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, Enschede, Netherlands. Apply online now and kickstart your doctoral journey!
1. 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: 31 Jul 2024
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Large-scale impact of wind farms on atmospheric flow
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 a fundamental understanding of wind farms’ large-scale impact on moisture transport, atmospheric stability, cloud dynamics, turbulent transport within the atmosphere, and the interactions between wind farms. This project represents an opportunity for us to advance our collective knowledge of fluid and atmospheric dynamics relevant to wind energy. Join us in pushing the boundaries of wind energy fluid mechanics research!
Application Deadline: 31 Jul 2024
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3. 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: 31 Jul 2024
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in designing a recommender system for sustainable investments
Summary of PhD Program:
During the project, you will closely collaborate with industry and a doctoral training network spread throughout Europe, including extended research stays abroad. The successful applicant will join the Industrial Engineering and Business Information Systems (IEBIS) section of the High-tech Business & Entrepreneurship Department (HBE) at the Faculty of Behavioural Management and Social Sciences (BMS).
Application Deadline: 31 Jul 2024
5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Secure Cloud
Summary of PhD Program:
In this PhD project, we intend to research the use of fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) for building cloud functionality. In theory, FHE is the perfectly secure tool for storing and processing sensitive data in an untrusted cloud environment. However, this innovative encryption method introduces a significant overhead leading to a large computational and communication effort. Recent scientific results have shown progress to overcome this burden by e.g. software and hardware speed-ups.
Application Deadline: 1 Aug 2024
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Mathematical Statistics and Machine Learning Theory
Summary of PhD Program:
Current statistical methodology still reflects the use-context of its first development in the 1920s: methods assume that researchers make all important analysis choices before gathering the data. In modern data science age, however, data-driven paradigms have become dominant: many measurements are gathered simultaneously and it is often natural to pursue research questions that were not of obvious interest a priori. Looking at the data is scientifically sensible to do, but the problem is that current statistical methods cannot handle this behaviour well. What is needed for this, is the right mathematical framework, that gives the necessary error control guarantees without all the old restrictive assumptions.
Application Deadline: 1 Aug 2024
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7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Characterization of structural remodelling in tissue-engineered human skeletal
Summary of PhD Program:
The Neuro-Mechanical Modeling and Engineering Lab is seeking for an outstanding PhD candidate fellow to work within our new Project ROBOREACTOR funded by the prestigious European Research Council (Consolidator Grant). You will join an international team working on a novel and ambitious project at the frontiers of muscle neurophysiology, muscle tissue regeneration and regenerative robotics.
Application Deadline: 18 Aug 2024
8. Fully Funded PhD Position in physiological wearables to detect Early Life Stress
Summary of PhD Program:
HEALS Applied combines knowledge on co-creation and stress with the excellent Dutch preventive care during pregnancy and at consultancies, and develops new methods to detect harmful stress early. You will focus on the detection of (increased risk of) Early Life Stress. You will develop new (bio) markers of Early Life Stress obtained from wearable physiological sensors worn by parents (to be) and child and combine these with sources currently used in preventive healthcare, e.g. background, questionnaires and assessments.
Application Deadline: 19 Aug 2024
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Advanced Optics and Spectroscopy for daycare Arthroscopic Imaging
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD’s objective is to advance the functionality of the current imaging needle ‘arthroscope’ by integrating advanced optical imaging and spectroscopic techniques to maximize information retrieval through minimally invasive portals. The PhD will play a role in the technical development of hardware of the diagnostic tool and complementary documentation to allow future clinical investigation, as well in the advancement of processing algorithms to transfer the raw data information to meaningful outcomes for the clinicians. These developments will have an iterative nature with technical and in vivo human samples evaluation to assess the advancements objectively. The research will take place at the University of Twente and Amsterdam UMC.
Application Deadline: 8 Aug 2024
10. Fully Funded PhD Position in Multi-Material Additive Manufacturing Solutions for Energy Materials
Summary of PhD Program:
Motivated by the need for sustainability in data centers, this Ph.D. project aims to functionalize 3D-printed structures to create an innovative heat transformer. The focus is on advancing multi-material additive manufacturing techniques to develop efficient structures and materials. The challenge involves developing new multi-materials to create mechanisms with unique functional properties across multiple length scales. The goal is to fabricate defect-free metallic/composite structures and interfaces from micro to macro scales. The advantage lies in leveraging the ability to create complex geometries using multiple materials in a single production run, offering operational scalability and design flexibility.
Application Deadline: 25 Jul 2024
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Modeling the tumor microenvironment in an organ-on-chip using smart matrices
Summary of PhD Program:
Your role in this project will initially be on the establishment of the breast tumour-on-chip model, including its design, fabrication, cellular culture in commercially available hydrogels, and its first-stage characterization in terms of spatial and temporal heterogeneity across the tumour tissue. Next, together with a post-doctoral researcher at UTwente, you will implement new non-animal-derived hydrogel matrices in the tumour model as well as novel molecular sensors for pH, O2 and tissue stiffness, developed in the frame of the project. You will also contribute to the validation of the resulting tumour-on-chip model through the testing of small chemotherapeutic agents in the model, followed by more advanced immunotherapeutic treatments, in close collaboration with a postdoctoral fellow at the radboudumc.
Application Deadline: 31 Jul 2024
12. Fully Funded PhD Position in process development of bio-based materials
Summary of PhD Program:
In this position you will have the opportunity to develop your PhD in the field of chemical processes for the development of Bio-based materials for different applications. You will be working in creative and experienced research groups with extensive experience of practical research and access to unique experimental infrastructure. The work will involve experimental activities covering a variety of aspects related to the the production and physicochemical characterization of novel bio-based thermoplastic materials.
Application Deadline: 31 Jul 2024
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in Virtual 3D Human Bone Shape Processing Platform
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD’s objective is to develop the contours and pilot work of an open-access virtual processing platform for segmentation and enrichment of CT/ MRI medical image data in order to provide a large number of fully processed 3D bone shape data to various research communities. Thereto, an overview is made of running initiatives; and pros and cons are evaluated. Optionally, we will team up with these initiatives. The PhD develops robust (semi-) automatic segmentation and processing methods applicable to different human bones on joints. We demonstrate the benefit and potential of such a virtual platform by selected use cases in the orthopaedic domain, e.g. joint replacement.
Application Deadline: 8 Aug 2024
14. Fully Funded PhD Position in The impact of nature-based solutions on hydrodynamic and morphodynamic
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD project aims to explore the impact of nature-based solutions on small river systems in the Netherlands. The River Dinkel and the River Vecht will be used as case studies to investigate how recent nature-based interventions have affected the hydro- and morphodynamics of these small rivers. The research will be carried out by a combination of field measurements, using acoustic instrumentation (ADCPs and ADVs), to evaluate the current situation and numerical modelling to investigate the future development of the systems. In addition, this research will develop tools to generalize the knowledge from the case studies and to assess the impact of different nature-based designs. The PhD project is part of the Growthfund NL2120 program, which includes many partners from academia, consultancy, and governmental organizations.
Application Deadline: 8 Sep 2024
15. Fully Funded PhD Position in design for recycling and effective/secure sealing
Summary of PhD Program:
Well defined recyclability and re-design challenges of the traditional multi-material films are driving packaging industry away from conventional barrier materials towards polyolefin-based mono-material films that stand out with their easier recyclability. Although these films mainly consists of layers of the same type of polymer, they can still contain various barrier coatings, EVOH, PVOH, Acrylic, SiOx, AlOx, metalized layers, insoluble fillers and additives within a specific limit to achieve required functionality. These impurities still limits the full circularity of mono-material films since quality and quantity of recycled products drop over time due to changing melt-flow index and processability, accelerating thermal-oxidative degradation.
Application Deadline: 1 Aug 2024
16. Fully Funded PhD Position in ERC Advanced project “RECRUIT”
Summary of PhD Program:
This project aims to take the concept of receptor recruitment from biology and use it as a design criterium for self-assembling building blocks into well-defined molecular and nanoscale architectures. Intrinsically weak and dynamic interactions are essential in achieving self-assembly and recruitment. Exquisite control over stoichiometry and structure of the assemblies is achieved by harnessing ground-breaking developments in the understanding of the underlying multivalent interactions. These breakthrough insights will be used to tackle challenges with the identification, sensing and isolation of biological particles, such as viruses and extracellular vesicles, through the development of platforms with nanoscale dimensions and molecular functionalities.
Application Deadline: 31 Aug 2024
17. Fully Funded PhD Position in microfluidics for health
Summary of PhD Program:
In this project, you will work on the production and characterization of novel phospholipid-coated monodisperse microbubbles with a shell functionalized with antibodies that can bind to diseased tissue [1]. When these bubbles are driven by ultrasound, they’ll start to volumetrically oscillate and thereby generate a strong echo. Thus, antibody-functionalized microbubbles in combination with ultrasound imaging can be used for disease diagnosis. Additionally, the oscillating bubbles can create pores in the cell membrane and vascular wall such that they can also be used for drug delivery.
Application Deadline: 12 Aug 2024
18. Fully Funded PhD Position in Algorithmic Energy Trading
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD research will be performed as part of an industry funded project on algorithmic energy trading. The goal of this project is to conceive, develop, and evaluate self-learning algorithms that are able to act autonomously on short-term power markets. The algorithms need to calculate intelligent trading decisions (buying and selling energy) in real time while being exposed to a stochastic and dynamic market environment. Designing such algorithms requires working at the intersection of statistical learning and mathematical optimization. Evaluating such algorithms requires close interaction with our industrial project partner from the energy sector. Concretely, the PhD candidate will perform research on understanding how self-learning algorithms can facilitate automated trading on short-term power markets.
Application Deadline: 30 Sep 2024
19. Fully Funded PhD Position in patient participation and citizen science in breast cancer prediction research
Summary of PhD Program:
More than 2,300 women are diagnosed with DCIS each year. In some women, the abnormal cells in the breast will develop into breast cancer. It is currently unclear which women this is the case for. The standard treatment consists of a combination of surgery, radiotherapy, or chemotherapy, which often results in overtreatment. The aim is to be able to offer personalized treatment, in which a wait-and-see attitude is possible. For this, it is very important to be able to determine which treatment is most suitable for which woman. First and foremost, this is important for the women who are affected by this. In addition, it is important to improve the quality of care and quality of life for them. This may also save healthcare costs.
Application Deadline: 12 Aug 2024
20. Fully Funded PhD Position in Reinforcement learning for digital finance
Summary of PhD Program:
Reinforcement Learning (RL) has become a popular paradigm for automating decision-making under uncertainty in complex environments. Although deep RL has had several breakthroughs in recent years and proven impressive algorithmic performance in closed environments, it has not yet found its way to real-world applications in open environments. In practice, RL algorithms have to work with imperfect data, be integrated into existing ecosystems, and be of use to human decision-makers. Additionally, the financial sector is subject to heavy regulation and high standards concerning risk management, fairness, and explainability.
Application Deadline: 31 Jul 2024
21. Fully Funded PhD Position in Machine Learning for Green Credit Scores
Summary of PhD Program:
The goal is to resolve how financial settings can adapt practices or propose solutions for designing green credit scoring models. This will facilitate improved access to investment and credit, thereby promoting fair and sustainable economic growth. You will be a member of the MSCA Industrial Doctoral Network on Digital Finance, a European Research and Training programme with several leading European universities and companies involved, such as the European Central Bank and the Bank for International Settlements. You will attend several European PhD courses and participate in extended research stays abroad.
Application Deadline: 31 Jul 2024
22. Fully Funded PhD Position in Machine Learning for Digital Finance
Summary of PhD Program:
In your project, you will do research on and apply machine learning techniques to make a real-world impact in academia and at financial institutions. A potential research topic is the design of an intelligent search bot that maximises AI technologies to improve the accessibility and user experience of public data portals. Further research will focus on ML techniques and NLP to improve supervisory technology (Suptech) methods. Both topics are relevant and of interest to the ECB and BIS, e.g. as part of their tool Olympus, that provides support in various areas, such as advanced analytics, process automation and digital collaboration.
Application Deadline: 31 Jul 2024
23. Fully Funded PhD Position in Large-scale weather effects in wind farm simulations
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. Joining our team means contributing to a vital area of research. This PhD opportunity allows you to enhance your understanding of fundamental fluid and atmospheric dynamics while developing simulation technologies. Our aim is to create innovative simulation strategies enabling simulations with unparalleled detail. Join us in advancing the frontiers of wind energy research!
Application Deadline: 31 Jul 2024
