Are you a Master’s graduate looking for fully funded PhD opportunities? Explore the range of funded PhD programs available at the University of Twente, Netherlands. Apply online now and kickstart your doctoral journey!
1. Fully Funded PhD Position in Design and Manufacturing of Adaptive Winglets for Green Aviation
Summary of PhD Program:
This research project seeks to advance the aviation sector by developing adaptive winglets featuring morphing surfaces, utilizing Shape Memory Alloys (SMAs) and a hybrid AI-driven control system. This approach aims to deliver notable aerodynamic gains, extending aircraft range and operational efficiency while lowering environmental impact. The control system combines passive mechanisms that respond to ambient temperature variations at different altitudes with active thermal adjustments for precise, real-time modulation.
Application Deadline: 5 Dec 2024
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Assessing the interplay between wind farms and clouds
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD project is part of the ERC Consolidator Grant project WINDFLOW, which strives to develop groundbreaking large-eddy simulation strategies for wind farm flows. Your research will develop novel LES to investigate the interaction among clouds on wind farm performance and atmospheric transport processes. This presents an opportunity to push the boundaries of fundamental fluid and atmospheric dynamics, enhance wind farm efficiency, and deepen our understanding of their interaction with the atmosphere. Join us in pushing the boundaries of wind energy fluid mechanics research!
Application Deadline: 21 Dec 2024
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Pioneering simulations of offshore wind farm turbulence
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD project, integral to the ERC consolidator WINDFLOW project, is dedicated to the development and application of novel large-eddy simulation techniques. Your research will illuminate the intricate dynamics between wind and waves, assessing their influence on the efficiency of offshore wind farms. This is a chance to advance knowledge in renewable energy and make a significant contribution to improving wind farm efficiency. Join us in shaping the future of sustainable energy.
Application Deadline: 21 Dec 2024
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in electrochemical nanofluidics for energy research
Summary of PhD Program:
Using the excellent microfabrication facilities of the MESA+ Institute’s Nanolab, you will construct artificial nanofluidic systems to isolate, probe and manipulate new phenomena and behaviors under confinement. This includes for example electrochemical self-induced convection, an effect recently explored in our labs; creating positive feedback between electrocatalysis and ionics to improve performance; and harnessing gas evolution to enhance the transport of a reagent to a catalyst.
Application Deadline: 19 Jan 2025
5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Sensors and Simulation-Based Training for Health Education
Summary of PhD Program:
This 4-year PhD position is part of the INSIDE:INSIGHT project and allows you to work in an innovative interdisciplinary environment, collaborating on groundbreaking research at the frontier of health professions education. As a PhD candidate, you’ll play a central role in building a multimodal system to monitor the performance of health professionals while learning to perform technical medical interventions, such as bronchoscopy or thoracic surgery. Using sensor and mixed reality technology will provide continuous and objective performance feedback. E
Application Deadline: 15 Dec 2024
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Large-scale weather effects in wind farm simulations
Summary of PhD Program:
Are you intrigued by the complexities of fluid mechanics, turbulence, and the unexplored potential of high-performance computing? We present an exceptional PhD opportunity for individuals dedicated to pioneering the development of wind farm simulations. Embark on a quest to devise innovative simulation, integrating input from advanced weather models to account for the impact of dynamic atmospheric effects. Use the power of the world’s most advanced supercomputers and collaborate with computational experts.
Application Deadline: 21 Dec 2024
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7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Hydrogen for Hubs for Circularity: System Integration and Optimization
Summary of PhD Program:
As a researcher, you will have the opportunity to make a significant contribution to sustainable energy solutions by analyzing hydrogen technologies, developing decarbonization strategies, and conducting techno-economic and environmental impact analyses. Next to developing a groundbreaking PhD thesis, the selected candidate will focus on two tasks as a part of UT’s responsibilities within the European Commission-funded project entitled “From Industrial Symbiosis to Hubs for Circularity – IS2H4C
Application Deadline: 20 Dec 2024
8. Fully Funded PhD Position in data-driven healthcare models for pandemic preparation
Summary of PhD Program:
You will integrate medical, health-economic, and logistical elements into mathematical models and data-driven decision rules for the allocation of patients to hospitals and regions to minimize lost healthy life years during and after a large infectious outbreak. Such models may, for example, be composed of statistical techniques to forecast the number of pandemic patients, stochastic models to determine the number of hospitalised patients, and optimisation models to allocate patients to hospitals and regions.
Application Deadline: 30 Dec 2024
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Molecular structure of electrode-electrolyte interfaces in electrochemistry
Summary of PhD Program:
Electrochemical processes play a major role in the current energy transition. They make batteries, fuel cells, and electrolyzers work. Despite this importance, the properties of electrode-electrolyte interfaces are at present rather poorly understood because they are extremely difficult to characterize at the molecular scale. Electrochemical (EC) AFM bares the promise to combine atomic scale imaging with force spectroscopy to probe the structure of these interfaces and their response to EC reaction conditions (think of changes in the hydration structure, ion adsorption, and surface reconstruction).
Application Deadline: 31 Dec 2024
10. Fully Funded PhD Position in Neuro-symobolic AI for microfabricated fluidic sensors
Summary of PhD Program:
While a new generation of integrated sensor systems has been developed fast last years, it is now a necessity to explore recent work in symbolic Artificial Intelligence (AI) to overcome these limitations and allow for real-time fluid data processing by using a combination of deep neural networks and physics in flow sensing. By embedding human knowledge of physical quantities into deep neural networks, AI would be able to learn quicker and better how to use the sensing structures on the chip to give a physically relevant output signal.
Application Deadline: 30 Nov 2024
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Dynamic Disease Maps and Digital Twins for novel treatments of OA
Summary of PhD Program:
Are you passionate about groundbreaking research at the intersection of genetics, stem cell biology, and computational modeling? Join the ROADMAPS project, a cutting-edge initiative aimed at discovering effective, curative treatments for osteoarthritis (OA). We are looking for a highly motivated PhD candidate to develop an in silico dynamic disease map of OA that integrates patient-specific genetic variations. This map will be a key tool for designing more precise and effective OA treatments.
Application Deadline: 15 Dec 2024
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12. Fully Funded PhD Position in Health Systems Engineering (HSE)
Summary of PhD Program:
We are looking for a highly motivated, enthusiastic, and curious PhD candidate to join our innovative Health Technology and Services Research (HTSR) section at the Faculty of Behavioural Management and Social Sciences. In this dynamic and inclusive section of around 35 researchers personal and professional development is central and there is plenty of room for social activities. With this position you can contribute to making the healthcare system future-proof, while keeping it accessible and of high quality.
Application Deadline: 1 Jul 2025
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in Biophysics
Summary of PhD Program:
The objective of this project is to identify and characterize such rare events and to study why certain events evade protein quality control or why the protein quality control cannot revert this event. This project will investigate how these protein misfolding and aggregation events are influenced by the biochemical and physicochemical properties, and whether these properties are altered by factors such as disease-related mutations, post-translational modifications or errors in the quality control system.
Application Deadline: 15 Dec 2024
14. Fully Funded PhD Position in multimodal information fusion in dynamic environments
Summary of PhD Program:
This research project focuses on the effective control and data integration of drone swarms: combining heterogeneous information from different sources in a meaningful way is a complicated task. Each information source may contribute differently to the overall picture, with variations in data types, sampling times, and resolutions. Despite these differences, a consistent and reliable result must be delivered to a human observer. When multiple drones explore an environment, they need to be controlled effectively as a group, and their sensed data must be combined regardless of each drone’s relative position in the swarm.
Application Deadline: 5 Jan 2025
15. Fully Funded PhD Position in Physics-Informed Neural Networks for Multi-Hazard Modelling
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD position is funded by the Dutch national earth and environmental sector plan, to advance the scientific field of AI on early warning systems. It aims to develop advanced Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) for modeling the complex interactions between multiple geophysical processes, specifically earthquakes, and landslides. The primary objective is to create a unified, scalable framework that accurately simulates these coupled hazards while addressing computational efficiency and uncertainty quantification. Central to this work is the coupling of partial differential equations (PDEs) governing seismic wave propagation, soil stability, and potentially multi-phase flow, allowing the PINNs to capture the nonlinear, multi-scale interactions between these hazards.
Application Deadline: 15 Dec 2024
16. Fully Funded PhD Position in Digital Humanities, AI, and Citizen Science
Summary of PhD Program:
We are looking for a talented and motivated PhD candidate in the field of Digital Humanities to research the motivation of citizen scientists to annotate textual and graphic patterns in digitized multimodal collections (e.g. handwritten archives). The candidate should also be able to evaluate and co-develop a web interface that ensures the appropriate division of labour between ‘humans in the loop’ and machines in the context of continuously learning Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven systems.
Application Deadline: 13 Dec 2024
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17. Fully Funded PhD Position in Advanced Wave Engineering for Sustainable Optical Applications
Summary of PhD Program:
NWO-funded research program “Advanced Wave Engineering for Sustainable Optical Applications (AWAVE)” addresses optical challenges to enable high-tech optical devices that are energy efficient, secure, and preserve scarce resources, with the aim of rendering the worldwide urbanization sustainable. To realize future high-tech devices that are sustainable for billions of people, it is crucial to improve their optical functionalities and efficiencies. Remarkably, major relevant Dutch high-tech industries, semiconductor nanofabrication, printing technology, lighting, share common optical technology challenges for such devices.
Application Deadline: 2 Feb 2025
