PhD

**Job Description**
The project seeks a full-time Ph.D. researcher to investigate how peripheral and circulating immune cells reflect early Parkinson’s disease (PD) biology. Focusing on high-risk individuals and PD patients, the research aims to identify circulating immune signatures that can anticipate disease onset and progression. The role involves clinical-translational work within a highly collaborative environment, leveraging expertise in myeloid biology, immune trafficking, α-synuclein pathology, movement disorders, and longitudinal cohort management.

**Skills & Abilities**
• Strong interest in immunology and neurodegeneration.
• Experience with human samples and/or immunophenotyping tools (e.g., flow cytometry) is a plus.
• Comfortable working at the clinic-lab interface.
• Excellent writing and communication in English (Dutch is an asset for patient-facing coordination).
• Motivated to work within an international project in Europe, including possible travelling.
• Proactive, rigorous, solution-oriented, and a critical thinker.
• Attention to quality, integrity, creativity, and cooperation.
• Teaching competences in line with the University of Antwerp’s educational vision /VIB.
• Research qualities in line with the faculty and university research policies /VIB.

**Qualifications**
Required Degree(s) in:
• Medical degree
• MSc in biomedical sciences
• Medicine
• Bioengineering
• Related field, with excellent study results

**Experience**
Other:
• Experience with human samples and/or immunophenotyping tools is a plus.

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