Utrecht University, Netherlands invites online Application for number of Fully Funded PhD Degree at various Departments. We are providing a list of Fully Funded PhD Programs available at Utrecht University, Netherlands.
Eligible candidate may Apply as soon as possible.
(01) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Various PhD positions available in FLOW – Protein Quality for Health
FLOW aims to uncover the molecular principles of how the cellular protein quality-control network modulates the fate of proteins from cradle to grave. Molecular chaperones and the degradation machinery determine the fate of proteins, and failure to do so leads to diseases as divergent as neurodegeneration or cystic fibrosis. The FLOW consortium, a unique and highly interdisciplinary team, aims to discover, rebuild and control the triaging of protein fate. We do this by combining biochemical, biophysical, cell biological, computational, and genetic methods, from single molecule to cell.
Deadline :30 November 2024
(02) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Three PhD positions for the ERC project, ‘Making Sense of Communities of Arms’
ARMIES is a five-year project supported by a European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant. The project aims to establish a new research agenda that centralises the firearm as a sensational actant that shapes everyday practices and relations, creates divergent communities, and (re)produces power structures within local and global spheres. The project centres around an ethnographic analysis of the everyday deployment of firearms and their societal impact. It examines and compares the various ways firearms produce communities and focuses on groups that are overlooked in the field of gun studies, such as gun owners’ associations and hunting clubs. ARMIES hypothesises that these communities are disruptive and transformative ones that exert tremendous power.
The project members are guided by the following research question: ‘How do firearms produce communities, how do these communities relate to one another, and what is their societal impact?’ This question will be answered through a comparative and multiscalar analysis of such communities and their members in Brazil, Germany, and South Africa, and global communities, such as international disarmament organisations. Due to the highly embodied, sensational, and affective nature of firearms, ARMIES will use and develop a multisensorial ethnographic approach (and toolkit) that comprises ethnographic methods that explicitly target the senses.
We seek three PhD candidates who have the necessary research experience and language skills to conduct one of the subprojects in Brazil, South Africa and Germany.
Deadline : 15 November 2024
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(03) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD on high expectations, performance pressure, and mental health in childhood
In this PhD position, you are responsible for conducting research within the project ‘High Expectations of Parents, Teachers, and Peers: Driver of Educational Success or Unhealthy Source of Performance Pressure among Children in Upper Primary School?’ The project focuses on parental, teacher and peer expectations as possible sources of performance pressure at school. We examine when high expectations promote children’s school adjustment and when expectations become (too) demanding and create unhealthy levels of performance pressure and mental health problems.
We focus on the last two years of primary school, a period when test results can have a major impact on children’s future, as the tests (largely) determine which track recommendation a child will receive for secondary education. The project has a quantitative longitudinal design following children for two school years (grades 5 and 6), during which two survey measurements are conducted. Furthermore, intensive longitudinal data are collected several times using short daily questionnaires. In the daily measurements, we measure how parents, teachers and peers communicate about their expectations and the importance they attach to high performance during periods when children take important tests and when they receive their school advice. The project will yield knowledge on how teachers and parents can encourage children to realize their full potential without overburdening them.
Deadline : 20 October 2024
(04) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD: Agent-based modelling for reconstructing the history of culture & language
The project is a geoinformation and data science challenge and at the same time uses domain-specific knowledge from linguistics. In this project, you will:
- analyse data on biophysical and demographic variables across South America since 20,000 years ago;
- develop a spatial agent-based simulation model of language evolution;
- use this model to quantify the relative role of biophysical and sociocultural factors in shaping language diversity in South America.
You will work in a multi-disciplinary team consisting of modellers, data scientists, research software engineers, linguists, and geographers from the Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University. You will closely cooperate with a PhD candidate in linguistics at Leiden University. Both of you will work on the same case studies in South America.
To support academic and personal development, PhD candidates follow courses and assist in teaching at Bachelor’s and Master’s level. Together these activities amount to twenty percent of the contracted time.
Language is a unique proxy for culture. A language family arises as a result of the diversification over time of the speech variants of groups that once spoke one and the same language but followed differential historical trajectories. These socio-historical processes took place all over the world, but they have led to radically different patterns of linguistic diversity from one area to another. This fully-funded NWO Open Competition L project is a collaboration between Utrecht University faculty of Geosciences and Leiden Centre for Linguistics to understand the interplay between the biophysical environment and the social processes of diversification to explain the patterns of linguistic diversity we see today
Deadline : 21 October 2024
(05) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Position: Optimisation of Technologies for Electrifying Chemical Processes
This PhD position is part of a large research project ‘Sunsolr: Electrification of chemical conversions’ which is funded by the Long Term Program Process Technology (LTP) set up with Industry, the Dutch funding body TKI E&I, and academia. The LTP programme is coordinated by the Institute for Sustainable Process Technology (ISPT) and aims at contributing to the development of the process industry of the future. Accordingly, you will be embedded in an interdisciplinary team with four additional PhD candidates from partner universities (TU/e, TU Delft, University of Groningen, and Twente University) and with strong interaction and support from leading energy and chemical companies.
Societal relevance: The transition to a CO2 net-zero society requires a major rethinking of the energy system, with coordinated, timely deployment of several technologies. Among the different sectors that need to become CO2 neutral, the chemical industry will be confronted with a daunting, yet existential challenge: to produce large amounts of carbon-based platform molecules starting from renewable energy and non-fossil material feedstocks. Given the scale of production and associated CO2 emissions, the large capital investments of plants, and the limited time available for the transition, the defossilisation of the chemical industry is a cornerstone for a net-zero society. In this pursue, two elements are particularly important. On the one hand, the electrification of the chemical industry, which is expected to play a major role in enabling the transition from a fossil-based to a renewable-based primary energy input. On the other hand, the availability of CO2-free carbon: the chemical industry must source carbon from non-fossil feedstocks, e.g. using direct air capture, where CO2 is captured directly from air. Sunsolr aims to initiate and develop novel technologies for the direct electrification (i) of chemical conversions via electrocatalysis of pre-captured CO2, and ii) of integrated CO2 capture and conversion.
Deadline : 20 October 2024
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(06) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Position on the Human Dimensions of Human-Wildlife Interactions
Numbers of several wild mammal species are increasing in the Dutch landscape, while free-roaming cattle and horses (hereafter, large grazers) are also increasingly used in nature management. For a densely populated country like the Netherlands, this means that there are constant interactions between people and wild mammals or large grazers. While these are often experienced as positive, they also sometimes lead to conflicts: between people and animals, or between people. With a broad consortium of researchers and societal partners, WildlifeNL studies ways to support coexistence between humans and wildlife. We investigate the interactions between humans and animals, and explore how the behaviour of wildlife and humans can be influenced in such a way that a low-conflict coexistence of humans and wildlife becomes possible. The research is approached through diverse scientific disciplines in close cooperation with various societal partners, such as nature managers, farmers, hunters, animal welfare organisations and government agencies. We are currently looking for a team of six PhD candidates with backgrounds in ecology, social science and philosophy.
As a PhD candidate on the human dimensions of human-wildlife interactions, you will focus on studying the individual relationships between people and wildlife in two living labs, Grenspark KempenBroek and Nationaal Park Zuid-Kennemerland. Using citizen science you will investigate what interactions people have with wildlife, how they are experienced, and where in the landscape different types of interactions occur. Based on these results, you will assess the role citizen science can play to monitor and ultimately influence human-wildlife interactions and perceptions. Using qualitative methods, you will engage with different stakeholders to explore how people relate to and value wildlife. Furthermore, you will examine what concerns people have in interacting with wildlife, and what support would be needed to address these. You will work closely together with the other PhD candidates to work towards novel strategies to promote human-wildlife coexistence.
Deadline : 31 October 2024
(07) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Position on the Governance of Human-Wildlife Interactions
Numbers of several wild mammal species are increasing in the Dutch landscape, while free-roaming cattle and horses (hereafter, large grazers) are also increasingly used in nature management. For a densely populated country like the Netherlands, this means that there are constant interactions between people and wild mammals or large grazers. While these are often experienced as positive, they also sometimes lead to conflicts: between people and animals, or between people. With a broad consortium of researchers and societal partners, WildlifeNL studies ways to support coexistence between humans and wildlife. We investigate the interactions between humans and animals, and explore how the behaviour of wildlife and humans can be influenced in such a way that a low-conflict coexistence of humans and wildlife becomes possible. The research is approached through diverse scientific disciplines in close cooperation with various societal partners, such as nature managers, farmers, hunters, animal welfare organisations and government agencies. We are currently looking for a team of six PhD candidates with backgrounds in ecology, social science and philosophy.
As a PhD candidate on the governance of human-wildlife interactions, you will explore how governance arrangements – such as rules and regulations, roles and responsibilities, and decision-making processes – are experienced and shape opportunities for human-wildlife coexistence. You will employ qualitative methods to analyse policies that influence human-wildlife interactions and their management. Through interviews with stakeholders in two living labs (Grenspark KempenBroek and Nationaal Park Zuid-Kennemerland), you will investigate how current rules and roles are understood, implemented, and how they impact collaboration among stakeholders. Building on your qualitative insights, you will apply quantitative methods to assess stakeholder perceptions on a broader scale.
Furthermore, you will co-lead a participatory process that brings together diverse stakeholders to envision modifications to current governance arrangements, aiming to foster more mutually beneficial human-wildlife interactions and stakeholder collaboration. You will work closely with the other WildlifeNL PhD candidates to work towards novel strategies to promote human-wildlife coexistence.
Deadline : 31 October 2024
(08) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Position on the Ecology of Human-Wild Ungulate Interactions
Numbers of several wild mammal species are increasing in the Dutch landscape, while free-roaming cattle and horses (hereafter, large grazers) are also increasingly used in nature management. For a densely populated country like the Netherlands, this means that there are constant interactions between people and wild mammals or large grazers. While these are often experienced as positive, they also sometimes lead to conflicts: between people and animals, or between people. With a broad consortium of researchers and societal partners, WildlifeNL studies ways to support coexistence between humans and wildlife. We investigate the interactions between humans and animals, and explore how the behaviour of wildlife and humans can be influenced in such a way that a low-conflict coexistence of humans and wildlife becomes possible. The research is approached through diverse scientific disciplines in close cooperation with various societal partners, such as nature managers, farmers, hunters, animal welfare organisations and government agencies. We are currently looking for a team of six PhD candidates with backgrounds in ecology, social science and philosophy.
As a PhD candidate in Ecology of Human – Wild Ungulate interactions, you, as part of the WildlifeNL team, will focus on studying the behavioural interactions between wild ungulates and inhabitants in two living labs, Grenspark KempenBroek and Nationaal Park Zuid-Kennemerland. You will use technological tools to firstly better understand how and why people and wild ungulates react to each other in the ways they do and in certain cases come to conflict. In doing so, you will pay special attention to the relationships between human activity/behaviour (particularly land use and nature/wildlife management) and the factors that influence animal behaviour (particularly food availability and fear/disturbance). In a second phase, you will apply the acquired knowledge to test interventions, partly again using technological tools that can influence animal and human behaviour in such a way that lower levels of conflicts arise. You will study all of this from a natural scientific, ecological, perspective. You will work closely with the other WildlifeNL PhD candidates to work towards novel strategies to promote human-wildlife coexistence.
Deadline : 31 October 2024
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(09) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Position on the Ecology of Human-Large Grazers Interactions
Numbers of several wild mammal species are increasing in the Dutch landscape, while free-roaming cattle and horses (hereafter, large grazers) are also increasingly used in nature management. For a densely populated country like the Netherlands, this means that there are constant interactions between people and wild mammals or large grazers. While these are often experienced as positive, they also sometimes lead to conflicts: between people and animals, or between people. With a broad consortium of researchers and societal partners, WildlifeNL studies ways to support coexistence between humans and wildlife. We investigate the interactions between humans and animals, and explore how the behaviour of wildlife and humans can be influenced in such a way that a low-conflict coexistence of humans and wildlife becomes possible. The research is approached through diverse scientific disciplines in close cooperation with various societal partners, such as nature managers, farmers, hunters, animal welfare organisations and government agencies. We are currently looking for a team of six PhD candidates with backgrounds in ecology, social science and philosophy.
As a PhD candidate in Ecology of Human-Large Grazers Interactions, you, as part of the WildlifeNL team, will focus on studying the behavioural interactions between large grazers and recreationists in two living labs, Grenspark KempenBroek and Nationaal Park Zuid-Kennemerland. You will use technological tools to firstly better understand how and why recreationists and large grazers react to each other and in certain cases come into conflict. You will pay special attention to different types of recreationists and different species and breeds of large grazers and to the role of landscape factors. You will also investigate how wildness can be defined and may play a role in interactions between large grazers and recreationists. In a second phase, you will apply the acquired knowledge to test interventions, partly again with technological tools, that can influence animal and human behaviour in such a way that fewer conflicts arise between large grazers and recreationists. You will study all of this from a natural scientific, behavioural ecology, perspective. You will work closely with the other WildlifeNL PhD candidates to work towards novel strategies to promote human-wildlife coexistence.
Deadline : 31 October 2024
(10) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD in Visual Analytics for Explainable Visual Rehabilitation
As PhD candidate in this project, you will conduct independent, high-quality research resulting in a doctoral dissertation. Your research will focus on designing a Visual Analytics solution to analyse data from rehabilitating patients with hemianopsia (partial blindness). With the support of explainable AI models, you will develop Visual Analytics dashboards for exploring complex data recorded from the training patients including eye tracking, task progress, and success rates. By quantifying model uncertainty, these dashboards will enable therapists to monitor and improve patients’ visual rehabilitation progress. You will collaborate with a diverse project team of academics, clinicians, and software developers to realize the goals of the project.
Deadline : 15 November 2024
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(11) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Impact of Digital Technologies on Public Education (in The Netherlands)
Over the past two decades, Big Tech companies have steadily increased their influence over public education. This influence has become particularly evident with the rise of platforms and artificial intelligence (AI). Big Tech conglomerates are restructuring the education sector by incorporating new generative AI (GenAI) infrastructures and applications into their own educational services, while simultaneously integrating them with third-party edtech vendors.
As AI-driven tools and platforms become structurally embedded into schools’ digital environments and practices, the existing infrastructures of public education are increasingly pulled into the globalized ecosystems of Big Tech. In this project you will critically investigate the structural convergence of Public Education, Big Tech and AI in the Netherlands, and study the implications of this process for reshaping public education.
During the first six months of the project, you will work on a detailed research plan based on an extended version of the ‘Project Description’ above, which you will carry out independently during the remainder of the project. In the second and/or third year of the project you may be asked to teach a few classes, but no more than 10% of your appointment.
Deadline : 15 November 2024
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(12) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Position on Multimedia Analysis in the HAICu Project
We are looking for a PhD and a postdoctoral researcher to work within the multi-partner HAICu NWA-ORC project. This vacancy is for the PhD position, the Postdoc position is being advertised simultaneously: Postdoc Position on Multimedia Analysis in the HAICu Project. There are two research topics tackled in parallel for this project (see description below). Based on the applications, the topics will be assigned at PhD or Postdoc level. Both researchers will collaborate within the project.
This project is implemented by an ambitious consortium including many universities, knowledge institutions, archives, foundations, cultural institutions and business partners in the Netherlands. It aims to use improved access to digital heritage to tutor the Digital Citizen in the use of big data. It brings together AI researchers and Digital Humanities scholars to seek solutions to the problem of inadequate data-mining tools we have, aiming to derive information from the continuous stream of data about the present and the past. This will help citizens and other regular users, heritage curators and journalists who are interested in tapping heritage collections, as well as civic organizations and authorities interested in improving civic participation.
Deadline : 13 November 2024
About Utrecht University, Netherlands – Official Website
Utrecht University is a public research university in Utrecht, Netherlands. Established 26 March 1636 (385 years ago), it is one of the oldest universities in the Netherlands. In 2018, it had an enrolment of 31,801 students, and employed 7,191 faculty and staff. In 2018, 525 PhD degrees were awarded and 6,948 scientific articles were published. The 2018 budget of the university was €857 million.
Utrecht University counts a number of distinguished scholars among its alumni and faculty, including 12 Nobel Prize laureates and 13 Spinoza Prize laureates. Utrecht University has been placed consistently in the top 100 universities in the world by prominent international ranking tables. The university is ranked the best university in the Netherlands by the Shanghai Ranking of World Universities 2019, ranking 13th in Europe and 49th in the world.
The university’s motto is “Sol Iustitiae Illustra Nos,” which means “May the Sun of Righteousness Enlighten Us”. This motto was gleaned from a literal Latin Bible translation of Malachi 4:2. Rutgers University, having historical connections with Utrecht University, uses a modified version of this motto.
Utrecht University is led by the University Board, consisting of prof. dr. Henk Kummeling (Rector Magnificus), prof. dr. Anton Pijpers (Chair) and prof. mr. Annetje Ottow (Vice Chair).
Close ties are harboured with other institutions internationally through its membership in the League of European Research Universities (LERU), the Utrecht Network and the European University Association (EUA).
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