PhD Opportunities in Environmental Sustainability in Belgium

Two PhD positions are open in biostatistics within the Eclosion Lab , focused on citizen-science biodiversity data . One project is at KU Leuven in Belgium and concerns biodiversity monitoring with citizen-science data (L-BioStat). The other is at Hasselt University in Belgium and focuses on ecological statistics for citizen-science data (CenStat). The research is supervised by Thomas Neyens and Maxime Fajgenblat . The advertised methodological focus is on Bayesian occupancy models and hierarchi...

KU Leuven is offering a PhD position in rhizosphere biogeochemistry within the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Soil and Water Management Division, in the SPIRAL lab. The project focuses on how soil formation , root exudation , and free-living nitrogen fixers interact in the rhizosphere. A key research question is how plant-released carbohydrates and carboxylates influence microbial nitrogen fixation and the mobilization of molybdenum (Mo) , an essential cofactor for nitrogenase. ...

Ghent University is advertising a PhD / doctoral fellow position in forest ecology , remote sensing , terrestrial laser scanning , and microclimate buffering . The project is hosted by Q-ForestLab in the Department of Environment and focuses on linking high-temporal-resolution 3D forest structure with microclimate time series in tropical and temperate forest ecosystems. The research will examine how disturbances and forest dynamics shape forest structure over time, and how those structural chang...

Ghent University is advertising a PhD position in human-robot teamwork , human-robot collaboration , cobots , and Industry 5.0 within the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration and the research group HRM, Strategy and Organization . The project, supervised by Professor Gosia Kozusznik and Professor Greet Van Hoye , examines how human-robot teamwork is experienced in daily work and under which conditions it supports worker well-being and performance . The research aims to understand psy...

Ghent University is advertising a PhD / doctoral fellow position in the Department of Environment within Q-ForestLab for the ERC project SPACETWIN : digital twins for understanding forest disturbances and recovery from space. The project sits at the intersection of Environmental Science , Earth Science , Biology , Computer Science , and Physics . It focuses on forest ecology, remote sensing, satellite data analysis, radiative transfer modelling, 3D forest reconstruction, and terrestrial laser sc...

Ghent University is recruiting a PhD candidate in coastal engineering, river hydrodynamics, estuarine hydrodynamics, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) , and nature-based solutions for riverbank protection and habitat restoration. The position is part of the four-year RECRAFT project, which aims to develop innovative wave-attenuating structures, engineered riverbank profiles, reused dredged sediments, and vegetation-based protection to reduce hydrodynamic forces while supporting ecosystem recove...

Ghent University is recruiting for the ERC Starting Grant project LuMoCX , an interdisciplinary programme on the production of metals, oxygen, and construction materials from lunar regolith using solar energy. The project combines materials science , chemical engineering , mechanical engineering , physics , computational fluid dynamics , molecular dynamics , and experimental work on molten oxides and slag systems . There are openings for multiple PhD candidates and one postdoctoral researcher . ...

PhD opportunity at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Belgium in experimental corrosion science, machine learning, and additive-manufactured metal alloys. The DurAMat Project is seeking a motivated doctoral candidate to join research supervised by Prof. Iris De Graeve and Prof. Reynier Revilla . The project combines materials science , corrosion science , additive manufacturing , metal alloys , and machine learning to study corrosion behaviour and generate experimental data that can support predi...

KU Leuven is advertising a PhD scholarship holder position in Human Rights Law within the Leuven Centre for Public Law . The project is part of a dynamic research and education environment combining academic researchers and practitioners, with an international network and a strong social responsibility focus. The successful candidate will conduct doctoral research in the domain of Human Rights Law and work toward obtaining a PhD. The role also includes limited research support tasks such as assi...