PhD Opportunities in Public Health in Netherlands

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 fully funded PhD project examines how the European Union’s drive for digital autonomy is reshaping labour markets and labour migration policy across Europe. Hosted by Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the position sits in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration within the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities. The project is part of the ERC Starting Grant Migrant Labor in EU’s Pivot to Digital Autonomy , led by Dr. Julia Rone . It explores how the governance of labour ...

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...

This PhD project at Amsterdam UMC focuses on improving glucose regulation for women with type 1 diabetes during the menopausal transition. The research is part of the DAME-APersonal project and brings together clinical research, data analysis, and technology development to create a more personalized approach to diabetes care for this group. You will investigate how menopause-related factors, such as hot flushes and changes in heart rate, affect glucose levels in women with and without diabetes. ...

This PhD opening is for an arts-onderzoeker at Amsterdam UMC within the Lung Center and the Department of Experimental Immunology. The project focuses on interstitial lung diseases (ILD) and progressive pulmonary fibrosis, with the aim of improving earlier recognition and treatment through clinical and translational research . The doctoral project builds on the prospective P4O2 ILD cohort . You will study patients with interstitial lung disease to identify risk factors and biomarkers linked to c...

PhD research at Leiden University’s Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML) focuses on developing validated and tangible key performance indicators for biodiversity improvements in agriculture and horticulture. The project is part of the NWO-KIC RISE project, Resilient Integrated Systems for Ecosystem restoration , and is carried out in collaboration with Eindhoven University of Technology and Wageningen University and Research. You will work at the intersection of innovation science, system d...

PhD Researcher: Environmental Impacts of Spatial Demographic Change at Leiden University’s Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML) and Faculty of Science is a research project at the intersection of demographic change, spatial analysis, and environmental sustainability. The project examines how spatial population distribution, population ageing, smaller households, and urban form combine to shape future resource demand and greenhouse gas emissions. The research is designed to identify trade-of...