Are you a Master’s graduate looking for fully funded PhD opportunities? Explore the range of funded PhD programs available at the Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, Netherlands. Apply online now and kickstart your doctoral journey!
1. Fully Funded PhD Position in knowledge politics of Artificial Intelligence in energy governance
Summary of PhD Program:
The Environmental Policy Group at Wageningen University is seeking a highly motivated PhD candidate to explore the emerging role of AI in the assessment and governance of energy and climate change. Interest is escalating on purported AI capacities in sensoring, data-gathering, simulation, and forecasting for policy planning. This can range from the design and control of buildings and energy grids, to ‘Digital Twins’ of complex technological, societal, and environmental systems.
Application Deadline: 20 January 2025
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Effectively steering the regenerative agriculture transition
Summary of PhD Program:
The ReGENL project aims to develop a future-proof agricultural sector in which agriculture goes hand in hand with soil health, nature restoration, and a good revenue model for farmers. Between now and 2030, ReGeNL will support the transition to regenerative agriculture with 1000 farmers. The aim is to make regenerative agriculture the new normal by 2040. The project aims to be an accelerator for the transition to a regenerative, profitable and socially supported agricultural sector. It is embedded in a large consortium of partners from farming, processing to retail, banking and education.
Application Deadline: 20 January 2025
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Microclimate selection by freely flying mosquitoes
Summary of PhD Program:
The project is in collaboration with international partners in Switzerland and Tanzania, with the joint aim to understand the microclimate selection behaviour of yellow fewer and malaria mosquitoes. Within this consortium, you will study the flight behaviour of these disease-transmitting mosquitoes when selecting their preferred microclimates. For this, you will perform microclimate selection experiments in large indoor climate-controlled cages with various temperature and humidity zones.
Application Deadline: 13 January 2025
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Circular Nutrients and Water in Zeeland
Summary of PhD Program:
This project strives towards finding solutions and/or innovations for optimizing the resource cycles of nutrients and water in the province of Zeeland. This implies preventing unwanted leaks from the cycles and promoting its intentional use by recovery and re-use. The main pathways of the nutrients and water are known. However, the magnitude of anthropogenic and natural macro-nutrient flows is not known and the same thus holds for a nutrient budget (what goes in and out and what is released to the (marine) environment), as well as a detailed water balance.
Application Deadline: 26 January 2025
5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Influence of farmer behaviour on the effectiveness of vaccination and biosecurity to control avian influenza
Summary of PhD Program:
The project VIVACE, gathering 15 leading universities or research institutes and 5 private companies, puts together an ambitious doctoral network to integrate poultry vaccination approaches into efficient management strategies for HPAIV. This interdisciplinary project offers funding for 13 PhD scholarships along the continuum from virology and immunology to spatial and molecular epidemiology, computer sciences and social and behavioural sciences. Irrespective of their background, all doctoral candidates from VIVACE will benefit from a unique international training in these fields, as well as state-of-the-art soft skill development.
Application Deadline: 31 January 2025
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Environmental and welfare impacts of vaccination to control avian influenza
Summary of PhD Program:
Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) is a serious disease affecting poultry, with significant economic and public health implications. Vaccination and biosecurity measures (e.g., hygiene protocols or restricting farm access) are critical for controlling outbreaks, but not all farmers adopt these measures. This PhD project aims to develop a multiple burden model of avian influenza. This means that in close collaboration with other PhD projects within VIVACE (particularly with a project aimed at the economics and two projects aimed at the epidemiology of avian influenza) the environmental and animal welfare disease burden will be modelled.
Application Deadline: 31 January 2025
