Utrecht University, Netherlands invites online Application for number of PhD Positions at various Departments. We are providing a list of Fully Funded PhD Positions available at Utrecht University, Netherlands.
Eligible candidate may Apply as soon as possible.
(01) PhD Position – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title:–PhD: Metabolomics of Endocrine Disruptors, Immune-Related Health & Liver Disease
Would you like to understand how endocrine disruptors affect human health? Are you passionate about metabolomics? Then a PhD position at the One Health Chemical group of the Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences (IRAS) might be just for you! We are offering an exciting PhD position to investigate the health effects of endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) on multimorbidity, with a focus on metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD), metabolic and immune related diseases.
Deadline : 1 June 2024
(02) PhD Position – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title:–PhD position: Exploring microbial potential for PFAS transformations
The PFAS Remediation Living Lab was created for sustainable development of PFAS soil and groundwater remediation with a particular application to the PFAS contaminated field at Utrecht University. It brings together researchers and students from the Beta and Geo faculties, the UU Facility Service Centre and the Utrecht Municipality. The living lab was created in cooperation with Utrecht University Living Labs (UULabs) and is supported by the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management.
This position is one of three PhD positions involved in the research programme. Each PhD researcher will work on its own line of research and will collaborate with the other PhD researchers, the rest of the research team and stakeholders in the living lab. All three PhDs within the PFAS Living Lab will contribute to making this a vibrant, impactful and interactive community. Would you like to contribute to developing sustainable solutions for removing and destroying PFAS substances, remediating this field?
In this PhD position you aim to advance our understanding of microbial tolerance to, and potential degradation of, PFAS chemicals. Using this knowledge, you will explore the extent to which microbial approaches may help in the development of integrated decontamination approaches in the field.
Deadline : 30 May 2024
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(03) PhD Position – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title:–PhD: Assessing Sub-daily Carbon and Water Exchange in the Amazon
Within the project ACT-NOW (Amazon Carbon uptake Transitions – Novel space-based Observational frameWork), we aim to:
- improve existing satellite algorithms and produce a new dataset of sun-induced fluorescence;
- use geo-stationary satellite data to study changes in leaf-phenology during the day;
- use evapotranspiration estimates to quantify changes in water-use efficiency;
- organise an international workshop to disseminate our findings to the wider scientific community.
Deadline : 9 June 2024
(04) PhD Position – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title:–PhD: on column testing and numerical modeling of PFAS flushing from soils
The PFAS Remediation Living Lab is created for sustainable development of PFAS soil and groundwater remediation with a particular application to the PFAS contaminated field at Utrecht University. It brings together researchers and students from the faculties of Geosciences and Sciences, the UU Facility Service Centre and Utrecht Municipality. The living lab is created in cooperation with Utrecht University Living Labs (UULabs) and is supported by the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management.
This research will run for four years and includes three PhD positions of which this is one position. Each PhD researcher will work on its own line of research but will collaborate with the other PhD researchers and stakeholders in the living lab. Would you like to contribute to developing sustainable solutions for removing and destroying PFAS substances, remediating this field?
Deadline : 29 May 2024
(05) PhD Position – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title:–PhD: PFAS remediation on site: transport phenomena & immobilization
In the Environmental Sciences section at Utrecht University’s Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development we’re seeking a motivated PhD candidate to contribute to sustainable PFAS remediation by
- monitoring and characterizing flow and PFAS transport at the field site, including the development and testing of passive sampling methods for PFAS;
- exploring the potential of natural attenuation of PFAS using compound-specific isotope analysis; and
- design and execute a field pilot for PFAS remediation strategy, including PFAS flushing and immobilisation.
Deadline : 29 May 2024
(06) PhD Position – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title:–PhD: Improving Psychological Treatments for Young People with Depression
In the position of PhD candidate, you are responsible for conducting research studies (including design, data collection, and data analysis) and publishing about the findings. You will present your findings at national and international conferences, and you will be part of the Postgraduate School for Experimental Psychopathology. You will get to chance to be embedded within a broad international network, including experts in experimental psychopathology, psychometrics and computational psychiatry. The supervisory team for the PhD project comprises Dr Geert-Jan Will, Dr Sanne Bruijniks, Professor Iris Engelhard, and Professor Jaap Denissen. You will be a member of Utrecht’s Experimental Psychopathology lab
Deadline : 1 June 2024
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(07) PhD Position – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title:–2 PhD Positions in Literary and Cultural Studies: Ecologies of Violence
As a PhD candidate you will be working on a subproject within the Consolidator Grant project EcoViolence (2024–2029) funded by the European Research Council (ERC) and directed by Dr Susanne C. Knittel
(Principal Investigator, PI) at the department of Languages, Literature, and Communication
. EcoViolence is an interdisciplinary, transnational, and comparative study of the cultural imaginary of environmental violence. The project’s aim is to understand how contemporary culture frames and remembers environmental degradation as violence; how it can make visible the deep historical roots that tie eco-violence to other histories of violence, especially colonialism and genocide; and how it articulates and reflects on questions of guilt, responsibility, and implication. EcoViolence will bring together research in cultural memory studies and ecocriticism in order to develop an innovative ecological model for the study of violence, its memory and representation. Furthermore, the project explores how these representations harness affect and emotion to promote critical self-reflection. The project focuses on narrative and visual media and takes a comparative, multilingual, and media-specific approach.
Position 1: Poetics of Eco-violence
This subproject will contribute to recent scholarship on eco-poetics by exploring the aesthetic, political, and affective affordances of literature, specifically poetry, for representing eco-violence, past and ongoing. Special attention will be paid to how contemporary poets are reimagining genres and poetic conventions to represent the multidirectional links between eco-violence, genocide, and colonialism. The subproject will explore the interaction between poetry and activism, social and environmental justice, focusing particularly on how contemporary eco-poetry frames questions of guilt, responsibility, and implication. The approach will be transnational/transcultural and multilingual, and the methodology will be comparative analysis and close reading, coupled with discourse analysis. The PhD will draw on recent scholarship in cultural memory studies, ecocriticism – specifically eco-poetics, and affective formalism to analyse the literary and poetic techniques, as well as the formal affordances of these texts. The subproject will also consider how poetry reflects on the role of language in perpetuating as well as resisting eco-violence.
Position 2: Images of Eco-violence
This subproject will focus on the aesthetic, political, and affective dimensions of contemporary documentary film. It will contribute to current debates on the role of visual culture in representing eco-violence and its links to other histories and structures of violence. As an investigative genre par excellence, based on a discourse of evidence, truth, and social representation, documentaries are a particularly fruitful site for the representation of large-scale violence and a critical engagement with questions of guilt, responsibility, and implication. The corpus will consist of a range of different types of documentaries: from mainstream productions to more experimental, independent films. The approach will be transnational/transcultural and multilingual, and the methodology will be comparative, visual, and media analysis as well as discourse analysis. The PhD will draw on recent scholarship in cultural memory studies, ecocriticism – specifically eco-cinema, and affect theory to analyse the cinematic and rhetorical techniques, as well as the use of mediation, remediation, testimony, data, and evidence in these films. The PhD will furthermore explore the place of these films within a larger media ecology, focusing especially on the growing number of environmental film festivals.
Deadline : 1 June 2024
(08) PhD Position – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title:–PhD Position: Molecular Mechanisms of Protein Biogenesis
We are working at the interface of biochemistry, molecular biology and biophysics to follow the journey of nascent proteins toward their functional structures as they emerge from the ribosome. These mechanistic studies pave the way for targeted interventions against protein misfolding and perturbed protein homeostasis which are important for a number of aging-related diseases, including neurodegeneration, and several forms of cancer., which just relocated from Johns Hopkins University to Utrecht, has established single-molecule optical tweezers assays for probing nascent protein folding on the ribosome. These studies have shown how the ribosome and molecular chaperones counter misfolding and help large, multi-domain proteins attain their functional structures. The group is now combining mechanical manipulation with single-molecule fluorescence detection. These in vitro studies are complemented by cellular assays. Collectively, the work is revealing fundamental principles of cellular protein biogenesis.
Deadline : 30 May 2024
(09) PhD Position – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title:–PhD: Developing Scalable Multiple Imputation Routines for Longitudinal Data
The department of Methodology and Statistics has a job opening for a PhD candidate. In this position, you will develop novel statistical algorithms to treat missing data in large, longitudinal datasets. Doing so will require you to develop a broad base of statistical expertise and a diverse data analytic toolkit. You will work with Bayesian modelling, (longitudinal) structural equation modelling, high-dimensional prediction algorithms, and computational statistics/numerical methods. You will also have the opportunity to learn high-performance statistical computing techniques and develop highly marketable software development skills. Just for good measure, we’ll throw in four years of intensive on-the-job training in open-science workflows and open-source software development. Are you up for the challenge?
Deadline : 2 June 2024
(10) PhD Position – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title:–PhD position – Understanding human biases during AI-aided systematic reviewing
The rapidly evolving field of AI offers promising solutions to the literature screening challenge using machine learning models, like active learning, and, very recently, large language models (LLMs). However, many of these AI-driven solutions emerge from tech companies that publish new and, hopefully, better models at an unprecedented rate. The rapidity of advancements in the field of AI outpaces meticulous scientific evaluations, leaving many methods unrefined and unproven. The challenge is twofold: keeping pace with these relentless innovations while collaboratively forging a comprehensive understanding of their implications.
Deadline : 26 May 2024
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(11) PhD Position – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title:–PhD Position: Optimal Models for AI-Assisted Systematic Review (ASReview)
The rapidly evolving field of AI offers promising solutions to the literature screening challenge using machine learning models, like active learning, and, very recently, large language models (LLMs). However, many of these AI-driven solutions emerge from tech companies that publish new models at an unprecedented rate. The rapidity of advancements in the field of AI outpaces meticulous scientific evaluations, leaving many methods unrefined and unproven. The challenge is twofold: keeping pace with these relentless innovations while collaboratively forging a comprehensive understanding of their strengths and limitations.
In the evolving landscape of AI-aided systematic tools we need to explore which AI model can best be used for which type of data. For instance, while the active learning model (ALM) can facilitate literature screening by presenting the most likely relevant record, the human still needs to make the final labeling decision. In contrast, an LLM can directly generate such labels with explanations, without human input. This project envisions a collaborative approach that leverages the strengths of both humans and different artificial intelligence solutions in systematic screening.
Deadline : 26 May 2024
(12) PhD Position – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title:–PhD on “More Linguistics for More Generalisable and Explainable AI”
This PhD project will take a data-centric approach to the two challenges of explainability and generalisation associated with AI systems. One of the goals of the project will be to use innovative methods for the generation of adequate datasets for the evaluation of the natural language understanding capacity of AI systems, by capturing the complexities of semantic behaviour that are not represented in current evaluation methodologies. For instance, the project will design ways to (semi-)automatically and reliably recast existing benchmarks to make them suitable for evaluating the explainability and generalization capacity of AI systems on language understanding, as well as explore state-of-the-art neural architectures for adapting to new challenging semantic benchmarks.
Deadline : 20 May 2024
(13) PhD Position – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title:–PhD Candidate: Fostering Resilience in Youth Using Virtual Reality
In the position of PhD candidate you are responsible for conducting three interdisciplinary studies with different designs and populations. You will carry out activities like finalising the design of the studies, applying for ethical approval, recruitment, conducting the studies, for the data management and analyses, writing scientific papers for (inter)national peer-reviewed journals and presenting at (inter)national conferences. Studies planned within the PhD trajectory are a survey study in a sample of mid adolescents (15-17 years old) and late adolescents (18-21 years old) from various educational tracks with three waves (secondary education; secondary vocational education, higher professional education, university). Another study will focus on decreasing anxiety in students with elevated levels of fear of public speaking and in the last study findings from the first two studies will be applied in a clinical treatment at mental health centres using a single-case experimental design.
Deadline : 15 May 2024
(14) PhD Position – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title:–PhD position in Agent-based Modelling for Inspection Simulations
In this PhD position, you will focus on simulating the inspection processes. Strategies that inspectorates use for selection of targets and enforcement in response to non-compliances invoke changes in the behaviour of the target population. In turn, these changes invoke updates in the strategies of the inspectors. It is difficult—if not impossible—to study and test the interactions between an inspectorates’ actions and the behaviour of inspectees outside of a lab setting because of practical and ethical constraints. In this project we aim to develop data-driven agent-based models to study these behavioural dynamics in a synthetic environment, and thereby enabling the evaluation of (data-driven) inspection strategies before field deployment, while testing for effectiveness, robustness, and fairness of target selection strategies.
Deadline : 19 May 2024
(15) PhD Position – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title:–PhD Position: Colonial Environmental History (19th Century Dutch East Indies)
As a PhD candidate, you will be working on a project titled “Conservation before conservationism: Resilient environments in Dutch East Indies in the 19th century” funded by the PhD Programme Faculty of Humanities. This project explores the introduction and development of the system of plantation and enforced labour – known as the Cultivation System – on the island of Java under Dutch rule between 1830 and 1870. You are expected to compare environments that were transformed by such system and environments that resisted to it, and identify key factors able to explain the differentiated output. The overarching goal of the project is to look at local-imperial dynamics and find out strategies that determined the non-transformation of Indonesian nature.
Deadline : 17 May 2024
(16) PhD Position – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title:–PhD position in characterisation of polymer-based gene delivery vehicles
Fueled by a recently awarded ERC Starting Grant (POLYPATH) our team works on developing novel fabrication routes for polyplexes based on polymerisation-induced electrostatic self-assembly (PIESA). PIESA offers a synthetic tool to manipulate the polyplex assembly process.
Your role will be to fundamentally understand how PIESA impacts the polyplex properties and how we can design assembly pathways that will lead to polyplexes with optimised pharmaceutical potential. To get to these insights, you will use advanced analytical techniques, including (time-resolved) small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) and NMR relaxometry. Combing this set of challenging techniques, will paint a detailed picture on the encapsulation of nucleic acids by forming polymers from molecular to colloidal length scales.
Deadline : 12 May 2024
(17) PhD Position – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title:–PhD position in philosophy of science
We are offering a fully funded four-year PhD position to a researcher interested in philosophically and experimentally investigating scientific hype, i.e., the phenomenon that occurs when scientists ‘oversell’, exaggerate, or overgeneralise findings (e.g., to untested populations) when communicating their research to other scientists or the public. This phenomenon has important implications for the social epistemology and ethics of science, as it may involve deception, corrode people’s trust in science, and contribute to failures of scientific replicability. However, scientific hype may also have yet unexplored benefits.
As part of the PhD project, you will develop methods to identify scientific hype, focusing specifically on overgeneralisations expressed in the use of generics, i.e., unquantified generalizations (e.g., ‘People with OCD benefit from CBT’). Generics suggest that a claim has a universal scope. Yet, studies show that they are often used in science communication when the reported research does not support such broad claims. You will explore to what extent generics are used in science communication across scientific disciplines, when exactly they are instances of unwarranted scientific hype, why they are used in science communication, and what the resulting epistemic and ethical costs and benefits may be.
Deadline : 15 May 2024
(18) PhD Position – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title:–PhD on Caprock Integrity During Temporary Hydrogen Storage in Porous Reservoirs
In this PhD project, you will be performing rock mechanical experiments to assess and quantify the stress-strain-sorption behaviour of clay-rich caprock in the presence of hydrogen. This will form the basis to identify grain-scale mechanisms that may impact the transport properties and frictional behaviour of clay-rich caprock during cyclic hydrogen pressure changes. Building on existing microphysical theory, you will cast your results in the form of constitutive relations, which can be used in numerical simulations performed by other partners in the HyTROS consortium. Throughout the project, you will regularly interact with the other consortium partners and present your results to a broader audience.
Deadline : 15 May 2024
(19) PhD Position – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title:–PhD position in Market formation for sustainability innovations
The transition to a sustainable society has been driven for years by small-scale experiments with technologies, such as electric cars, meat substitutes, and preventative health devices. These technologies have evolved into viable options for consumers and are thus poised for large-scale deployment. At the moment, there is a need for a better understanding of upscaling of such sustainability innovations.
In this project, you will take an empirical approach to investigate how markets for sustainable innovations have been created in the past, explore how technological, regulatory, and market-related factors contribute to market formations, and develop a future-oriented methodology to better capture what kind of markets we want for sustainable innovations. The study will be conducted in the sustainability-related fields of mobility, energy, food and health, and in close collaboration with societal stakeholders.
Deadline : 15 May 2024
(20) PhD Position – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title:–Two PhD positions: Cellular structural biology of spermiogenesis
Are you curious about how round male germ cells transform into streamlined sperm? Fascinated by proteins 3D structure? Eager to explore the limits of cryo-electron microscopy? Join our ERC funded team as a PhD candidate for four years of excellent training on an exciting and rewarding project. You will join a dynamic and enthusiastic research group that combines state-of-the-art cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) and cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) with biochemical assays to advance our knowledge on sperm biology.
Deadline : 13 May 2024
(21) PhD Position – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title:–PhD Position: Saying the right word at the right time
This project will provide insights regarding the (possibly complementary) effects of these contexts, while enhancing our understanding of the mechanisms of early vocabulary development, also in children from lower socioeconomic families, who often lag behind in (early) vocabulary development. The aims of the project are:
- to understand children’s exploration behaviour and the role of caregiver’s labelling behaviour during moments of embodied attention across the home and childcare context;
- to study the role of exploration behaviour and vocabulary development with caregiver labelling as moderator across contexts;
- to investigate differences in child and parental behaviour related to the family’s socio-economic background.
Deadline : 19 May 2024
(22) PhD Position – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title:–PhD Position on Assessing Carbon Sequestration in Blue Ecosystems
At Utrecht University, we seek a motivated PhD candidate with knowledge and experience related to marine ecology and biogeochemistry to conduct:
- field experiments and sampling of sediment cores, operating autonomous sensors, and perform seawater collection, in nearshore salt marsh, seagrass, and possibly mangrove ecosystems;
- sample processing of collected field data in the lab using geochemical analytical instrumentation such as mass spectrometry of sediment material and seawater analyses (e.g. titrations); and
- to work with international consortium colleagues.
Deadline : 15 May 2024
About Utrecht University, Netherlands – Official Website
Utrecht University is a public research university in Utrecht, Netherlands. Established 26 March 1636 (385 years ago), it is one of the oldest universities in the Netherlands. In 2018, it had an enrolment of 31,801 students, and employed 7,191 faculty and staff. In 2018, 525 PhD degrees were awarded and 6,948 scientific articles were published. The 2018 budget of the university was €857 million.
Utrecht University counts a number of distinguished scholars among its alumni and faculty, including 12 Nobel Prize laureates and 13 Spinoza Prize laureates. Utrecht University has been placed consistently in the top 100 universities in the world by prominent international ranking tables. The university is ranked the best university in the Netherlands by the Shanghai Ranking of World Universities 2019, ranking 13th in Europe and 49th in the world.
The university’s motto is “Sol Iustitiae Illustra Nos,” which means “May the Sun of Righteousness Enlighten Us”. This motto was gleaned from a literal Latin Bible translation of Malachi 4:2. Rutgers University, having historical connections with Utrecht University, uses a modified version of this motto.
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