University of Groningen, 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 University of Groningen, Netherlands.
Eligible candidate may Apply as soon as possible.
(01) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD in Responsible Human-AI Collaboration (1.0 FTE) (V25.0434)
AI systems are increasingly used in high-stakes decision-making, such as healthcare and hiring, yet they often reinforce societal biases, leading to unfair outcomes. While human oversight is frequently proposed as a safeguard, research suggests that human involvement does not automatically lead to better and fairer outcomes—challenges such as cognitive overload, uncalibrated (dis)trust in AI, and unclear strategies for bias mitigation limit its effectiveness in practice. This PhD project addresses the following central research question: how can we design human-AI collaboration to mitigate biases and foster equitable decision-making?
Deadline : 31 October
(02) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD on the topic: Novel magneto-resistive random access memory-based neuromorphic architectures (V25.0373)
The REACT MSCA DN Project: Self-awareness in humans is an innate capability, arising from the brain’s ability to process a multitude of sensory inputs. Emulating this functionality in electronic systems—commonly referred to as neuromorphic computing—holds the potential to create highly intelligent machines capable of supporting a wide range of everyday applications, from autonomous vehicles to smart navigation systems. However, realizing neuromorphic computing in practice presents significant challenges, particularly in the areas of energy efficiency, reliability, and security.
The REACT MSCA Doctoral Network addresses these challenges by developing a neuromorphic platform that is inherently self-aware in terms of energy consumption, secure operation, and system reliability. As part of this initiative, 15 early-stage doctoral candidates (DCs) will be trained through a comprehensive, interdisciplinary program spanning material science, device physics, computer architecture, hardware prototyping, compiler design, simulation and emulation tools, as well as cybersecurity, reliability, and system verifiability.
Deadline : 31 October
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(03) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD on the topic: Novel FeRAM/FeFET-based neuromorphic architectures (V25.0372)
he REACT MSCA DN Project: Self-awareness in humans is an innate capability, arising from the brain’s ability to process a multitude of sensory inputs. Emulating this functionality in electronic systems—commonly referred to as neuromorphic computing—holds the potential to create highly intelligent machines capable of supporting a wide range of everyday applications, from autonomous vehicles to smart navigation systems. However, realizing neuromorphic computing in practice presents significant challenges, particularly in the areas of energy efficiency, reliability, and security.
The REACT MSCA Doctoral Network addresses these challenges by developing a neuromorphic platform that is inherently self-aware in terms of energy consumption, secure operation, and system reliability. As part of this initiative, 15 early-stage doctoral candidates (DCs) will be trained through a comprehensive, interdisciplinary program spanning material science, device physics, computer architecture, hardware prototyping, compiler design, simulation and emulation tools, as well as cybersecurity, reliability, and system verifiability.
REACT offers a uniquely structured training environment, combining academic excellence with industrial collaboration. DCs will benefit from close mentorship by leading researchers and industry experts, while also developing essential skills in scientific writing, research ethics, time management, and entrepreneurship.
Deadline : 31 October
(04) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD on the topic: Secure neuromorphic architectures (V25.0371)
Self-awareness in humans is an innate capability, arising from the brain’s ability to process a multitude of sensory inputs. Emulating this functionality in electronic systems—commonly referred to as neuromorphic computing—holds the potential to create highly intelligent machines capable of supporting a wide range of everyday applications, from autonomous vehicles to smart navigation systems. However, realizing neuromorphic computing in practice presents significant challenges, particularly in the areas of energy efficiency, reliability, and security.
Deadline :31 October
(05) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD position in Late Medieval and Early Modern Urban History (1.0 FTE) (V25.0486)
The IJssel region was economically and culturally a dynamic region in the late medieval Low Countries. The mid-size commercial towns of Deventer, Kampen, Zwolle and Zutphen were part of the extensive economic network of the German Hanse towns and home to the religious movement of the Modern Devotion. They became increasingly entwined with other territorial polities in the Low Countries from the fifteenth century onwards. The dynamics of economic change, political integration and religious renewal implied that the histories of the towns were of adaptation to shifting political, economic and religious conditions rather than of urban decline. You will examine the interactions between authorities and citizens in the IJssel towns between 1400 and 1600, and the impact of social, economic and environmental measures on society. In order to explain the emergence and effects of urban governance, you will analyse the process of decision-making and the implementation of policies in the context of power relations, political ideas and wider societal dynamics. Your findings will make a fundamental contribution to debates on power, governance and well-being, and the effects of (good) governance on living conditions.
The research involves a systematic and question-driven consultation of archival records (mainly written in Middle and Early Modern Dutch) from the IJssel towns, especially town council resolutions and minutes, by-laws and verdicts, petitions, town accounts and fiscal records, and various records produced by guilds, citizens and other urbanites. In order to process the archival material, the HTR-tool Transkribus will be used in partnership with an ongoing digitization project of Collectie Overrijsel. The data will be qualitatively and quantitatively analysed by means of annotation and geospatial tools.
Deadline : 30 October
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(06) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD in Formal Verification of Distributed Systems (1.0 FTE) (V25.0493)
This PhD research is envisioned to broadly follow one of three directions, but can be adapted to suit the interests of an excellent applicant.
- The use of formal languages to specify and reason about distributed systems has been an object of intensive research. While verification support for these languages does exist, it is limited in either the guarantees it can provide or in its level of automation. Lifting this limitation is a clear goal, with a potential target language being TLA+.
- The advent of smart contracts, programs deployed on blockchain platforms, promises to significantly change how financial assets are manipulated. They are likely targets of attacks, with unintended behaviours being exploited to affect assets estimated in millions of US Dollars. Ensuring that contracts cannot be exploited is critical. The goal is to develop a language-agnostic verification approach, following on promising results related to the Solidity language.
- While our current digital infrastructure relies on classical networks, quantum networks are slowly becoming a reality. The coordination algorithms that govern their operation are unlike those employed in classical networks, necessitating novel verification approaches. The goal is to design an automated reasoning approach in tandem with ongoing formalisation efforts, with a focus on probabilistic behaviours.
The objective of the temporary position is the production of a number of research articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals and conference proceedings, which together will form the basis of a thesis leading to a PhD degree (Dr) at the University of Groningen.
Deadline : 20 October
(07) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD position “Joint physical custody and parents’ spatial (im)mobility” (V25.0505)
The PhD researcher will work in the project “Joint physical custody and parents’ spatial (im)mobility”, supervised by Roselinde van der Wiel (daily supervisor) and Matthijs Kalmijn (promotor). The project’s goal is to understand how joint physical custody arrangements for children after parental separation—where children live alternately with each parent—both influence and are influenced by the spatial mobility of parents.
As joint physical custody becomes increasingly common, it raises questions about how the need for spatial proximity between parental households shapes parents’ spatial mobility. In a context of high rates of union dissolution, growing institutional support for equal parenting, and rising housing market pressures, understanding these dynamics is timely and essential.
The project offers the opportunity to explore questions such as: To what extent does joint physical custody structure or constrain parents’ spatial mobility? How does this differ between mothers and fathers? How does repartnering, with or without moving, affect the geographical distance between ex-partners and the continuity of joint physical custody? To what degree do formal agreements about children’s residence correspond with daily practice?
Deadline :19 October
(08) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD in the field of The changing nature of teamwork: unstable, part-time, ill-defined (V25.0492)
Over 90% of today’s organizations rely on teamwork, investing billions of euros in team development each year. Most of the knowledge undergirding these activities rests upon research on archetypical (i.e., stable, full-time, and well-defined) teams. Most of today’s teams, however, are better characterized as unstable (employees leave and join teams), part-time (employees work in multiple teams), and ill-defined (team boundaries are unclear). This challenges our understanding of the nature and effective management of contemporary teamwork. Therefore, the objective of the PhD project is to develop insights into the dynamics of and experiences within modern team arrangements and provide evidence-based recommendations to organizational practice.
Deadline : 19 October
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(09) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhDs Data-Driven Insights into Healthcare Quality and Affordability (2.0 FTE) (V25.0491)
Healthcare systems worldwide face the pressing challenge of keeping care both high in quality and financially sustainable. In the Netherlands, national agreements have initiated major transitions in healthcare delivery, aimed at improving quality while controlling costs.
The two PhD projects will contribute to building a scientific foundation for how healthcare claims data can generate meaningful insights into the quality of care. By linking claims data with existing clinical quality registries, the research will investigate how data can be transformed into valuable information for transparency, monitoring, and continuous quality improvement. In addition, the PhD candidates will collect both quantitative and qualitative data within hospitals, providing deeper understanding of quality differences and identifying opportunities to improve care delivery.
Deadline : 19 October
(10) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD position Digital Product Passports – Legitimacy and Governance (1.0 FTE) (V25.0477)
In light of the EU’s ambitious twin green and digital transition goals, the implementation of digital product passports (DPPs) has become a regulatory priority. These passports are envisioned to revolutionize the way products are tracked and evaluated, providing detailed information about their materials, manufacturing processes, and lifecycle. With DPPs, parties through the supply chain (including consumers) can access reliable information about a product’s raw materials, the environmental impact of production processes, and the ethical standards adhered to during manufacturing. A key factor in DPPs’ success is legitimacy, that is, the extent to which it is perceived as aligned with a society’s values and beliefs. Without requisite legitimation, the political support and resources needed to deploy DPPs will be challenged. Its technical legitimacy depends on the reliability of the global DPP infrastructure: is the data completely, accurately and securely stored and transmitted? The DPP’s social legitimacy revolves around data reliability and its effectiveness: is its information reflective of reality, does it increase transparency in ways that improves environmental sustainability and can organizations safeguard enough proprietary information to maintain their competitive advantage and motivation to innovate?
The objective of this research is to answer the question: What legitimation strategies (at the organizational, industry and governmental level) are effective in promoting the adoption of digital platforms for Digital Product Passports such that sustainable product lifecycles are accomplished?
Deadline : 19 October
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(11) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD positions on Single Molecule Biophysics of Viral Self-Assembly (2.0 FTE) (V25.0469)
Two PhD positions are available for four-year terms as part of the recently awarded ERC Advanced Grant in the Wouter Roos lab. The main objective of this project is to unravel the molecular mechanisms of virus self-assembly.
RNA-containing viruses are complex, nanometre sized particles with at their centre proteins covering the RNA. We want to find out how these complex assemblies are built up. As traditional microscopy approaches are not suited to follow these minute, dynamic processes, the PhD students will use advanced microscopy and nanomanipulation techniques to record the live construction of such a virus, at the nanoscale. By unveiling how viruses are built up, we will not only provide fundamental understanding of these disease causing agents, we will also be able to better understand how specific antivirals works. These antivirals disturb the structure and dynamics of viruses and the result is that the viral particles are not able to infect anymore. By specifically looking at where and how such antivirals can change viral structure, this knowledge can be used for the development of better, more efficient antivirals that disturb the structure and dynamics of viruses faster and more effectively.
One PhD position is centred around High Speed-Atomic Force Microscopy (HS-AFM) which will be used to visualise viral self-assembly at the single protein level and to scrutinize the protein-protein interactions as well as the protein-nucleic acid interactions. The other PhD position is centred around Single Molecule Optical Tweezers (SMOT) where the genome will be trapped between two beads in order to study self-assembly via the compaction force of the protein-RNA interactions. Please specify in your motivation letter for which of the two positions you apply.
Deadline : 15 October
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(12) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD position in Experimental Particle Physics with the LHCb Experiment (1.0 FTE) (V25.0455)
The Van Swinderen Institute for Particle Physics and Gravity invites applications for a PhD researcher position working on the LHCb experiment.
Searches for charged lepton flavour violation are powerful tools to advance our understanding and potentially discover hints of physics beyond the Standard Model. The LHCb experiment at CERN is uniquely equipped to study decays of heavy hadrons with high precision.
The prospective PhD researcher will take on a leading role in a search for lepton flavour violating decays of b hadrons with data collected by the LHCb experiment at CERN. In addition, the successful candidate will contribute to the development of the next upgrade of the readout system and thus to preparing the LHCb experiment for future data taking.
Deadline : 15 October
(13) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD in Molecular Microbiology, Infection mechanisms of archaeal viruses (1.0 FTE) (V25.0453)
The research group ‘Biology of Archaea and Viruses’ is studying infection mechanisms of archaeal viruses. Archaea are ubiquitous microorganisms that form a separate domain of life. Compared with bacteria and eukaryotes, relatively little is known about the cell biology and ecological roles of archaea. A prominent feature of archaea is the extraordinary diversity of their viruses. Archaeal viral particles have many unique shapes not encountered for bacterial and eukaryotic viruses. We focus on the infection strategies of archaeal viruses and study the molecular mechanisms underlying essential steps of the viral infection cycle, such as attachment, entry and release of the host cell. Since these processes take place at the cell surface, we are also actively studying the archaeal cell surface and surface appendages using the (halo)archaea as a model. Studying the infection mechanisms of archaeal viruses can provide insight into the evolutionary history of viruses and help to understand adaptation to extreme environments. This particular project focusses on chronic infection of halophilic viruses.
Deadline : 14 October
(14) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD position in Measuring Critical Language and Multimodal Awareness Proficiency (V25.0465)
This fully funded PhD at the University of Groningen (NL) is part of the research project Critical language and multimodal awareness (CLMA): a key competency for future-oriented graduates. The candidate will develop tools to measure the impact of CLMA interventions on both educators’ and students’ proficiency in this crucial, future-oriented competency.
CLMA is a competency that enables individuals to recognize and critically reflect on the influence of both linguistic and multimodal forms of communication. For example, how words like “riot” versus “demonstration” frame the same event very differently. Advertising images can also link products to ideas of success. Thus, these forms of communication are not merely tools for conveying messages, but powerful agents that sculpt our society, influence our relationships, shape our thought processes, and, importantly, guide our behaviors.
This PhD project focuses on evidence-informed educational innovation. Using a solid theoretical foundation for CLMA, it will test how CLMA can be integrated into Dutch higher education through targeted interventions and resources, and generate empirical evidence of its effectiveness.
Deadline :12 October
(15) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD position ‘Tracing sociotechnical imaginaries of digital journalism, 1995-2025’ (1.0 FTE) (V25.0445)
Digital technologies have long shaped the debates on journalism’s future. These debates often emphasize technology as a solution for journalism’s struggles. In doing so, they have also limited the directions in which journalism could actually develop, and elided critical reflections on the complex relationship between journalism and technology. This project addresses these issues by studying sociotechnical imaginaries constructed in the debates about journalism and technology between 1995 and 2025 within the geographical context of Northern Europe. From the introduction of the web, through to our current debates around AI, it studies how journalists, technologists, and other actors have engaged in the introduction, negotiation, and normalization of new technologies. As different actors with diverging interests shape the debate over journalism and technology, the project scrutinizes their competing norms and values concerning journalism and technology. By critically examining how technology has been presented as a necessary and self-evident driver of journalistic change, this research offers a critical history of journalism’s recent past.
Deadline : 12 October
(16) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Supply chain design and coordination for AM-based repair/remanufacturing (V25.0496)
The PhD position is part of ADD-reAM, a large multidisciplinary project focused on repair and remanufacturing using Additive Manufacturing. The NWO-funded consortium involves 15 PhD positions, across 7 Dutch universities, exploring complementary aspects of additive manufacturing, including technical design, logistics, sustainability assessment, and regulatory frameworks.
Additive Manufacturing (AM) is increasingly applied in repair and remanufacturing. However, the introduction of new technologies, like AM, requires a concurrent redesign of both the supply chain and broader network. This research aims to develop design principles for circular supply chains using remanufacturing and AM technologies for spare parts, focusing on cooperation and governance within such networks. In this PhD-project a variety of empirical methods, such as Delphi studies, case studies and possible design science, will be used that enable an understanding of cooperation and governance and provide a benchmark for designing circular chains and networks.
Deadline : Open until filled
(17) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD in Simulators for Post-Von Neumann architectures (1.0 FTE) (V25.0484)
Based on current processor architectures, reaching orders of magnitude of improvements in terms of energy efficiency is considered impossible. Alternative strategies for realizing processing architectures are required, such as those inspired by the organization of the human brain that utilize novel materials.
Ferroelectric Field-Effect Transistors (FeFETs) exemplify the latter, regarded as a pivotal technology for the forthcoming generation of highly energy-efficient computing systems. FeFETs are programmable, non-volatile silicon devices that enable innovative architectures to efficiently execute complex, irregular, and highly dynamic computational tasks. Realising computing systems based on technologies like FeFETs require the design of architectures suitable for real-life problems. Moreover, appropriate mathematical methods, algorithms, and applications are required.
Simulators are a recognized method for architectural design explorations and the implementation of software development platforms. The goal of this PhD is to create a modular and extensible simulation infrastructure that facilitates design explorations and assessments of small applications. This simulation infrastructure will be explicitly validated for designs based on FeFETs.
Deadline :9 October
(18) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD position Intensified CO2 (1.0 FTE) (V25.0008)
A PhD position is available for a four-year term as part of the recently awarded ERC Starting Grant for the IntensifiedCO2 project. The main objective of this project is to develop intensified processes for CO2 conversion into sustainable synthetic fuels via cobalt-catalysed Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis (FTS), based on advanced catalysis and reactor engineering concepts.
The successful candidate will prepare, characterize and evaluate heterogenous catalysts for CO2 conversion to sustainable synthetic fuels. Structure-performance relationships will be investigated, focusing on mixed feeds of CO2, CO, H2, and H2O under industrially relevant conditions. Process boundary conditions for efficient mixed feed FTS to produce synthetic fuels will also be identified. This position is embedded in the Catalytic Processes for Gas Conversion group within the Green Chemical Reaction Engineering research unit at ENTEG, RUG.
Deadline : Open until filled
About The University of Groningen, Netherlands –Official Website
The University of Groningen is a public research university in the city of Groningen in the Netherlands. The university was founded in 1614 and is the second-oldest university in the Netherlands. In 2014, the university celebrated its 400th anniversary. Currently, RUG is placed in the top 100 universities worldwide according to three international ranking tables.
The university was ranked 65th in the world, according to Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) in 2019. In April 2013, according to the results of the International Student Barometer, the University of Groningen, for the third time in a row, was voted the best university of the Netherlands.
The University of Groningen has eleven faculties, nine graduate schools, 27 research centres and institutes, and more than 175-degree programmes. The university’s alumni and faculty include Johann Bernoulli, Aletta Jacobs, four Nobel Prize winners, nine Spinoza Prize winners, one Stevin Prize winner, royalty, multiple mayors, the first president of the European Central Bank, and a secretary general of NATO.
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