Are you holding Master’s degree and looking for fully funded PhD positions? Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands invites online application for multiple funded PhD Programs / fully funded PhD positions in various research areas.
Candidates interested in fully funded PhD positions can check the details and may apply as soon as possible. Interested and eligible applicants may submit their online application for PhD programs via the University’s Online Application Portal.
1. Fully Funded PhD Position in Secure Computation Technologies and Applications to Machine Learning
Summary of PhD Program:
Secure Computation Technologies, such as Multiparty Computation, allow the purposeful processing of private data (distilling value from such data), without compromising the privacy of this data. Today’s interconnected world, smart applications, and global business, necessitating the use of collaborative analytics, require the collection and processing of private information. In this PhD trajectory you will be exploring ways and developing protocols and primitives that enhance the security, functionality, and efficiency of secure computation technologies (e.g., multiparty computation – MPC), when designed for particular application scenarios, such as private machine learning use-cases.
Application Deadline: 31 July 2025
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Enhancing urban drought resilience through soil biodiversity
Summary of PhD Program:
Recurring droughts severely impacted the Dutch built environment, causing financial, environmental, and social effects. Climate change and urban developments are expected to aggravate this. Although municipalities recognize drought as critical risk, few have prepared for it. This is due to a lack of understanding of the urban water balance under drought and the vulnerability of urban water use(r)s, especially with regards to the role of soil biodiversity in maintaining urban green spaces, and missing action-perspectives.
Application Deadline: 31 July 2025
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in What’s wrong? Ancient corrections in Greek papyri from Egypt” (AnCo
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD candidate will annotate and study the ancient corrections in a selected corpus of administrative and juridical documents in the database. Administrative and juridical documents were often produced by professional scribes in Roman and Byzantine Egypt. One would perhaps expect professional scribes to produce standard language at all times, but this does not necessarily apply to the professional scribes at lower administration levels in antiquity.
Application Deadline: 15 August 2025
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Reconstructing Mobility in Late Prehistoric Cyprus
Summary of PhD Program:
The successful candidate will work closely with colleagues in the bio-archaeology group at the Faculty of Archaeology, and with staff at a yet to be determined isotope laboratory. The research should lead you to obtain a PhD within a four-year timeframe (1.0 FTE). Candidates with a good knowledge of Cypriot prehistory and bio-archaeology are especially encouraged to apply. Candidates will be expected to master isotope protocols during the PhD research. The PhD candidate will be supervised by Professor Bleda Düring (the project leader) and Dr. Jason Laffoon, who is a leading specialist in the field of isotope studies in archaeology.
Application Deadline: 1 August 2025
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5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Figuring Out Hierarchies in Late Prehistoric Cyprus
Summary of PhD Program:
The Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, seeks to appoint a full-time PhD candidate to research indications for social inequalities in figurative objects in late prehistoric Cyprus, between ca 4000 – 1700 BCE, by analysing pendants, figurines, and ceramic figurative plaques and vessels using quantitative and contextual approaches. The aim is to reconstruct what figurative objects can tell us about the (idealised) social order in Cyprus during the Chalcolithic, Early Bronze Age and Middle Bronze Age.
Application Deadline: 1 August 2025
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Houses and Hierarchies in Late Prehistoric Cyprus
Summary of PhD Program:
The ERC AdG project Inequal Cyprus projects investigates the consolidation of social inequalities – a so far poorly understood development of crucial importance in the rise of complex societies in West Asia. Recent archaeological research into social inequalities has either used quantitative methods, such as the GINI measure, to demonstrate the emergence of inequalities, or questioned the existence of inequalities in early complex societies, for example in work of Graeber and Wengrow, leaving the complex question of how social inequalities were first consolidated unresolved.
Application Deadline: 1 August 2025
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Burial and Inequality in Late Prehistoric Cyprus
Summary of PhD Program:
The ERC AdG project Inequal Cyprus projects investigates the consolidation of social inequalities – a so far poorly understood development of crucial importance in the rise of complex societies in West Asia. Recent archaeological research into social inequalities has either used quantitative methods, such as the GINI measure, to demonstrate the emergence of inequalities, or questioned the existence of inequalities in early complex societies, for example in work of Graeber and Wengrow, leaving the complex question of how social inequalities were first consolidated unresolved.
Application Deadline: 1 August 2025
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in structural biology
Summary of PhD Program:
In this PhD project, the student will investigate the three-dimensional structure and molecular mechanism of PPE porins using biochemical, microbiological, and biophysical approaches, with an emphasis on cryo-electron microscopy. We aim to determine how PPE proteins mediate selective small-molecule transport and how structural insights into these outer membrane porins can guide drug development strategies to enhance compound uptake.
