PhD Opportunities in Mechatronics in Netherlands

Erasmus University Rotterdam is offering a PhD project in operations management focused on optimizing emergency services that rely on decentralized and unpredictable capacity sources. The research examines two emerging forms of emergency-response capacity: community first responders who volunteer through smartphone applications, and independent commercial ambulance providers coordinated through emergency platforms. Because these responders are not scheduled, positioned or directly controlled by ...

This PhD project at the Delft Center for Systems and Control addresses safe and computationally efficient learning for time-varying optimal control problems. The research is motivated by the energy inefficiency of industrial systems, electricity production, and building heating systems, and by the need to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions while maintaining operational safety. The project will investigate how learning-based control algorithms can simultaneously learn system models and guarantee saf...

The Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences is seeking a Professional Doctorate candidate to work on practice-oriented research in the maritime field, with a strong focus on predictive maintenance . The project sits at the intersection of academic research and day-to-day maritime practice, aiming to make technological developments more useful, safer, more sustainable, and more competitive in real operational settings. You will join a multidisciplinary team at the Faculty of Technology in Amster...

EngD at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) in a project on making textile production more digital, circular, and scalable for SMEs. The position is embedded in a public-private field lab with TU/e, industry partners, design researchers, and the Dutch Textile Campus, and it focuses on using data-driven methods to improve how used garments are assessed and routed through the textile value chain. The trainee will work on turning machine, production, and ecosystem data into actionable insight...

PhD in Optimization of Emergency Services under Decentralized Capacity Sources at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam, in the Netherlands. The project focuses on optimizing emergency response systems through mathematical modelling, machine learning, simulation, optimization and game theory. The research addresses how emergency services can be designed and coordinated when capacity sources are decentralized, combining operations research with computational and analytical ...

This PhD project explores responsible AI for online safety at the intersection of artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and computational social science. The research focuses on developing trustworthy and accountable methods for AI systems that remain reliable when people or other AI systems try to manipulate them. The project includes methodological and empirical work on topics such as detecting AI-driven manipulation, including coordinated influence campaigns and social bots, building early ...

This PhD project at Eindhoven University of Technology focuses on efficient online optimization for systems that cannot be fully modeled in advance and whose objectives and constraints change over time. The research addresses safety-critical, large-scale, and distributed settings such as drones in cluttered environments, buildings with autonomous climate control, and supply chains affected by changing markets and events. The student will work on the theory and design of new methods that combine ...

This PhD project at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) investigates efficient online optimization for time-varying systems, with a focus on safe and adaptive learning control. The research addresses a key challenge in learning-based control: how to learn a model while still guaranteeing safety, especially when the optimal decision changes over time. The project aims to develop computationally efficient methods for safe learning in time-varying optimal control problems. A central research ...

This PhD opportunity is offered through the Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), the joint research institute of Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University and the Erasmus School of Economics. The programme sits within the Business Processes, Logistics & Information Systems area and is framed as an internationally oriented PhD environment focused on pioneering management and business research. The research theme is designed to engage with developments in logistics and supply ...