PhD Opportunities in Biotechnology in Netherlands

Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands is advertising 2 fully funded PhD positions in the NWO-funded Timtrace project, focused on tropical forest logging and timber traceability . The first PhD is on radar detection of logging in tropical forests . The second PhD is on forensic tracing of tropical timber . Together, the projects aim to develop independent tools to verify the origin of tropical timber and help curb illegal trade. Funding is described as fully funded , with tailored P...

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 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...

Fully funded PhD position in plant–microbe ecology at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Netherlands, in the Departments of Terrestrial Ecology and Microbial Ecology, in collaboration with the University of San Francisco de Quito. The project focuses on the biogeography of plant-associated fungi on the Galápagos Islands , with research themes including fungal diversity, plant–fungal interactions, mycology, and ecosystem ecology. This is a strong fit for candidates interested in mi...

Amsterdam UMC is recruiting a PhD candidate for the MERIT MSCA doctoral network to study mechanisms of HIV-induced neurodegeneration . The project sits at the intersection of medical science , neuroscience , virology , cell biology , and lipidomics , with a strong translational focus on HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders (HAND) and related neurodegenerative disease mechanisms. The doctoral project will be carried out at OrganoVIR Labs at Amsterdam UMC (location AMC) in the Netherlands , und...