryptic Structural Variation in patients with intellectual disability and congenital anomalies The Genome Research group at the Center for Medical Genetics has a longstanding expertise in the introduction of new technologies in the...

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Job description 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...

BOF - Doctoral scholarships for candidates from developing countries

With support from its “Special Research Fund” (BOF) Ghent University grants PhD “sandwich” scholarships to promising PhD students from developing countries who wish to carry out half of their PhD research at Ghent University ('North') and half at a university in a developing country ('South')....

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Job description The research groups of Prof. Steven Maenhout (Dept. Plant & Crop) and Prof. Steven Sleutel (Dept. Environment) are looking for a highly motivated student to start a PhD research journey to unravel the various ecosystem services that are provided by leguminous crops in European...

PhD Student

Job description PhD position focused on experiments to study physics of multiphase/viscoelastic flow in porous media. You will perform cutting-edge scientific research in the context of the ERC Starting Grant “FLOWSCOPY: Unravelling unsteady fluid flows in porous media with 3D X-ray...

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Job description Ghent University is a top 100 university worldwide and one of the major universities in Belgium, with more than 44,000 students and 15,000 staff members. The Electrical Energy Laboratory (EELAB) at UGent received a research fund from FWO (Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek,...

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Job description The water sector is under increasing pressure worldwide. To ensure water security and sustainable development, major paradigm shifts are in progress. A first important shift is the transition towards a circular water and resource economy. This transition is inherently a...

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Job description This position is dedicated to research into pathophysiology of mitochondrial disorders. These are rare disease with a prevalence of 1/5000 individuals, but often carry a high disease burden. During the two last decades, diagnosing these disorders has become much more easy, partly...

PhD Student

Job description Context –51% of electric motor failures are caused by bearing failure according to [Tong2014, Xie2020]. About 9% of such bearing failures are attributed to harmful electrical bearing currents. Recently introduced SiC or GaN power electronic switches can realize extremely fast...