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 Economic feasibility of farm-level investments
Summary of PhD Program:
We are looking for a talented aspiring researcher who is interested in exploring the economic potential of sustainable mixed cropping systems. Do you want to understand how farmers can benefit from diversifying their crops and reducing their environmental impact? If so, you might be the perfect candidate for this project.
Application Deadline: 21 August 2023
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Psychological mechanisms underlying durable behavior change
Summary of PhD Program:
Many people worldwide struggle with overconsumption of health-harming products such as high-calorie foods Behavior change is very difficult, however, as it often requires a change from subjectively very attractive options (e.g., red meat with fries) to initially less attractive options that are considered more valuable on the long run (e.g., plant-based dishes). This raises the question how preferences for attractive but less healthy and less sustainable products can be durably changed.
Application Deadline: 28 August 2023
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Biodiversity in marine shellfish culture
Summary of PhD Program:
Wageningen University & Research invite applications for the PhD position entitled: Biodiversity in marine shellfish culture. You will participate in a project that aims to identify the role of mussel culture plots on benthos and fish populations in the Wadden Sea and Eastern Scheldt. Mussels in high densities provide a three-dimensional structure that benefits settlement, shelter, and food for macroinvertebrates. Alongside natural mussel beds, seeded subtidal culture plots support diverse macrozoobenthos communities and may serve as substrate for certain fish species.
Application Deadline: 1 September 2023
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Design and economic feasibility of local high-tech food supply chains
Summary of PhD Program:
The main focus of the research will be on the design of local and smart food supply chains and the empirical analysis of (1) economic, risk and sustainability implications, and (2) the interest of food value chain actors to engage in these chains. The PhD project has a quantitative nature. Various techniques will be applied, such as economic and risk analysis, mathematical modelling for decision support and the analysis of decision-making and behavior using surveys and workshops.
Application Deadline: 4 September 2023
5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Plant resistance to aphids in wild peppers
Summary of PhD Program:
This research project is in collaboration with three plant breeding companies and a biocontrol company and addresses fundamental questions to provide a basis for innovative developments in pepper crops. You will work closely together with a postdoc and a second PhD student and will be employed in a multidisciplinary team focused on insect-plant-microbiome interactions at the Laboratory of Entomology. Our team and laboratory offer a diverse and open-minded environment with both scientific and social activities. You will be involved as a teaching assistant for two courses per year and your personal development will be supported by an individual training and supervision plan of the graduate school Experimental Plant Sciences.
Application Deadline: 28 August 2023
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Soil and water-based spatial planning and design
Summary of PhD Program:
We have a unique PhD position at the intersection of two prominent research groups :The Landscape Architecture and Spatial Planning cluster (LSP) and the Soil Geography & Landscape group (SGL) at Wageningen University. This is for a 4-year project that aims to develop land use planning and design principles, building on model-based representations of soil-water-land use interactions. To ensure that stakeholders embrace and adopt these principles, they should be clear and intuitive.
Application Deadline: 18 September 2023
7. 02 Fully Funded PhD Position in Unravelling Drought Impacts on Tropical Forest Trees in Brazil
Summary of PhD Program:
You will contribute to a better understanding of tree responses to drought at seasonal and multi-annual time scales, and across a rainfall gradient in the tropics. Specifically, you will help unravelling the roles of two possible mechanisms driving drought impacts on tree growth: (i) the low availability of sugars due to stomatal closure, impairing photosynthesis (source limitation) and (ii) the lack of cell multiplication and expansion due to low cell turgor pressure (sink limitation). You will study two widespread and abundant tree genera (Aspidosperma, Handroanthus) that form annual tree rings. You will also contribute to model development, and use process-based tree growth models.
Application Deadline: 18 September 2023
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Protecting the rights and interests of future generations within present-day policy-making
Summary of PhD Program:
To protect future generations’ rights, governments need to take timely action in response to sustainability crises such as climate change. Addressing these long-term crises is difficult because democratic governments are faced with short-term election and budget cycles and are often accused of being myopic. To incentivize governments to take climate action, citizens, scientists and civil society organizations are exploring alternative ways including climate change litigation and protest initiatives. They also have proposed institutional and democratic reforms to better equip democratic governments to also pay attention to long-term problems and solutions.
Application Deadline: 18 September 2023
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Protecting the rights and interests of future generations within present-day policy-making
Summary of PhD Program:
To protect future generations’ rights, governments need to take timely action in response to sustainability crises such as climate change. Addressing these long-term crises is difficult because democratic governments are faced with short-term election and budget cycles and are often accused of being myopic. To incentivize governments to take climate action, citizens, scientists and civil society organizations are exploring alternative ways including climate change litigation and protest initiatives. They also have proposed institutional and democratic reforms to better equip democratic governments to also pay attention to long-term problems and solutions.
Application Deadline: 18 September 2023
10. Fully Funded PhD Position in Bioinformatics
Summary of PhD Program:
In this project, we will investigate orphans in human gut microbiome species. We will use state-of-the art machine learning approaches to study the properties of orphans and to learn about their evolutionary origin and potential function. In particular, we plan to use predicted protein structures to detect remote homology and to investigate the properties of proteins with potentially novel functions. This work will contribute to a fundamental understanding of how proteins evolve.
Application Deadline: 18 September 2023
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Precision Agriculture
Summary of PhD Program:
As a PhD candidate, your work will involve the selection, calibration, and verification of suitable sensing principles to ensure accurate and continuous monitoring of soil moisture and N in real field conditions. Specific focus of your research will be on investigating the novel biodegradable sensor’s performance (reliability, biodegradability, limit of detection etc.) and compare these against traditional sensors with respect to the measurement accuracy, spatial-temporal resolution, and environmental consequences.
Application Deadline: 2 October 2023
12. Fully Funded PhD Position in How do microplastics affect soil structure
Summary of PhD Program:
Microplastic pollution is known to affect soil hydro-physical properties, such as soil structure, water holding capacity, infiltration rate etc., as well as the abundance and activity of soil structure creating biota such as earthworms. Thereby the microplastics influence the water and soil transport processes and thus also the transport of microplastics themselves. Despite erosion being the primary cause of land degradation globally, the precise mechanisms and quantities of microplastics transported with runoff and erosion is largely unknown.
Application Deadline: 4 September 2023
13. 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: 28 August 2023
14. Fully Funded PhD Position in Understanding challenges in the Science-Policy interface of soil-based Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) technologies
Summary of PhD Program:
You will contribute novel insights to these critical issues by studying how knowledge related to different types of soil-based CDR technologies is translated from local-scale studies to global climate assessments, and from science into policy making. You will visit several research groups in this field and participate in different types of natural and social science research practices, particularly related to global climate modelling. You will also interview policy makers and other societal stakeholders related to these CDR technologies.
Application Deadline: 2 October 2023
15. Fully Funded PhD Position in Nutrition and measuring Biological Ageing
Summary of PhD Program:
As a PhD Candidate for the ‘Sensing Age’ project at Wageningen University, you will pursue a PhD as a fully funded PhD candidate and contribute to understanding nutrition’s role in ageing. You will use epigenetic clocks and other biological ageing measures to identify successful agers and determine their lifestyle habits. After identifying lifestyle habits, especially dietary behaviour, you will test the most promising ones in a randomised controlled trial. In short: you are going to find a hypothesis and test it, all at the boundaries of ageing and nutrition science.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
16. Fully Funded PhD Position in Mechanobiology of immune cell functioning
Summary of PhD Program:
Immune cells are highly dynamic, and mechanical forces have emerged as regulators of key immune functions. In the Vorselen Lab, we develop new biophysical technologies to tune the physical stimuli that cells receive and assess cellular forces, and combine this with high-resolution microscopy and cellular perturbations. This combination provides an unusual quantitative readout of immune cell behavior and helps us understand the regulation of immune processes by physical forces in health and disease.
Application Deadline: 28 August 2023
17. Fully Funded PhD Position in Artificial intelligence
Summary of PhD Program:
Adapting to the impacts of climate change is necessary and increasingly urgent. Governments across the globe have increasingly formulated high adaptation ambitions to become more climate resilient. In order to understand if these ambitions are implemented in practice, tracking progress on adaptation is of critical importance. This program aims to develop, theorize and empirically test the causes and consequences of the politics of adaptation tracking. Adopting a comparative approach, the program investigates the political dynamics around the Global Stocktake under the UNFCCC Paris Agreement, the EU Climate Change Adaptation Strategy, and ongoing climate change adaptation developments in several countries from across the globe.
Application Deadline: 25 September 2023
18. Fully Funded PhD Position in Design of contracts and ownership structures in bio-based business models
Summary of PhD Program:
The Business Economics Group at Wageningen University is looking for a PhD student to contribute to their research on the design of contracts and ownership structures for replicable and scalable fair business models in the bio-based economy. The broader framework of the position is within 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.
