Are you holding Master’s degree and ready to elevate your academic journey to the highest level? Maastricht University, Netherlands, has announced a multiple fully funded PhD positions awaiting talented individuals like you. Don’t miss your chance to be part of our vibrant academic community. Explore the exciting PhD positions available and submit your application today!”
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(01) Fully Funded PhD Position
PhD position summary/title:–PhD candidate for BIOPYRANIA: Developing polybenzimidazoles with new bio-based aromatic monomers
This project is part of the BIOPYRANIA EU project (HORIZON-JU-CBE-2023-R-04) with partners both the public and the private sector.
European industry is facing the challenge of creating sustainable products while considering the environmental impact, durability, recyclability, and safety. There is a pressing demand to explore alternatives to fossil-fuel-based products, and this presents significant challenges for industries, notably the automotive and energy sectors.
BIOPYRANIA offers an innovative solution by utilising new bio-based aromatic monomers, which are obtained through fermentative processes from European second-generation woody biomass. Expanding on previous studies of polyesters based on these new bio-based aromatic monomers at Maastricht University, BIOPYRANIA shows that incorporating these building blocks into materials results in distinctive properties. Leveraging these properties, the project aims to develop sustainable polyamide (PA) and polybenzimidazole (PBI) polymers for high-performance applications in automotive electrification and green hydrogen production.
Deadline : 29 Oct
(02) Fully Funded PhD Position
PhD position summary/title:–PhD candidate: synthesis and evaluation of biobased covalent adaptable networks (project SusInkCoat)
Plastics have their drawbacks: their production consumes energy and leads to greenhouse gas emissions; they are made from non-sustainable materials; they do not decompose; and less than 10% are recycled. Much progress has been made in making plastics more sustainable for larger applications. However, thin films, such as those used in coatings and inks, are lagging behind. The SusInkCoat project is changing that. Researchers are developing new materials, processes and applications to improve the durability, functionality and recyclability of coatings, thin films and inks. In addition, the consortium is training a new generation of chemical developers for whom sustainability and circularity are core values.
Deadline : 29 Oct
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(03) Fully Funded PhD Position
PhD position summary/title:–PhD candidate synthesis & evaluation of biobased, responsive and self-dispersible waterborne resins.
This project is part of the SusInkCoat consortium with partners both the public and the private sector. The goal of the SusInkCoat project is to develop switchable and adaptive functional polymers and additives for low environmental footprint.
Plastics have their drawbacks: their production consumes energy and leads to greenhouse gas emissions; they are made from non-sustainable materials; they do not decompose; and less than 10% are recycled. Much progress has been made in making plastics more sustainable for larger applications. However, thin films, such as those used in coatings and inks, are lagging behind. The SusInkCoat project is changing that. Researchers are developing new materials, processes and applications to improve the durability, functionality and recyclability of coatings, thin films and inks. In addition, the consortium is training a new generation of chemical developers for whom sustainability and circularity are core values.
Deadline : 29 Oct
(04) Fully Funded PhD Position
PhD position summary/title:–PhD Position in Mass Spectrometry Imaging
This PhD project aims to develop a new fast mass microscopy instrument and corresponding sample analysis and preparation methods to push the boundaries of MSI throughput. Novel development of mass spectrometry instrumentation, including computer simulation and modeling, ion optics, electrical and vacuum systems, and instrument control software will be a part of this PhD project. This project will require communication with both users of MSI technology as well as collaboration and consultation with those users and an external commercial partner.
Deadline : 30 Jun
(05) Fully Funded PhD Position
PhD position summary/title:–PhD Researcher in Criminal Law
Are you interested in criminal law and the intersection between liability and technology? Do you want to be part of a research team that is exploring the boundaries of criminal law and investigating how new advancements in Artificial Intelligence are reshaping the landscape of accountability? If so, apply to this PhD position and join us at the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology at Maastricht University.
Deadline : 25 Aug
(06) Fully Funded PhD Position
PhD position summary/title:–PhD Candidate in Transcriptomic data Analysis with a Focus on Adverse Outcome Pathways (AOPs)
As the successful candidate for this open science PhD position, your primary responsibility will be to lead the analysis and interpretation of large-scale transcriptomic data within the TXG-MAP project. Your role involves selecting and generating Adverse Outcome Pathway (AOP) networks related to liver, kidney, lung, and neuronal toxicity. Through innovative gene mapping strategies, you will develop and evaluate new analytical strategies to evaluate transcriptomic data in the context of AOPs and use those to validate the TXG-MAPr toolbox, integrating gene sets with Key Events (KEs) and advancing our understanding of toxicological processes. Your work will culminate in the quantification of AOP activity, establishing a framework that enhances human and environmental safety assessments for chemicals. As part of your PhD position, you will be writing your PhD thesis, taking part in education, and participating in activities by the research school NUTRIM (Institute of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism).
Deadline : 30 Jun
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(07) Fully Funded PhD Position
PhD position summary/title:–PhD candidate | (Limits of) Support for social change among the advantaged
Project (Limits of) Support for social change among the advantaged: when ingroup/self-interest conflicts with morality.
Social inequality is on the rise. We see societies polarized between those who put efforts to decrease social inequality at the forefront of their political agendas and others who openly favor inequality in their countries or deny its existence based on meritocratic principles. This project will focus on reactions to social inequality reduction among advantaged group members. Its main goal is to systematically disentangle mechanisms and situations that trigger different types of support for social change among advantaged group members (e.g., principle-policy gaps) and to examine the consequences of this support (or lack thereof) on mobilization of disadvantaged groups.
In this project, a quantitative multi-method approach will be employed using (existing) survey and experimental methods. We are seeking a PhD candidate with a strong interest in fundamental social psychology, experimental research and advanced data analyses. The project has a strong theoretical component and involves hypotheses formulating and testing in a variety of contexts of social inequality (e.g., gender, ethnicity, social class, or more “minimal” contexts).
Deadline : 30 Jun
(08) Fully Funded PhD Position
PhD position summary/title:–PhD candidate on the topic of (early) Health Technology Assessment (HTA)
We are seeking a junior researcher/PhD candidate on the topic of (early) Health Technology Assessment (HTA). HTA is a multidisciplinary process that uses explicit methods to determine the value of a health technology at different points in its lifecycle. The purpose is to inform decision-making to promote an equitable, efficient, and high-quality health system. Specifically, you will be involved as a member of the PRE-ACT project focusing on the cost-effectiveness of predicting radiotherapy side effects using explainable AI for patient communication and treatment modification, and as a member of the Maastricht External Assessment Group (EAG) supporting reimbursement decisions made by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). This combination of projects will provide you with excellent opportunities to develop your skills and knowledge while working in inspiring multidisciplinary teams with highly experienced scientists and on societally relevant cutting-edge topics.
Deadline : 30 Jun
(09) Fully Funded PhD Position
PhD position summary/title:–PhD klinische heterogeniteit bij de zeer variabele ziekte myotone dystrofie
- Myotone dystrofie is een erfelijke spierziekte, waarbij echter ook veel andere organen zijn aangedaan. De ziekte kan op alle leeftijden voorkomen en de klachten waarmee de ziekte zich kan presenteren zijn zeer variabel. Ook de ernst van de ziekte verschilt van persoon tot persoon. Als arts-onderzoeker ben je betrokken bij een studie naar myotone dystrofie: ‘Understanding the clinical, cellular and molecular heterogeneity in myotonic dystrophy to model individual disease trajectorie’s. We zoeken een (basis) arts met interesse in epidemiologie en affiniteit met neurologie/ spierziektes. Je bent mede-verantwoordelijk voor het opvolgen van patiënten met myotone dystrofie, voor analyse en voor het beschrijven van de resultaten. De werkplaats is in het Maastricht UMC+; de werkzaamheden kunnen qua locatie flexibel worden ingevuld (Maastricht, Nijmegen, thuis. Voor het basale onderzoek is een andere PhD verantwoordelijk die als standplaats het Radboudumc heeft en waarmee je nauw zult samenwerken.
Deadline : 30 jun
(10) Fully Funded PhD Position
PhD position summary/title:–PhD in anthropology of medicine
The Department of Society Studies is looking for a PhD candidate to undertake exciting ethnographic work about hospital practices. You will be part of a new team doing a research project focusing on the increasingly relevant and escalating issue of clinical waste. The project is called Make Do Medicine.
The focus of this European Research Council funded project is on hospitals and clinics, which have become sites of disposability in recent years. Attempts to address this can be top-down and technocratic, often still reliant on a mode of further production. Make Do Medicine takes a different route into the problem. It focuses on creative practices already happening in the clinic, involving making the most of existing materials. You will be part of a team conducting fieldwork across five clinical sites around the world where such improvisations are highlighted due to different constraints. For your PhD you will undertake 10 months participant observation in a hospital, community healthcare centre and/or rural clinic in Ghana (preferred, other sites can be considered if appropriate for project and there is access). Often hospital ethnographies in the Global South are framed through the lens of scarcity. There is another story to tell, which looks further into improvisation and the conditions for this work.
Deadline : 21 Aug
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(11) Fully Funded PhD Position
PhD position summary/title:–PhD positions: Reading the mind’s eye
Despite extensive research, we still do not have a comprehensive computational understanding of the mechanisms of the mind’s eye: How do we create mental images? And why are some people better at it than others? How do the various brain regions involved in mental imagery contribute to the unified percept in our mind’s eye? Why do we experience imagery so differently ranging from no to extremely vivid mental images?
In the Advanced ERC project “Reading the mind’s eye – AI-inspired personalised brain models of mental imagery” of Prof. Rainer Goebel, a novel perspective on mental imagery is proposed, viewing it as a personalised computational process that takes into account individual brain characteristics. The task of this computational process is to progressively transform abstract object descriptions (semantic input) into visual representations (sensory-like output) through feedback connections in the brain’s processing hierarchy.
Deadline : 31 Jul
(12) Fully Funded PhD Position
PhD position summary/title:–PhD position | Department of Cognitive Neuroscience
While there is progress in developing visual prostheses for the blind in the visual pathways, especially in primary visual cortex, coverage of large parts of the visual field remains a challenge. The ZonMw project “EVISION: Electronic neuroprosthesis for VISION restoration ” aims to overcome this issue by targeting the LGN, the deep brain structure that provides input to the visual cortex. The LGN has full coverage of the contralateral hemifield in a small volume (~120 mm3 ), making it a promising target for a visual prosthesis. Before implanting a visual LGN prosthesis in humans, high-resolution LGN data is needed to optimally guide the surgical placement of electrodes. EVISION consists of two parts: 1) the development of a high-resolution laminar retinotopic fMRI atlas of the human LGN headed by Prof. Rainer Goebel, and 2) the development and implantation of the actual prosthesis in animals and later humans headed by Prof. Pieter Roelfsema (Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Amsterdam). The available position is for part 1. Your work in this sub-project involves mapping the laminar and retinotopic organization of the LGN in about 30 people using anatomical and functional 7 Tesla MRI. Your data will be used to create a probabilistic LGN atlas. Besides of its value for the neuroimaging community, the created porbabilistic atlas will serve as guidance for the implantation of a future LGN prosthesis in humans.
Deadline : 31 Jul
(13) Fully Funded PhD Position
PhD position summary/title:–PhD position at SHE on the role of health professions educators in fostering identity safety
One of the priorities of the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is to ‘ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all’. In the context of health professions education (HPE), this has resulted in pleas for the diversification of the student population. However, students from underrepresented groups tend to experience less sense of belonging within their HPE learning environments and they are more likely to experience identity threat. Hence, the importance of ‘identity safety’ is increasingly emphasised. But, how could health professions educators foster identity safety among students? And how could faculty development support educators in doing so?
Deadline : 4 Aug
(14) Fully Funded PhD Position
PhD position summary/title:–PhD position at SHE on supporting teachers and students in 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 self-regulated way. However, contrary to a common misconception, self-regulated learning does not happen by itself but needs to be supported by teachers. But, how do teachers actually perceive their role and responsibility in learning students how to learn? What do teachers know about effective support for self-regulated learning? And how could faculty development support teachers in supporting their own and students’ self-regulated learning?
Deadline : 4 Aug
(15) Fully Funded PhD Position
PhD position summary/title:–PhD position at SHE on Supporting Reflective Practice in Continuing Professional Development
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 professional identities. The research connected to the PhD position advertised here seeks to identify effective strategies for fostering reflective practice among HPE teachers, investigate the role and feasibility of reflective interventions in continuing professional development programs, and understand the impact of these practices on the development of educators’ personal interpretative framework.
Deadline : 4 Aug
(16) Fully Funded PhD Position
PhD position summary/title:–PhD candidate Food allergy monitoring, analysis and communication
A key element of improving food supply sustainability is the introduction of novel protein-based foods such as insects and new types of meat and dairy substitutes. The shift towards consuming more plant-based and alternative proteins however also gives rise to uncertainties related to the safety of such products: are these new protein sources suitable to be consumed by allergic consumers and how does their intake affect the development of new food allergies? In the project ‘Monitoring the Safe Introduction of Novel Foods’ (MoSIN), we will study the development and monitoring of food allergies to novel foods. As a PhD candidate in this NWO project, you will study the complexities of food allergy monitoring and communication. You will work towards two key objectives: (i) you will study the principle of monitoring adverse reactions to foods – focused on allergenicity – and you will use the obtained results to develop and implement a monitoring system; and (ii) you will study the provision of newly obtained safety information through improved labelling and communication strategies within the food system. You will employ different qualitative methods to study these objectives, including focus groups, semi-structured interviews and case-study approaches. By collaborating with experts from various disciplines and with different food system stakeholders in this project, you’ll contribute to the creation of a robust framework that protects consumers, supports healthcare providers and regulators, and facilitates compliance with food safety regulations.
Deadline : 5 Jul
(17) Fully Funded PhD Position
PhD position summary/title:–PhD position on understanding, supporting and guiding medical residents’ career choices
Embarking on the journey of medical specialty training is a pivotal moment for graduating medical students. However, this path often presents challenges due to mismatches between individual aspirations and the demands of the healthcare system. We intend to address these challenges through systematic research. By exploring the factors influencing career decisions among young doctors and the unique characteristics of each specialty, we aim to facilitate a smoother transition into specialty training.
A key focus of our efforts is to optimize the selection process for specialty training. Drawing upon evidence-based approaches, we strive to ensure alignment between the preferences of prospective doctors and the requirements and expectations of their chosen specialties. Additionally, we aim to understand how to provide ongoing support to residents, creating an environment conducive to their professional growth.
We invite you to join us in this research, to enhance the choices for and support throughout medical specialty training from the perspectives of different stakeholders. This research is intended to form the basis for an intervention to support residents from the outset and throughout: the selection for specialty training. Selection can be used to match expectations between the applicants and the program and provide a starting point for guidance, to create an environment that fosters learning from the very start.
Deadline : 5 Aug
About Maastricht University, Netherlands –Official Website
Maastricht University is a public university in Maastricht, Netherlands. Founded in 1976, it is the second youngest of the thirteen Dutch universities.
In 2019, 19,000 students studied at Maastricht University, 54% of whom were foreign students, with over 4,000 employees. About half of the bachelor’s programmes are fully offered in English, while the other half is taught wholly or partly in Dutch. Most of the master’s and doctoral programmes are in English. Besides traditional programmes, Maastricht University also has an honours liberal arts college: University College Maastricht and a Maastricht Science Programme in the same liberal arts tradition. The satellite University College Venlo opened in 2015.
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