Multiple Positions – 22 PhD Degree-Fully Funded at Ghent University, Belgium
Ghent University, Belgium invites online Application for number of Fully Funded PhD Degree at various Departments. We are providing a list of Fully Funded PhD Programs available at Ghent University, Belgium.
Eligible candidate may Apply as soon as possible.
(01) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Student
Ghent University is a top 100 university worldwide and one of the major universities in Belgium, with more than 44,000 students and 15,000 staff members. The Electrical Energy Laboratory (EELAB) at UGent is involved in a Flanders Make research project AlExci., with a duration of 4 years.
The main goal of the AlExci project is to investigate how an electric motor can be built with less critical materials. In particular for this PhD, the focus is on using aluminum as conductor material instead of copper, and to study how aluminum can be used together with other sustainable materials for electric insulation of the conductors, for good thermal contact with the stator core, for long lifetime, and for easy disassembly and recycling. An example could be anodized aluminum: the aluminum oxide layer is fully recyclable.
As a PhD student, you will contribute to the development of multiphysics (electromagnetic & thermal) models for windings of electric motors. Also, you will study how the motor design can be modified to make the windings in the machine more robust against thermal variations or mechanical vibrations. The work includes a significant experimental part, i.e. making prototypes of stators and test the concepts for sustainable windings. The project has a user group of companies, which are active in enameled wire, impregnation and potting techniques, electric machine design and electric machine manufacturing or repair.
The initial contract duration will be one year, in which you are hired as a PhD researcher. The contract can be extended to 4 years in total, under the condition of a positive evaluation after the initial period. Ghent University offers an attractive salary with additional benefits, a positive and inspiring working environment and training possibilities. You will work at the Electrical Energy Laboratory in the Tech Lane Ghent Science Park in Zwijnaarde.
Deadline : Sep 30, 2025
(02) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral fellow
Ghent University is a world of its own. Employing more than 15.000 people, it is actively involved in education and research, management and administration, as well as technical and social service provision on a daily basis. It is one of the largest, most exciting employers in the area and offers great career opportunities.
With its 11 faculties and more than 85 departments offering state-of-the-art study programmes grounded in research in a wide range of academic fields, Ghent University is a logical choice for its staff and students.
At Ghent University, within the Department of Developmental, Personality and Social Psychology, we are looking for a full-time PhD student to work on the FWO Odysseus project “Emerging Adulthood: The Time of Your Life?”. This project focuses on the development and evaluation of VR-based interventions targeting emotion regulation and identity.
Emerging adulthood is a transitional period between adolescence and adulthood, characterized by the ongoing development of identity and personal values. It is also a phase marked by unique challenges—successfully navigated by many, though not by all. This variability may, in part, be explained by difficulties in emotion regulation, defined as the set of processes involved in adjusting the duration, intensity, onset, and recovery of current or anticipated emotional experiences.
One of the key objectives of the Odysseus project is to strengthen emotion regulation skills and identity through virtual reality (VR) interventions.
We are currently looking for a PhD student to join our team (https://fsppd.be/onderzoeksteam) and contribute to the evaluation of the effectiveness of our VR interventions. The doctoral project has four main objectives:
1. To examine the validity of an existing VR-based intervention through feasibility pilots.
2. To develop a novel VR intervention targeting identity development.
3. To assess the effectiveness of the VR interventions through a randomized controlled trial (RCT).
4. To investigate how individual differences in personality may moderate the effects of these interventions.
The Odysseus project is embedded within the Center for Developmental and Motivational Psychology (https://www.comugent.be/), which is part of the Department of Developmental, Personality and Social Psychology at Ghent University (https://www.ugent.be/pp/vopspsy/en).
The principal investigators of the project are Prof. Dr. Peter Prinzie and Prof. Dr. Bart Soenens. The PhD project will be supervised by Prof. Dr. Peter Prinzie and Dr. Khawla Ajana.
Deadline : Aug 15, 2025
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(03) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral fellow
Ghent University is a world of its own, employing more than 15.000 people. It is actively involved in education and research, management and administration, as well as technical and social service provision on a daily basis. It is one of the largest, most exciting employers in the area, and offers great career opportunities.
With its 11 faculties and more than 85 departments, offering state-of-the-art study programmes grounded in research in a wide range of academic fields, Ghent University is a logical choice for its staff and students.
Deadline : Aug 10, 2025
(04) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral fellow
Ghent University is a world of its own. Employing more than 15.000 people, it is actively involved in education and research, management and administration, as well as technical and social service provision on a daily basis. It is one of the largest, most exciting employers in the area and offers great career opportunities.
With its 11 faculties and more than 85 departments offering state-of-the-art study programmes grounded in research in a wide range of academic fields, Ghent University is a logical choice for its staff and students.
Deadline : Aug 26, 2025
(05) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Student
Forest ecosystems play a crucial role in the global carbon cycle and the global climate. The shape and size of trees within a forest are impacted by forest dynamics (e.g. tree growth and forest disturbances). Our current knowledge about forest growth is limited, mainly due to the difficulty to accurately measure tree structure, e.g. diameter at breast height (DBH), tree height and aboveground biomass (AGB), repeatedly and objectively. Terrestrial laser scanning (TLS, also called terrestrial lidar) measures the in situ structure of trees and forests in explicit 3D detail and opens a new avenue in accurately measuring very detailed 3D structure of trees and forests.
You will work across multiple ecosystems, including the Amazon rainforest (AmazonFACE experiment in Brazil), the wet tropics of Australia (Queensland Permanent Rainforest Plots), Wytham Woods (UK) and Bosland National Park in Belgium. You are expected to contribute to the collection of terrestrial laser scanning data in these ecosystems, further complementing already existing data.
The PhD fellow will (1) conduct terrestrial laser scanning fieldwork across a range of ecosystems; (2) contribute to the development of new methods to analyse multitemporal 3D data from terrestrial laser scanning in forests; and (3) apply these methods to gain ecological insights in how forest structure is changing through time.
Deadline : Aug 03, 2025
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(06) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral fellow
We are looking for an enthusiastic, team-oriented, and highly motivated PhD researcher with the following profile:
- You hold (or will soon hold) a Master’s degree in Social Work, Educational Sciences or a related discipline (or an equivalent qualification). The degree requirements must be fulfilled by the start of the appointment
- You have a demonstrated affinity with the topic of unaccompanied minors and/or parenting in refugee families, for example through work experience, experiential knowledge, internships or academic papers.
- You have experience in conducting research with refugee populations or other populations in vulnerable situations, using qualitative and/or quantitative methods.
- You are a strong team player, you enjoy working in a collaborative and interdisciplinary research environment and are willing to actively contribute to the activities and tasks of CESSMIR and the Department Social Work and Social Pedagogy.
- You are open to giving and receiving constructive feedback, you value continuous learning.
- You are capable of working independently and taking initiative.
- You are able and willing to travel frequently outside Europe, including for extended periods.
- You are flexible and able to work in challenging fieldwork environments; strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills are essential.
- You are proficient in written and spoken English; knowledge of languages relevant to refugee communities is an asset.
- You possess excellent communication (oral and written) and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work collaborate effectively with NGOs, community organizations, and other stakeholders.
Deadline : Aug 15, 2025
(07) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral fellow
The STFES research group (Sustainable Thermo-Fluid Energy Systems, https://www.ugent.be/ea/eemmecs/en/research/stfes) is widely known for its research on thermal energy. Both experimental and numerical techniques are used in the analysis, design and optimization, resulting in a unique position in the field. The overall goal is to support more energy efficient systems in buildings and industry. With this, the research contributes in devising technical solutions for the reduction of CO2 emissions in accordance with the European Union’s Energy Roadmap 2050.
We are looking for a motivated and talented PhD student to delve into the field of thermal energy, specifically high-temperature industrial heat pumps. Heat pumps are widely recognized as a key technology for sustainable heat supply. Nevertheless, many aspects still need to be explored in order to fully unlock their potential. Only recently has attention shifted towards high-temperature (>100°C) industrial heat pumps for process heat applications. Within the framework of several national research projects (UPheat-INES 1.0 & 2.0, RethinkEnergy4Food) and international collaborations (IEA Annex 57), the research group has built up extensive expertise in this area. Through this PhD position, we aim to further expand and strengthen our research position. The specific research aims are:
- Research on a new and unique high-temperature (up to 200°C) water/ammonia heat pump recently developed and installed in our lab. The focus will be on gaining in-depth knowledge of the operation of a custom-built compressor with two-phase working fluid injection, designed to limit the discharge temperature.
- Electrification of heat in the food industry, within the project ‘RethinkEnergy4Food’. This research will investigate the techno-economic aspects and feasibility of heat electrification using various technologies (Mechanical Vapor Recompression – MVR, heat pumps, electric boilers). Based on this, a methodology will be developed to match energy demand and processes with the appropriate technology through techno-economic analysis. This methodology will be validated using two generic demonstration cases.
- You also support the STFES (Sustainable Thermo-Fluid Energy Systems, https://www.ugent.be/ea/eemmecs/en/research/stfes) research group for educational tasks and internal operation of the group.
Deadline :Aug 01, 2025
(08) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral fellow
At the Faculty of Economics and Business administration, within the research group on Human Resource Management and Organizational Behavior, we are seeking a motivated colleague to conduct doctoral research on the successful implementation of sustainability policies in organizations.
Deadline :Aug 15, 2025
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(09) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral fellow
Applications are invited for one full-time PhD research position of 4 years within the ERC Starting Grant project “Corpora in Greater Gandhāra: Tracing the Development of Buddhist Textuality and Gilgit/Bamiyan Manuscript Networks in the First Millennium of the Common Era” (Gandhāra Corpora) led by Professor Charles DiSimone at the Department of Languages and Cultures, Ghent University located in the center of the beautiful and historic city of Ghent, Belgium.
In the last several years, fantastic manuscript finds have surfaced opening new windows into the scholarly study of the development of Buddhist literature. Gandhāra Corpora represents a multifaceted, holistic approach to the study of an important and voluminous genre of manuscript witnesses from an early era of Buddhist textual transmission composed mainly in Sanskrit in the Gilgit/Bamiyan type scripts from the historic region of Greater Gandhāra covering modern day Afghanistan, Pakistan, and parts of Northern India. The advertised PhD fellowship offers an opportunity for a young scholar to situate themselves within the field of the philological study of Buddhist manuscript cultures specifically and Buddhist Studies broadly.
In the Gandhāra Corpora project, the researcher will join an international team of scholars working on manuscript materials recently uncovered from the historic area of Greater Gandhāra and contribute to the study and preservation of this material. Within the department, the Pre-doctoral researcher will be a member of both the Ghent Centre for Buddhist Studies (https://www.cbs.ugent.be/) and the Ghent Centre for South Asian Studies research groups (https://www.india.ugent.be/english/). A project website will be up this fall but brief project details may be found here: https://research.flw.ugent.be/en/projects/corpora-greater-gandh%C4%81ra-tracing-development-buddhist-textuality-and-gilgitbamiyan
Deadline : Aug 15, 2025
(10) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral fellow
Ghent University is a world of its own. Employing more than 15.000 people, it is actively involved in education and research, management and administration, as well as technical and social service provision on a daily basis. It is one of the largest, most exciting employers in the area and offers great career opportunities.
With its 11 faculties and more than 85 departments offering state-of-the-art study programmes grounded in research in a wide range of academic fields, Ghent University is a logical choice for its staff and students.
Deadline : Sep 02, 2025
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(11) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Student
Forests worldwide are undergoing large-scale and unprecedented changes in terms of structure and species composition due to anthropogenic disturbances, climate change and other global change drivers. Climate, disturbances and forest structure are all closely linked: changes in climate can lead directly to physical changes in forest structure and vice versa or to an anticipated increase in forest disturbances. However, it is still uncertain how forest structure is impacted by disturbances (locally) and how we can detect and monitor various levels of disturbance regimes using spaceborne satellite data (globally).
This PhD position is embedded in the ERC project SPACETWIN. This project will focus on the impact of drought, fire and logging disturbances across a range of tropical and temperate forest ecosystems. It will lead to a step-change in our ability to observe, quantify and understand forest disturbances and recovery by using time series of the most detailed structural and radiometric 3D forest models ever built: ‘digital twin’ forests.
Within your work, you will:
(1) use 3D terrestrial laser scanning data to further develop the creation and implementation of digital twins of forests for optical and microwave radiative transfer modelling
(2) explore the near-real time inversion of remote sensing of forest disturbances using emulation
(3) use a library of digital twin forests to understand the uncertainties in monitoring disturbances from both satellites and ground-based sensors. The latter is expected to contribute to the further development of the pylidar repository.
This PhD project will be promoted by prof. Kim Calders, co-supervised by dr. Niall Origo. Throughout this project you will also closely collaborate with prof. John Armston (University of Maryland).
Deadline : Aug 03, 2025
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(12) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral fellow
At the Faculty of Economics and Business administration, within the research group on Human Resource Management and Organizational Behavior, we are seeking a motivated colleague to conduct doctoral research on the impact of HRM on employees’ emotions, well-being and work behavior in organizations.
- Given the rising numbers of burnout, it is essential to investigate how organizations can cultivate a productive, happy, and healthy workforce. What role do HRM practices play in this regard? How do these practices influence employees’ emotions and, consequently, their well-being and performance? The goal of this doctoral dissertation is to generate in-depth insights into these pressing questions. We are specifically looking for a candidate who is eager to work with complex data from emotion measurements conducted in a lab.
- Although the overarching theme of the doctoral dissertation focuses on the impact of HRM on employees’ emotions, well-being, and work behavior, you will have considerable autonomy as a researcher to shape your research questions in line with your own interests.
- You will dedicate at least 90% of your assignment to conducting scientific research in preparation for a doctoral dissertation in Business Economics.
- You will carry out high-quality academic research and, within a four-year period, write a doctoral dissertation based on English-language scientific articles that are (potentially) publishable in peer-reviewed academic journals. This research will be conducted in collaboration with the research team.
- You will present interim research findings both internally (e.g., research seminars) and externally (e.g., academic conferences, both nationally and internationally).
- You will contribute to the internal and external service activities of the Department of Marketing, Innovation, and Organization.
- Your supervisors are highly experienced in teaching, research, and the successful supervision of doctoral candidates. You will collaborate with other PhD researchers, fostering rich social interactions and numerous learning opportunities.
Deadline : Aug 15, 2025
(13) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral fellow
Ghent University is a world of its own. Employing more than 15.000 people, it is actively involved in education and research, management and administration, as well as technical and social service provision on a daily basis. It is one of the largest, most exciting employers in the area and offers great career opportunities.
With its 11 faculties and more than 85 departments offering state-of-the-art study programmes grounded in research in a wide range of academic fields, Ghent University is a logical choice for its staff and students.
Deadline : Aug 26, 2025
(14) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral fellow
The position is offered in the Laboratory for Circular Process Engineering on the Kortrijk campus under the leadership of Prof. Steven De Meester. The work will take place in a young and dynamic team of approximately 30 researchers who focus on better chemical engineering in the circular economy, with a focus on pretreatment and downstream processing during plastic recyclig.
For a project focused on degradation of additives (and NIAS) during mechanical and chemical recycling, we are looking for a researcher that aims at obtaining a PhD degree. There is a strong focus on analytics and chemical degradation pathways, so in initial stages this involves a lot of lab work at the pyro GC-MS and other equipment. In second stages the experiments will be combined with statistical/kinetic modelling.
You spend at least 90% of your assignment on scientific research in the context of the preparation of a doctoral thesis. In addition, this position will also include some other assignments, such as contacts with companies, services, supervision of master thesis students, etc. A practical mindset with good laboratory skills such as chemical analysis is a plus.
Deadline : Aug 20, 2025
(15) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Student
Ghent University is a world of its own. Employing more than 15.000 people, it is actively involved in education and research, management and administration, as well as technical and social service provision on a daily basis. It is one of the largest, most exciting employers in the area and offers great career opportunities.
With its 11 faculties and more than 85 departments offering state-of-the-art study programmes grounded in research in a wide range of academic fields, Ghent University is a logical choice for its staff and students.
Deadline : Sep 01, 2025
(16) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral fellow
The research group GASPAR (www.gaspar.ugent.be) is seeking a motivated and enthusiastic researcher to pursue a PhD based on the 4-year research project ‘When Policy Hits Home: Understanding Losers’ Consent in the Context of Salient Policy Decisions’. Here is a short summary of the content of this project:
Democracies depend on the premise that all citizens, even losers (i.e., those who did not obtain the desired outcome in a decision-making process), comply with the law and retain a certain level of support for the political system and its procedures. In established democracies with high levels of electoral integrity, such as Belgium, obtaining losers’ consent in the context of elections has not been challenging so far. However, when it comes to the acceptance of single policy decisions, also in these countries, fierce resistance has occurred. Losers of policy decisions do not only seem to question democratic procedures, but they also seem willing to accept non-democratic behaviour in reaction to their loss. It is hence essential to gain a better understanding of losers’ consent in the context of salient policy decisions. However, the existing literature on this topic is descriptive, does not focus on the origins of losers’ consent, and has mainly been conducted in the context of elections and referendums. This project aims to address this gap by studying the origins of losers’ consent in the scope of salient policy decisions. Methodologically, the project relies on focus groups, a lab experiment, and survey experiments. By providing a better understanding of the origins of losers’ consent in the context of salient policy decisions, this project offers innovative theoretical and empirical insights that are much required for maintaining a well-functioning democracy.
Deadline : Aug 01, 2025
(17) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Student
- We are looking for a highly motivated PhD candidate with a recent Master’s degree in engineering and a strong curiosity about the human sciences — especially human learning, environmental influences on learning, artificial intelligence, and human-robot interaction. Preference will be given to applicants who graduated in the top 10% of their cohort.
- Proficiency in software engineering and knowledge of python are a plus.
- You should be a native speaker of English or Dutch, or provide proof of English proficiency.
Deadline :Aug 15, 2025
(18) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral fellow
The current PhD position is available for a highly motivated candidate to work within the research group of Prof. Olivier De Wever. The main aim of the PhD project is to address the fidelity of tumor models in cancer research. In this regard, the PhD student will apply state-of-the-art technologies to analyze the behaviour and therapy response of tumor models including the composition and characteristics of cancer cells and tumor microenvironment elements such as cancer-associated fibroblast (CAF) and immune cells.
Tumor models include the use of three-dimensional cell aggregates (also named spheroids) (Peirsman&Blondeel et al. Nature Methods 2021), patient-derived tumor fragments (Vermeulen et al. Sci Rep 2024) and patient-derived orthotopic xenograft mouse models (Fischer et al. Clin Trans Med 2023). Patient-derived models are obtained from surplus tissues in full collaboration with our clinical partners. A living biobank of cancer cell cultures (https://www.crig.ugent.be/en/ghent-living-biobank-sarcoma-glb-s), CAF (Tommelein et al. Cancer Res 2018; Xia et al. Clin Trans Med 2024) and immune cells (Steenbrugge&Dejaeghere et al. Cancer Res 2021) is available to reconstitute the TME using heterocellular spheroids (DeJaeghere&Devlieghere et al. Biomaterials 2018). The De Wever lab is expert in the extensive evaluation of the impact of experimental parameters in tumor models (Peirsman&Blondeel et al. Nature Methods 2021; Fischer et al. STAR protocols 2024; DeThaye et al. Sci Rep 2020). This supporting ecosystem has steered the De Wever lab towards a leading position in the set-up and detailed evaluation of a diverse complementary set of tumor models.
You will work in very close interaction with partners from Cancer Research Institute Ghent (CRIG, Ghent), Flemish Institute for Biotechnology (VIB, Ghent) as well as (inter)national collaborating teams to enable multidisciplinary investigations.
Deadline : Aug 01, 2025
(19) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Student
- We are hiring a doctoral fellow on the topic of building stock modelling. Starting from reviewing the existing building stock modelling approaches, you will develop a building stock model for Flanders that allows to analyse the carbon emissions of the stock, both operational and embodied. You will then use this model to assess the impact of various energy conservation measures and policy choices on the overall carbon emissions of the stock. The aim of the research is to obtain a PhD diploma.
- You will be part of the UGent Building Physics research group (Faculty of Engineering and Architecture) that aims at contributing to the development of knowledge about sustainable, durable and fossil-free buildings with a healthy and comfortable indoor climate.
Deadline : Aug 25, 2025
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(20) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Student
Wireless systems are omnipresent in our daily life, but it is far from perfect, especially for professional applications, where stable quality of service with bounded latency, guaranteed packet delivery rate is a must. Today, we still see Wi-Fi coverage is far from uniform, high variations of the Wi-Fi signal strength can be observed at different locations. Co-located Wi-Fi access points sharing the same spectrum compete against each other rather than collaborate to serve users. In this PhD position, you will research solutions to tackle these issues and improve wireless performance and efficiency together with the members of Software-Defined Radio team in IDLab.
- You will enhance WiFi design in view of distributed MIMO, and/or coordinated multi-AP operation (under study in the Wi-Fi 8 standardisation workgroup), using Hardware Description Language on FPGA, based on the open-source openwifi project (https://github.com/open-sdr/openwifi).
- You are also encouraged to design higher networking layer functionality and driver in Linux environment, to fully exploit the distributed MIMO and coordinated multi-AP feature.
- You publish and present results both at international conferences and in scientific journals.
- You will combine theoretical design with experimental proof-of-concept validation by setting up prototyping environments in our test lab considering concrete professional use cases (industry 4.0, mission-critical applications, professional multimedia applications, etc.)
- You will participate in the framework of national and European research projects, and collaborate on a technical level with research partners from industry.
- You will assist in limited educational tasks of the research group.
- This research will lead to a PhD degree. Throughout the complete PhD period, you receive a full-time, attractive salary.
Deadline : Dec 31, 2025
(21) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Student
Are you interested in chemical research of natural products to study the relationship between bitter compounds in chicory and insect resistance? And thereby contributing to more sustainable crop protection? Would you like to work in an interdisciplinary project with practical applications? And do this in close collaboration with researchers, including other PhD students, and industry partners? Then this vacancy is just what you’re looking for.
Within the FWO-SBO project ‘Sesquichic’, we are looking for a PhD student to produce and analyze specific bitter compounds (sesquiterpene lactones, or SLs) to investigate their role in the defense of chicory against thrips and other insects.
You will develop and optimize methods to extract, purify, characterize and structurally identify these compounds from chicory to allow the study of their potential as biobased insecticides. You will work in a multidisciplinary team with researchers, technicians and other PhD students from ILVO, Ghent University and Wageningen University & Research, and maintain contact with an industrial advisory group.
• You develop efficient extraction and purification methods of SLs from prepared chicory biomass and perform their structure determination leveraging the advanced capabilities of different mass spectrometry techniques, NMR spectroscopy and database searches along with other analytical methods.
• You conduct stability, reactivity and possible semi-synthesis study of selected bioactive SLs.
• You perform a mix of chemical laboratory work and data analysis of natural products.
• You contribute to a broader research project aimed at developing more sustainable, biobased crop protection products.
• You collaborate closely with fellow researchers and external partners.
Deadline : Aug 10, 2025
(22) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Student
Soils are the foundation of our health & wealth, with 95% of food coming from this belowground ecosystem. Yet, 60-70% of soils in the EU are degraded, a situation exacerbated by unsustainable management practices and the impacts of climate change, representing €50 billion lost yearly due to soil degradation. The EU Soil Strategy for 2030 outlines a bold vision to ensure all EU soil ecosystems are healthy by 2050. Linked to the massive soil health issues is the unsuitable, intensive animal farming as a key driver of soil degradation, depleting nutrients, increasing erosion, and disrupting ecosystems essential for long-term agricultural sustainability. While livestock farming can enhance biodiversity and soil carbon, these benefits are diminished by intensive farming practices and land conversion. Overgrazing, excessive manure application, and improper waste management exacerbate soil health issues and contribute to nutrient runoff and pollution. To improve sustainability, livestock systems need to become more efficient, adopt lower-impact inputs, and shift towards circular, integrated farming approaches that enhance soil health, ecosystem services and resource security. Sustainable regenerative livestock farming holds a huge potential by aiming at restoring the ecosystem balance through the redefinition of the animals’ role in food systems. Rather than focusing solely on production, this approach integrates animals into the agroecosystem, restoring soil health & ecosystem functions and services, including pollination, water filtration, nutrient cycling and carbon sequestration. The general objective of GroundWork is therefore to catalyse the transformation of the European livestock & agricultural sector towards improved soil health, enhanced ecosystem resilience, and regenerative food production by harnessing the potential of adaptive livestock management across diverse EU regions, within a participatory R&I approach. To achieve this objective, GroundWork will engage a wide range of livestock grazing stakeholders to codesign and implement Regenerative Livestock Grazing Practices (RLGPs) based on regional farming realities and contexts.
Deadline :Aug 10, 2025
About Ghent University, Belgium –Official Website
Ghent University is a public research university located in Ghent, Belgium. It was established in 1817 by King William I of the Netherlands. After the Belgian revolution of 1830, the newly formed Belgian state began to administer the university. In 1930, the university became the first Dutch-speaking university in Belgium, whereas French had previously been the standard academic language in what was Université de Gand. In 1991, it was granted major autonomy and changed its name accordingly from State University of Ghent (Dutch: Rijksuniversiteit Gent, abbreviated as RUG) to its current designation.
In contrast to the Catholic University of Leuven or the Free University of Brussels, UGent considers itself a pluralist university in a special sense, i.e. not connected to any particular religion or political ideology. Its motto Inter Utrumque (‘In Between Both Extremes’), on the coat of arms, suggests the acquisition of wisdom and science comes only in an atmosphere of peace, when the institution is fully supported by the monarchy and fatherland.
Ghent University is one of the biggest Flemish universities, consisting of 44,000 students and 9,000 staff members. The University also supports the University Library and the University Hospital, which is one of the largest hospitals in Belgium. It is one of the greatest beneficiaries of funding from the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO). Ghent University consistently rates among the top 100 universities in the world.
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