University of 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 University of Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Eligible candidate may Apply as soon as possible.
(01) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Candidate in Generative AI for Inverse Design of Molecules and Materials
This project focuses on developing and applying a state-of-the-art computational framework for designing improved organic molecules and metal-complex catalyst materials.
Deadline : 01.11.2024
(02) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Positions in Astronomy and Astrophysics
You execute a vigorous research program, under the supervision of one or more faculty members. Positions will be available in fields of research where the institute is active, including planet formation and exoplanets, stellar astrophysics, astrophysics of neutron stars and black holes, and the detection and characterization of radio counterparts of gravitational wave sources.
Deadline : 4 November 2024
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(03) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Assessing and Changing Action Tendencies in Addictive Behaviours
In a series of studies we have demonstrated that approach bias modification can help people with alcohol use disorders to quit drinking, when added to regular treatment. However, the same intervention does not yield differential effects in online interventions and has limited effects in smoking cessation. Recently a new perspective on the underlying mechanism has been developed, based on inferential processing. Based on this account, the promotor and international collaborators developed a new variety of training, ABC training, which yielded promising initial effects. In this project, this new intervention will be further developed and tested in relation to different addictions (alcohol and cannabis use disorders). ABC-training is personalized and in one project the personalization will be based on Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) data. In addition, the reliable assessment of automatically activated action tendencies is an important topic of the project, as is the relationship with motivational processes, triggered by substance-related cues.
Deadline : 11 November 2024
(04) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Candidate Topic Area: Negotiation, Individual Differences and Ethicality
Your role involves collaborating on research, recruiting participants, collecting data, conducting in-depth data analysis, and sharing your research findings with both colleagues and the public. You’ll present your discoveries at workshops and conferences, and participate in collaborative symposia. Your contributions will be published in prestigious journals, shaping discussions in our field. Additionally, you’ll contribute to teaching at the Amsterdam Business School, enhancing the academic environment.
Deadline : 15 November 2024
(05) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Position in Machine Learning to Predict Enzyme Specificity
You will work on the following research objectives:
1) Develop machine learning methodology to integrate docking results with protein sequence-and structure-features
to predict enzyme specificity.
2) Incorporate predicted protein dynamics as input for enzyme specificity prediction.
3) In collaboration with other researchers in the project, apply the methodology to design enzyme characterization
Deadline : 06.11.2024
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(06) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Positions, Project ‘Spatiotemporal Reconstruction of Interacting People for Perceiving Systems’
- You have a MSc degree (or equivalent) in Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Engineering, (Applied) Mathematics/Physics, or any other related field;
- You have a strong background in (3D) Computer Vision, Graphics, and Machine Learning;
- You have solid mathematics foundations (statistics, calculus, geometry and linear algebra);
- You have excellent programming skills, especially in Python and PyTorch (C++ and CUDA are welcome);
- You have strong communication, presentation and writing skills, and excellent command of English;
- You are self-motivated, independent, creative, and you think critically and outside the box;
- You are resistant to stress, when it gets busy you keep your cool;
- You work successfully both independently and in a team.
Deadline : 31 october 2024
(07) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Position: Abrahamic Entanglements: Intersections of Religion and Philosophy
The candidate’s project will address the intersections of religion and philosophy in, between, and beyond the Abrahamic traditions (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) in the First Millennium CE. Suggested topics could include the evolution, transformation, and reception of Plato, Aristotle, later Greek philosophy (such as Neoplatonism), Gnostica, and Hermetica in the construction of belief systems and practices within the Abrahamic traditions; the entanglement of Jewish, Christian, Manichaean, and/or philosophical systems in the formation of early Islam; or the development of First Millennium-Coptic literature (monastic, apocryphal, magical, theological) in the context of the Islamicate Egypt.
Deadline : 31 October 2024
(08) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Position in Inclusive Design with Artificial Intelligence
As a PhD candidate, you will delve into research at the crossroads of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Communication, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), and Computational Social Science (CSS). You will create and apply empirical research methods that blend computational and qualitative techniques to study how complex social inequities are manifested in UI design collaborations with AI. At the end of the four-year PhD, you will be a leading scholar in HCI and intelligent design, with advanced computational skills.
The first phase of the project will involve analysing AI’s role in the UI design process, from prototyping to iteration and redesign. Your focus will be on how AI tools influence user inclusion and design accessibility. The findings from this initial phase will guide the second stage, where you will explore new concepts, practices, and methodologies aimed at ensuring equity in AI-driven design processes.
The overall goal of the project is to create a key output with practical value for user interface and experience designers. While the specific format of this output is your choice, it should include an assessment of accessibility and inclusion, along with practical strategies for improvement.
Deadline : 30 November 2024
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(09) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Position in Experimental Physics: Nanophotonics with 2D Quantum Materials
You will perform fundamental research on the understanding and use of monolayer 2D van der Waals materials in atomically thin optical metasurfaces.
You will:
- fabricate optical metasurfaces and nanoscale devices in the cleanroom of the AMOLF NanoLab Amsterdam (https://amolf.nl/nanolab);
- design and perform high-sensitivity optical and electronic experiments at cryogenic temperatures;
- develop theory and computer simulations to support the experiments;
- present your results in international workshops and conferences;
- collaborate with other members of the research group, other groups within the Quantum Materials cluster, and (international) collaborators;
- take part in the teaching efforts of the group, including supervision of bachelor and master students.
Deadline : 31 October 2024
(10) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Position in Ecological Complexity Focusing on Memory Formation in Ecological Systems
As a PhD candidate you will:
- Engage in advanced research on computational modelling techniques and their applications in ecology.
- Develop and implement computational methods to analyse and detect memory in ecological time series.
- Collaborate with researchers from other fields such as microbiology, complex systems, statistics and computational science.
- Contribute to academic publications and present your findings at international conferences and seminars.
- Actively participate in the department’s educational programs, possibly including the supervision of undergraduate or master’s level students.
Deadline : 1 December 2024
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(11) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Position on Optical Atomic Clocks
You will work on two projects. You and the QDNL team will design and build a highly reliable optical lattice clock, based on our AQuRA project. With our partners from VSL and VU, we will distribute the frequency reference of this clock through fibre links across the Netherlands and ultimately Europe. In parallel, you and the QDNL team will create continuously operating optical clocks (a superradiant clock and a zero-deadtime, multi-ensemble clock). Such a clock should ultimately be able to average down to a precision of 10^-18 in minutes instead of the hours needed by todays clocks. This benefit will unlock new possibilities from fundamental science to society.
Deadline : 31 March 2025
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(12) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Director PhD Programme in Law (internal vacancy)
The director PhD programme in law:
- Is charged with the organization and quality assurance of the PhD programme in law as a whole;
- Is charged with the responsibility for the organization, coordination and implementation of the educational component of the PhD programme;
- Chairs the Board of Admissions of the PhD programme;
- Serves on the Graduate Studies Committee;
- Ensures compliance with UvA-wide PhD policy and regulations.
Deadline : 28 October 2024
(13) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Phytoplankton Dynamics in the North Sea
As PhD student in the MONS program you will investigate how the primary production, species composition and nutritional value of phytoplankton in the North Sea are affected by changes in nutrient availability, turbidity, temperature, and other environmental factors.
Deadline : 4 November 2024
(14) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Researcher – Boosting Private Law Remedies in the Economy of Data
We are inviting proposals for a PhD project that explores the intricate domain of private law remedies within data law, examining how different legal frameworks can ensure robust protection. What private law remedies are available within the current legal frameworks in case of data protection breaches and what type of legal framework might help to ensure effective remedies?
While Article 82 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) opens the door to private remedies in the data economy, there is still a critical gap in both scholarship and case law as to how private enforcement can contribute to safeguarding data protection rights. The project aims to answer the question of how the private law remedies, or the legal framework shaping such remedies, should be rethought to ensure effective remedies for individuals faced with data protection breaches, while accounting for the broader societal implication of structural abuse of data-processing, in light of the societal and structural dimension of online harms.
Deadline : 15 november 2024
(15) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Position in Positron Particle Tracking for Fluid Dynamics
You are expected to take the lead in the code application and development of positron emission-based particle tracking for fluid dynamics research. The ATLAS Group at NIKHEF and Clara Nellist will be the main supporters of this effort. You may also use computational fluid dynamics methods. You will perform experiments on droplet dispersal equipment, both with and without radioactive labelling. Experiments will be done in both the Soft Matter Group as supervised by Joshua Dijksman, and at a UK-based partner, which you will visit a few times in the duration of the project. You will participate in departmental activities, ranging from social activities to periodic research seminars and (voluntary) memberships of councils.
Deadline : 1 December 2024
(16) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Position in AI and Meaning-Making
The recent breakthroughs in Large Language Models (LLMs) have reinvigorated the debate around the status of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in relation to the notions of meaning and sense-making. It has become commonplace to directly adopt the vocabulary characteristic of Human Intelligence (HI) when describing the properties and performances of AI. For instance, LLMs such as ChatGPT are often said to “learn”, “communicate” and “understand”. But in what sense can machines be said to “make sense”? Since the inception of information processing technologies, this grand question has occupied theorists and researchers across many disciplines, including philosophy, psychology, and computer science. Within these fields, meaning is typically approached as an abstract property of language, an individual outcome of cognition, or a formal task of computation.
This project aims to build upon alternative approaches that emphasize the relational, processual, and reflexive nature of meaning. For example, ethnomethodology is a heterodox sociological approach that conceptualizes meaning as emerging from the concrete, ongoing, empirical context of social interaction. It positions itself as the study of “ethnomethods”—the practices people employ to make sense of and make sense to one another. While ethnomethodology has been highly influential in the field of Human-Machine Interaction, the advent of LLMs opens up radically new avenues for exploring the “barrier of meaning” between humans and machines, and for reflecting on how humans and machines make (and don’t make) sense of, to, and with each other.
This PhD project seeks to explore the issue of meaning(-making) in relation to AI from perspectives that emphasize its relational, processual, and reflexive nature—drawing inspiration from ethnomethodology, but also open to other approaches such as socio-semiotics and systems theory. The project combines theoretical development with empirical investigation of encounters between humans and LLMs, or other instances of conversational/social AI. The overarching goal is to contribute to the respecification of the debate on the boundaries between the human and the artificial, grounded in theoretical reflexivity and methodological rigor.
Deadline : 20 november 2024
(17) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Position in Experimental Physics
You will perform fundamental research on the understanding and manipulation of photonic thermal conduction in (meta)materials. More specifically, you will:
- develop an optical experimental method to probe heat conduction in thin (meta)materials;
- develop theory and simulations to understand photonic thermal transport and design thermal transport metamaterials;
- fabricate metasurfaces in the cleanroom of the AMOLF NanoLab;
- present your results at international workshops and conferences;
- collaborate with other members of the research group, other groups within the Quantum Materials cluster, and (international) collaborators;
- take part in the teaching efforts of the group, including supervision of bachelor and master students.
To support you throughout your PhD, you will meet regularly with your group leader, both individually and with other group members. You will take courses on how to successfully navigate a PhD, and additional optional courses for personal development are available (see benefits).
Deadline : 31 October 2024
(18) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD in Corruption and Undue Influence in European Politics
- You will perform empirical qualitative – or mixed-methods – research (e.g. in-depth interviews and policy analysis);
- You will complete a PhD dissertation based on four scientific articles, to be submitted to leading academic journals, or a monograph. Some of these articles will be in collaboration with other team members (including the PIs);
- You will actively contribute to the (national and international) activities of the project, including scientific conferences and networks as well as expert meetings with policy makers and stakeholders;
- You will assist with administrative responsibilities related to the project, such as the organization of workshops or other project events;
- You will contribute to the teaching program of the department;
- You will take active part in seminars of the program group and the department;
- Your primary residence will be within commuting distance of the University of Amsterdam for the duration of the PhD project.
Deadline : 15 November 2024
(19) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD in Stochastics and Optimization
This PhD research initiative aims to develop queueing models to model waiting time to healthcare services in developing countries, and then develop optimization methods to solve the final nonlinear optimization model. Moreover, it could be the case that discrete-event simulation is needed to calculate the waiting time. One of the options could be to use Machine Learning for Model Learning. Moreover, the aim is to combine the facility location problem with the capacity problem (queueing models). More precisely, you will develop an optimization method to optimize both the number and locations of the facilities, and the capacities, such that the overall time to treatment (travel time + waiting time) is minimized and the costs are less than the available budget. Our partnerships with many NGO’s provide us with access to pertinent data for this research. Visits to healthcare services in one or more of the developing countries are possible, but are not compulsory.
Deadline : 1 November 2024
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(20) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Three PhD Positions in AI, Digital Culture and Deep Learning
The European Research Council-funded Advanced Grant ‘Deep Culture – Living with Difference in the Age of Deep Learning’ invites applications for three PhD positions. Collaborating with two other PhD students and two PostDocs, the aim is to realise an ambitious interdisciplinary research agenda on deep learning and culture. The project involves experts from the Institute for Logic, Language, and Computation (ILLC), the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA), and the Amsterdam School for Heritage, Memory, and Material Culture (AHM). Your research will be part of the AI in Culture and Society group of the ILLC and the Critical Data and AI group at Media Studies.
We are looking for three talented, ambitious PhD candidates who can combine independent research with team collaboration. You will have the opportunity to explore exciting questions of contemporary digital culture and deep learning and contribute to shaping debates about our relations with AI technologies.
Deadline : 6 november 2024
(21) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Position Financial Challenges Facing Journalism
We are seeking a PhD candidate for the project “Financial Challenges Facing Journalism.” This is a 3-year PhD project, in which the PhD candidate will investigate the financial challenges that journalism faces regarding the ability to let audiences pay for their products, and how journalistic organizations can possibly combat this issue.
The PhD track is embedded in the Amsterdam School of Communication Research (department of Communication Science) at the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, University of Amsterdam. You will be working together in a team with dr. Mark Boukes and dr. Anke Wonneberger.
Deadline : 17 November 2024
(22) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Position on Political Corruption and Media
We are seeking a PhD candidate for the “Political Corruption and Media” project, which is funded by the European Union. The PhD position is embedded in the international research project RESPOND (‘Rescuing Democracy from Political Corruption in Digital Societies’), consisting of 16 research institutions in 12 European countries.
The PhD track is part of the Political Communication & Journalism (PC&J) programme group at the Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR). The group focuses on the (digital) communication challenges to democracy by studying the predictors, content, and consequences of information creation and consumption. It has a large and vibrant PhD cohort of more than 15 PhD candidates.
Deadline : 31 October 2024
(23) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Position in Children’s Media and Diversity
Are you looking for a challenging position in a dynamic setting? The Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) currently has a vacant PhD position as part of the Children’s Media and Diversity project led by principal investigators Dr. Balazs Boross and Dr. Rik Spanjers. ASCA is one of the five Research Schools within the Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR).
The PhD fellow will be part of ASCA, one of the five Research Schools within the Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR) and the Media Studies department. ASCA is a research community devoted to the comparative and interdisciplinary study of culture (in all its forms and expressions) from a broad humanities perspective. ASCA is home to more than 120 scholars and 160 PhD candidates, and is a world-leading international research school in Cultural Analysis. ASCA members share a commitment to working in an interdisciplinary framework and to maintaining a close connection with contemporary cultural and political debates.
Deadline : 5 november 2024
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The University of Amsterdam is a public research university located in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The UvA is one of two large, publicly funded research universities in the city, the other being the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU). Established in 1632 by municipal authorities and later renamed for the city of Amsterdam, the University of Amsterdam is the third-oldest university in the Netherlands. It is one of the largest research universities in Europe with 31,186 students, 4,794 staff, 1,340 PhD students and an annual budget of €600 million. It is the largest university in the Netherlands by enrollment. The main campus is located in central Amsterdam, with a few faculties located in adjacent boroughs. The university is organised into seven faculties: Humanities, Social and Behavioural Sciences, Economics and Business, Science, Law, Medicine, Dentistry.
The University of Amsterdam has produced six Nobel Laureates and five prime ministers of the Netherlands. The University of Amsterdam has been placed in the top 100 universities in the world by five major ranking tables. By the QS World University Rankings it was ranked 61st in the world, 14th in Europe, and 2nd in the Netherlands in 2021. The university was placed in the top 50 worldwide in seven fields in the 2011 QS World University Rankings in the fields of linguistics, sociology, philosophy, geography, science, Economics and econometrics, and accountancy and finance. In 2018 and 2019 the two departments of Media and Communication were commonly ranked 1st in the world by subject by QS Ranking.
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