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 Meta-Theory in Cognitive Science 

Summary of PhD Program:

The PhD project involves a meta-theoretical investigation with a case study in categorisation. In cognitive science research practice, little effort is spent on theory building (Guest & Martin, 2021; van Rooij & Baggio, 2021). Over the past 30 years cognitive science has become more and more empiricist, in part due to the growing dominance of experimental psychology in the field. In this PhD project, we aim to reinvigorate and improve theoretical research in the cognitive sciences. When this process is systematised, we also speak of metatheoretical calculi (Guest, 2023; Guest & Martin, 2023). In this PhD project, you will adopt various theoretical methodologies (including literature review, conceptual engineering, and formal analysis) to study and characterise how cognitive scientists theorise.

Application Deadline: 06 September 2023

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2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Light-driven THz Switching of Antiferromagnets and Antiferromagnetic Magnonics

Summary of PhD Program:

Achieving the fastest possible processing of magnetic bits with the smallest possible consumption of energy is the next grand challenge in fundamental and applied magnetism. If successful, it may enable energy-efficient writing and processing of magnetic bits at unprecedented THz rates. Antiferromagnets (AFMs) offer one of the fastest magnetic responses lying precisely in the THz frequency range and thus provide an intriguing playground to search for the fastest and the least dissipative mechanism of data processing. However, their rigidity to external magnetic fields challenges our understanding of scenarios and processes leading to an efficient writing of antiferromagnetic bits.

Application Deadline: 31 August 2023

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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in AI – Healthy Data Programme

Summary of PhD Program:

As a PhD candidate, your main responsibilities will involve developing predictive models to forecast the future evolution of complex systems, with a specific focus on the health domain. You will work on understanding how external controls and uncontrollable perturbations influence system dynamics. Additionally, you will contribute to the development of control methods, aiming to generate optimal interventions based on learned predictive models. This will include utilising techniques such as model predictive control and reinforcement learning. Your research will address use cases such as nowcasting, prediction, anomaly detection, early detection, explainability, system identification, and scientific discovery in the health domain.

Application Deadline: 15 August 2023

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4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Assuring Privacy and Security of Research Data

Summary of PhD Program:

The goal of the PhD project is to better understand the guarantees and assess threats to privacy, security and reproducibility in systems that handle privacy-sensitive research data. This includes the question of how to carry out architectural risk assessment in a systematic way. Although PEP has been designed to minimise risks, there are always remaining risks. Factors here include context and application area, types of data processed (as some allow re-identification), and also how roles are assigned to different people. How can we analyse this in a rigorous way, on an architectural level, and make any hidden trust assumptions explicit?

Application Deadline: 20 August 2023

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5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Endocrine-disrupting Compounds on Fish Skeletal Development

Summary of PhD Program:

This project will focus on the effects of EDCs on fish health. You will design and perform experimental research to assess the specific effects of different types of endocrine-disrupting compounds on skeletal development in fish. The results of your experiments will contribute to unravelling the molecular and cellular mechanisms that underlie the effects of endocrine-disrupting compounds on skeletal development in fish. Using the results obtained, you will make an assessment of the extent to which, under realistic environmental EDC concentrations, exposure in early life or later in life will impact the sustainability of real fish populations.

Application Deadline: 10 September 2023

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6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Culture & History

Summary of PhD Program:

As a PhD candidate at RICH, you will be part of the Graduate School for the Humanities. Up to 75% of your time will be devoted to the research for and writing of your PhD thesis. The remaining 25% will be spent on training and academic service to the Faculty of Arts, including teaching. Your thesis topic and research question should align with the research themes of RICH. Descriptions of our research groups can be found here. We are looking for four PhD candidates in total.

Application Deadline: 08 September 2023

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7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Assessing the Environmental Sustainability of Floating Photovoltaic Systems

Summary of PhD Program:

You will contribute to this project by quantifying the environmental impacts and benefits of FPV systems. Impacts typically depend on location and FPV design so the analysis focuses on determining differences in the environmental sustainability of various FPV systems at relevant locations. The spatially explicit environmental impacts will be determined using life-cycle assessment (LCA) and field work. This includes quantifying material and energy requirements, as well as waste and emission flows associated with FPV systems. Various environmental impacts (e.g. eutrophication, water use, climate change) will be considered using state-of-the-art LCA methods.

Application Deadline: 24 August 2023

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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Digital/AI Technologies and Professional Interaction

Summary of PhD Program:

There are currently many fears about digital technologies including robots and AI replacing humans at work or intervening in work practices. More realistically, recent research shows that automation is affecting certain tasks, rather than entire jobs. That is, humans will increasingly work with robots, AI and other technologies. This project moves beyond the ‘grand’ questions about AI and work and takes a novel ‘micro’-approach to ask how robots/agents/digital technologies affect interaction and work qualitatively and in practice. A special interest will be how social categories (gender, race, class) are observably interrelated with the interaction between or around agents and technologies. The project takes an innovative approach to these questions by drawing on a combination of conversation analysis (and/or membership categorisation analysis) and ethnography of digitally mediated professional interactions.

Application Deadline: 01 October 2023

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9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Developmental Origins of Hostility Biases

Summary of PhD Program:

It is currently unclear how hostility biases develop, but caregivers are assumed to play an important role. Based on a child’s early interactions with caregivers, a database of memories of past experiences, cognitive schemas and social knowledge is formed and is thought to guide social interactions. However, little research has been performed to test these hypotheses and elucidate what aspects of the parent-child relationship contribute to the development of hostility biases. In this PhD project you will examine the developmental origins of hostility biases by focusing on parental hostility biases and the parent-child relationship between preschool children and their parents, using a developmental psychopathological and neurobiological perspective.

Application Deadline: 25 August 2023

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10. Fully Funded PhD Position in The Migration-Class Nexus

Summary of PhD Program:

Immigration laws and policies create bureaucratic categories of people by determining who is allowed to enter and reside on the territory, and which rights are attached to legal migration status. This way of categorising people will lead to a differential treatment between migrants. These differences will be exacerbated by the effects that are produced by the requirements for obtaining or securing a migration status: research has shown that the fulfilment of such conditions, such as income or civic integration requirements, disproportionately affect certain groups (such as women, people with disabilities, the elderly). Even though such requirements are often presented as meritocratic and therefore neutral, this research suggests that socioeconomic status or class will affect migration status.

Application Deadline: 10 September 2023

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11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Computer Science Education

Summary of PhD Program:

We are looking for a motivated and passionate PhD Candidate to contribute to the exciting field of Computer Science Education, particularly in relation to the intersection with the Sustainability Development Goals (SDGs). In collaboration with your daily supervisor you will define the exact subject of the project and write a research proposal. You will engage in cutting-edge research and disseminate your results through publication in scholarly journals and participation in international conferences and workshops. Alongside your research, you will be involved in the teaching activities of the institute. You will take part in the institute’s research on scientific literacy, which can be seen as the interplay between gaining a knowledge base (science content knowledge), being aware of the influence of science in society (living with science), and understand how science works (nature of science).

Application Deadline: 27 August 2023

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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 Social Life of Medieval Canon Law

Summary of PhD Program:

As a PhD candidate you will be responsible for one of the subprojects, more specifically, for a subproject that considers how ideas and notions of social hierarchy are transmitted, appropriated, altered, and promoted through clusters of authoritative statements in canonical collections. Your PhD research, which is to result in a dissertation, charts notions of social hierarchy and stratification in canonical compilations throughout the early and high Middle Ages. It represents a novel approach to the genre of canon law and directly contributes to the relevance of canonical sources and studies for the wider historical academic community.

Application Deadline: 06 July 2023

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2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Quantitative Visual Cognitive Neuroscience

Summary of PhD Program:

Studying such questions requires taking visual cognitive neuroscience beyond its traditional paradigms of having people fixate on computer screens and presenting visual information rather passively. This is challenging, yet two recent developments offer a promising way forward: Rapid Invisible Frequency Tagging (RIFT) in magneto-encephalography (MEG) recordings, and deep learning models from Artificial Intelligence (AI) in quantifying visual information. You will be involved in advancing the state of the art in these techniques (especially RIFT), and combining them to yield novel scientific insights.

Application Deadline: 04 July 2023

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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Culture & History

Summary of PhD Program:

As a PhD candidate at RICH, you will be part of the Graduate School for the Humanities. Up to 75% of your time will be devoted to the research for and writing of your PhD thesis. The remaining 25% will be spent on training and academic service to the Faculty of Arts, including teaching. Your thesis topic and research question should align with the research themes of RICH. Descriptions of our research groups can be found here. We are looking for four PhD candidates in total.

Application Deadline: 08 September 2023

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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 Neuropsychological Applications of Implicit Learning

Summary of PhD Program:

You will develop tasks that differ in the extent to which the participant is guided to learn associations between ecologically relevant stimuli, such as faces and names, in an implicit and/or explicit way. You will recruit patients with Korsakoff’s syndrome or mild cognitive impairment, and cognitively unimpaired controls, and assess their learning and memory performance on these tasks using behavioural and electrophysiological (EEG) measures. The project will further our knowledge on interactions between implicit and explicit learning and will ultimately inform the design of future interventions to help amnesic patients facing daily memory challenges.

Application Deadline: 31 May 2023

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2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Age Effects on Memory Strategy Use at the Donders Centre for Cognition

Summary of PhD Program:

In this project, you will delve into the neurocognitive mechanisms that may influence memory strategy use in aging. Specifically, you will test the hypothesis that with aging, multiple mechanisms that are involved in optimal memory strategy use (i.e. strategy initiation, effectiveness, and utilisation), are affected. For this, you will examine how these mechanisms may change over the adult lifespan, acknowledging the fact that aging should be considered as a gradual, continuous process.

Moreover, you will identify neuroanatomical and cognitive correlates of aging-related changes in memory strategy initiation and effectiveness, using an existing database (n≈175) that includes data on memory strategy use and multiple neuropsychological tests, and neuroimaging data collected with MRI (e.g. T1, DWI, rsfMRI). Finally, you will use an ecologically valid approach to test memory strategy use in a daily life situation, for example by studying which strategies are used by older adults in order to memorise as much as possible from a conversation.

Application Deadline: 18 May 2023

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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Cross-modal Art Perception at the Donders Centre for Cognition

Summary of PhD Program:

We are looking for a motivated PhD candidate with an interest in multisensory perception, art and artificial intelligence. When looking at a painting we often have an immediate impression, which determines whether we like it or not. This aesthetic appreciation likely involves the visual characteristics of the painting as well as the personal characteristics of the observer. Past research on aesthetic appreciation has largely taken a unimodal approach (e.g. concerning only visual aspects). However, modern society has an abundance of multisensory input in art, as well as in games, movies, and virtual-reality applications. Our aesthetic appreciation of these applications is therefore likely to depend on different types of, not yet fully understood, cross-modal influences.

Application Deadline: 24 May 2023

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4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Neural and Computational Control Mechanisms of Social-Emotional Regulation

Summary of PhD Program:

This project focuses on how individuals rapidly consider action goals alternative to their automatic action tendencies, and select an option based on potential consequences of those alternative action goals. The project considers two ways people can overcome automatic social-emotional action tendencies: internal goal-switching, internally generating alternative goals for those actions; or learning external outcomes, based on learned consequences of an action. We aim to assess how the combination of these two neuro-computational mechanisms explains human social-emotional regulation and its variation across individuals in relation to social anxiety.

Application Deadline: 28 May 2023

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5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Functional Metabolomics on Mycobacterium Tuberculosis

Summary of PhD Program:

Tuberculosis (TB) has plagued humans for thousands of years and remains one of the leading causes of death worldwide today. Tuberculosis is caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), a bacterial pathogen that infects about a quarter of the world’s population. Although the frontline drugs are effective, drug resistance is emerging as a major threat to global TB control. TB drugs with new mechanisms of action are thus urgently needed. One rich and untapped source of new drug targets is the sizeable part of the Mtb genome that is uncharacterised.

Application Deadline: 26 May 2023

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6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Audiovisual Speech Perception at the Donders Centre for Cognition

Summary of PhD Program:

You will use virtual avatars, allowing careful control of their gestural movements, to establish which kinematic and communicative properties of hand gestures trigger the manual McGurk effect. You will assess how challenging listening conditions impact the perceptual weighting of visual, auditory and audiovisual cues to prominence, as well as determine the time-course of these cues using eye-tracking. Finally, you will design training studies to test how humans adjust their perception to between-talker variation in gesture-speech alignment.

Application Deadline: 22 May 2023

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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 Early Detection of Poultry Disease

Summary of PhD Program:

Infections in poultry are accompanied by the emission of specific volatile organic compounds (VOCs), as confirmed by veterinarians who can smell the presence of disease in a stable. Currently, many infections are not discovered until after widescale spread within or between flocks. At a late stage of detection, when most of the damage has already been done, it is also too late for preventive interventions, so that more rigorous treatments of entire flocks with antibiotics or chemicals are required. These treatments can induce antibiotic resistance and leave residues in poultry products and the environment impacting both animal and human health.

Application Deadline: 26 March 2023

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2. 02 Fully Funded PhD Position in Online Labour Markets (Gig Economy)

Summary of PhD Program:

The Department of Business Administration at the Nijmegen School of Management is offering up to two PhD positions, each on a contract for 4-5 years, starting at the candidates’ earliest convenience. Each PhD position is part of an ERC-funded research project of international excellence on the ‘gig economy’, studying online labour markets and their institutional foundations. Enabling the hiring of service workers through internet-based platforms, the gig economy is revolutionising traditional employment.

Application Deadline: 19 March 2023

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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Early Detection of Poultry Disease

Summary of PhD Program:

Infections in poultry are accompanied by the emission of specific volatile organic compounds (VOCs), as confirmed by veterinarians who can smell the presence of disease in a stable. Currently, many infections are not discovered until after widescale spread within or between flocks. At a late stage of detection, when most of the damage has already been done, it is also too late for preventive interventions, so that more rigorous treatments of entire flocks with antibiotics or chemicals are required. These treatments can induce antibiotic resistance and leave residues in poultry products and the environment impacting both animal and human health.

Application Deadline: 26 March 2023

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4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Online Labour Markets (Gig Economy) Employment

Summary of PhD Program:

To better understand how the gig economy operates (e.g. with regard to its institutional foundations, its impacts on national labour markets and needs for regulation), each of the two PhD candidates will collect and analyse large-N data of (1) gig requesters and (2) online platforms. Possible analyses include, but are not limited to, advanced regression techniques, discrete choice experiments and sequence analyses.

Application Deadline: 19 March 2023

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