PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in Veterinary Science in Netherlands

Utrecht University is advertising a PhD position in novel cell secretome-based therapeutics for osteoarthritis at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine , Department of Biomolecular Health Sciences. The project focuses on extracellular vesicles (EVs) , EV-enriched secretomes, and the development of new tools to monitor batch-to-batch consistency, understand EV cargo-function relationships, and identify disease-related signatures in blood and synovial fluid from osteoarthritis patients. The research ...

Amsterdam UMC is advertising a PhD position within the EU-funded MERIT MSCA training programme: “Role of mitochondrial dysfunction in enterovirus CNS disease (MCSA-DC)” . The project is based at OrganoVIR Labs at Amsterdam UMC (location AMC) in the Netherlands and is coordinated by Dr. Adithya Sridhar (Assistant Professor) and Prof. Dr. Dasja Pajkrt (Professor of Pediatric Infectious Diseases). The research focuses on virology , mitochondrial dysfunction , enterovirus , CNS disease , brain organ...

Amsterdam UMC is advertising a PhD position within the EU-funded MERIT (MEtabolic Reprogramming in viral pathogenesis: from Infection to Therapeutic innovations) training programme. The project is based at Amsterdam UMC, location AMC, Netherlands , and focuses on implementation science , biosafety , biosecurity , virus research , behavioural science , and mixed methods research . The doctoral project (Work Package 2) aims to bridge the gap between biosafety guidelines and everyday laboratory pra...

Amsterdam UMC is recruiting a PhD/Doctoral Candidate for the MERIT EU-funded MSCA training programme on metabolic footprint in human enterovirus infections along the gut-brain axis . The project is based in the OrganoVIR Labs at Amsterdam UMC (location AMC) and is supervised by Dr. Katja Wolthers , Dr. Adithya Sridhar , and coordinated within MERIT by Prof. Dr. Dasja Pajkrt . The research focuses on how enteroviruses reshape host metabolism and immune responses, with emphasis on gut and brain or...

MSCA-Doctoral Network MERIT (MEtabolic Reprogramming in viral pathogenesis: from Infection to Therapeutic innovations) is offering 15 PhD positions across a European consortium led from Amsterdam UMC (location AMC) and involving seven academic institutions and 12 associated partners. This is an EU-funded Horizon Europe MSCA training programme focused on understanding how viruses reshape host metabolism and how these changes contribute to disease and therapeutic opportunities. The project combine...

Wageningen University & Research is advertising a fully funded PhD on the economics of native species production and rural development in the Cerrado . The project sits within the research theme agricultural economics, rural development, biodiversity conservation, sustainable land use , and combines household/farm surveys, geospatial datasets, and advanced econometric methods to study how native Cerrado species can support biodiversity and local livelihoods. The research is part of the project “...

Postdoc in Analytical Chemistry at Wageningen University & Research This postdoctoral opening focuses on analytical chemistry , high-resolution mass spectrometry , metabolomics , and the study of natural toxins and other secondary metabolites in perennial and annual rye . The project asks how perennial rye may support more sustainable grain production while affecting food safety, nutritional quality, soil health, and climate resilience. You will work on the GoodGrain consortium, coordinated by A...

Job alert for a postdoc at the University of Groningen (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen), within the Conservation Ecology group led by Christian Smit . The project is part of the PREDWEI consortium and focuses on the spatial dynamics and interactions of terrestrial and avian predators in relation to ground-breeding birds . This is a strong fit for researchers interested in conservation ecology , applied ecology , wildlife ecology, predator-prey interactions, and data-driven ecological analysis. The ...

PhD opportunity in human liver organoid modelling at the Princess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology in Utrecht, the Netherlands. The project sits in the Artegiani & Hendriks group , a research team focused on building relevant human in vitro models to study disease development and progression, with interests in both the brain and the liver. This PhD project is centered on human liver biology , with an emphasis on understanding mechanisms of liver function and disease. A key disease context is...