PhD Opportunities in Machine Learning 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 ...

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...

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 at the University of Groningen in the Systems, Control and Optimization Group , embedded in the Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence and the Faculty of Science and Engineering . The project is part of the ERC Starting Grant Energy-based learning of complex dynamical systems (E-BLOCS) , led by Henk van Waarde . This PhD focuses on systems and control theory , optimization , circuit theory , machine learning , and neuromorphic computing ...

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...