PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in Education in Netherlands

This postdoc sits within the Amsterdam Centre for Migration and Refugee Law at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and focuses on executive lawmaking in EU migration law . The project examines how legislative power is delegated to the European Commission in the field of migration and asylum, especially in light of the European Pact on Migration and Asylum adopted in 2024. The successful candidate will contribute to a VIDI project titled “Executive supremacy? Executive lawmaking in migration law” , whic...

This PhD project focuses on understanding how the Milky Way and its nearest neighbours formed, and on placing the Local Group in a cosmological context. The work sits at the intersection of galactic archaeology , astrophysics , and cosmological modelling , using the fossil record of stars in the Milky Way, M31, and their satellites to reconstruct their assembly histories. You will co-develop a sophisticated suite of Local Group models and use new initial conditions from the team’s recent technol...

The University of Groningen is recruiting a PhD researcher for the national Resident Space Object Tracking For Fusion, Inference, and Characterisation (RSO TraFFIC) project. The six-year, €2.6 million collaboration brings together universities, research organisations and space companies to improve the monitoring, tracking and characterisation of objects in Earth orbit. Based in the Groningen team, the PhD project will focus on AI and space domain astronomy . The researcher will adapt astronomica...

This PhD project sits within an NWO-funded study on how organisations can build positive cybersecurity solutions by learning from what already works well. Rather than focusing on failures, the project asks what successful organisations do differently across the individual, team, and organisational levels to prevent cyber incidents or reduce their impact. The advertised PhD position concentrates on the organisational level of that broader research question. The selected candidate will carry out e...

This postdoctoral project focuses on human-centered interpretable machine learning , with an emphasis on learning from background knowledge and expert feedback . The work addresses a central challenge in high-stakes domains such as health care: many models may fit the same data almost equally well, but only some are understandable, plausible, or genuinely useful to domain experts. You will work on developing models that are interpretable by construction , including probabilistic rule sets, subgr...

At Radboudumc, this PhD project is part of the national REGAIN study on clitoral reconstruction after vulvar cancer. The project sits at the intersection of gynaecological oncology, plastic surgery, sexual health, and patient-centred care, with close collaboration between the departments of Gynaecological Oncology and Plastic Surgery. The doctoral researcher will play a central role in coordinating and delivering a multicentre, prospective stepped-wedge study across all nine Dutch centres for gy...

These two PhD positions are part of the Dutch CO2URAGE project, which explores CO2 utilisation via reactive adsorption on intermittent green electricity . The project aims to enable competitive, defossilized chemical processes built around flexible CO2 capture and conversion systems, combining process intensification, electrification, and dynamic operation. The research is hosted at Utrecht University , within the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development and the Energy & Resources group ....

Master’s internship in synthetic cell research at AMOLF’s Physics of Cellular Interactions (Ganzinger) group in Amsterdam. The project is part of EVOLF, a large Dutch research consortium working toward building a fully functional synthetic cell from the bottom up. The research focuses on the PURE system—Protein Synthesis Using Recombinant Elements—a well-defined cell-free transcription-translation platform used in synthetic biology. You will investigate how efficiently PURE components can be enc...

Amsterdam UMC’s MULTINET lab is offering a postdoctoral position focused on multilayer networks in computational neuroscience. The project investigates how early cellular and molecular changes in neurodegenerative and oncological diseases can lead to disruptions in brain networks and subsequent cognitive decline. The researcher will use multilayer network theory to model, quantify and understand interactions across different biological scales. The work will build on the multiSCALE Python toolbox...