PhD Opportunities in Finance in Netherlands

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 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...

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...