Fully-Funded PhD Positions in Machine Learning, Genomics, and Explainable AI University of Liège in Belgium

Doctoral Candidate / PhD Position in the SPACE-MEL MSCA Doctoral Network (DC11) Aspect Analytics NV is recruiting a fully funded Doctoral Candidate for a 36-month industrial PhD in the Horizon Europe Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Network SPACE-MEL . The project is based in Belgium and leads to enrolment in a doctoral programme at KU Leuven . The research is centred on computational modelling of cellular neighbourhoods in spatial multi-omics , with melanoma as the main disease context. The DC11...

This fully funded PhD position at the VIB–VUB Center for Structural Biology, co-affiliated with the VIB Center for AI & Computational Biology, offers an exciting opportunity to develop advanced AI-driven methods for protein design. The research focuses on explicitly accounting for protein–lipid and protein–membrane interactions, enabling the design of synthetic membrane proteins and nanopores with sophisticated functionalities such as selective transport, sensing, and signal transduction. The la...

KU Leuven is advertising a full-time PhD position in AI and multimodal digital liver pathology at the Department of Imaging & Pathology, Faculty of Medicine , based in Leuven, Belgium . The project sits in the Govaere Research Group and is closely linked with pathology, hepatology, oncology, radiology, molecular biology, and biomedical AI. The work is supervised by Prof. Olivier Govaere , with collaboration from Prof. Jeroen Dekervel and co-supervision by Prof. Asier Antoranz . The research focu...

VIB-KU Leuven Center for Microbiology in Leuven, Belgium is recruiting a Postdoctoral Researcher in computational genomics , bioinformatics , and high-throughput genome editing . The project focuses on how synonymous mutations can influence gene expression and cellular phenotypes, using large-scale synonymous saturation mutagenesis libraries and multiple reporter readouts. The lab develops high-throughput CRISPR technologies, including MAGESTIC , to engineer thousands of defined mutations in par...

KU Leuven is advertising a PhD in biostatistics focused on biodiversity monitoring with citizen science at the Leuven Biostatistics Centre (L-BioStat) , within the Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Faculty of Medicine. The project sits at the intersection of statistics, ecology, biodiversity, and computational modeling , with collaboration with Natuurpunt Studie and access to data from Waarnemingen.be . The doctoral researcher will work on ecological statistics and develop/apply Baye...