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 Sustainability impact assessment in the bio-based economy
Summary of PhD Program:
The Business Economics Group at Wageningen University is looking for a PhD student to contribute to their research on the sustainability impact assessment for replicable and scalable fair business models in the bio-based economy. The position is part of the EU financed C4B project which aims to conceptualise and promote diverse forms of cooperation among primary producers and suitable business models to create high-value bio-based products in vertically integrated value chains.
Application Deadline: 25 March 2024
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in The impact of physical inactivity on skeletal muscle metabolism in type 2 diabetes
Summary of PhD Program:
You will use state-of-the-art methodologies including arteriovenous forearm balance, stable isotope tracers, and continuous glucose monitoring under fasting, postprandial, and hyperinsulinaemic-euglycemic clamp conditions to measure muscle amino acid and glucose kinetics in conditions of impaired physical inactivity. This project is funded by the Dutch Diabetes Foundation (i.e. Diabetes Fonds), and will involve engagement of and dissemination to patient groups for optimal utilization of the research findings.
Application Deadline: 25 March 2024
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Modelling the evolution of antibiotic resistance in spatially structured environments
Summary of PhD Program:
A fully funded PhD position (four years when full-time employed) is available in our group for a theoretical biologist to work as part of an interdisciplinary project studying how spatial environmental structure affects the evolution of antibiotic resistance (full project proposal available upon request). You will develop spatially explicit models of bacterial growth, competition, and evolution under antibiotic pressure. Throughout the project, you will collaborate closely with a postdoc who will perform competition and evolution experiments in the lab. You will integrate experimental results in your models and produce model predictions that can be tested in the lab.
Application Deadline: 11 March 2024
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Politics and consequences of market-based instruments for forest ecosystem services in Europe
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD position at the Forest and Nature Conservation Policy Group is embedded in the European collaborative research project INTERCEDE. INTERCEDE focuses on market based instruments (MBI) in forest landscapes in Europe: Forest do provide multiple ecosystem “services” for societies – but different societal groups emphasize different services, resulting in trade-offs. MBI have been promoted as a governance tool to mitigate or resolve these trade-offs, but have also been criticized in the literature, e.g. for commodifying nature. Nevertheless, across Europe, various MBI for forests are in place and new forms are emerging, and MBI are frequently promoted in the European policy arena.
Application Deadline: 4 March 2024
5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Accelerating sustainability in industry by means of people and technology
Summary of PhD Program:
In this project the role of the employees (i.e., process operators) and their involvement in the innovation process is studied. The importance of the human element in the implementation of technological innovations is often overlooked. With the help of the theories of lifelong learning, human resource development, team learning, innovation, and co-creation we will work on this issue. Central questions are: what helps and hinders employees who have to work with fingerprint to implement it smoothly? How can innovation-oriented employees and teams be supported in using and advancing these technological innovations? The main aim of the project is to smoothen and speed up the process and use of fingerprint data in order to reduce industry’s footprint.
Application Deadline: 4 March 2024
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Cellular Agriculture
Summary of PhD Program:
With the world’s population predicted to surpass nine billion by 2050, substantial challenges emerge regarding food production and security. Traditional practices such as livestock farming and fishing are deemed unsustainable due to their resource-intensive nature and adverse environmental effects. Therefore, there is an ever-growing need for innovative and sustainable food production technologies. Cultivated meat is an emerging technology where meat and seafood are produced using animal cell culture.
Application Deadline: February 29th, 2024
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Adaptive Digital Twins for Precision Agriculture
Summary of PhD Program:
The Information Technology Group (INF) of Wageningen University is hiring a PhD candidate (4 years, full-time employment) to create the greenhouse of the future, which is smart, efficient and inclusive. A digital twin of such a greenhouse will enable both the integration of sensor data with state-of-the-art adaptive AI techniques, as well as user-friendly interaction and operation with the farmer.
Application Deadline: 28 February 2024
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Digitizing Other Economies
Summary of PhD Program:
You will be based at Wageningen University and conduct fifteen months of in-depth ethnographic fieldwork in the Kyrgyz Republic. You will study how Kyrgyz pastoralists experience digitization, especially through the proliferation of smartphones as a potential further push towards their assimilation into dominant industrial, if not industrial-capitalist, economic systems and values. This will allow you to provide crucial insights into context-specific experiences with digitization among pastoralists and contribute critical digital perspectives to key debates on post-Soviet life-worlds and their capitalist entanglements including the often overlooked presence of diverse economic practices.
Application Deadline: 27 February 2024
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Digitizing Other Economies
Summary of PhD Program:
The Knowledge, Technology and Innovation (KTI) Group of Wageningen University and Research, welcomes applications for a fully salaried PhD position in the ERC-funded project ‘Digitizing Other Economies: A Comparative Approach’ (DOE). DOE is a comparative ethnographic and ethnological research project led by Dr Geoffrey Hobbis, Assistant Professor at KTI. DOE investigates possibilities for economic diversity in the digital age based on cross-cultural comparative research among longstanding ‘other’ economies – hunter-gatherers, pastoralists, horticulturalists and non-industrial agriculturalists. For more information about the project, you are encouraged to check out this short manifesto published in Geoforum.
Application Deadline: 27 February 2024
10. Fully Funded PhD Position in Farm-economic analysis of transitioning to sustainable mixed cropping in Dutch agriculture
Summary of PhD Program:
We, the Business Economics Group at Wageningen University and Research, invite applications for the PhD position entitled: ‘Farm-economic analysis of investments in sustainable farm practices and technologies in Dutch agriculture’. This research will be carried out within the NWA-financed project entitled ‘Designing mixed cropping systems and transition paths towards sustainable ecology-based agriculture’.
Application Deadline: 19 February 2024
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Unravelling Plasma Membrane Structure in Response to Environmental Stimuli
Summary of PhD Program:
Much like the borders between countries, the plasma membrane (PM) functions as a natural boundary, delineating cellular constituents from their surroundings. Beyond its role as a protective barrier, the PM is instrumental in facilitating communication between cells and their external environment, positioning it as a pivotal site for studying this intricate interaction. Disturbances in the PM’s function or composition have profound effects on cell survival, thereby adversely impacting the overall development and viability of plants. In our research group, our emphasis is on unraveling the intricate organization of the PM in response to various environmental cues.
Application Deadline: 19 February 2024
12. Fully Funded PhD Position in The mobilization of discontent framing: causes, content and consequences
Summary of PhD Program:
The first project focuses specifically on the antecedents of discontent framing by politicians. The second project focuses on the implications of discontent framing for political decision-making processes and its normative implications. The positions are part of the VICI project ‘The mobilization of discontent framing: causes, content and consequences ’ (PI prof. dr. Rens Vliegenthart) funded by the Dutch science foundation and is embedded in the Strategic Communication group at Wageningen University and Research.
