PhD Opportunities in Psychology in Netherlands

Wageningen University & Research is offering a fully funded PhD position in insect virology in the Insect Virology group of the Laboratory of Virology, Wageningen, Netherlands. The project examines how covert virus infections in insect hosts influence baculovirus-induced manipulation of caterpillar behaviour, including hyperactivity and climbing before death. The PhD researcher will compare behavioural manipulation across related and distantly related baculoviruses and lepidopteran hosts, invest...

Several funded PhD and postdoc positions are opening at the University of Amsterdam , within ELLIS unit Amsterdam , in the broad area of AI for Science . The advertised research directions are especially relevant for candidates interested in machine learning , Earth system modeling , and mechanistic interpretability . These positions are a good fit for students and researchers who want to work at the intersection of modern artificial intelligence and scientific discovery, with a strong emphasis ...

New PhD position at Eindhoven University of Technology in the Human-Technology Interaction group , within the wider NWO KIC project Nature4Homes . This interdisciplinary PhD project explores whether views of and through nature-inspired façades can support occupant mental wellbeing , increase overheating resilience , and lower cooling demand . The work combines environmental psychology , building engineering , and lighting research , with a secondment at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) ...

PhD position in Multisynaptic Plasticity in Dendrites at Radboud University (Faculty of Science, Donders Centre for Neuroscience, Nijmegen, Netherlands). This PhD project studies neuroscience , especially synaptic plasticity , dendrites , hippocampal CA1 neurons , intracellular signalling , calcium signalling , and the interaction of molecular pathways during simultaneous activation of multiple synapses. The work combines two-photon glutamate uncaging , advanced microscopy , single-cell electrop...

Radboud University is advertising a PhD position in multisynaptic plasticity in dendrites . The project sits in neuroscience and biology , with a focus on dendritic plasticity and neurophysiology. The post is shared by Corette Wierenga , Professor of Neurophysiology at Radboud University, who appears to be the academic contact for the opening. The announcement explicitly says that early postdocs are welcome to apply , but the opening itself is a PhD position . No funding details, stipend amount,...

Leiden University’s Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance and Society (VVI) is recruiting a PhD Researcher for the Minaret Project, a HORIZON Unit Grant-funded interdisciplinary and transnational research initiative on the interconnection between law, religion, governance, constitutional reform, and post-imperial Islamic legal culture . The advertised PhD project is titled “A Sociology of Post-Imperial Islamic Legal Culture: Insights from Central Asia, the Middle East, North Africa, and ...

University of Twente in the Netherlands is advertising fully funded PhD and postdoctoral positions across several research areas, including engineering, AI, energy, environmental science, and health . PhD topics include explainable DeepFake detection, water footprint and water credits in Egypt, neuromorphic optoelectronics, additive manufacturing for chip cooling, combustion noise/CFD/aeroacoustics, cryogenic carbon capture, biocueing and stress assessment, spatial statistics/IoT/remote sensing,...

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands is advertising 8 fully funded PhD positions across multiple faculties, including Law, Science, Social Sciences, and ACTA. The available research topics span a wide range of academic study areas: Space Law and Artificial Intelligence , Endolysin-Based Therapies Against Implant-Associated Biofilm Infections , Cellular Neuroscience , Physics of Human-Made Molecular Machines , Communication Science: Susceptibility to Health Hacks , Strontium and Zinc i...

Radboud University is advertising a PhD position in Transcranial Ultrasound Stimulation and Computational Affective Neuroscience within the Faculty of Social Sciences , embedded in the Affective Neuroscience group led by Prof. Karin Roelofs . The project is part of the ERC Advanced Grant HEART2ADAPT and focuses on how stress and autonomic state shape approach-avoidance decisions under threat. The PhD will combine cognitive neuroscience , affective neuroscience , computational modelling , neuroim...