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PhD position with the StudentLines initiative: educational pathways and socio-economic background – barriers and opportunities

The Faculty of Spatial Sciences at the University of Groningen offers a four-year PhD position on the StudentLines initiative which is fully funded by Nationaal Programma Groningen.

The candidate will join a lively and highly multidisciplinary project team consisting of PhD candidates and (senior) researchers, spanning the University of Groningen, Hanze University of Applied Science and vocational education institutes in the region.

StudentLines is a large-scale, collaborative and student-centered research and data infrastructure project co-developed by the University of Groningen and the Hanze University of Applied Science. The ultimate goal is to contribute to the quality of education through research, promote educational innovation, monitor interventions and map the interconnections between educational institutions and the professional field (educational careers, progression paths). The project features PhD projects which will contribute, through pilot studies, on key elements of this infrastructure of data and people. They will investigate how StudentLines can engage researchers, educators, policymakers, regional stakeholders and above all, students, to transform how data is used to support students across their entire learning journey.

  • Faculty of Spatial Sciences
  • 4 March 2026
  • €3.059 - €3.881

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PhD

PhD in Design and Simulation of Distributed Autonomous Control of a Robot Swarm for Inspection Applications

Over the past two decades, the field of swarm and multi-robot systems has made significant progress in devel oping ground, aerial, and aquatic robot collectives that exhibit diverse collective behaviours. A key open challenge, however, is the deployment of large groups of resource-constrained robots that can sense, process data, and make decisions locally while operating in complex environments. This PhD project focuses on the design, implementa tion, and experimental evaluation of a new generation of miniaturized mobile robots, equipped with sensing, onboard computation, and wireless communication, that can operate in coordinated groups for sensing and inspection tasks.

  • University of Groningen
    • 1 FTE
  • 6 March 2026
  • €3.059 - €3.881

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PhD in Design and Experimental Evaluation of a Robot Swarm for Inspection Applications

Over the past two decades, the field of swarm and multi-robot systems has made significant progress in devel oping ground, aerial, and aquatic robot collectives that exhibit diverse collective behaviours. A key open challenge, however, is the deployment of large groups of resource-constrained robots that can sense, process data, and make decisions locally while operating in complex environments. This PhD project focuses on the design, implementation, and experimental evaluation of a new generation of miniaturized mobile robots, equipped with sensing, onboard computation, and wireless communication, that can operate in coordinated groups for sensing and inspection tasks.

  • University of Groningen
    • 1 FTE
  • 6 March 2026
  • €3.059 - €3.881

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Academiegebouw van de RuG in Groningen

Collection manager Documentation centre Dutch Political Parties

Are you interested in politics? Do you have an eye for heritage? And would you enjoy working in a small, enthusiastic team to unlock, preserve and innovate the growing collection of the Documentation centre for Dutch Political Parties (DNPP)? Then we are looking for you!

The DNPP collection contains both physical and digital collections of programmes, brochures and magazines from political parties and their affiliated institutions, as well as academic and other literature about these parties. Political and cultural heritage such as posters, photographs and party political paraphernalia is also collected. In addition, the DNPP manages a number of party archives. With this broad collection profile, the DNPP offers researchers, journalists and other users from home and abroad a variety of source material. 

  • University of Groningen Library
    • 0.8 - 1 FTE
  • 2 March 2026
  • €3.546 - €5.538

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PhD Data-Driven Insights into Healthcare Quality and Affordability

The Faculty of Economics and Business offers an inspiring study and working environment for students and employees. International accreditation enables the Faculty to assess performance against the highest international standards. It also creates an exciting environment of continuous improvement. FEB’s programmes, academic staff and research do well on various excellence ranking lists.

FEBRI, the graduate school and research institute of the Faculty of Economics and Business has available two PhD positions within the project Data-Driven Insights into Healthcare Quality and Affordability.

  • Faculty of Economics and Business
    • 2 FTE
  • 16 March 2026
  • €3.059 - €3.881

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PhD

PhD Understanding the Paradoxical Effects of AI on Organisational Performance

The Faculty of Economics and Business offers an inspiring study and working environment for students and employees. International accreditation enables the Faculty to assess performance against the highest international standards. It also creates an exciting environment of continuous improvement. FEB’s programmes, academic staff and research do well on various excellence ranking lists.

FEBRI, the graduate school and research institute of the Faculty of Economics and Business, in cooperation with Macquerie University, Australia, has available one PhD position for the project Understanding the Paradoxical Effects of AI on Organisational Performance.

  • Faculty of Economics and Business
    • 1 FTE
  • 16 March 2026
  • €3.059 - €3.881

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Postdoctoral researcher "Subjective well-being and income"

Are you an empirically oriented economist interested in income, happiness, and life satisfaction? Do you want to work with large-scale international survey data and contribute to high-quality replication research in the economics of happiness?

The Faculty of Economics and Business invites applications for a postdoctoral researcher to work on an externally funded project on income and subjective well-being, supported by the Open Science NL Replication Studies programme of the Dutch Research Council (NWO). The project examines the relationship between income, happiness, and life satisfaction using large-scale cross-country survey data.

You will work closely with Prof. Milena Nikolova and focus on replicating influential research in the economics of happiness using data from the Gallup World Poll and the Global Flourishing Study. The position carries no teaching obligations.

  • Faculty of Economics and Business
  • 22 February 2026
  • €4.728 - €6.433

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Two PhD positions in Speech and Language Technology for Low Saxon varieties

Recent advances in machine learning have led to substantial improvements in speech and language technology. These advances have mostly been focused on languages with many resources available, such as English. However, there are several challenges for lesser-resourced languages. In this project, the scope will be on the regional Low Saxon language, specifically focusing on the varieties of Gronings and Drents, which are spoken in the North of the Netherlands.

  • Faculty of Arts
    • 2 FTE
  • 28 February 2026
  • €3.059 - €3.881

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PhDs Africa @ Work: Transformation of employment 1920 - 2020

The Faculty of Economics and Business offers an inspiring study and working environment for students and employees. International accreditation enables the Faculty to assess performance against the highest international standards. It also creates an exciting environment of continuous improvement. FEB’s programmes, academic staff and research do well on various excellence ranking lists.

FEBRI, the graduate school and research institute of the Faculty of Economics and Business has available two PhD positions for the project Africa @ Work: Transformation of employment 1920 – 2020 embedded within the ERC Consolidator Grant project AWORK

  • Faculty of Economics and Business
    • 2 FTE
  • 2 March 2026
  • €3.059 - €3.881

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Academiegebouw van de RuG in Groningen Post-doc Researcher

Postdoctoral researcher in Speech and Language Technology for Low Saxon varieties

Within the Center for Groningen Language and Culture (CGTC) we are looking for a postdoctoral researcher (1.0 FTE, 4 years) on speech and language technology for Gronings (and Drents). The goal of this postdoctoral position is to investigate how low-resource speech and language technology can be developed and improved, specifically focusing on the Groningen, and Drenthe (and more generally, the Low Saxon) varieties. Consequently, this position will entail doing high-quality research into how low-resource varieties can benefit optimally from the most recent language and speech technology advancements and/or developing new approaches for this purpose. The position also entails helping (to supervise) PhD students with the development and improvement of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems, text-to-speech (TTS) systems, and automatic translation systems, as well as making these available for public use. The implemented technology will be integrated into the MOI Grunnen | Drenthe project. In this project learning material and an integrative approach is developed for teaching primary school children the regional language. Additional tasks for the successful applicant may involve helping to collect acoustic or textual data for these varieties (e.g., using custom online interfaces, or using our state-of-the-art mobile laboratory SPRAAKLAB), and attempting to acquire external research funding benefitting both the project and personal development. You will become a member of both the GroNLP group and Speech Lab Groningen and as such, willingness to help with public engagement activities is also desirable. 

  • Faculty of Arts
    • 1 FTE
  • 28 February 2026
  • €3.546 - €4.728

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Postdoctoral position Sustainable Logistics: Planning and Routing

Within the Department of Operations, a post-doc position is available on the topic of sustainable logistics with a focus on planning and routing decisions.

  • Faculty of Economics and Business
    • 1 FTE
  • 2 March 2026
  • €4.728 - €6.433

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PhD positions in Economics & Business

The Faculty of Economics and Business offers an inspiring study and working environment for students and employees. International accreditation enables the Faculty to assess performance against the highest international standards. It also creates an exciting environment of continuous improvement. FEB’s programmes, academic staff and research do well on various excellence ranking lists.

FEBRI, the graduate school and research institute of the Faculty of Economics and Business has 9 PhD positions in the field of Economics & Business available.

  • Faculty of Economics and Business
    • 9 FTE
  • 23 February 2026
  • €3.059 - €3.881

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Assistant Professor in Modern English Literature and Culture

The Faculty of Arts at the University of Groningen invites applications for the position of Assistant Professor of Modern English Literature and Culture. The successful candidate will be a member of the Modern English Literature and Culture chair group, a self-contained teaching and research unit. The division between teaching/admin and research is 60/40. An ability to teach contemporary literature, creative writing and/or publishing and book studies is an advantage. We look for a colleague who will bring new elements to our curriculum that will appeal to students.

  • Faculty of Arts
    • 1 FTE
  • 30 March 2026
  • €4.728 - €6.433

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PhD JUST TRANSITIONS. Re-Pairing Wetlands: Artistic Research for Just Multi-Species Relations in the Northern Netherlands

For “JUST TRANSITIONS. Re-Pairing Wetlands: Artistic Research for Just Multi-Species Relations in the Northern Netherlands”, we are seeking a highly motivated PhD candidate with an active artistic practice and research experience in academic contexts to join the University of Groningen for a fully-funded PhD research project.

This PhD project is part of the NWO funded Consortium JUST ART. Creating Common Grounds for Climate Justice Through Artistic Research, a six-year project on climate justice and artistic research in the Caribbean and European parts of the Kingdom of The Netherlands. The project is funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) and led by the University of Groningen. It offers 10 PhD positions at six universities in collaboration with the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO) and four universities of applied sciences. JUST ART PhD candidates will generate new knowledge and critically assess approaches that integrate scientific insights with artistic research to address climate justice. JUST ART PhDs will study and develop concrete cases to learn how art and artistic research can be embedded in ongoing and emerging work on climate justice. They will enhance expertise and skills to take artistic and art-based transformative action on climate justice and will contribute to theoretical frameworks, common methods, educational toolkits and knowledge sharing platforms in co-creation with project partners. For more information on the project: https://justart.info/

  • Faculty of Arts
    • 0.8 - 1 FTE
  • 15 March 2026
  • €3.059 - €3.881

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Postdoc - Human-AI symbiosis in manufacturing work environments

The Faculty of Economics and Business is offering a post-doctoral research position on Human-AI symbiosis in manufacturing work environments. 

  • Faculty of Economics and Business
    • 0.8 - 1 FTE
  • 1 March 2026
  • €4.728 - €6.433

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Post-doc Researcher

Postdoctoral Researcher - Designing a Digital Twin for Educational Logistics in Secondary Education

Within the Department of Operations, a post-doc position is available on the topic of designing a digital twin for educational logistics. A paradigm shift is required in the organization of the logistics operations of educational processes to achieve a high quality situation where any learner at any time based on their own learning speed, level and ambition can acquire the right part of a specific course in a cost-efficient way.

 

This postdoc position is part of the research project “Educational logistics for secondary education”. In the next phase of this project we are going to guide several schools in making the transition towards more customized education enabled by efficient and effective logistics processes. We will work with the schools in a design-based innovation trajectory.

 

  • Faculty of Economics and Business
    • 1 FTE
  • 3 March 2026
  • €4.728 - €6.433

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Research technician Stratingh Institute for Chemistry

The position we offer will be embedded in the Stratingh Institute for Chemistry, which focuses on research in molecular and supramolecular chemistry, with an overarching impact on biology, chemical engineering, and physics based on fundamental organic and inorganic chemistry. The Stratingh Institute has an (inter-)national excellent position in synthetic chemistry and catalysis in the Dutch chemical landscape.

  • Faculty of Science and Engineering
    • 0.8 - 1 FTE
  • 1 March 2026
  • €3.708 - €5.057

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PhD IntensifiedCO2

A PhD position is available for a four-year term as part of the recently awarded ERC Starting Grant for the IntensifiedCO2 project. The main objective of this project is to develop intensified processes for CO2 conversion into sustainable synthetic fuels via cobalt-catalysed Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis (FTS), based on advanced catalysis and reactor engineering concepts

  • University of Groningen
    • 1 FTE
  • 28 February 2026
  • €3.059 - €3.881

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Postdoc in Energy systems modelling and optimization

Are you passionate about shaping the future of energy? We’re looking for an energetic Postdoctoral Researcher to join us in collaborative, leading-edge projects within expansive energy consortia. The focus involves expertise in energy modeling, optimization and analyzing diverse energy mixes, primarily emphasizing hydrogen-based systems.

  • Faculty of Economics and Business
    • 1 FTE
  • 2 March 2026
  • €3.546 - €6.433

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Research Technician in Mass Spectrometry (1.0 FTE)

Are you a skilled and motivated research technician with expertise in analytical chemistry and mass spectrometry? Do you want to contribute to cutting-edge research in single-cell proteomics, deep visual proteomics, and mass spectrometry imaging? Join the Analytical Biochemistry (AB) group at the University of Groningen and become part of a dynamic, multidisciplinary team driving innovation in omics research.

  • Faculty of Science and Engineering
    • 1 FTE
  • 28 February 2026
  • €3.382 - €4.484

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Academiegebouw van de RuG in Groningen Post-doc Researcher

Postdoc Understanding micro-dynamics to de-escalate online discourse

The Social Psychology Group of the University of Groningen invites applications for a postdoctoral researcher position. This new position is part of the Vidi project of Namkje Koudenburg “The conversational dynamics of polarization: bottom-up drivers of societal division and democratic resilience”, funded by NWO. The successful candidate will work together with Prof. Koudenburg and Prof. Mike Huiskes.

Polarization is one of the most urgent challenges facing Western democracies today. The Vidi-project investigates how conversational dynamics contribute to radical polarization, and how they can be harnessed to promote healthier democratic discourse. This part of the project focuses on online conversations. Building on social-psychological theorizing, but integrating insights from political, cultural, and communication studies, this project aims to analyse how micro-level dynamics in everyday conversations shape perceptions of polarization and influence public discourse. The core aims are to explain the principles of bottom-up polarization and develop guidelines for de-escalating discussions on online platforms. Through partnerships with government bodies and media platforms, the applicant will co-develop interventions to improve democratic discourse—particularly in online environments.

The postdoc will work on two sub-projects. Sub-project 1 assesses polarized conversational dynamics in existing datasets of online text-based conversations in The Netherlands and the United States on immigration. We are interested in how perceptions of polarization impact conversational dynamics. Using discourse analysis (DA), we will analyze positioning, alignment and sequence of interactional turns, as well as the construction of group identity through the use of categorization devices. Unique to this project is the integrated approach in which micro-analytic practices identified with DA are related to self-reported moralization and polarization—attitudinal, structural, and affective.

Sub-project 2 examines interventions to de-escalate online discussions. In two studies, we experimentally manipulate conversational dynamics that disrupt flow and signal conflict in online interactions to improve constructive discourse. We collaborate with an existing online discussion platform.

  • Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences
    • 0.8 FTE
  • 28 February 2026
  • €3.546 - €5.538

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