Do you have a Master’s degree and are looking for fully funded PhD opportunities? Utrecht University, Netherlands is now accepting applications for several funded PhD programs across a range of research areas.
1. Fully Funded PhD in Marketing and Consumer Behaviour: Technostress and Emerging Technologies
Summary of Funded PhD Program
The focus of your research will be on understanding how new technologies (e.g., genAI) affect technostress and coping mechanisms and how that influences user decision-making and behaviour. You will be addressing technostress in business to consumer as well as business to business applications. You will investigate key stressors such as interface complexity and content overload and explore proactive (e.g., onboarding tutorials) and reactive (e.g., troubleshooting support) coping mechanisms. The goal is to develop practical recommendations for small and medium-sized enterprises to enhance consumer satisfaction and drive sustained technology adoption.
Application Deadline: 8 January 2025
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2. Fully Funded PhD in Debris Flow – Vegetation Interactions
Summary of Funded PhD Program
Debris flows are fast-moving landslides that can devastate people and property. In many regions they interact strongly with vegetation, but how this reduces their hazardous impact is surprisingly poorly understood. This critically limits the design of protection forests, as well as anticipation of effects of climate change, wildfires, and deforestation on debris-flow hazards. We currently lack tools to systematically and quantitatively study these interactions. Here we will develop new experimental techniques, wherein we mimic vegetation with small-scale 3D-printed trees and live seedlings, which design will be based on field data.
Application Deadline: 6 January 2025
3. Fully Funded PhD in Microbiome-Driven Crop Nutrition
Summary of Funded PhD Program
With the pressing need to reduce the use of synthetic fertilizers, this PhD project explores the microbial interplay between sulfur and nitrogen metabolism in crops like soybean. By utilising advanced metagenomics, transcriptomics, and elemental analysis, the project aims to identify plant-microbe regulatory networks that enhance crop nutrition and resilience. Benefit from state-of-the-art facilities, interdisciplinary collaborations, and a vibrant scientific community at Utrecht University.
Application Deadline: 15 January 2025
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4. Fully Funded PhD in Multiphoton Printing for Biofabrication
Summary of Funded PhD Program
You will become a member of the research groups Malda and Levato research groups within the Regenerative Medicine Center Utrecht external link. In particular, you will contribute to the development and assembly of a novel multiphoton printing device, and will develop technological solution to converge light based printing approaches with other bioprinting techniques (including volumetric bioprinting and melt electrowriting). You will use this versatile set-up to produce complex 3D tissues, such as advanced in vitro models for cardiac and skeletal muscle tissues.
Application Deadline: 15 December 2024
5. Fully Funded PhD in Empowering regenerative agriculture
Summary of Funded PhD Program
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 insurance companies, and suppliers) to (dis)empower farm businesses. This PhD project will advance a conceptualisation of empowerment in transitions to regenerative agriculture, and investigate empirically to what extent and how different agrifood governance arrangements and food system actors (dis)empower farm businesses.
Application Deadline: 20 December 2024
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6. Fully Funded PhD in Data Diversity for Fair and Robust NLP (DataDivers project)
Summary of Funded PhD Program
The rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) and the availability of massive datasets have sparked a revolution in the field of NLP. However, numerous studies have pointed towards serious flaws: NLP models encode societal biases and show disparate performance across demographic groups. Thus, current models can and do cause real harm when deployed in society.
Application Deadline: 5 January 2025
7. Fully Funded PhD in Coastal Adaptation to Sea-Level Rise
Summary of Funded PhD Program
In this PhD project you will collect field data and use numerical models to assess possibilities of (and limits to) climate adaptation for the entire Wadden Sea coast and its islands. It is part of the new and exciting WADWAD project external link: a tri-lateral consortium of Dutch, German, and Danish scientists and engineers that will develop an action plan for the Wadden Sea coastal area. You, together with the rest of the UU team, will bring in expertise on coastal geomorphology and climate change adaptation. The rest of the project includes sedimentologists, biologists, economists, and social scientists that cover topics of coastal adaptation from the paleo record all the way to cost-benefit analyses and stakeholder acceptance.
Application Deadline: 13 December 2024
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