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The EU Doctoral Networks funded project ELEGANCE offers 15 PhD positions to begin in 2026. See the requirements and project descriptions below.

Eligibility Requirements:

Doctoral Candidates (DCs)

May not hold a doctoral degree at the date of recruitment
May hold any nationality
May not hold residence or have any main activity (such as work or studies) in the recruiting beneficiary's country for more than 12 months in the last 3 years
Should meet the requirements to be enrolled in a doctoral programme

Funding Covers:

a living allowance (salary)
a mobility allowance (for relocation, etc.)
a family allowance, long-term leave allowance (if applicable)
research, training, and networking events
secondments

Technical University of Denmark - DTU Biosustain

DC1: Machine learning-guided multiparametric optimisation of cytochrome P450 monooxygenase

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Technical University of Denmark - DTU Chemical Engineering

DC2: Kinetic stability data collection for predictive bioprocess modelling of CYP enzymes

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University of Torino - Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology

DC3: Engineering redox chains to support CYP biocatalysis

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Spanish National Research Council - Institute of Catalysis

DC4: ML-guided evolution of peroxygenases for selective C-H oxyfunctionalisation reactions

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Austrian Centre of Industrial Biotechnology

DC5: Multiparametric engineering of alkene dioxygenase

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Austrian Centre of Industrial Biotechnology

DC6: Process intensification of CYP reactions in batch and continuous reactors

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University of Girona - Institute of Computational Chemistry and Catalysis

DC7: Engineering conformational dynamics and mechanism in oxygenases

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Delft University of Technology - Department of Biotechnology

DC8: Towards scalable, cost-effective processes for bulk chemical production of cycloalkanones

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University of Zagreb - Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology

DC9: Process development and optimization of dioxygenase catalysed biotransformation

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Aarhus University - Department of Biological and Chemical Engineering

DC10: Continuous flow oxyfunctionalisations of allylic substrates catalysed by UPOs

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Masaryk University - Department of Experimental Biology

DC11: Machine learning-based tools for multiparametric enzyme optimisation

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Freie Universität Berlin - Department of Physics

DC12: Development of machine learned coarse grained force fields for computational enzyme design

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Czech Technical University in Prague - Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics

DC13: Development of ML-based tools for analysis and engineering protein dynamics

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PEACCEL

DC14: Machine learning for Empirical Valence Bond (EVB) simulations to engineer UPOs

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DataHow

DC15: Hybrid machine learning models for data-driven bioprocess optimisation

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