Maastricht 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 Maastricht University, Netherlands.
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(01) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD-Lecturer position on the interaction between jus ad bellum and jus in bello
We invite prospective researchers to apply for a six-year PhD-Lecturer position focusing on the dynamic interplay between jus ad bellum and jus in bello. As international law evolves, it experiences fragmentation and increased interactions among its subfields, particularly in armed conflict contexts. Here, legal perspectives on the implications of jus ad bellum violations in relation to humanitarian and human rights law, and likewise, the impact of these fields of law on jus ad bellum, are undergoing significant recalibration. Furthermore, the expanding role of international (quasi-)judicial bodies in assessing these issues, against a backdrop of diverse norms and treaties, is reshaping how conflicts, obligations, and rights are identified, characterized, and adjudicated. Against this backdrop, there is a need for new investigations into how the sub-fields of international law, traditionally analyzed in isolation during international armed conflict, are interrelating and influencing each other.
Applicants should develop their own research proposal focusing on situations where the normative interplay between jus ad bellum and jus in bello presents theoretical challenges in determining the applicable law. Other fields, such as international human rights law and international criminal law, may also be incorporated. Your first supervisor will be Prof. Dr. Jure Vidmar, Professor of Public International Law. Joint co-supervisors are Dr. Alexandre Skander Galand and Dr. Laura Visser. Dr. Alexandre Skander Galand and Dr. Laura Visser, both Assistant Professors of International Law and recipients of starter grants for their respective research projects, ‘The Shifting Paradigms of International Law through Adjudication and Normative Interplay’ and ‘Never the twain shall meet? At the crossroad of jus ad bellum and jus in bello’.
Deadline : 4 Aug 2024
(02) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Candidate: Structural variation in cucumber genomes
Plant traits are defined by their genes, which can have different alleles encoding proteins with activities that determine the expression of a trait. In addition, genes have differences in promoters that are responsible for differences in gene expression. However, new long-read sequencing technologies and genome comparisons show that larger structural variations in the genome are also important for breeding traits. Some of these variants are gene copy number variations (CNVs) that influence a related trait.
This research will focus on the effect of structural variations in the cucumber genome on plant traits. Several examples of structural genomic variation in cucumber show that gene CNVs lead to differences in trait expression. We aim to better understand the origin of the structural variations, how they are inherited, and how they influence plant traits.
Deadline : 4 Aug 2024
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(03) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD candidate in Vascular Biomechanics: Digital twinning for personalised cardiovascular care
Thanks to the ever-growing computational resources in modern day society, digital twinning is increasingly becoming a powerful technique in several fields, including medicine. A digital twin is a computational analogue of any physical object or phenomenon, which by replicating its key working mechanisms, allows for predicting its behaviour under a wide range of conditions. In the biomedical research field, digital twins are used for a wide range of applications, including, e.g., the in silico validation of novel devices and patient-specific modelling of organs to predict responses to different treatment strategies and personalise patient care, accordingly.
The Horizon Europe VITAL (VIrtual Twins as tools for personalised clinicAL care, https://vital-horizoneurope.eu/) project aims to take digital twinning for personalised medical care to the next level; rather than focusing on individual organs, we will build a multi-scale, multi-organ modelling platform for optimising medical (pharmacological) or surgical (interventional) therapy for complex, multifactorial cardiovascular disorders, namely hypertension, heart failure, and haemodynamically complicated atrial septal defects. VITAL involves ten academic (University of Gent, Belgium; University of Auckland, New Zeeland; Maastricht University and Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands; King’s College London and University College London, United Kingdom; École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland; University of Pisa, Italy; Jagiellonian University, Poland) and four industrial partners (Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria; IMEC and Westerhof Cardiovascular Research, The Netherlands; ELEM Biotech, Spain). Within this highly international consortium, your research at Maastricht University will focus on modelling the vasculature, which plays a crucial role in connecting and nourishing different organs. The main focus of your project will be modelling the behaviour of vascular smooth muscle cells, which are chiefly responsible for maintaining the structural integrity of blood vessels over time (vascular remodelling) and for regulating vascular function through vaso-constriction/-dilation.
Deadline : 31 Jul 2024
(04) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD position | Department of Cognitive Neuroscience
While there is progress in developing visual prostheses for the blind in the visual pathways, especially in primary visual cortex, coverage of large parts of the visual field remains a challenge. The ZonMw project “EVISION: Electronic neuroprosthesis for VISION restoration ” aims to overcome this issue by targeting the LGN, the deep brain structure that provides input to the visual cortex. The LGN has full coverage of the contralateral hemifield in a small volume (~120 mm3 ), making it a promising target for a visual prosthesis. Before implanting a visual LGN prosthesis in humans, high-resolution LGN data is needed to optimally guide the surgical placement of electrodes. EVISION consists of two parts: 1) the development of a high-resolution laminar retinotopic fMRI atlas of the human LGN headed by Prof. Rainer Goebel, and 2) the development and implantation of the actual prosthesis in animals and later humans headed by Prof. Pieter Roelfsema (Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Amsterdam). The available position is for part 1. Your work in this sub-project involves mapping the laminar and retinotopic organization of the LGN in about 30 people using anatomical and functional 7 Tesla MRI. Your data will be used to create a probabilistic LGN atlas. Besides of its value for the neuroimaging community, the created porbabilistic atlas will serve as guidance for the implantation of a future LGN prosthesis in humans.
You will join the “Vision” lab (also known as the ‘computational architecture of visual processing streams’ section) led by Rainer Goebel, embedded in the Department of Cognitive Neuroscience at Maastricht University. You will work with a very open minded group of PhDs, postdocs and PI’s working in the spirit of team science, in a very cooperative, collegial, and interdisciplinary work climate. We value and actively engage in local, national and international collaborations. With our empirical, theoretical and computational expertise we aim to contribute to our understanding of the psychological and neural mechanisms of the mind.
Deadline : 31 Jul 2024
(05) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD position at SHE on the role of health professions educators in fostering identity safety
One of the priorities of the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is to ‘ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all’. In the context of health professions education (HPE), this has resulted in pleas for the diversification of the student population. However, students from underrepresented groups tend to experience less sense of belonging within their HPE learning environments and they are more likely to experience identity threat. Hence, the importance of ‘identity safety’ is increasingly emphasised. But, how could health professions educators foster identity safety among students? And how could faculty development support educators in doing so?
To address these timely questions, we offer a PhD position of 1.0 fte for 4 years. In this position, you will conduct four studies in which you will identify and integrate the perspectives of students and educators. In addition, you will explore and use a variety of theoretical frameworks and research methods throughout your project.
You will collaborate with an (international) team of PhD supervisors, as well as with colleagues affiliated with the Taskforce Faculty Development within the Department of Educational Development and Research of the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences.
Deadline : 4 Aug 2024
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(06) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD position at SHE on supporting teachers and students in self-regulated learning
As the complexity of knowledge continues to grow and higher education becomes more flexible, students need to learn how to identify gaps in their knowledge and plan, monitor, and control their learning in a self-regulated way. However, contrary to a common misconception, self-regulated learning does not happen by itself but needs to be supported by teachers. But, how do teachers actually perceive their role and responsibility in learning students how to learn? What do teachers know about effective support for self-regulated learning? And how could faculty development support teachers in supporting their own and students’ self-regulated learning?
Join us in this research endeavour to answer these questions and develop a teacher training helping teachers and students to get back at the steering wheel of their learning.
Deadline : 4 Aug 2024
(07) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD position at SHE on Supporting Reflective Practice in Continuing Professional Development
Health professions education (HPE) requires continuous adaptation from its teaching faculty. Reflection is a critical process that allows teachers to examine the beliefs and assumptions underlying their teaching methods and professional identities. The research connected to the PhD position advertised here seeks to identify effective strategies for fostering reflective practice among HPE teachers, investigate the role and feasibility of reflective interventions in continuing professional development programs, and understand the impact of these practices on the development of educators’ personal interpretative framework.
Deadline : 4 Aug 2024
(08) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD positions: Reading the mind’s eye
Despite extensive research, we still do not have a comprehensive computational understanding of the mechanisms of the mind’s eye: How do we create mental images? And why are some people better at it than others? How do the various brain regions involved in mental imagery contribute to the unified percept in our mind’s eye? Why do we experience imagery so differently ranging from no to extremely vivid mental images?
In the Advanced ERC project “Reading the mind’s eye – AI-inspired personalised brain models of mental imagery” of Prof. Rainer Goebel, a novel perspective on mental imagery is proposed, viewing it as a personalised computational process that takes into account individual brain characteristics. The task of this computational process is to progressively transform abstract object descriptions (semantic input) into visual representations (sensory-like output) through feedback connections in the brain’s processing hierarchy.
Deadline : 31 Jul 2024
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(09) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD in anthropology of medicine
The Department of Society Studies is looking for a PhD candidate to undertake exciting ethnographic work about hospital practices. You will be part of a new team doing a research project focusing on the increasingly relevant and escalating issue of clinical waste. The project is called Make Do Medicine.
The focus of this European Research Council funded project is on hospitals and clinics, which have become sites of disposability in recent years. Attempts to address this can be top-down and technocratic, often still reliant on a mode of further production. Make Do Medicine takes a different route into the problem. It focuses on creative practices already happening in the clinic, involving making the most of existing materials. You will be part of a team conducting fieldwork across five clinical sites around the world where such improvisations are highlighted due to different constraints. For your PhD you will undertake 10 months participant observation in a hospital, community healthcare centre and/or rural clinic in Ghana (preferred, other sites can be considered if appropriate for project and there is access). Often hospital ethnographies in the Global South are framed through the lens of scarcity. There is another story to tell, which looks further into improvisation and the conditions for this work.
Deadline :21 Aug 2024
(10) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Researcher in Criminal Law
The recent evolution in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has led to introduction of AI-based safety enhancing features and accident prevention systems. These systems can have different duties, such as observing and assessing a person’s fitness to perform a specific high-risk task and issuing warnings/take-over requests. The introduction of these systems leads to the emergence of cooperative actions between the AI system and the human agent, which, again, leads to shared responsibility. This might have relevant consequences on the attribution of criminal liability. On the one hand, there might be the need pose new questions and, on the other hand, to evaluate the need for new answers to old questions.
Moreover, the same evaluations will then enter the criminal trial and may be used as evidence against the defendant. Rules of criminal procedure might not be equipped to deal with this new type of evidence. Differently from other types of “traditional evidence”, establishing reliability, accuracy, and credibility of AI-evidence could be challenging due to its characteristics, such as its opaque nature. One could also question its relevance and probative value. These aspects impact questions of admissibility in court. Other relevant issues include the fact that AI systems cannot be questioned – at least not in the same ways as humans can – even by those who created them (black box issue); and the risk of imposing an unfair burden on the defendant, who usually is in a position of economical inferiority in comparison to the prosecution and lacks access to the tools to challenge the AI-based evidence.
Deadline : 25 Aug 2024
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(11) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD candidate for BIOPYRANIA: Developing polybenzimidazoles with new bio-based aromatic monomers
This project is part of the BIOPYRANIA EU project (HORIZON-JU-CBE-2023-R-04) with partners both the public and the private sector.
European industry is facing the challenge of creating sustainable products while considering the environmental impact, durability, recyclability, and safety. There is a pressing demand to explore alternatives to fossil-fuel-based products, and this presents significant challenges for industries, notably the automotive and energy sectors.
BIOPYRANIA offers an innovative solution by utilising new bio-based aromatic monomers, which are obtained through fermentative processes from European second-generation woody biomass. Expanding on previous studies of polyesters based on these new bio-based aromatic monomers at Maastricht University, BIOPYRANIA shows that incorporating these building blocks into materials results in distinctive properties. Leveraging these properties, the project aims to develop sustainable polyamide (PA) and polybenzimidazole (PBI) polymers for high-performance applications in automotive electrification and green hydrogen production.
With the increase of automotive electrification, lightweight and high-performance materials like BIOPYRANIA polyamides are crucial. Simultaneously, the green energy sector demands clean hydrogen production, and BIOPYRANIA aims to improve anion exchange membranes with polybenzimidazoles, with the expectation of meeting 22% of the global “final energy” demand. Recycling will boost their circularity profile, while digital methodologies and comprehensive studies will support and accelerate these advancements.
Deadline : 30 Dec 2024
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(12) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD candidate synthesis & evaluation of biobased, responsive and self-dispersible waterborne resins.
This project is part of the SusInkCoat consortium with partners both the public and the private sector. The goal of the SusInkCoat project is to develop switchable and adaptive functional polymers and additives for low environmental footprint.
Plastics have their drawbacks: their production consumes energy and leads to greenhouse gas emissions; they are made from non-sustainable materials; they do not decompose; and less than 10% are recycled. Much progress has been made in making plastics more sustainable for larger applications. However, thin films, such as those used in coatings and inks, are lagging behind. The SusInkCoat project is changing that. Researchers are developing new materials, processes and applications to improve the durability, functionality and recyclability of coatings, thin films and inks. In addition, the consortium is training a new generation of chemical developers for whom sustainability and circularity are core values.
The task of Maastricht University is to develop biobased monomers and stimuli-responsive latex resins thereof via emulsion polymerization, as well as the chemical and physical polymer characterization. The resins are designed to be crosslinkable via reversible bonds and the recyclability of the thermosets will be studied. Properties of the resulting inks and coatings will also be investigated. The PhD student will work closely together with academic and industrial project partners in the consortium. Samples will be upscaled for the testing by the industrial partners. Based on their feedback, the synthesis work will be tuned.
The PhD student will be appointed at the Aachen-Maastricht Institute for Biobased Materials of Maastricht University, which is part of the Faculty of Science and Engineering. You will work in the Sustainable Polymer Synthesis group of Associate Professor Katrien Bernaerts, which focusses on the synthesis and design of polymer materials with tunable properties and recyclability exploiting the functionality of biobased building blocks. You will operate from the Brightlands-Chemelot Campus in Geleen (Nl), where the labs are located.
Deadline : 30 Dec 2024
(13) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD candidate: synthesis and evaluation of biobased covalent adaptable networks (project SusInkCoat)
This project is part of the SusInkCoat consortium with partners both the public and the private sector. The goal of the SusInkCoat project is to develop switchable and adaptive functional polymers and additives for low environmental footprint.
Plastics have their drawbacks: their production consumes energy and leads to greenhouse gas emissions; they are made from non-sustainable materials; they do not decompose; and less than 10% are recycled. Much progress has been made in making plastics more sustainable for larger applications. However, thin films, such as those used in coatings and inks, are lagging behind. The SusInkCoat project is changing that. Researchers are developing new materials, processes and applications to improve the durability, functionality and recyclability of coatings, thin films and inks. In addition, the consortium is training a new generation of chemical developers for whom sustainability and circularity are core values.
The task of Maastricht University is to develop biobased monomers and recyclable thermosets thereof, as well as the chemical and physical polymer characterization. Recyclability of the thermosets will be obtained by the introduction of dynamic bonds and their dynamic behavior will be studied. Properties of the resulting inks and coatings will also be investigated. The PhD student will work closely together with academic and industrial project partners in the consortium. Samples will be upscaled for the testing by the industrial partners. Based on their feedback, the synthesis work will be tuned.
The PhD student will be appointed at the Aachen-Maastricht Institute for Biobased Materials of Maastricht University, which is part of the Faculty of Science and Engineering. You will work in the Sustainable Polymer Synthesis group of Associate Professor Katrien Bernaerts, which focusses on the synthesis and design of polymer materials with tunable properties and recyclability exploiting the functionality of biobased building blocks. You will operate from the Brightlands-Chemelot Campus in Geleen (Nl), where the labs are located.
Deadline : 30 Dec 2024
(14) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD candidate within the Academic Collaborative Center on Sustainable Care Limburg
The DACIL project is set up by an interdisciplinary consortium. The project aims to promote the autonomy, independence and self-reliance of people with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). This is done by providing COPD patients with an artificial intelligence (AI) supported, personalised digital companion used at home that detects disease deterioration by voice and wearables and stimulates and supports a sustainable, positive, and healthy lifestyle to prevent disease deterioration. In DACIL, researchers from different backgrounds (law, medicine, sociology, data science, psychology) join hands together with patients and other relevant parties involved in COPD care. The work of the PhD candidate focuses on the requirements, wishes and expectations of COPD patients (taken into account inclusivity, digital literacy) for the design, usability and feasibility of this personalised digital voice companion. The voice companion includes (1) a function to detect COPD disease deteriorations through voice recognition (and devices) and (2) lifestyle modules to support COPD patients to adapt a healthy lifestyle by personalised support. Within the project, we work closely with data scientists, other research departments within the university and other parties in the Netherlands. The PhD candidate will be supervised by people from the department of Health Promotion at Maastricht University, the Athena institute in Amsterdam and the department of Respiratory Medicine at Maastricht UMC+. The PhD candidate will also be involved in teaching activities within the Digital Technology and Care track within the Bachelor of Health Sciences and the Master of Health and Digital Transformation.
The tasks of the PhD candidate will include supporting the development of the voice companion through Design Thinking and co-creation methodologies, embedding the companion in practice, and conducting usability and feasibility studies. This is close collaboration with a patient advisory group. Qualitative and quantitative research methods will both be used. The research should result in a dissertation. The researcher will be appointed to the Department of Health Services Research at Maastricht University.
Deadline : 1 sep 2024
(15) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD-candidate position – Stem Cell BioEngineering Genetic plasticity
Aneuploidy, characterized by an abnormal number of chromosomes in a cell, is highly prevalent in human embryos derived through in vitro fertilization (IVF) and is a major cause of early pregnancy loss. On the other hand, persistent aneuploidies can lead to offspring with genetic syndromes, such as Down syndrome (trisomy 21), Edwards syndrome (trisomy 13), or Turner syndrome (XO genotype). To address these issues, preimplantation genetic testing for aneuploidy (PGT-A) has been introduced into IVF clinical practice to exclude aneuploid embryos from transfer. However, there is growing evidence suggesting that preimplantation embryos with mixed ploidy, known as mosaic embryos, can result in the birth of healthy babies, questioning PGT-A efficacy.
The PhD-student will work on using novel stem cell-based embryo models as a proxy to study how human embryos cope with aneuploid cells. The PhD-student is expected to lead efforts in generating mosaic embryo models with a variety of aneuploidy signatures and establishing assessment methodologies related to cell fate mapping. There will be a strong emphasis on the use of advanced microengineered culture platforms, including high-throughput microwell-culture platforms and microfluidic endometrium-on-chip platforms. Each facilitating high-resolution fluorescence microscopy for time-lapse monitoring of cellular processes within embryo models. Discoveries will provide insight into how early human embryos develop and will assist clinical embryologists in making informed decisions when selecting embryos with varying aneuploid signatures for transfer to the uterus.
Deadline : 24 jul 2024
(16) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD candidate. The role of repetitive (epi)genome in shaping human individuality
We are looking for a highly motivated, enthusiastic and creative PhD student in (epi)genetics, bioinformatics or related fields, to join the individual and forensic (epi)genomics research group led by Dr. Athina Vidaki, embedded within the Department of Clinical Genetics at Maastricht UMC+ and the Department of Genetics & Cell Biology at Maastricht University.
The successful applicant will contribute to our recently funded research by the Dutch Research Council (NWO, Vidi grant) to conduct innovative, technology-driven research in the areas of human individuality, the repetitive (epi)genome and long-read sequencing. Additionally, as part of a multidisciplinary environment with the core goal of innovating healthcare, you will also contribute to other ongoing projects in clinical (epi)genomics. You will be supervised and mentored by an experienced team within MUMC+ and UM, and exposed to a wide network of international collaborators.
In the UNIQUE research project, you will employ cutting-edge computational and experimental tools to produce and analyze whole-genome and targeted nanopore sequencing data. The ultimate goal is to uncover novel biomarkers of DNA uniqueness, applicable also to identical twins. For this purpose, you will develop, optimise and validate your own lab and programming techniques to analyze diverse types of repetitive DNA. You will also employ a wide range of methods in data analysis, statistics and prediction modelling, to study and infer a wide range of natural and disease-related phenotypes.
Deadline : 26 jul 2024
(17) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD candidate. The role of repetitive (epi)genome in shaping human individuality
We are looking for a highly motivated, enthusiastic and creative PhD student in (epi)genetics, bioinformatics or related fields, to join the individual and forensic (epi)genomics research group led by Dr. Athina Vidaki, embedded within the Department of Clinical Genetics at Maastricht UMC+ and the Department of Genetics & Cell Biology at Maastricht University.
The successful applicant will contribute to our recently funded research by the Dutch Research Council (NWO, Vidi grant) to conduct innovative, technology-driven research in the areas of human individuality, the repetitive (epi)genome and long-read sequencing. Additionally, as part of a multidisciplinary environment with the core goal of innovating healthcare, you will also contribute to other ongoing projects in clinical (epi)genomics. You will be supervised and mentored by an experienced team within MUMC+ and UM, and exposed to a wide network of international collaborators.
In the UNIQUE research project, you will employ cutting-edge computational and experimental tools to produce and analyze whole-genome and targeted nanopore sequencing data. The ultimate goal is to uncover novel biomarkers of DNA uniqueness, applicable also to identical twins. For this purpose, you will develop, optimise and validate your own lab and programming techniques to analyze diverse types of repetitive DNA. You will also employ a wide range of methods in data analysis, statistics and prediction modelling, to study and infer a wide range of natural and disease-related phenotypes.
Deadline : 26 jul 2024
(18) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD-position in combined Operations Research and Cryptography
In multiple domains, there can be a welfare gain when parties work together. These cooperations lead to centralized optimization problems, where the total system is optimized. Such an optimization algorithm produces a solution and provides it to the various parties in the system. However, as said, this combined solving gives a welfare benefit; this solution is overall better compared to the situation when all parties would have optimized their own situation. This gain should be divided fairly amongst the parties. There are multiple techniques to do that, based on e.g. the Shapley value or the Gini Welfare function. To use the Shapley value, the original, computational expensive, secure optimization problem must be solved multiple times, adding much (time) complexity to the procedure.
However, in many cases the various parties do not want to share information, not even the information needed to come to this central optimal solution. Secure multi-party computation (MPC) is a subfield of cryptography with the goal of creating methods for parties to jointly compute a function over their inputs while keeping those inputs private. This technique can not only be used in optimization, but also in the process of dividing the welfare gain. Note that making a method secure will, in most cases, create additional complexity to the calculations.
Deadline :11 aug 2024
(19) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Candidate for LLMs in Interactive Settings
Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs) are rapidly evolving into pivotal tools across a spectrum of societal applications. From enhancing customer service with intelligent chatbots to aiding professionals in fields like text editing and software development, these technologies are on the cusp of becoming ubiquitous digital assistants for a wide array of knowledge work. The specific effectiveness of these tools, however, varies greatly depending on the nature of the task at hand.
In this innovative project, we aim to probe deeper into the functionalities and broader implications of LLMs in both cooperative and competitive contexts. Imagine scenarios where these technologies facilitate and transform interactions, such as a collaborative effort between a teacher and a learner, both augmented by AI, or a negotiation setting where buyers and sellers use AI to forge agreements. We seek to explore effective strategies for integrating Generative AI in such interactions and assess its impact on the outcomes.
Deadline : 11 aug 2024
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(20) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD position – degrowth and tipping points of food systems, Maastricht Sustainability Institute
The emerging paradigm of degrowth entails unprecedented changes in policy, economic activities, and individual behaviours in order to constrain production-consumption systems within planetary boundaries. The PhD candidate will empirically explore the feasibility and impacts of such changes on food provision systems in the European Union. Urgent research is needed to improve the understanding of systemic interactions between 1. evolutions of food supply chains, markets, individual livelihoods, and dietary habits; 2. their consequences on spatial organisation, social inequality and conflicts; and 3. the political dynamics of populism and nationalism in Europe.
The PhD candidate is expected to conduct novel research on food production-consumption systems in France and the Netherlands.
Deadline : 25 aug 2024
(21) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Candidate: Monitoring Quality in Plastics Recycling
In the plastic packaging value chain, there is only limited information available on the plastics in that chain to assess circularity and recyclability goals, especially the use of post-consumer recyclates (PCR) in packaging.
Quality specifications, monitoring, and standardisation of materials are common in certain industries like chemistry and pharma but are, at this point, only in an infancy state in plastic waste management. A major challenge when it comes to mechanical recycling of plastics is that the quality of the material is not monitored throughout the whole process. Inline monitoring is however essential for predicting the final quality of PCR.
Deadline : 18 aug 2024
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Maastricht University is a public university in Maastricht, Netherlands. Founded in 1976, it is the second youngest of the thirteen Dutch universities.
In 2019, 19,000 students studied at Maastricht University, 54% of whom were foreign students, with over 4,000 employees. About half of the bachelor’s programmes are fully offered in English, while the other half is taught wholly or partly in Dutch. Most of the master’s and doctoral programmes are in English. Besides traditional programmes, Maastricht University also has an honours liberal arts college: University College Maastricht and a Maastricht Science Programme in the same liberal arts tradition. The satellite University College Venlo opened in 2015.
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