Are you holding Master’s degree and looking for fully funded PhD positions? Radboud 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 Meta-Theory in Cognitive Science
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD project involves a meta-theoretical investigation with a case study in categorisation. In cognitive science research practice, little effort is spent on theory building (Guest & Martin, 2021; van Rooij & Baggio, 2021). Over the past 30 years cognitive science has become more and more empiricist, in part due to the growing dominance of experimental psychology in the field. In this PhD project, we aim to reinvigorate and improve theoretical research in the cognitive sciences. When this process is systematised, we also speak of metatheoretical calculi (Guest, 2023; Guest & Martin, 2023). In this PhD project, you will adopt various theoretical methodologies (including literature review, conceptual engineering, and formal analysis) to study and characterise how cognitive scientists theorise.
Application Deadline: 06 September 2023
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Light-driven THz Switching of Antiferromagnets and Antiferromagnetic Magnonics
Summary of PhD Program:
Achieving the fastest possible processing of magnetic bits with the smallest possible consumption of energy is the next grand challenge in fundamental and applied magnetism. If successful, it may enable energy-efficient writing and processing of magnetic bits at unprecedented THz rates. Antiferromagnets (AFMs) offer one of the fastest magnetic responses lying precisely in the THz frequency range and thus provide an intriguing playground to search for the fastest and the least dissipative mechanism of data processing. However, their rigidity to external magnetic fields challenges our understanding of scenarios and processes leading to an efficient writing of antiferromagnetic bits.
Application Deadline: 31 August 2023
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in AI – Healthy Data Programme
Summary of PhD Program:
As a PhD candidate, your main responsibilities will involve developing predictive models to forecast the future evolution of complex systems, with a specific focus on the health domain. You will work on understanding how external controls and uncontrollable perturbations influence system dynamics. Additionally, you will contribute to the development of control methods, aiming to generate optimal interventions based on learned predictive models. This will include utilising techniques such as model predictive control and reinforcement learning. Your research will address use cases such as nowcasting, prediction, anomaly detection, early detection, explainability, system identification, and scientific discovery in the health domain.
Application Deadline: 15 August 2023
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Assuring Privacy and Security of Research Data
Summary of PhD Program:
The goal of the PhD project is to better understand the guarantees and assess threats to privacy, security and reproducibility in systems that handle privacy-sensitive research data. This includes the question of how to carry out architectural risk assessment in a systematic way. Although PEP has been designed to minimise risks, there are always remaining risks. Factors here include context and application area, types of data processed (as some allow re-identification), and also how roles are assigned to different people. How can we analyse this in a rigorous way, on an architectural level, and make any hidden trust assumptions explicit?
Application Deadline: 20 August 2023
5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Endocrine-disrupting Compounds on Fish Skeletal Development
Summary of PhD Program:
This project will focus on the effects of EDCs on fish health. You will design and perform experimental research to assess the specific effects of different types of endocrine-disrupting compounds on skeletal development in fish. The results of your experiments will contribute to unravelling the molecular and cellular mechanisms that underlie the effects of endocrine-disrupting compounds on skeletal development in fish. Using the results obtained, you will make an assessment of the extent to which, under realistic environmental EDC concentrations, exposure in early life or later in life will impact the sustainability of real fish populations.
Application Deadline: 10 September 2023
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Culture & History
Summary of PhD Program:
As a PhD candidate at RICH, you will be part of the Graduate School for the Humanities. Up to 75% of your time will be devoted to the research for and writing of your PhD thesis. The remaining 25% will be spent on training and academic service to the Faculty of Arts, including teaching. Your thesis topic and research question should align with the research themes of RICH. Descriptions of our research groups can be found here. We are looking for four PhD candidates in total.
Application Deadline: 08 September 2023
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Assessing the Environmental Sustainability of Floating Photovoltaic Systems
Summary of PhD Program:
You will contribute to this project by quantifying the environmental impacts and benefits of FPV systems. Impacts typically depend on location and FPV design so the analysis focuses on determining differences in the environmental sustainability of various FPV systems at relevant locations. The spatially explicit environmental impacts will be determined using life-cycle assessment (LCA) and field work. This includes quantifying material and energy requirements, as well as waste and emission flows associated with FPV systems. Various environmental impacts (e.g. eutrophication, water use, climate change) will be considered using state-of-the-art LCA methods.
Application Deadline: 24 August 2023
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Digital/AI Technologies and Professional Interaction
Summary of PhD Program:
There are currently many fears about digital technologies including robots and AI replacing humans at work or intervening in work practices. More realistically, recent research shows that automation is affecting certain tasks, rather than entire jobs. That is, humans will increasingly work with robots, AI and other technologies. This project moves beyond the ‘grand’ questions about AI and work and takes a novel ‘micro’-approach to ask how robots/agents/digital technologies affect interaction and work qualitatively and in practice. A special interest will be how social categories (gender, race, class) are observably interrelated with the interaction between or around agents and technologies. The project takes an innovative approach to these questions by drawing on a combination of conversation analysis (and/or membership categorisation analysis) and ethnography of digitally mediated professional interactions.
Application Deadline: 01 October 2023
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Developmental Origins of Hostility Biases
Summary of PhD Program:
It is currently unclear how hostility biases develop, but caregivers are assumed to play an important role. Based on a child’s early interactions with caregivers, a database of memories of past experiences, cognitive schemas and social knowledge is formed and is thought to guide social interactions. However, little research has been performed to test these hypotheses and elucidate what aspects of the parent-child relationship contribute to the development of hostility biases. In this PhD project you will examine the developmental origins of hostility biases by focusing on parental hostility biases and the parent-child relationship between preschool children and their parents, using a developmental psychopathological and neurobiological perspective.
Application Deadline: 25 August 2023
10. Fully Funded PhD Position in The Migration-Class Nexus
Summary of PhD Program:
Immigration laws and policies create bureaucratic categories of people by determining who is allowed to enter and reside on the territory, and which rights are attached to legal migration status. This way of categorising people will lead to a differential treatment between migrants. These differences will be exacerbated by the effects that are produced by the requirements for obtaining or securing a migration status: research has shown that the fulfilment of such conditions, such as income or civic integration requirements, disproportionately affect certain groups (such as women, people with disabilities, the elderly). Even though such requirements are often presented as meritocratic and therefore neutral, this research suggests that socioeconomic status or class will affect migration status.
Application Deadline: 10 September 2023
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Computer Science Education
Summary of PhD Program:
We are looking for a motivated and passionate PhD Candidate to contribute to the exciting field of Computer Science Education, particularly in relation to the intersection with the Sustainability Development Goals (SDGs). In collaboration with your daily supervisor you will define the exact subject of the project and write a research proposal. You will engage in cutting-edge research and disseminate your results through publication in scholarly journals and participation in international conferences and workshops. Alongside your research, you will be involved in the teaching activities of the institute. You will take part in the institute’s research on scientific literacy, which can be seen as the interplay between gaining a knowledge base (science content knowledge), being aware of the influence of science in society (living with science), and understand how science works (nature of science).
