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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.
2026/07/09 23:59 CEST	PhD in engineering of enzyme-catalysed ammonia synthesis	Biological and Chemical Engineering	Applicants to the PhD position must hold a master’s degree in chemical engineering/chemistry/biotech or similar education that teach candidates to work safely in chemistry lab.
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.
2026/07/09 23:59 CEST	SWEET Transporters as Regulators of Carbon Allocation and Drought Resilience in Tomato	Food Science	Applicants to the PhD position must have master’s degree (or equivalent) in plant biology, plant physiology, molecular biology, biochemistry, 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.