PhD
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Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam) offers intensive PhD programs of three or four years or part-time PhD programs lasting more than four years. The PhD programs are organized in graduate schools of nine VU faculties. Our PhD candidates become internationally engaged scholars with transferable skills and opportunities to pursue careers within or outside academia.
We provide customized training and mentoring. We emphasize the development of research and professional skills, such as the ability to work in teams. In short, we aim to develop committed and responsible academics and future professionals who continually explore and push the boundaries of existing knowledge. Our doctorates are internationally oriented, multi- and interdisciplinary, curious and results-oriented, and have an impact on science, society and economy.
Earning a PhD from VU Amsterdam leads to a wide range of careers: our graduates become scientists and researchers at universities and colleges; non-profit companies and think tanks; consulting firms and corporations.
At VU Amsterdam, we have two types of PhD candidates
Internal PhD
Internal PhDs are paid employees who have an employment contract with VU Amsterdam.
External PhD
External PhD do their PhD research at VU Amsterdam with foreign funding or scholarship, or are self-funded professionals or students.
Our PhD vacancies
PhD: Moral Dilemmas and Ethics of Crisis Leadership
- 1 / 1
- Faculty of Religion and Theology
- PhD
- MSc
- Closes on25-05-2025
- Publishing date28-04-2025
Passionate about ethics and crisis management? Join Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam as a PhD student in the NWO funded Adapt! program. Study moral dilemmas in crisis leadership and collaborate with top experts. Apply now!
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PhD project on Logics and Ontologies
- 1 / 1
- Faculty of Science
- PhD
- MSc
- Closes on23-05-2025
- Publishing date28-04-2025
Do you love logics? Do you want to solve fundamental open problems in computational logic that could contribute to a more explainable AI? Then join our team as a 4-year full-time PhD candidate and work for our project on concept interpolation!
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PhD Position in Human-Robot-Bonding
- 1 / 1
- Faculty of Social Sciences
- PhD
- MSc
- Closes on01-06-2025
- Publishing date28-04-2025
Looking for a multidisciplinary challenge and to participate in an exciting team working at the forefront of relating to and communicating with social robots? Please, see below and apply at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
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PhD position: Multimodal Alignment with Common Sense
- 1 / 1
- Faculty of Science
- PhD
- MSc
- Closes on19-05-2025
- Publishing date24-04-2025
Are you a strong AI MSc graduate passionate and knowledgeable about multimodal learning and reasoning? Then keep reading, this fully funded PhD position at Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam may be for you!
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PhD position in microbial ecology and health during the first 1000 days of life
- 0.8 / 1
- Academisch Centrum Tandheelkunde Amsterdam
- PhD
- MSc
- Closes on15-05-2025
- Publishing date18-04-2025
We are seeking a highly motivated and talented individual who is interested in contributing to our understanding of the complexity of the microbial ecosystems in relation to oral and metabolic health and disease.
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PHD Stress in Action
- 1 / 1
- Faculty of Behavioural and Movement Sciences
- PhD
- MSc
- Closes on18-05-2025
- Publishing date18-04-2025
The experience of stress is an inherent aspect of daily-life. However, can we validly measure this, and how and under what circumstances does it contribute to disease? We're looking for a PhD student for our exciting Stress in Action project
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