International Scholarships

PhD Position University of Groningen Vegetation dynamics, plant population dynamics, sedimentation and grazing (1,0 fte) (Groningen), 38 hours per week Job description Function title: PhD position You will study the relationship between vegetation dynamics and sedimentation, vegetation dynamics and plant population dynamics, and their role for birds and invertebrates on salt marshes. These relationships will … [More Info]

The Environmental Policy Group is an internationally leading and dynamic centre of expertise in the environmental social sciences. Theoretical and empirical research and undergraduate and post-graduate education are focused on the following themes: sustainable production and consumption; (inter)national environmental policies and politics; nature and natural resource governance. We cooperate in research and education with other … [More Info]

Applications are invited for a Ph.D. position to work on Interacting stochastic models on complex networks Complex networks with small-world properties occur in a multitude of real-world communication networks. In this project we shall investigate the nature of interacting systems on such networks and understand their phase-transitions. The student will be supervised by C. K … [More Info]

4-year PhD studentship on “Exploring the secret metabolism of an antibiotic factory” This project will be a unique collaboration between the Microbial Physiology department and the Groningen Bioinformatics Centre using a newly acquired state-of art ultra-high resolution LTQ-Orbitrap mass spectrometer in the Medical Biomics Facility to determine the metabolome of Streptomyces coelicolor. Project objectives (1) … [More Info]

There is a studentship available to carry out a PhD at the Kapteyn Institute, University of Groningen, to do observational research on black holes (BH). The goal of the PhD project is to obtain robust measurements of BH spins, both for stellar-mass BHs in our Galaxy, and super-massive BHs at the center of active galactic … [More Info]

The Measuring and Modelling Electromagnetic Brain Activity Group at the F.C. Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging at Radboud University Nijmegen (NL) seeks an outstanding PhD-student for a project investigating the relationship between human working and long-term memory. For several decades it has been debated in the cognitive psychology community whether long-term memory operations require the … [More Info]

The departments of Earth Sciences and Environmental Sciences are currently looking for 2 PhD students (AIO) (f/m) for the High Potential Programme granted by the Utrecht University: Global Change and Hurricanes. The research of the departments is part of the Copernicus Institute for Sustainable Development and Innovation and of the Organic Geochemistry group from the … [More Info]