PhD Opportunities in Mining Engineering in Netherlands

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...

The PhD project is based in the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development at Utrecht University and focuses on how art-science-action integration and challenge-based learning can strengthen transformative sustainability education. The position sits at the intersection of sustainability education, transformative learning, arts-based interventions and higher education research. The doctoral researcher will investigate how universities can prepare students to contribute meaningfully to comple...

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...

This PhD project explores how non-ischemic cardiomyopathy affects young adults beyond physical symptoms, with a particular focus on psychosocial burden, environmental influences, and the economic consequences of the disease. The candidate will investigate how factors such as stress, obesity, and physical activity relate to disease progression, quality of life, mental well-being, and broader societal impact. The research uses Health Technology Assessment approaches and combines clinical phenotypi...

This PhD project focuses on radar remote sensing for detecting logging in tropical forests , with the broader aim of supporting tools that help curb illegal timber trade. The successful candidate will work on a research project developing independent techniques to verify timber origin under new international legislation. You will process and analyse novel satellite radar data and develop remote-sensing methods to identify logging occurrence and logging intensity across pantropical forests. The p...

This PhD project at Delft University of Technology focuses on energy data sharing for city-level policy making using digital twins within the FEDERATE NWO project. The research addresses a practical bottleneck in municipal decarbonization and sustainability planning: digital twins often depend on fragmented, partial, and incomplete data, while municipalities need richer and more actionable information to support policy decisions. The doctoral researcher will study data sharing architectures that...

This PhD project investigates how forest carbon uptake is changing worldwide under climate change and disturbance. The successful candidate will combine atmospheric CO₂ observations, Earth Observation products, and numerical models to quantify how the global forest carbon sink varies across continents and over time. The work focuses on integrating multiple data streams into an existing prototype modelling framework and extending its data assimilation capacity so it can use large Earth Observatio...

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 project investigates backward erosion piping (BEP) , a process that can undermine dikes when seepage flows erode sand beneath them. The research is part of the NWO-funded Digital Dikes consortium and is designed to improve how BEP progression and severity are understood and predicted. You will work on experimental and physical modelling of BEP, developing new test setups and integrating novel measurement techniques to study mechanisms that remain poorly understood. A key focus is the 3D...