PhD Opportunities in Mining Engineering in Belgium

This FWO PhD Fellowship in Strategic Basic Research supports doctoral research in Flanders, Belgium, for projects with potential economic or social applications. It is a research-funded doctoral opportunity rather than a fixed-topic studentship, so candidates shape a project in any field of research together with a supervisor at a university in the Flemish Community. The fellowship is administered by the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO) and is designed to back ambitious PhD projects that go ...

This PhD project focuses on AI-driven computational models for battery degradation within the EU-funded TRAIN-FAST Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Network. The research is hosted by Siemens Industry Software NV in Leuven, Belgium, in collaboration with Politecnico di Torino , where the PhD degree will be awarded. The project sits at the intersection of battery science, simulation, and data-driven modelling. The doctoral researcher will contribute to the development of a digital twin for predicti...

This PhD project at KU Leuven focuses on insect behaviour in an agricultural context, with particular attention to the environmental responses of black soldier fly larvae . The position sits at the intersection of biology and precision farming, suggesting a project aimed at understanding how larvae respond to environmental conditions relevant to controlled or data-informed agricultural systems. The advert highlights a research topic built around black soldier fly larvae, a species of strong inte...

PhD research in sustainable business models and circular economy This fully funded doctoral position at KU Leuven focuses on environmental and circularity modelling methods for sustainable business models. The thesis is part of the Flanders Make project on Digital Product Passports, exploring how product information and modelling approaches can support more sustainable and circular business practices. The research is situated within the SAM Team in the Department of Materials Engineering, under ...

The University of Antwerp’s Faculty of Applied Engineering invites applications for a full-time doctoral scholarship holder position in industrial wastewater engineering . The PhD project will investigate sustainable and innovative biological processes, with a specific focus on low dissolved oxygen biological nutrient removal from industrial wastewater. The exact research topic will be defined with Professor Jan Dries of the BioWAVE research group. The successful candidate will prepare and defen...

Fully funded PhD opportunity in Chemical Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Chemistry, and Materials Science is available through the VLIR-UOS TIDE project, jointly involving Ghent University in Belgium and Phenikaa University in Vietnam. This is a 48-month sandwich PhD model: candidates spend 18 months conducting research at Ghent University in Belgium and 30 months at Phenikaa University in Vietnam. The project offers full coverage of tuition fees and research expenses, a monthly scholars...

Ghent University is inviting applications for a PhD position titled “Digital twins for understanding forest disturbances and recovery from space.” The project explores forest disturbances and recovery using radiative transfer modelling, 3D forest models, digital twins, and satellite remote sensing. The position is associated with Kim Calders and Niall Origo. It may suit applicants interested in environmental science, Earth science, forest monitoring, Earth observation, and advanced remote-sensin...

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. ...