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The Vrije Universiteit in Netherlands invites application for vacant (20) PhD, Postdoc and Faculty Positions

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Last Updated on September 18, 2026 by admin

The Vrije Universiteit in Netherlands invites application for vacant PhD, Postdoc and Faculty Positions, a university in Amsterdam, Netherlands, founded in 1880.

Pre- and Post-Award Grant Officer (European Funding and collaborative grants)0.6 / 0.8School of Business and EconomicsRemaining supportMScCloses on09-10-2026Publishing date16-09-2026Are you a research support professional with experience in European funding opportunities and collaborative research projects? Do you enjoy supporting researchers in securing and managing competitive consortium-based research grants?View vacancy

PhD: Analysing and Mapping strontium and zinc in cremations (AMASZINC)0.8 / 1Faculty of SciencePhDMScCloses on31-10-2026Publishing date15-09-2026Do you want to work with archaeological material and advanced analytical techniques in an interdisciplinary research environment? And research funerary rituals and pyre temperatures from cremated bones?View vacancy

Data Steward0.4 / 0.4School of Business and EconomicsRemaining supportMScCloses on08-10-2026Publishing date14-09-2026Join SBE as a Data Steward and help advance high-quality, responsible research. In this role, you will support researchers and promote best practices in research data management, ethics, and privacy compliance.View vacancy

Postdoctoral Researcher in Para Sport Classification0.8 / 1Faculty of Behavioural and Movement SciencesResearcher / PostdocPostdocCloses on30-09-2026Publishing date14-09-2026Do you want the skills you learned during your PhD to make a difference to society? Are you passionate about sport and/or helping people with impairment? Then this might be the post-doc for you.View vacancy

PhD in Brillouin Microscopy0.9 / 1Faculty of SciencePhDMScCloses on31-10-2026Publishing date14-09-2026We have an opening for a four-year PhD student position on a new type of Brillouin Microscopy platform.View vacancy

Lecturer Sport and Performance Psychology1 / 1Faculty of Behavioural and Movement SciencesTeacherMScCloses on15-10-2026Publishing date14-09-2026Do you have what it takes to make students enthusiastic about sport psychology? Are you enthusiastic about teaching the next generation of sport psychologists? Then this might be the role for you!View vacancy

PHD Postion in Area of Causal Inference1 / 1Faculty of SciencePhDMScCloses on25-09-2026Publishing date07-09-2026Do you have an inquisitive mind and a passion for statistics? Please apply for a PhD position at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.View vacancy

Postdoctoral researcher studying the impostor phenomenon0.8 / 1Faculty of Behavioural and Movement SciencesResearcher / PostdocMScCloses on01-10-2026Publishing date04-09-2026Join this ERC-funded project to develop a new perspective on the impostor phenomenon in the workplace as part of a broader programme examining how organizational systems shape impostorism and careers.View vacancy

Postdoctoral Researcher – LLMs for AI-Assisted Educational Support0.8 / 1Faculty of ScienceResearchPostdocCloses on02-10-2026Publishing date02-09-2026Develop and evaluate LLMs that support education professionals in creating and improving Individual Development Perspective Plans (OPPs). Research AI-assisted text generation, quality feedback and human-AI interaction. Apply at VU Amsterdam.View vacancy

Postdoc Neurosymbolic Reasoning in Multimodal World Models1 / 1Faculty of ScienceResearcher / PostdocPostdocCloses on10-10-2026Publishing date31-08-2026Are you passionate about cutting-edge research on multimodal reasoning, operating in an international research environment, and co-supervising PhD students? Then keep reading: this 2-year fully-funded Postdoc position may be for you!View vacancy

PostDoc in Causal Machine Learning and Reinforcement Learning (3 years)0.8 / 1Faculty of ScienceResearcher / PostdocPostdocCloses on27-09-2026Publishing date28-08-2026Are you interested in combining machine learning with statistical methods, and do you want to contribute to shaping the future of data science techniques and applications with an eye on society? Then VU Amsterdam would like to get to know you!View vacancy

Postdoctoral position in Ancient Philosophy0.7 / 1Faculty of Social Sciences and HumanitiesResearcher / PostdocPostdocCloses on22-09-2026Publishing date24-08-2026The VU Philosophy Department, chair of History of Philosophy, invites applications for a postdoc position in research project “Logic in Action in Late Antiquity” (LALA), funded by NWO and led by Marije Martijn.View vacancy

Assistant Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience0.8 / 1Faculty of Behavioural and Movement SciencesAssistant ProfessorPostdocCloses on15-10-2026Publishing date19-08-2026Join the Department of Experimental and Applied Psychology (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) as Assistant Professor in cognitive neuroscience.View vacancy

PhD position (4 years) on the Role of Foveal Processing in Spatial Attention1 / 1Faculty of Behavioural and Movement SciencesPhDMScCloses on30-09-2026Publishing date17-08-2026Are you interested in understanding how attention shapes what we see? Would you like to combine behavioural experiments, psychophysics, and eye tracking to uncover how the brain selects and prioritises visual information from the world around us?View vacancy

Postdoc VU Sociology: De-Escalating Aggressive Encounters0.8 / 0.8Faculty of Social Sciences and HumanitiesResearcher / PostdocMScCloses on30-09-2026Publishing date06-08-2026When and why do aggression and violence against frontline workers occur? Join this position to research these questions with societal partners and help improve understanding and prevention of violence in frontline professions.View vacancy

PhD position specialized in statistical modeling of long-term survival and cure.1 / 1School of Business and EconomicsPhDMScCloses on15-10-2026Publishing date21-07-2026VU Amsterdam is offering a funded, 4-year PhD-position in statistics on survival analysis and extreme value theory, as part of the NWO-funded project “Seeing beyond the study duration: extreme value theory for long term survival and cure chances”.View vacancy

PhD: Learning interactions in collective cell migration0.9 / 1Faculty of SciencePhDMScCloses on30-09-2026Publishing date20-07-2026The Broedersz group (Theoretical physics of life) has an opening for a four-year PhD student position on the non-equilibrium statistical physics of collective cell migration.View vacancy

Post Doc: Learning interactions in collective cell migration0.9 / 1Faculty of ScienceResearcher / PostdocMScCloses on30-09-2026Publishing date20-07-2026The Broedersz group (Theoretical physics of life) has an opening for a 2.5 year Post Doc position on the non-equilibrium statistical physics of collective cell migration.View vacancy

Assistant Professor in Quantitative Marketing or Marketing Strategy0.8 / 1School of Business and EconomicsAssistant ProfessorMScCloses on30-09-2026Publishing date10-07-2026Are you an ambitious marketing scholar in the field of quantitative marketing or marketing strategy? Please apply for this Assistant Professor position at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU).View vacancy

PhD Position in Formal Methods for Concurrent Cryptographic Protocols1 / 1Faculty of SciencePhDMScCloses on30-10-2026Publishing date11-06-2026The goal of this project is to use formal methods to develop a systematic way to describe concurrent cryptographic protocols and to reason about their security. If this sounds interesting to you, please apply at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU).View vacancy