PhD Opportunities in Management 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...

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam is offering a full-time PhD position in Early Modern Religious Debates and the Public Sphere within the NWO-funded project In Search of the Truth, in Search of Adherents . The doctoral research examines public religious debates in the sixteenth and seventeenth-century Low Countries, including debates among Calvinists, Mennonites, Catholics, and Lutherans. The project investigates how debates shaped religious identities, strategies of argument, audience participation,...

PhD Position at Delft University of Technology in Energy Data Sharing for City-Level Policy Making Using Digital Twins . This doctoral project is part of the FEDERATE NWO project and focuses on how municipalities can use better energy data sharing to support city decarbonization and sustainability policy making. The research addresses fragmented and incomplete public data and investigates new data sharing architectures between citizens, local companies, and municipalities, aligned with the new D...

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...

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...

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 is advertising a fully funded 4-year PhD position in Complex Networks , hosted jointly by the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS) and the Mathematical Institute (MI) in the Netherlands . The project sits at the intersection of Network Science , Mathematics , and Computer Science , with possible research directions including complex networks , random graph models , spatial networks , algorithmic fairness for networks , mathematical modeling , and data-driven ne...