The University of Groningen (UG), one of the oldest and most prestigious research universities in the Netherlands , has announced a significant new batch of PhD and Postdoc Vacancies for 2026. These positions are primarily structured as employment contracts , offering researchers a salary, pension, and full social security benefits.
Below are the 21 latest PhD and Postdoc Vacancies .
Featured PhD & Postdoc Vacancies (2026) Post-doc Researcher
Join the HAICu project at the University of Groningen and help transform how we engage with history. As a Postdoc in Artificial Intelligence, you will advance continual machine learning and human-in-the-loop systems to analyze diverse digital heritage collections. This multidisciplinary position offers opportunities to collaborate with leading researchers and major Dutch cultural institutions, with a focus on developing algorithms for deep, multimodal understanding of historical documents. If you are a motivated researcher eager to connect AI and the Humanities in a renowned research environment, we encourage you to apply to help make cultural heritage more accessible and advance AI research.
Faculty of Science and Engineering
15 March 2026
€4.241 – €4.241
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PhD
The position is part of MS-RADAM (“MultiScale phenomena in RAdiation DAMage”), a European Doctoral Network project funded by the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) programme. The project brings together leading academic and industrial partners from eight European countries (Germany, France, United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Czech Republic, Sweden, Denmark and Georgia) to train a new generation of interdisciplinary researchers.
MS-RADAM aims to advance the understanding of key radiation-induced biodamage phenomena at the nano- and larger scales, with applications in particle therapy, radiotherapy, and radioprotection. These include the formation of DNA strand breaks by ionising radiation, DNA repair, radiosensitisation by metal nanoparticles, cell survival and radioresistance.
The MS-RADAM research programme combines state-of-the-art computational multiscale modelling (using DFT/TDDFT methods, collision theory, molecular dynamics, stochastic dynamics, Monte Carlo and analytical methods) and its thorough validation using advanced experimental techniques (such as mass spectrometry, electron microscopy, radiochemistry and radiobiology experiments with biomolecular and biological systems such as oligonucleotides, DNA origami, radiosensitising nanoparticles, living cells and multicellular targets).
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PhD
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.
PhD
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.
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PhD
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.
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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.
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PhD
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.
PhD
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.
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PhD
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.
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PhD
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
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Post-doc Researcher
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.
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Post-doc Researcher
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.
Assistant Professor
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.
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PhD
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
15 March 2026
€3.059 – €3.881
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Post-doc Researcher
The Faculty of Economics and Business is offering a post-doctoral research position on Human-AI symbiosis in manufacturing work environments.
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Post-doc Researcher
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.
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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.
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PhD
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
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Post-doc Researcher
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.
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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.
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Post-doc Researcher
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.
Top Research Highlights 1. The Jantina Tammes School of Digital Society Harvard and Groningen are both investing heavily in the “Human-AI” interface. The Jantina Tammes School is currently recruiting for Postdocs to work on the Horizon Europe SkillAIbility project, focusing on how AI can empower human tasks in manufacturing rather than just replacing them.
2. Low Saxon Language Technology The Faculty of Arts is seeking three researchers (2 PhDs, 1 Postdoc) to develop speech and language technology for Gronings and Drents . This is a unique opportunity for those interested in NLP (Natural Language Processing) for low-resource languages.
Salary and “Employee” Status In the Dutch system, PhD candidates are salaried employees (Promovendus). According to the 2026 scales:
PhD Salary: Starts at approx. €3,059 gross per month, increasing to €3,881 in the final year.Postdoc Salary: Typically starts in Scale 10, ranging from €3,546 to €5,538 per month.Benefits: 8% holiday allowance, 8.3% end-of-year bonus, and a minimum of 232 vacation hours per year.
How to Apply Table Step Action Recommendation 1. Find Role Visit AcademicTransfer Filter by “University of Groningen” 2. Prepare CV Use the Europass or Academic CV format Highlight your Master’s thesis/publications 3. Motivation Write a 1-page specific letter Align your goals with the PI’s research 4. References Have 2 referees ready Academic supervisors are preferred 5. Upload Use the UG internal portal Ensure your PDF is under 5MB
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