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Leuven: the place to go to for ambitious phd candidates.

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We bring out the genius in you!

You want to do a PhD in a stimulating and inspiring research environment and simultaneously acquire the professional skills you will need to further develop your career.

There are two ways to proceed: Either you like to find out which options are available at KU Leuven or you have a research topic in mind and want to find the right contact person.

Together with your future supervisor you can request permission to enrol as a PhD researcher. You must meet the following requirements: •    Either you  hold a Flemish Master’s degree relevant to the doctoral research or an equivalent higher education degree from abroad and  obtained at least a distinction or have distinguished yourself with high-quality scientific publications or design-oriented achievements, •    Or you have passed the predoctoral exam with the degree of distinction. •    You also sufficiently master the language of the discipline in order to be able to participate actively in the research.  

Find an open position

The easiest way to start a PhD application is to find a vacant PhD position and apply online. In principle, the PhD positions on the KU Leuven jobsite already have financing available (via the supervisor). Please read through the details of the position very carefully and make sure you meet all eligibility criteria! 

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Find a Supervisor & Propose your own idea

If you did not find a vacant PhD position of your interest, you may directly contact a potential supervisor to discuss opportunities for PhD research in his/her research lab. Good starting points are:

• Key research areas at KU Leuven
• KU Leuven Organisational Chart
• Doctoral Defences

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Doctoral Schools

KU Leuven is organised in three main research domains: Humanities & Social Sciences; Biomedical Sciences; Science, Engineering and Technology.

Your choice of research topic defines the school you will be associated with.

Arenberg Doctoral School

Enabling young researchers to acquire scientific & technological knowledge within all fields of Science, Engineering & Technology, ranging from curiosity-driven fundamental research to applied technological solutions, and social & industrial problems.

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Doctoral School of Biomedical Sciences

Supporting biomedical researchers in their exploration of the fundamental elements of living systems at all levels – from gene to cell, body and mind – and to translate that knowledge into improved healthcare.

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Doctoral School for Humanities & Social Sciences

Investing in young scholars to achieve an open, inquisitive, and critical worldview, and encouraging them to play a meaningful role in society, both within and outside the academic world.

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Joint PhD programmes open up possibilities for doctoral researchers to jointly supervised degrees that enhance employability in an international context. Research experience at two different universities guaranteed!

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PhD at NUMA

Relevant links.

• Overview document  of research interests for each promotor at NUMA
• PhD information session & materials  of the Arenberg Doctoral School (ADS)

NUMA in a nutshell

The NUMA section (Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics) aims at the development, analysis and implementation of numerical algorithms and software with an eye for computational efficiency to solve challenging problems in science and engineering. The advances in both computer hardware ( Moore's law ) and numerical algorithms ( Amdahl's law ) enables (1) to complement the long-standing two pillars of science (theory and experiment) with numerical simulation as recent third pillar of science, and (2) to provide feasible solutions to combinatorial optimization problems which were previously too complex to be computed in acceptable time. However, a big gap still remains between the capabilities of current software and the requirements of the user. Additionally, many combinatorial and numerical problems remain computationally challenging.

In NUMA, the research focus lies on fundamental algorithmic innovations and a detailed analysis of their accuracy and efficiency. This is enabled through a combination of mathematical insight, algorithm design and software development. Close interactions with domain experts that use or develop computational algorithms for specific applications allow the section to:

• identify computational bottlenecks in computational science and engineering that should be addressed at a more generic level,
• identify challenging combinatorial optimization problems in logistics and developing applicable models for vehicle routing, scheduling, timetabling, cutting and packing, among other domains,
• transfer algorithmic ideas between different application areas. Where possible and desirable, NUMA aims at producing software that makes the research results useful for the academic and industrial communities.

Research areas of interest

NUMA focuses its activities around emerging topics such as multiscale simulation, uncertainty quantification, tensor computations, design and topology optimization, robust optimization, data analytics, highly oscillatory problems, parameter estimation, control and optimization of hyperconnected systems, digital twins, computational material science, dynamic combinatorial optimization, integer programming, decomposition methods, heuristics and matheuristics. NUMA also aims to strengthen its leadership in traditional topics including (high dimensional) numerical integration, approximation theory, (partial) differential equations, numerical linear algebra, High Performance Computing, modelling and heuristic development, that are ubiquitous in science and engineering.

Interested in doing a PhD at NUMA?

When you are interested in a research topic , please talk to a promoter and we can look for the appropriate and available funding schemes.

Many projects are funded by research grants. We encourage PhD researchers to apply for their own funding with FWO (Research Foundation Flanders). Please talk to promoters about these possibilities.

Some companies are open to Baekeland mandates, which are PhD positions together with an industrial partner and academic support from NUMA, co-funded by the company and VLAIO (Flanders Agency for Innovation & Entrepreneurship). Please talk to Ward Melis or Karl Meerbergen about possibilities.

The NUMA section can also fund a small number of positions by itself, in case of lack of funding for a specific project.

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PhD at KU Leuven

KU Leuven in Belgium  has several PhD positions  in areas of pure mathematics open for application. The deadline is the 8th February 2022. The starting date of the positions is flexible, but preferably before 1 October 2022.

Doctoral training

What is the doctoral training programme at ads.

The doctoral training programme is mandatory and must be succesfully completed before you can enter the final phase of the PhD.

It consists of the following elements:

• be main author of at least one accepted international peer-reviewed publication or a similar achievement at an international level;
• give at least two seminars , either about your own research, or on a more general theme. Both seminars must be open to the wider KU Leuven research community and must be announced on the ADS website .​​  At least one of the seminars must take place at KU Leuven. The reason is that giving a seminar is an important opportunity for you to integrate in your KU Leuven research group and to interact with other KU Leuven researchers. Cf this FAQ .
• give at least one oral or poster presentation at an international conference ; Within ADS the following criteria apply to define if a conference is 'international': The conference is aimed at an international research audience abroad; it has international speakers.
• follow the seminar on scientific integrity
• contribute substantially to education at the Bachelor or Master' level (can be master thesis supervision, giving exercise or practical sessions, participate in teaching, science communication and other education related activities approved by the doctoral committee);
• (in Science, Engineering Science and Engineering Technology: follow the Teacher assistant training )
• r eport on the progress of your PhD every year (according to the milestones in your KULoket);
• follow an equivalent of at least 6 ECTS credits of formal training , of which at least 2 ECTS are dedicated to transferable skills (Cf. the rest of this webpage);

Where do I find the training offer?

• Thematic training & events calendar
• Skills training calendar
• The  KU Leuven training offer  in KU Loket: login in to KU Loket with your u-number, go to the tab 'Personnel', then select 'Courses and registration' under the header 'Staff training'. Need-to-know-information about this tool is available  here .
• Skills training brochure   (contact us to receive a hard copy)
• My KU Leuven page training for researchers
• HR department course overview 
• In the ADS news letter , so keep an eye on your mailbox
• Interuniversity course offer : The doctoral schools of KU Leuven partner with the other Flemish universities which results in an interuniversity course offer open for young researchers of the five partner universities.
• If you find a useful generic skills course elsewhere (even outside of KU Leuven), and your supervisor agrees that it is useful, you can fill in the course in your blueprint for approval (new system). Once you have followed the course, you need to fill in the course in your doctoral training diary (old and new system).

Certificate

• The organizers of most skills courses will send you a certificate or attestation.
• No certificate? Ask the instructor of a thematic training course to fill in this  thematic training certificate
• No certificate? Ask the  instructor of a generic skills course to fill in this  skills training certificate

Why do I need doctoral training?

Doing a PhD is more than doing research, it also includes an important training component. In fact,  as Gandula Bosch states in Nature : "We believe that researchers who are educated more broadly will do science more thoughtfully, with the result that other scientists, and society at large, will be able to rely on this work for a better, more rational world."

Additional requirements

All starting PhD researchers need to follow the  seminar on scientific integrity  (Does not count for the 6 ECTS)

At the Faculty of Architecture every full-time PhD researcher has the right and obligation to participate in teaching activities. Being involved in teaching is an important aspect of the doctoral training program and the career development of PhD researchers. In the motivation in the Blueprint, PhD researchers in Architecture need to include a brief indication of their teaching capacities (design and/or culture and/or construction techniques) in the relevant teaching programme (architecture and/or interior architecture and/or urban planning). Check your eligibility ​​​​​​.

PhD researchers in the  Faculty of Engineering Technology  who started after 30 September 2017 need to follow specific course components related to  the exploitation opportunities  of your research. Be sure to include this in your doctoral training programme.

Safety in the lab and Radiation protection are required if you work in a lab or work with ionizing radiation. They do not count for the 6 ECTS.

What is the blueprint?

The blueprint is an overview of the formal training you would like to follow during your PhD.

Within 3 months of the start of your PhD, discuss with your supervisor which courses you would like to take and submit a blueprint of your doctoral training programme via the milestone in KULoket. Only submit your blueprint when it is complete i.e. 6 ECTS with a minimum of 2 ECTS skills. You can modify this blueprint at any time during the course of your PhD.

What is the doctoral diary?

The doctoral training diary is an overview of the formal training (and other elements in the doctoral training programme) which you have followed throughout your PhD.

At the end of your doctoral training programme, list the courses you have followed in your doctoral training diary via the milestone in KULoket (and include certificates for each of them). Only submit your diary when you have fulfilled all the requirements.

What about ISP?

ISP is the abbreviation of "Individual Study Programme". Login to KU Loket with your student number to open your ISP. The ISP is only open at the start of each semester.

PhD researchers in the Faculty of Science

• PhD researchers in the Faculty of Science are required to register KU Leuven courses in ISP.
• You can only register courses in the KU Leuven educational offer in ISP
• If you plan to take a KU Leuven course this semester you need to register this course in ISP: deadline to register a course in ISP for the first semester is Wednesday 9 October. ISP will re-open in the beginning of the second semester, so you can register courses you want to take in the second semester.
• IMPORTANT: If you plan to defend your PhD this academic year, do NOT register any courses in your ISP.
• If you follow a predoctoral programme or if you are required to take up additional course work during your PhD, simply email to the faculty administration which courses you will follow and the faculty administration will register the courses in ISP for you.
• Take into account that you still need to submit your blueprint and doctoral training diary via the PhD progress milestones.

All other PhD researchers

• PhD researchers in the other faculties are not required to register PhD courses in ISP, so please leave your ISP in its initial status.
• Except if you want to follow courses from the study programme of the Faculty of Science, then   you are required to register them in ISP.
• However, you need to contact the instructor of the course to let him/her know that you will be following the course, receive access to course materials in Toledo and take the exam.
• In any case, please do not register courses in your ISP in the year of your defence or if you are a predoctoral student, because it may cause technical problems.
• If you want to take a course offered by a Faculty in the group op Humanities and Social Sciences or the group op Biomedical Science s: please contact that Faculty directly to know if you need to register the course in ISP or not.

No ECTS mentioned?

The courses not always have a fixed number of ECTS credits attached. In this case, please count the number of hours you have spent in the class, at home preparing, etc. and convert the total number of hours to ECTS equivalent.

A total number of 25-30 hours equals 1 ECTS credit (or: 1 full day of 8 hours equals 1/3 ECTS credit).

In this case, be sure to include information about the course (incl. detailed programme of the course) when you submit your doctoral training diary via the milestone in KULoket PhD Progress.

Note: we use ECTS as a  measure  to count the formal courses. You do not obtain  official  ECTS credits.

Do I need to take the exam of a course?

In fact, when you follow a course which has an evaluation, of course we expect you to pass the exam, because this is part of the course. We hope that when you follow a course, it is more than non-committal presence, otherwise it would not be very professional or respectful towards the teacher of the course.

If you want to take a course into account for your doctoral training programme, but there is really only a part of the course that is relevant to your PhD and you only want to follow that part and not take the exam, please discuss this with your supervisor and with the instructor of the course first. You will also need approval from the Faculty Doctoral Committee.

If all agree, you will only be able to have the course count for a PART of the credit equivalent. Namely, you can only count the hours that you spent in the lectures (taking into account 25-30 hours equals 1 ECTS credit).

NB1: If the Faculty Doctoral Committee upon your admission decided that you need to follow additional course work, you are required to follow the complete course and take the evaluation.

NB2: PhD researchers in the Faculty of Engineering Technology are always expected to take the exam!

How do I know if a course will be accepted?

• Discuss your formal training with your supervisor . In most cases, the Faculty Doctoral Committee will approve your training if your supervisor agreed. If you really are in doubt, contact the Faculty Doctoral Committee .
• Your blueprint is merely an indication that you have thought about which formal training you would like to follow throughout your PhD. Be aware that approval of your blueprint does not mean that your doctoral training programme will be automatically approved. The Faculty Doctoral Committee will assess your doctoral training based on your diary. The Faculty Doctoral Committee has the final word.
• Some courses area separate milestone and will therefore not be counted within the 6 ECTS equivalent: the Seminar on scientific integrity; and the Teacher assistant training (required in the Faculty of Engineering Science and the Faculty of Science).
• Make sure to include certificates of the courses you followed. If the course does not have its own certifcate, please ask the instructor to fill in a certificate for a  thematic training course  or a certificate for a  skills and competencies course .

Can I follow courses or a programme in combination with my PhD?

You will need to request a permission to follow an educational proramme or courses in combination with your PhD. If you intend to follow 12 ECTS per academic year, it will probably be approved. If you want to follow more, it will depend on your situation (is your PhD financed? Are you close to your PhD defence?).

How do I request this permission?

• Doctoral defence Giovana Peluso Lopes
• https://www.law.kuleuven.be/home/algemeen/agenda-2024-2025/doctoral-defence-giovana-peluso-lopes
• 2024-10-03T09:00:00+02:00
• 2024-10-03T11:00:00+02:00

03-10-2024 van 09:00 tot 11:00 (Europe/Brussels / UTC200)

University of Bologna, the Kelsen Room (Via Galliera 3)

On Thursday 3 October at 9 a.m., Giovana Peluso Lopes will be defending her doctoral thesis at the KU Leuven Faculty of Law and Criminology and the Faculty of Law at the University of Bologna, with a view to obtaining the degree of doctor in law.

The public defence will take place on 3 oktober 2023 at 09 am at the University of Bologna, in the Kelsen Room (Via Galliera 3).

The title of the doctoral thesis is: ENHANCING DECISIONS IN THE COURTROOM: EXPLORING A DUTY TO ENHANCE JUDICIAL COGNITION

Members of the examination committee: Prof. dr. Anton Vedder (KU Leuven, supervisor), Prof. dr. Corrado Roversi (University of Bologna, supervisor), Prof. dr. Stefaan Callens (KU Leuven), Prof. dr. Jan de Bruyne (KU Leuven), Prof. dr. Patricia Mindus (University of Uppsala), Prof. dr. Antonia Waltermann (University of Maastricht).

Giovana Peluso Lopes is Brazilian and Italian, born in Caxambu, Brazil, on 12 April 1993. She completed her Bachelor's Degree in Law at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF, Brazil), including an academic mobility period at the University of Camerino (Italy). She obtained her Master's Degree in Law from the Federal University of Belo Horizonte (UFMG, Brazil), after defending her dissertation on artificial intelligence, legal personhood, and civil liability. She worked as a legal consultant, providing legal advice on matters related to digital technologies, including artificial intelligence, privacy, and data protection. In 2021, she started a Joint PhD in Law, Science, and Technology at the University of Bologna (Italy) and KU Leuven (Belgium), focused on cognitive enhancement in the judiciary. As part of her joint doctoral degree, she spent two years as an Affiliated Research Fellow at KU Leuven’s Centre for IT & IP Law (CiTiP).

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Admission requirements 2025-2026, admission requirements 2024-2025, definitive version: 30/09/2024, students with a degree obtained at an institution of the flemish community.

On the basis of the following degrees, or similar degrees, obtained at an institution of the Flemish Community:

• Bachelor in de fysica ( Kortrijk , Leuven ) (Minor wiskunde, Optie fysica + Minor wiskunde)
• Bachelor in de wiskunde ( Kortrijk , Leuven )

Bachelor in de wiskunde, met traject naar Twin Bachelor Fysica en Wiskunde (KULAK)

After a preparatory programme

After a preparatory programme (24 to 36 credits): Bachelor in de fysica, andere minor dan minor wiskunde After a preparatory programme (maximum 30 credits): Bachelor in de informatica, minor wiskunde After a preparatory programme (maximum 60 credits): Bachelor in de ingenieurswetenschappen

After an abridged programme

After a shortened bachelor in de wiskunde (maximum 120 credits): Bachelor or Master in de industriële wetenschappen Other academic degrees with a mathematical component

Students with a degree not obtained at an institution of the Flemish Community

Students who did not obtain their previous degree(s) at an institution of the Flemish Community should submit an application via the Admissions Office: https://www.kuleuven.be/english/application/ . You can find a list of core documents, which should be submitted with every application, here: https://www.kuleuven.be/english/application/requesteddocuments .

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The Admissions Board evaluates all applications and has the final say on the admissibility of the student, taking into account the relevant information.

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NUMA research Unit

Welcome to the Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics research unit of KU Leuven.

The Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics research group NUMA of KU Leuven is part of the Computer Science department .

NUMA develops and analyzes numerical algorithms and software for large-scale and complex problems in science and engineering . Our research comprises the whole range from fundamental research (including exploration of novel approximation strategies and numerical analysis) to software implementation and applications in other scientific and engineering domains. Algorithm design for specific applications is always done in collaboration with domain experts.

Our research is clustered around the following themes: numerical linear algebra, scientific computing, uncertainty quantification, numerical simulation, optimization and control, numerical integration and nonlinear equations.

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• Sep 2022: new ZAP members  Fatemeh Mohammadi (Algebraic Geometry) and Florian Feppon (topology optimization)
• Aug 2022 - Raf Vandebril new Head of NUMA
• Jun 2022 -  EU project CAESAR with Dirk Nuyens (statistical analysis for scrap characterization) started
• Aug 2021 - C1 project of Martin Diehl and dept. MTM on glass fiber reinforced polymers accepted (Oct '21 - Sep '25)
• Apr 2021 - EuroHPC project TIME-X on parallel-in-time (PinT) coordinated by Giovanni Samaey and Stefan Vandewalle started

PhD defences

• 02/12/2022 - Philippe Blondeel: " Uncertainty Quantification by means of Multilevel Sampling Methods with Applications in Structural Engineering "
• 22/11/2022 - Xavier Woot de Trixhe: " Physiologically-Structured Population Models for Viral Kinetics "
• 31/08/2022 - Rob Claes:  " Linearization Methods for Eigenvalue Problems with Eigenvector Nonlinearities "
• 27/01/2022 - Emmanouil Thanos: " Integrated Yard Management Optimisation "
• 19/11/2021 - Andreas Van Barel: " Multilevel Monte Carlo Methods for Robust Optimization of Partial Differential Equations "

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Current phd students.

Jens Robben

Jens Robben is a doctoral researcher at the Faculty of Economics and Business at KU Leuven, under the supervision of Katrien Antonio. Jens holds a master's degree in Mathematics and in Actuarial and Financial Engineering. His research focuses on stochastic mortality modeling and individual claims reserving.

Freek Holvoet

Freek Holvoet is a doctoral researcher at the Faculty of Economics and Business at KU Leuven, under the supervision of Katrien Antonio. Freek holds a master's degree in Actuarial and Financial Engineering. His research focuses on the use of machine learning in insurance, interpretational tools for ML, and bridging academic research with in-practice methods in the insurance industry.

Biwen Ling  is a doctoral researcher under the supervision of Prof. Jan Dhaene. Biwen holds a master's degree in Actuarial Science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and a bachelor's degree in Applied Mathematics from Nankai University. She has broad research interests, mainly in the intersection of quantitative finance and insurance and currently, her research topics are employing fair valuation in pricing different types of claims, in a multi-period setting. 

Yves-Cédric Bauwelinckx

Yves-Cédric Bauwelinckx  is a doctoral researcher under the supervision of Jan Dhaene and Tim Verdonck. Yves-Cédric holds a master's degree in both Computer Science and Actuarial and Financial Engineering. His research interests are the use of machine learning models, more specifically generative models and causal machine learning, in the context of finance and insurance.

Churui Li is a doctoral researcher at the Faculty of Economics and Business at KU Leuven, under the supervision of Jan Dhaene and Gertjan Verdickt. He holds a master's degree in Actuarial Science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and a bachelor's degree in Risk Management and Insurance from Shandong University. His research focuses on multivariate dependence modeling, comonotonicity, and herd behavior in the stock market. 

Paul Wilsens

Paul Wilsens is a doctoral researcher at the Faculty of Economics and Business of KU Leuven, jointly working with Katrien Antonio and Gerda Claeskens. Paul has a high school diploma in Latin-Mathematics and holds a master's degree in Business Engineering. He currently works on modelling hierarchical data using machine learning. Paul loves good food and plays soccer.

Rune Buckinx

Rune Buckinx is a doctoral researcher at the Faculty of Economics and Business at KU Leuven, jointly supervised by Katrien Antonio and Gerda Claeskens. Rune holds a master's degree in Mathematics and has completed most of the actuarial study program at KU Leuven. His current research focuses on fairness in machine learning applied to insurance.

Former PhD Students

Saeid Safarveisi

Saeid Safarveisi  is a doctoral researcher at the Faculty of Economics and Business at KU Leuven, under the supervision of Jan Dhaene. Prior to starting his work at the LRISK group, Saeid did a bachelor's and master's degree in applied statistics and mathematical statistics, respectively, in Iran. His broad research interests include M achine L earning (ML), I nsurance- L inked S ecuritization (ILS), Q uantitative F inance (QF), and A ctuarial S cience (AS). His current research projects span across a variety of valuation methodologies used for pricing Index-linked catastrophe loss instruments (e.g., C atastrophe (CAT) B onds and I ndex L oss W arranties (ILWs)).

PhD completion date: TBC                             First placement:

Bavo Campo is a doctoral researcher at the Faculty of Economics and Business at KU Leuven, under the supervision of Katrien Antonio. Before transferring to the field of insurance, he worked as a biostatistician at the University Hospital of Leuven where he mainly focused on the development and validation of clinical prediction models. The main aim of his current research is to investigate whether penalized regression and machine learning methods enable insurance companies to develop better-performing prediction models than those developed by the traditionally used methodologies.                                                                                                                           

PhD completion date: TBC                             First placement:   Data scientist @ Ageas

Eva Verschueren

Eva Verschueren is a former doctoral researcher at the Faculty of Economics and Business of KU Leuven, jointly working with Katrien Antonio, Jan Dhaene, and Wim Schoutens. Eva holds a master's degree in mathematics and has completed most of the actuarial study program at KU Leuven. Her research focuses on quantitative risk management tools for sustainable finance and insurance.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

PhD completion date: Oct. 13, 2023           First placement:   PostDoc @ KU Leuven

Roel Henckaerts

Roel Henckaerts  is a former doctoral researcher at the Faculty of Economics and Business at KU Leuven. He pursued a PhD under the supervision of Katrien Antonio since September 2016. Previously, Roel worked at the capital modeling department of AIG in London and the actuarial department of KBC in Leuven. His main research interest lies in the combination of insurance and data science, for example, telematics and machine learning.

PhD completion date: Oct. 12, 2021          First placement:   Data Scientist @ Prophecy Labs

Sofie Reyners

Sofie Reyners is a former doctoral researcher at the Statistics and Risk Section of KU Leuven under the supervision of Wim Schoutens. Sofie holds a master's degree in mathematics and has completed most of the actuarial study program at KU Leuven. Her research focuses on machine learning applications in quantitative and sustainable finance.                                                                                                                                           

PhD completion date: Sept. 29, 2021        First placement:   Quantitative Analyst @ KBC Asset Management

Sander Devriendt

Sander Devriendt is a former doctoral researcher at the Faculty of Economics and Business at KU Leuven. He worked under the supervision of Katrien Antonio and with the support of the AGEAS CE Chair in Insurance Analytics. His research focuses on actuarial predictive modeling for mortality, insurance pricing, fraud, reserving, and loss modeling.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

PhD completion date: Sept. 14, 2021        First placement: Quantitative Analyst internal models @ National Bank of Belgium

Jonas Crèvecoeur

Jonas Crèvecoeur is a former PhD student in actuarial sciences at the Faculty of Economics and Business of KU Leuven under the supervision of Katrien Antonio. Jonas holds a master's degree in mathematics and has completed most of the actuarial studies program at KU Leuven. During his internship at QBE Re he worked on multiline products and copulas. Today his research focuses on granular reserving in P&C insurance.

PhD completion date: Nov. 13, 2020          First placement: Postdoctoral Researcher @ KU Leuven

Karim Barigou

Karim Barigou is a former PhD graduate (25/09/2019) within the Insurance Research Group at the Faculty of Economics and Business of KU Leuven. His research project was conducted under the supervision of Prof. Jan Dhaene and deals with the dependency between risks, with applications to the fair valuation of insurance liabilities in incomplete markets.                                                                                                                               

PhD completion date: Sept. 25, 2019        First placement: post-doctoral researcher @ ISFA (Institut de Science Financière et Actuarielle) in Lyon, France

Hamza Hanbali

Hamza Hanbali is a former PhD graduate (06/09/2019) under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Jan Dhaene. Previously, he worked as an actuary in the Risk Management department of AXA Belgium. Hamza studied at Université Pierre et Marie Curie, where he carried out his bachelor's degree in Mathematics in January 2013. Then, he did a master in Actuarial Sciences in Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve.

PhD completion date: Sept. 6, 2019            First placement: University Lecturer in Actuarial Science @ Monash University

Ze Chen is a former joint Ph.D. graduate (22/05/2019) at the Faculty of Economics and Business of KU Leuven (promoter: Prof. Dr. Jan Dhaene) and the Finance Department, Tsinghua University (supervisor: Prof. Dr. Bingzheng Chen). He is interested in research situated in quantitative finance and actuarial science, including topics such as portfolio insurance strategies, market-consistent valuation, asset and liability management, and behavior insurance.                                  

PhD completion date: May 22, 2019          First placement:   Associate Professor @ the Department of Insurance, School of Finance, Renmin University of China

Qian Wang is a former joint PhD graduate from the Faculty of Economics and Business at KU Leuven  (supervisor: Jan Dhaene) and the School of Economics and Management at Tsinghua University (supervisor: Gao Feng). Her research interests lie in the areas of microeconomics and actuarial science, including topics such as behavioral insurance, all-pay auctions, and corporate finance.                                                                                                                                            

PhD completion date: May 22, 2019        First placement:   Associate Professor @ the School of Economics, Beijing Technology and Business University  

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• Eindhoven University of Technology (TUe)
• Posted on: 9 September 2024

PhD - AI to combine and model Electromagnetic Noise Footprint (EMNF) in PCB Tracks (DC4)

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Offer description.

At the faculty of Electrical Engineering at Eindhoven University of Technology, a PhD-position is available within the PATTERN project, a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Doctoral Network funded by the EU. The position is open for appointment during the course of 2025, with a duration of 48 months hosted by TU/e, and includes a 2-4 months secondment at KU Leuven (BE) and Idiada (CZ).

We are looking for you!

Do you want to be trained to take up a key position mixing electronics and AI for medical electronic equipment? While being part of a prestigious MSCA doctoral network working on the embedding of existing AI technology into a the design for electromagnetic interference in medical equipment? This is your chance!!

This Doctoral Candidate (DC) first goal will be to unravel a structural understanding of the exchange of parasitic energy a PCB Tracks with its environment using AI tools. The so-called EMNF (ElectroMagnetic Noise Footprint) comprises a set of characteristic curves obtained from stand-alone measurements on a PCB. A second goal will consist in exploring how to combine two or more EMNFs. The work will support an optimization (within the Safe and Sustainable by Design framework) of PCB routing by combining EMNFs.

Research Programme Description

PATTERN – European Doctoral Network Enabling Artificial Intelligence for Electromagnetic Compatibility consortium is funded by the European Union under Grant Agreement No. 101169295 and UKRI. It groups 9 hiring Universities: Eindhoven University of Technology (NL), University of Twente (NL), KU Leuven (BE), Universiteit Gent (BE), Tomáš Baťa University (CZ), Technische Universität Hamburg (DE), CNRS (FR), NOVA University of Lisbon (PT) and De Montfort University (UK). PATTERN will create a long-lasting, multidisciplinary, academic-industrial network for doctoral training, with leading European industry and academia, to achieve a breakthrough in the design of innovative EMI solutions, throughout their lifecycle, with AI acting as the key enabler of a new design philosophy. For this inclusion to occur, each DC will develop through their research the missing dedicated components, tools and techniques, and apply them to a representative set of EMI solutions under development. This hands-on training is supplemented with several scientific professional courses and an immersive training where the DCs can fine-tune their skills for the Jobs of tomorrow, while addressing the societal challenges of the PATTERN program.

About Universities and companies hosting this position

• Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) is a world-leading research university specializing in engineering science & technology. The Department of Electrical Engineering is responsible for research and education in Electrical Engineering. The discipline covers technologies and electrical phenomena involved in computer engineering, information processing, energy transfer, and telecommunication. The department strives for societal relevance through an emphasis on the fields of smart sustainable systems, the connected world and care & cure. The TU/e is the world’s best-performing research university in terms of research cooperation with industry.
• KU Leuven is the largest university in Belgium and a LERU Charter member. In Horizon 2020, KU Leuven currently has more than 330 approved projects, and is in 11th place for European institutions hosting ERC grants, which is a manifestation of the three pillars of KU Leuven: research, education and service to society.
• IDIADA CZ, a.s. is part of the Applus+ corporation, in particular the Spanish company IDIADA, which currently employs more than 2,500 professionals in Spain and its branches in 12 countries in Europe, South America and Asia. They are one of the most experienced and strongest suppliers of comprehensive development solutions in the automotive and engineering industry in the Czech Republic.

Where to apply

Requirements.

We are looking for a candidate who meets the following requirements:

• You are creative and ambitious, hard-working, and persistent.
• You have a MSc degree or you will have it by the end of 2025 in electrical engineering or any other relevant program.
• You have theoretical and applied knowledge or interest in Machine Learning, Data-driven modelling,  and/or electrical engineering (with electromagnetism).
• You have good communicative skills, and the attitude to partake successfully in the work of a research team.
• You have a good command of the English language (Spoken and Written).

Additional Information

The successful candidates will receive an attractive salary in accordance with the MSCA regulations for Doctoral Researchers. The nominal (gross) amount includes (at least) a living allowance (€3400 per month, country coefficient applies to allow for the difference in cost of living in different EU Member States), a mobility allowance (€600 per month), and a family allowance (€660 per month, if applicable). Deductions will apply for social security contributions and/or taxes according to the applicable national laws of the country were the recruiting organization is located.

• Supported researchers must be doctoral candidates, i.e. not already in possession of a doctoral degree at the date of the recruitment.
• Recruited researchers can be of any nationality and must comply with the following mobility rule: they must not have resided or carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc.) in the country of the recruiting beneficiary for more than 12 months in the 36 months immediately before their recruitment date. For ‘International European Research Organisations’ (IERO), ‘international organisations’, or entities created under Union law, the researchers must not have spent more than 12 months in the 36 months immediately before their recruitment in the same appointing organisation. Compulsory national service, short stays such as holidays and time spent by the researcher as part of a procedure for obtaining refugee status under the Geneva Convention are not considered.

Eindhoven University of Technology is an internationally top-ranking university in the Netherlands that combines scientific curiosity with a hands-on attitude. Our spirit of collaboration translates into an open culture and a top-five position in collaborating with advanced industries. Fundamental knowledge enables us to design solutions for the highly complex problems of today and tomorrow.

Curious to hear more about what it’s like as a PhD candidate at TU/e? Please view the video .

All applications proceed first through the on-line platform . Candidates apply electronically for one to maximum three positions and indicate their preference. Candidates provide all requested information including a detailed CV ( Europass format obligatory), a motivation letter and transcripts of bachelor and master’s degree. During the registration, applicants will need to prove that they are eligible (mobility criteria, and English language proficiency). The deadline for the online registration is 30 Sept. 2024.

The PATTERN Recruitment Committee selects between 32 and maximum 48 candidates for the Recruitment Event which will take place Online (Mid-November 2024). The selected candidates provide a 20-minute presentation and are interviewed by the Recruitment Committee. Candidates will be asked about a given domain relevant peer-reviewed paper (prior to the recruitment event) to test their background/profile for the DC position.

Prior to the recruitment event, online interviews between the Supervisor(s) and the candidates are recommended, along with online personality tests.

The final decision will be communicated after the Recruitment Event (End-November 2024). The selected DCs are expected to start their research as quickly as possible in 2025.

All the parties are dedicated to promoting the role of women in science, and, therefore, explicitly encourage women to apply for this position.

For more information about the project and any informal enquiries, please contact Dr. Ir. Anne Roc’h ( [email protected] ).

Are you inspired and would like to know more about working at TU/e? Please visit our career page .

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Upcoming Mini-Courses:

An introduction to hypersurface singularities .

By Sasha Viktorova

• Tuesday, 12 March, 2024; 16:15-17:15 in 200K.00.06 ( Colloquium-style talk ).
• Monday, 18 March, 2024: 16:00-17:00 in 200B 00.18: Invariants of critical points.
• Thursday, 21 March, 2024: 16:00-17:00 in in 200B 01.05: Picard-Lefschetz theory .
• Monday, 25 March, 2024: 16:00-17:00 in 200B 00.18: Spectrum of singularities.
• Thursday, 28 March, 2024: 16:00-17:00 in 200B.00.16: Deformation theory .

Past Mini-Courses:

Direct and inverse scattering.

By Mateusz Piorkowski

• Monday, 17 April, 2023; 16:15-17:15 in 200K.00.06 ( Colloquium-style talk ).
• Thursday, 20 April, 2023: 10:30-12:00 in 200B 00.18: Self-adjoint Schroedinger operators.
• Monday, 24 April, 2023: 10:30-12:00 in in 200B 01.18: Jost solutions and the direct scattering transform.
• Thursday, 27 April, 2023: 10:30-12:00 in 200B 00.18: Lax pairs and the KdV equation.
• Tuesday, 2 May, 2023: 14:00-15:30 in 200B.02.18: Time evolution of the scattering data under the KdV flow.
• Thursday, 4 May, 2023: 10:30-12:00 in 200B 00.18: The inverse scattering transform via Riemann-Hilbert problems.

Abstract: In the first part of this minicourse, we will review some basic theory of unbounded self-adjoint operators, in particular in the case of Schroedinger operators. We then proceed with the introduction of Jost solutions and scattering data, which lead us to the direct scattering transform. 

In the second part we draw a surprising connection between scattering theory of Schroedinger operators and the KdV equation, which is a nonlinear wave equation. We show how the direct scattering transform can be used to linearize the KdV equation, an idea that goes back to Gardner, Greene, Kruskal and Miura, which was subsequently generalized by Lax via what is now know as Lax pairs. 

In the last part, we will introduce Riemann-Hilbert problems and in particular show how the inverse scattering transform can be formulated as a Riemann-Hilbert problem. This allows us the reduce solving the KdV equation to solving a Riemann-Hilbert problem for which many methods have been developed in the past 30 years.  

By Alberto Rodríguez Vázquez

• Friday, 17 March, 2023; 15:00-16:00 ( Colloquium-style talk ).
• Monday, 20 March, 2023: Review of Lie groups, 10:30-12:00 in 200B.01.05.
• Thursday, 23 March, 2023: Structure of compact Lie groups, 10:30-12:00 in 200B.00.16.
• Monday, 27 March, 2023: Representation theory of SU(2), 10:30-12:00 in 200B.02.18.
• Monday, 3 April, 2023: Root theory and Dynkin diagrams, 10:30-12:00 in 200B.02.18. 

Regularity and entropy of non-commutative random variables

By Ian Charlesworth

Monday, April 1, 2022; 14:00-15:00 ( Colloquium-style talk )

Thursday, May 5, 2022: Microstates and non-microstates free entropies: examples and properties, 14:00 (200B.02.18).

Monday, May 9, 2022: Polynomial convolutions of free variables, 11:30 (200B.01.18).

Thursday, May 12, 2022: Free entropy dimension and the absence of atoms, 14:00 (200B.02.18).

Monday, May 16, 2022: Consequences for von Neumann algebras, 11:30 (200B.02.18).

Thursday, May 19, 2022:  Connections between \chi and \chi^*  or Free Stein dimension and polynomials, 14:00 (200B.02.18).

Spectral properties of Jacobi matrices

By Grzegorz Świderski

• Thursday, April 29, 2021; 16:15-17:15 ( Colloquium-style talk )
• Thursday, May 6, 2021; 16:15-17:15 ( online )
• Thursday, May 20, 2021; 16:15-17:15 ( online )
• Thursday, May 27, 2021; 16:15-17:15 ( online )

From random walks to q-deformed operator algebras

By Mateusz Wasilewski

• Wednesday, November 25, 2020; 16:15-17:15 ( Colloquium-style talk )
• Wednesday, December 2, 2020; 16:15-17:15 ( online )
• Wednesday, December 9, 2020; 16:15-17:15 ( online )
• Wednesday, December 16, 2020; 16:15-17:15 ( online )

Dirichlet series and zeta functions of groups

By Paula Macedo Lins de Araujo

• Thursday, October 17, 2019; 16:15-17:15 ( Colloquium-style talk )
• Tuesday, October 22, 2019; 14:30-16:00 (room 200G 01.73)
• Tuesday, November 12, 2019; 14:30-16:00 (room 200G 01.73)
• Tuesday, November 19, 2019; 14:30-16:00 (room 200G 01.73)
• Tuesday, November 26, 2019; 14:30-16:00 (room 200G 01.73)

Cartan's Theory of Local Symmetries

By Ori Yudilevich

Thursday, November 8, 2018; 16:15-17:15 ( Colloquium-style talk )

Thursday, November 15, 2018; 14:00-16:00; Room: 200G 00.63.

Thursday, November 22, 2018; 14:00-16:00; Room: 200G 00.63.

Thursday, December 6, 2018; 14:00-16:00; Room: 200C 01.08.

Coarse Embeddability, Coarse Amenability and Expanders

By Thibault Pillon

• Thursday, April 12, 2018; 16:15-17:15 ( Colloquium-style talk ); Room: 200B.01.16.
• Monday, April 16, 2018; 14:00-16:00; Room: 200B 01.05
• Monday, April 23, 2018; 14:00-16:00; Room: 200B 00.07
• Monday, April 30, 2018; 14:00-16:00; Room: 200B 00.07 (canceled)
• Monday, May 07, 2018; 14:00-16:00; Room: 200B 00.18 

Structure and classification of C*-algebras

By Jorge Castillejos

• Thursday March 15, 2018; 16:15-17:15 ( Colloquium-style talk ); Room: 200B 02.14.
• Tuesday March 20, 2018; 16:00-18:00. Room:  200B 01.16.
• Tuesday March 27, 2018; 16:00-18:00. Room:  200B 01.16.
• Tuesday April 3, 2018; 16:00-18:00. Room:  200B 01.16.

Moduli space in algebraic geometry and applications.

By Jean-Baptiste Teyssier

• Thursday February 15, 2018; 16:15-17:15 ( Colloquium-style talk ); Room:  200B 02.14.

Friday February 23, 2018; 14:00-16:00. Room: 200B 01.14.

Tuesday February 27, 2018; 14:00-16:00. Room: 200B 02.14.

Fourier multipliers and p-integrability in non-Abelian groups

By Adrián González-Pérez

Thursday November 16, 2017; 16:15-17:15 ( Colloquium-style talk ); Room: 200L 00.07; Slides .

Tuesday November 21, 2017; 16:00-18:00 Room: 200B.02.18.

• Tuesday November 28, 2017; 16:00-18:00. Room: 200B.02.18.
• Tuesday December  5, 2017; 16:00-18:00. Room: 200B.02.18.

Knot recognition problem for different generalizations of classical knots.

By Timur Nasybullov

Thursday October 19, 2017; 16:15-17:15 ( Colloquium-style talk ); Room: 200B.01.05 ;  Slides .

Tuesday October 24, 2017; 15:00-17:00. Room: 200B.02.18

Tuesday October 31, 2017; 15:00-17:00. Room: 200B.02.18

Tuesday November 7, 2017; 15:00-17:00. Room: 200B.02.18

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• Je behaalde een Masterdiploma in een STEM domein, en combineert dit met een uitgesproken interesse in onderwijs en inclusiviteit, of je behaalde een Masterdiploma in Pedagogische wetenschappen, en combineert dit met een uitgesproken interesse in STEM.  Je behaalde dit diploma met onderscheiding (cum laude). 
• Je bent heel gemotiveerd, nauwgezet en creatief.
• Je hebt een gedegen kennis van statistiek en excellente communicatie- en planningsvaardigheden.
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• Jen kan zelfstandig werken, maar bent ook een goede teamplayer.
• De kandidaat die geselecteerd wordt, zal een PhD beurs ontvangen voor een periode van 2 jaar, die na positieve evaluatie verlengd kan worden tot maximum 4 jaar.
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