The European Commission decided to refer Bulgaria, Spain, Hungary, Netherlands, Austria, Portugal and Finland to the Court of Justice of the European Union for failing to transpose the Directive on Non-Performing Loans (Directive(EU) 2021/2167). The Directive aims to foster the development of a well-functioning secondary market for non-performing loans by establishing rules for the authorisation and supervision of credit purchasers and servicers. […]
EU high-speed rail lines grew to 8 556 km in 2023
In 2023, the EU railway network had 200 947 km of railway lines, with the highest densities being found in and around main cities and other population hubs. The highest railway network density was registered in Czechia, with 123.2 metres of railway lines per km². Other EU countries with high densities included Belgium (119.2 m/km²), Germany (109.5 m/km²) and Luxembourg […]
PhD Position: Investigating Effects of Lifestyle Interventions on Carbohydrate Metabolism
The Department of Human Biology at Maastricht University invites applications for a fully funded PhD position. This project focuses on developing and applying advanced MRI-based metabolic imaging techniques to study how lifestyle interventions, such as exercise and nutrition, affect carbohydrate metabolism in both health and disease, with a focus on cancer patients. The PhD candidate […]
Senior Hydrologist/Project leader, Netherlands
Are you experienced in hydrology and project management with a focus on innovation? Do you have a background in scientific research related to societal challenges for which knowledge of soil-water systems is essential? Are you interested, for example, in development of simulation models and tools like SWAP and Watervision Agriculture? Or would you like to […]
PhD position on Polymeric Friction for Offshore Industry Applications, Netherlands
This doctoral project is part of a larger, multidisciplinary and international project APRIORI: “Active PRoduct-to-Process LearnIng fOR Improving Critical Components Performance” (no. 101073551) funded under the Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions Doctoral Networks within the Horizon Europe Programme of the European Commission. APRIORI gathers universities (KU Leuven, TU Delft, Aalborg University), research institute (Jozef Stefan Institute) and small- […]
Postdoc Position on physics, Netherlands
The Net Zero Industry Act (NZIA), presented for the first time by the European Commission in March 2023, considers the production of green hydrogen to be a strategic industry. Hydrogen could account for 20% of the EU’s energy mix by 2050, including 20-50% of energy demand in transport and 5-20% in the industry. Water electrolysis […]
2 PhD’s on Laboratory experiments on the fundamentals of lightning, Netherlands
This research is part of the ERC Consolidator Grant project Bottled Lightning, which in total comprises four PhD positions and two PostDocs, as well as a large investment in equipment. This project is embedded in the PI-group of Sander Nijdam, called ‘Extreme non-equilibrium plasmas’, while most activities will be located in the Electrical Energy Systems lab at TU/e. This […]
PhD: Agent-based modelling for reconstructing the history of culture & language in Netherlands
The aim of this project is to understand and quantify the roles of sociocultural and biophysical factors in the evolution of linguistic diversity using an agent-based modelling approach. The spatial agent-based model should simulate how and where languages (agents) change, merge, and split over time. You will use linguistics theory in combination with large datasets […]
Assistant Professor of Exoplanets and their stellar environments in the Netherlands
Radboud University is offering a position as an assistant professor on the topic of exoplanets and their stellar environments. Duties of the position The appointee will be expected to encompass plasma physics, stellar structure and evolution, planet formation, and atmospheric chemistry (including laboratory experiments at the FELIX laboratory); develop into a leading role in their […]