Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 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 Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Eligible candidate may Apply as soon as possible.
(01) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PHD POSITION: INNOVATIVE BIOPHOTONIC PLATFORMS FOR NEXT-GENERATION ANTIBIOTICS RESISTANCE TESTING
We are looking for an experimental lead to develop an innovative platform for next-generation antibiotics resistance testing as part of our growing team. The project combines concepts from microfluidics, computational/holographic imaging and microbiology to establish a much-needed diagnostic technology to halt the alarming spread of antibiotics resistance.
Deadline : 30/11/2023
(02) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PHD POSITION IN THE NWO-FUNDED SMART4L PROJECT ON COLLABORATING LEARNING COMMUNITIES
In an era of rapid technological advancement, companies and their workforce need to adapt quickly. However, a significant gap exists in the workforce’s ability to harness these advancements effectively. The SMART4L project seeks to bridge this gap by enhancing the learning capacity of companies and increasing the employability of the workforce, in the context of logistics. Key questions within this project are: How can the workforce keep up with and contribute to adoption and application of new ICT technologies? And, how can organizations create conditions for stimulating and facilitating ICT learning and innovation? Learning communities are promising vehicles to facilitate inter-organizational learning and innovation. Within learning communities, different stakeholders (companies, knowledge-, educational-, and sector institutions) collaborate to learn, co-create, and adopt ICT-driven innovations. Digital platforms, such as the SMART4L platform, promise to be valuable tools to further accelerate this learning and innovation in collaborative learning communities. In this PhD project, we aim to uncover the social and psychological mechanisms that support learning and the creation, adoption and diffusion of ICT-driven innovations in logistics. Within this NWO-funded project we aim to answer this research question using a variety of research methods.
Deadline : 1/11/2023.
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(03) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: (ADVANCED) PHD POSITION IN MARGINALISATION, GENDER, AND CONFLICT RESEARCH IN GLOBAL HEALTH
At the Athena Institute of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam we invite applications for an (advanced) PhD position in global health positioned at the intersections of marginalisation, gender, and violent conflict. There is flexibility in the details of the topic of study, but a crucial requirement is being able to combine new empirical research with secondary analysis of previous empirical work in this area. The shorter trajectory requires such secondary analysis. Prior publications on the topic of study are considered a plus, as are strong networks among the envisioned communities of study.
Deadline : 1/11/2023
(04) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PHD POSITION: ECONOMIC VALUES OF NATURE-BASED SOLUTIONS FOR CLIMATE CHANGE RISK
The Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) has a new full-time four-year position for a doctoral (PhD) researcher in the field of environmental economics. You will become part of a new 4-year interdisciplinary research programme (ARCADIA) funded by Horizon Europe, which aims to develop change-pathways to increase climate resilience of EU regions by means of implementing nature-based solutions.
Deadline : 1 November 2023.
(05) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PHD POSITION IN COMPUTATIONAL OPTICAL IMAGING FOR RETINAL IMAGING
Are you seeking an exciting PhD position in a cutting-edge, interdisciplinary research field? Do you possess a keen interest in optics, numerical techniques, and biomedicine? If so, we invite you to join our international research group at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
Deadline : 31/10/2023.
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(06) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PHD POSITION IN SYNTHETIC ORGANIC CHEMISTRY & CATALYSIS
The project will focus on the development of organocatalytic transformations by using an elegant combination of synthetic organic chemistry and computational chemistry. Organocatalysis has rapidly evolved over the last few decades and has become indispensable for synthesizing many pharmaceuticals and fine chemicals. Notwithstanding these successes, designing new effective organocatalytic systems remains an exceptionally challenging task as there is no robust strategy to do so. This project will obtain new insights into the molecular mechanism of catalysis using innovative computational and experimental techniques. The obtained results will be used for the rational development of powerful organocatalytic reactions enabling the construction of ever more complex compounds.
Deadline : 31/10/2023.
(07) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PHD POSITION IN THE FIELD OF IN VITRO SINGLE-MOLECULE BIOPHYSICS TO INVESTIGATE THE REGULATION OF SARS-COV-2 REPLICATION AND TRANSCRIPTION
The selected candidate will investigate how SARS-CoV-2 replicates and transcribes its genome using in vitro single-molecule biophysics techniques, e.g. magnetic tweezers and fluorescence microscopy. To this end, the PhD candidate will be embedded in a world-class scientific environment for biophysics, with access to a state-of-the-art microscopy facility, including magnetic tweezers, optical tweezers, and diverse fluorescence microscopy approaches. As daily tasks, the student will design, perform, and analyze biophysics experiments in collaboration with other students and postdocs in the lab. The candidate will also collaborate with world-renowned experts labs in molecular and structural biology of coronaviruses.
Deadline : Open until filled
(08) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PHD POSITION ENGAGING PATIENTS IN ATRIAL FIBRILLATION RESEARCH – ATHENA INSTITUTE (AMSTERDAM) IN COLLABORATION WITH AMSTERDAM UMC, VUMC AND THE NETHERLANDS HEART INSTITUTE (NLHI)
Since the 1990s, a call is made for a more active and prominent role for patients in health research in order to realise a transformation to a health system that is more responsive to patients’ needs. As a results, patients are increasingly seen as partners in health research, instead of passive recipients. The inclusion of patients in health decision-making has shown to stimulate more relevant and applicable outcomes, and to enhance its legitimacy. Despite this increased attention, there are still many questions about how to best engage patients and achieve the most valuable outcomes. More research is necessary to further boost the academic field of patient engagement, and simultaneously make societal impact. This PhD position aims to contribute to this enhanced patient engagement by conducting research within the context of the NWA project CIRCULAR. The overall aim of the project CIRCULAR is to stop AF by a holistic approach including co-creation with patients. We plan to realize this through the non-profit AFIP foundation. AFIP’s mission is to improve AF treatment by engaging patients in research approaches. The platform is built on the recognition that AF patients have ample ideas on complementary strategies to increase their quality of life. In the past years, AFIP has established a solid foundation, both in (academic) collaborations and research lines based on initial results of patient insights and in the technology and infrastructure to reach patients. In their search how to optimally interpret and translate insights gained into research (and vice versa), they are eager to learn and experiment in this proposed research. The PhD student will study how engagement of patients whitin project CIRCULAR can be further improved. The PhD student will therefore not only study patient engagement, but also actively engage in experiments, such as citizen science, to further improve the practices of patient engagement.
Deadline : 30/10/2023.
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(09) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PHD ON SMART PROJECT
Osteoarthritis of the hip and knee is one of the most common and growing chronic conditions. Individuals with osteoarthritis experience pain and stiffness when moving, which hinders their daily activities. Although various non-surgical treatment options exist, they are often underutilized in practice. The SMART project aims to develop and evaluate a personalized self-management app that supports patients with osteoarthritis using expert knowledge and Artificial Intelligence models. We are seeking a PhD candidate to develop these AI models. The candidate’s responsibilities include:
Deadline : January 1, 2024.
(10) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PHD POSITION THEOLOGY & RELIGIOUS STUDIES
Over the past century Western culture has experienced a spiritual nova-effect (Charles Taylor): once held together by a more or less uniform worldview, it has now become profoundly pluralistic in a process of diversification that is still ongoing. How should the academic study of religion and theology be restructured so as to do full justice to this pluralist turn? This PhD project aims at scrutinizing the various options on the table here both at an empirical level (involving action research in collaboration with relevant stakeholders) and at a theoretical level.
Deadline : 27/10/2023
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(11) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PHD POSITION: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN GAIT REHABILITATION
During your PhD program, your task will be to develop a workflow to collect, process and analyse movement data of neurological patients using computer vision, unsupervised learning and explainable AI tools. You will work with the latest developments in pose estimation algorithms to gather movement data, be introduced to unsupervised learning techniques to disentangle their complex information and top up this with explainable AI solutions to inform clinical decision-making. You are expected to apply data scientific procedures and to become proficient with clinical research questions, diagnoses and related treatments. At the end of this four-year program, you will write your research findings in a PhD thesis and defend it. The project will be supervised by Dr. Sina David and Dr. Karin Gerrits.
Deadline : 22/10/2023.
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(12) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PHD POSITION IN COMPUTATIONAL SINGLE-CELL CANCER BIOLOGY
Anti-cancer drugs targeting signaling pathways often show great initial response, but resistance inevitably develops. One major reason for this is cell-state heterogeneity, where the response of a cell to a drug is influenced by the state the cell is in. In this project, we will use state-of-the-art single-cell multi-omics techniques (Radboud) and computational modelling (VU/NKI) to understand cellular responses to drugs over time, and develop strategies to rationally control cell behaviour to achieve better therapeutic efficacy. This is a collaborative project between the Vrije Universiteit (VU), the Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI) in Amsterdam, and the Radboud University in Nijmegen. It is funded by the Dutch Cancer Society.
Deadline : 22/10/2023
(13) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PHD POSITION IN SOCIAL SCIENCE GENETICS AT VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT AMSTERDAM
The Doctoral Network: ESSGN brings together eight Universities with a shared interest in social science genetics, i.e., in incorporating genetic information to improve our understanding of age-old questions in the social sciences, such as the origins of inequality, the ‘nature versus nurture’ debate, and the extent to which the interplay between environments and genes is important in shaping life chances. The consortium consists of an interdisciplinary group of academics, spanning demography, economics, epidemiology, genetics, political science, psychology, sociology, and statistics, as well as seven non-academic partners experienced in and committed to using data science to better understand inequalities in life chances. The partners include government bodies (GO Science UK), the World Health Organization – International Agency for Research on Cancer (WHO-IARC), policy research institutes (RAND Europe, Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute [NIDI]), charities (the Health Foundation), data infrastructure networks (CentERdata-ODISSEI) as well as economics consulting (Prometeia). The Doctoral Network will create, nurture, and maintain a stimulating and world-class training environment in the interdisciplinary study of social-science genetics and geno-economics.
Deadline : 30 October 2023
(14) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PHD POSITION IN NANOSCALE OPTICAL BIO-IMAGING & MANIPULATION
We are looking for a motivated PhD candidate to develop, design, implement and apply key innovation to our fluorescence-based nanoscopic imaging systems. This will include both the development of new hardware and data analysis tools, as well as the application of these new tools to biophysical problems. Your primary base will be at VU in Amsterdam, but the project is a close collaboration with TU Delft and LUMICKS b.v. (Amsterdam). Within the framework of the project there will be ample freedom to explore and pursue your own ideas and directions. As part of this position, you will have the opportunity to present your findings at national and international conferences and contribute to scientific publications. The goal is that your research efforts will result in a dissertation leading to a PhD degree by the end of the 4-year project.
Deadline : 20/10/2023.
(15) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PHD POSITION CONNECTING POLICY AND PRACTICE IN SUSTAINABILITY TRANSITIONS
Interlinked societal crises have sparked many local initiatives of people who seek to accelerate transitions in different societal domains towards a more sustainable future. These unfold currently without adequate connections to and alignment with policy efforts accelerate sustainability transitions. Combining the implementation of ‘top-down’ mission-oriented policy strategies with ‘bottom-up’ efforts at instigating social, technical and policy innovations (as well as ‘innovations’) is urgent. Linking up bottom-up and top-down dynamics is challenging, however, as there are large gaps between “policy” and “practice”. In addition to difficulties in bridging the gap between policy and practice, local initiatives often are confronted with limiting boundaries between institutionalised (policy) “sectors” (e.g., the “domain of” energy, agriculture, or health). Various policies in those demarcated policy domains hit the ground in one and the same place, and hence are entangled in practice. There is a need to focus on how place-based sustainability policies and initiatives operate across “domain” boundaries and play out in practice. Examples include care-farming, combining agricultural production and social care, and neighbourhood energy initiatives that combine a focus on energy justice with community engagement in the built environment. Such cross-sectoral initiatives deserve proper attention in scientific literature and policy making to accelerate sustainability transitions. This PhD positions offers the opportunity to study the dynamics between “policy” and “practice”, with a specific focus on unravelling the role of, and engaging with, local, cross-sectoral sustainability initiatives. We view such initiatives as “boundary experiments”, that facilitate collective rethinking and restructuring of various societal systems in transition, such as healthcare, energy, food, and urban mobility, while considering the unique social, ecological, and cultural aspects of each context.
Deadline : 20 October 2023.
(16) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PHD CANDIDATE BIOANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
Structural analysis of protein-drug interactions by innovative Mass Spectrometry-based approaches: Protein-drug interactions are an essential starting point for potential therapeutic strategies in the field of drug discovery. The early stages of drug discovery rely heavily on advances in analytical techniques to investigate protein-protein and protein-drug interactions. This PhD project aims to develop novel, native mass spectrometry-based methodologies to probe and characterize protein interactions and protein aggregation (for example in relation to neurodegenerative diseases). Mass spectrometry will be combined with native-SEC, ion mobility spectrometry, UV photodissociation and IR action spectroscopy to find and understand how potential small molecule drugs interact with these proteins and protein aggregates. The PhD position is one of the positions within the Doctoral Network “SPIDoc’s – The next generation MS SPIDoc’s” and is funded within the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions. You will be working within the MS-Laserlab team of the division of BioAnalytical Chemistry at the VU Amsterdam, where you will be supervised by prof. dr. Anouk M. Rijs and Dr. Sjors Bakels. As part of the doctoral network, this project includes additional secondments within the SPIDoc’s consortium focusing on complementary photofragmentation methods using soft X-rays (DESY, Hamburg) and using IR and UV combined with an FTICR mass spectrometer (IMIC, Prague). Additionally, to improve our understanding of protein interactions, advanced activation and unfolding studies will be performed in collaboration with the team in Lyon (Fr).
Deadline : 13 October 2023
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(17) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PHD POSITION: THE NEURAL MECHANISMS OF EMBODIED DECISION-MAKING
During your PhD program you will read scientific literature, perform experiments, perform data analysis through programming, write scientific papers, present at international conferences, take part in lab meetings, and take courses for professional and personal development. Your task will be to design, conduct, and analyze a set of EEG experiments in healthy human individuals that address the cognitive and motor contributions to visual perceptual decision making. You will work with variations of classical experimental paradigms such as the random dot motion task and other two alternative forced choice tasks that reveal the role of the motor system in decision making. You are expected to apply signal processing techniques such as spectral analysis, source localization, and dynamic causal modelling, and to become proficient in statistical models from mathematical psychology such as the drift-diffusion model for decision making. At the end of this four-year program you will write your research findings in a PhD thesis and defend it. The project will be supervised by Dr. Bernadette van Wijk, Dr. Rob van Beers, and Prof. dr. Jeroen Smeets.
Deadline : 11/10/2023
About The Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
The Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (abbreviated as VU or VU Amsterdam) is a university in Amsterdam, Netherlands, founded in 1880, and ranked among the world’s top 150 universities by four major ranking tables. The VU is one of two large, publicly funded research universities in the city, the other being the University of Amsterdam (UvA). The literal translation of the Dutch name Vrije Universiteit is “Free University”. “Free” refers to independence of the university from both the State and the Dutch Reformed Church. Both within and outside the university, the institution is commonly referred to as “the VU”. Although founded as a private institution, the VU has received government funding on a parity basis with public universities since 1970. The university is located on a compact urban campus in the southern Buitenveldert neighbourhood of Amsterdam and adjacent to the modern Zuidas business district.
In 2014, the VU had 23,656 registered students, most of whom were full-time students. That year, the university had 2,263 faculty members and researchers, and 1,410 administrative, clerical and technical employees, based on FTE units. The university’s annual endowment for 2014 was circa €480 million. About three quarters of this endowment is government funding; the remainder is made up of tuition fees, research grants, and private funding.
The official university seal is entitled The Virgin in the Garden. Personally chosen by Abraham Kuyper, the Reformed-Protestant leader and founder of the university, it depicts a virgin living in freedom in a garden while pointing towards God, referring to the Protestant Reformation in the Netherlands in the 16th and 17th century. In 1990, the university adopted the mythical griffin as its common emblem.
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