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]

PhD student position in Computer Science – Intelligent Systems – Biologically motivated object recognition Institute of Mathematics and Computing Science, University of Groningen Topic of research The objective of the project is to develop an object recognition technique that is motivated by the function of the visual cortex. Major aspects are representation and learning. Type … [More Info]

Rosalind Franklin Fellowships at the Faculty of Law At the Faculty of Law, two Rosalind Franklin Fellowships are available for talented female researchers. Research and education in the Faculty of Law is carried out in the fields of constitutional law, international law, european law, criminal law, public law, civil law, company law, tax law, and … [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]

PhD scholarship in the Netherlands Genetic research on asthmatic symptoms in young children Asthmatic symptoms (wheeze, shortness of breath) are common in the first years of life. Epidemiologic research has shown that in most cases these symptoms have disappeared at school age. At early age, the diagnosis of asthma is complicated since phenotypes with transient … [More Info]

PhD position (RUG): The objectives of project 1 are to assess the functional and structural prokaryote diversity of soil under potato (baseline) and to establish sensitive bacterial and archaeal bioindicators on the basis of molecular tools. Prokarya interacting with local fungi will also be studied. The effects of the presence of transgenes in potato will … [More Info]