Are you holding Master’s degree and looking for fully funded PhD positions? Wageningen University & Research, 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 Integrated Modelling for Climate-Resilient Food and Water Systems
Summary of PhD Program:
The Environmental Systems Analysis Group and Water Systems and Global Change group, Wageningen University, are looking for a motivated PhD candidate to join an interdisciplinary research project focused on “Integrated Modelling for Resilient Food and Water Systems under Climate Change”. This project aims to address the limited understanding of the quantitative interactions between food production, nutrient pollution, water scarcity as affected by climate and socio-economic changes. This project also aims to explore sustainable management practices for a food and water-secure future. You should have an interest in integrated modeling that combines models from disciplines (crop, hydrology and water quality) and in working with large datasets and numerical models.
Application Deadline: 16 October 2023
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Transformative Landscape Governance
Summary of PhD Program:
In this PhD project, you will co-develop an assessment framework for Transformative Landscape Governance, which considers how governance influences behaviour of land managers and the extend to which ‘area-based processes’ are inclusive and just. In line with this, part of your research will contribute to the Horizon Europe-financed projects entitled ‘Biodiversity and Transformative Change for Plural and Nature-Positive Societies (BIOTraCes)’ and ‘BioAgora’.
Application Deadline: 9 October 2023
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Protein oleogels
Summary of PhD Program:
In the group of Physics and Physical Chemistry of Foods, we are looking for an enthusiastic candidate for a four-year PhD trajectory on a project on oleogelation. Oleogelation has become of increasing interest in the last years, due to a need to replace solid fats with healthy oils in the food industry. Protein oleogels are a new class of oleogels, and consist of a continuous phase of oil and a dispersed phase of protein particles. New methods to create oleogels with different characteristics need to be developed for a wider application window. In this project, we aim to gain further insights into the relation between protein (molecular) characteristics and the properties of the obtained oleogels.
Application Deadline: October 23rd 2023
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Local and on-demand production of food in controlled environment agriculture
Summary of PhD Program:
The aim of the 4TU.Redesign programme is to develop the next-generation food system by linking local consumer wishes in a smart way with local production of fruits and vegetables in protected environments thereby increasing appeal, robustness, variety, and continuity. The 4TU-cooperation brings together policy, engineering, behavioural and plant sciences, providing the capacity to develop a ‘total solution’, i.e. a complete system which can be tuned to each city. Within this cooperation, the chair group Horticulture and Product Physiology focuses on Dutch controlled environment agriculture (greenhouses and vertical farms), where novel methodologies to grow fruits and vegetables autonomously, locally and on-demand, will be developed.
Application Deadline: 9 October 2023
5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Nanoscale Chemistry and Tribology
Summary of PhD Program:
We are looking for a PhD student with great interest in applied physics, chemistry and in pushing the boundaries and capabilities of modern microscopy, nanoscale chemical imaging and spectroscopy to study tribological contacts in lithography systems necessary for semiconductors industry. The PhD project will be undertaken in collaboration with ASML, an innovation leader in the semiconductor industry and providing chipmakers with hardware, software, and services to mass produce patterns on silicon through lithography.
Application Deadline: October 17th, 2023
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Stress testing future supply chains using analytics
Summary of PhD Program:
You will support the development of a new methodology using reverse stress testing methods inspired by risk analysis approaches from the financial world that became common practice after the 2008 financial crisis. In this project, you will further outline and detail this approach using quantitative models and methods. You will collaborate with a variety of food companies that the group has strong ties with, including food processing and retail. Given the novelty and increasing importance of this topic and the application of analytics methodologies employed, this position is a perfect start for a future career in academia but also in industry.
Application Deadline: 23 October 2023
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Financial Tools for Managing Input Price Risks of Farmers
Summary of PhD Program:
The Business Economics (BEC) group at Wageningen University is looking for a PhD student (4 years full-time) to develop financial tools aimed at reducing farmers’ exposure to input price volatility especially focussing on fossil energy intensive inputs. The position is embedded in the Horizon Europe project “AnalysinG of fossil-ENergy dependence in agriculture to increase RESilience against input price fluctuations”.
Application Deadline: 30 October 2023
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in High resolution numerical modelling of urban atmospheres to advance understanding in energy and water cycles in cities
Summary of PhD Program:
Cities are growing! And the climate is changing! Both result in challenging conditions for urban dwellers concerning urban heat, poor human thermal comfort, and water availability. This PhD study within the HERITAGE project focuses on the understanding of the urban energy and water balance at street and neighborhood scale through high-resolution numerical modelling that can blend professional and private surface based hydrometeorological observations, citizen science observations and remote sensing observations. This advanced understanding of the urban metabolism assists in advancing the urban climate adaptation opportunities.
Application Deadline: 23 October 2023
9. Two Fully Funded PhD Position in Nanostructured electrode materials for selective ion recovery
Summary of PhD Program:
The Mind_Gap programme is fundamental in nature and set to enhance and tune ion selectivity, aiming to achieve ion recovery. Recently we hired a PhD student who will work on intercalation materials and we now look for candidates who will work on organic frameworks (PhD1) and layered materials (PhD2).
From these selected materials electrodes will be made and characterized with various techniques in terms of their morphology, chemical composition, crystallinity and redox properties. Next, their separation performance when applied in electrochemical deionization will be studied. This includes the optimization of operation parameters such as applied current, cell voltage, ion concentration and pH. Membranes will be used to further enhance the selectivity.
Application Deadline: November 1st, 2023
10. Fully Funded PhD Position in Active matter in complex environments
Summary of PhD Program:
We are looking for a highly motivated and skilled PhD candidate who will experimentally investigate the fundamentals of swimming active microorganisms in complex fluids under various degrees of confinement. You will use state-of-the-art microscopic imaging systems to characterize the motility of one (or multiple) biological (and/or synthetic) microswimmers in complex fluids in the presence of a rigid (or deformable) confinement. The experiments will be complemented by theoretical and/or numerical modelling. The project represents a paradigm shift in understanding the motility of microorganisms in realistic complex environments, and may provide fundamental understanding of the (bio)physical principles underpinning the origins of multicellularity.
