Are you holding Master’s degree and looking for fully funded PhD positions? Leiden University, 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 Environmental Sciences
Summary of PhD Program:
Food systems across the world are facing a period of radical change, both due to the recognition of food-related environmental damage, but also due to climate impacts. Rapid change is unavoidable, but rapid transitions could help resiliency to impacts while reducing environmental harms. The Great Food Transformation suggests three main pillars for change: 1) Dietary change, 2) Food waste reductions, and 3) production changes. However, dietary change comprises by far the largest opportunity, especially in high-income nations. This Great Food Transformation would reduce the environmental damage from the food system and would also free large areas of land with climatic impacts. Reductions of biogenic methane would further have a cooling effect even in the short term.
Application Deadline: 21 September 2023
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Instructional Technology
Summary of PhD Program:
The Faculty of Governance of Global Affairs and Leiden University College at Leiden University invites applications for a fully funded PhD position in the field of instructional technology for global challenges. The PhD researcher will investigate how to develop an effective VR training program to teach global challenges (e.g., international law of armed conflict) by supporting learners’ cognitive and affective skill development. The PhD candidate will be expected to use diverse methods such as learning analytics, player modelling, and eye tracking. The candidate will perform cutting-edge research, publish on the topics, and be an active part of international research communities in instructional technology.
Application Deadline: 31 October 2023
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Resilient Ecosystems and Flourishing Communities
Summary of PhD Program:
REFloC draws from the disciplines of economics, sociology, public health, sustainability science, and law. Our mission? To delve into the heart of the vulnerabilities of Forest Dependent Communities (FDCs) using Ghana as a case study to discover innovative conceptual, methodological, and policy solutions. Climate change has necessitated a global focus on sustainability, and our research will explore the meanings of lands and forests as conduits for the mutual development of humans and the environment.
Application Deadline: 26 September 2023
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Standards for Quantum Applications in Finance
Summary of PhD Program:
The project will examine the role of private rulemaking, in particular through standardization, as an instrument for ‘lawmaking beyond the state’. Characteristic of lawmaking in relation to new technologies that can be applied globally is that private regulators, rather than state legislators, are often the first to introduce new rules. ‘Private rulemaking’ here includes rulemaking by dedicated standardization bodies such as ISO, CEN, CENELEC, and private standard-setting bodies such as ISDA, ICMA and the UK Financial Market Standards Board (FMSB); but also rulemaking by means of contractual agreements between producers of technological applications, users, and third parties. These lawmakers can be faster as they are closer to the market and therefore have specific expertise and an awareness of when new regulation is needed.
Application Deadline: 26 September 2023
5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Intelligence and Security
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD candidate’s research is part of the project Sharing secrets: how and why governments and third-party stakeholders disclose intelligence. Secrecy is vital to any national intelligence community, and intelligence is generally collected and assessed for internal government customers. Why, then, do governments choose to disclose intelligence to external audiences and what factors shape how they do so? And what roles and influence do non-state third-parties have in disclosure decision-making and practices? These are the questions that lie at the heart of this study of intelligence disclosure decision-making and relationships in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom (UK).
Application Deadline: 29 October 2023
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in environmental heterogeneity
Summary of PhD Program:
Environmental heterogeneity (EH), covering the heterogeneity of vegetation, land cover, soil, topography and climate, is a key factor determining biodiversity patterns and ecosystem processes. We need accurate EH data to understand the mechanisms driving diversity loss and generate solutions to bend the biodiversity curve. We also need the dynamics of EH at different spatial scales to understand why the change of biodiversity differ at local, regional, and global scales.
Application Deadline: 5 November 2023
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Electrochemical STM
Summary of PhD Program:
It is obvious from the electrochemical literature that certain surfaces undergo significant changes, while running a reaction or applying certain electrochemical conditions. This clearly hinders from a full understanding. To shed a light into this darkness, this project aims on the direct observation of the surface under reaction conditions to observe, identify, and quantify the underlying atomic processes that lead to structural changes, and to correlate them to the applied electrochemical reaction. The ideal candidate has scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) experience as well as a physical surface science and electrochemistry background.
Application Deadline: 29 October 2023
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Operando Electrochemical STM
Summary of PhD Program:
In order to prevent our children inheriting a huge environmental problem in the future, we quickly have to realize the energy transition to renewable sources, which requires devices like electrolyzers, fuel cells, catalysts, and batteries, to name only a few. However, many of these devices suffer from its economic feasibility, due to low activity, low selectivity, or even deterioration. Further improvements require a bottom-up approach with fundamental research at the atomic scale to gain full insights on the involved atomic processes at the electrode surface under operating conditions. To contribute to this cause, we have developed a unique Electrochemical Scanning Tunneling Microscope (ECSTM) that is capable of measuring in full operando conditions!
