Leiden University in Netherlands invites application for vacant PhD, Postdocs and Academic Positions, it is the oldest institution in the Netherlands.
The Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA) of Leiden University is inviting applications for the position of European and International Grants Officer to work as part of the Institute’s Research Support Team (RST). The successful candidate will work closely with the Senior Grant Manager, the other members of the RST, institute management and with relevant financial and administrative contacts at the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs (FGGA) as well as Leiden University Research and Impact Services (LURIS) to advance, support and guide the Institute’s acquisition and implementation of research and in particular its European and international funding streams.
The candidates should have a Master’s degree in synthetic chemistry, polymer chemistry or Materials science with a strong background in polymer or organic synthesis, ideally with experience in the polymerization of 2-oxazolines and/or NCAs. Moreover, knowledge or experience regarding characterization techniques (MALDI-TOF-MS, light scattering, SEM/TEM, Fluorescence (e.g. FRET)) is required. Besides well-founded chemical expertise, a keen interest in the application of material science to their biological evaluation and interest in therapeutic needs is expected. We are looking for team players that are capable to independently plan and execute their research tasks within an interdisciplinary project, which combines chemists, physicists, biologists and clinicians. Candidates should have the ability to think creatively and combine an excellent command of the English language with strong communication skills. Highly motivated students are strongly encouraged to apply.
The Institute for History seeks to expand its academic staff by appointment of an university lecturer with teaching and research expertise in the field of Europe in Global Affairs. The lecturer will teach courses as needed in the History programme, the European Union Studies track of the MA International Relations and the ‘Europe’ specialization within the BA International Studies and s/he will participate in the research programme ‘History and International Studies, 1900 – present’ of the Institute for History.
The lecturer will be primarily responsible for research and teaching on Europe in Global Affairs, in one or more of the following thematic areas: EU external relations, EU and European history, culture and human rights, international environmental issues.
Within the Liberal Arts & Sciences international honours programme of Leiden University College (LUC), we offer an assistant professor position focused on educational innovation and learning. You will be part of a thriving research and teaching community, that is expanding partially with projects initiated in the national 2022 Social Science Sector Programme. Part of the Sector Programme focuses on Educational Sciences, aiming to address major challenges in the educational sector. LUC will contribute to the SSH theme ‘inspiration to learn’ by doing research and developing evidence-based tools to promote inspiring and active learning in Higher Education.
University Lecturer (UD) African Studies22-536 12541Humanities, Institute for History
The Institute for History at Leiden University invites applications for a University Lecturer (UD) in African Studies. The Faculty of Humanities, of which the Institute for History is part, develops teaching and research in relation to the advancement of the digital. Our lifeworld is changing with the spread of digitization in all aspects of life. Critical analysis of this development is a study field at the core of the humanities.
XR Research Programmer22-535 12522Social and Behavioural Sciences
At the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, scientists are increasingly making use of the possibilities offered by immersive technologies to research emotional and physical responses of users. In addition, we are expanding our VR lab rooms as part of a new-state-of-the-art research facility which will be available to the larger SSH (Social Sciences and Humanities) community at the University of Leiden.
The successful candidate will work in the context of the pan-European PARC project, co-funded by the EU, with partners from academia, research organizations, government and small to major industries throughout Europe. The PARC project aims to support EU and national chemical risk assessment and risk management bodies with new data, knowledge, methods, networks, and skills to address current, emerging, and novel chemical safety challenges.
The research group of Prof. Bob van de Water aims to unravel cell signaling programs that underlie adverse xenobiotic-induced adverse response as well as anticancer drug resistance. In particular, high throughput transcriptomics analysis is applied with innovative co-regulated gene network analysis thus contributing to a system toxicology approach in qualifying and quantifying adverse responses. While co-regulated gene networks have been established for several in vitro and in vivo target organs there is a lack in the translation of these approaches to the human in vivo setting. In this project the candidate will actively participate to establish co-regulated gene networks for human target organs and relevant cancers based on available public data as well as new transcriptomics data from liver and kidney biopsy biobanks available at Dutch clinical centers. Gene network associations with disease state and progression as well as systematic preservation of gene networks between in vitro and human in vivo will be part of the work. Moreover, the overall applicability of the tools established in the context of (pre)clinical safety assessment will be determined in the context of target organ toxicity and non-genotoxic carcinogenesis and cancer progression.
The postdoc will produce transgenic iPSCs and mice to investigate the role of mammalian long noncoding RNA genes that are involved in stress-induced complexes that protect cells from protein and DNA damage. The project will deliver answers on the ability of cells to withstand prolonged stress in relation to animal lifespan. The multispecies stem cell approach will open new avenues for evolution and genetics.
Assistant Professor of Law & Society (0,8 – 1,0 fte)22-527 12489Law
As an Assistant Professor of Sociology of Law, you have a broad interest in the field of sociology of law/law & society/legal anthropology. You will provide sociological education in both Dutch and English at bachelor’s and/or master’s level to (honours) students of criminology, students of law and sociology of law at Leiden University, as well as to students of Leiden University College in The Hague. You will also act as supervisor of (bachelor and/or master’s) theses and as a mentor for a group of students of the Master’s in Law & Society. Furthermore, your research must fit in with the University-wide and interdisciplinary research programme Social Citizenship & Migration (https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/social-citizenship-and-migration ) and have a strong socio-legal and/or legal anthropological signature in terms of methods and theoretical approach. You therefore have experience in conducting empirical research using qualitative research methods.
Plasma surface interactions (PSI) are of relevance in many industrial applications. PSI-models currently used in engineering are empirically motivated and parameterized based on prototypical lab experiments. Consequently, they lack important chemical insights at the atomic scale as well as transferability. In principle, state-of-the-art electronic structure calculations based on density functional theory (DFT) are able to accurately describe all the aforementioned atomic-scale phenomena in a material-specific fashion. In practice, however, their high computational cost limits such calculations to very small length and time scales (nano meters and nano seconds, respectively). Coarse-graining the effect of the electrons on the chemical interactions into simplified interatomic potentials based on analytical expressions with a plethora of material-specific parameters allows to reduce the computational effort, but can also significantly limit the accuracy – in particular when it comes to describing the making and breaking of chemical bonds. Machine-learning-based (ML-based) interatomic potentials have been demonstrated to overcome these limitations for particular systems and thus scale-up DFT-quality models to length and time scale that are interesting for modeling PSI. The project aims at bridging the gap towards applications in an industrial setting and is carried out in close collaboration with ASML.
Plasma surface interactions (PSI) are of relevance in many industrial applications. PSI-models currently used in engineering are empirically motivated and parameterized based on prototypical lab experiments. Consequently, they lack important chemical insights at the atomic scale as well as transferability. In principle, state-of-the-art electronic structure calculations based on density functional theory (DFT) are able to accurately describe all the aforementioned atomic-scale phenomena in a material-specific fashion. In practice, however, their high computational cost limits such calculations to very small length and time scales (nano meters and nano seconds, respectively). Coarse-graining the effect of the electrons on the chemical interactions into simplified interatomic potentials based on analytical expressions with a plethora of material-specific parameters allows to reduce the computational effort, but can also significantly limit the accuracy – in particular when it comes to describing the making and breaking of chemical bonds. Machine-learning-based (ML-based) interatomic potentials have been demonstrated to overcome these limitations for particular systems and thus scale-up DFT-quality models to length and time scale that are interesting for modeling PSI. The project aims at bridging the gap towards applications in an industrial setting and is carried out in close collaboration with ASML.
The PhD candidate will work on the development of a Multiome iPSC assay for standardization and acceleration of iPSC quality assessment for pluripotency, differentiation potential, and genomic stability. The project also offers the PhD candidate to acquire an expertise in bioinformatics data analysis, namely in single-cell transcriptomics and epigenomics analysis. The candidate will be embedded in the research group of Prof.dr. M. Drukker, focused on stem cells technologies in order to create novel models for human disease and drug development.
The aim of your PhD project is to provide fundamental knowledge regarding the contribution of aged adaptive immunity to cardiovascular disease. You will search for new targets to dampen pro-atherogenic T- and B cell immunity to extend health span and inhibit progression of atherosclerosis. The project will involve in vitro and in vivo experiments in which you will modulate T- and B cells and identify novel druggable targets to inhibit atherosclerosis. You will perform flow cytometry and transcriptomics (single cell RNA-sequencing, TCR/BCR sequencing) to characterize aged adaptive immunity in both experimental mouse models and samples obtained from cardiovascular disease patients.
Are you a highly-motivated aspiring PhD students interested in pursuing cutting-edge experimental research in the area of quantum transport in an der Waals heterostructures? Are you interested in asking fundamental questions in the area of emerging quantum states driven by proximity effect? We have openings for 2 PhD positions at Dr. Semonti Bhattacharyya’s group in Leiden Institute of Physics (LION).
The Institute of Environmental Sciences of Leiden University is looking for a PhD student on the topic of “development of nitrogen atmosphere – biosphere exchange models“. This project is carried out in close cooperation with the Meteorology and Air Quality Group of Wageningen University. The project is part of the National Reactive Nitrogen Knowledge Programme (NKS). This programme aims to improve estimates of the deposition of nitrogen on nature areas in the Netherlands.
The Institute of Environmental Sciences of Leiden University is looking for a PhD student on the topic of “use of satellite observations of atmospheric ammonia to better understand the emission and deposition of nitrogen”. This project will use satellite observations to improve estimates of emissions, concentrations and deposition of nitrogen in the Netherlands. The project is part of the National Reactive Nitrogen Knowledge Programme (NKS). This programme aims to improve estimates of the deposition of nitrogen on nature areas in the Netherlands.
The group is seeking to broaden its scope and strengthen its expertise in NLP. There is a large interest among master students to do thesis projects in NLP. The successful candidate will be a senior member of the TMR group and will independently supervise bachelor and master students. The new position has a good balance between teaching and research, giving the candidate time to write research proposals and build their own research line.
The Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML) offers a new position on environmental processes and process-based ecotoxicology. Our general aim is to perform excellent scientific as well as societal relevant research, and thus we focus on fate and impact assessments for advanced materials of the future, emerging compounds and those substances that are under debate. We have a well-established ecotoxicology group for which we are searching for a colleague to perform research as well as to participate in teaching.
Leiden University is seeking an enthusiastic and well-qualified postdoctoral researcher in network science, a field also referred to as complex networks or social network analysis. Unique about this 3-year position, is that there is no specific application area or granted project underlying this position. Instead, candidates are expected to bring a strong interest and experience in the fundamental methods and/or algorithms in network science. This means that the candidate can to a large extent freely determine the scope of research of this 3-year position, as long as it falls within the scope of network science research. Candidates with an interest in (applications in) social networks, economic/corporate networks and scientific collaboration and citation networks, are particularly invited to apply. In case of doubt or questions about suitability of your work for this position, feel very welcome to reach out to dr. Frank Takes (f.w.takes@liacs.leidenuniv.nl) before formally applying.
Assistant Professor Machine Translation22-497 12427Humanities, Centre for Linguistics
Leiden University is looking for an assistant professor to conduct research and teach undergraduate and graduate courses in Machine Translation in Leiden.
The lecturer will hold a position within the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics and teach courses as needed in the BA programme Linguistics, the MA programme Linguistics (specialization Computational Linguistics and specialization Translation), and the Minor programme Translation.
The Metabolomics & Analytics Centre (MAC) at the Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research (LACDR), Netherlands, wants to hire an Assistant Professor (Metabolomics & Novel technologies). This position comprises research and teaching. The research will be at the interface between Engineering and Metabolomics, with a focus on developing high-throughput and miniaturized analytical technologies to address challenges such as large numbers of (volume-limited) samples for mass-spectrometry based metabolomics. Your work will include the development of novel approaches and technologies for sample preparation modules embedded in automated workflows. You will integrate these technological innovations in metabolomics workflows and applications. You will do this research in collaboration with other researchers in the Metabolomics & Analytics Centre, and you will (co-)supervise PhD students and MSc students. In terms of Education, your task will be to contribute to the educational programs of LACDR, which include Bachelor and Master programs in Biopharmaceutical Sciences (BPS). These programs train students at the leading edge of drug-design and fundamental research of new drugs, optimization of existing drugs, and personalized medicine. You will be involved in the successful management of the Metabolomics & Analytics Centre by contributing to supervision, group meetings, publications, grant proposals.
Assistant Professor of Management & Organisation (1.0 fte)22-489 12423Law
The Department of Business Studies (Leiden Law School) is expanding and therefore looking for two colleagues for the position of Assistant Professor to strengthen its research and teaching.
We are an interdisciplinary department. We teach and conduct research in several domains, such as entrepreneurship, organisational behaviour, marketing, finance, leadership, strategy, and decision making. In addition, the department contributes to the national program (“Sectorplan”) on Empirical Legal Studies, which focuses on the intersection between law and behavioural sciences.
This position is building on the Programme Social Resilience and Security — an interdisciplinary, interfaculty collaboration, bringing together key expertise on transgressive behaviours across social research disciplines and key societal stakeholders. We team up with researchers from governance, developmental psychology, child studies, clinical psychology, criminal law, archeology, and humanities. One pillar of the project focuses on suicide and suicide prevention; this project seeks to study suicide from psychology, public health, and violence studies perspectives, using a range of methodologies. The Assistant Professor will be a key member of the team. The position involves substantial research assessing risk and resilience in suicide.
The Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA) of Leiden University is inviting applications for the position of Assistant Professor. This position is situated within Leiden University’s Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA), part of the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs (FGGA) and based in The Hague.
You will be part of a thriving research and teaching community, that is expanding partially with projects initiated in the national 2022 Social Science Sector Programme.
We are hiring a PhD student who will work on a project that is collaboration between WUR and Leiden University at the interface between soil ecology, biogeochemistry and microbiology to understand how the ecology and biology of soil microbial communities interact with physico-chemical soil processes to shape the dynamics of soil organic matter and the carbon it contains.
Your main responsibility is to carry out research independently and in collaboration with the partners of the H2Steel consortium. The EU-funded consortium H2Steel aims to assess the viability and environmental impacts of Green H2 and circular bio-coal from biowaste technologies for cost-competitive sustainable Steel. The solutions to be assessed aim at supporting the green transition of the European Steel sector, and it is based on a set of promising and innovative technological innovations. The consortium aims to construct biomethane pilot plants to produce green hydrogen (H2) and bio-coal to be used in steel manufacturing while ensuring the valorization of waste streams. The position is based in Leiden with some international travel expected.
Social protection systems can do more than what they achieve today by constructively addressing future transformations’ effects on social inclusion, cohesion, and political support at the national and European levels. Notably, today, each new environmental, health or economic crisis stirs up discussion on European welfare states’ role, responsibilities, and beneficiaries. Which workers should be protected, and to what extent should companies be covered for their risks? Conflicts about visions of the goals of social protection policies at the national and the EU-level represent increasingly sharp political divides that can challenge democratic systems. How the EU and member states respond to such contentious and complex transformations will clearly impact social cohesion and governability, and thus, their capacity to respond to new challenges in the future. TransEuroWorkS responds to such issues by providing new knowledge on political attitudes towards social protection systems to ensure better political sustainability of new and existing policies.
Leiden University invites applications for a University Lecturer in Comparative Literatures of the Middle East: Modern Hebrew, to begin 1 January 2023. This position is situated in the Leiden Institute for Area Studies. We are looking for a colleague with a thorough grounding in modern Hebrew literature and culture, preferably in combination with Arabic literature and culture, with an additional area of specialization in gender studies.
University Lecturer in Modern South Asian Culture22-458 12222Humanities, Institute for Area Studies
Leiden University invites applications for a University Lecturer in Modern South Asian Culture, to begin 1 January 2023. This position is situated in the Leiden Institute for Area Studies, which is committed to the integration of disciplinary and regional/historical perspectives, based on a solid foundation of linguistic and cultural knowledge.
We are looking for a colleague who can combine Humanities and Social Science perspectives on culture, engaging both popular and ‘high’ cultural production in film, literature, theatre, art, music, and (new) media, with reference to cultural identities (for instance: ethnic, linguistic, gender-based) and to social, political, economic, and religious contexts.
Leiden University invites applications for a University Lecturer in Hinduism and Material Religion, to begin 1 January 2023. This position is situated in the Leiden Institute for Area Studies and priorities include collaboration in research, teaching and administration across the full width of Religious Studies and South and Southeast Asian Studies.
University Lecturer in Chinese Religions22-456 12203Humanities, Institute for Area Studies
Leiden University invites applications for a University Lecturer in Chinese Religions, to begin 1 January 2023. This position is situated in the Leiden Institute for Area Studies, and priorities include collaboration in research, teaching, and administration across the full width of Religious Studies and China Studies.
University Lecturer in Theoretical Philosophy22-469 12244Humanities
The Institute of Philosophy is seeking further to strengthen its research and teaching in theoretical philosophy, which includes logic, metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of language, science, and mind. One of our priorities for this vacancy is to strengthen our Dutch-language teaching capacity. The Leiden theoretical philosophy group is a research-intensive, internationally oriented, and collegial unit with good links to other university departments. We offer a starting position that could range from 0.8-1.0 FTE, with an initial, fixed-term contract of eighteen months, and the possibility of a permanent contract to follow.
Postdoctoral researcher in Public Health (0.8 FTE)22-453 12181Governance and Global Affairs
The Programme Social Resilience and Security is an interdisciplinary collaboration, bringing together key expertise on transgressive behaviours across social research disciplines and key societal stakeholders. We team up with researchers from governance, developmental psychology, child studies, clinical psychology, criminal law, archeology, and humanities. One pillar of the project focuses on violent offending and victimisation; this project seeks to study violence from public health perspectives, using geospatial and epidemiological approaches. The Postdoctoral researcher will be a key member of the team. The position involves substantial research assessing the (spatial and temporal) relationship between violent crime and other types of crime.
As an assistant professor, you will be part of the Industrial Ecology department at the Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML) of Leiden University. At CML, we aim to excel in our roles as scientists as well as educators. Your daily activities will involve teaching courses in quantitative sustainability sciences for our MSc programmes in Industrial Ecology and Governance of Sustainability, supervising theses, conducting research, and some administrative duties in support of the teaching and research base. The position will enable you to train the next generation of researchers and professionals in the field of quantitative sustainability assessment, and to collaborate with researchers and stakeholders across sectors at the highest level including top-academic institutions around the world, European and international governmental, intergovernmental, and non-governmental organizations, and industry.
Biology is full of isomers and therefore enantioselective analysis of (endogenous) metabolites could play a key role in the detection/discovery of potential biomarkers for various diseases. However, enantioselective analysis remains a key challenge in metabolomics. In this project, which is part of the Vidi-research program entitled “Enabling volume-restricted metabolomics using next-generation microscale analytical tools” from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), capillary electrophoresis-mass spectrometry (CE-MS) will be considered as the main analytical platform for enantioselective metabolic profiling. CE-MS methods for enantioselective analysis of amino acids will be developed in order to decipher the role of D-amino acids in various neurological diseases. CE-MS method development for chiral metabolic profiling including utility assessment for relevant biomedical applications will be performed in collaboration with various internal and external partners.
You will be appointed at the Metabolomics and Analytics Centre of the LACDR, which is internationally renowned for analytical method development in metabolomics and also for its use of metabolomics to address challenging biological questions.
Assistant Professor in Japanese linguistics22-426 11965Humanities
The Faculty of Humanities at Leiden University invites applications for a lectureship / a university lecturer / an assistant professor in Japanese Linguistics. We are seeking applications from scholars of linguistics with demonstrated teaching experience and research potential. The ideal candidate has experience in supervising BA and MA theses, an in-depth understanding of Japanese linguistics, and proficiency in the Japanese language.
Antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections have directly caused more than 1.2 million deaths in 2019, making the identification of new antibiotics an important priority. Covalent inhibitors are already very successful as antibiotics and we have recently identified many new covalently ligandable binding sites in bacteria using competitive residue-specific proteomics with 20 covalent ligands. We now aim to utilize this dataset as a starting point for a first-in-class proteome-wide covalent virtual screening campaign, where we will predict the interaction landscape of an in-house >10,000-member covalent ligand library against >300 cysteines in essential proteins of S. aureus. Using biochemical assays for specific proteins, we will validate the performance across the entire library and using competitive residue-specific proteomics, we will assess the accuracy of the proteome-wide predictions. In this way, we will generate a large interaction landscape for covalent inhibitors targeting many high priority antibiotic targets and deliver promising starting points for antibiotic development. Furthermore, we will deliver a robust proteome-wide virtual screening platform that will be available for many additional projects that aim to identify covalent inhibitors targeting diverse protein classes for various biological applications.