Are you holding Master’s degree and looking for fully funded PhD positions? Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 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 Adoption of functional agrobiodiversity and modelling ecosystem services
Summary of PhD Program:
You will be part of a multidisciplinary project (FABforward) on various aspects of functional agrobiodiversity (FAB), funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). The PhD student will mainly work on economics and ecosystem services of FAB adoption by farmers. The position involves working across multiple research institutes. At the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the PhD candidate will design and implement a survey and choice experiment aimed at assessing FAB adoption by Dutch farmers.
Application Deadline: 14-8-2025
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Statistical physics of chromosomes
Summary of PhD Program:
The physical organization of bacterial chromosomes is inherently variable, with large conformational fluctuations both from cell to cell and over time. Yet, chromosomes must also be structured to facilitate processes such as transcription, replication, and segregation. In this project, you will combine data-driven theoretical methods with mechanistic models to unravel the statistical folding of chromosomes. You will use approaches grounded in equilibrium and non-equilibrium statistical physics, information theory, and soft condensed matter physics.
Application Deadline: 30-7-2025
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Synthetic Organic Chemistry & Catalysis
Summary of PhD Program:
The project will focus on developing organocatalytic transformations through a sophisticated integration of synthetic organic chemistry and computational chemistry. Over the past few decades, organocatalysis has rapidly advanced and become indispensable for the synthesis of pharmaceuticals and fine chemicals. Despite these achievements, the rational design of new, effective organocatalytic systems remains a significant challenge due to the lack of a robust, generalizable strategy.
Application Deadline: 24-8-2025
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Mechanisms of energy efficient fast signaling in human neurons
Summary of PhD Program:
The focus of the project is on elucidating neuronal mechanisms of energy efficient signaling in human cortical neurons. A critical requirement of fast neuronal computation and better cognitive function is the ability of neurons to generate and maintain fast and stable output – action potentials. Because of difficult access to living human neurons, their function in supporting cognition remains largely unexplored. Our lab has extensive experience in studying the function of human neurons from neurosurgery patients.
Application Deadline: 14-8-2025
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5. Fully Funded PhD Position in carbon mobilization in tundra ecosystems
Summary of PhD Program:
We invite applications for a PhD position in the10-year EMBRACER research programme funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). At EMBRACER we work at the very frontiers of knowledge on climate change, Earth’s climate system and climate feedbacks. Within its 10-year research programme, funded by NWO, EMBRACER brings together a wide range of world-leading climate experts with the aim to address existing uncertainties about climate feedbacks at the boundaries between oceans, land, ice, and atmosphere.
Application Deadline: 29-8-2025
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Arctic terrestrial-aquatic connectivity in Greenland
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD project aims to quantify geochemical and ecological terrestrial-aquatic connectivity in Western Greenland, identify potential shifts in connectivity caused by climate change, and explore and synthesise pan-arctic terrestrial-aquatic connectivity shifts. To address these aims the PhD student will use field observations (in the area between Kangerlussuaq and Sisimiut) and laboratory methods (geochemical proxies, biomarkers and isotopes, as well as ecological indicators).
Application Deadline: 30-8-2025
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Investigating cascading drought risk as socionatural processes
Summary of PhD Program:
As a PhD candidate at the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), you will conduct interdisciplinary research on how drought risks are formed, manifested, experienced, modelled, and governed. You will combine quantitative and qualitative approaches to understand how people make sense of and mitigate drought impacts. Your work will critically evaluate drought policies and assess their alignment with people’s lived realities, their perceptions of risk and resilience, and root causes of drought.
Application Deadline: 9-8-2025
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in development of diagrammatic many-body perturbation theories
Summary of PhD Program:
We invite applications for a PhD position to advance diagrammatic many-body perturbation theory for single- and two-body Green’s functions to describe charged and neutral excited states of molecules with quantitative accuracy. Building on on-going work in our group(1–3), the project aims to systematically assess the impact of state-of-the-art vertex corrections to fully self-consistent GW within Hedin’s equations. The main goals are to account for dynamical screening in the vertex, going beyond first-order vertex corrections, and designing efficient schemes to embed vertex-corrected GW within low-order perturbation theory.
Application Deadline: 9-8-2025
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Impact-based forecasting of compound heat/drought events in the Netherlands
Summary of PhD Program:
In this role, you carry out research on impact-based forecasting of heat-/drought-related compound events in the Netherlands. Your focus is the representation of hazard-impact relationships and your results contribute to the development of operational impact-based forecasting models at the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI)’s Early Warning Centre. You perform literature reviews, engage with stakeholders, researchers and modellers, and explore and develop new empirical methods to capture hazard-impact relationships.
Application Deadline: 14-8-2025
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10. Fully Funded PhD Position in Biomedical Optics
Summary of PhD Program:
For this project, we will develop a new optical endoscopic technique. As a PhD students you will work on fiber-optic system development, novel catheter designs, data processing algorithms, and modelling of scattering and polarization properties of tissue, with the goal of bringing a new technology into the hospital. The research will be conducted at the VU University in Amsterdam. The candidate will be part of the PhD program of the Biophotonics & Medical Imaging section under the Physics and Astronomy Department at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. J.F. de Boer, an internationally recognised leader in the field of Biophotonics (www.deboer.one).
