Are you a Master’s graduate looking for fully funded PhD opportunities? Explore the range of funded PhD programs available at the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), Netherlands. Apply online now and kickstart your doctoral journey!
1. Fully Funded PhD Position in Synthetic Cell Research
Summary of PhD Program:
The Gijsje Koenderink lab is an experimental biophysics lab that studies mechanisms of cell morphogenesis by bottom-up synthetic biology. The lab is embedded in the TU Delft Bionanoscience Department, which focuses on the fundamental understanding of biological processes from molecule to cell. The department features an inspiring and supportive international environment with access to state-of-the art facilities for microfluidics and nanofabrication (Kavli Nanolab), advanced imaging, molecular/cell biology, biochemistry, and high-performance computing for image processing.
Application Deadline: 23 September 2024
2. 02 Fully Funded PhD Position in Fluid Dynamics and Soft Matter of Complex Multicomponent Emulsions
Summary of PhD Program:
Two PhD positions are available in the Garbin lab (https://garbinlab.org) on the NWO-Vici project “Flow physics of Pickering emulsion reactors for sustainable chemical conversion”. As part of an interdisciplinary team, you will explore the interplay of chemical reaction and transport phenomena in nanoparticle-stabilized emulsions for chemical conversion. We are currently looking for 2 PhD candidates to join the project team, which already comprises 3 postdocs with complementary expertise and working in close collaboration.
Application Deadline: 23 September 2024
Follow us for regular updates
3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Robust ML-Driven mmWave Communication and Sensing in Smart Environments
Summary of PhD Program:
Are you interested in pushing the boundaries of 6G wireless communication and sensing in one of the top engineering schools in Europe? As a part of an international team, you’ll investigate new solutions for 6G systems. You’ll have the chance to work across disciplines on the latest challenges of wireless communication and sensing systems. Whether you have a theoretical background (optimization, machine learning, signal processing) or an experimental background (software-defined radios, RF engineering), you build upon your strengths within the the 6thSense MSCA Doctoral School.
Application Deadline: September 24, 2024
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Technology for Electrochemical Membrane Processes
Summary of PhD Program:
The energy transition impacts all energy- and chemistry-related processes. Two rapidly growing fields in this sector are 1) and conversion of renewable electricity into synthetic chemicals and fuels, such as green hydrogen, and 2) and the electrification of chemical plants. The scales of these processes are astronomical. The chemical industry is responsible for >10% of fossil fuel consumption in EU, from which roughly half the energy is spend on separation processes, and 90-95% of these separation processes are currently thermally driven (i.e., burning fossils). In the transition to renewable energy, electrical-driven separation processes are required at huge scale.
Application Deadline: 25 September 2024
5. Fully Funded PhD Position in System integration with demand side and industrial transformation – OrangeWind project
Summary of PhD Program:
Increased shares of renewable energy and changing energy demand will result in an increase integration of energy end-use and the electricity supply sector, which will pose challenges for grid stability and suply-demand matching. Sucessful integration is key to forging cost-efficient and reliable energy systems. To generate this understanding, this PhD will provide a systematic analysis of the impact of defosilizing heavy industry on demand patters, assess the level of flexibility of current and (new) industrial processes under different scenarios and identify optimal strategies to increase flexibility in industrial processes.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
6. 02 Fully Funded PhD Position in Algorithms for Formal AI Verification and Explainability
Summary of PhD Program:
You will conduct both theoretical and empirical research at the intersection of logic, optimization, machine learning, control, monitoring, interpretability, and visualization. Both PhD projects are inspired by real-world deployment of AI, with one leaning towards advancing theory and the other to be done in close collaboration with domain experts from the Netherlands Railways (NS), leading to significant scientific as well as practical impact.
Application Deadline: September 26, 2024
Looking for more Funded Phd Position
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Value-Based Assessment Methods for AI Systems
Summary of PhD Program:
AI alignment refers to the goal to make AI systems behave in line with human intentions and values. With the rapid proliferation of AI systems and their growing capability, there are equal risks from misalignment. Validating models is a crucial step before decisions can be made about implementation and is important for continuous monitoring of systems in use. The challenge is, however, that validation needs to happen along a range of different values that are important for AI to possess at the police: accuracy, but also fairness, reliability, trustworthiness, and more need to be ensured.
Application Deadline: September 26, 2024
8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Trustworthiness of Auto-Generated Systems
Summary of PhD Program:
We are seeking a motivated PhD student to work on the challenge of ensuring trustworthiness for auto-generated software. The increasing reliance on third-party software, including the use of AI agents for code, significantly enhances the efficiency of software development. However, this also introduces substantial trust issues concerning the safety, security, and correctness of the final product. The goal of this PhD project is to design language-agnostic abstractions and technologies that enable the safe and secure integration of third-party code into existing projects.
Application Deadline: September 26, 2024
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Physics-Aware Foundation Models for Climate Research
Summary of PhD Program:
The emergence of general-purpose large AI models, known as “foundation models” (FMs), such as GPT-n and Llama for language, and DALL-E for images, marks a significant advancement in AI. However, their application to critical areas like climate, environment, and natural energy often lacks interpretability and reliability, largely due to their data-driven nature. Integrating principles of physical consistency into FMs is crucial to ensure that the models not only perform well on data but also adhere to the fundamental principles of the systems they aim to model.
Application Deadline: September 27, 2024
10. Fully Funded PhD Position in New Luminescent Materials for Sustainable Energy Technology: Towards Electricity Generating Windows
Summary of PhD Program:
In this PhD project you will develop luminescent materials for building integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) technology. You will make and study new types of strongly absorbing luminescent solar absorber materials of just a few hundred nm thick, that can convert the UV+VIS part of the solar spectrum into infra-red luminescence. When applied as a coating to windows, these materials can enable a cost-effective electricity generating PV-window following the principle of a Luminescent Solar Concentrator (LSC). A LSC can harvest sunlight by absorbing, re-emitting, and subsequently guiding light, like in an optical fibre, to solar cells integrated in the windowpane that convert the light in electric power.
Application Deadline: 26 September 2024
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Improving the Quantification and Mitigation of the Climate Impact of Aviation Contrails by Use of Observational Data
Summary of PhD Program:
Contrails are the line-shaped clouds that trail behind aircraft because of mixing of the warm, moist engine exhaust with the colder, drier ambient air. Under the right conditions, these clouds can persist for multiple hours and spread into large decks of contrail cirrus, which are currently estimated to have a climate impact comparable to that of aviation-emitted CO2. Several mitigation pathways are being explored, such as the use of alternative fuels and changes in aircraft routing. Especially the latter option, which would involve routing aircraft around ice supersaturated regions, could be a short-term solution to eliminate a large portion of aviation’s climate impact.
Application Deadline: 26 September 2024
Looking for more Funded Phd Position
12. Fully Funded PhD Position in Effective Metadata Management for Data-Driven Plant Resilience Enhancement
Summary of PhD Program:
We are seeking a highly motivated PhD candidate to join our research team focused on Effective Collaborative Metadata Management for Large Data Repositories. The project is part of the Crop-XR program, a highly collaborative 10-year national initiative of universities and industry, with a mission to grow resilient crops developed by data-driven design and AI plant models.
Application Deadline: September 27, 2024
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in Quantifying the National and Regional Distribution Effects Of Private and Public Adaptation Action
Summary of PhD Program:
We are looking for a passionate and ambitious researcher to join our team and contribute to understanding how climate finance shapes adaptation and how these adaptation measures, in turn, influence social and economic resilience to climate change. This PhD position will focus on climate physical risks, analyzing the effectiveness of various climate finance mechanisms in supporting adaptation, and exploring socio-economic implications of climate adaptation measures at different scales. This project will target regional economic assessments and financial instruments for climate risks for the Dutch context.
Application Deadline: 27 September 2024
14. Fully Funded PhD Position in Public Engagement and Geothermal Energy
Summary of PhD Program:
As part of a large European transdisciplinary research project, we are looking for a candidate to investigate how local cultures affect perceptions of geothermal energy. Based on a literature review, you will design a questionnaire that you will distribute across different countries. You will analyse the data and report on the findings in scientific publications. Furthermore, you will develop a manual for stakeholders (such as energy companies) who engage with local communities. You will experimentally test the effectiveness and quality of the manual with randomised controlled trials.
Application Deadline: 27 September 2024
15. Fully Funded PhD Position in Socio-Economic Tipping Points and Positive Levers in Scaling up Nature Based Solutions
Summary of PhD Program:
Climate change, loss of biodiversity and resulting economic losses, pose an increasing threat to the prosperity and well-being of current and future generations. To be able to live and work safely and healthily in the Netherlands in the future, fundamental changes are needed in our land use and soil and water management. It is internationally recognized that Nature Based Solutions (NBS) – integral solutions that harness the power of nature to e.g. reduce climate and environmental problems in a sustainable manner – can play an important role in this transition.
Application Deadline: 28 October 2024
16. Fully Funded PhD Position in Stochastic Safe Envelope Prediction of Damaged Drones
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD project is conducted within the ERC Consolidator Grant project “ARCS” in which you will collaborate with an international team of researchers to develop a new paradigm in control theory: Artificial Physical Awareness (APA). APA aims to provide robots with accurate knowledge on their physical capabilities, which are reduced in currently unknown ways after faults and failures. APA requires accurate and up-to-date knowledge on the safe envelope, which is the region of the state space inside which safe operations can be guaranteed.
Application Deadline: 29 October 2024
Looking for more Funded Phd Position
17. Fully Funded PhD Position in Scalable Graph Learning
Summary of PhD Program:
Graph machine learning (Graph ML) is an emerging field of artificial intelligence (AI) motivated by the ubiquity of graph-structured data in real-world applications. Graph neural networks (GNNs) serve as a key technology in this area and are successfully used in recommendation systems, financial crime analysis, cybersecurity, and social and biological network analysis. However, conventional GNN architectures are limited in the type and complexity of graph patterns they can detect. For example, cycles, cliques, and frequent motifs can serve as highly discriminative signatures when analysing financial, biological, and social networks.
Application Deadline: October 29, 2024
