Are you a Master’s graduate looking for fully funded PhD opportunities? Explore the range of funded PhD programs available at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands. Apply online now and kickstart your doctoral journey!
1. Fully Funded PhD Position in Value-Creation with Marginalized Stakeholders
Summary of PhD Program:
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.
Application Deadline: 30 september 2024
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Intervention for Non-suicidal Self-injury and Depression through a Culturally-sensitive Chat
Summary of PhD Program:
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.
Application Deadline: 30 August 2024
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in MediaMinds – Computational Mechanisms of Social Media Use in Youth
Summary of PhD Program:
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.
Application Deadline: 23 September 2024
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Quantum Materials under Extreme Conditions
Summary of PhD Program:
Quantum materials encompass an enormous library of materials with novel electronic and magnetic properties that are expected to become relevant in a variety of energy saving applications or quantum technologies. Optical spectroscopy provides key insight in the dynamics underlying these properties. The OQM group is developing several new techniques to explore quantum materials under extreme conditions such as extreme high temperatures, large magnetic fields or on nanometer length scales
Application Deadline: 4 Oct 2024
5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Wellbeing Economy Research
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD candidate will collect and analyse quantitative and qualitative data on social and economic wellbeing in multiple neighbourhoods in Amsterdam Nieuw-West, through a co-creation process, in-depth interviews and survey research with local community groups, and compare the results with similar data collected in Amsterdam Zuid-Oost. The comparative analysis will focus on the neighbourhood specific Wellbeing Dashboards and their sets of indicators, to derive patterns in indicators, priority rankings and predicted economic behaviour. Furthermore, the bottom-up collected data will be compared and contrasted with existing databases.
Application Deadline: 15 September 2024
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Computational Prediction of Nanoplastic Impact on Protein Function
Summary of PhD Program:
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.
Application Deadline: 13.09.2024
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7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Early life stress and Alzheimer’s Disease
Summary of PhD Program:
The position is embedded within The Brain Plasticity Group in the team of dr. Aniko Korosi at the Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, University of Amsterdam (UvA). This is a collaborative project with the team of dr. Susanne de Rooij at the department of Epidemiology and Data Science at the Amsterdam University Medical Center, location AMC with whom the human part of the work will be performed with.
Application Deadline: 25.08.2024
8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Integrated Modeling for Plant Life-History Traits
Summary of PhD Program:
In this project, you will work towards unraveling the regulatory networks controlling reproduction-associated transitions under temperature and drought stress. We will use the main model plant Arabidopsis, because of the wealth of existing information. In four accompanying experimental PhD-projects, data will be obtained on the effects of temperature and drought at the transcriptome and phenotype level.
Application Deadline: 23.08.2024
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Optical Atomic ClocksClimate Change and Audiences’ Reception of Eco-Islamic Media in Indonesia
Summary of PhD Program:
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.
Application Deadline: 26-08-2024
10. Fully Funded PhD Position in Climate Change Media Discourses in Islamic Indonesia
Summary of PhD Program:
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.
Application Deadline: 26-08-2024
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Eco-evolutionary Dynamics in the Infant Microbiome
Summary of PhD Program:
You will be supervised by Dr. M. Bruijning, and embedded in the Evolutionary and Population Biology (EPB) department. EPB is part of the Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED), the Faculty of Science at the University of Amsterdam. At EPB we work on the ecology and evolution of plants, animals and microorganisms in changing environments. We use different techniques ranging from laboratory experiments, theory, bioinformatics and molecular biology.
Application Deadline: 1 September 2024
12. Fully Funded PhD Position in Stochastics and Optimization
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD research initiative aims to develop queueing models to model waiting time to healthcare services in developing countries, and then develop optimization methods to solve the final nonlinear optimization model. Moreover, it could be the case that discrete-event simulation is needed to calculate the waiting time. One of the options could be to use Machine Learning for Model Learning. Moreover, the aim is to combine the facility location problem with the capacity problem (queueing models).
Application Deadline: 1 November 2024
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in Nanomaterials: developing luminescent nanocrystal layers for spectral shaping
Summary of PhD Program:
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.
Application Deadline: 31 August 2024
14. Fully Funded PhD Position in Linguistic Representation of Gender in Translated Children’s Literature
Summary of PhD Program:
Children’s literature plays a crucial role in shaping societal values and cultural norms. Stories serve as a significant means through which beliefs about sociocultural phenomena, such as gender are formed in children. The project Tales and Tongues across Time: A Linguistic Exploration of a Century of Gender Representation in Children’s Books in the Netherlands aims to explore how gender representation in the language of children’s books has evolved over the past century (1925-2025) in the Netherlands.
Application Deadline: 20-09-2024
15. Fully Funded PhD Position in ERC Starting Grant Project on Multiple Jobholders
Summary of PhD Program:
The project studies the quality of work and wellbeing of contemporary multiple jobholders. Work in the new economy is increasingly of a flexible and fragmented nature. Multiple jobholders [MJHs], or so-called moonlighters, can be considered emblematic of how work fragmentation and combinations affect the quality of work and total worker wellbeing. MOONLIGHT will research the quality of work in first, second and other jobs and how this translates into total worker wellbeing.
Application Deadline: 22.09.2024
16. Fully Funded PhD Position in Measurement in the Psychological-Network Framework
Summary of PhD Program:
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.
Application Deadline: 25 August 2024
17. Fully Funded PhD Position in Architectural History and Heritage Studies
Summary of PhD Program:
Are you looking for a challenging position in a dynamic setting? The Amsterdam School for Heritage, Memory and Material Culture (AHM) currently has a vacant fully funded PhD position as part of ‘Concrete Colonialism: Architecture and Heritage in Indonesia around Independence’, led by principal investigators and daily advisors dr. Rixt Woudstra and dr. David Duindam, and prof. dr. Esther Peeren as supervisor. This project is funded by a Starters Grant awarded by the Faculty of Humanities. The AHM is one of the five Research Schools within the Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR).
Application Deadline: 15-10-2024
