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Application deadline	Project title	Programme	Candidate background
2026/08/16 23:59 CEST	Behavior and welfare of year-round grazing cattle: Seasonal variation in social- and foraging behavior	Animal and Veterinary Sciences	Applicants must have a relevant master’s degree in animal science, agrobiology, biology or related fields.
2026/08/03 23:59 CEST	Re-advertisement: Remote Sensing for Climate-smart Agriculture	Agroecology	Applicants to this position must hold a master’s degree in geoinformatics, remote sensing, agriculture, environmental sciences, data sciences, geography, ecology, or closely related fields.
2026/07/20 23:59 CEST	Advanced molecular targeting and degradation by multilayered protein architectures	Biological and Chemical Engineering	Applicants should hold a master's degree in Biotechnology, Biomedicine Molecular Biology, or similar and have strong experience within protein engineering, molecular interaction analysis, immunological techniques, and molecular immunology.
2026/08/01 23:59 CEST	Data Analytics and Machine Learning on Compressed Data	Electrical and Computer Engineering	Applicants must have a relevant Master’s degree (or be close to completing one), including, one in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, or a related discipline
2026/08/15 23:59 CEST	Social Innovation and Sustainability in Agri-Food Systems	Agroecology	Applicants to the PhD position must have a relevant Master’s degree in sociology, anthropology, geography or political science with a focus on, or knowledge of, agriculture and food production.
2026/08/03 23:59 CEST	Harnessing Plant Interactions and Metabolomics towards Pesticide-free Crop Production	Agroecology	Applicants to the PhD position should hold a master’s degree in agroecology, biochemistry, chemical ecology, microbiology, entomology, environmental science, or a related field.
2026/09/15 23.59 CEST	Top-down controls of microbial biomass in supraglacial habitats	Environmental Science	We are searching for a highly motivated candidate who has an M.Sc. degree in biology, microbiology, environmental sciences, ecology, or closely related fields.
2026/08/15 23:59 CEST	PhD Position in Efficient Test-Time Model Adaptation in Dynamic Edge Environments	Electrical and Computer Engineering	Applications to the PhD position must hold a master’s degree (120 ECTS) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Machine Learning, or a related quantitative field
2026/08/15 23:59 CEST	Investigating the tissue pathology of osteoarthritis and mining for potential early disease biomarkers	Animal and Veterinary Sciences	Applicants must have a relevant master’s degree (120 ECTS) in veterinary medicine, medicine, biomedicine, molecular biology or a related field.
2026/08/14 23:59 CEST	Controlling Potato Lipolysis and Oxidation Suppression for High-Quality Protein Recovery	Food Science	Applicants to the PhD position must have a master’s degree in Food Science, Food Chemistry and Technology, Chemistry, or other relevant areas.
2026/08/05 23:59 CEST	The Ecology of seed decay: plant-soil-microbe interactions for weed suppression in agroecosystems	Agroecology	Applicants to the PhD position must have a relevant master’s degree in plant ecology or agricultural science.
2026/08/20 23:59 CEST	Multi-physics modelling of wetting–drying induced ground movement, landslides and coastal erosion	Civil and Architectural Engineering	Applicants to the PhD position must hold a BSc degree (180 ECTS) in civil engineering (or a closely related engineering discipline) and an MSc degree (minimum 90 ECTS) with a specialisation in geotechnical engineering, or computational engineering or coastal engineering, including advanced coursework in numerical methods, finite element analysis, and geotechnical engineering.
2026/08/20 23:59 CEST	Micro-to-Macro Behaviour and Constitutive Modelling of Fissured High-Plasticity Stiff Clays for Landslides and Climate-Resilient Infrastructure	Civil and Architectural Engineering	Applicants to the PhD position must hold a BSc degree (180 ECTS) in civil engineering (or a closely related engineering discipline) and an MSc degree (minimum 90 ECTS) with a specialisation in geotechnical engineering, including advanced coursework in soil mechanics and geotechnical engineering.