PhD Opportunities in Nursing in Netherlands

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 ...

Junior Researcher Integrated Care and Osteoarthritis at Maastricht University is a research role centered on improving how osteoarthritis care is organised, delivered, and evaluated across Europe. The project, EUcare4OA, brings together partners from the Netherlands, Belgium, and Sweden to develop and assess an integrated, community-based care model. The work builds on the Beweeghuis Maastricht-Heuvelland model and aims to make osteoarthritis care more accessible, more sustainable, and better co...

The OPTI-CARE trial PhD position at Amsterdam UMC focuses on improving the care of children with cerebral palsy who use ankle-foot orthoses (EVO’s) to support gait, mobility, and prevention of secondary complications during growth. The project addresses wide variation in current orthotic care in the Netherlands and aims to develop and evaluate a more standardized, optimized treatment pathway. As a PhD candidate, you will help coordinate and carry out a multicenter study in close collaboration wi...

This PhD project focuses on improving equitable follow-up care for survivors of childhood cancer. The position is embedded in the LATER-EQUITY study, where the research team examines how socioeconomic differences influence access to and use of survivorship care. The project asks why some survivors, especially those from families with lower income or lower educational attainment, may receive less support than they need, and how care can be better aligned with their needs and health literacy. The ...

This PhD-style clinical research position at Amsterdam UMC focuses on preventing acute kidney injury after heart surgery and improving how it is detected, predicted, and understood over the longer term. The appointed arts-onderzoeker will coordinate a large multicenter clinical trial testing a kidney-protective intervention in patients undergoing cardiac surgery. In parallel, the project includes additional clinical and translational studies designed to better understand perioperative renal inju...

This PhD project at Maastricht University and Maastricht UMC+ explores how the smallest blood vessels in the brain contribute to dementia and the clearance of harmful waste products from brain tissue. The work is part of the MODEM consortium, which studies the biological mechanisms underlying the onset and progression of dementia. You will investigate the neurovascular unit, with a particular focus on how capillaries interact with surrounding brain tissue and how microvascular function may relat...

Bigdata4change is a PhD project at Amsterdam UMC’s Department of Psychiatry, within the Center for Psychological Trauma, focused on improving treatment for people with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The project addresses a key clinical question: why some patients improve during trauma-focused therapy while others continue to have symptoms, and how treatment could be adapted earlier when progress is insufficient. The research brings together international data from PTSD treatment sessions...

This PhD opening is based in the Department of Dermatology at the University Medical Center Groningen and focuses on clinical and translational research in eczema. The successful candidate will work within the eczema team on multiple studies related to constitutional eczema and hand eczema, combining direct patient contact with scientific research. The project includes seeing patients independently in clinic, collecting clinical data and biomaterials, including and following patients in clinical...

This PhD project at UMC Utrecht focuses on person-centred care and technological innovation in brain diagnostics, with a specific emphasis on bringing MRI closer to the patient and into primary care. The project is part of the consortium initiative Brain Matters and the broader Reimagine Imaging programme, which aims to redesign how people are referred, guided, and supported through the imaging pathway. The PhD student will work on the development of a largely automated MRI set-up in which patie...