PhD Opportunities in Artificial Intelligence in Netherlands

PhD opportunity at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in Digital Twins for Flood-Resilient Infrastructure . This project, FlooDT (Digital Twin for flood-resilient infrastructure management), focuses on developing and implementing a Digital Twin to strengthen the protection of critical infrastructure such as dikes and bridges against flooding. The research combines civil engineering , hydraulic engineering , environmental science , computer science , machine learning , numerical modelling ...

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 ...

New PhD position at Eindhoven University of Technology in the Human-Technology Interaction group , within the wider NWO KIC project Nature4Homes . This interdisciplinary PhD project explores whether views of and through nature-inspired façades can support occupant mental wellbeing , increase overheating resilience , and lower cooling demand . The work combines environmental psychology , building engineering , and lighting research , with a secondment at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) ...

Leiden University is advertising a PhD position in the SOLIDTREE project at the Institute of Public Administration, based in The Hague, Netherlands. The project examines how digital technologies can support more sustainable practices , with a focus on the role of governance , trust , and collaboration in successful sustainability transitions. The empirical setting is the Dutch tree nursery sector, making this a strong fit for candidates interested in interdisciplinary research spanning public po...

Amsterdam UMC is advertising a PhD position in epidemiology focused on kidney replacement therapy in Europe . The project studies patients receiving dialysis or kidney transplantation across European countries, using data from the European Renal Association (ERA) Registry . You will work on epidemiological research addressing occurrence, patient characteristics, and clinical outcomes, while expanding the registry database with newly available variables. The work includes data analysis, scientifi...

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...

PhD position at the University of Groningen in EEG and neurobiological markers , focused on reward, motivation, impulsivity , precision medicine , and transdiagnostic research across major depressive disorder , Alzheimer’s disease , and obesity . The project combines three main components: a systematic review of EEG measures, empirical EEG analyses using cohort and clinical data, and hypothesis-driven research on relationships between EEG and other neurobiological markers. The work aims to ident...

PhD position in Data Science at the University of Groningen (Faculty of Science and Engineering), Netherlands. This PhD project sits at the intersection of data science , digital phenotyping , digital biomarkers , neuroscience , psychology , and clinical research . The successful candidate will investigate digital proxies of Reward, Motivation and Impulsivity (RM&I) and their relationship with neurobiological markers and clinically relevant outcomes. The work is part of an international, interdi...