PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in Aerospace Engineering in Netherlands

This postdoc is part of the AmmoniaDrive project at Delft University of Technology and focuses on bringing an ammonia-fuelled SOFC-ICE power, propulsion and energy concept closer to real-world shipboard use. The project addresses the challenge of converting the energy stored in ammonia into useful mechanical or electrical power on board sea-going vessels while preserving range, speed, and operational flexibility. You will investigate how the NH3-fuelled system performs when integrated into a shi...

The Research Group Governance of Crisis at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA), Leiden University, is seeking a postdoctoral researcher to contribute to research on EU crisis governance and transboundary disaster and crisis management . The project sits within a multidisciplinary environment in The Hague and connects crisis studies with broader debates in public administration, organization science, sociology, safety science, political science, and research methods. The postdoc w...

This PhD project is part of VALOR , an interdisciplinary effort to create lightweight composite panels for defense platforms that can both shield sensitive electronics from electromagnetic threats and withstand impact events . The research combines 3D-printed architected nanocomposite materials with predictive modelling to develop panels that carry loads while absorbing electromagnetic waves, with performance tailored to specific applications. The project offers two PhD positions that work as a ...

This postdoctoral project at Delft University of Technology focuses on the clinical validation of single-camera markerless motion capture for assessing and monitoring motor impairments in people with stroke and Parkinson’s disease . Working in the Department of Biomechanical Engineering, you will help determine how well markerless methods perform when moved beyond the lab into real-world home environments. The project brings together biomechanical engineering, clinical collaboration, and home-ba...

This PhD project develops fair, scalable and reliable methods for controlling large-scale networked systems, with the electricity distribution grid as its main application. Thousands of solar panels, heat pumps and electric vehicles increasingly compete for limited network capacity, creating a need for transparent and equitable congestion management. The research will formalize fairness concepts such as proportional, max-min and probabilistic fairness as mathematical objectives or constraints in...

This PhD project at Delft University of Technology focuses on safe planning and decision-making for long-horizon robot autonomy under uncertainty. The work sits in the Cognitive Robotics Department and is embedded in the Reliable Robot Control Lab , within the EU-funded OPERA consortium. You will develop methods that help robots operate among people over extended time spans while balancing deliberate planning with fast, reactive behavior. The central research challenge is to make robots act safe...

This postdoctoral project at Delft University of Technology focuses on developing an open-science orbital dynamics platform built on the TU Delft Astrodynamics Toolbox (Tudat). The work combines core software development with radio-science applications for planetary missions, aiming to enable high-fidelity orbit propagation and orbit estimation from real tracking data such as Doppler, range, and VLBI. The selected researcher/developer will help advance Tudat’s C++ core and Python interfaces, str...

At Delft University of Technology, this PhD project explores how nanoparticles move through human tissue and how their properties change along the way. The position sits in the SYNERGIE project, a Horizon Europe consortium focused on nanoparticle transport in human tissue and the safety and design of particles used in environmental and biomedical settings. You will work in the research group of Dr. Sepinoud Azimi and contribute to the in silico work package led by TU Delft. The project is built ...

This postdoctoral opportunity is part of the ERC Advanced Grant project Dynamics on and of Random Graphs (Dynamics.oRG) led by Remco van der Hofstad at Eindhoven University of Technology . The project focuses on the mathematics of phase transitions for stochastic processes evolving on random graphs, asking how randomness in the network environment can alter critical behaviour. The successful researchers will join a dedicated team of PhD students, postdocs, and collaborators working on challengin...