PhD positions in the Netherlands
Find doctoral vacancies from Dutch research organizations and universities, with original application links and visible deadlines.
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As of 22 October 2026, Graduates Corner lists 150 open PhD positions in the Netherlands from 17 organizations.
- Open listings
- 150
- Organizations
- 17
- Closing within 30 days
- 142
- State pay or funding
- 150
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Open PhD positions in the Netherlands
150 current matching listings
University of Twente
Enschede, Netherlands
PhD position
PhD in 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…
3 days leftPaidMechanical Engineering · Physics
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Wageningen, Netherlands
PhD position
PhD 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…
3 days leftPaidEducation · Environmental Sciences
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Rotterdam, Netherlands
PhD position
PhD in Private-Law Liability of European Ports
PhD opportunity at Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands. Private-Law Liability of European Ports.
3 days leftPaidLaw
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Wageningen, Netherlands
PhD position
PhD in 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…
3 days leftPaidEnvironmental Sciences
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Rotterdam, Netherlands
PhD position
PhD in Legitimacy in Tax Law
Legitimiteit in het belastingrecht als zodanig Legitimiteit en (de)globalisering Legitimiteit en duurzaamheid Legitimiteit en digitalisering
3 days leftPaidLaw
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Wageningen, Netherlands
PhD position
PhD in 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…
4 days leftPaidInterdisciplinary Research
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Amsterdam, Netherlands
PhD position
PhD in Cerebellar morphology
PhD opportunity at Erasmus University Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Cerebellar morphology.
4 days leftPaidMedical Sciences · Neuroscience
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Amsterdam, Netherlands
PhD position
PhD in Why Are the Super-Rich So Tax-Averse?
pursue a PhD in the social sciences and participate in the AISSR PhD programme; collect and analyse qualitative and/or quantative research data; work towards a PhD thesis…
4 days leftPaidSocial Sciences · Media and Communication
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Leiden, Netherlands
PhD position
PhD in 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…
4 days leftPaidSocial Sciences
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Rotterdam, Netherlands
PhD position
PhD in Health Hacks: Health Advice on Social Media
Carrying out a multimodal content analysis of dangerous online 'health hacks' Designing and facilitating participatory workshops with young adult social media users and…
4 days leftPaidInterdisciplinary Research
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Wageningen, Netherlands
PhD position
PhD in 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…
4 days leftPaidInterdisciplinary Research
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Amsterdam, Netherlands
PhD position
PhD in Clinical Reasoning and AI: Learning in a Simulated Care Environment
You explore the literature on the current state of the art in the topics above. You write an overall research plan and plans for sub-studies, with the associated ethical…
4 days leftPaidMedical Sciences
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Amsterdam, Netherlands
PhD position
PhD in Cardiac Surgery: Myectomy in the Netherlands
extend the registry with new procedures, in collaboration with local researchers and clinicians in the participating hospitals; collect, analyse and present research data…
4 days leftPaidMedical Sciences
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Delft University of Technology
Delft, Netherlands
PhD position
PhD in Synthesis and Application of Radiation-triggered Block Copolymer Micelles
You have an MSc degree in chemistry, chemical engineering or equivalent You have proven expertise in multistep organic synthesis You have experience in purification and…
4 days leftPaidMaterials Science · Chemistry
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Tilburg, Netherlands
PhD position
PhD in Gambling Harm Prevention
Gambling harm is one of the fastest-growing public health challenges in the Netherlands. More and more people experience psychological, social and financial problems…
4 days leftPaidMedical Sciences · Psychology
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Nijmegen, Netherlands
PhD position
PhD in Implementing Matched Care for Fear of Cancer Recurrence in Oncology Networks
Carrying out doctoral research on implementing matched care for fear of cancer recurrence within oncology care networks; Mapping existing screening, triage, referral and…
4 days leftPaidCancer Research
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Amsterdam, Netherlands
PhD position
PhD 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…
4 days leftPaidMedia and Communication
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Heerlen, Netherlands
PhD position
PhD in Immersive Communication and Patient Decision-Making
As a PhD candidate you study how immersive communication affects patients' experience, information processing and decision-making. You focus on risk perception,…
5 days leftPaidMedia and Communication
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's-Gravenhage, Netherlands
PhD position
PhD in Governance, Trust and Data-Driven Sustainability Transitions
trust and legitimacy around data-driven decision-making; how growers, governments and other actors deal with different forms of knowledge and expertise; governance and…
6 days leftPaidEnvironmental Sciences
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Wageningen, Netherlands
PhD position
PhD in Economics of native species production and rural development in the Cerrado
design and implement large-scale household and farm-level surveys with smallholder farmers in the MATOPIBA region to collect socioeconomic and biodiversity field data;…
6 days leftPaidEconomics
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Utrecht, Netherlands
PhD position
PhD in Haemophilia and Bleeding Disorders
PhD opportunity at UMC Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands. Haemophilia and Bleeding Disorders.
7 days leftPaidInterdisciplinary Research
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Delft, Netherlands
PhD position
PhD in Decision-making Under Uncertainty for Emerging Orphan and Breakthrough Medical Devices
Master’s degree in a relevant field, such as Health Sciences, (Technical) Medicine, Health Policy or Healthcare Management, Public Policy, Innovation Sciences, Management…
7 days leftPaidMedical Sciences
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Amsterdam, Netherlands
PhD position
PhD in NWO Project CERRADO
submission of a PhD thesis within the period of appointment; completion and submission of three article manuscripts to peer-reviewed journals within the period of…
7 days leftPaidHumanities
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Delft, Netherlands
PhD position
PhD in Data-Driven Distributed Game Theory
Analyze the complexity of relevant structured classes of distributed game equilibrium problems. Develop data-driven decomposition methods for structured game equilibrium…
8 days leftPaidMechanical Engineering · Mathematics
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