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 Evaluating Greenland glacier

Summary of PhD Program:

You will utilise a combined approach of remote sensing, field measurements, and numerical modelling to identify and parameterise the controlling factors for glacier retreat. Specifically, you will investigate various physical processes acting at the ice-lake boundary to improve an existing calving flowline model for lake-terminating glaciers. The insights of the flowline modelling will be used to develop data-driven parameterisations for calving and subaqueous melt that can be applied in an ice sheet model (IMAUICE and/or UFEMISM). The model will be set up for a selected region in South Greenland to understand the impact of climate change on outlet glaciers.

Application Deadline: 25 August 2023

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2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Global Scale Stable Isotope Measurements on Atmospheric Methane

Summary of PhD Program:

In this position you will join a and be responsible for measuring and interpreting the stable isotopic composition of atmospheric methane. Methane is emitted from different sources to the atmosphere and carries a distinct isotopic composition that is characteristic for the respective source process. This composition can be used to quantify the relative contributions of methane from different source categories in the atmosphere, and methane isotope measurements are becoming a standard tool for source partitioning.

Application Deadline: 14 August 2023

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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Generative AI Art

Summary of PhD Program:

The widespread use of Generative AI Art tools and services and the dissemination of an astounding amount of AI-generated images into everyday outlets are discussed broadly. However, we lack a general understanding of how these tools will change the labour market, the art market, and production in creative industries. Beyond these obvious impact points, these tools bring the potential of changing the creation and consumption of material culture in unimagined ways.

Application Deadline: 28 August 2023

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4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Developmental Biology

Summary of PhD Program:

We are looking for a highly motivated PhD candidate who will join our research efforts to understand how epithelial cells functionally specialise, function and become polarised. Cell polarity – the asymmetric distribution of components and functions within a cell along a directional axis – is a key property necessary for cells to carry out their specialised functions and organise the 3D multicellular body. Two of the most abundant polarised cell types of the animal body are epithelial cells and neurons. Epithelial cells establish functionally distinct apical and basolateral domains to form selectively permeable barriers, while neurons form molecularly distinct axons and dendrites to enable directional information flow.

Application Deadline: 14 August 2023

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5. Fully Funded PhD Position in C. elegans neurobiology

Summary of PhD Program:

The microtubule cytoskeleton is key to organise and shape neurons. It provides strength to the cell as well as the “transportation roads” to organise the intracellular environment. Through specific organisation of the microtubules, cargoes can be selectively transported from the cell body to either axons or dendrite, which is essential for their respective functions. In the Harterink lab we aim to understand the molecular mechanisms that underly this specific microtubule organisation.

Application Deadline: 14 August 2023

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6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Spatial inequality in Water-Energy

Summary of PhD Program:

This PhD project will build on a social and health science perspective, with a focus on a livelihoods approach to the WEF security, which includes social, economic, and human conditions of rural households embedded in particular biophysical and infrastructural conditions. By taking the livelihoods approach, the PhD project will determine vulnerability and resilience of people to changes that affect their health conditions in particular places and spaces.

Application Deadline: 21 August 2023

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7. Fully Funded PhD Position in climate change and spatial inequality in Water

Summary of PhD Program:

South Africa is one of the most unevenly developed countries in the world. About 33% of South Africa’s population lives in rural areas with limited access to basic services such as clean and safe water, affordable and clean energy, and balanced and nutritious diets. This is exacerbated by climate change and has direct and indirect impacts on public health and wellbeing. This project will assess spatial inequality in water‐energy‐food security, the implications for public health in rural South Africa and how this will be affected by climate change. It will also identify future‐proof interventions to enhance the resilience of vulnerable rural communities to health crises.

Application Deadline: 21 August 2023

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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Water-carbon-nutrient dynamics

Summary of PhD Program:

RESHAPE is a new interdisciplinary research programme funded by NWO that aims to develop change-pathways to increase the resilience of Dutch sand landscapes in face of ongoing climate change. It focuses on droughts, floods, biodiversity loss and deteriorating water quality. The water system of the sandy area goes far beyond the visible ditches and rivers. It is especially the invisible water flows through subsurface and plants that we can influence and improve. Moreover, in a resilient sand landscape, the spatial networks of water, economy, society and governance are strongly intertwined. Within RESHAPE we study how to stimulate these spatial dependencies, which often start with water and can catalyze a change towards a future-proof sand landscape.

Application Deadline: 15 September 2023

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9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Governance for more resilient landscapes in Dutch sandy soils

Summary of PhD Program:

RESHAPE external link is a new interdisciplinary research programme funded by NWO that aims to develop change pathways to increase the resilience of Dutch sand landscapes in the face of ongoing climate change. Think of droughts, floods, biodiversity loss and deteriorating water quality. The water system of the sandy area goes far beyond the visible ditches, puddles and rivers. It is above all the invisible water flows through soil and plants, that we can shift and improve. Moreover, in a resilient sand landscape, the spatial networks of water, economy, society and governance are strongly intertwined. Within RESHAPE we study how to stimulate these spatial dependencies, which can catalyze a change towards a future-proof sand landscape.

Application Deadline: 15 September 2023

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10. Fully Funded PhD Position in Elucidate the Molecular Mechanism of Signal Peptide Cleavage

Summary of PhD Program:

In the PhD position to elucidate the molecular mechanism of signal peptide cleavage you will unravel the molecular mechanism of signal peptide recruitment and proteolysis by the Signal Peptidase Complex (SPC) and its regulation. Many proteins use N-terminal signal peptides to target them to the secretory pathway of the cell. The fast majority of these signal peptides is removed from the mature protein by the SPC located in the Endoplasmic Reticulum (ER). Despite its central role in protein maturation, the molecular details of SPC proteolytic activity and regulation is largely unexplored. Recently the Förster group resolved the apo-structure of the human SPC’s.

Application Deadline: 28 August 2023

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11. Fully Funded PhD Position in gravitational-wave astrophysics

Summary of PhD Program:

The Institute for Gravitational and Subatomic Physics (GRASP) at Utrecht University is looking for a highly motivated PhD candidate in gravitational-wave astrophysics. As the successful candidate, you will work with real and simulated gravitational wave data from existing detectors as well as envisaged next-generation observatories such as Einstein Telescope, use statistical tools such as Bayesian analysis to assess what the challenges will be, and develop novel methodology to analyse the data accurately. With the developed methods, you will likely be placing much more stringent bounds on fundamental constraints from third-generation detectors.

Application Deadline: 14 September 2023

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12. Fully Funded PhD Position in cryo-Electron Microscopy and Tomography of Sperm Maturation

Summary of PhD Program:

Sperm are highly specialised cells whose structure is optimised for one defined function: to deliver the male genetic material to the female egg cell. Although the distinct sperm ultrastructure has been known for many years thanks to electron microscopy, the molecular details of how sperm gets its distinctive shape are still lacking. Over the past few years the Cellular Structural Biology of Fertilization research group of Dr. Tzviya Zeev-Ben-Mordehai external link has pioneered the use of cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) and tomography (cryo-ET) to study mature sperm at the molecular level.

Application Deadline: 24 August 2023

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13. Fully Funded PhD Position in Harnessing the Potato Soil Microbiome Potential for Crop Resilience 

Summary of PhD Program:

The PhD project aims to investigate the potential of the potato microbiome to improve growth and stress resilience of potato crop systems. In this PhD project you will work with microbiomes from a diverse set of 100 potato fields. You will analyse their microbial community profiles, and experimentally relate them to their effect on potato growth, development and stress resilience in the Netherlands Plant-Ecophenotyping Centre external link (NPEC) using robotized plant shoot and root architecture phenotyping technologies. Your research will inform the crop modelling projects in CropXR Potato. Discoveries from your project may ultimately lead to sustainable innovations in future microbiome-assisted potato cultivation.

Application Deadline: 15 September 2023

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14. Fully Funded PhD Position in Solid Earth Geophysics

Summary of PhD Program:

This project will address the fundamental question: “Do plumes exist, and if so, where?”. You will develop state-of-the-art machine learning tools to bring together data and modelling from seismology, geodynamics and mineral physics. While you will be based at Utrecht University, you will also collaborate with an international team of experts, and will present your work at national and international meetings.

Application Deadline: 1 September 2023

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1. Fully Funded PhD Position in Social and Sustainable Entrepreneurship

Summary of PhD Program:

Small and medium enterprises (SME’s) are increasingly pivoting their business activities towards environmental and societal well-being — creating so-called hybrid organisations. Simultaneously, society and policy makers pressure firms to do so, assuming overall positive effects on society and the economy. In this position, you will investigate how SME’s and governments can steer decision-making towards sustainability practices that enable socio-environmental, as well as financial performance at the firm and regional level. The research will draw on novel data from leading organisations in the field of business and social impact. You will actively collaborate with experts from sustainable business, entrepreneurship, innovation, political economy and finance.

Application Deadline: 30 June 2023

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2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Epigenetics and Gene Regulation

Summary of PhD Program:

A multitude of DNA sequence-dependent and -independent interactions between transcriptional regulators and the genome are required for tissue-specific gene expression and cell identity. Interference or lack of specificity in this process results in defective embryonic development and can give rise to various human diseases, including cancer. One particular layer that regulates these processes are modifications of histones and DNA. Such epigenetic modifications contribute to gene expression control through influencing the recruitment of regulatory factors to specific regions in the genome.

Application Deadline: 3 July 2023

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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Economics

Summary of PhD Program:

The candidate will be involved in the project ‘Green investments, insurance decisions, and their relation to risk and social preferences’. The aim of this project is to study to what extent risk and ambiguity in the context of insurance and investments are influenced by climate-change induced uncertainty, and how it affects individuals’ willingness to pay or invest. The study will involve the fields of behavioural economics, behavioural finance and possibly development economics. The candidate will also have freedom to pursue their own research interests.

Application Deadline: 2 July 2023

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4. Fully Funded PhD Position in AI-Enabled Teamwork 

Summary of PhD Program:

Effective team building is the backbone of most successful projects. Yet, forming effective teams is far from trivial. The latest advances in AI are further expanding our understanding of what constitutes an ideal team and how to support it, for example with emerging types of teams comprising not only humans but also humans and AI. This PhD project will investigate how AI can facilitate, optimise, and scale the collaboration of human-human and human-AI teams, with focus on teams working on creative and complex tasks.

Application Deadline: 31 July 2023

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5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Evaluating Greenland glacier-lake interaction

Summary of PhD Program:

You will utilise a combined approach of remote sensing, field measurements, and numerical modelling to identify and parameterise the controlling factors for glacier retreat. Specifically, you will investigate various physical processes acting at the ice-lake boundary to improve an existing calving flowline model for lake-terminating glaciers. The insights of the flowline modelling will be used to develop data-driven parameterisations for calving and subaqueous melt that can be applied in an ice sheet model (IMAUICE and/or UFEMISM). The model will be set up for a selected region in South Greenland to understand the impact of climate change on outlet glaciers.

Application Deadline: 25 August 2023

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6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Statistics/ Social sciences

Summary of PhD Program:

The proposed research investigates a novel tool for aggregating evidence from studies that investigate a common theory but are too diverse to aggregate with traditional approaches (e.g., meta-analysis). When studies vary considerably with regard to research design, operationalisations of key variables or statistical models used, the parameter estimates or effect sizes may no longer be comparable across studies. This can typically be the case in conceptual replications and complicates the quantification of the evidence for a scientific claim over multiple conceptual replications studies.

Application Deadline: 29 June 2023

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7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Influential/ Performative Machine Learning

Summary of PhD Program:

Key requirements in the use of AI systems are transparency, robustness, and human oversight. This is particularly challenging in non-stationary environments, such as evolving data streams, where distributions might be subject to drift. Complementing previous research on change detection and adaptation, a current research focus is understanding distributional changes and their causes. Of particular interest in the context of this research are feedback loops: these occur, when a machine learning system causes itself changes in its environment, through its predictions and resulting actions.

Application Deadline: 30 June 2023

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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Enabling Societal Missions

Summary of PhD Program:

This PhD position is part of the Enabling Societal Missions through Entrepreneurial Ecosystems (ESMEE) project, which aims to help improve the effectiveness of Regional Development Agencies in stimulating sustainable entrepreneurship to achieve societal missions. Achieving societal missions requires radical innovations by entrepreneurs who are driven by sustainability concerns and can act outside the status quo. However, the Netherlands has a low level of sustainable entrepreneurship. Regional conditions must be improved to increase the prevalence and success of sustainable entrepreneurship. The ESMEE project proposes a data-and dialogue driven entrepreneurial ecosystem approach to improve the functioning of mission-driven innovation systems.

Application Deadline: 30 June 2023

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9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Equine Reproduction

Summary of PhD Program:

We don’t yet understand how to trigger the dynamic events enabling stallion spermatozoa to achieve fertilizing ability, ‘capacitation’. Accordingly, in vitro production of horse embryos relies on intracytoplasmic sperm injection, and tools for investigating stallion subfertility are limited. To address these deficits a better understanding of `capacitation-related characteristics’ in stallion spermatozoa is required. These signaling processes are poorly understood but play a crucial role in a stallion’s fertility potential. The PhD candidate will investigate sperm capacitation using various analytical techniques. The objectives of this project include the application of conventional IVF using equine oocytes and cooled and frozen/thawed stallion semen; and the development of functional capacitation induction tests to screen sub-fertile stallions.

Application Deadline: 24 July 2023

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10. Fully Funded PhD Position in Virology: coronavirus replication

Summary of PhD Program:

You will have the opportunity to conduct cutting-edge research in fundamental virology as a member of a multidisciplinary NWO XL-funded consortium. The consortium’s goal is to uncover the very early stages of coronavirus infection. To this end, we bring together a diverse team of experts on single molecule biophysics, theoretical biophysics and super resolution microscopy from Universities across the Netherlands. As a molecular virologist, you will play a central role in the project. The project provides an unique environment to receive training in molecular virology, beyond state-of-the-art biophysics and microscopy. We aim to prepare you for a successful career in infection biology and biomedical research.

Application Deadline: 7 August 2023

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11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Global Scale Stable Isotope Measurements on Atmospheric Methane

Summary of PhD Program:

In this position you will join a and be responsible for measuring and interpreting the stable isotopic composition of atmospheric methane. Methane is emitted from different sources to the atmosphere and carries a distinct isotopic composition that is characteristic for the respective source process. This composition can be used to quantify the relative contributions of methane from different source categories in the atmosphere, and methane isotope measurements are becoming a standard tool for source partitioning.

Application Deadline: 14 August 2023

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12. Fully Funded PhD Position in Women in Policing 

Summary of PhD Program:

The Department of Sociology external link has a job opening for a PhD position in the topic of Women in Policing. The project will assess how gender diversification in police organisations can influence policing outcomes and the experiences of women in policing. Gender diversification in policing has been argued as the solution to many problems in policing, including reducing disproportionate use of force and misconduct, building trust with communities, adopting non-traditional policing tactics, and improving job satisfaction more generally. In addition, women in leadership positions are considered particularly relevant for fostering changes to organisational culture, yet the number of women in police leadership positions remains low.

Application Deadline: 31 July 2023

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13. Fully Funded PhD Position in Enabling Societal Missions in Agrifood through Entrepreneurial Ecosystems

Summary of PhD Program:

This PhD position is part of the Enabling Societal Missions through Entrepreneurial Ecosystems external link (ESMEE) project, which aims to help improve the effectiveness of Regional Development Agencies in stimulating sustainable entrepreneurship to achieve societal missions. Achieving societal missions requires radical innovations by entrepreneurs who are driven by sustainability concerns and can act outside the status quo. However, the level of sustainable entrepreneurship in the Netherlands remains relatively low. Regional conditions must be improved to increase the prevalence and success of sustainable entrepreneurship.

Application Deadline: 27 July 2023

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14. Fully Funded PhD Position in effects of stressors on harbour porpoise populations

Summary of PhD Program:

The aim of this project is to identify and quantify different stressors and assess how these affect health and reproduction, and thus population dynamics of harbour porpoises. This is a first step towards identifying the “exposome” of harbour porpoises: the identification of the diversity and range of exposures to stressors and the investigation into their corresponding biological responses at the individual and population level.

Application Deadline: 23 July 2023

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15. Fully Funded PhD Position in Humanities

Summary of PhD Program:

We are seeking to hire a highly motivated, driven, and talented PhD student to carry out this PhD project in a period of four years. The PhD project is funded by a grant awarded to dr. Marloes van Moort, dr. Karin Fikkers, Prof.dr. Hans Hoeken and Prof.dr. Antal van den Bosch, and will be carried out at the Institute for Language Sciences (ILS), Utrecht University. You will work in an interdisciplinary team with researchers from the fields of cognitive psychology, text comprehension, language technology and persuasion research.

Application Deadline: 11 July 2023

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1. Fully Funded PhD Position in Applied Economics

Summary of PhD Program:

The research project will focus on identifying consequences of judges’ verdicts, and on firms’ strategic behavior involving their decision to go to court. It can affect their market and litigation behavior during and after court cases. There are two separate data sources, which have not been matched so far: there is information about the court proceedings, and the judge’s verdict. The other is a database containing financial data of firms involved in court cases.

Application Deadline: 7 June 2023

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2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Theoretical Research on Online Algorithms

Summary of PhD Program:

You will focus primarily on researching online algorithms, design novel algorithm and analyse the competitive/approximation ratio by providing mathematical proofs. The goal is to publish the results in scientific journals and proceedings and present them at international conferences. You will also be involved in teaching by supervising tutorial groups of Bachelor’s and Master’s level courses and supervising student projects. This PhD position is a 5-year programme on Online Algorithms and you will be settled in the Department of Information and Computing Science. You will conduct about 70% research and 30% teaching. This allows the selected candidate to develop a strong academic profile.

Application Deadline: 31 May 2023

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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Psychologically validated digital twins of human decision-making in urban mobility

Summary of PhD Program:

To realize the project’s aims, the PhD candidate will investigate individual differences in human decision-making for urban mobility scenarios that involve one or multiple forms of mobility (e.g., walking, cycling, taking public transportation, or a different kind of mode) in different urban settings. The PhD candidate will investigate two levels of decision-making and how it impacts mobility: operational level decisions (e.g., how small decisions such as whether to briefly pause to determine where to go next impact travel speed) and strategic decisions (e.g., how a preference to avoid crowded areas impact an agent’s route).

Application Deadline: 31 May 2023

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4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Synthesis and Characterisation of van der Waals Materials

Summary of PhD Program:

You will join the research group of Machteld Kamminga, who is a newly appointed assistant professor funded through QuMat. She focusses on the synthesis and characterisation of various quantum materials, aiming to bridge the gap between condensed matter physics and materials chemistry. Her expertise and interests are in synthesis / crystal growth, X-ray diffraction and neutron scattering, and magnetic and superconducting properties of materials.

Application Deadline: 29 May 2023

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5. Fully Funded PhD Position in technologies for AI in Education 

Summary of PhD Program:

Join our research effort with a four-year PhD position on AI in Education in the context of the Dutch National Lab on AI in Education (NOLAI). external link In this PhD you will aim to develop a framework for learner modelling services. For this, you will develop methods to determine and compare the quality of various services for different learner modelling approaches and use these methods to help researchers and teachers decide which learner modelling approach and services to use in which situations. In this position you will be part of the Software Technology for Learning and Teaching external link research group of the department of Information and Computing Sciences of Utrecht University.

Application Deadline: 12 June 2023

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6. Fully Funded PhD Position in circular green hydrogen production

Summary of PhD Program:

We are seeking a highly motivated and talented PhD candidate to join our research team at the Faculty of Geosciences. The successful candidate will work on an interdisciplinary project that integrates innovation systems, transition studies and the circular economy with material and chemical engineering sciences with the goal to foster a fully circular green hydrogen economy.

Application Deadline: 28 May 2023

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7. Fully Funded PhD Position in imagining institutional interventions on land markets using gaming methodology

Summary of PhD Program:

Climate, energy, nitrogen, and housing crises force societies to make urgent and drastic spatial choices against an ever-increasing scarcity of land. Policymakers have been using spatial designs to address these spatial challenges, employing appealing imaginations of the future to depict changes in the physical environment. These designs are crucial in articulating ambitions for spatial outcomes, but insufficient in bringing about the required spatial transitions, as transitions presuppose institutional changes as well. However, the working of new institutions is sometimes hard to imagine.

Application Deadline: 28 May 2023

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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Legal opportunities and obstacles towards a sustainable expansion of offshore wind energy in the North Sea

Summary of PhD Program:

As a PhD candidate at Utrecht University, you will conduct research for four years, under the guidance of various colleagues of the Utrecht Centre for Water, Oceans and Sustainability Law external link from Utrecht University to generate relevant results for the Dutch society and the legal community. The subject of your PhD dissertation, focusing on the international, EU and domestic legal framework regulating offshore wind energy in the North sea, falls within the NWA-funded project ‘Ecosystem-based Adaptive Management for Renewable Energy in a Sustainable North Sea’ (Ecoamare). The PhD will be embedded within the School of Law, department International and European Law. The candidate will also be a member of the Utrecht Centre for Water, Oceans and Sustainability law (UCWOSL – one of the research groups of the School of Law) and the UU strategic theme Pathways to Sustainability.

Application Deadline: 1 June 2023

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9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Economics

Summary of PhD Program:

Utrecht University School of Economics (U.S.E.) offers one fully funded three-year PhD position. The candidate is expected to conduct high-quality research in the field of public economics, resulting in a doctoral dissertation. You can watch the video Utrecht University School of Economics: the Real World Perspective external link if you would like to know more about working at U.S.E. The candidate will be involved in the project ‘Voluntary sustainability certifications in public procurement and their welfare effects’. The aim of the project is to analyze the welfare effects of sustainable public procurement, and thereby contribute to Utrecht University’s research theme ‘Pathways to Sustainability’.

Application Deadline: 25 May 2023

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10. Fully Funded PhD Position in just transitions in crop genome editing for smallholder farmers

Summary of PhD Program:

We are seeking a highly motivated and talented researcher to join our team in studying the potential impact of gene editing technologies (such as CRISPR-Cas) for smallholder farmers in the global South. In theory, genome editing is highly promising for developing climate resilient crops that may benefit smallholder farmers in the global South – hence addressing both sustainability and inequality. In practice, however, this promise is not yet realized. We will investigate whether and how crop genome editing can contribute to a just transition for smallholder farmers in the global South.

Application Deadline: 31 May 2023

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11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Cooperation between Human Operators and AI Algorithms in the Railway Sector

Summary of PhD Program:

Future planning of rail infrastructure usage requires a dynamic approach in which human operators interact with automated planning tools to jointly optimize the planning process. This requires both novel, yet-to-be-developed algorithms (AI), and a redefinition of the role that the human operator plays in the automated planning loop. Moreover, such algorithms and human operations need to be understood in the real world, in actual contexts of work, to tie scientific theories to everyday practice.

Application Deadline: 21 May 2023

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12. Fully Funded PhD Position in Implementation of Circular Business Models

Summary of PhD Program:

As a PhD researcher, you will contribute to create a better understanding of transition pathways towards effective, scalable, and resilient circular business models, by analysing past and current trajectories of firms that have been attempting to implement circularity in their business. Investigating the origin and evolution of circular entrepreneurial endeavours allows you to identify the main driving and shaping factors as well as (solutions to) barriers from the perspective of the firm or entrepreneur in relation to external actors and trends.

Application Deadline: 31 May 2023

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13. Fully Funded PhD Position in Natural Language Processing: statistical models of disagreement between annotators

Summary of PhD Program:

In Natural Language Processing (NLP), human annotators are frequently needed to tell researchers what a given expression “means”, by assigning the expression a label. When human judges disagree about a label (e.g., whether an utterance is offensive or not), it is important that these disagreements be taken into account, as opposed to simply aggregating the values e.g., using reconciliation or majority voting. Such disagreements are now generally recognized to provide information rather than being noise. We also need to recognize that uncertainties may originate from different sources: in particular, they may be due to semantic ambiguity or to subjective bias.

Application Deadline: 29 May 2023

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14. Fully Funded PhD Position in Natural Language Processing

Summary of PhD Program:

Vagueness is the pervasive phenomenon in which words have imprecisely defined boundaries, which are applied differently in different contexts and by different people. For example, when a patient report describes a baby’s blood pressure as “too high”, or her condition as “stable”, these terms are interpreted differently by different clinicians. This PhD project will study mathematical and computational models of uncertainty and vagueness. In recent years, the literature in this area has shifted away from 2-valued towards multi-valued models, based on modern versions of Zadeh-style fuzzy set theory, on Gardenfors-style conceptual spaces, or on probabilistic models. But these models have rarely been tested with real data.

Application Deadline: 29 May 2023

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15. Fully Funded PhD Position in Drug Regulatory Science

Summary of PhD Program:

This PhD position is part of research project NANOSPRESSO-NL (funded by the Dutch Research Council NWA-ORC). This project aims to research, develop, and implement a technology for decentralized and small-scale production of high-quality and affordable nucleic acid nanomedicines to improve the quality of care for patients with (ultra)orphan diseases. These diseases affect many Europeans, despite the fact that the number of people suffering from any individual rare disease is small. The vast majority of orphan diseases are genetic, and their cause can be addressed by compensating for the defective gene.

Application Deadline: 28 May 2023

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16. Fully Funded PhD Position in Rational Verification and Synthesis in Multi-Agent Systems

Summary of PhD Program:

This PhD position is part of the CAUSES project funded by NWO and ProRail, the Netherlands railway infrastructure organisation. ProRail will provide the data and simulation environments for use in the project. You will work with another PhD candidate who will focus on how causal models of multi-agent systems can be learned. Supported by developers from the innovation and development lab and the data scientists at ProRail, both PhD candidates will be involved in designing and implementing a decision support system based on the results of the project, and will regularly visit ProRail for consultation and development.

Application Deadline: 21 May 2023

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17. Fully Funded PhD Position in Youth and Climate Change Education

Summary of PhD Program:

Young people often have a fixed and sometimes threatening image of the future. However, the IPCC scenarios show that multiple futures are possible, based on different storylines for social, economic and political developments, and that there are also uncertainties caused by imperfect knowledge of climate processes and model imperfection. We would like to know how teachers in secondary geography education can teach their students to deal with this ambiguity and these uncertainties in an appropriate way. In countries with a knowledge-focused curriculum and test-driven culture such as the Netherlands, students are accustomed to teachers possessing the ‘right’ answers and to provide them with certainties.

Application Deadline: 21 May 2023

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18. Fully Funded PhD Position in algebraic geometry

Summary of PhD Program:

Enumerative geometry is the field of algebraic geometry dealing with counting geometric objects satisfying constraints. So far, enumerative geometry largely concerned curve counting. This PhD position is funded by the ERC Consolidator Grant Surfaces on fourfolds on the enumerative geometry of surfaces on Calabi-Yau fourfolds and related subjects. This new field has unexpected connections with various areas of mathematics and physics, such as Hodge theory, singularity theory, representation theory, and string theory.

Application Deadline: 20 May 2023

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1. Fully Funded PhD Position in Anchoring Innovation 

Summary of PhD Program:

The research programme in classical studies ‘Anchoring Innovation in the Philosophical Schools of the Empire’ studies the way in which ‘the new’ is made acceptable and understandable to relevant social groups in a process of ‘anchoring’. The new is frequently anchored in ‘cultural common ground’. In this work package of the Anchoring Innovation research programme, we study how the notion of cultural common ground (as opposed to personal common ground) can help explain different aspects of the coming-into-being of the Roman empire. The overarching issue for this WP, then, is precisely the role of cultural common ground as an anchor for self-understanding and identity-formation.

Application Deadline: 24 April 2023

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2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Economics

Summary of PhD Program:

Within the period of six years, the progress of your research and your work as a teacher will be evaluated at predetermined moments. Details about research objectives, methods, and deadlines will be set in consultation with your supervisors. We are particularly interested in researchers eager to examine the micro-level determinants of the adoption of green technologies’ adoption and environmentally conscious consumption. Potential research questions include: what are the characteristics and motives of firms adopting green technologies, and what are the (expected) environmental and economic impacts of these technologies, vis-à-vis other types of technologies?

Application Deadline: 19 March 2023

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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Marketing of Sustainable Development Technologies

Summary of PhD Program:

The focus of your research and dissertation will be on the innovations that individual citizens across the globe develop to address UNDP’s sustainable development goals (SDGs). For example, citizens have developed applications in sustainable energy (wind/solar energy), 3D printing (waste reduction/separation) and virtual reality (visualization/education tools). The research focus is on conditions in which these innovations disseminate to other people, looking at the role of marketing, crowdfunding, and insights from behavioral economics. You will actively collaborate with experts from marketing, innovation, finance, and behavioral economics.

Application Deadline: 1 April 2023

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4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Natural environment, pro-environmental behaviors and mental health of urban youths

Summary of PhD Program:

We are seeking a highly motivated and talented researcher to join our multidisciplinary team investigating the relationship between nature exposure, mental health, and PEB among urban youth in diverse cultural contexts. Urban youth are experiencing increased stress, depression, and anxiety as they navigate a changing world affected by climate change and deteriorating planetary health. Studies suggest that nature exposure may improve mental health and stimulate pro-environmental behaviors, but previous research has been limited in scope.

Application Deadline: 20 March 2023

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5. Fully Funded PhD Position in TRansforming towards OPen and Inclusive Climate Sciences

Summary of PhD Program:

At the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, we have a full-time four-year PhD position available to examine these questions. This position offers opportunities and expertise from both the Environmental Sciences and Environmental Governance sections within the Copernicus Institute. Through this research, the PhD researcher will embark on interdisciplinary research that aims to document the marginalization of climate scientists and knowledges from tropical countries in the Global South, while highlighting the importance of independent tropical data to support global assessments.

Application Deadline: 31 March 2023

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6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Unified spatial ecosystem models – the ecological angle

Summary of PhD Program:

The aim of RESILIENCE is to fundamentally advance our understanding and predictions of tipping points and critical transitions in ecosystems and reveal how these can be evaded and even reversed through spatial pattern formation. RESILIENCE will develop a new theory for emerging resilience through spatial pattern formation and link this with real tipping-prone biomes undergoing accelerating global change: savanna and tundra. The candidate will benefit from the expertise of the four Principal Investigators (PIs) in the RESILIENCE project: Max Rietkerk, an ecologist at Utrecht University, Arjen Doelman, a mathematician at Leiden University, Ehud Meron, a physicist at Ben-Gurion University, and Isla Meyers-Smith, an ecologist at the University of British Columbia.

Application Deadline: 31 March 2023

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7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Unified spatial ecosystem models – the mathematical angle

Summary of PhD Program:

There is an urgent need to understand the effects that global change can have on the Earth, its system components and ecosystems. One area of critical concern is the imminent abrupt and irreversible critical transitions of ecosystems through tipping points. Recent discoveries indicate that such tipping could be evaded and even reversed in ecosystems through spatial pattern formation, thereby creating pathways of resilience. For our ERC-Synergy project Pathways of resilience and evasion of tipping in ecosystems (RESILIENCE) we are offering a PhD position for a self-motivated candidate with a strong scientific background in the field of mathematics, ecology, environmental sciences or physics, preferably spanning two of the disciplines, and with excellent English language skills external link.

Application Deadline: 31 March 2023

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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Turing before tipping

Summary of PhD Program:

In the PhD project Turing before tipping at Leiden University, you will study and develop fundamental mechanisms by which an ecosystem may evade tipping by the formation of patterns. Ecosystems are usually modeled by reaction-diffusion systems in which patterns are typically generated by a Turing bifurcation. However, the onset of Turing patterns by itself is insufficient to enable the ecosystem to avoid collapse, it is also crucial that a family of Turing patterns extends beyond the tipping point.

Application Deadline: 31 March 2023

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9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Enhancing Carbon Sequestration using refined compost in agricultural soils

Summary of PhD Program:

Dutch agriculture faces the major challenge of contributing to reducing the emission of greenhouse gases. This objective can be contributed to by sequestrating more CO2 in soils and crops while at the same time reducing the emission of other greenhouse gases. In the NWA call ‘Climate-friendly agricultural soils’ two projects focus on how microbes in the soil, separately or in collaboration with plants, can contribute to increased carbon storage and decreased emissions of greenhouse gases, especially nitrous oxide.

Application Deadline: 27 March 2023

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10. 02 Fully Funded PhD Position in Indo-Dutch Jazz, Improvisation and Decolonisation

Summary of PhD Program:

The project as a whole studies the emergence of free improvisation in Europe in the context of the historical process of decolonisation, with a particular focus on the Netherlands. European improvisers distinguished their so-called ‘non-idiomatic’ free improvisation from jazz and other improvisatory musical practices. At the same time, post-war decolonisation processes meant that more and more musicians from former European colonies were making their livelihoods in Europe, with sometimes very different perspectives on the relation between jazz, improvisation, and concepts of musical and political freedom.

Application Deadline: 31 March 2023

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11. Fully Funded PhD Position in ice sheet and glacial flow modelling

Summary of PhD Program:

The Department of Earth Science, Faculty of Geosciences at Utrecht University, invites applications from highly-motivated candidates for a PhD position on ”Improving ice sheet and glacial flow models for reducing uncertainty in sea-level rise projections”. This project is a research collaboration between the Department of Earth Sciences external link and the Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research external link (IMAU) at Utrecht University.

Application Deadline: 24 March 2023

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12. Fully Funded PhD Position in Improving freshwater quality in the Netherlands

Summary of PhD Program:

The ecological and chemical quality of freshwater units is essential for ecosystems and human well-being. In the EU, freshwater quality is controlled via the Water Framework Directive (WFD). EU Member States must have achieved the WFD water quality targets by 2027, but many are struggling to meet them. This applies in particular to the Netherlands, one of the most densely populated Member States with a high degree of industrialization and an intensive agricultural sector that contribute negatively to water quality. Achieving the WFD goals in this complex setting is a multi-dimensional task that requires cross-sectoral cooperation, which is extremely difficult to achieve.

Application Deadline: 19 March 2023

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13. Two Fully Funded PhD Position in EU-TREAD network on Data and Processes in Seismic Hazard

Summary of PhD Program:

The Department of Earth Sciences is seeking to fill two PhD positions of in total 11 within the EU TREAD doctoral network: ‘Data and Processes in Seismic Hazard’. The two positions at Utrecht University offer a four-year PhD track with help of additional non-EU funding, in contrast to the other 3-year tracks in the network. A personalized training program will be set up, reflecting your training needs and career objectives. About 20% of your time will be dedicated to this training component, which includes training on the job in assisting in the BSc and MSc teaching programs of our department.

Application Deadline: 15 April 2023

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14. Fully Funded PhD Position in Improving Fluvial Morphodynamics to Meet Ecological Standards

Summary of PhD Program:

The Department of Physical Geography is searching for a PhD candidate who will study the hydromorphological processes that have led to the low aquatic biodiversity of the Common Meuse river (Maas in Dutch). The aim is to improve our understanding of these processes in order to find appropriate interventions for habitat restoration. This project is funded by Rivers2Morrow, a research programme of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management and its executive organisation Rijkswaterstaat.

Application Deadline: 7 April 2023

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15. Fully Funded PhD Position in Quantifying the Role of Vegetation on Drought Duration, Propagation and Recovery for Multi-year Droughts

Summary of PhD Program:

The department of Physical Geography is searching for a PhD candidate within the ERC MultiDry project. The aim of the project is to understand how vegetation responds to multi-year droughts. It will make use of the latest developments in dynamic vegetation and hydrological modelling and will be executed in close collaboration with Wageningen University (WUR).

Application Deadline: 31 March 2023

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16. Fully Funded PhD Position in Atmospheric, Oceanic and Land Drivers of Multi-year Droughts Under Climate Change

Summary of PhD Program:

The department of Physical Geography is searching for a PhD candidate with the aim to improve our understanding of drivers of multi-year droughts within the ERC MultiDry project. The project will make use of the latest developments in climate and hydrological modelling and will be executed in close collaboration with the Dutch meteorological service (KNMI).

Application Deadline: 31 March 2023

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17. Fully Funded PhD Position in 3D Modelling of the Subsurface of the Netherlands Using Statistics and Machine Learning 

Summary of PhD Program:

Are you interested in statistics, AI, or machine learning and are you eager to apply these methods to solve problems in geology? We welcome you to apply for a position at the Department of Physical Geography external link at Utrecht University external link (DPG-UU) in the Netherlands, for a joint project with TNO Geological Survey of the Netherlands. To support planning of engineering and mining activities on and below the surface, the Geological Survey of the Netherlands (TNO) creates and maintains consistent, nation-wide digital 3D models of the subsurface.

Application Deadline: 31 March 2023

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18. Fully Funded PhD Position in microbial genome evolution

Summary of PhD Program:

This position aims to investigate bacterial and archaeal genome organisation, studying the evolutionary mechanisms and the biological impacts of current genome architectures. A first step will involve describing and understanding novel patterns of gene localisation, and exploring bacterial and archaeal lineages with a strong emphasis on recently discovered groups. You will employ molecular evolution and comparative genomic techniques such as gene annotation, phylogenetics/phylogenomics, and a range of sequence analyses to examine large-scale genome datasets. Depending on specific opportunities and your own interests, this position may involve several additional approaches.

Application Deadline: 23 March 2023

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19. Fully Funded PhD Position in co-governance for heat stress adaptation

Summary of PhD Program:

Utrecht University has opened a new full-time four-year position for a doctoral (PhD) researcher in the field of co-governance for heat stress adaptation strategies. The doctoral researcher will become part of a new 4 year research project, BEAT THE HEAT, led by Dr. Heleen Mees and Dr. Bishawjit Mallick. The combined effects of climate change and the urban heat island are causing heat stress, morbidity, and excess mortality in cities, particularly among vulnerable citizen groups in socially deprived neighbourhoods. Vulnerable citizens have a) higher exposure to heat (poor housing, limited green space); b) increased sensitivity to heat (older adults and children, people with disability or chronic illness); and/or c) limited coping capacities (poor physical/mental health, no supportive network).

Application Deadline: 31 March 2023

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20. Fully Funded PhD Position in Footprint of Colonialism

Summary of PhD Program:

The aim of this project is to quantify the relative attribution of different countries to biodiversity loss and GHG emissions arising from land change since the colonial period using footprint analysis. This will illustrate to what extent the burden of resource extraction has shifted over time and how colonial legacies impact environmental footprints in present day. We will use an approach that integrates the HYDE database external link of landcover change with reconstructions of resource flows based on historical data and footprint modelling techniques.

Application Deadline: 31 March 2023

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21. Fully Funded PhD Position in Conservation paleobiology of toothed whales of the North Atlantic

Summary of PhD Program:

We are looking for a candidate to fill a prospective PhD position in the project “Conservation paleobiology of toothed whales of the North Atlantic” carried out in collaboration between the Department of Earth Sciences (Faculty of Geosciences) and the Department Biomolecular Health Sciences (Faculty of Veterinary Medicine) at Utrecht University. This project will apply geochemical methods to unravel changes in the habitat and ecology of toothed whales in the North Sea during the last millennia, focusing on the anthropogenic impact.

Application Deadline: 31 March 2023

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22. Fully Funded PhD Position in Cell Wall Alteration and Sensing in Response to Abiotic Stress in Plants

Summary of PhD Program:

Plants perceive the environment and dynamically respond to their surroundings. One of the main features of plant cells is the cell wall, crucial to provide support and generate the turgor pressure vital for cell expansion. Plants also use the cell walls as antennas to alert the cell about its own status. How? Plants have evolved proteins that sense the integrity of the walls. When the cell wall is perceived to be damaged, intracellular responses are activated.

Application Deadline: 27 March 2023

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23. Fully Funded PhD Position in Educational Sciences/ Educational Psychology 

Summary of PhD Program:

The Department of Education at Utrecht University offers a PhD position in Educational Sciences/Educational Psychology on an NRO funded project that seeks to improve critical thinking skills of higher education students. This project is conducted in close collaboration with Avans University of Applied Sciences. The supervision team consists of prof.dr. Tamara van Gog and dr. Eva Janssen at Utrecht University, and dr. Peter Verkoeijen at Avans University of Applied Sciences.

Application Deadline: 19 March 2023

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24. Fully Funded PhD Position in Cloud-Aerosol interaction

Summary of PhD Program:

Reactive nitrogen is quickly becoming the dominant pollutant in many regions in the world, with important consequences for ecosystems, human health and climate. This leads to changes in atmospheric chemistry and physics that need to be understood. The CAINA project investigates how aerosols and clouds interact in this new chemical regime by combining field experiments, chamber studies and modeling. The project is located mainly in the Netherlands, where nitrogen pollution evolved to be a serious problem. We make extensive use of the Ruisdael atmospheric observatory external link with its advanced in-situ and remote sensing infrastructure.

Application Deadline: 2 April 2023

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25. Fully Funded PhD Position in NWA project 

Summary of PhD Program:

Today’s children and youth (C&Y) are immersed in digital media in the full media landscape that surrounds them across contexts. The Covid pandemic revealed inequal opportunities for C&Y to use digital media. There are differences in digital media access, motivation/skills to use digital media, and support of key persons (e.g., parents/teachers/peers) herein. Understanding mechanisms in C&Y’s digital media use related to their development helps them and key persons to act in evidence-informed ways to reduce inequality.

Application Deadline: 31 March 2023

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26. Fully Funded PhD Position in Pathogenesis of stem cells tumorigenicity

Summary of PhD Program:

Human embryonic stem cells and induced pluripotent stem cells can be maintained in culture indefinitely (self-renewal) and differentiate into virtually all cell types of the human body (pluripotency). Challenges in stem cell therapies include the detection and removal of incompletely differentiated cells, addressing the genomic and epigenetic alterations in the generated cells and overcoming the tumorigenicity of these cells that could arise on transplantation. Moreover, long-term culture of PSCs can lead to (epi)genetic drift, potentially activating processes that resemble malignant transformation as an adaptive mechanism to the culture conditions.

Application Deadline: 31 March 2023

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27. Fully Funded PhD Position in Geographies of Inclusive Cities

Summary of PhD Program:

We are looking for an ambitious and highly motivated PhD candidate with a background in Human Geography or a related discipline. In your PhD project you will compare non-Anglo-American northern and/or southern cities through theoretical reflection and methodological innovation. You will empirically investigate how these cities learn from one another about the meaningful inclusion of sexual and gender non-normative citizens, through what kinds of partnerships, and with what local outcomes.

Application Deadline: 15 April 2023

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28. Fully Funded PhD Position in cryo-Electron Microscopy and Tomography of microtubules in mammalian sperm cells

Summary of PhD Program:

Microtubules play a key role in controlling cell shape, organelle distribution and cell motility. Microtubules are intrinsically dynamic polymers, however some cellular components are based on stable microtubules. Depolymerisation of stable microtubules can be prevented by specific factors, but the mechanisms of their action are unknown. We are now seeking a motivated PhD candidate to study microtubules stabilisation in vitro and in mammalian cells with a special interest in sperm cells. In this position you will become part of a consortium supported by an NWO-OCENW-XL grant to study microtubule structure and dynamics in situ using a combination of innovative cryo-Electron Tomography (cryo-ET) and advanced cryo-fluorescence microscopy.

Application Deadline: 14 April 2023

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