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: PhD candidate or Postdoctoral researcher Prevention of Occupational Diseases (0,8 – 1,0 fte)
A future where people no longer get sick due to exposures in their workplace. As PhD candidate or Postdoctoral researcher, you can contribute to this aim with your research. You will work towards a healthy future together with committed and knowledgeable colleagues, and you will have ample opportunities to take the initiative to give substance to the research projects. For the research programme of the new Dutch national expertise centre for occupational diseases (LEXCES
Deadline : 31 October 2023.
(02) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Fully funded PhD position Track and Trace: sediment dynamics and budgets in estuaries and tidal basins (1.0 FTE)
are seeking a PhD candidate for WadSED, a large project on the Wadden Sea tidal basins and the Western Scheldt estuary. We seek to understand these systems and predict their morphodynamics and long-term morphological development under influence of natural dynamics, human interference and sea-level rise. Morphological change involves fluxes of sediment that, integrated over time and space, are sediment budgets. Channel-shoal patterns arise and change as a result of these dynamics. The sediment budget, where the sediment comes from and goes to, and the timescale over which it is displaced, determine the short-term morphodynamics and the long-term morphological development. For better understanding and sustainable management, we need to track and trace the sediment. Your main task will be to develop a new, objective method using our new technology to recognise patterns. Once we have subdivided the landscape into meaningful parts with coherent behavior, we can construct detailed sediment budgets of estuaries and tidal basins and determine sediment pathways from measurements and ongoing modelling. With this, we will gain understanding in systems functioning and effects of biota, extreme events, sea-level rise and human interference. Several ideas, methods and concepts for automated recognition of channels and bars are already available and are also developed by other researchers in our project. Your outcomes will be used by other PhD candidates, for example in model validation.
Deadline : 13 October 2023.
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(03) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Combined PhD position and university lecturer in Cost-Benefit Analysis of Climate Mitigation and Adaptation (1.0 FTE)
Climate change is among the biggest challenges of the 21st century. Systematic analysis of impacts and climate policy in the form of adaptation and mitigation can help policymakers to evaluate effective climate policy. The ACCREU project financed by the Horizon Europe research programme of the European Union investigates the analysis of climate impacts and options for adaptation. As part of this project, Utrecht University collaborated with other European research institutes in assessing climate impacts and options for adaptation. The research will lead to estimates of overall costs that can be used in cost-benefit analysis. You will contribute to developing this information – but you will also apply it in the context of the integrated assessment models IMAGE and MIMOSA.
Deadline : 8 October 2023.
(04) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD position on Modeling of Plant Resilience to Temperature and Drought Stress (1.0 FTE)
This PhD position is part of a project within CropXR’s core research programme. For this project we are looking for an enthusiastic PhD candidate to develop dynamical, process-driven computational models for the effects of combined temperature and drought stress on plant growth and performance as part of the CropXR consortium. You will develop state of the art functional-structural plant models simulating plant growth dynamics and incorporate into these the molecular signalling networks linking drought and temperature perception to responses in plant physiology, growth and development. To arrive at the relevant molecular signalling network submodels you will intensively interact with experimentalists and machine learning experts. The goal of the project is to identify the interplay between temperature and drought stresses and pinpoint the molecular hubs at which trade-offs and synergies arise that can be modulated through targeted breeding approaches.
Deadline : 16 October 2023
(05) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD position in Arithmetic Geometry (1.0 FTE)
We offer a PhD position in arithmetic geometry at Utrecht University. As a PhD student you will carry out mathematical research in the context of the research project “p-structures on moduli spaces of abelian varieties and Drinfeld modules”, funded by an NWO Vidi grant. This project focusses on arithmetic properties of (supersingular) abelian varieties and Drinfeld modules over finite fields and their moduli spaces. You will be part of the research team of Dr. Valentijn Karemaker
Deadline :10 December 2023
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(06) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Researcher on Youth and Climate Change Education (1.0 FTE)
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. But regarding future Climate Change, this is not possible and even undesirable. Instead, students should learn to deal constructively with ambiguity and uncertainties in future Climate Change. This requires a transformative rather than a transmissive pedagogy, which pays attention to students’ cognitive and affective learning processes and different worldviews they may hold. This PhD study aims to develop such a highly desired pedagogy.
Deadline : 7 November 2023
(07) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Two PhD positions in Memory access in language (1.0 FTE)
This project aims to develop, implement and test a general model of memory that can provide insights into how we store and retrieve linguistic information and how our language use is intertwined with memory when we communicate. The model to be developed and tested will be hybrid in the sense that it merges linguistic factors uncovered in computational and theoretical linguistics with general cognitive mechanisms. The overarching goal is to find out how the model of memory can be generalised across various linguistic domains, from the lexicon through syntax to discourse semantics, and how the memory model can help us predict diverse quantitative data in linguistics and cognitive science. There are two components in the project: an empirical one and a computational one. The empirical component of the project will consist in developing, carrying out and analysing experiments that collect behavioral data (e.g., reaction times, eye fixations) or EEG data. The computational modelling component will involve simulating behavioral and neural data connected to processing and memory retrieval.
Deadline : 20 November 2023
(08) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD position in Smart Hydrogels for Volumetric Bioprinting of Organoids (1.0 FTE)
Three-dimensional (3D) bioprinting and organoid technologies hold the promise to revolutionise medicine, building lab-made tissues that mimic human organ parts, enabling new applications in regenerative medicine and pharmaceutical research, as potential alternatives to animal experimentation. Living tissues owe their function not only to their architecture, but also to maturation and morphogenesis, processes guided by patterns of biochemical and mechanical signals that evolve over time, and instruct cells in their proximity. However, control over the time dimension is absent in current bioprinted constructs and in most biomaterials for 3D tissue culture, thus precluding the precise replication of such dynamic changes occurring in the native extracellular environment. Advances in key technologies capturing this shape-function relationship in vitro can bring the long-sought goal of real tissue engineering within reach. In TIMESTAMP, we will develop a new bioprinting technique capable to directly guide tissue maturation by tuning the cellular microenvironment over time, dynamically matching the needs of cells during their natural differentiation process. For this, we will develop novel light responsive biomaterials able to change their mechano-chemical properties on demand, and a new volumetric bioprinting technology under development in our lab. Unlike conventional, layer-by-layer additive manufacturing, this new technique uses visible light to generate complex, large-scale living tissue constructs with an unprecedented degree of fidelity and printing velocity (<10 seconds).
Deadline : 19 November 2023
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(09) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD position in innovation dynamics of plant breeding for resilient crop (1.0 FTE)
We are seeking a motivated and talented researcher to join our team in studying the innovation dynamics for a ‘smart breeding’ method that will be developed by the CropXR institute. This revolutionary new method uses artificial intelligence to breed crops that are resilient to climate change. This innovation can only succeed and scale in an enabling system. This is not a given, however, as older plant breeding methods are deeply embedded in actors’ routines and there are several scientific, regulatory, and market uncertainties surrounding novel smart breeding technologies. We will study how smart breeding can contribute to a just transition, also for smallholders in global South. The study will be conducted in collaboration with plant scientists. In this project, you will investigate factors that enable and constrain the development and adoption of data-driven plant breeding. You will apply frameworks from innovation studies, transition studies, and science and technology studies to identify systemic barriers for issues that are especially salient for smart breeding, such as the global nature of these innovations, the convergence of plant breeding and data sciences, and the importance of new data infrastructures that will enable and constrain innovation pathways in new ways.
Deadline :24 October 2023
(10) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD position in regulation for just transitions in agriculture (1.0 FTE)
We are seeking a motivated and talented researcher to join our team in studying regulations for plant genetic resources in an age of digital innovation. International regulations like the Nagoya Protocol seek to ensure that researchers and companies can have access to genetic resources that are crucial for developing climate-resilient crops. Yet these regulations also need to ensure that local communities in the global South, who contributed to developing those genetic resources, receive a fair share of the benefits. In practice, balancing these regulatory aims has proven to be difficult, and these regulations are also challenged by innovations in digitalizing genetic information. In this project, you will take an empirical approach to investigate how regulations can ensure access to genetic resources that are crucial for sustainable agriculture, while simultaneously ensuring the benefits are shared a way that is equitable and fair. The study will be conducted in collaboration with plant scientists and the Dutch plant breeding sector association.
Deadline : 24 October 2023
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(11) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD position on Microbes for Stress Resilient Roots (1.0 FTE)
Are you intrigued how to prepare crop plants for the rapidly changing climate? And do you want to explore how microbes, by reshaping individual root cell types, improve plant stress resilience? Then join our cutting-edge research team as a PhD candidate. We have recently identified the microbes that induce cell-type-specific-stress resilience in sorghum roots. Your project will focus on understanding what the mechanism of action is of this novel class of microbes and how plant stress responses are modulated by microbes. Your goal will be to characterize the transcriptional changes elicited in roots by selected microbes, identify plant- and microbe-derived signals crucial to establish their interactions, define the dynamics and robustness of the microbial activity and its consequences for the plant stress resilience. In your research you will use a variety of techniques and tools, including histology and microscopy, genomics, comparative gene expression analyses, high-throughput phenotyping, and plant physiology. You will be responsible for developing and executing experiments, data analysis and presentation of project results in a form of manuscripts and oral presentations. Next to your research activities you will get the opportunity to develop your teaching skills, to mentor undergraduate students and be involved in outreach activities.
Deadline : 1 November 2023
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(12) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Combined PhD position and university lecturer in life-cycle, circularity and sustainability assessment for the material and energy transition (0.8-1.0 FTE)
The energy and material transitions are crucial to enable pathways towards a sustainable and circular world. Within the Energy and Resources group of the Copernicus Institute we perform research and teach courses in several Bachelor’s and Master’s programmes on how to tackle challenges related to these transitions. For example, as part of the CIRCUROAD project, we perform research on how to replace bitumen with 100% sustainable binders, including bio-based and waste feedstocks, and how to improve their circularity and overall sustainability performance. We collaborate closely with Dutch and international industrial and societal stakeholders, research institutes and policy makers. As a Junior Assistant Professor you will contribute to developing new sustainable bio-based and waste-based binders for asphalt, and to other materials and energy technologies.
Deadline : 20 October 2023
(13) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD position in Immune Activation in Human Germinal Centres (1.0 FTE)
Dive into the captivating world of adaptive immunity with us! Join us in this PhD position as an enthusiastic immunologist to unveil the secrets of immune activation in human germinal centres (GC). This research offers the chance to redefine how we understand immunity, and has therapeutic potential.
Deadline : 9 October 2023
(14) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Two PhD positions in Developmental Biology (1.0 FTE)
We are looking for two highly motivated PhD students who will join our research efforts to understand how epithelial cells become polarised, functionally specialise, and function. Cell polarity – the asymmetric distribution of components and functions within a cell along a directional axis – is a fundamental property of cells that is present across the kingdoms of life. Most cells need to distribute proteins, organelles, and functions along an axis of polarity in order to carry out their specialised functions and organise the 3D multicellular body.
Deadline : 15 October 2023
(15) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD position on dynamic LCA of bio-based products and circularity (1.0 FTE)
The urgent need to mitigate climate change, to stop biodiversity loss and to move from fossil to renewable resources motivates the increased use of bio-based resources, but can thereby create multiple, sometimes conflicting sustainability impacts. There is a need for assessment methods that enable a robust and forward-looking impact assessment of existing and new bio-based solutions to determine their sustainability. The life cycle assessment of bio-based systems faces several methodological challenges. Assessing the spatiotemporal-explicit and non-linear impacts of bio-based systems requires developing a new type of life cycle inventory, that is dynamic in nature. In addition, the existing life cycle metrics and life cycle thinking in general do not align in a direct way with the circularity of bio-based products, as the focus of life cycle frameworks is to quantify the potential impacts of product systems over their entire life cycles and not necessarily to account for product reuse, sharing strategies or material upcycling. Therefore, new methods are needed for capturing the potential added value created by cascading use of bio-based resources while taking the dynamic nature of bio-based systems into account.
Deadline : 9 October 2023
(16) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD position on land use and environmental impacts of biobased products (1.0 FTE)
The urgent need to mitigate climate change, to stop biodiversity loss and to move from fossil to renewable resources motivates the increased use of bio-based resources, but can thereby create multiple, sometimes conflicting sustainability impacts. There is a need for assessment methods that enable a robust and forward-looking impact assessment of existing and new bio-based solutions to determine their sustainability. The large majority of the environmental impacts of bio-based products are related to land use and land management changes resulting from feedstock production and extraction. Impacts of land-use change highly depend on the biophysical context and are therefore location specific, temporally dynamic, and non-linear. The current statical LCA methods cannot capture the dynamic and non-linear impacts from land use. There is therefore a need to incorporate spatial and temporal variability of environmental impacts into existing LCA methodology.
Deadline : 9 October 2023
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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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