Postdoctoral Researcher in Knowledge Security, Geopolitics of Science and Energy Transition Technologies University of Amsterdam in Netherlands

The University of Amsterdam is seeking a postdoctoral researcher to study knowledge security in a geopolitical context , with energy-transition technologies as the primary focus. The project examines how universities and research institutes can preserve open international collaboration while responding to geopolitical and geo-economic competition. The research will investigate knowledge-security risks and the effects of measures such as partner screening, risk classification, and export-control ...

The Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam is seeking a postdoctoral researcher for the international ENACT project, which investigates how international police cooperation against transnational organised crime is organised in law and how it works in practice. The project uses a comparative design centred on the Netherlands and Norway, allowing the researcher to examine how different institutional and legal positions shape cross-border cooperation. As part of an international research team, the postdoc wi...

This postdoctoral position is part of KNOWSEC-NL , a large interdisciplinary consortium studying how Dutch and European knowledge institutions can remain open to international collaboration while responding to geopolitical and geo-economic competition. The project focuses on knowledge security as a systems problem and uses energy transition technologies as the main anchor for analysis, including energy storage and batteries, catalysis and solar fuels, hydrogen, and the critical materials they de...

The PhD researcher will join the Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance and Society at Leiden University as part of the Minaret Project , an interdisciplinary and transnational research initiative on the links between law, religion, and governance in post-imperial Muslim-majority societies. The project brings together multiple universities and PhD researchers and is organized around comparative work packages and subprojects. This position is attached to the subproject “Neo-Imperialism and...

Leiden University is offering two full-time PhD positions in the four-year CRISP project, Cocreating Research to Improve Science for Policy , based at the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs and Institute of Public Administration in The Hague, Netherlands. The project investigates how research-based knowledge can be better used in policymaking. One PhD project examines science for policy through the perspective of policy workers, including their evidence-informed working practices, barriers...