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Appointment of Chair in Innovation & Transition Studies (1.0 FTE)
Are you the versatile scholar, open to qualitative and quantitative approaches, able to analyse innovation from process- and system-level perspectives we need?
PhD position Restoration of grassland ecosystems (0.8 - 1.0 FTE)
Would you like to contribute to bending the curve of biodiversity loss to biodiversity recovery? Then you should read further and apply.
PhD position on Metabolic Interactions in the Urinary Tract Microbiome (1.0 FTE)
How do microbes in the urinary tract protect or facilitate recurrent infections? Join our multidisciplinary team and help us find out!
Scientific Programmer (0.8 - 1.0 FTE)
Interested to work at the interface of Science and Technology? Join our team!
Technology Director CropXR (0.5 FTE)
Join us and lead the creation of a flexible, interactive state-of-the-art data and model infrastructure for the new research institute CropXR!
PhD position in measuring how plastic items in the North Sea are transported by ocean currents (1.0 FTE)
Join our project and develop new floating trackers to analyse how and where plastic pollution ends up on North Sea beaches.
PhD Position on the Vital Performance of Ancient Plant Lineages (1.0 FTE)
We are looking for a motivated, creative and independent PhD candidate who is enthusiastic about working on multidisciplinary research.
Open Access Advisor (0.8 - 1.0 FTE)
Are you passionate about the open science principles and can you take on the perspective of an academic researcher?
PhD project on modulation of brain cells by breast milk extracellular vesicles (1.0 FTE)
Curious to decipher novel mechanisms of cell-cell communication? Join our project and unravel the molecular mechanisms of milk EV communication to neural cells.
Three PhD candidates for Project Cluster ‘Appeals to Moral Responsibility' (1.0 FTE)
Are you interested in participating in a research project on moral responsibility answering to Should I, should we, just kidding?! Curious? Apply now.
Two Assistant Professors in Innovation Studies (0.8 - 1.0 FTE)
Are you interested in innovation studies? Then join The Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development!
Assistant Professor in Business Process Management & Analytics (0.8 - 1.0 FTE)
Do you share our passion for the analysis and design of IT-enabled work processes? Join us!
Postdoc or junior researcher on participatory complex systems modelling of socioeconomic inequalities in health in The Netherlands (0.8 – 1.0 FTE)
Do you want to do research on participatory complex systems modelling of socioeconomic inequalities in health in The Netherlands?
Assistant Professor of Clinical Child and Family studies (0.8 - 1.0 FTE)
Would you like to develop, coordinate and provide education within one or more educational programmes and supervise Bachelor and Master theses?
Assistant Professor Human Rights Law & Technology in Europe (1.0 FTE)
Do you have expertise in Human Rights Law & Technology in Europe and would you like to use that for research and teaching? Please apply.
PhD position in theoretical probability/statistical mechanics (1.0 FTE)
Are you a mathematician or theoretical physicist who is interested in doing research in statistical mechanics? Then apply for this PhD position.
PhD position on Integrating mental models into energy systems models to foster social change towards support for wind power deployment (1.0 FTE)
Are you passionate about the energy transition and understanding people’s perceptions of wind energy? Then this exciting PhD opportunity is something for you!
Postdoctoral research position on Horizon Europe project “Realising Girls’ and Women’s Inclusion, Representation and Empowerment” (RE-WIRING) (0.6 FTE)
Would you like to carry out research in an international and interdisciplinary team within the framework of our RE-WIRING Horizon Europe project? Then apply.
PhD position in Generating Interactive Multimodal Virtual Humans (1.0 FTE)
PhD at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in collaboration with the Department of Information and Computing Sciences at Utrecht University.
PhD position in cryo-Electron Microscopy and Tomography of microtubules in mammalian sperm cells (1.0 FTE)
Are you motivated to work with cutting edge technologies for high-resolution analysis of cellular components? Join our team and see what makes sperm work!
Assistant Professor in Computer Science Education (0.8 - 1.0 FTE)
Are you a motivated and committed researcher who enjoys teaching and computing education research? Join us and contribute to the development of our department.
Assistant Professor of Strategic Management and/or International Business (0.8 - 1.0 FTE)
Do you have expertise in Strategic Management and/or International Business and would you like to use that for research and teaching? Then apply.
PhD position in the Geographies of Inclusive Cities (1.0 FTE)
Are you a critical thinker with a specific interest in or commitment to LGBTQ+-supportive social inclusion? Then apply for this PhD position.
Postdoc on inter- and transdisciplinary sustainability education (0.8 - 1.0 FTE)
Would you like to participate in our project ‘Connecting education, research and society: inter- and transdisciplinary sustainability education'?
PhD candidate Pathogenesis of stem cells tumorigenicity (1.0 FTE)
Are you the creative and independent thinker who can deepen a research question, and enthusiastic and energetic communicator we are looking for?
Postdoc position in Statistics – Detecting and Classifying Misspecification in Structural Equation Modeling using Machine Learning (1.0 FTE)
Would you like to help applied researchers detecting misspecified (measurement) models while also assisting them with model re-specification?
Researcher in Building Blocks for Integrated Assessment Modelling (1.0 FTE)
Are you of the opinion that Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs) should be free and open source software? Then this may be the job for you!
Junior Researcher on Sustainable Biomass Feedstock Supply Chains for Advanced Biofuels (1.0 FTE)
Would you like to focus on modelling supply chain operations to develop reliable, sustainable and cost-effective feedstock supply chains for biofuel production?
PhD candidate NWA project (0.8 FTE for 5 years)
Digital media is all around us: would you like to research the early adolescent’s digital media use and their cognitive development?
Postdoc in The Membrane Connection of Coenzyme A (1.0 FTE)
Are you ready for creative fundamental biochemical research with strong links to clinical applications? Join us as a postdoc!
Assistant Professor in Ancient History and Classical Civilization (1.0 FTE)
Do you want to focus on Ancient History and Classical Civilization as an assistant professor? Join our team!
Full Professor in Pure Analysis (0.8 - 1.0 FTE)
Are you an experienced mathematician working in pure mathematics with focus on pure analysis in the broad sense? Join us as Professor in Mathematics!
PhD/Postdoc position in Cloud-Aerosol interaction (1.0 FTE)
Join us as part of a larger consortium and investigate Cloud-Aerosol-Interactions in a Nitrogen-dominated Atmosphere (CAINA) using ACSM and PTR-MS instruments.
Full Professor of Public Economics (0.8 - 1.0 FTE)
Are you an enthusiastic researcher with an interest in public choice, economics of wellbeing and happiness? We have a position for a Full Professor!
Assistant Professor in AI-driven Multimedia Creation (0.8 - 1.0 FTE)
Ready for your next career step? Join our growing Department and make an impact in your field of expertise!
Two Assistant Professors in Human-Centered Computing (0.8 - 1.0 FTE)
Are you a motivated and committed researcher who enjoys teaching? Join us and contribute to the development of our department!
PhD position on Conservation paleobiology of toothed whales of the North Atlantic (4 years) (1.0 FTE)
Utrecht University is seeking an excellent candidate to fill a 4-year PhD position on Conservation paleobiology of toothed whales of the North Atlantic.
PhD on the Footprint of Colonialism: Attributing Biodiversity Loss and GHG Emissions from Colonial Land Change Processes (0.8 - 1.0 FTE)
Do you have a strong interest in the connection between land use and history? Check this PhD position!
PhD position in co-governance for heat stress adaptation (1.0 FTE)
Utrecht University has opened a new PhD position in the field of co-governance for heat stress adaptation strategies. Read more!
Postdoctoral Researcher/Projectmanager (0.2 FTE)
Introduction vacancy text (maximum 160 characters): Postdoctoral Researcher/Projectmanager (0,2 fte) project FIRMBACKBONE (FBB)
Assistant Professor of Food, Health Inequalities and Climate Change (1.0 FTE)
We are looking for an early career academic in the fields of international development studies, food and food systems. Interested? Check the vacancy!
Assistant Professor of Sociology (0.8-1.0 FTE)
Do you have an inspiring research agenda in the area of social inequality and experience in co-developing and co-coordinating academic courses? Join us.
PhD Position on 3D Modelling of the Subsurface of the Netherlands Using Statistics and Machine Learning (1.0 FTE)
Are you interested in statistics, AI, or machine learning and are you eager to apply these methods to solve problems in geology? We welcome you to apply.
PhD position on Atmospheric, Oceanic and Land Drivers of Multi-year Droughts Under Climate Change (1.0 FTE)
Looking for a PhD position in which you can improve our understanding of drivers of multi-year droughts, together with the KNMI? Check this vacancy!
PhD position on Quantifying the Role of Vegetation on Drought Duration, Propagation and Recovery for Multi-year Droughts (1.0 FTE)
Do you want to work as a PhD candidate on a project to understand the drivers of multi-year droughts, and see how climate change will affect future droughts?
PhD Position: Joint Research on the Common Meuse! Improving Fluvial Morphodynamics to Meet Ecological Standards (1.0 FTE)
Are you interested in bridging the gap between fluvial morphology and ecology? Do you have a drive to combine fieldwork with data science and support end users?
Two PhD positions in the EU-TREAD network on Data and Processes in Seismic Hazard (1.0 FTE)
Would you like to perform experiments on intact carbonate rocks or fault gouges at Utrecht University for EU-TREAD on 'Data and Processes in Seismic Hazard'?
Postdoc in Public Engagement with Climate Change (1.0 fte)
Join us in our efforts towards a measurable impact of Public Engagement with climate change science!
Assistant Professor in Atmospheric Isotope Research (0.8 - 1.0 FTE)
Use your expertise in isotope analytics to study trace gas cycling through the atmosphere in the context of global change.
PhD in Afro-Dutch Jazz, Improvisation and Decolonisation (1.0 FTE)
We are offering two fully-funded PhD positions to form part of the team for the project IMPRODECO: Improvised Music and Decolonisation.
PhD in Indo-Dutch Jazz, Improvisation and Decolonisation (1.0 FTE)
We are offering two fully-funded PhD positions to form part of the team for the project IMPRODECO: Improvised Music and Decolonisation.
PhD position at Leiden University: Turing before tipping (1.0 FTE)
Would you like to study and develop fundamental mechanisms by which an ecosystem may evade tipping by the formation of patterns?
PhD position at Leiden University: Unified spatial ecosystem models - the mathematical angle (1.0 FTE)
Can we determine general conditions for which Turing patterns extend beyond the tipping point? Interested in the answer, then you should apply!
PhD position: Unified spatial ecosystem models – the ecological angle (1.0 FTE)
Would you like to do research on the effects that global change can have on the Earth, its system components and ecosystems?
Postdoc position at Ben-Gurion University: Community assembly and spatial pattern formation (1.0 FTE)
Would you like to study plant-community dynamics in savanna and tundra ecosystems and their mutual relations to vegetation pattern formation? Join us!
Postdoc position at Ben-Gurion University: Dynamics of fronts and coexistence states (1.0 FTE)
Are you the self-motivated candidate with a solid mathematical background, interests in pattern formation and ecology we are looking for?
PhD position TRansforming towards OPen and Inclusive Climate Sciences (TROPICS) (1.0 FTE)
We are offering a PhD position on TRansforming towards OPen and Inclusive Climate Sciences (TROPICS) at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development.
Assistant Professor in Applied Economics (0.8 - 1.0 FTE)
Utrecht University School of Economics (U.S.E.) has a vacancy for an Assistant Professor with expertise in Economics.
PhD Candidate/Lecturer in Marketing of Sustainable Development Technologies (1.0 FTE)
U.S.E. is looking for a Lecturer/PhD candidate with a strong interest in the marketing and diffusion of sustainable development technologies.
PhD/Postdoc Anchoring Innovation in the Philosophical Schools of the Empire (1.0 FTE)
We are looking for a PhD or Postdoc position in the Anchoring Innovation in the Philosophical Schools of the Empire.