Leiden 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 Leiden University, Netherlands.
Eligible candidate may Apply as soon as possible.
(01) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD candidate that studies agricultural collectives bending the curve of biodiversity loss
We are looking for an anthropologically and/or sociologically-trained candidate with a rural interest, an affinity with ecology and an ability to work interdisciplinary. You will draw on long-term and in-depth ethnographic research within selected Dutch agricultural collectives. You will seek to understand how the focus of collectives, for example on getting subsidies for later mowing benefitting meadow birds, or for higher water tables to reduce soil subsidence, shapes the identity formation and organisation of the agricultural collective in question. How do farmers negotiate all kinds of values around a topic such as nitrogen or water management? How do godwits or earthworms inspire farmers to take a long-term, multispecies perspective? And how does their common focus shape their ability to inspire and relate to other agricultural stakeholders such as other collectives, farmers, NGOs, and companies?
Deadline : 7 February 2025
(02) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Positions in Political Science/Conflict Studies/African Studies (two full-time positions)
The PhD positions will contribute pivotally to the COUNTERRR research project and will make important theoretical and empirical advances regarding countering jihadi insurgencies in Africa. The PhD candidates will conduct research on government and community responses to jihadist insurgencies in a specific country; PhD candidate 1 will focus on the Al-Shabaab/Mashababos insurgency in northern Mozambique and PhD candidate 2 will focus on the Boko Haram insurgency in north-eastern Nigeria. The research team will comprise the two PhD candidates, a Post-Doctoral researcher (who will focus on Mali), and the project leader Dr. Corinna Jentzsch (who will focus on comparisons across countries). In addition, the project has an international advisory board with internationally recognized experts in conflict studies and in the country cases. The PhD candidates can expect from the project leader a supportive and empathetic supervision approach, accessibility and timely feedback, and clear guidance and advice for career development.
Deadline : 15 March 2025
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(03) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Researcher on collective action on human-wildlife conflict in East Africa
Understand how different collectives are organised to govern human-animal conflict, 2) Understand how different collectives are organised to govern human-plant conflict (invasive species), 3) Identify key barriers and enablers in collective organisation towards conflict mitigation and increased safety for both wildlife and people, 4) Evaluate effects of rainfall and land-tenure on collective action regarding human-wildlife conflict.
Deadline : 9 February 2025
(04) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Dual-Appointment PhD Candidate and Junior System Administrator, Software Optimization and Compiler
We are looking for a PhD candidate in Software Optimization and Compiler Techniques. This is an exciting and fully-funded dual-appointment PhD candidate and junior software administrator position that allows you to both conduct cutting-edge research leading to a PhD thesis as well as gain experience in system administration in a scientific computing environment. Both require in-depth knowledge and understanding of low-level computer systems and as such these positions reinforce each other. The practice helps the theory, and the theory helps the practice. As such, this unique position allows you to become a highly specialized researcher in the field of structure and optimization of computer systems.
Deadline : 24 February 2025
(05) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Researcher on life cycle-based sustainability assessment and circularity mapping
A future-proof healthcare sector requires the inclusion of safety and sustainability in the design of new medical devices. The same reasoning applies to the packaging materials that will be used in the healthcare sector, without obviously compromising their required technical performance. As a PhD candidate in this project, you will have the opportunity to develop Life Cycle Assessment models to assess the environmental and social impacts, as well as the circularity potentials of a sample of medical devices and packing materials used in the healthcare sector. These will be integrated into a comprehensive methodology to shape safe and more sustainable healthcare products and packaging materials.
Deadline : 7 February 2025
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(06) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD position: X-ray spectroscopy on electrochemical interfaces (1.0 FTE)
Electrochemical devices such as batteries, fuel cells, and electrolyzers play a key role in the energy transition, facilitating electrical energy storage and the production of green chemicals. This PhD project focuses on resolving the molecular-level interactions that occur at the interface between the electrodes and the electrolyte of such devices. At this interface, the interactions between the electrode surface, reactants, products, adsorbates, ions, and water molecules determine how well the electrochemistry performs and how stable the device is during prolonged operation. Using the new X-ray spectroscopy methods developed in our group, we can get a grip on these interactions by producing a chemical fingerprint for every element at the electrode-electrolyte interface. You will use this methodology to unravel the electrode-electrolyte interactions that occur at the surface of carbon electrodes, which are widely used in both batteries and electrocatalysis. Your work will be embedded in the ANION consortium, enabling you to interact with electrochemists, spectroscopists, and microscopists from six knowledge institutes spread over the Netherlands. For your research, you will have the opportunity to combine our unique electrochemical X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy set-up with X-ray spectroscopy at synchrotron facilities.
Deadline : 24 January 2025
(07) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD candidate (1.0 fte, 4 years) “Metaphor in Machine Translation”
The PhD candidate will be responsible for the Professional Users’ Perspectives work package, one of the subprojects within the NWO Vidi project “Metaphor in Machine Translation: Reactions, Responses, Repercussions [MTM project]”, funded for 2025-2029 by the Dutch Research Council (NWO), and directed by Dr. Aletta G. Dorst (Associate Professor of Translation and Human-Centred AI at Leiden University). The PhD candidate will also collaborate with the research team on the Machine Perspectives work package.
Deadline : 31 January 2025
(08) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Position II Noise and correlations in electrochemistry
This PhD project aims at investigating the fundamental processes in nanoscale electrochemistry by exploiting the information contained in the electronic noise of electrochemical currents, and the correlations in the noise for multiple nanoprobes. The research project is financed by the NWO ‘zwaartekracht’ program Advanced Nano-Electrochemistry Institute Of the Netherlands (ANION).
Many open questions on the fundamental principles in electrochemistry remain unsolved. Here, we propose to introduce novel techniques that permit the investigation of some of the pressing questions. Individual electrochemical reaction events have long been suspected to show anomalous correlations, both, in space and in time. Such correlations can be revealed by measuring the noise in the current. In our groups we have ample experience in noise measurements in nanoscale conductors, and these techniques can be adapted for the investigation of electrochemical processes. The project will require the development of nanoscale electrodes with control over the size and relative position of the electrodes. Here, we will benefit from our experience in fabricating nanopositioning systems, and fabricating nanopores with embedded graphene or thin film metallic electrodes. The PhD student will be jointly supervised by Jan van Ruitenbeek (LION) and Grégory Schneider (LIC), and work in close collaboration with a PhD student at the University of Amsterdam who will develop the theory and advanced computer simulations for the noise in electrochemistry.
Deadline : 24 March 2025
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(09) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD position on Legal Pluralism in Africa (GROW Project) (1 fte)
Societal challenges to be tackled under the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) include food security, affordable global healthcare, climate change and the energy transition, housing, clean water, sustainable production and more. Research is crucial to accelerating real-world solutions. As a PhD student your challenge is to realise your vision by conducting high-quality research. Would you like to work with leading scientists, NGOs, companies, government authorities and citizens on the African continent, while developing your competencies and career as a researcher? Join the Graduate Research on Worldwide Challenges (GROW) initiative of five leading universities in the Netherlands.
Deadline : 31 January 2025
(10) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Position (1.0 FTE) in the project Epistemic Actors
Who is behind a successful scientist? In colonial Indonesia, it was local informants and assistants. They provided information scientists needed or collected plants or animals. In this project, the focus is on these Indonesian epistemic actors and the role they have played in the making of (scientific) knowledge in (and about) colonial and postcolonial Indonesia (1850-today). This includes their contribution to Western scientific knowledge but also their influence on local knowledge communities. The PhD in the project will develop a case study within this framework, with a focus on anthropology or natural history. A field trip to Indonesia is included in the project.
Deadline : 2 February 2025
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About Leiden University, Netherlands –Official Website
Leiden University (abbreviated as LEI; Dutch: Universiteit Leiden) is a public research university in Leiden, Netherlands. It was founded as a Protestant university in 1575 by William, Prince of Orange as the first university in the Netherlands.
During the Dutch Golden Age scholars from around Europe were attracted to the Dutch Republic for its climate of intellectual tolerance. Individuals such as René Descartes, Rembrandt, Christiaan Huygens, Hugo Grotius, Benedictus Spinoza, and later Baron d’Holbach were active in Leiden and environs.
The university has seven academic faculties and over fifty subject departments, housing more than forty national and international research institutes. Its historical primary campus consists of several buildings spread over Leiden, while a second campus located in The Hague houses a liberal arts college (Leiden University College The Hague) and several of its faculties. It is a member of the Coimbra Group, the Europaeum, and a founding member of the League of European Research Universities.
The university has produced twenty-six Spinoza Prize Laureates and sixteen Nobel Laureates. Members of the Dutch royal family such as Queen Juliana, Queen Beatrix, and King Willem-Alexander are alumni, and ten prime ministers of the Netherlands including Mark Rutte. US President John Quincy Adams also studied at the university.
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