The PhD fellowships are part of the EU-funded project, PDZnet, which is an ambitious interdisciplinary and innovative European Training Network (ETN) under the Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (Grant agreement: 675341). The PDZnet consortium is comprised of 11 academic research groups and 3 industrial partners across 6 European countries (Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, and Sweden).