Phd Positions at The Department of Finance

PhD position: The Memory Function of Sleep: Reactivating lost memories using Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation (NIBS) and a Pharmacological Approach at the Department of Neuropsychology and Psychopharmacology (NP&PP) In our lab, we study ‘The Memory Function of Sleep’. To this end, we conduct both animal and human studies. Some of this work is conducted by...

Are you interested in conducting research on the role of students’ non-cognitive skills in (un)successful educational careers? The Department of Macro, International and Labour Economics (MILE) at the School of Business and Economics (SBE) of Maastricht University offers a 4-year PhD position, starting February 1, 2025. More specific, topics addressed in...

PhD position: Creating a probabilistic retinotopic laminar atlas of the LGN as a target for a visual prosthesis. Are you interested to investigate the detailed organization of the human lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) using ultra-high field MRI? Do you want to contribute to the creation of a novel visual prosthesis for the late blind? Then join the...

Do you find it important that education is inclusive and equitable? Would you like to contribute to current insights on identity safety in the context of health professions education? This PhD project focuses on gaining understanding of identity safety among students in health professions programmes and the role of educators in fostering this construct. One...

Are you interested in working within a dynamic team to design behavioral measures to predict and prevent reading problems in children? We offer a fully-funded PhD position._ Children’s reading proficiency is closely related to their self-beliefs, such as their mindset, and socio-emotional well-being. Current practices for early assessment of (pre)reading...

Physiological and Accelerated Pacing in Patients with Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction and Patients with Atrial Fibrillation. Background Heart failure (HF) is a prevalent clinical syndrome with diverse phenotypes. HF with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) accounts for over 50% of HF diagnoses. Despite its increasing incidence, HFpEF lacks...

The Department of Quantitative Economics at Maastricht University School of Business and Economics is looking to fill a PhD position. **Requirements**: In multiple domains, there can be a welfare gain when parties work together. These cooperations lead to centralized optimization problems, where the total system is optimized. Such an optimization algorithm...

This research project aims to explore such questions with the purpose of contributing to the development of a sustainable normative framework for a safe, just, and morally desirable translational use of (human) induced pluripotent stem cells in regenerative medicine. The insights gathered from this research project are intended to provide recommendations for...

PhD position for the creation of dynamic supramolecular hydrogels and bioinks to modulate cell behaviour for tissue engineering. **Keywords**: biomaterials, synthetic ECM, tissue patterning, dynamic and responsive materials, cell-culture, biofabrication. Key references: **Requirements**: **What we offer** - Good employment conditions. The position is...

Are you interested in education and research? This PhD project focuses on continuing professional development for teachers. Health professions education (HPE) requires continuous adaptation from its teaching faculty. Reflection is a critical process that allows teachers to examine the beliefs and assumptions underlying their teaching methods and...

The recent pace and scale of new developments in science and technology have presented our societies with an ever-expanding set of social and political challenges. At the same time, there is a long tradition of philosophers who have critically engaged with science and technology. This history contains valuable but often forgotten insights and tools for the...

Meta-analytical studies indicate that social class indicators correlate with healthy behaviours such as eating healthy or regularly exercising. One reason for such associations may be that living in socio-economically resourceful conditions facilitates developing and adhering to beneficial habits. On the contrary, precarious employment as a condition...

Job DescriptionMaastricht University invites applications for a fully-funded PhD position focused on studying the human element of EU laws for data and AI.The widespread use of annoying and ineffective "cookie banners" on websites is just one symptom of this. In your PhD research, you will seek to understand how to better respect the human element in AI...

Are you interested in working within a dynamic team to investigate the neural representations and computations underlying visual mental imagery? Do you want to understand why the experienced vividness of mental images is so different across individuals? Then join the ERC-funded project 'MINDSEYE' as a PhD student. Despite extensive research, we still do not...

The Maastricht Sustainability Institute (MSI) offers an exciting opportunity for a fulltime PhD position of four years in political economy and sustainability science. - the major changes required in food supply chains, markets, individual livelihoods, and dietary habits; - the consequences of such changes on social inequality and conflicts, and; - the...

Law affects us all, but it still struggles to address widespread harms in digital technologies. The massive adoption of (often) annoying - and usually illegal - “cookie banners” on websites is just one symptom of this. In your PhD project, you will seek to contribute to a better understanding of how technical methods can help study how cutting-edge...

**Project Description** **Role description** - Study relevant literature in the field of carbohydrate metabolism in health and disease (e.g. cancer patients). - Work out the details of the project proposal and obtain medical ethical approval. - Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team of researchers to develop MR metabolic imaging methods at 7T to measure...

Are you interested in education and research? This PhD project focuses on the role of teachers in supporting students’ self-regulated learning. As the complexity of knowledge continues to grow and higher education becomes more flexible, students need to learn how to identify gaps in their knowledge and plan, monitor, and control their learning in a...

This vacancy represents an exciting opportunity for ambitious individuals to join the department of Cell Biology-Inspired Tissue Engineering (cBITE) at the MERLN Institute for Technology-inspired Regenerative Medicine at Maastricht University in the Netherlands as part of the ERC STG project “AUTOMATHIC”, under the supervision of dr. Aurélie Carlier....

This vacancy represents an exciting opportunity for ambitious individuals to join the department of Cell Biology-Inspired Tissue Engineering (cBITE) at the MERLN Institute for Technology-inspired Regenerative Medicine at Maastricht University in the Netherlands as part of the ERC STG project “AUTOMATHIC”, under the supervision of dr. Aurélie Carlier....