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 land change monitoring for tree diversity
Summary of PhD Program:
The Laboratory of Geo-information Science and Remote Sensing (GRS) and Plan Ecology and Nature Conservation Group at Wageningen University are jointly looking for an aspiring PhD to explore the potential of land change monitoring in understanding the causes and consequences of tree diversity changes. We start investigating the relationship between vegetation dynamics and the species composition of tree communities at a large scale using remote sensing, before assessing anthropogenic and natural drivers of tree species diversity, functional diversity and ecosystem resilience.
Application Deadline: 19 August 2024
2. 02 Fully Funded PhD Position in NanoNU-Marker: Nano-Chemical Biomarkers for Ageing and Neurodegeneration
Summary of PhD Program:
You will work closely together with the other PhD and develop, combine and apply innovative emerging microfluidics, nano-chemical, and digital technologies. Purpose is to unravel the molecular links between protein aggregation, nutrition/lifestyle, and the onset and progression of cognitive ageing and neurodegenerative disease in older adults. These methods will be applied to study human biofluids as a nano-chemical fingerprint of patients’ nutritional and life-style behavior, to identify nano-chemical biomarkers of Healthy Cognitive Ageing (PhD position 1) and Subjective Cognitive Decline (PhD position 2)
Application Deadline: 7 July 2024
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Individual and collective decision making to reduce pollution from chemical inputs
Summary of PhD Program:
The Business Economics Group at Wageningen University is looking for a PhD student to contribute to their research on effective approaches for mitigating risks to the environment from chemical inputs. The successful candidate will investigate chemical input decision-making processes of farmers, with a focus on both individual and collective approaches, such as environmental cooperatives.
Application Deadline: 8 July 2024
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Microbiota and CRC treatment
Summary of PhD Program:
Colorectal cancer survivors often suffer from treatment-related side-effects impacting their quality of life. Current adjuvant care involves chemotherapeutic management with the drugs oxaliplatin and capecitabine. However, determinants of chemotherapy-induced toxicities are unclear. Emerging evidence suggests that gut microbiota disturbances may play a role. Although dietary fibre is a known determinant of gut health, the impact of dietary fibre on management of chemotherapy side-effects remains unexplored.
Application Deadline: 1 September 2024
5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Aquifer Treatment for Sustainable Drinking Water Supply
Summary of PhD Program:
River bank filtration (RBF) is a widely used nature-based technique to produce drinking water from surface water. Energy intensive post-treatment is often required, because pollutants are not always reliably removed. In the AQUIPURA project, we want to investigate pollutant removal in RBFs in its entirety ranging from organic micro-pollutants to viruses. AQUIPURA develops and employs novel mechanistic insights, monitoring, and modelling tools. AQUIPURA improves design and performance resulting in improved reliability of a contaminant-free, safe, green RBF system in times of urbanization and climate-change. AQUIPURA shares outcomes and knowledge in a Chinese-Dutch transdisciplinary consortium to assist in achieving a green nature-based, climate resilient drinking water supply.
Application Deadline: 7 July 2024
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Empowering optimal design for greater resilience of the electricity grid
Summary of PhD Program:
In this project, a resilience assessment framework for electricity grids will first be developed, building on resilience theory and interdisciplinary methods in ecology and economics (e.g., the five Ws). Since energy systems can be modeled as networked systems, we will employ spatial and network analysis; where nodes represent components like substations and consumers, edges represent connections between them such as transmission lines, and network metrics can be used to identify critical components in the systems. Network failure or simulated attacks on nodes/edges could allow to prevent disruptions and identify potential vulnerabilities. A digital-twin approach will be employed to simulate various scenarios, including for example, peak load, component failures, attacks, and renewable energy fluctuations.
Application Deadline: 2 September 2024
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7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Ex situ and in situ quantification of structure-functional relationships in texturized novel protein sources
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD project will take place at the Laboratory of Biophysics (BIP) and Food Quality and Design group (FQD) at WUR, and it aims at experimentally characterizing the extrusion-driven formation of complex food matrices based on protein-rich materials, both traditional and novel. As a PhD candidate, you will systematically explore how structure/texture formation in protein extrudates, produced with novel food sources alternative to animal proteins, is affected by the degree of pre-processing, the ratio of novel and traditional food ingredients, as well as by extrusion conditions.
Application Deadline: 15 July 2024
8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Diet, faecal microbiota and chemotherapy in patients with colon cancer
Summary of PhD Program:
Within the project, you will conduct several observational and intervention studies. You will work with data from an existing cohort study (the COLON study) by focusing on associations between dietary fibre intake and chemotherapy side-effects. This includes analysing patient-reported outcomes and toxicity-related treatment modifications. Data from ~500 patients who received (neo)adjuvant chemotherapy will be analysed. From a subset of the patients, faecal samples are collected in a longitudinal manner, which you will analyse to understand dynamics of faecal microbiota composition and function during chemotherapy. Next, you will start and conduct new clinical studies dedicated to collection of faecal samples throughout therapy, as well as clinical intervention studies with dietary fibre.
Application Deadline: 1 September 2024
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Exploring Water Scarcity Governance Responses Across Different Societies
Summary of PhD Program:
As climate change intensifies, many parts of the world are facing severe water shortages, with some areas even approaching “Day Zero” scenarios where the water supply is nearly depleted. This issue varies widely depending on historical, political, and community contexts, affecting how different societies manage and respond to water scarcity. Despite the importance of this problem, we still have much to learn about how different communities and governing bodies perceive and tackle these challenges. This project aims to fill that gap by studying water scarcity across three cases with distinct development contexts and systems of governance (e.g. USA, South Africa, Kenya, Colombia, Mexico, Nepal, India). We aim to understand how different regions manage water risks and how provisioning systems and everyday practices are evolving in response.
Application Deadline: 12 August 2024
