Phd Social-historical Analysis of Regional

Within the Chair Group of Economic and Social History, Faculty of Arts at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, a fully funded PhD position is currently available. The position will be within the ERC-funded project “Coping with decline: Comparative social-historical analysis of depopulation and community welfare in Europe, 1950-2022...

Within the Chair Group of Economic and Social History, Faculty of Arts at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, a Postdoctoral Researcher position is currently available for the period of 2,5 years (30 months). The position will be within the ERC-funded project “Coping with decline: Comparative social-historical analysis of depopulation and...

About the Opportunity: We are seeking a highly motivated PhD researcher to join our team at UMCG/University of Groningen, focusing on developing novel techniques for computer-aided diagnosis of movement disorders using patient data from various sources. This exciting project aims to improve the classification of hyperkinetic movement disorders, which is...

Company OverviewThe UMCG, a leading research institute, is seeking a highly motivated PhD candidate to contribute to the development of innovative video analysis tools for diagnosing hyperkinetic movement disorders. As part of the NEMO project, this position will focus on advancing computer-assisted diagnostic tools using patient data from various...

Traditional handwritten text recognition (HTR) approaches ignore the multimodal characteristics of historical manuscripts. Moreover, they underestimate problems at the level of layout analysis, the detection of the logical reading order over a scanned page of text, and the recognition of textual and graphic patterns with a special meaning (headings,...

Background This PhD position is part of a larger interlinked PhD program that is set-up as a cooperation between four universities in the Netherlands (RUG, TU Delft, TU Eindhoven and Utrecht University), RWE and TNO. This PhD program is investigating different aspects related to the development of the large-scale offshore wind farm - Oranje Wind - in the...

We have a vacancy for a 4-year PhD student in Applied Mathematics within the project “HiWAVE - Natural hazard prediction with adaptive hierarchical wave models”, funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) via the talent programme Vidi in the group of Assistant Professor Dr. Julian Koellermeier. HiWAVE predicts free-surface waves by developing new...

Melodies of the North will result in a detailed digital archive of spoken Frisian, encapsulating the rich diversity of dialects found across the region. The project seeks not only to preserve these linguistic variations via a digital archive, but also to analyze their unique phonetic features. This multidimensional approach aims to enhance our understanding...

Applications are invited for a fully-funded four-year PhD position at the intersection of the fields of Journalism Studies and Architecture, focusing on the role of material space and artifacts in the construction of journalistic identity and practice in former Yugoslavia. Place and Identity in Journalism in Former Yugoslavia inquires into the role of...

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Het promotieonderzoek Het PhD project ‘Communities at a Crossroads’ onderzoekt of en onder welke omstandigheden plattelandsgemeenschappen kunnen voldoen aan de beleidsverwachtingen op het gebied van het leveren van belangrijke diensten en voorzieningen via vrijwillige burgerinitiatieven. Recent beleid op nationaal niveau benadrukt de rol van lokale...

The Centre for Media and Journalism Studies (CMJS) is looking for a PhD student in “Investigative journalism and interpretive “deep” reporting” within the HAICu research project. The HAICu project is a large-scale Dutch research project by universities and cultural-heritage institutions into new forms of Artificial Intelligence-based access to...

Job description Since its foundation in 1614, the University of Groningen has enjoyed an international reputation as a dynamic and innovative centre of higher education offering high-quality teaching and research. Belonging to the best research universities of Europe and joining forces with prestigious partner universities and networks, the University...

Job description We seek a PhD candidate who is passionate about energy and sustainability scientific problems with a focus on the critical material perspective. Successful candidate will be under supervision of Prof. Xin Sun, working with colleagues at the Integrated Research on Energy, Environment and Society group (IREES - ), within Energy and...

Job description Randomness and random shapes can be found everywhere around us, for example the shape of a tree is influenced by random interactions both between and within its cells, and random external influences. This random growth causes trees in nature to have self-similar, fractal-like properties. Underlying random growth also makes our backyard...

Heb jij een passie voor het creëren van een duurzame toekomst in de landbouw? Wil jij actief meehelpen in de transitie naar een duurzame regeneratieve landbouwsector in Nederland waarbij boeren leren hoe ze duurzame bedrijfsmodellen kunnen bestendigen, die ook financieel haalbaar zijn? Dan is deze positie interessant voor jou. Wij zijn op zoek naar een...

**Functiebeschrijving**: Stress is the ‘buzzword’ of modern life and impacts all aspects of daily life. When stress occurs frequently, remains high for sustained periods of time, and/or overwhelms people’s resources, it can cause mental and cardiometabolic disease. The NWO Gravitation project “Stress-in-Action” capitalizes on the fast advances in...

The aim of this project is to analyse the vibrations transmitted by consumer products to their hands in order to improve their perception. An accurate model of the product dynamics coupled to hand can provide us with predictions on how the vibrations are perceived by the consumers. These predictions from the models can be made at an early stage before any...

Job description Are you enthusiastic about enzymes and tailoring them for applications in synthetic organic chemistry? We are looking for a highly motivated and enthusiastic PhD student with strong backgrounds in chemistry, biochemistry, biotechnology or closely related fields to join the research group of Dr Sandy Schmidt, () at the Department of...

The Faculty of Arts and the Faculty of Philosophy (both at the University of Groningen, NL) offer a four year studentship to complete a PhD within a joint interdisciplinary project led by Dr Dimitris Serafis (Faculty of Arts), Dr Janina Wildfeuer (Faculty of Arts) and Dr Jan Albert van Laar (Faculty of Philosophy). The proposed PhD research project will be...