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Current PhD vacancies - Collaborative Doctoral Partnerships programme

Doctoral students have the opportunity to carry out between one and two years of their doctoral studies at the JRC. Candidates should apply to the university that publishes the call. 

Peatland mapping at national and European scales

Partnership with: Agroecology Programme, Graduate School of Technical Sciences, Aarhus University, Denmark 

Thematic field: Soil and land use change

Closing date for applications: 15 March 2025

Apply to Aarhus University

The role of psychosocial and behavioral factors for health and health promotion throughout adulthood

Partnership with: Department of Prevention Research and Social Medicine, Institute for Community Medicine of University Medicine Greifswald (UMG), Germany  

Thematic field: Health promotion of NCDs

Closing date for applications: 30 March 2025

Apply to Greifswald University (in German)

Apply in English

The formation and evolution of ion irradiation-induced defects in ferritic/martensitic steels

Partnership with: National Centre Nuclear Research (NCBJ), Poland 

Thematic field: Non-power nuclear and radiological technologies to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals 2030

Closing date for applications: 31 March 2025

Apply to the National Centre for Nuclear Research

Medical radionuclide production (2 positions)

Partnership with: Institute for Nuclear and Radiation Physics (IKS), KU Leuven, Belgium

Thematic field: Nuclear decommissioning and waste management

Closing date for applications: 28 April 2025

Apply to KU Leuven

Environmental footprint of critical and biobased raw materials in product value chains

Partnership with: Department of Materials Engineering & Centre for Economics and Corporate Sustainability, KU Leuven, Belgium

Thematic field: Bioeconomy and forest

Closing date for applications: 30 April 2025

Apply to KU Leuven

Modelling flexible future power systems

Partnership with: Electrical Energy Technologies and Applications (ELECTA), KU Leuven, Belgium

Thematic field: EU Energy transition

Closing date for applications: 9 May 2025

Apply to KU Leuven

Detection of casewise and cellwise outliers using robust statistical methods

Partnership with: Statistics and Data Science of the Mathematics department, KU Leuven, Belgium

Thematic field: Robustness in complex data analysis and statistical modelling

Closing date for applications: 30 May 2025

Apply to KU Leuven