Multiple Positions – 11 PhD Degree-Fully Funded at Vrije University Amsterdam, Netherlands
Vrije University Amsterdam, Netherlands invites online Application for number of Fully Funded PhD Degree at various Departments. We are providing a list of Fully Funded PhD Programs available at Vrije University Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Eligible candidate may Apply as soon as possible.
(01) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Position in Ultra-High Speed Computational Optical Coherence Tomography
You will join an ambitious research project at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU), carried out in close collaboration with ARCNL. Our research focuses on computational imaging for biomedical applications. By combining advanced numerical methods with customized optical imaging systems, we aim to enhance resolution, boost imaging speed, reduce costs, and introduce innovative contrast mechanisms.
This project aims to push the boundaries of optical coherence tomography (OCT) by breaking current acquisition speed records by an order of magnitude. To achieve this, we will employ full-field swept-source OCT, combined with sparse sampling and compressive sensing.
As a PhD candidate, you will play a key role in the experimental realization, characterization, and application of this cutting-edge imaging approach. You will also collaborate closely with another PhD student at ARCNL, working on complementary aspects of the project.
Deadline : 31-10-2025
(02) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD position in Photonic Processors
As a PhD student, you will be responsible for the design, fabrication, and characterization of photonic processors on ferroelectric materials including thin film lithium niobate and barium titanate. You will develop and optimize these integrated photonic processors to reach maximum power efficiency. Additionally, you will collaborate with another PhD student who will be hired by our collaborators at TUe to actively test the performance of the fabricated devices jointly.
Deadline : 31-10-2025
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(03) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD position in Biomedical Optics
For this project, we will develop a new optical endoscopic technique. As a PhD students you will work on fiber-optic system development, novel catheter designs, data processing algorithms, and modelling of scattering and polarization properties of tissue, with the goal of bringing a new technology into the hospital. The research will be conducted at the VU University in Amsterdam. The candidate will be part of the PhD program of the Biophotonics & Medical Imaging section under the Physics and Astronomy Department at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. J.F. de Boer, an internationally recognised leader in the field of Biophotonics (www.deboer.one).
Deadline : 1-9-2025
(04) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD: Impact-based forecasting of compound heat/drought events in the Netherlands
Heat-/drought-related events can have substantial impacts in countries typically not accustomed to these natural hazards, such as the Netherlands. It is therefore crucial to improve our understanding of these hazards, how they compound, and what impacts that may pose, for instance on wildfire risk, health, or agriculture.
In this role, you carry out research on impact-based forecasting of heat-/drought-related compound events in the Netherlands. Your focus is the representation of hazard-impact relationships and your results contribute to the development of operational impact-based forecasting models at the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI)’s Early Warning Centre. You perform literature reviews, engage with stakeholders, researchers and modellers, and explore and develop new empirical methods to capture hazard-impact relationships. These methods can include a wide-range of approaches depending on your interest and background, for example qualitative analysis, spatial analysis, and artificial intelligence.
Deadline : 15-8-2025
(05) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Position in the development of diagrammatic many-body perturbation theories
We invite applications for a PhD position to advance diagrammatic many-body perturbation theory for single- and two-body Green’s functions to describe charged and neutral excited states of molecules with quantitative accuracy. Building on on-going work in our group(1–3), the project aims to systematically assess the impact of state-of-the-art vertex corrections to fully self-consistent GW within Hedin’s equations. The main goals are to account for dynamical screening in the vertex, going beyond first-order vertex corrections, and designing efficient schemes to embed vertex-corrected GW within low-order perturbation theory. The project combines theoretical work, algorithm development, and efficient implementation into a modern electronic structure code. It offers an opportunity to contribute to fundamental advances in many-body theory with direct applications in quantum chemistry and electronic structure theory.
The successful candidate will join the quantum chemistry group at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and be supervised by dr. Arno Förster. For an overview of our current group and our research interests please check out our group page. We are an interdisciplinary and international group of chemists and physicists working on the development of novel methods in electronic structure theory and their application to molecules and periodic systems. This PhD project offers plenty of space for your personal development, including participation in international summer schools and conferences.
Deadline : 10-8-2025
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(06) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD: Investigating cascading drought risk as socionatural processes
The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) is scheduled to take a “watershed decision” on global drought resilience, including a legal framework, to be promoted and hopefully adopted at COP17 in June 2026. However, drought as a systemic risk that has both social and natural causes is still poorly understood. While natural conditions, such as lack of rainfall, evidently play a role, political decisions on where water is allocated (e.g. to subsistence farmers or extractive companies) and practices (e.g. which crops are planted, how fields are irrigated) do as well. In that sense, drought is a socio-natural phenomenon. In order to understand what puts individuals and communities at risk, how they experience drought and what shapes their responses, it is therefore necessary to go beyond standard approaches to drought as a contained, natural phenomenon. A more holistic approach is needed to make sure that policies effectively tackle drought risk and build resilience. For this, an understanding of the cascading impacts that droughts can have on people’s lived realities and environments (e.g. displaced agricultural activities and associated environmental degradation, changes to livelihoods, alternative food intake, migration, etc.) is needed. Similarly, understanding what makes people vulnerable vs. resilient requires a look beyond singular socio-economic factors such as household income to account for the influence of politics but also of social support structures, cultural practices and traditional knowledge.
Deadline : 10-8-2025
(07) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD-position in Arctic terrestrial-aquatic connectivity in Greenland
We invite applications for a PhD position in the 10-year EMBRACER research consortium funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). At EMBRACER we work at the very frontiers of knowledge on climate change, Earth’s climate system and climate feedbacks. Within its 10-year research programme, funded by NWO, EMBRACER brings together a wide range of world-leading climate experts with the aim to address existing uncertainties about climate feedbacks at the boundaries between oceans, land, ice, and atmosphere. Our interdisciplinary approach and state-of-the-art infrastructure will bring us forward in our understanding of the impact of climate feedbacks emerging over the next decades to centuries. This position is part of 2 PhD positions at the Vrije Universiteit within EMBRACER.
Deadline : 31-8-2025
(08) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD in carbon mobilization in tundra ecosystems
We invite applications for a PhD position in the10-year EMBRACER research programme funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). At EMBRACER we work at the very frontiers of knowledge on climate change, Earth’s climate system and climate feedbacks. Within its 10-year research programme, funded by NWO, EMBRACER brings together a wide range of world-leading climate experts with the aim to address existing uncertainties about climate feedbacks at the boundaries between oceans, land, ice, and atmosphere. Our interdisciplinary approach and state-of-the-art infrastructure will bring us forward in our understanding of the impact of climate feedbacks emerging over the next decades to centuries.
As part of EMBRACER you will (i) address the fate of terrestrial carbon as it is mobilized along the terrestrial-aquatic continuum in Western Greenland, (ii) quantify the size and lability of the coastal tundra carbon pool, and (iii) develop a carbon degradation kinetics model of terrestrial carbon along the terrestrial-aquatic continuum. To address these aims the PhD will use field observations and laboratory experiments to focus on a terrestrial gradient from upland tundra to coastal tundra in an area with high terrestrial-aquatic connectivity on Western Greenland.
Deadline : 30-8-2025
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(09) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PHD position: Mechanisms of energy efficient fast signaling in human neurons
The focus of the project is on elucidating neuronal mechanisms of energy efficient signaling in human cortical neurons. A critical requirement of fast neuronal computation and better cognitive function is the ability of neurons to generate and maintain fast and stable output – action potentials. Because of difficult access to living human neurons, their function in supporting cognition remains largely unexplored. Our lab has extensive experience in studying the function of human neurons from neurosurgery patients. We recently showed that fast action potential signaling in human neurons directly links to cognitive ability in the same individuals. The project will focus on human cortical neuron types that are selectively vulnerable in diseases of cognitive decline, such as Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and Frontotemporal dementia (FTD), since these neuron types show surprisingly fast signaling. In this project we will address the question of how these human-specialized neurons achieve fast synaptic and cellular signaling and how mechanisms of energy expenditure play a role, in both non-pathological and pathological conditions. The project is part of the Brainscapes consortium (https://brainscapes.nl) which offers and exciting environment for scientific interactions and collaborations.
Deadline : 15-8-2025
(10) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD position in Synthetic Organic Chemistry & Catalysis
The project will focus on developing organocatalytic transformations through a sophisticated integration of synthetic organic chemistry and computational chemistry. Over the past few decades, organocatalysis has rapidly advanced and become indispensable for the synthesis of pharmaceuticals and fine chemicals. Despite these achievements, the rational design of new, effective organocatalytic systems remains a significant challenge due to the lack of a robust, generalizable strategy. This project aims to gain novel insights into the molecular mechanisms of catalysis by employing innovative computational and experimental approaches. These insights will guide the rational development of powerful organocatalytic reactions, enabling the efficient construction of increasingly complex molecular architectures.
Deadline : 25-8-2025
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(11) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD: Adoption of functional agrobiodiversity and modelling ecosystem services
You will be part of a multidisciplinary project (FABforward) on various aspects of functional agrobiodiversity (FAB), funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). The PhD student will mainly work on economics and ecosystem services of FAB adoption by farmers. The position involves working across multiple research institutes. At the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the PhD candidate will design and implement a survey and choice experiment aimed at assessing FAB adoption by Dutch farmers. The survey findings will provide input to the student’s work on natural capital models for FAB-related ecosystem services, and on applying these models in a spatially explicit way; this work will be mainly carried out at the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) and Wageningen Environmental Research (WENR). The student will be supervised by Dr Mark Koetse and Prof. Pieter van Beukering from IVM, supported by RIVM and WENR staff.
Deadline : 15-8-2025
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About The Vrije University Amsterdam, Netherlands –Official Website
The Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam is a public research university in Amsterdam, Netherlands, founded in 1880, and consistently ranks among the top 150 universities in the world by major ranking tables. The VU is one of two large, publicly funded research universities in the city, the other being the University of Amsterdam (UvA). The literal translation of the Dutch name Vrije Universiteit is “Free University”. “Free” refers to independence of the university from both the State and the Dutch Reformed Church. Both within and outside the university, the institution is commonly referred to as “the VU”. Although founded as a private institution, the VU has received government funding on a parity basis with public universities since 1970. The university is located on a compact urban campus in the southern Buitenveldert neighbourhood of Amsterdam and adjacent to the modern Zuidas business district.
In 2014, the VU had 23,656 registered students, most of whom were full-time students. That year, the university had 2,263 faculty members and researchers, and 1,410 administrative, clerical and technical employees, based on FTE units. The university’s annual endowment for 2014 was circa €480 million. About three quarters of this endowment is government funding; the remainder is made up of tuition fees, research grants, and private funding.
The official university seal is entitled The Virgin in the Garden. Personally chosen by Abraham Kuyper, the Reformed-Protestant leader and founder of the university, it depicts a virgin living in freedom in a garden while pointing towards God, referring to the Protestant Reformation in the Netherlands in the 16th and 17th century. In 1990, the university adopted the mythical griffin as its common emblem.
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