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 Evolution and innovation in eukaryotic genomes
Summary of PhD Program:
We invite you to apply for a vacant PhD position in our dynamic research team. In this role, you will have the opportunity to explore the evolutionary processes driving genetic innovation in eukaryotes, such as de novo gene invention, gene fusion, and horizontal gene transfer. The emergence of the complex eukaryotic cell, which gave rise to infamous lineages like plants, animals and fungi, comprises one of the major outstanding questions in evolutionary biology. The past decade has brought large progress in identifying the prokaryotic origins of eukaryotes. In this development, our group discovered the Asgard archaea, eukaryotes’ closest prokaryotic relatives, marking an important inflection point.
Application Deadline: 31 October 2024
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Hydro-bio-geomorphic controls on carbon storage in river systems
Summary of PhD Program:
As a PhD candidate your aim is to gain insights into how the hydro-geomorphic context influences the effects biota has on river-floodplain dynamics and carbon sequestration. You will identify the key locations for long-term carbon storage in river valleys, and you will quantify soil carbon sequestration in river reaches across a hydro-geomorphic gradient, ranging from mountainous/semi-confined to flat/unconfined segments. The project aims at considering carbon flux across various time scales (from millennial to seasonal), and hence gathers information on atmospheric and water carbon flux, as well as on past and present soil and biomass-related carbon content from the selected research sites.
Application Deadline: 11 November 2024
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Acoustic sensing of underwater plastic pollution in rivers and estuaries
Summary of PhD Program:
In this PhD research project you will develop a new method for measuring underwater plastic, by collecting and analyzing Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) data from experiments under (semi-)controlled, and natural conditions. You will use this to (1) detect and distinguish the most common plastic items rivers, (2) estimate total plastic transport with ADCP and validate with reference net sampling measurements, and (3) estimate trends using long-term historical ADCP datasets. You will do this for rivers in the Netherlands and Asia. You will present the project results during meetings with project partners, at (inter)national conferences, and through peer-reviewed publications.
Application Deadline: 15 November 2024
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Behavioural and ecological determinants of social strategies in great tits
Summary of PhD Program:
As a PhD student, you will contribute to novel insight into the social mechanisms underlying discovery and acquisition of food resources, social bonds and behavioural strategies using the great tit (Parus major) as model species. You will combine direct observations with novel technology, including smart feeders, tracking and automatic song recorders in the unique long-term NIOO-KNAW nestbox population in Westerheide, the Netherlands. The project will also include the opportunity to conduct aviary studies at the unique facilities of NIOO-KNAW. As a PhD candidate, you will play a pivotal role in organizing and conducting the field and aviary research.
Application Deadline: 2 December 2024
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5. Fully Funded PhD Position in recyclable polycarbonates by dynamic-covalent chemistry
Summary of PhD Program:
For a recently awarded research grant by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), we are looking for a PhD student to come and join our consortium. This DynaBranch consortium consists of partners from Wageningen University, Eindhoven University of Technology, Avans University of Applied Sciences, with SABIC as industrial partner. The aim of the program is to increase the recyclability of an important class of engineering plastics: polycarbonates. For this, we will (chemically) modify polycarbonates by dynamic-covalent chemistry. These new polymers will be combined with existing polycarbonate (as part of a recycling stream) to achieve (re)processing that is compatible with existing infrastructure. The overall project will cover topics from organic/polymer synthesis, polymer processing and characterisation, ageing and recycling studies, as well as socio-economic analyses related to the acceptance of these new materials.
Application Deadline: 3 November 2024
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Predicting and monitoring healthy diets in Rwanda with big data
Summary of PhD Program:
Recently, a system for high-frequency monitoring of diet quality data was established in Rwanda, offering a unique opportunity to apply data science methods on a national scale, and develop an approach to enrich this data with data from other sources. The aim of this PhD research will be to use high-frequency self-reported data on diet quality in combination with other food system, climatic, agricultural and market related information, to identify the main determinants of a healthy diet and to achieve reliable predictions of the effects of nutrition interventions among rural and urban populations in Rwanda.
Application Deadline: 4 November 2024
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Data Justice and Governance for Food Security
Summary of PhD Program:
The project forms part of an interdisciplinary programme on food security intelligence in which a group of PhD researchers collaborate across different case studies in East and West African countries. The empirical insights of the project will contribute to a growing need to understand ethical governance processes in data generation and use, and how data governance can support meaningful knowledge production and circulation within this important domain. In addition, through participatory mechanisms you will generate insights into the data governance infrastructures and broader social mechanisms that are necessary to support equitable pathways to improved food security.
Application Deadline: 4 November 2024
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Causal machine learning for sustainable smallholder farming in Africa
Summary of PhD Program:
The aim of this PhD research is to dive into causal machine learning methods and their applications in data sparse, heterogeneous smallholder farming systems in Africa. You will work together with stakeholders from the rice value chain of Senegal, and analyze extensive longitudinal farm-level observations that span across hundreds of smallholder farms and several years across an intensification gradient between Dagana and Podor.
Application Deadline: 4 November 2024
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Combining physics of food science with data sciences for functionality prediction
Summary of PhD Program:
As a PhD student, you will work on the development of such predictive data science models by programming, and incorporating physics information into the model. You will work closely together with food scientists, physicists and data scientists. We expect you to be curious to explore relevant data science techniques and for you to be decisive to make a choice for the programming language you will use. The PhD project as a whole, will focus on using data science techniques to predict multi-scale food structure relationships. The project will explore the incorporation of physical models and information into neural networks.
Application Deadline: 17 November 2024
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10. Fully Funded PhD Position in Effects of climate extremes and bud rot incidence on oil palm performance: Implications for economic sustainability
Summary of PhD Program:
We are seeking four highly motivated PhD students to join our team as part of the interdisciplinary Oil-Clips program (OIL-CLiPS – WUR), funded by Wageningen UR and its partners. The Oil-Clips program aims at unraveling the causes of disease outbreaks in oil palm plantations, focusing on Basal Stem Rot in Indonesia and Bud Rot in Colombia and how these are affected by changes in climate and farmer practices. These disease outbreaks are seen as an interplay between host, pathogen, human action, and environment. The recruited PhD candidates will investigate these relations by applying concepts and methods from at least two disciplines.
Application Deadline: 2 December 2024
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Cytoplasmic Inheritance in Plants
Summary of PhD Program:
Plastids and mitochondria are two key organelles responsible for energy conversion and metabolism in plants. To perform these tasks, plastids and mitochondria possess their own genetic material (known as cytoplasmic genomes), which encodes proteins necessary for essential cellular processes such as photosynthesis and respiration. Since the de novo biogenesis of plastids and mitochondria is not possible, these organelles must be inherited from one generation to the next. Therefore, the proper inheritance of these organelles, along with their cytoplasmic genomes, is crucial for the survival of the plant lineage. Interestingly, the inheritance patterns of cytoplasmic genomes differ significantly from nuclear DNA.
Application Deadline: 18 November 2024
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12. Fully Funded PhD Position in Plant root development
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD position is part the national program CropXR’s core research. The subproject “The role of root plasticity in resilience” will run under supervision of Prof dr Christa Testerink in Wageningen. You will be working in a team together with other experimental and computational plant scientists. In this PhD project, you will focus on key genes and molecular pathways predicted to steer developmental plasticity of Arabidopsis roots under drought. Using novel mathematical modelling, network inference approaches and existing knowledge we will identify networks downstream of drought perception and establish how these impinge on and are integrated with basal root development.
Application Deadline: 18 November 2024
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in Metabolic Modelling and Cultivation of Bacteria from Marine Sponges
Summary of PhD Program:
We aim to use metabolic modelling to predict the primary metabolism of bacterial symbionts of marine sponges to get them to grow in vitro. Based on predictions of the secondary metabolism, these bacteria are a uniquely rich resource of bioactive molecules with pharmaceutical properties, but we can only proof and exploit this when they can be grown and for that reason we need you!
Our Aquatic Microbial Ecology group at the Laboratory of Microbiology is looking for a PhD student (4 years, full-time employment) as part of the European Union-funded research project XTREAM. The overarching goal of this research consortium of 13 universities, research institutes and companies is the sustainable exploration and biodiscovery of novel products and processes from extreme microbiomes with the aim to unlock their biological potential.
Application Deadline: 18 November 2024
14. Fully Funded PhD Position in Understanding and applying soil microbiome-mediated control of parasitic weeds
Summary of PhD Program:
Within the project your role will be to proceed with the project explorations for soil amendments or companion crop species that stimulate soil bacteria to overproduce sulphurous volatiles that inhibit Striga germination or kill Striga seeds. On the one hand you will contribute to an increased understanding of the mechanisms of bacterial volatile effects on Striga seeds, and on the other hand you will apply such acquired insights to the development of Striga control options. You will need to field test such control options in sorghum, millet or rice crops in Africa (Senegal or Ethiopia), on their effectiveness and feasibility for smallholders. You will work within a team of researchers at the chair group and within the larger project team.
Application Deadline: 18 November 2024
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15. Fully Funded PhD Position in Political ecology of oil palm disease control: Human action, resource distribution, narratives, and institutions
Summary of PhD Program:
We are seeking four highly motivated PhD candidates to join our team as part of the interdisciplinary Oil-Clips program (OIL-CLiPS – WUR), funded by Wageningen UR and its partners. The Oil-Clips program aims at unravelling the causes of disease outbreaks in oil palm plantations, focusing on Basal Stem Rot in Indonesia and Bud Rot in Colombia and how these are affected by changes in climate, farmer practices, and socio-economic changes. These disease outbreaks are seen as an interplay between host, pathogen, human action, social structure, and environment. The recruited PhD candidates will investigate these relations by applying concepts and methods from at least two disciplines.
Application Deadline: 30 November 2024
16. Fully Funded PhD Position in Where there is change, there is resistance: Understanding the relationship between resistance to change and social norms in meat reduction over-time
Summary of PhD Program:
We are seeking a PhD candidate to join our interdisciplinary research project, which explores the relationship between meat reduction and social norms. The project will examine how individuals vary in their experience of resistance and perception of social norms related to reducing meat consumption. Additionally, it will focus on how this resistance changes over time and how personalized strategies, such as microtargeted messaging, can help decrease resistance and strengthen social norms in favor of reducing meat consumption.
Application Deadline: 16 December 2024
17. Fully Funded PhD Position in Standing strong together? The impact of collective disease management on plant pathogen epidemics
Summary of PhD Program:
We are seeking four highly motivated PhD students to join our team as part of the interdisciplinary Oil-Clips program (OIL-CLiPS – WUR), funded by Wageningen UR and its partners. The Oil-Clips program aims at unraveling the causes of disease outbreaks in oil palm plantations, focusing on Basal Stem Rot in Indonesia and Bud Rot in Colombia and how these are affected by changes in climate and farmer practices. These disease outbreaks are seen as an interplay between host, pathogen, human action, and environment. The recruited PhD candidates will investigate these relations by applying concepts and methods from at least two disciplines.
Application Deadline: 1 December 2024
18. Fully Funded PhD Position in Exploring management options to affect Basal Stem Rot in Oil Palm in Indonesia
Summary of PhD Program:
We are seeking four highly motivated PhD students to join our team as part of the interdisciplinary Oil-Clips program (OIL-CLiPS – WUR), funded by Wageningen UR and its partners. The Oil-Clips program aims at unraveling the causes of disease outbreaks in oil palm plantations, focusing on Basal Stem Rot (BSR) in Indonesia and Bud Rot in Colombia and how these are affected by changes in climate and farmer practices. These disease outbreaks are seen as an interplay between host, pathogen, human action, and environment. The recruited PhD candidates will investigate these relations by applying concepts and methods from at least two disciplines.
