Are you holding Master’s degree and looking for fully funded PhD positions? Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 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 Biomedical Optics
Summary of PhD Program:
For this project, we are looking for three PhD students who will work on optical system development, novel catheter designs, data processing algorithms, and modeling of scattering and polarization properties of tissue, with the goal of bringing these technologies to patient care. The research will be conducted at the VU University in Amsterdam. The candidate will be part of the PhD program of the Biophotonics & Medical Imaging section under the Physics and Astronomy Department at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. J.F. de Boer, an internationally recognised leader in the field of Biophotonics (www.deboer.one).
Application Deadline: 29-11-2024
2. 02 Fully Funded PhD Position in landscape response to retreating glaciers
Summary of PhD Program:
Mountain ranges are the primary source of global sediment and hotspots of geohazards. In their high-altitude, alpine regions, climate change is accelerating erosion and landslide activity due to rapid post-glacial landscape adjustment and permafrost degradation. While most current observations of these processes span just a few years or decades, there is an urgent need to understand how these dynamics unfold over much longer timescales (102-104 years) to quantify the impact of present, past and future glacial-interglacial climate changes. This NWO-funded project (Dutch Research Council) aims to tackle this research gap by examining the interactions among erosion, topography, and sediment fluxes over millennial timescales in the Western Southern Alps of New Zealand, and how they are influenced by tectonics.
Application Deadline: 14-11-2024
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Cognitive Neuroscience
Summary of PhD Program:
How do readers recognize words from strings of letters? For most adults, this process may seem effortless and automatic. Yet, for the cognitive psychologist, human’s ability to read remains somewhat mysterious. In this project, carried out by the Snell Language Lab (www.snelllab.eu) and funded by an ERC grant from the European Commission (runtime 2025-2030), we’re developing and testing a new theory of the reading brain in various exciting ways. In particular, we’ll look at how attention is distributed across the visual field during text reading, and at how word recognition is influenced by sentence-level representations that are (believed to be) maintained in working memory.
Application Deadline: 14-11-2024
4. 02 Fully Funded PhD Position in Human-Robot-Bonding
Summary of PhD Program:
The overarching aim of the ERC-project ROBOT-BOND is to develop and empirically validate a new theory on Human-Robot-Bonding for longer term interactions focusing on various target groups. The different target groups include children, adolescents, students, and adults. Social robots are being developed to assist professionals in areas in healthcare and education, where they face serious shortages in human personnel. Our project focuses specifically on developing scenarios to provide support for those who need a little extra in the social and communicative realm. Establishing some form of a bond between the human user and a robot is seen as essential to effectively use a social robot over longer time.
Application Deadline: 13-11-2024
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5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Measuring and controlling nanoscale photothermal processes
Summary of PhD Program:
The primary objective of this EU-funded research project is to advance the fundamental understanding of nanoscale photothermal heating. As a PhD researcher, you will explore promising new strategies of controlling heat at the smallest scales using light, and you will develop novel light-sensitive nanostructures that can withstand extreme temperatures. Your work will involve modeling and measuring nanoscale temperatures using optical and physical methods, and applying the findings in the context of light-driven chemical conversion. Overall, you will have the unique opportunity to contribute to groundbreaking research in material science and photoconversion technologies.
Application Deadline: 14-11-2024
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Modelling and analysing the impacts of trade on the environment
Summary of PhD Program:
Trade plays a significant role in both driving and preventing emissions, climate change, and environmental degradation. On the one hand, production, transportation, and consumption of goods contribute to greenhouse gas emissions and deforestation. On the other hand, globalization and trade may prevent further land use change by concentrating production on the locations with the highest production. The integration of trade policies with environmental sustainability is crucial to mitigating potential negative impacts of trade and globalisation, fostering more responsible practices that protect ecosystems and reduce environmental degradation.
Application Deadline: 16-11-2024
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Quantum Logic Spectroscopy – Precision measurements of trapped H2+ ions
Summary of PhD Program:
This project aims to measure the level structure of weakly-bound molecular states of H2+ with unprecedented accuracy using novel quantum technologies. These transitions in the microwave and THz range are particularly sensitive to the proton-to-electron mass ratio (mp/me) and exotic spin-dependent interactions. For this, you will be involved in developing a novel cryogenic ion trap for quantum-logic spectroscopy using H2+ (spectroscopy) and Be+ (logic) ions. You will develop a continuous-wave laser system at 313nm to laser cool Be+ ions, which are then used for sympathetic cooling of the molecular ions. The molecular ions are selectively prepared by field-ionizing the optically excited molecular Rydberg states of H2 (we use extreme-UV light at 90nm, UV and visible laser light).
