Job description

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.

For the Dynamics Design team within the Energy&Systems we are looking for a m/f/x

YOUR JOB

• You prepare a doctoral thesis and spend at least 90% of your assignment on academic research.
• You work with other researchers in a Strategic Research Project PICASSO, to ensure that controllers for machines that incorporate coupled interaction between air and a moving and/or deforming structure can be both efficiently designed and realized. To realize this, adaptive controllers, reduced order models, machine learning and image processing will be used.
• You work with the colleagues in team Dynamics Design and support common activities in the team.
• You perform high-quality research and present your work to stakeholders of the PICASSO project and present at international conferences and in journals.
• You develop controllers that are adaptive in real-time despite the uncertainties to which the machines within PICASSO are subject to.
• You assist in teaching activities at the Bachelor’s and Master’s level in the field of system dynamics and control.
• You counsel Bachelor and Master students in their exercises, internships and Master’s dissertation in the field of system dynamics and control.

Job profile

• You preferably hold a Master’s degree in Electromechanical Engineering, Fluid Mechanics, Computational Engineering, Control, or an equivalent degree. The degree requirements need to be fulfilled at the start of your appointment.
• You are interested in scientific and/or project based research and services.
• You are interested in coaching students in the Bachelor’s, Master’s and/or Advanced Master’s programmes.
• You have good didactive and communicative skills.
• You preferably have already conducted research in the field of control engineering, system modelling, design of optimal and/or adaptive controllers, machine learning.

WHAT WE CAN OFFER YOU

• We offer a full-time position as a doctoral fellow, consisting of an initial period of 12 months, which - after a positive evaluation, will be extended to a total maximum of 48 months.
• Your contract will start on 01/09/2025 at the earliest.
• The fellowship amount is 100% of the net salary of an AAP member in equal family circumstances. The individual fellowship amount is determined by the Department of Personnel and Organization based on family status and seniority. A grant that meets the conditions and criteria of the regulations for doctoral fellowships is considered free of personal income tax. Click here for more information about our salary scales
• All Ghent University staff members enjoy a number of benefits, such as a wide range of training and education opportunities, 36 days of holiday leave (on an annual basis for a full-time job) supplemented by annual fixed bridge days, bicycle allowance and eco vouchers. Click here for a complete overview of all the staff benefits.

How to apply

Send your CV, copy of your diploma (if already in your possession) and a motivation letter to Katrien.verstraete@ugent.be .

We do not accept late applications.

For more information about this vacancy, please contact Prof. Guillaume Crevecoeur (Guillaume.Crevecoeur@ugent.be, +32 9 264 34 21)