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Funding not stated 30 Nov 2026

Multiple PhD positions in quantum materials research

International Max Planck Research School for Chemistry and Physics of Quantum Materials

  • Dresden, Germany
  • Chemistry Chemistry

About us The International Max Planck Research School for Chemistry and Physics of Quantum Materials is a joint PhD programme between the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden, Germany, Technische Universität Dresden and the University of St Andrews, Scotland. By working together, we create a highly attractive overall package of PhD level research on solid-state chemistry and condensed matter physics. It builds on world‐class research activities in quantum materials at the three institutions, and will provide successful candidates with a stimulating environment and the o

Fully funded 30 Nov 2026

Marie Curie PhD vacancy (DC8) for PhD research titled "Additive manufacturing of ceramics with complex surfaces for small-scale turbomachinery"

KU LEUVEN

  • Leuven, Belgium
  • Engineering
  • Prof. Jozef Vleugels

KU Leuven seeks a highly motivated PhD candidate for a fully funded, four-year international doctoral position within the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Doctoral Network (MSCA-DN) project TURBO-IMPACT (TURBOmachinery Innovative Manufacturing, Processing, Analysis, Characterization, and Topology ; Website: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101311350 ). The TurboImpact project, funded by Horizon Europe – MSCA-DN, tackles challenges in designing, optimizing, selecting materials, and manufacturing small-scale turbomachinery for applications in heat pumps, fuel cells, organic Rankine cycles, or gas turbi

Fully funded 30 Nov 2026

Marie Curie PhD vacancy (DC7) for PhD research titled "Laser Power Bed Fusion of novel high temperature-resistant multi-metal combinations for small-scale turbo

KU LEUVEN · Mechanical Engineering Department - Additive Manufacturing Team

  • Leuven, Belgium
  • Engineering
  • Prof. Brecht Van Hooreweder

KU Leuven seeks a highly motivated PhD candidate for a fully funded, four-year international doctoral position within the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Doctoral Networks (MSCA-DN) project TURBO-IMPACT (TURBOmachinery Innovative Manufacturing, Processing, Analysis, Characterization, and Topology ; Website: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101311350 ). The TurboImpact project, funded by Horizon Europe – MSCA-DN, tackles challenges in designing, optimizing, selecting materials, and manufacturing small-scale turbomachinery for applications in heat pumps, fuel cells, organic Rankine cycles, or gas turb

Fully funded 30 Nov 2026

MSCA PhD vacancy TURBO-IMPACT (DC9) "High precision and crack free fs laser material removal for high performance materials"

KU LEUVEN · Mechanical Engineering

  • Leuven, Belgium
  • Engineering
  • Prof. Sylvie Castagne

KU Leuven seeks a highly motivated PhD candidate for a fully funded international doctoral position within the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Doctoral Networks (MSCA-DN) project TURBO-IMPACT ( TURBOmachinery Innovative Manufacturing, Processing, Analysis, Characterization, and Topology; Website: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101311350 ). The TURBO-IMPACT project, funded by Horizon Europe – MSCA-DN, tackles challenges in designing, optimizing, selecting materials, and manufacturing small-scale turbomachinery for applications in heat pumps, fuel cells, organic Rankine cycles, or gas turbines. This

Fully funded 30 Nov 2026

Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship

University of Warwick · University of Warwick, Warwick

  • Coventry, United Kingdom
  • University of Warwick, Warwick

Contract type: Fixed term contract The School of Law at the University of Warwick welcomes applications from outstanding early career researchers to the 2027 round of the Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship Scheme , to start between 1 September 2027 and 1 May 2028. Early Career Fellowships aim to provide career development opportunities for those who are at a relatively early stage of their academic careers, but who have a proven record of research. The expectation is that Fellows should undertake a significant piece of publishable work (which should not be a reworking or extension of the

Funding not stated 30 Nov 2026

Hepatology Research Fellowship

Institute for Translational Medicine and Liver Disease · UMR_S1110

  • Strasbourg, France
  • Medical sciences

The Institute for Translational Medicine and Liver Disease (ITM), Inserm U1110, University of Strasbourg France, is looking for a medical doctor to join our translational liver disease and cancer program as a physician scientist in a three-year program. The program is focussed to unravel novel strategies to treat hepatobiliary fibrosis (such as MASH and PSC) and liver cancer including hepatocellular and cholangiocarcinoma and is based on key scientific discoveries described in: Mailly et al. Nature Biotech 2015, Hamdane et al. Gastroenterology 2019, Juehling et al. Gut 2021, Crouchet et al. Na

Fully funded 30 Nov 2026

Fellowships

Saarland University · Käte Hamburger Centre for Cultural Practices of Reparation (KHK CURE)

  • Saarbrücken, Germany
  • Käte Hamburger Centre for Cultural Practices of Reparation (KHK CURE)

The Käte Hamburger Centre for Cultural Practices of Reparation (KHK CURE) at Saarland University (UdS) is an institute for advanced study, funded by the German Ministry for Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR) since 2024. Each academic year, a new group of international and interdisciplinary fellows joins the centre to pursue research. For the centre’s fourth year (October 2027 to September 2028), we are pleased to invite applications —pending approval by the BMFTR—for up to twelve fellowships with a duration of six to a maximum of twelve months (beginning in October 2027). THE RESEARCH PROG

Fully funded 30 Nov 2026

Doctoral fellow - Department of Information Technology

Ghent University

  • Ghent, Belgium
  • Technology

Last application date Nov 30, 2026 23:59 Department TW05 - Department of Information Technology Degree Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics Engineering, or a related Master of Science degree Occupancy rate 100% Vacancy type Research staff ABOUT GHENT UNIVERSITY 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 grea

Fully funded 30 Nov 2026

Doctoral Student in Machine Learning for Quantum Error Correction

Chalmers University of Technology

  • Gothenburg, Sweden
  • Physics
  • Christian Häger

Quantum computers promise capabilities far beyond today's computers, but only if we can reliably protect quantum information from errors. Quantum error correction (QEC) is therefore one of the central challenges on the path toward large-scale quantum computing. In this PhD project, you will investigate how machine learning can enable faster, more scalable QEC decoding . The goal is to develop new learning-based methods that combine strong decoding performance with the very low latency and hardware constraints required in practical quantum systems. The position is part of QuBriC , the first Eur

Funding not stated 30 Nov 2026

Doctoral Position in Evolutionary Genomics (Experimental/Computational)

Heidelberg University · Center for Molecular Biology

  • Heidelberg, Germany
  • Biological sciences

A PhD position (3 years, with possible extension) is available immediately in the evolutionary genomics group of Henrik Kaessmann at Heidelberg University. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until the position is filled. We are seeking a highly qualified, motivated, and enthusiastic candidate with a keen interest in evolutionary questions and a passion and aptitude for experimental molecular/genomics work, computational/bioinformatics analyses, or both. Projects in our lab usually combine experimental and computational components, with the relative emphasis tailored to the specif

Funding not stated 30 Nov 2026

Doctoral Position in Evolutionary Genomics (Experimental/Computational)

Heidelberg University, ZMBH

  • Heidelberg, Germany
  • Biological sciences

A PhD position (3 years, with possible extension) is available immediately in the evolutionary genomics group of Henrik Kaessmann at Heidelberg University. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until the position is filled. We are seeking a highly qualified, motivated, and enthusiastic candidate with a keen interest in evolutionary questions and a passion and aptitude for experimental molecular/genomics work, computational/bioinformatics analyses, or both. Projects in our lab usually combine experimental and computational components, with the relative emphasis tailored to the specif

Funding not stated 30 Nov 2026

Tenure-Track Associate Professors(Department of Frontier Research), National Institute of Genetics

National Institute of Genetics

  • Shizuoka, Japan
  • Medical sciences Environmental science Chemistry Biological sciences Ethics in health sciences Pharmacological sciences

[Background of the recruitment and description of the project] * Background of the recruitment and description of the project The National Institute of Genetics (NIG) invites applications for approximately three tenure-track Associate Professor positions in the Department of Frontier Research (DFR). We seek outstanding early-career researchers who are strongly motivated to open up new fields in the life sciences through their own original ideas. [Work content and job description] Successful candidates will establish and lead independent laboratories at NIG, taking advantage of the Institute's

Funding not stated 30 Nov 2026

Kanazawa Medical University Call for Applications: Full-time English Faculty Position(Associate Professor or Senior Assistant Professor)

Kanazawa Medical University

  • Ishikawa, Japan
  • Ethics in physical sciences Anthropology Arts Management sciences Geography Language sciences Literature Psychological s

[Background of the recruitment and description of the project] * Background of the recruitment and description of the project We are now accepting applications for a faculty position (associate professor or senior assistant professor) in the Division of General Education (English). [Work content and job description] Major duties: Teaching English to medical and nursing students, primarily through English; conducting research; contributing to university service, including entrance-exam duties; advising students; and supporting international exchange activities, including proofreading academic a

Fully funded 30 Nov 2026

Project Staff Member (PraeDoc) – Research, mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Department of Musicology and Performance Studies

mdw - University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna · Department of Musicology and Performance Studies

  • Vienna, Austria
  • Arts » Other

The FWF-funded research project Max Kalbeck: Networking Practices in Vienna 1900 (Project lead: Henrike Rost) investigates how artists and music-loving elites networked in Vienna around 1900. The project takes as its starting point the two unpublished diaries of the music critic and Brahms biographer Max Kalbeck and the numerous contacts and encounters documented therein ( https://www.mdw.ac.at/imi/max-kalbeck/ ). In cooperation with the ACDH (Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities), a digital edition of Kalbeck’s diaries is being created, which will be linked to the ACDH database “PMB – Perso

Funding not stated 30 Nov 2026

Faculty Position in Energy Systems

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, EPFL

  • 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
  • Engineering » Mechanical engineering Physics

Faculty Position in Energy Systems ' Working at EPFL ' EPFL Faculty Position in Energy Systems The School of Engineering at EPFL and its Institute of Mechanical Engineering invite applications for a faculty position in Energy Systems . The appointment will be at the Tenure Track level, with an expected start date in Fall 2027 (or a mutually agreed upon date). The main work location is EPFL's Sion campus. We seek exceptional candidates with expertise in energy systems. The successful candidate will contribute to our mission of developing rigorous and systematic methods for the design, realizati

Fully funded 30 Nov 2026

Assistant Clinical Investigator

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH

  • Bethesda, Maryland, United States
  • DIR Director Dr.

Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Assistant Clinical Investigators Transition Program in Clinical Research The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), one of the largest institutes of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and part of the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), conducts and supports a global program of research to better understand, treat, and ultimately prevent infectious, immunologic, and allergic diseases. The NIAID Transition Program in Clinical Researc

Self funded 30 Nov 2026

PhD Studentship: Nonlinear waves on liquid cylinders

University of East Anglia · EMP

  • Norwich, United Kingdom
  • EMP
  • Prof. Mark Blyth

Primary Supervisor: Prof. Mark Blyth Inviscid liquid jets subject to surface tension and in the absence of gravity are known to be unstable under long-wave perturbations, a phenomenon described by the classical Rayleigh–Plateau instability. However, when vorticity and swirl are included, Erhard et al. (2022) have theoretically demonstrated the existence of nonlinear travelling-wave solutions on such jets — although their detailed properties remain unexplored. In this project, we will develop new computational methods to compute and characterize these novel wave solutions, with particular empha

Self funded 30 Nov 2026

PhD Studentship: Design Optimisation of Brushless Doubly Fed Machines

University of East Anglia · EMP

  • Norwich, United Kingdom
  • EMP

Brushless Doubly Fed Machines (BDFMs) are emerging as a promising technology for offshore wind turbine generators due to their fractional-sized power converters, elimination of rotor brushes and slip rings, and simplified gearbox systems compared to high-speed generators. These features offer significant advantages, including lower capital and operational costs, increased reliability, and reduced maintenance demands which are key for the broader adoption of offshore wind energy. However, several challenges must be addressed, such as the machine's relatively low power density and power factor,

Self funded 30 Nov 2026

PhD Studentship: AI-Driven fault diagnosis for wind turbine generators

University of East Anglia · EMP

  • Norwich, United Kingdom
  • EMP
  • Dr Abdi Jalebi Salman

Primary supervisor - Dr Abdi Jalebi Salman Reliability is critical to the continued expansion of wind power, particularly for offshore installations, which already contribute around 10-15% of the UK’s electricity and are central to achieving net-zero targets and ensuring the resilience of national grid infrastructure. Preventive maintenance enabled by condition monitoring systems (CMSs) plays a key role in improving turbine reliability and availability while reducing operational costs and the levelised cost of energy. However, the drivetrain, comprising the gearbox, generator, and power electr

Self funded 30 Nov 2026

PhD Studentship: Formalising the Local Langlands Correspondence for GL₂(F) in Lean

University of East Anglia

  • Norwich, United Kingdom
  • Dr. Christopher Birkbeck

Primary Supervisor: Dr. Christopher Birkbeck This PhD project, based at our Norwich campus, offers a unique opportunity to work at the confluence of number theory, representation theory, and formal mathematics. You will undertake a single, ambitious research project: to begin the formalisation of the local Langlands correspondence for GL₂(F) in the Lean interactive theorem prover by leveraging AI agents. This correspondence is a cornerstone of the modern Langlands program, providing a deep and unforeseen bridge between harmonic analysis and number theory. The primary goal of this project is to

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