2 Phd Positions in Literary and Cultural Studies:

Are you a researcher with a background in contemporary political or cultural history and interested in new approaches to the social history of the Holocaust in the Netherlands? Join our team! **Your job**: While academic literature presents the Holocaust in the Netherlands as a linear, streamlined Nazi-attack on Jews, centered in Amsterdam and other big...

Are you interested in philosophical questions surrounding how machine learning and AI models are being used across society for social prediction, like facial recognition, recidivism risk, or job screening? Check out this PhD position! **Your job**: The same machine learning methods that are unprecedently used across large areas of science are also wide...

PhD position within ERC-funded project RESPIRE to study intersectional power dynamics and socio-environmental in/justice through planetary breathing and suffocation. **Your job**: The PhD position is a part of a research project RESPIRE: Planetary Breathing in Asphyxiating Times lead by Dr. Magdalena Górska and funded by the European Research Council. Your...

Are you interested in philosophical questions surrounding how ML and AI models are used across society for social prediction? Check out this PhD position!Are you interested in philosophical questions surrounding how machine learning and AI models are being used across society for social prediction, like facial recognition, recidivism risk, or job screening?...

**Your job**: We are hiring a PhD researcher to participate in the NWO/Vidi project **"I**mprovising Security: Subsistence in Contemporary Urban Europe**"** and to write a dissertation based on urban ethnographic research in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Urban dwellers in Western Europe are facing new insecurities related to work, care, and access to basic...

Science communication often involves hyped, overly broad claims about research findings. What are the causes, social epistemological risks, and who’s responsible? In this PhD project, you will be researching these questions. **Your job**: We are offering a fully funded four-year PhD position to a researcher interested in philosophically and experimentally...

**Your job**: Cell polarity - the asymmetric distribution of components and functions within a cell along a directional axis - is a fundamental property of cells that is present across the kingdoms of life. Most cells need to distribute proteins, organelles, and functions along an axis of polarity in order to carry out their specialised functions and...

Seventeenth-century paintings are arguably the Netherlands’ most successful cultural export. The exhibition "The Dutch Masters" in Tokyo (2013) attracted the greatest number of visitors worldwide, similar displays followed in Cape Town, Beijing/Shanghai, Mumbai, and Abu Dhabi. As a postdoc researcher, you will examine the contemporary relevance of...

Are you interested in university change agent education and how it leads to societal impact? The Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development is offering a combined PhD - Lecturer position for someone with strong data analytics skills and a keen interest in different forms of change agent education. **Your job**: Universities are increasingly expected to...

Will you work on an inter and transdisciplinary project and inspire a paradigm shift in agriculture? Accelerate the transition to regenerative agriculture!We are seeking a highly motivated and talented PhD candidate to join our research team. The successful candidate will work on an inter and transdisciplinary project aiming to inspire a paradigm shift in...

**Your job**: This interdisciplinary PhD research project aims to explore the conditions under which farm businesses are empowered to transition to regenerative agriculture, as well as to interrogate the role of existing regenerative agriculture schemes and key, but often overlooked food system actors (among which farmer organisations, banks, advisors and...

The Ethics Institute of Utrecht University’s department of Philosophy and Religious Studies seeks a researcher for a four-year, full-time PhD project “_Disrupting ageing_: Personhood, meaning, and vulnerability across the lifespan_”, as part of the inter-university Gravitation consortium _Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technology (ESDiT)_. **Your...

The Ethics Institute of Utrecht University’s department of Philosophy and Religious Studies seeks a researcher for a four-year, full-time PhD project “_Disrupting ageing_: Personhood, meaning, and vulnerability across the lifespan_”, as part of the inter-university Gravitation consortium _Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technology (ESDiT)_. **Wat ga je...

**Your job**: In single case experimental designs (SCEDs), as applied in therapy effect evaluation, 10-15 measurements of 2-4 outcome variables are typically taken over time. Despite the relative small amount of data, a powerful evaluation can be obtained if (i) the therapy effect on all the outcome variables is evaluated simultaneously, and (ii) the...

Would you like to understand how endocrine disruptors affect human health? Are you passionate about metabolomics? Then a PhD position at the One Health Chemical group of the Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences (IRAS) might be just for you! We are offering an exciting PhD position to investigate the health effects of endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs)...

Are you passionate about EU law and Europe’s military security? If so, then we have a PhD position for you at Utrecht University! **Wat ga je doen?**: The European Union has historically been framed as an economic giant and political dwarf. More than 30 years after the Treaty of Maastricht created EU competences in the fields of defence and foreign...

**Your job**: We are working at the interface of biochemistry, molecular biology and biophysics to follow the journey of nascent proteins toward their functional structures as they emerge from the ribosome. These mechanistic studies pave the way for targeted interventions against protein misfolding and perturbed protein homeostasis which are important for a...

About the OpportunityAs a PhD candidate at Universiteit Utrecht, you will contribute to groundbreaking research in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and help develop more fair and robust models. The DataDivers project, funded by an ERC Starting grant, aims to improve data quality and collection methods for NLP.Your RoleYou will work closely with the project...

PFAS (per - and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are so-called ‘’forever chemicals’’ that are found everywhere: in our soils, water, food and bodies. PFAS contamination of soils is an increasingly important global issue, and we still lack sustainable methods for PFAS remediate. The PFAS Remediation Living Lab is a contaminated location at the Utrecht...

Are you passionate about developing cutting-edge AI techniques to enhance interaction and communication across multiple modalities? Join this project!Are you passionate about developing cutting-edge AI techniques to enhance interaction and communication across multiple modalities, such as text, pictures, audio, and video? Join the large scale HAICu project...