If you’re a Masters degree holder and seeking Fully Funded PhD Programs, Wageningen University & Research, Netherlands has several online applications open for PhD programs. Explore the PhD opportunities across diverse research areas and submit your application soon.
1. 02 Fully Funded PhD Position in Scaling Circular Consumption: Sharing and repairing in everyday urban life
Summary of PhD Program:
The Environmental Policy Group at Wageningen University is seeking two highly motivated PhD candidates to join a dynamic research team focused on advancing circular sharing and repairing practices in the Netherlands. The PhD projects form part of the NWO funded project ShaRepair, which is aimed at embedding sustainable sharing and repairing practices into daily urban life. Despite their potential for realising circular economy ambitions, sharing and repairing of consumer goods, such as electric appliances, furniture, and clothing, remain marginal in Dutch society, with challenges in participation and scaling across diverse communities.
Application Deadline: 27 May 2024
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Social organisation and vocal communication in wild zebra finches
Summary of PhD Program:
The aim of this project is to determine the nature of multi-level societies and the role of vocal signalling in their dynamics, using wild zebra finches in the Australian arid zone as model. Zebra finches are the best-studied avian model organism under laboratory conditions, yet their social organisation and communication in nature are poorly understood. Here we will use a long-term monitored Australian field population at the Fowlers Gap Research Station in NSW Australia, to determine their social organisation using automatized solar-powered radio tracking, combined with various bioacoustics approaches as well as breeding data.
Application Deadline: 27 May 2024
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Biological pest control with biodiversity in and around greenhouses
Summary of PhD Program:
The project “Boosting Biocontrol with Biodiversity in and around greenhouse production systems” is financed by the mission driven NWO-KIC programme “Biodiversity and biotic stress in primary production systems”. As a PhD-candidate you will collaborate with other project partners of Leiden University, Utrecht University, Radboud University and InHolland. In this project, we will study how biodiversity in and around greenhouses can contribute to pest management in greenhouse production systems, but also the social barriers as well as possibly viable business implementations to promote nature-inclusive horticultural systems resilient to pests and diseases.
Application Deadline: 27 May 2024
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in ‘Optimizing the sustainability of freight transportation through a digital platform: investigating the role of information sharing in logistics’
Summary of PhD Program:
The Operations Research and Logistics group of Wageningen University is hiring a PhD candidate (4 years, full-time employment) to work on the project Freight Mobility as a Service (FMaaS). In FMaaS, seven universities in The Netherlands and Belgium are collaborating with public and private partners on designing a digital platform to support making Cargo Logistics more sustainable (See project lead website). As a PhD candidate, you will create mathematical and simulation models and generate insights into the value of information sharing for platform users and other stakeholders of the platform.
Application Deadline: 27 May 2024
5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Philosophy of digital technologies and the disruption of the lifeworld
Summary of PhD Program:
Socially disruptive technologies (SDT’s) like digital technologies (for example, AI, digital twins, social media etc.) raise societal concerns, which can be observed in concerns about surveillance capitalism, instrumentalization of production and consumption, datafication of all domains of human and non-human life etc. We can frame these concerns in terms of the social disruption of the lifeworld – i.e. the meaningful environment of everyday life experience in which we are at home and live and act together. The disruption of the lifeworld by digital technologies first of all suggests that there are general patterns that SDT’s like digital technologies have in common, and secondly that they not only have an impact on the users or consumers for instance, but have a broader impact on the lifeworld in which we live and act.
Application Deadline: 27 May 2024
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6. Fully Funded PhD Position in insect virome analysis
Summary of PhD Program:
In this project, we will study whiteflies, a diverse group of agriculturally important insects that feed on plants and can transmit a variety of plant viruses. Whiteflies pose a severe threat to many plant crops, both in greenhouses and open fields. The management of this pest currently relies on insecticides; however, most whitefly species have already developed insecticide resistance. Biological control based on microorganisms is a promising tool; however, this requires fundamental understanding of the microbiome of whiteflies and its impact on virus transmission.
Application Deadline: 10 June 2024
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in improving infant health through breast milk proteins & peptides
Summary of PhD Program:
Within this PhD project, the aim will be to study the variability in the proteins and peptides in breast milk. We have developed improved methodology for both protein and peptide screening in human milk. However, further improvements still need to be made for the identification of specific peptides. It is expected that the PhD student contributes to this development by working on improved biochemical methods and data analysis. Next, the relation between these breast milk components and infant airway infections needs to be established in collaboration with the PRIMA cohort (Dutch website: https://prima.hetwkz.nl/). In collaboration with another PhD student at the UMC Utrecht, the immunological functionality will be studied of key proteins, including the impact of heating on this functionality.
Application Deadline: May 27th, 2024
8. Fully Funded PhD Position in horse breeding and genomics
Summary of PhD Program:
The PPP aims to support horse studbooks in the Netherlands in their effort to sustainably manage their horse populations, by developing a genetic management program. Such a program should comprise an optimal balance between breed conservation, mitigating deleterious mutations and selection for health and performance. The emphasis on either of these 3 pillars is depending on the genetic status of the horse population.
Application Deadline: 3 June 2024
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in HybridLabs – Immersive experiences for communication and stakeholder engagement for North Sea Ecology
Summary of PhD Program:
Digital technologies such as virtual and mixed realities (XR) have the potential to change the way we communicate, make decisions, and engage stakeholders about our future. As part of a large consortium called HybridLabs, we are advancing the use of XR for making environmentally sensed data, models, and simulations more accessible. HybridLabs aims to facilitate the energy transition and understand ecological consequences and opportunities of this transition. We will be building digital twins of the North Sea and combine them with XR to advance the understanding and use of immersive digital twins for stakeholder and citizen engagement.
Application Deadline: 10 June 2024
10. Fully Funded PhD Position in HybridLabs – Combining floating offshore energy with nature inclusive seafood production; focus on suspended shellfish culture and benthic organisms
Summary of PhD Program:
Increasing demand for sustainable energy production is leading to rising numbers of offshore structures for renewable energy production. At the same time, the demand for sustainable animal proteins from the sea is increasing and the marine biodiversity is under pressure. Ideally, nature inclusive shellfish production can be combined with offshore energy production. A promising option is combining suspended shellfish culture underneath floating offshore structures. The seafloor will then be protected from bottom trawling and in combination with biodeposition from the shellfish, reef structures are expected to develop. This will provide food and habitat to many other species enhancing biodiversity at the sea floor and in the water column in between the mussels. The gently fertilized seafloor may also provide harvestable benthic seafood species.
Application Deadline: 10 June 2024
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11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Atmospheric Sciences – Unraveling the mesoscale organisation of shallow convective clouds for better climate projection
Summary of PhD Program:
The tropical oceans are blanketed by shallow convective clouds, which cool the planet. These “trade cumuli” are almost always organised into striking patterns of tens to hundreds of kilometres across, which arise from a subtle interplay between clouds and circulations. Unravelling this cloud-circulation coupling, and its sensitivity to changes in climate, is therefore crucial to understand how rapidly Earth is warming. In recent years, we have made major advances in observing and simulating the organisation of tropical shallow clouds. Yet we miss a simple, systematic theory for why they organise the way they do, and how they shape our climate.
Application Deadline: 10 June 2024
