Are you holding Master’s degree and looking for fully funded PhD positions? Leiden University, Leiden, 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. 03 Fully Funded PhD Position in crisis management
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD project seeks to uncover success factors. The PhD student will study how organizations create systemic cultures of alertness that help to detect signals of emerging threats. The project will build on the theory of high reliability organisations (HROs). This project will explore whether HRO principles help to detect crises in a timely way. It will focus on the recognition and handling of so-called anomalous events. It will study HROs that routinely deal with the challenge of threat recognition in the three threat domains (e.g., public order disturbances, pandemics, and extreme weather).
Application Deadline: 17 June 2025
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Catch and release – Anderson localizaton of electrons in metal-halide perovskites
Summary of PhD Program:
Metal-halide perovskites (MHP) are optically active materials, which hold great promise as light-absorber (e.g. in photovoltaic devices and photodetectors) and as light-emitter (e.g. in LEDs). The material is both ionic and soft, meaning that electrons strongly ‘talk’ to the vibrations in the lattice. These lattice vibrations have frequencies in the 0-5 THz range and are thus thermally active at room temperature, meaning that the material is in a constant state of vibrational motion, which acts a source of dynamic disorder. This disorder is poorly understood, and can localize electrons on short length- and time scales.
Application Deadline: 30 June 2025
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Expressivity of Imperative Programs
Summary of PhD Program:
The semantics of programming languages are often modeled as abstract machines that evolve through interaction with their environment, raising the question of whether every machine behavior can be captured by a program in a given language. This question has practical implications, such as in compiler optimizations and decompilation for tasks like malware analysis. However, theoretical limits exist: languages lacking non-local control flow constructs like goto or break cannot express all machine behaviors. This issue, rooted in debates dating back to the 1980s, continues to inspire research, especially into the expressiveness of structurally constrained control flows.
Application Deadline: 30 June 2025
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Electrochemistry of functionalized graphene membranes in fuel cells
Summary of PhD Program:
For a successful energy transition wherein green hydrogen is synthesized and consumed at a large scale, alternatives to poly- and per-fluoroalkyl membranes are necessary. Atomically thin 2D materials such as functionalized graphene have been identified as potential candidates for selective proton transport. The project explores graphene as a working electrode and uses voltammetry techniques to establish correlations between the chemistry of the electrochemical active site and impact on transmembrane proton translocation.
Application Deadline: 30 June 2025
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5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Modeling the mechanical regulation of plant development and regeneration
Summary of PhD Program:
The opening is for a research position within the field of mathematical or theoretical biology, computational physics, applied mathematics or computational science. This PhD project is part of the Gravitation programme GreenTE (Green Tissue Engineering), a multidisciplinary consortium of 7 Dutch universities. Together, GreenTE will unravel how plants sense and respond to mechanical stimuli. These fundamental insights will be the basis to develop engineering interventions to improve plant regeneration, seed longevity and defenses against disease.
Application Deadline: 30 June 2025
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in AI for Network Analysis
Summary of PhD Program:
We are looking for a motivated and talented early-career researcher with a strong interest in social network analysis, complex networks, or network science, and relevant background knowledge on methods in machine learning and AI. The successful candidate will focus on innovating the field of network analysis with AI methods. Examples of topics include algorithmic fairness in network analysis, developing network embedding frameworks for real-world network datasets or AI models based on agentic LLMs for simulating real-world network data. The candidate is furthermore encouraged to propose their own research direction related to AI methods for advancing network analysis.
Application Deadline: 29 June 2025
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Machine Learning for Quantum Systems
Summary of PhD Program:
The successful candidate will work with Dr. Anna Dawid and Dr. Hao Wang on developing new ML approaches to challenging quantum problems, with a strong focus on making these approaches interpretable, reliable, and scalable. In this position, you will learn about state-of-the-art deep learning solutions as well as the challenges of using neural networks as representations of quantum states. You will be given an increasing amount of scientific freedom supported by structured mentoring that includes career development plans guided by your plans after the PhD. The starting date is flexible, the latest in December 2025.
Application Deadline: 23 June 2025
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Avian Neurobiology
Summary of PhD Program:
Vocal communication is a fundamental aspect of social interactions for a wide variety of species. In particular, humans and songbirds have evolved specialized neural circuits to finely perceive and adaptably produce a variety of vocal signals. This project aims to increase our understanding of how these circuits and vocal behavior are shaped by social experience. To do so, we will employ state-of-the art electrophysiological and behavioral recording methods as birds freely engage in dynamic vocal interactions. This neuroethological approach will reveal how complex streams of acoustic input are processed to produce context-dependent vocal responses and socially coordinated behavior.
Application Deadline: 8 July 2025
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in biochemistry / cell glycobiology / targeted protein degradation
Summary of PhD Program:
Carbohydrate metabolism is closely associated with health and many diseases and relies mainly on glycosidases and glycosyltransferases: carbohydrate processing enzymes that break and create glycosidic bonds, respectively. Controlling their activities is vital for understanding pathological processes, and developing therapeutics for glycan- related diseases. Recently, new targeted protein degradation (TPD) technologies, which disable disease-related proteins by degradation, have opened therapeutic possibilities for proteins that are otherwise hard to inhibit.
Application Deadline: 22 June 2025
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10. Fully Funded PhD Position in organic chemistry – chemical biology – targeted protein degradation
Summary of PhD Program:
Carbohydrate metabolism is closely associated with health and many diseases and relies mainly on glycosidases and glycosyltransferases: carbohydrate processing enzymes that break and create glycosidic bonds, respectively. Controlling their activities is vital for understanding pathological processes, and developing therapeutics for glycan- related diseases. Recently, new targeted protein degradation (TPD) technologies, which disable disease-related proteins by degradation, have opened therapeutic possibilities for proteins that are otherwise hard to inhibit.
