Wageningen University & Research, 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 Wageningen University & Research, Netherlands.
Eligible candidate may Apply as soon as possible.
(01) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD: AI Models to Identify Disease Correlates of Pathogens
Wageningen University & Research’s Animal Sciences Group (ASG) is launching a new investment programme centred on the digital transformation of the animal sciences. The programme initiative aims to further strengthen knowledge and methods in data-driven research, data science and artificial intelligence (AI). Seven PhD tracks form the core of the programme and will be carried out jointly by Wageningen BioVeterinary Research (WBVR), Wageningen Livestock Research (WLR) and Wageningen Marine Research (WMR), in close collaboration with the graduate school WIAS and Wageningen University
The PhDs work under a single theme: “Digital Biology – Integrating Behaviour, Health and Biodiversity in Animal Science”.
The ‘Digital Biology’ programme focuses on developing and applying digital technologies (AI, sensors, modelling, data fusion) to better understand and predict the behaviour, health and biodiversity of animals.
Together, the PhD candidates strive for a better understanding of the ‘digital physiology’ of animals: how behaviour, genetic predisposition, pathogens, health and environmental stimuli jointly determine how animals function, adapt and contribute to ecosystems.
Deadline : February 19th, 2026.
(02) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD: AI Models for Disease Resilience, Susceptibility & Vaccine Efficacy
How can advanced mathematical modeling, combined with time series of non-invasive sensing technologies and multi-source biomarker data, be used to develop non-invasive measurable biomarkers that accurately predict the resilience of animals in relation to infectious diseases?
The assessment of disease susceptibility (i.e. whether animals get infected) and disease resilience (i.e., the clinical severity in short and long term) in animals currently relies on infrequent or invasive sampling methods that do not capture rapid biological changes. Biomarkers (including sensors and blood-related markers), —quantifiable indicators of physiological or pathological processes—offer a promising route for real-time physiological assessment. Advances in non-invasive sensing technologies and machine-learning-driven analyses create opportunities for high-frequency, minimally invasive measurements. Proof of concept will be used in sheep, cattle or pigs, initially based on data from clinical eperimental trials and later at farm leve.
Deadline : Open until filled
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(03) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD: Food System Resilience in Colombia: learn from Lighthouse Farm Communities
Before development organisations worldwide can mainstream resilience attributes, more evidence is needed into how these attributes operate when shocks occur, how they relate to sustainability and efficiency, and which metrics can be used to measure their performance. This PhD project aims to assess resilience attributes in agri and food systems in Lighthouse Farm (LHF) communities in Colombia, and in four other countries. More specifically, the aim of the PhD project is to:
Deadline : Open until filled
(04) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD: Food System Resilience in Indonesia: learn from Lighthouse Farm Communities
The position is part of a cohort of in total five PhD positions, which are all part of INTRINSIC (Investigations, Narratives and Teachings on Resilience: Initiating Novel Scaling in an International Context). This is an interdisciplinary program involving five groups of Wageningen University, five LHF communities (Colombia, Cuba, Ethiopia, Indonesia, and Kurdistan Region of Iraq) and five development organisations (Gates Foundation, World Bank, GIZ, Rabo Partnerships and the Rwanga Foundation). INTRINSIC is a Wageningen Global Sustainability Program.
At the Wageningen University, this PhD position is embedded in the Business Economics group and the Soil Physics and Land Management group. This collaboration illustrates the interdisciplinary nature of the program as the resilience attributes cannot be understood from a single domain perspective. As such, there will also be close collaboration with the other INTRINSIC PhDs – and their related groups: Food Quality Design, Soil Biology, and Farming Systems Ecology. In Indonesia, the PhD position is embedded in Brawijaya University. The local project partner is the Integrated Organic Farming System Research Centre. While the in-depth analyses focus on the LHF in Indonesia, joint work on data collected by the other PhDs also enables to analyse resilience questions in the four other LHF communities.
Deadline : Open until filled
(05) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Position: Digital Lifestyle Interventions for Financially Vulnerable Groups
Would you like to contribute to reducing health inequalities by co-creating, evaluating, and optimizing an adapted digital health intervention (i.e. a Combined Lifestyle Intervention, CLI) that truly aligns with people’s everyday realities? As a PhD candidate in this project, you will work on an innovative, systems-oriented, and participatory research project in which financial support and lifestyle support are integrated for people who struggle to make ends meet. You will have the opportunity to combine scientific research with societal impact, in close collaboration with municipalities, professionals, and people with lived experience.
Financial insecurity negatively affects health and well-being through chronic stress. These factors often reinforce one another, causing people to enter a downward spiral in which overweight and obesity are highly prevalent among financially vulnerable groups. Although combined lifestyle interventions (CLIs) and digital health solutions have significant potential, they are rarely designed for or with people experiencing financial difficulties. This often results in low participation rates, high dropout, and limited effectiveness. A holistic and personalized approach—integrating financial and lifestyle support, co-developed with the target group, and taking into account societal context, living conditions, and available resources—is therefore essential to achieve sustainable impact.
The aim of this project is to co-create, evaluate, and optimize an adapted digital CLI with the target group that supports lifestyle change for people who struggle financially. By integrating support across multiple life domains into the digital CLI and embedding it within the local context, we strive for a multi-level systems approach to improving health and well-being. The project follows an integrated approach consisting of four work packages. First, we will map the complex system surrounding financial difficulties and lifestyle behavior. These insights will form the basis for developing a digital CLI tailored to different user profiles. Finally, the adapted digital CLI will be tested and evaluated, generating insights for further optimization and scaling.
Deadline : Open until filled
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(06) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD: Unravelling the anaerobic electroactive physiology and ecology of yeast
We are seeking a highly motivated PhD candidate to join a cutting-edge research project starting in April 2026 to investigate the anaerobic electroactive physiology, and related ecological interactions, in yeast. This project is part of a Dutch research council (NWO) funded M1 project, and will be conducted at the Laboratory of Microbiology at Wageningen University.
Extracellular electron transfer is a trait well-established in anaerobic metal-reducing bacteria, enabling them to respire anoxically with metals, grow in bio-electrochemical systems, and playing a role in microbial community interactions. Several microbial eukaryotes have shown electroactive traits as well, but their physiological function and underlying mechanisms remain poorly understood. Insight in anaerobic eukaryotic electroactive metabolism can fundamentally transform our understanding of their physiological capabilities, their ecological role, and unveil their potential applications.
Deadline : Open until filled
(07) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD: Co-created long term visions for prosperous rural-urban interactions
We are hiring a PhD candidate for a 4-year PhD trajectory that aims to develop long term regional landscape designs and accompanying spatial strategies for land use change for two Dutch rural-urban regions, using a Research Through Design methodology. This PhD position is part of the ‘Fertile Soils’ project that explores the potential to address multiple spatial challenges in rural and urban areas simultaneously through exchange of ‘landscape services’. To fulfil this potential, a multifunctional spatial organization of the landscape is needed that minimizes trade-offs and maximizes synergies between landscape services. Moreover, spatial planning and design has to take a long-term perspective in exploring fundamentally new, prosperous interactions between urban and rural areas.
In this PhD project you will design inspiring, transformative long-term designs (time horizon: approximately year 2100) for the two rural-urban regions Zwolle and Breda-Tilburg. You will develop and apply a Research Through Design (RTD) methodology to further specify the pathways towards these visions with spatial strategies on the middle-long-term (year 2035-2055). This RTD approach should fit the transdisciplinary, regional design context and allow for the testing of the designs with various experts and stakeholders on potential landscape services exchange. This participatory approach ensures the designs are anchored in historically developed rural-urban relationships, and affiliated biophysical, cultural and socio-economic characteristics of the region. You use the RTD processes and (stakeholder) reflections on the design processes in the two regions to explore the required preconditions for creating synergies between landscape services. You will work in the Fertile Soils project with 9 other PhDs and collaborate with stakeholders in the region as well as designers and experts from practice to ensure that the research is not only theoretically sound, but also relevant and applicable.
Deadline : Open until filled
About Wageningen University & Research, Netherlands – Official Website
Wageningen University & Research is a public university in Wageningen, Netherlands, specializing in technical and engineering subjects and an important center for life sciences and agricultural research. It is located in a region of the Netherlands known as the Food Valley.
WUR consists of Wageningen University and the former agricultural research institute of the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture. Wageningen University trains specialists (BSc, MSc and PhD) in life and social sciences and focuses its research on scientific, social and commercial problems in the field of life sciences and natural resources. It is widely known for its agriculture, forestry, and environmental studies programs. The university has about 12,000 students from over 100 countries. It is also a member of the Euroleague for Life Sciences (ELLS) university network.
WUR has been placed among the top 150 universities in the world by four major ranking tables. Wageningen has been voted the number one university in the Netherlands for fifteen consecutive years. The university is listed number 59 in the world by the Times Higher Education Ranking and the world’s best in agriculture and forestry by the QS World University Rankings 2016–2020.Wageningen University is ranked number one in the fields of plant/animal science, environment/ecology, and agricultural sciences by U.S. News & World Report. The university is widely regarded as the world’s top agricultural research institution.
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