Are you a Master’s graduate looking for fully funded PhD opportunities? Explore the range of funded PhD programs available at the Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands. Apply online now and kickstart your doctoral journey!
1. Fully Funded PhD Position in ultrafast broadband-THz spectroscopy of perovskite materials
Summary of PhD Program:
Metal-halide perovskites (MHP) are optically active materials, which hold great promise as light-absorber (e.g. in photovoltaic devices and photodetectors) and as light-emitter (e.g. in LEDs). The material is both ionic and soft, meaning that electrons strongly ‘talk’ to the vibrations in the lattice. These lattice vibrations have frequencies in the 0-5 THz range and are thus thermally active at room temperature, meaning that the material is in a constant state of vibrational motion, which acts a source of dynamic disorder. This disorder is poorly understood, and can localize electrons on short length- and time scales.
Application Deadline: 13 October 2024
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Effects of Pollution at the Ecosystem Level
Summary of PhD Program:
The freshwater system and its adjacent ecosystems host countless species because of their need of water. These are the earths’ natural capital and drivers of many ecosystem services we humans depend on. At the same time, the presence and effects of anthropogenic stress in the aquatic environment are multitude and ubiquitous. These include the omnipresence of chemical pollution such as the use of agricultural chemicals.
Application Deadline: 18 August 2024
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Network Science
Summary of PhD Program:
Leiden University’s computer science department (LIACS), part of the Faculty of Science, is seeking an enthusiastic and well-qualified PhD candidate in network science, a field also referred to as complex networks or social network analysis. The position is for 4 years and is fully funded. The position is part of SSHOC-NL, a five-year national consortium project on advancing methods and infrastructure in, among others, the social sciences. Within SSHOC-NL Leiden University and University of Amsterdam jointly lead the work on large-scale social network analysis, which is the focus of this PhD position.
Application Deadline: 1 September 2024
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in combinatorial drug discovery with macrocycles
Summary of PhD Program:
Do you want to develop top edge early drug discovery platforms, embedded in a young and enthusiastic research group? With us you will combine organic synthesis, combinatorial chemistry and high throughput assays to discover hit compounds for challenging drug targets. Your work at the interface of chemistry and biology will prepare you for a competitive scientific career, both in academia and in the industry.
Application Deadline: 31 August 2024
5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Social Anthropology
Summary of PhD Program:
The project, “Entangled Universals of transnational Islamic Charity”, a European Research Council-funded Consolidator Grant (ERC-CoG), led by Dr. Radhika Gupta, and hosted by Leiden University’s Institute of Cultural Anthropology & Development Sociology, is looking for two PhD candidates, one for research in India, and one for research in Tanzania. The project investigates how transnational Islamic charities are positioning themselves as universalist projects by claiming humanity as their constituency. Islamic charitable networks have increasingly invested in public works to meet the social needs of both Muslims and others.
Application Deadline: 10 September 2024
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Modeling the mechanical regulation of plant development and regeneration
Summary of PhD Program:
The opening is for a research position within the field of mathematical or theoretical biology, computational physics, applied mathematics or computational science. This PhD project is part of the Gravitation programme GreenTE (Green Tissue Engineering), a multidisciplinary consortium of 7 Dutch universities. Together, GreenTE will unravel how plants sense and respond to mechanical stimuli. These fundamental insights will be the basis to develop engineering interventions to improve plant regeneration, seed longevity and defenses against disease.
Application Deadline: 8 September 2024
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7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Brain-inspired LLM for Edge Devices: A Hardware-Algorithm Co-design Framework
Summary of PhD Program:
We are looking for a PhD student to work on a brain-inspired large language model (LLM) system, including hardware and algorithm design on the edge with applications like speech assistance and rehabilitation for post-stroke patients. Brain-inspired computing (neuromorphic computing), inspired by the neural structure of the human brain, offers a promising avenue for the real-time and low-power processing of complex signals. This approach is particularly advantageous in applications where rapid and efficient processing of signals is crucial for timely decisions.
Application Deadline: 1 September 2024
8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Software Optimization and Compiler
Summary of PhD Program:
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.
Application Deadline: 31 August 2024
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Governance of Crisis and Cybersecurity
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD fellow will develop a research project that examines the impact of cybercrises on public safety to contribute to our teaching portfolio in our bachelor and master programmes. Ensuring cybersecurity in our society is a pressing governance challenge that is performed by various public and private actors. Private actors deal with cybersecurity incidents or breaches in their organisations, while a combination of public and private actors are responsible for protecting our critical infrastructure against breakdowns. Once a cyberattack escalates into the public domain, there is a significant risk of cascading effects that may impact other vital sectors causing a widespread transboundary crisis.
Application Deadline: 6 September 2024
10. Fully Funded PhD Position in sustainability & circularity-based decision support systems (industrial digital twins)
Summary of PhD Program:
Future sustainable factories for manufacturing-as-a-service require the connection of information systems to enable the exchange of data from operations to sustainability-based decision support. As a PhD candidate in this project, you will have the opportunity to develop Decision Support Systems (DSS) and harmonize data collection protocols for sustainability and circularity assessment. These will be integrated into a manufacturing digital twin of laser technologies as a service, streamlining decision support for industrial operations.
Application Deadline: 15 September 2024
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Diplomacy and Global Affairs
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD fellow will develop a research project on EU diplomatic representation and network diplomacy to contribute to our teaching portfolio in our bachelor and master programmes. The project aims to focus on the EU Delegations, their organizational structure and capacity to promote EU governance objectives in the EU’s Eastern neighbourhood against the backdrop of EC-EEAS institutional role contestation and geopolitical challenges. The project aims to achieve better understanding of the constraints and opportunities for the Delegations to interact with governments, civil society, epistemic communities, local governments, and the public to advance reforms considered by the EU as fundamental, above all, rule of law.
Application Deadline: 6 September 2024
12. Fully Funded PhD Position in biochemistry
Summary of PhD Program:
Protein aggregation is a key driver of human disease including neurodegeneration. In response, cells have evolved elaborate networks of molecular chaperones that combat protein aggregation by stabilising and refolding misfolded proteins, and preventing aggregation. More surprisingly, the Hsp70 chaperone can also actively disassemble existing protein aggregates. The question remains how Hsp70 toggles between these different cellular functions and which of these activities is most important to combat disease.
Application Deadline: 31 August 2024
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in Terrorism and Political Violence
Summary of PhD Program:
The intermingling of fact and fiction is a recurring feature of radicalized individuals and movements. Norwegian terrorist Anders Breivik fantasized being the leader of a ‘Knights Templar’ resistance movement. The racist and violent fantasy of white resistance in the face of multiculturalist oppression described in the novel The Turner Diaries has inspired some of the deadliest acts of right-wing terrorism in recent history. Fantasy and myth are also being used to create new shared realities outside of right-wing extremist movements, including radical animal-rights groups, conspiracy movements (e.g. ‘red pilling’) and jihadist terrorists.
Application Deadline: 6 September 2024
14. Fully Funded PhD Position in Intelligence and Security
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD fellow will develop a research project on the digital transformation of intelligence and contribute to our teaching portfolio in our bachelor and master programmes. The rise of digital technologies has transformed numerous sectors, reshaping how organizations operate and interact with their environment. Advancements in bulk data collection, data analytics, artificial intelligence and cloud computing to name a few, have significantly expanded the capability to process and analyze vast amounts of information. Digital innovation is particularly critical for intelligence organizations as they strive to provide timely and actionable insights to support decision-makers.
Application Deadline: 6 September 2024
15. Fully Funded PhD Position in Biochemistry, Structure and Function of Archaeal Chromatin
Summary of PhD Program:
The project is aimed at understanding structure, function and evolution of archaeal histone proteins. It is embedded in a dynamic multidisciplinary research group (biochemistry, biophysics, molecular microbiology, genetics, microscopy) with long-standing expertise in the structure and function of chromatin in bacteria and archaea. See www.archaealchromatin.com. The group is part of the section Macromolecular Biochemistry at the Leiden Institute of Chemistry, in which a diverse of range macromolecular systems is investigated to understand their structure-function relationships. Moreover, the group is associated with the Centre for Interdisciplinary Genome Research (CIGR) and the Centre for Microbial Cell Biology (CMCB).
Application Deadline: 15 September 2024
