Are you holding Master’s degree and looking for fully funded PhD positions? Utrecht University, Utrecht, 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 Accelerating the Transition to a Circular Textile Economy
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD project aims to accelerate the transition to a circular textile economy by leveraging the Mission-specific Innovation Systems (MIS) framework. This framework provides a systems perspective to study the dynamics of diffusion and implementation of innovation. It maps the actors, networks, and institutions involved, assesses system performance, and identifies barriers to achieving societal missions through innovation. Until now, the MIS has mainly focused on technological innovation but in this project we also want to focus on the social innovations that are needed to accelerate the transition towards circular textiles.
Application Deadline: 15 September 2024
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Future of Work and Organisational Creativity
Summary of PhD Program:
Creative tasks—those where the generation of new ideas and products traditionally relies heavily on the individual and group-related competencies of human workers—are widespread in many jobs, and for these tasks the adoption of Generative artificial intelligence (GAI) may be considered both a blessing and a curse. The project focuses on GAI purposefully as we want to contribute to the debate on how human capacity for creation/creativity is affected by the technological paradigm shift.
Application Deadline: 14 September 2024
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Marine Palynology
Summary of PhD Program:
You are expected to generate multiple records of organic-walled dinoflagellate cyst assemblages crossing glacial-interglacial transitions from sediment cores that were collected by the British Antarctic Survey and through the International Ocean Discovery Programme. In addition, the project involves the generation of organic geochemical biomarker records from the same sedimentary records, which will complement the reconstruction of ecosystem, ocean and climate variability. Alongside this, there are opportunities to generate sedimentological and inorganic geochemical data on the sediment core as well, which are indicative of both ocean and ice dynamics.
Application Deadline: 20 August 2024
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Infrastructural Imperialism
Summary of PhD Program:
INFRAEMPIRE is a five-year project supported by a European Research Council Advanced Grant. The project explores the ways that rising economic powers such as Turkey, China, and Brazil rely on building the infrastructure of other states to drive reconstruction in their own capitals and create ‘soft power’ empires. INFRAEMPIRE turns an ethnographic lens on the infrastructural imperialism of the Turkish state, a growing power whose construction sector is reshaping the Global South and for almost two decades drove a domestic economic boom.
Application Deadline: 23 August 2024
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5. Fully Funded PhD Position in evaluation of translational research to support societal missions on cancer
Summary of PhD Program:
As a PhD candidate you will contribute to developing a theory of change and monitoring and evaluation approach to understand and assess the process of impact creation in large translational research projects such as Oncode Accelerator. You will particularly focus on how science and technology development in these projects contribute to shaping the Dutch and European health innovation system and addressing societal missions on beating cancer. This includes a focus on the role of clinical data infrastructures, in-vitro models such as organoids and artificial intelligence approaches for drug discovery.
Application Deadline: 3 September 2024
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in resource trade in relation to the climate transition
Summary of PhD Program:
The ENTICE project aims to investigate the relationships between climate and environmental policy and the trade of various resources. On the one hand, resource consumption is a major cause of energy demand. At the same time, climate policy leads to significant changes in the energy system, influencing future resource demand (for instance, an increased demand for specific metals used in batteries). Both relationships are intriguing. For instance, as greenhouse gas emissions are mostly associated with the production of materials, changes in trade patterns also result in changes in emissions across countries.
Application Deadline: 31 August 2024
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Engaging in Climate Science & Education
Summary of PhD Program:
Moving towards a sustainability transformation requires our students to adapt to change and to develop their capacity to shape and create change. For this, it is important to connect the cognitive learning objectives (head) with practical skill development (hand) and affective learning objectives (heart). In this PhD project, the aim is to implement the head-hand-heart approach in our climate change research and education. You will therefore be working on the interface between the sciences and the arts. On the one hand, you will work on environmental topics, including data gathering in the field or living labs, and data harvesting from large data repositories, data analysis and modelling.
Application Deadline: 6 September 2024
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Visual Analytics of Virtual Reality for Enriched Visual Rehabilitation
Summary of PhD Program:
As PhD candidate in this project, you will conduct independent high-quality research resulting in a doctoral dissertation. Your research will focus on developing a gamified VR application to collect eye tracking data to measure and treat hemianopsia (partial blindness). Additionally, you will design a Visual Analytics solution for exploring complex data recorded from the training patients including eye tracking, task progress, and success rates. This will enable therapists to monitor and improve patients’ visual rehabilitation progress. You will collaborate with a diverse project team of academics, clinicians, and software developers to realize the goals of the project.
Application Deadline: 1 September 2024
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Porcine RespiratOry Virus Evolution and Dynamics
Summary of PhD Program:
We have a unique genomic dataset of two viruses in swine. Swine Influenza A virus (SIV) and Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome virus (PRRSv) are significant causes of respiratory disease in swine and have been circulating in swine herds for decades, even though vaccines are available for both pathogens. Control of these viruses is hampered by extensive genetic diversity and continuous evolution by mutations, reassortment and recombination. By tracking the evolution of SIV and PRRSv within individual pigs, farms, and regions, and connecting this to vaccination status and epidemiological parameters, this project will provide novel means to decipher the transmission dynamics of the viruses in swine populations.
Application Deadline: 31 August 2024
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10. Fully Funded PhD Position in Genetics of Mechanically-Triggered Plant Immunity
Summary of PhD Program:
The goal of this PhD project is to get insights into the molecular processes underlying mechanosensing of pathogens by plant cells. In this project, you will design and perform experiments that will provide a better understanding of how plants respond to mechanical force during infection. This requires a strong scientific basis in combination with your creativity and perseverance. The envisioned approaches aim to identify early signaling proteins and genes, to functionally analyse candidate genes by studying mutants and perturbed proteins, and to study infection phenotypes at the macroscopic, microscopic and biophysical level.
Application Deadline: 18 August 2024
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Reversible Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Technology
Summary of PhD Program:
As a PhD candidate in the HyUSE project, you will have the unique opportunity to collaborate closely with industrial partners, leveraging their technical expertise to construct and operate experimental setups and contribute to the advancement of reversible solid oxide technology. The focus of the project lies in understanding and optimising the system’s ability to work in fuel cell mode and transition between fuel cell and electrolyzer modes.
Application Deadline: 31 August 2024
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12. Fully Funded PhD Position in Efficient Computational Methods for xVA and Financial Risk Management
Summary of PhD Program:
Financial institutions are required to adopt and report various Valuation Adjustments, known as xVA, for over-the-counter derivatives, while also managing associated risks. The primary goal of xVA is to integrate various risk categories and external factors —such as Counterparty Credit Risk— into the pricing of derivative contracts. Efficient computation of xVA metrics, along with their associated risk measures and sensitivities to underlying factors, is crucial for effective portfolio risk management. However, despite existing methods proposed in the literature, these calculations continue to be computationally intensive due to the complex and high-dimensional nature of the problems.
Application Deadline: 2 September 2024
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in Power Dynamics in Transformative Social Innovation
Summary of PhD Program:
To explore these questions, the 5-year POTRANSI project, funded by the European Research Council (ERC), will analyze four social innovation movements—decentralized energy production, the sharing economy, eco-communities, and participatory democracy—across Europe and beyond. We will investigate local initiatives in Portugal, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom, as well as examine how these innovations are connected through translocal networks as ‘prefigurative social movements.’ Our goal is to understand how participants navigate the paradoxes and challenges of power dynamics in practice.
Application Deadline: 30 September 2024
14. Fully Funded PhD Position in Acceleration of implementation and future scale-up of offshore wind
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD program focuses on the large-scale offshore wind farm, Oranje Wind, located in the North Sea about 53 kilometers off the Dutch coast. The project aims to deliver over 760 megawatts (MW) of offshore wind capacity, sufficient to power nearly one million Dutch homes, and contribute to the Netherlands’ offshore wind build-out targets. The wind farm will integrate offshore wind with electrolyser capacity for green hydrogen production, flexible demand solutions like e-boilers and battery storage, and floating solar panels to maximize ocean space use.
Application Deadline: 9 September 2024
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15. Fully Funded PhD Position in nature-based approaches for climate adaptation in Dutch lowland
Summary of PhD Program:
Sustainable RiverScapes (Position 1) aims to develop integrated nature-based strategies for the Dutch river areas to adapt to the changing climate and enhance biodiversity. The challenge is to find adaptation solutions that optimize flood safety, sedimentation, biodiversity, and balance cost and benefits. You will extend and apply the RiverScape model, which simulates the hydro-morphological effects of nature-based interventions in the river-floodplain area. Using field observations with state-of-the-art instruments enabled by the new Delta-ENIGMA facility, you will quantitatively analyze floodplain vegetation and sediment dynamics to develop new vegetation and sediment modules in RiverScape.
Application Deadline: 2 September 2024
16. Fully Funded PhD Position in Mediatisation in Transitions
Summary of PhD Program:
In this PhD project, this continuously reproduced inability to see and champion alternatives is our key interest. The vacancy follows from a stimulation fund subsidy granted to a groundbreaking interdisciplinary project: “Imprisoned in the present? Mediatisation Dynamics in Sustainability Transitions”. As a collaboration between leading researchers in futuring and transition studies, this project zooms in on difficulty of perceiving, producing, circulating, and governing futures that are meaningfully different from the present.
Application Deadline: 15 September 2024
17. Fully Funded PhD Position in Milk Extracellular Vesicle Cargo-Function Relationships
Summary of PhD Program:
In this project, you will develop human cellular in vitro functional readout assays to analyse the metabolic modulatory activity of mEVs (e.g. by metabolic tracing studies (fluxomics)). You will connect these findings to the mEV cargo analysed by multi-omics approaches (i.e., metabolomics, proteomics and lipidomics), and you will intervene in mEV cargo and intracellular pathways to link mEV-cargo to function.
Application Deadline: 18 August 2024
18. Fully Funded PhD Position in FLOW – Protein Quality for Health
Summary of PhD Program:
FLOW aims to uncover the molecular principles of how the cellular protein quality-control network modulates the fate of proteins from cradle to grave. Molecular chaperones and the degradation machinery determine the fate of proteins, and failure to do so leads to diseases as divergent as neurodegeneration or cystic fibrosis. The FLOW consortium, a unique and highly interdisciplinary team, aims to discover, rebuild and control the triaging of protein fate.
Application Deadline: 20 August 2024
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19. Fully Funded PhD Position in Cartilage Collagen Fiber Formation
Summary of PhD Program:
Tissue engineering (TE) approaches can be used to produce implants with a composition not unlike real tissues. However, their collagen-based matrix often lacks the intricate organisation that is imperative for biomechanical stability. Here, we aim to unravel the triggers that underlie the formation, guidance and integration of the collagen networks in articular cartilage and leverage biofabrication technologies to generate durable implants.
