Postdoc Opportunities in Mechatronics in Belgium

This position at Vrije Universiteit Brussel is a project-funded Senior Researcher (Post-Doc) role with a part-time assistant professorship component in the Studies in Media, Innovation and Technology (SMIT) research group. The appointment sits within the Faculty of Social Sciences and Solvay Business School, and the post is based at the Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering Campus in Elsene. The research agenda centers on Physical AI and its intersection with human-centered robotics , mult...

This postdoctoral project sits within the Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics research environment at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, in the Faculty of Engineering Sciences and the Applied Mechanics department. The work is embedded in the ERC Starting Grant project ESCAPADE and connected to the joint BRITE research ecosystem in Brussels. The project focuses on plasma-assisted combustion and aims to build a new generation of predictive kinetic models for cleaner and more efficient combustion syste...

The C4W programme offers 13 postdoctoral fellowships in the cleantech research field, jointly opened by the University of Mons (UMONS) in Belgium and the University of Vaasa in Finland. Fellows will work on research that supports climate-neutral innovation across a wide cleantech spectrum, including energy transition, renewables, grids, storage, hydrogen, energy efficiency, decarbonised heat, water, waste, recycling, circular economy, materials and depollution. The call is designed for researche...

This postdoctoral position at Ghent University sits within the Mechanics of Materials and Structures department and is part of a broader research effort on composite hydrogen storage systems. The work centers on the numerical simulation, finite element modelling, and structural design of pressurized composite hydrogen tanks used both in vehicles and in refueling infrastructure. The project is embedded in Belgium’s active hydrogen technology ecosystem and is carried out in collaboration with indu...

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 . ...

Ghent University in Belgium is advertising an ERC Starting Grant project, LuMoCX , with multiple PhD positions and one postdoctoral position focused on transforming lunar regolith into useful metals, oxygen, and construction materials using solar-energy-based processing . The research sits at the intersection of metallurgy , materials science , pyrometallurgy , high-temperature processing , and space resource utilization . Technical topics mentioned include molten oxides and slags , materials ch...