Postdoc Opportunities in Anthropology in Netherlands

This postdoctoral position sits within the SPARKLES project, which explores how floating photovoltaic (FPV) systems on inland waters can be developed in ways that are beneficial for both people and nature. The project connects energy science, ecology and governance to support a nature-positive energy transition, and this role focuses on bringing the project’s different strands together at the landscape scale. The successful researcher will work on integrating existing research outputs, datasets ...

The SolidTree project is a transdisciplinary postdoctoral research position focused on how soil management can support healthier soil life and more sustainable production of avenue trees. The project responds to the environmental pressures associated with nursery practices such as fertilizer and pesticide use, and aims to develop practical strategies that reduce impacts on the surrounding environment while maintaining productive tree cultivation. Working within an NWO-funded consortium, you will...

The Faculty of Archaeology at Leiden University is recruiting a Postdoctoral Researcher in Palaeolithic Archaeology to join the ERC-funded HOME: Palaeolithic Shelters in East-Central Europe project, led by Dr Wei Chu . The postdoctoral researcher will be based in the Department of World Archaeology and will work on the identification and investigation of Palaeolithic shelters in the Carpathian region . The project focuses on how and why Palaeolithic groups used sheltered locations and how these ...

This postdoc at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) focuses on developing AI-enabled robotic systems for responsible human-robot collaboration in the EU-funded OPERA project. The work addresses how autonomous robots in human-centered environments can move beyond immediate sensor response to estimate uncertainty, adapt to human preferences and values, explain their decisions, and act safely and reliably in changing conditions. The project investigates meaningful human control in human-robot...

Tilburg University’s School of Social and Behavioral Sciences is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to join Matti Vuorre’s research group in the Department of Social Psychology. The project is funded by a European Research Council Starting Grant and focuses on a timely question in contemporary psychological science: how human attention relates to digital technology use. The research examines whether digital technologies, and the ways people use them, shape attention; whether differences in att...

The Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome (KNIR) offers funded research stays in Rome for students and early-career researchers whose projects benefit from access to the city’s libraries, archives, museums, and broader scholarly environment. The stay is designed to support work connected to Italian culture, history, and archaeology, with accommodation inside the institute and access to its academic life. Selected participants stay in KNIR for either 7 or 10 weeks depending on the category of appli...

Maastricht University’s Brightlands Institute for Smart Society (BISS) is inviting applications for a postdoctoral position focused on developing artificial intelligence methods that can make sense of complex human signals. The project brings together machine learning, multimodal data, neurophysiological sensing and adaptive systems . The postdoctoral researcher will work on sophisticated predictive models while also investigating the mechanisms and human processes that those models represent or...

FEEL at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to work on forecasting dengue epidemics by combining climate information with indicators of human emotion. The project explores whether emotions expressed in news and public social media can add predictive value to dengue models, opening a new perspective on how human behaviour and communication patterns may relate to disease risk. Based at the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) , the researcher will join an inte...

This postdoctoral project is part of COLFIN: Colonial Financial Infrastructures , a research project led by Marieke de Goede at the University of Amsterdam . The postdoc will join a team examining how colonial histories shaped modern financial infrastructures, with a specific focus on the development of credit and securitization . The successful candidate will develop an independent line of research on an aspect of early modern colonial finance and relate it to postcolonial political economies. ...