Explore Fully Funded PhD opportunities at the University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands across a range of departments. Apply now to be considered for these prestigious positions.
1. Fully Funded PhD Programs in Droplet Size Control in Liquid Sprays
Summary of PhD Project
This PhD position is part of an ERC funded project entitled “Precision Rayleigh jet sprays”. This experimental project aims at understanding liquid spray formation and improving the control on the droplet size distribution using novel spraying techniques, with applications in, e.g., pharmaceuticals, agriculture and food processing. The project leader is Daniel Bonn.
Application Deadline: 1-3-2026
2. 03 Fully Funded PhD Programs in Automated and Data-Driven Chemistry
Summary of PhD Project
You will be part of a dynamic, interdisciplinary team working to develop novel robotic platforms that transform how chemical synthesis is performed. The project aims to tackle key challenges in scalability, reproducibility, and efficiency by integrating lab automation, algorithmic decision-making, and modular, programmable hardware.
Application Deadline: 1-3-2026
3. 03 Fully Funded PhD Programs in the AI-Steel project
Summary of PhD Project
In industry, vast amounts of data are generated and stored. Often, this data is used in a straightforward manner; however, due to its sheer volume, existing methods struggle to convert it into meaningful information. This data includes measurements, images, text, recipes, and more. The project addresses the real-world challenge of extracting value from semi-structured textual data, a problem not only faced by industry (e.g., steel, catalysts, metal structures) but also by academia and public services (e.g., archives, museums). The broader question that this project addresses is how we can extract information from this data to support decisions, such as the design of new materials.
Application Deadline: 1-9-2025
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4. Fully Funded PhD Programs in Patterns of Gene Expression in Marine Phytoplankton-virus Interactions
Summary of PhD Project
Are you fascinated by how tiny marine microbes impact global carbon cycling? Are you interested in virus-host interactions? Do you enjoy thinking about how sub-cellular processes like gene expression govern organismal traits and interactions? The Department of Freshwater and Marine Ecology at IBED is looking for a highly motivated PhD candidate to join our team. You will be part of the larger research consortium project PHYVIR, aimed at elucidating marine phytoplankton-virus interactions from local to global scale.
Application Deadline: 11-7-2025
5. Fully Funded PhD Programs in Causal Multimodal Foundation Models
Summary of PhD Project
This PhD project addresses these limitations by focusing on causal exploration, enabling agents to actively seek out informative interventions in order to learn the underlying structure of their environment. Rather than relying solely on passive data, the agent will experiment, hypothesize, and test causal relationships to construct more robust and transferable world models.
Application Deadline: 30-7-2025
6. Fully Funded PhD Programs in Gull Foraging Ecology in the North Sea – NO-REGRETS Project
Summary of PhD Project
This PhD project is part of the ambitious NO-REGRETS (North Sea Renewable Energy: Gaining the Required Ecological Knowledge for the Transition) consortium funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO-NWA ORC). NO-REGRETS brings together world-class expertise from eight Dutch Universities, five Research Institutes, and key societal stakeholders to advance knowledge on potential OWFs impacts across marine ecosystems – from ocean currents, sediments and plankton to benthos, fish, marine mammals and seabirds.
Application Deadline: 20-7-2025
7. Fully Funded PhD Programs in Linking Individual Movement Behaviour and Population Dynamics
Summary of PhD Project
This position is part of a 2-PhD student project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation to link movement ecology and functional response theory. The dynamics of ecological communities arise from vast numbers of individual interactions, such as the consumption of prey by a predator. A critical factor determining the dynamics of interacting populations is how the strength of interactions among populations (number of interactions per unit time) varies as a function of the densities of both predator and prey populations.
Application Deadline: 18-7-2025
8. Fully Funded PhD Programs in Continuous Atomic Clocks
Summary of PhD Project
This PhD position is part of the Gen-Q programme, which has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement number 101217386. You will participate in network meetings across Europe, where you will learn about quantum technology from experts in the field and train essential skills, such as academic writing and outreach. You will participate in a summer school and regular consortium meetings with the other PhDs. You will spend time in the lab of a consortium partner.
Application Deadline: 24-8-2025
9. Fully Funded PhD Programs in Trapped Ions in Optical Tweezers
Summary of PhD Project
Are you a highly-motivated researcher looking for a post doc for performing state-of-the-art atomic physics experiments and developing quantum technology? Then we are looking for you.The hybrid atom-ion quantum systems lab, headed by Dr. Rene Gerritsma and Dr. Robert Spreeuw, is part of the Quantum Gases and Quantum Information (QGQI) cluster at the University of Amsterdam. The main focus of the group is to study the quantum dynamics in trapped ions while at the same time developing technology for emerging quantum applications, such as quantum computing and simulation.
Application Deadline: 24-8-2025
10. Fully Funded PhD Programs in Quantum Simulation with RbSr Ground-state Molecules
Summary of PhD Project
This PhD position is part of the Gen-Q programme, which has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement number 101217386. You will participate in network meetings across Europe, where you will learn about quantum technology from experts in the field and train essential skills, such as academic writing and outreach. You will participate in a summer school and regular consortium meetings with the other PhDs. You will spend time in the lab of a consortium partner.
Application Deadline: 24-8-2025
11. Fully Funded PhD Programs in Continuous Atomic Clocks
Summary of PhD Project
This PhD position is part of the European doctoral network QuRIOUS, which has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement number 101227522. You will participate in network meetings across Europe, where you will learn about quantum technology from experts in the field and train essential skills, such as academic writing and outreach. You will participate in a summer school and regular consortium meetings with the other PhDs. You will spend time in the lab of a consortium partner.
Application Deadline: 31-1-2026
