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60 fully funded PhD positions in Belgium
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60open positions
9institutions
12subject areas
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Every open PhD position we track in Belgium, each with its deadline and the university's official application link. Pay, contract type and visa rules differ from country to country, so read each advert closely before you apply. Want a mentor who has done this? See how our PhD admission mentorship works →
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0 days left Safety and Processing Stability in Indonesian Smallholder Dairy Systems 0 days left 3 PhD positions in Digital Media Use, Gender Narratives, and Adolescents’ Development and Mental Health - PHD POSITIONS - 100% (3 available) - Department of Information and Communication Sciences (ReSIC) 1 days left Doctoral scholarship holders in social policy 3 days left Doctoraatsbursaal in de historische Nederlandse letterkunde 3 days left Automated Eating Activity Tracking System for Anorexia Nervosa Using AI and Wearable Sensors 3 days left PhD on AI-driven multimodal data fusion models in rare diseases 3 days left PhD project: Interface coupling in ferroelectric/ferromagnetic/superconductor systems 4 days left PhD Position: Anthropological Study on Interreligious dialogue in Morocco 4 days left Interreligious Dialogue in the Classroom: A Qualitative Study 4 days left Interlevensbeschouwelijke dialoog in de klas: een kwalitatief onderzoek 10 days left Doctoral scholarship holder low-latency wireless embedded systems 18 days left Development of Advanced Techniques for Emergency Robotic Catheterization
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All 60 open PhD positions in Belgium
- Safety and Processing Stability in Indonesian Smallholder Dairy Systems
- 3 PhD positions in Digital Media Use, Gender Narratives, and Adolescents’ Development and Mental Health - PHD POSITIONS - 100% (3 available) - Department of Information and Communication Sciences (ReSIC)
- Doctoral scholarship holders in social policy
- Doctoraatsbursaal in de historische Nederlandse letterkunde
- Automated Eating Activity Tracking System for Anorexia Nervosa Using AI and Wearable Sensors
- PhD on AI-driven multimodal data fusion models in rare diseases
- PhD project: Interface coupling in ferroelectric/ferromagnetic/superconductor systems
- PhD Position: Anthropological Study on Interreligious dialogue in Morocco
- Interreligious Dialogue in the Classroom: A Qualitative Study
- Interlevensbeschouwelijke dialoog in de klas: een kwalitatief onderzoek
- Doctoral scholarship holder low-latency wireless embedded systems
- Development of Advanced Techniques for Emergency Robotic Catheterization
- PhD Position on Energy Systems Modeling
- How do leaders develop their employees?
- PhD scholarship: Development of new (allosteric) ligands
- MSCA doctoral network (SPARK) PhD position in numerical photonics
- MSCA doctoral network (SPARK) PhD position in numerical photonics
- PhD research advancing objective hearing assessment and innovative middle ear surgery
- PhD-onderzoek naar objectieve gehoorevaluatie en innovatieve middenoorchirurgie
- Doctoral fellow - Department of Information Technology
- Doctoral fellow - Department of Information Technology
- Marie Curie PhD vacancy (DC7) for PhD research titled "Laser Power Bed Fusion of novel high temperature-resistant multi-metal combinations for small-scale turbomachinery"
- Marie Curie PhD vacancy (DC2) on Cobot-assisted and digitally-monitored electrolyte jet micromachining (EJM) process for athermal surface structuring and postprocessing of hip implants for promoting osteogenic differentiation
- PhD in plant systems biology for climate change resilience and disease resistance
- Marie Curie PhD vacancy (DC5) on Digitalised micro-EDM process for high-precision microelectrodes for neural sensing and stimulation in MedTech applications
- PhD student Lignin-sourced carbons for biorefinery hydrogenation catalysts and biogas desulfurization (LIGNOCATS)
- PhD Researcher: AI-driven Employee-Customer Relationship Management in the Service Sector
- PhD researcher 'Co-design socio-ecological regeneration of social housing’
- Doctoraatsbursaal koolstoffen - afkomstig uit lignine - voor hydrogeneringskatalysatoren in bioraffinaderijen en biogasontzwaveling (LIGNOCATS)
- Biofabrication of functional cellulose
- Biofabricage van functionele cellulose
- Doctoraatsbursaal 'Paraatheid en de politiek van solidariteit'
- NeuroExplorer PET imaging of new biomarkers for neuroinflammation
- PhD student in the cultural study of resistance (digital humanities)
- Fully-Funded PhD Position in Symbolic Explainability for Logic-Based AI System
- PhD on Scalable Wide-Area EMT Simulation and Automated Stability Assessment
- Doctoral scholarship holder Medicinal Chemistry
- PhD researcher photosensitizers and singlet oxygen-based chemistry
- PhD student in Organic Synthesis/Chemical Biology
- PhD Position in Multimodal Sensor Design for Agrifood
- NeuroExplorer PET-beeldvorming van nieuwe biomerkers voor neuroinflammatie
- Integrated steam production design and control using physics-based non-linear MPC as system integrator
- 2 PhD candidates on knowledge graphs
- Doctoraatsbursaal in Multimodaal Optisch Sensorontwerp voor de Agrivoedingssector
- Doctoraatsbursaal moleculaire pathologie
- Institute for Tax Law - assistant (pt. 70%)
- PhD in first-time-right design tools for multi-optics imaging systems
- PhD researcher at The Department of Work and Organisation Studies (WOS)
- PhD researcher on labour market forecasting
- PhD Researcher - Participation & Inclusion in Urban Heat Resilience
- Assistant departement of Business Informatics and Operations Management (30246)
- Doctoral scholarship holder resilient communications for future 6G networks
- Assistant department of Bioanalysis (PK-PD) (30262)
- Doctoral scholarship student electrochemical engineering
- PhD Position in Neonatal Clinical Pharmacology: Drug Exposure-Response Modelling in Critically Ill Neonates
- Instituut voor Fiscaal Recht - assistent (dt. 70%)
- Predoctoral scientific researcher in waveform design for radar - Telecommunicatie en Informatieverwerking (30319)
- 2026-2027 International PhD Call VIB CNL
- Postdoc in Harness, Swarm and Memory Engineering for Computational Biology
- PhD/Postdoc in In Vivo CRISPR Screening (Dry and/or Wet Lab)
Institutions currently hiring in Belgium
KU Leuven · Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) · University of Antwerp · Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) · University of Namur · Ghent University · Hasselt University · Vlerick Business School · VIB
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