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Fully funded 13 Nov 2026

Research Assistant, Department of Interactive Media

HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY

  • Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
  • Educational sciences Communication sciences

Job Description SCHOOL OF COMMUNICATION DEPARTMENT OF INTERACTIVE MEDIA Research Assistant (Full-Time) (26270150) Responsibilities: The appointee will assist with: • Organising and conducting research studies involving virtual reality, immersive technologies, accessibility, and interactive media; • Supporting co-design workshops, interviews, focus groups, and user studies; • Assisting with participant recruitment and communication with community organisations and stakeholders; • Supporting collaborations with blind and low-vision communities and accessibility organisations in Hong Kong; • Coll

Fully funded 13 Nov 2026

PhD positions in Human-Centred Artificial Intelligence - HCC

Aalborg Universitet · The Technical Faculty of IT and Design, Department of Computer Science

  • Aalborg, Denmark
  • Computer science

PhD positions in Human-Centred Artificial Intelligence The Department of Computer Science at Aalborg University invites applications for two fully funded PhD positions working with Professor Niels van Berkel. The earliest starting date for this position is 1st of January 2027. The project: Safeguarding Users’ Cognitive Autonomy in Human-AI Interaction Cognitive autonomy, our fundamental ability to think independently, is under threat from growing reliance on artificial intelligence (AI) technology. While designed to assist, AI recommendations may inadvertently impede cognitive reasoning and st

Fully funded 13 Nov 2026

4 Collegium Fellow positions (TIAS)

University of Turku

  • Turku, Finland
  • Sociology

Turku Institute for Advanced Studies (TIAS) invites applications for four (4) Collegium Fellow (Collegium Researcher) positions for a three-year period starting from 1 September 2027. TIAS Fellows are selected via an international call for applications and TIAS welcomes applications from projects based in any discipline within its five constituent faculties (Economics, Education, Humanities, Law and Social Sciences). Selection of successful applicants will be on the basis of academic excellence. Job description The main task of TIAS Fellows is to carry out an internationally excellent research

Funding not stated 13 Nov 2026

Part-time Instructors of Core Curriculum English Classes

Takasaki City University of Economics

  • Gunma, Japan
  • Language sciences Anthropology Religious sciences Philosophy Geography Political sciences Arts Sociology Ethics in natur

[Background of the recruitment and description of the project] * Background of the recruitment and description of the project Recruitment of English Language instructors/lecturers. We are looking for highly motivated and enthusiastic teachers who are amenable to our university's educational policy. [Work content and job description] Required English classes for 1st & 2nd year (General English, Business English, etc.) In principle, 2 or 3 classes per day or 2 classes per day over 2 days (a total of 4 classes) throughout the year. The number of teaching days (1 or 2) per week is negotiable. * As

Funding not stated 13 Nov 2026

Open position for a professor ( Laboratory of Forest Chemistry)

Nagoya University

  • Aichi, Japan
  • All Other

[Background of the recruitment and description of the project] * Background of the recruitment and description of the project The Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, has positioned “Bioagricultural Sciences” as a comprehensive academic field that aims to expand the foundations of life science, to make advanced use of biological functions and resources, to create and preserve a symbiotic environment for life, and to develop human society in harmony with the environment through sustainable biological production and technological development of advanced life sciences.

Funding not stated 14 Nov 2026

PhD in Spatiotemporal Integrated Metamaterials

Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e)

  • Eindhoven, Netherlands

Are you fascinated by nonreciprocal photonics? Design dynamically modulated, on-chip metamaterials for nonreciprocal light control, with secondments at INESC MN and PICadvanced, Portugal. Information We are looking for a highly motivated PhD candidate with a background in photonics, optics, or nanofabrication to contribute to SPARK Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral network. The candidate will develop chip-scale metamat

Fully funded 14 Nov 2026

PhD in Entanglement Routing in Quantum Optical Fiber Networks

Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e)

  • Eindhoven, Netherlands

Are you passionate about building an entanglement-based routing in quantum optical networks? Join us to develop an innovative entanglement-based routing architecture and protocol, and set up an experimental testbed to route entangled photons in the presence of classical telecom traffic in multi-node quantum optical fiber networks. Information Efficient distribution and routing of entanglement are indispensable for qu

Funding not stated 14 Nov 2026

PhD in Dynamic Metasurfaces for Spacetime-Engineered Light

Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e)

  • Eindhoven, Netherlands

Are you fascinated by the idea of steering light through time as well as space? Develop metasurfaces for synthetic crystal rotation and nonreciprocal light-matter interactions, with secondments at UPNA, Spain and UltraFast Innovations GmbH, Germany. Information We are looking for a highly motivated PhD candidate with a background in photonics, optics, or applied physics to contribute to SPARK Marie Skłodowska-Curie D

Funding not stated 14 Nov 2026

PhD Position: Translational Immunomics in Hematological Neoplasms Group

FUNDACIÓN PARA LA INVESTIGACIÓN MÉDICA APLICADA · Administration

  • Number of offers: 1, Spain

The Translational Immunomics in Hematological Neoplasms Group, led by Dr. Bruno Paiva at CIMA Universidad de Navarra (Pamplona, Spain), is looking for a highly motivated PhD student to join our team. https://cima.cun.es/en/research/research-programs/research-programs-hem… ...

Self funded 14 Nov 2026

Phd Studentship, Analytics, Environmental & Forensics

KINGS COLLEGE LONDON

  • London (Greater) (GB), United Kingdom
  • Biological sciences Chemistry
  • Dr Vincenzo Abbate

Revolutionising Infection Diagnosis Through Targeted Radiometal Imaging Background of the Project: People with conditions like heart disease, diabetes, cancer, organ transplants, or immunodeficiencies face higher risks of infection, complications, and death. Prompt and accurate diagnosis is vital to improve outcomes in these vulnerable groups. However, clinical diagnosis of microbial infections is often challenging, and noninvasive methods tend to perform poorly. Existing lab techniques typically require invasive sample collection, followed by time-consuming culture and antibiotic resistance t

Funding not stated 14 Nov 2026

PhD in Spatiotemporal Integrated Metamaterials

Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e)

  • Eindhoven, Netherlands
  • Engineering
  • Prof. M. Piccardo

Are you fascinated by nonreciprocal photonics? Design dynamically modulated, on-chip metamaterials for nonreciprocal light control, with secondments at INESC MN and PICadvanced, Portugal. Information We are looking for a highly motivated PhD candidate with a background in photonics, optics, or nanofabrication to contribute to SPARK Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral network. The candidate will develop chip-scale metamaterials with time-varying modulation for nonreciprocal photonic devices. The project involves theoretical and numerical design of dynamically modulated structures, on-chip fabricati

Funding not stated 14 Nov 2026

PhD in Dynamic Metasurfaces for Spacetime-Engineered Light

Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e)

  • Eindhoven, Netherlands
  • Engineering
  • Prof. I. Liberal

Are you fascinated by the idea of steering light through time as well as space? Develop metasurfaces for synthetic crystal rotation and nonreciprocal light-matter interactions, with secondments at UPNA, Spain and UltraFast Innovations GmbH, Germany. Information We are looking for a highly motivated PhD candidate with a background in photonics, optics, or applied physics to contribute to SPARK Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral network. The candidate will develop metasurfaces supporting synthetic crystal rotation through ultrafast spatiotemporal modulation. The project involves theoretical modelli

Funding not stated 14 Nov 2026

Ph.D. position on porting reactive multiphysics CFD simulations to GPUs for exascale high-performance computing

INSA Rouen Normandie

  • Saint Etienne du Rouvray, France
  • Physics

General Information Laboratory: CORIA (CNRS – INSA Rouen Normandie – University of Rouen Normandie) Employer: INSA Rouen Normandie Project: CoEC4ET – Center of Excellence in Combustion for the Energy Transition Duration: 36 months Start Date: Early 2027 Advisors: Vincent Moureau, Kévin Bioche Keywords: Reactive flows, GPU, Exascale, HPC, YALES2, OpenMP Description of the Thesis Topic Context: This thesis is part of the European CoEC4ET project, a European center of excellence aimed at developing exascale simulation technologies for combustion and contributing to the energy transition. It focus

Fully funded 14 Nov 2026

PUBLIC NOTICE for 2 junior PhD research positions at INESC MN - Portugal (Reference: Project MSCA DN SPARK)

INESC MN

  • Lisbon, Portugal
  • Engineering
  • Prof. Marco Piccardo

PUBLIC NOTICE for 2 junior PhD research positions at INESC MN - Portugal (Reference: Project MSCA DN SPARK) INESC MN ( www.inesc-mn.pt ) is opening two (2) PhD research positions (uncertain term employment contracts) within the scope of the project SPARK ( https://spark-doctoral.eu/ ), funded by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Network. INESC Microsistemas e Nanotecnologias (INESC MN) is a private, non-profit Research and Development Institute whose mission is leading edge research and development in strategic technological areas of micro- and nanotechnologies and the application of these t

Fully funded 14 Nov 2026

FPI PhD contract in the field of EvoDevo, Genomics and Bioinformatics

Biodiversity Research Institut-University of Barcelona (IRBio-UB)

  • Barcelona, Spain
  • Biological sciences

Cristian Cañestro's lab offers a fully funded 4-year FPI PhD contract associated with our newly granted project PID2025-170547NB-I00, “Gene loss impact: evolution of cardioparaxial-neuromesodermal development and genome scrambling in Oikopleura dioica as a case study” ( OikoLoss ). The PhD will be carried out within the Genetics Doctoral Programme at the University of Barcelona, in the Section of Genetics and the Biodiversity Research Institute (IRBio). THE CANDIDATES: We welcome candidates interested in evolutionary developmental biology, genomics, bioinformatics and evolutionary and populati

Fully funded 14 Nov 2026

PhD Position in Computational Mass Spectrometry Imaging and Spatial Metabolomics

Aarhus University (AU)

  • Roskilde (By), Region Sjælland, Denmark

PhD Position in Computational Mass Spectrometry Imaging and Spatial Metabolomics Applications are invited for a PhD fellowship/scholarship at the Graduate School of Technical Sciences, Aarhus University, Roskilde Campus, Denmark, within the Environmental Science and Toxicology department. The position is available from February 2027 or as soon as possible thereafter. Title PhD Position in Computational Mass Spectrometry Imaging and Spatial Metabolomics Research area and project description Spatial metabolomics enables the study of biochemical processes and human–environment interactions at mic

Fully funded 14 Nov 2026

Fully funded PhD positions in nanoscience

Max-Planck-Institut für Mikrostrukturphysik

  • Halle (Saale), Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany

The International Max Planck Research School for Science and Technology of Nano-Systems (IMPRS-STNS) invites outstanding Master’s graduates to apply for fully funded PhD positions at the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics and the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg — two institutions on one campus. Fully funded PhD positions in nanoscience Our IMPRS brings together world-leading expertise in physics, materials science, and chemistry to pioneer the design and understanding of atomically engineered materials for next-generation nano-systems. We design materials at the scale of

Funding not stated 15 Nov 2026

THREE Predoctoral Contracts IAC FPI 2026 PS-2026-083

INSTITUTO DE ASTROFISICA DE CANARIAS (IAC) RESEARCH DIVISION

  • La Laguna, Spain
  • Astronomy » Astrophysics

The IAC (Tenerife, Spain) invites applications for THREE PhD fellowship in Astrophysics within the framework of the following projects: • PARTICIPATION OF IAC IN THE AMS EXPERIMENT (PIID2025-168939NB-C22) PIs. Mónica Vázquez Acosta / Josefa Becerra González. • LOCAL WINDOWS INTO THE MOST EXTREME PHASES OF BLACK HOLE GROWTH (PID2025-I176305nb-i00) PI. Cristina Ramos Almeida. * MULTIMODAL SURVEY ASTROPHYSICS WI

Funding not stated 15 Nov 2026

Pre-doctoral Researcher in Quantum computing joining density-functional theory (SIESTA) with Quantum solvers (QISKIT)

CIC nanoGUNE · Theory

  • Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain
  • All

The aim of the project is to contribute to the method development for the calculations invoking SIESTA and IBM's QISKIT for the use of quantum computing to solve on the correlated electrons described in an active space while embedded in a larger system described with density-functional theory. It involves setting up embedding techniques and coding them in a framework in which SIESTA is called for the non-correlated p

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