Cities are expanding everywhere, offering challenges (traffic, pollution) but also opportunities (habitat, food, shelter) to wild plants and animals. Recent research has revealed astonishing biological dynamics, leading to rapid change of some species in the urban ecosystem. But while academic and societal interest in urban green spaces – which are considered to provide vital ecological, … Read more
In this interdisciplinary project, we create models of the world, conduct visual data analysis to understand them better, and use machine learning models to yield optimized Brain-computer interfaces (BCI), visualization representations and interfaces, as well as robotic task planning. This overarching research direction is split into two PhD project topics. PhD Project 1: Context-specific Grasping … Read more
We are offering a 38-month Postdoc position (0.8 FTE) within the project “Migrant generations in the digital society: a multi-level study of socio-cultural factors influencing digital inclusion”. The DigiMig project is funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) with a five-year Vidi grant (Principal Investigator: Dr Çigdem Bozdag). The project aims to analyze the socio-cultural … Read more
For the HyTROS project awarded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) on hydrogen transport, offshore and storage, a PhD position for the period is available in the context of modelling hydrogen embrittlement of pipeline steels. In this project, the University of Groningen, in collaboration with TU Delft, will unravel the fundamental origin of hydrogen-induced fatigue … Read more
The Heinemann Lab at the University of Groningen (Netherlands) aims to understand how cellular metabolism functions and how metabolism controls other cellular processes. The lab has recently found that cellular metabolism does not operate beyond a certain Gibbs energy dissipation rate (Niebel et al, 2019, Nature Metabolism). This observation could explain why cancer cells use … Read more
We are looking for a PhD candidate in the group of Prof. A. J. Minnaard, who leads a natural product synthesis group at the Stratingh Institute for Chemistry (see: minnaardgroup.nl). Within the framework of his Ammodo Science Award, the position focusses on the total synthesis of membrane components of M. tuberculosis. In an ongoing collaboration … Read more
The Graduate School of the Faculty of Economics and Business at University of Groningen has a fully funded PhD position on the topic “From the Boardroom to the Balance Sheet: How Behavioral Dynamics at the Top Shape Corporate Transparency”. Top-level organizational actors—such as CEOs, CFOs, and board members—play a pivotal role in shaping what organizations … Read more
We are offering a 48-month PhD position (full time, 1.0 FTE) within the project ‘Democratic Literacy and Humor’ (DELIAH), funded by a four-year Horizon Europe grant (HORIZON-CL2-2024-DEMOCRACY-01-08). In particular, the successful applicant will work on a sub-project focusing on humor, free speech jurisprudence and online content moderation, under the supervision of Dr Alberto Godioli. Building … Read more
Our intricate social brain is implicated in a range of brain disorders, where social dysfunction emerges as a common neuropsychiatric feature cutting across diagnostic boundaries in anxiety disorders, major depressive disorders, Alzheimer’s disease and Schizophrenia. Understanding the underlying neurocircuitry mechanisms responsible for social dysfunction and exploring avenues for its restoration will present a transformative and … Read more
This is a two-year research-oriented postdoc position in the project “Working democracy” under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Lisa Herzog. The task of the postdoc is mainly to work on the following work package: Subproject 4:This subproject, conducted by a postdoctoral researcher, will analyze the history of democratic thought since the 18th century with a … Read more