Are you holding Master’s degree and ready to elevate your academic journey to the highest level? University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, has announced a multiple fully funded PhD positions awaiting talented individuals like you. Don’t miss your chance to be part of our vibrant academic community. Explore the exciting PhD positions available and submit your application today!”
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(01) Fully Funded PhD Position
PhD position summary/title:–PhD in Computational Prediction of Nanoplastic Impact on Protein Function
Do you enjoy working on interdisciplinary research at the crossroads of physics, chemistry, biology and computational science? Are you interested in using simulations and artificial intelligence to understand key molecular processes for human and planetary health? The Van ‘t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (HIMS) and the Informatics Institute (IvI) are looking for an ambitious PhD student to develop and apply an automated computational framework for the prediction of nanoplastic impact on protein function. This research will be part of the Computational Soft Matter Lab.
At the molecular level, complex physicochemical processes can be understood in terms of free-energy landscapes, which map metastable states and pathways onto key system descriptors. These surfaces can be explored via advanced simulations; exploiting machine learning and data mining to find optimal descriptors and boost the sampling of functional dynamics. Most importantly, in silico we can predict changes in the shape of these landscapes, identifying valleys and channels sculpted by internal or external factors. You will work on predicting nanoplastic-induced changes to a protein’s free-energy landscape—i.e., structure and function—and collaborate with various computational and experimental groups to confirm your predictions.
Deadline : 13.09.2024
(02) Fully Funded PhD Position
PhD position summary/title:– PhD Position in Wellbeing Economy Research
Do you like/are you looking for a challenging job in a dynamic setting? The department GPIO of the faculty Social and Behavioural Sciences is looking for a PhD candidate.
Are you exceptionally interested in doing academic research, and specifically in the field of wellbeing economy and citizens’ science? Do you want to work transdisciplinary, in collaboration with locally embedded residents and professionals? Is it your ambition to become a top-tier researcher? We are seeking a PhD candidate for the Amsterdam Wellbeing Economy research project, which is funded jointly by the Municipality of Amsterdam and the University of Amsterdam. The PhD track is part of the Governance and Inclusive Development (GID) programme group.
Deadline : 15 September 2024
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(03) Fully Funded PhD Position
PhD position summary/title:– PhD position in Quantum Materials under Extreme Conditions
Are you a highly motivated MSc graduate in physics with a strong affinity for quantum and condensed-matter physics experiments? The Optics of Quantum Materials (OQM) group is seeking an excellent and ambitious PhD candidate to perform fundamental research on quantum materials using state-of-the-art optical spectroscopy.
Deadline : 4 Oct 2024
(04) Fully Funded PhD Position
PhD position summary/title:–PhD MediaMinds – Computational Mechanisms of Social Media Use in Youth
We have an urgent need to better understand the social media engagement of youth. Social media supports the specific developmental needs of youth, such as those for social connection. However, the increased sensitivity of the developing brain to social rewards may place youth especially at risk of compulsive use. In addition, youth’s sensitivity to social influence exposes another potential vulnerability, given that not all information is trustworthy. In this project we will focus on novel computational models to capture the complex interactions between developing motivational and cognitive processes, and specific social media affordances. We will take a multi-method approach relying on social media trace data, experience sampling, the development of novel ecologically valid experimental tasks, and neuroimaging.
Deadline : 23 September 2024
(05) Fully Funded PhD Position
PhD position summary/title:–PhD: An Intervention for Non-suicidal Self-injury and Depression through a Culturally-sensitive Chat
Dutch-Turkish and Dutch-Moroccan communities are the largest communities with a non-Western background in the Netherlands. These communities face a pressing mental health issue: depression hits them more frequently (15.1% for first generation and 13.0% for second generation; for third generation, numbers are unknown) than the native Dutch population (8.2%). Also, relapses are common among this population (25.4% to 27.9%). This inequality is a critical public health concern, particularly because depressive symptoms can lead to a cascade of adverse outcomes, such as NSSI, a behaviour associated with significant distress and elevated suicide rates. Further, Turkish or Moroccan migrants infrequently seek professional help or engage in secondary prevention (i.e., prevention of the worsening of symptoms and relapses) for their mental health problems in part due to stigma/taboo, low mental health literacy, mistrust, privacy concerns, negative attitudes, and low intentions.
Deadline : 30 August 2024
(06) Fully Funded PhD Position
PhD position summary/title:–PhD Position for the Project “Social Media Representation of LGBQ Young People”
As a PhD candidate in this project, you will conduct three related studies connected to the overarching research question of the project. The project is currently planned to include a systematic narrative review, a survey research, and a longitudinal design study with experience sampling method (ESM). This PhD project requires you to provide an overview of relevant academic literature and design the three studies of the project. Together, successfully completing these studies will lead to a PhD dissertation.
Deadline : 15 August 2024
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(07) Fully Funded PhD Position
PhD position summary/title:–PhD Project: Value-Creation with Marginalized Stakeholders
This PhD project will advance knowledge on firms’ inclusion and exclusion of marginalized stakeholders, guided by the overarching research question: ‘What is stakeholder marginalization, and when and how do firms engage marginalized stakeholders in value-creation?’ Marginalized stakeholders are stakeholders that are to some degree invisible to managers due to low physical, social, and/or psychological proximity, and that have limited opportunity to decide whether and how to participate in firm-led activities. Such stakeholders are, for example, stakeholders who are subject to negative externalities, are associated with vulnerable social identities, belong to lower social classes, or are stigmatized due to their physical disabilities, mental health conditions, or sexual orientations. While scholars have suggested that engaging with marginalized stakeholders may enable firms to identify new opportunities for sustainable value-creation and social innovation, little is currently known about how firms deal with the inherent challenges of achieving this.
Deadline : 30 september 2024
(08) Fully Funded PhD Position
PhD position summary/title:–PhD Position Artificial Intelligence: Power Asymmetries and Data Justice
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 Artificial Intelligence: Power Asymmetries and Data Justice project led by principal investigators Dr Lonneke van der Velden and Dr Claudio Celis Bueno. ASCA is one of the five Research Schools within the Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR).
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 : 8 september 2024
(09) Fully Funded PhD Position
PhD position summary/title:–PhD Position in Code-Based Cryptography
Are you fascinated by the theoretical underpinnings of security that allow for protecting privacy in an ever more interconnected world? Are you willing to take on the challenge of upgrading cryptography to deal with the threat posed by quantum computation? Do you enjoy working in a team of young and motivated researchers? We are seeking a PhD student to carry out cutting-edge research in theoretical computer science, with an expected focus on code-based cryptography.
Cryptography’s task is to provide tools for maintaining the privacy and integrity of digital data. Unfortunately, almost all currently deployed public-key cryptography is known to be vulnerable if an attacker has access to a quantum computer. Given the near-term deployment of quantum computing technologies, the time to deploy post-quantum secure cryptography is now.
Code-based cryptography not only offers plausible security against quantum attacks; it also leads to practically efficient implementations of powerful cryptography such as secure multiparty computation and (non-)interactive proofs. However, our theory of its security is severely wanting. Firstly, unlike its close cousin of lattice-based cryptography, we lack a satisfactory theory of security reductions. Secondly, many recent proposals lack sufficient cryptanalysis. The aim of this PhD project is to fill in these holes and thereby offer a better foundation for the security of code-based cryptography.
Deadline : 16 September 2024
(10) Fully Funded PhD Position
PhD position summary/title:–PhD Position in the Political Economy of Housing, Financial Policy and Climate Adaptation
We are looking for a PhD-candidate to be part of the new project Just adapt: The political economy of housing climate adaption, led by dr. Jens van ’t Klooster and dr. Cody Hochstenbach. The project will be interdisciplinary, being embedded in both the Department of Political Science and the Department of Geography, Planning and International Development Studies.
The physical impact of climate change cuts across almost every social and institutional domain. One key domain is the field of housing. The housing sector is exposed to huge financial risk due to rotting foundations, extreme weather, and floods. Financial valuation practices for residential real estate fail to take these potential losses into account, setting the stage for misallocated resources and billions in climate-related damages. Everywhere, key stakeholders in housing policy and the financial system are positioning themselves to determine who will pay the price for damage to housing from climate change.
Deadline : 6 September 2024
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(11) Fully Funded PhD Position
PhD position summary/title:–PhD Position Unraveling the Complexity of Suicidal Behavior
Are you passionate about utilizing cutting-edge computational methods to enhance our understanding of mental health? Do you have a strong interest in clinical psychology and aspire to develop innovative solutions for suicide prevention? We are seeking a highly motivated PhD candidate to join our project titled: “Understanding the Dynamics of Suicide: An Agent-Based Modeling Approach to Inform Intervention Strategies in an Urban Context.”
In this project, we aim to employ computational modeling to gain deeper insights into the transition from suicidal ideation to actual suicidal behavior. This collaborative initiative leverages the expertise of the Department of Clinical Psychology, the Department of Psychological Methods, and the Department of Computer Science. You will be based in the Department of Clinical Psychology, a supportive and stimulating academic environment in the heart of Amsterdam. The supervision team includes Dr. Derek de Beurs, Dr. Valeria Krzhizhanovskaya, Prof. Merel Kindt, and Prof. Denny Borsboom.
Deadline : 31 August 2024
(12) Fully Funded PhD Position
PhD position summary/title:–PhD position in Cellular and Circuit Neuroscience
Are you interested in how brain-wide networks contribute to cognition across the lifespan? And how events early in life may affect neuronal circuits and thereby behavior later in life? This project aims to better understand the neuronal mechanisms of how the cerebellum computes and adapts internal models to optimally behave in a dynamic and social environment.
You will study this using a systems neuroscience approach, combining in vivo electrophysiology (Neuropixels) from cerebellum and forebrain areas with behavioral paradigms in rodents. Specifically, you will investigate neuronal circuits in the cerebellum and connected brain areas to various external factors, ranging from social touch to early cannabis exposure (a collaboration with Dr. Rixt van der Veen, Brain Plasticity Group).
Behavior paradigms include social interactions between conspecifics, and tickling rodents to expose them to expected and unexpected social touch. You will then investigate how exposure to these external factors influence cognitive and motor skills later in life. In addition to performing behavioral experiments and implantation of silicon probes for recordings, analysis of behavior and of the electrophysiological recordings will be a substantial part of this project.
Deadline : 16.08.2024
(13) Fully Funded PhD Position
PhD position summary/title:–PhD candidate Increasing student stress resilience using digital and exercise based interventions
Are you wholeheartedly interested in the psychology of stress resilience, student mental health and exercise-based interventions? Are you a future researcher by heart, do you enjoy (learning about) statistical analyses of complex datasets, and is it your ambition to become a top-tier researcher? Then you might be the perfect candidate that we need for the project ‘Stress Tolerance and Resilience by Integrating Digital and Exercise training-based interventions for Mental Health of Dutch students’ (STRIDE)!
Deadline : 15.08.2024
(14) Fully Funded PhD Position
PhD position summary/title:–PhD Microbiome Monitoring for Food Safety
In this research project, you will work with monitoring samples that NVWA collects in the context of AMR monitoring in food production animals. You will enrich this sample flow with microbiological and epidemiological data, aiming to identify indicators that are relevant for (changes in) food safety. By making smart use of monitoring data, and enriching the sample flow with epidemiological data, you will investigate whether genotype profiles can provide biomarkers as a sneak preview into changes in food production systems.
Deadline : 18.08.2024
(15) Fully Funded PhD Position
PhD position summary/title:–Two PhD Positions on Embodied Foundation Models
Are you interested in performing high-impact artificial intelligence research on embodied foundation models that will enable an autonomous robot to operate in an open world?
Progress in multimodal foundation models has been astonishing in the past few years and allow to equip robots with world knowledge of scenes, objects, and human activities. Robots should then be able to perceive and act upon the sensed world, be it that current solutions require data diversity, task circumstances, and the label vocabulary all to be pre-defined, stationary and controlled. As soon as these ‘closed world’ deep learning assumptions are broken, perceptual understanding suffers and oftentimes catastrophically. Hence, robots equipped with state-of-the-art multimodal perceptual skills will experience great difficulty generalizing to perception tasks in an open world where sensory and semantic conditions will differ considerably from those perceived during training.
Deadline : 12 August 2024
(16) Fully Funded PhD Position
PhD position summary/title:–PhD Position in Gut Microbiome in Early Life
Gut microbiota develop rapidly during early life and are essential for our health during infancy and later life. Many factors potentially impact on this development, including but not limited to delivery modes, neonatal feeding (breast or formula), exposure to antibiotics, and both maternal and infant diet. Changing gut microbiota by these factors, in turn, can substantially impact the immune system, hence the infant’s susceptibility to the development of chronic diseases.
However, how these factors regulate our gut microbiota, immune systems, and interactions is mostly mechanistically still unclear. Understanding this complex interaction will pave the way to the discovery of new targets for interventions aimed at improving metabolic health. This position is supported by the NWA program METAHEALTH focussing on oral and metabolic health.
Deadline : 16.08.2024
(17) Fully Funded PhD Position
PhD position summary/title:–PhD Position Measurement in the Psychological-Network Framework
The development of network modelling has led to a plethora of new analytic techniques which are now being applied to areas such as clinical psychology, attitude, personality and intelligence research. However, these techniques have not yet resulted in a psychometric framework that can guide measurement. If we want to be able to make claims such as that someone’s level of depression has decreased after treatment, or that some school intervention has increased a person’s math ability, this requires that these constructs such as depression and math ability can take on different levels that can be compared across people or across time. Currently, it is unclear how one would measure someone’s level on a construct when this construct is understood as a network. The overarching question in the proposed research project is therefore: How to measure levels of a construct in the network framework?
Deadline : 25 August 2024
(18) Fully Funded PhD Position
PhD position summary/title:–PhD candidate in Nanomaterials: developing luminescent nanocrystal layers for spectral shaping
The Aim of your project is to develop fluorescent nanocrystal layers for spectral shaping, to enhance photosynthetic efficiency. Recent nanoscience breakthroughs allow the synthesis of fluorescent semiconductor nanocrystals with near-unity quantum yield, offering great opportunities as spectral shapers to convert the solar spectrum to the needs of agricultural crops and algae. At the same time, substantial knowledge is available on the effect of (artificial) lighting on the growth of algae. In this project, we combine both worlds and develop light-shaping nanocrystal foils with possible photonic outcoupling to investigate their potential for algal yield enhancement. The research will be carried out in an inspiring interdisciplinary collaboration, in the nanocrystal and optics labs of Prof. P. Schall at UvA, and Algae Parc at Wageningen University.
Deadline : 31 August 2024
(19) Fully Funded PhD Position
PhD position summary/title:–PhD Position on Generative AI, CSR, and Corporate Legitimacy
Hundreds of millions of individuals increasingly use generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in the form of conversational agents such as ChatGPT as sources of information. These agents help individuals learn about society and the world around them, including what companies do and how socially responsible or irresponsible they are. Against the backdrop of the mediatization, globalization and politicization of organizations, the project aims to improve our understanding of the extent to which conversational GenAI challenges how and what we learn about companies and their social (ir)responsibility and what effects the emergence of genAI has on individuals’ perceptions of corporate legitimacy, compared to (traditional) news media. The project’s findings are expected to significantly contribute to research and practice by informing researchers, companies, policymakers, and other social actors and institutions about how the emergence of GenAI can disrupt processes affecting corporate legitimacy, particularly in the context of complex topics like corporate social (ir)responsibility.
Deadline : 15 August 2024
(20) Fully Funded PhD Position
PhD position summary/title:–PhD Eco-evolutionary Dynamics in the Infant Microbiome
In humans, gut and oral microbiota develop rapidly during early life and are essential for our health during infancy and later in life. Many factors impact this development, including delivery modes and physical contact with family members, but also various ecological and evolutionary processes that act within the infants.
Recent genomic advances now enable strain-level characterization of the microbiome, paving the way for a deeper understanding of how host-associated microbial communities develop over time, ultimately aiming to predict efficient interventions to improve human health outcomes. Exciting questions include, for example, which microorganisms are transmitted from mothers to newborns, and do their strains persist during infant development? How do early life experiences impact the microbiome? Does within-infant microbiome evolution shape microbial communities, and does this vary with age and across body sites? Do Archaea, microbial symbionts parasitizing other microbes, and microbial viruses play a role in health and disease?
To address such questions, you will analyze data from the Amsterdam Infant Microbiome Study (AIMS) cohort, following infants and their families during the first 1000 days of their life. By analysing metagenomics data down to the strain level and integrating these observational data with theoretical, statistical and mechanistic models, you will test how microbiomes develop over time, and how this is shaped by ecological and evolutionary processes. You will develop skills in bioinformatics, statistics, multiscale modelling, community ecology and evolutionary biology.
Deadline :1 September 2024
(21) Fully Funded PhD Position
PhD position summary/title:–PhD Position in Climate Change and Audiences’ Reception of Eco-Islamic Media in Indonesia
This PhD position is embedded in the ERC-funded research project Eco-Islam in Indonesia: Media, Institutions, Publics. In Indonesia, Islamic ‘green’ pop musicians, eco-YouTube-imams, films, and social media find inspiration in religious scriptures to encourage Muslims to engage in environmental protection. In this project, we map mediated eco-Islam and investigate the Indonesian Islamic eco-cultural approach to climate change. To do so, we focus on different media outlets of eco-discourse (e.g., film, television, popular music, and social media) and we will study three levels. On the level of the institutions (project 1), we explore how an Indonesian Islamic eco-cultural approach to climate change is developed, which eco-theologies underlie its creation, and how adaptable it may be to other national contexts. On the level of texts (project 2), we study how media discourses offer Muslims specific green models of citizenship. On the level of publics (project 3), we study how media audiences and users negotiate, contest or adopt green models of citizenship.
Deadline : 26-08-2024
(22) Fully Funded PhD Position
PhD position summary/title:–PhD Position in Climate Change Media Discourses in Islamic Indonesia
The Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) currently has a vacant PhD position as part of the ERC funded research project Eco-Islam in Indonesia: Media, Institutions, Publics, led by principal investigator dr. Leonie Schmidt. ASCA is one of the five Research Schools within the Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR). 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 : 26-08-2024
(23) Fully Funded PhD Position
PhD position summary/title:–PhD Position on Optical Atomic Clocks
Are you a eager to apply optical clocks to real-world challenges and to explore new optical clock operating principles, all in a lively international research group?
Our Ultracold Strontium Gases Group is offering a postdoc position on our QuantumDelta NL (QDNL) Ultracold Atom Quantum Sensing Testbed. QDNL advances quantum technology and brings it closer to applications by collaborating with industry, startups and users. Our group is headed by Prof. Florian Schreck and is part of the Quantum Gases & Quantum Information (QG&QI) cluster at the Institute of Physics (IoP) of the University of Amsterdam (UvA). We exploit ultracold Sr for quantum simulation, quantum sensing, and quantum computing.
Deadline :31 March 2025
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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.
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