PhD Opportunities in Economics in Netherlands

Fully Funded PhD in Environmental Engineering Wageningen University & Research’s Environmental Technology Group is offering a fully funded PhD position focused on turning faecal sludge into clean energy. The doctoral research will involve work connected with Kenya and Ethiopia, addressing sustainable sanitation, waste-to-energy conversion, environmental technology, and resource recovery. Applicants should hold a relevant Master’s degree and demonstrate strong laboratory skills. Essential qualifi...

PhD opportunity in Process-Aware Information Systems for Circular Care Pathways at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), Eindhoven, Netherlands. Join the NWO KIC-funded REMARK project and investigate how process-aware information systems can support sustainable, safe, and compliant circular healthcare pathways. The research will use event data and healthcare process information to monitor care-pathway execution, detect deviations, assess compliance risks, and identify opportunities to reduc...

PhD position available at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam within the EO-TRUST project, based at the Amsterdam Space Law & Sustainability Centre and the Amsterdam Law and Technology Institute (ALTI) in the Netherlands . The project investigates the legal and ethical dimensions of AI-enabled Earth Observation , with particular attention to how space law , AI regulation , and military law address resilience, responsibility, and the trustworthy use of satellite data. This opportunity is aimed at an amb...

PhD opportunity at Wageningen University & Research in the Law Group on assessing social sustainability in short food supply chains . This PhD is part of the Horizon Europe project SOCIAL AGRI , which studies how law and policy can make agri-food systems fairer and more socially sustainable. The project focuses on social issues that are often under-captured in agricultural data and policy, including working conditions, farmer wellbeing, migrant worker integration, gender equality, inclusion, com...

PhD opportunity in biogeography, mycology, microbial ecology, and plant-microbe interactions at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW) in Wageningen, the Netherlands, with collaboration through the Galapagos Microbiome Initiative at the University of San Francisco de Quito (USFQ). The project will investigate the hidden diversity and biogeographic patterns of fungi associated with Scalesia species in the Galápagos Islands, including arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) , yeasts, and fung...

Leiden University’s Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance and Society (VVI) is recruiting a PhD Researcher for the Minaret Project, a HORIZON Unit Grant-funded interdisciplinary and transnational research initiative on the interconnection between law, religion, governance, constitutional reform, and post-imperial Islamic legal culture . The advertised PhD project is titled “A Sociology of Post-Imperial Islamic Legal Culture: Insights from Central Asia, the Middle East, North Africa, and ...

Radboud University is advertising a PhD position in Transcranial Ultrasound Stimulation and Computational Affective Neuroscience within the Faculty of Social Sciences , embedded in the Affective Neuroscience group led by Prof. Karin Roelofs . The project is part of the ERC Advanced Grant HEART2ADAPT and focuses on how stress and autonomic state shape approach-avoidance decisions under threat. The PhD will combine cognitive neuroscience , affective neuroscience , computational modelling , neuroim...

PhD position in Accountable and Responsible AI at the University of Amsterdam , Faculty of Science, within the Complex Cyber Infrastructure research group and the Informatics Institute. This fully funded four-year PhD project sits at the intersection of Computer Science , Law , Economics , and applied AI for the creative industry and legal-tech workflows. The research focuses on making GenAI inference and reasoning more transparent and traceable, designing AI systems that support EU AI Act compl...

PhD-TA in Statistics at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, within the Statistics, Probability and Operations Research (SPOR) cluster. This PhD project focuses on functional data analysis , functional time series , time-varying network structures , and structural change detection . The research aims to develop new statistical methodology and software for analysing complex dynamic data, controlling false connections, and studying dependence s...