PhD

**Job Description**
This PhD project focuses on mapping how peripheral and circulating immune cells reflect early Parkinson’s disease (PD) biology in high-risk individuals and PD patients. The aim is to identify circulating immune signatures that anticipate disease onset and progression. The role involves driving a clinical-translational PhD, focusing on cohort coordination, sample processing, immune profiling, and data interpretation, in a highly collaborative and translational environment.

**Skills & Abilities**
• Strong interest in immunology and neurodegeneration
• Experience with human samples and/or immunophenotyping tools is a plus (e.g., flow cytometry)
• 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 that are in line with the University of Antwerp’s educational vision /VIB
• Research qualities that are in line with the faculty and university research policies /VIB

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

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