PhD Opportunities in High Performance Computing in Belgium

Vrije Universiteit Brussel is offering a full-time PhD position in the development of state-to-state plasma-assisted combustion solvers at the Faculty of Engineering, Department of Applied Mechanics, within the Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics research group and the VUB-ULB BRITE research network. The project is part of the ERC Starting Grant project ESCAPADE: Energising the future with clean plasma-based technologies . The research will develop predictive computational tools for plasma-assist...

Université de Namur is advertising a PhD position in numerical photonics within the MSCA doctoral network SPARK . The project is titled “Optical Vortex Generation Using Twisted Bilayer Photonic Crystals” and focuses on photonics, optics, electromagnetism, numerical simulation, scientific computing/HPC, nanofabrication, and structured light . The successful candidate will join the Lobet research team at the University of Namur (Science Faculty / Physics Department, NISM institute). The work combi...

Université de Namur is advertising a PhD position in numerical photonics within the MSCA doctoral network SPARK . The project is titled Perfect Broadband Temporal Metamaterial Absorbers and sits at the intersection of physics, optics, electromagnetism, computational physics, materials science, and electrical engineering . The selected doctoral researcher will work with the Lobet research team at the University of Namur on theoretical and numerical calculations, as well as experimental fabricatio...

PhD position in numerical photonics at the University of Namur, Belgium The Lobet research team in the NISM institute of the Science Faculty at the University of Namur is recruiting a PhD candidate for the MSCA doctoral network SPARK. The project, Optical Vortex Generation Using Twisted Bilayer Photonic Crystals , focuses on theoretical and numerical calculations together with experimental fabrication and characterization in the emerging area of moiré optics. The research aims to design twisted ...

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...