Atmospheric science and climate change assessments often focus on winter and summer. In this fully funded PhD position you will instead study the weather of spring and autumn. Your aim is to improve our understanding of (the physics of) the transition seasons, by looking at the atmosphere as a dynamical system in perpetual adjustment to […]
PhD – Position in Language Evolution – Netherlands
The PhD project will focus on testing the social, environmental, and/or cognitive pressures that shape the evolution of human language as well as its ongoing diversification and change in present day. The exact research topic is flexible (under consultation and as long as there is a focus on language evolution and adaptation), meaning that candidates […]
PhD – Position in microbial ecology and health during the first 1000 days of life – Netherlands
This project, called MetaHealth, examines how socio-economic, behavioral, and biological factors within and between families influence oral, metabolic, and systemic health, in an effort to reduce overweight and dental caries in early childhood. Specifically, we focus on the role of the oral and gut microbiome development during the first 1000 days of life in shaping […]
PhD – Position Computationally Efficient Modeling to Evaluate Energy Market Organisation – Netherlands
This PhD position is part of the research project MODES (Market Organisation of the Dutch Energy System), which is funded by the Dutch Research Council within the framework of the National Research Agenda programme. The position is embedded in an interdisciplinary research team composed of researchers in engineering, economics, law and public policy from seven Dutch universities, […]
PhD – Union Politics: Organized Labor in Democracy – Netherlands
Applications are invited for a fully-funded four-year PhD position in international relations at the University of Groningen, focusing on the transnational role of unions and the effects of unionization in the democratic public spheres of the industrialized states of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In the PhD project, jointly supervised by dr. Peter Verovšek (International […]
PhD – The Organization of Innovation for Sustainability Transition – Netherlands
This PhD position is part of an interdisciplinary team of three PhD researchers, one postdoc, and two senior researchers in the project ‘EXTRA’: From EXperiment to sustainable change: TRAnsformative methodologies for innovation and learning. EXTRA is a collaboration between multiple universities and public and private partners to research and advance physical and experimental environments as enabling […]
Employment – Head of Digital Workplace Service – Netherlands
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) is seeking a dynamic and experienced team leader to join the Information Management division as the Head of Digital Workplace Service. This role will report directly to the Head of the Department of Core Services and will be responsible for leading and enhancing our service management and digital workplace environment. […]
The Commission decides to take SPAIN and other countries to the Court of Justice of the EU.
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 […]