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

This PhD project investigates how the resident virome of insects shapes immune responses and fitness, and how this in turn influences interactions with incoming virus infections. You will work on fundamental questions in insect virology using lepidopteran species as the study system. The project focuses on defining virome composition, testing how resident viral communities affect insect life-history traits and responses to infection, and examining vertical transmission of the virome across gener...

The Amsterdam Leukodystrophy Center at Amsterdam UMC is offering a four-year PhD position on Vanishing White Matter (VWM), a severe inherited disorder that affects the brain’s white matter. The project is embedded in a highly specialized, internationally recognized research environment focused on leukodystrophies, with expertise spanning clinical symptoms, neuropsychological effects, MRI, genetics, neuropathology, and molecular and cellular disease mechanisms. The doctoral researcher will work o...

Eindhoven University of Technology is seeking a postdoctoral researcher for the UI-PRIG project, Understanding & Improving Product Risk Information in Gambling . The two-year interdisciplinary project is conducted by TU/e in collaboration with the Trimbos Institute and is based in the Human-Technology Interaction group within the Department of Industrial Engineering & Innovation Sciences. The research addresses how online gambling platforms communicate risks, winning probabilities, and bonus con...

Broedersz group (Theoretical Physics of Life), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam This ERC-funded postdoctoral project explores the statistical and dynamic organization of bacterial chromosomes . The successful candidate will join the Broedersz group, part of the Section for Physics of Living Systems in the Physics department at VU Amsterdam, and contribute to a research program on the physics of living systems. The project, Learn4DChromosome , addresses how bacterial chromosomes maintain a highly var...

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 at Radboud University Medical Center focuses on multiple system atrophy (MSA) , a rare and serious brain disorder that often resembles Parkinson’s disease but progresses more rapidly. The position combines two connected research tracks aimed at improving care for people with MSA and the professionals who diagnose and study it. In the first track, the project develops an AI-supported pathway for MSA knowledge sharing and education . Because most neurologists see MSA only rarely, ...

This PhD position is part of the Cerebrovasculaire Ziekten research line in the Department of Neurology & Neurosurgery at UMC Utrecht . The project sits at the interface of neurology and radiology and focuses on innovative imaging of atherosclerosis in the carotid arteries. The research aims to determine how inflammation caused by atherosclerosis can best be visualised with imaging. A key goal is to generate new insights that may support the clinical implementation of a new imaging marker for id...

This PhD project at Maastricht University and Maastricht UMC+ explores how the smallest blood vessels in the brain contribute to dementia and the clearance of harmful waste products from brain tissue. The work is part of the MODEM consortium, which studies the biological mechanisms underlying the onset and progression of dementia. You will investigate the neurovascular unit, with a particular focus on how capillaries interact with surrounding brain tissue and how microvascular function may relat...

This PhD project at Wageningen University & Research investigates how taste is encoded in the brain of specialist caterpillars and butterflies. The work focuses on deciphering the neuronal code that these insects use to recognize their host plants, using the cabbage white butterflies ( Pieris spp.) as a model system. The project sits at the intersection of neuroscience, ecology, and evolutionary biology. It explores how insect herbivores and plants have coevolved, how toxic plant compounds and i...