Funded PhD Positions in the Netherlands
As of 9 October 2026, Graduates Corner lists 152 open PhD positions with stated funding in the Netherlands from 13 organizations.
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Key facts
As of 9 October 2026, Graduates Corner lists 152 open PhD positions with stated funding in the Netherlands from 13 organizations.
- Open listings
- 152
- Organizations
- 13
- Closing within 30 days
- 139
- State pay or funding
- 152
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Read the full project description on the official vacancy page, check eligibility and the required documents, and contact the named supervisor with specific questions well before the deadline.
Open PhD positions with stated funding in the Netherlands
152 current matching listings
University of Twente
Enschede, Netherlands
PhD position
PhD position on indirect combustion noise; Fluid Mechanics; CFD; Aeroacoustics
14 days leftPaidMechanical Engineering · Energy
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Delft, Netherlands
PhD position
PhD Position Chaotic Sampling for Secure and Sustainable Networked Control Systems
An MSc degree in systems & control, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, applied mathematics, physics, theoretical computer science, or a closely related…
14 days leftPaidRobotics and Automation · Computer Science · Electrical Engineering
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Eindhoven, Netherlands
PhD position
PhD on ‘Experiments and Diagnostics of Iron Electrodeposition’
14 days leftPaidMechanical Engineering · Chemistry · Physics
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Eindhoven, Netherlands
PhD position
PhD in Trustworthy LLM-Enabled Ecosystems: From Requirements to Architecture
15 days leftPaidRobotics and Automation · Business and Management · Humanities
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Rotterdam, Netherlands
PhD position
Docent/(PhD)onderzoeker privaatrechtelijke aansprakelijkheid van Europese havens
16 days leftPaidLaw
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Eindhoven, Netherlands
PhD position
PhD in High-Frequency Transformer Design and Partial Discharge Modeling for Data Centers
16 days leftPaidArtificial Intelligence · Electrical Engineering · Energy
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Rotterdam, Netherlands
PhD position
Docent/(PhD) onderzoeker Herijking van concernaansprakelijkheid
16 days leftPaidBusiness and Management · Law
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Nijmegen, Netherlands
PhD position
PhD Position: Physics-Informed Generative AI for Synthetic Energy Data
You will design and compare deep generative approaches, UAEs, GANs, diffusion models/flow matching, and Gaussian processes for realistic load, generation and voltage time…
16 days leftPaidArtificial Intelligence · Physics · Law
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Leiden, Netherlands
PhD position
Two PhD candidates, Descriptive/Documentary Linguistics in Indonesia
Collecting audio-visual linguistic and cultural data through fieldwork in Indonesia; Transcribing, annotating, analysing and archiving naturalistic language data; Testing…
16 days leftPaidHumanities
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Eindhoven, Netherlands
PhD position
PhD in Hardware Architectures for Physics-Informed AI
16 days leftPaidPhysics · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science
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Delft, Netherlands
PhD position
PhD Position Continuum Two-Phase Flow Modelling of Piping in Dikes
Develop continuum-based two-phase models to predict internal erosion and pipe progression in clay-sand layered dikes. Derive constitutive modelling approaches from…
16 days leftPaidPhysics · Business and Management
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Wageningen, Netherlands
PhD position
PhD: Effects of atmospheric nitrogen deposition on plant and insect diversity
Design and conduct field studies across Northwestern Europe to assess how large- and small-scale gradients in N deposition affect soil chemistry, plant stoichiometry, and…
16 days leftPaidChemistry · Environmental Sciences
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Enschede, Netherlands
PhD position
PhD Position: CO2 Desublimation for Cryogenic Carbon Capture
design, commission and operate a test setup for controlled CO₂ desublimation experiments; perform experiments with CO₂ containing gas mixtures at low temperatures; use…
16 days leftPaidMechanical Engineering · Physics
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Wageningen, Netherlands
PhD position
PhD position in modelling the formation and flooding of coastal peat landscapes
developing, calibrating and evaluating numerical models that couple hydrodynamics, sediment transport, morphology and vegetation dynamics; translating geological and…
16 days leftPaidEnvironmental Sciences
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Rotterdam, Netherlands
PhD position
Lecturer/(PhD) researcher private-law liability position of European ports
16 days leftPaidLaw · Computer Science
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Wageningen, Netherlands
PhD position
PhD position: Trait-based drivers of global plant distributions
Collating plant distributions, functional traits, and environmental data from various sources Setting-up and conducting a greenhouse experiment to assess variation in…
16 days leftPaidEnvironmental Sciences
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Rotterdam, Netherlands
PhD position
Docent/(PhD) onderzoeker (6 jaar) in het departement Law & Tax
Legitimiteit in het belastingrecht als zodanig Legitimiteit en (de)globalisering Legitimiteit en duurzaamheid Legitimiteit en digitalisering
16 days leftPaidLaw
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Wageningen, Netherlands
PhD position
PhD PFAS removal with activated carbon in drinking water treatment
investigating the mechanisms governing competitive adsorption of PFAS and natural organic matter on granular activated carbon; designing and conducting batch and column…
17 days leftPaidInterdisciplinary Research
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Amsterdam, Netherlands
PhD position
PhD student cerebellar morphology
17 days leftPaidMedical Sciences · Neuroscience
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Leiden, Netherlands
PhD position
PhD Position (1 FTE) in the area of Belonging of European Muslims to the EU
Completion of a PhD thesis within four years; Participation in meetings of the project research group; Presentations of intermediate research results at workshops and…
17 days leftPaidHumanities
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Rotterdam, Netherlands
PhD position
PhD Grip op health hacks: Onderzoek naar gezondheidsadvies op sociale media
Het uitvoeren van een multimodale inhoudsanalyse van gevaarlijke online ‘health hacks’ Het ontwerpen en begeleiden van participatieve workshops met jongvolwassen…
17 days leftPaidInterdisciplinary Research
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Wageningen, Netherlands
PhD position
PhD Replacing Chemicals with Electricity: Engineering Local pH Environments
investigate how electrically induced local pH environments develop in electrochemical systems; develop theoretical and computational models to predict local pH conditions…
17 days leftPaidInterdisciplinary Research
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Amsterdam, Netherlands
PhD position
PhD position in Communication Science: Explaining Susceptibility to Health Hacks
Conducting a multimodal content analysis of hazardous online health hacks. Designing and fielding a large-scale panel survey on individual and contextual susceptibility…
17 days leftPaidMedia and Communication · Medical Sciences · Psychology
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's-Gravenhage, Netherlands
PhD position
Promovendus Governance, Vertrouwen en Data-gedreven Duurzaamheidstransities (0,8 - 1,0 fte)
vertrouwen en legitimiteit rond data-gedreven besluitvorming; de manier waarop telers, overheden en andere actoren omgaan met verschillende vormen van kennis en…
19 days leftPaidInterdisciplinary Research
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