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 Immuno-biology and Infectious disease
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD project investigates the potential of targeting host-cell metabolism to deprive intracellular bacteria of essential nutrients and boost the immune response. The candidate will work as part of an interdisciplinary team to help characterize how pathogenic mycobacteria rewire host-cell metabolism and identify novel drug targets.
Application Deadline: 1 November 2025
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in understanding and designing nanomedicines-membranes interaction: physics based approach
Summary of PhD Program:
Nanomedicines have achieved tremendous successes in the treatment of and vaccination against a range of debilitating diseases. However, one of the key challenges that remains is to deliver the nanomedicines with high specificity to the desired target site in the body. In this PhD project, the candidate will experimentally study how to achieve high specificity by developing a quantitative understanding of the interactions between the nanomedicine and cellular membranes.
Application Deadline: 31 October 2025
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Human-Centered Interpretable Machine Learning
Summary of PhD Program:
In this project, the researcher will develop theory and algorithms for (hybrid) model selection that allows to exploit domain knowledge through interactive learning. For this we will build on the minimum description length (MDL) principle and interpretable machine learning approaches. The resulting methods will be evaluated on real-world case studies in health care, to demonstrate the potential to discover novel insights from data.
Application Deadline: 14 October 2025
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Translational Chemical Immunology
Summary of PhD Program:
We are therefore looking for a highly motivated candidate that is interested in translational chemical immunology research. The candidate will be synthesizing detectable targeting ligands for engineered immune cells and image and quantify the target cell engagement and efficiency. The project is highly multidisciplinary and involves aspects of synthetic organic chemistry as well as immunology and cell biology research.
Application Deadline: 15 October 2025
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5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Data Governance for Equitable and Sustainable Digital Food Systems
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD will conduct original empirical socio-legal research on the legal and cultural dimensions of agricultural digitalization and data governance, focusing on one of three country case studies: India, Kenya, or Colombia. Each case study will be conducted by a dedicated PhD, generating comparative, cross-regional insights within the project.
Application Deadline: 9 October 2025
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in systems with noisy coefficients
Summary of PhD Program:
Applications are invited for a 4-year PhD position with Hermen Jan Hupkes at the Mathematical Institute of the University of Leiden, as part of the project `Patterns in Random Media’. The PhD position focuses on the dynamical behaviour of stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs). In particular, we will consider the impact that noise terms have on patterns such as travelling waves, spirals and spots.
Application Deadline: 15 October 2025
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in organisational cybersecurity: Organisational differences
Summary of PhD Program:
The successful applicant will work with researchers from the cybersecurity governance and the governance of crisis research group to help answering this question. Knowledge of (organisational) cybersecurity at the start of the project is not a requirement. However, we do expect the successful applicants to quickly familiarise themselves with the field through self-study or by taking in-house courses.
Application Deadline: 24 October 2025
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in organisational cybersecurity: End-users and teams
Summary of PhD Program:
The successful applicant will work with researchers from the cybersecurity governance and the governance of crisis research group to help answering this question. Knowledge of (organisational) cybersecurity at the start of the project is not a requirement. However, we do expect the successful applicants to quickly familiarise themselves with the field through self-study or by taking in-house courses
Application Deadline: 24 October 2025
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Design and chemical synthesis of glycopeptide-based probes
Summary of PhD Program:
We are seeking a highly motivated PhD student to join the Bioorganic Synthesis group on a project which aims to develop innovative chemical tools to study mucin degradation. Bacterial enzymes that degrade host mucins play key roles in both health and disease. However, despite their importance in gut colonization and pathogenesis, mucin-degrading enzymes remain poorly understood due to a lack of suitable probes and inhibitors.
Application Deadline: 9 October 2025
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10. Fully Funded PhD Position in Cryptographic Hardware and Design Automation
Summary of PhD Program:
We are looking for a PhD student to work on Cryptographic Hardware and Design Automation. The project is oriented towards the development of a domain-specific design automation framework for cryptographic hardware. Your work will focus on identifying the mathematical knowledge and properties to guide hardware optimizations tailored to different environments.
Application Deadline: 15 November 2025
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Chemical biology of glycopeptide-based probes
Summary of PhD Program:
We are seeking a highly motivated PhD student to join the Bioorganic Synthesis group on a project which aims to develop innovative chemical tools to study mucin degradation. Bacterial enzymes that degrade host mucins play key roles in both health and disease. However, despite their importance in gut colonization and pathogenesis, mucin-degrading enzymes remain poorly understood due to a lack of suitable chemical tools.