Postdoctoral Researcher in Organizational Change and Climate Adaptation

In this postdoc position, you investigate how climate adaptation strategies are translated into organizational practice within critical infrastructure operators. Infrastructure organizations face a fundamental challenge: the long-term, systemic nature of climate adaptation sits uneasily with existing cognitive frames, project-based management cultures, and competing organizational transitions like digitalization and the energy transition. Your research will uncover how adaptation professionals navigate this tension — and what strategies actually work.

You will be embedded in the TASICI project (Transformative Adaptation Strategies for Interdependent Critical Infrastructure), an NWO-funded interdisciplinary consortium that develops analytical models and governance frameworks for climate adaptation across interconnected Dutch transport infrastructure. You will work closely with infrastructure operators including Schiphol Airport, ProRail, Rijkswaterstaat, and Vervoerregio Amsterdam, spending significant time embedded within these organizations.

Your duties

• conduct qualitative, ethnographically-informed fieldwork within infrastructure operators, including observations, interviews, and document analysis
• map how climate adaptation pathways are (or are not) translated into organizational strategy, asset management practices, and resource allocation
• identify issue-selling strategies used by climate adaptation professionals to generate buy-in from senior management
• study how climate adaptation strategies interact with other ongoing organizational transitions (energy, digitalization, circularity)
• publish at least one article per year in an A or B ranked journal in management, organization studies, or a related field
• contribute to co-creation workshops with consortium partners and stakeholders
• contribute to teaching in relevant programmes at the School of Business and Economics

PhD Position in Cognitive NeuroAI Methods

Join us!
We are looking for a PhD candidate to join our research project entitled “How smart is AI really? Methods for investigating intelligence in humans and AI”, funded by a NWO Vidi grant awarded to Claire Stevenson. This project is led by dr. Claire Stevenson (PI), dr. Jelle Zuidema (promotor) and dr. Micha Heilbron (co-promotor). The position starts September 1st 2026.

The public summary of the project is as follows. AI-models appear to be rapidly developing human-like intelligence. For both scientists and the broader public, an urgent question is “How smart is AI currently and how intelligent will it become?”. However, we do not know because current methods for evaluating intelligence in people are not suitable for AI and vice versa due to inherent differences in learning, memory, and processing between these systems. This project develops the necessary methods to study how smart AI-models are compared to people, now and in the future, and sheds light on how to safely utilize AI in our daily lives.

The main objective of this PhD project is to develop methods to examine the process by which AI-models solve problems that were previously considered to require human-like (fluid) intelligence, e.g., abstract and analogical reasoning problems, and to illuminate the similarities and differences between these processes and human reasoning.

What are you going to do
The PhD student is responsible for helping achieve this objective. They will collaborate with the supervisors, fellow PhD students, postdocs and international colleagues associated with the CreAI Lab (creailab.net).

The research tasks will include collecting problem solving data with both humans and AI-models; developing methods to reliably and validly compare children’s, adults' and AI-models’ problem solving processes; and conducting cross-sectional and longitudinal data analysis (e.g., item response theory, latent change score models) comparing shifts in how children and AI-models learn to reason.

Teaching is limited to 5% of the contracted hours, by assisting in courses and supervising (bachelor) thesis students.

What do you have to offer
A promising candidate has proven affinity with cognitive AI research, experience with data collection (including eye-tracking and/or neuroimaging) with people (in Dutch), cognitive modeling of human problem solving processes, mechanistic interpretability in AI-models, as well as extensive computer programming experience in R and Python.

Given that the project lies at the intersection of psychology, cognitive science, and AI, a successful candidate has an interest and the capacity to work and interact in a multidisciplinary team.

Your experience and profile:

• A master's degree with specialization in cognitive science, psychological methods or a related discipline.
• Extensive experience coding in R and Python (or related computer programming languages).
• Excellent written and spoken command of English and conversational command of Dutch.

What else do we offer you
The position concerns temporary employment of 38 hours per week. The initial employment is for one year. Following a positive assessment and barring altered circumstances, this term will be extended to a total duration of 4 years, which should result in the conferral of a doctorate. We will put together a curriculum which will also include the opportunity to attend training courses and both national and international events.

For this position the University Job Classification profile 'promovendus' applies.

Your salary will be €3.059 gross per month in the first year and will increase to €3.881 in the final year, based on full-time employment and in keeping with the Collective Labour Agreement of Dutch Universities. We additionally offer an extensive package of secondary benefits, including 8% holiday allowance and a year-end bonus of 8.3%.

The UvA offers excellent possibilities for further professional development and education.

We also offer

• a position in which initiative and input are highly valued
• an enthusiastic and warm team that is open to new colleagues
• an inspiring academic and international working environment in the heart of Amsterdam.

In this department, you will work
You will primarily work with the Cognitive AI Methods team led by dr. Claire Stevenson, with dr. Jelle Zuidema acting as promotor and dr. Micha Heilbron as co-promotor. Our team is interdisciplinary, combining expertise in psychology, AI, computational linguistics and psychometrics. We have an active lab with weekly lab meetings and we also join the monthly lab meetings with other PhD students and postdocs associated with the A.D. de Groot Center for Cognitive AI (degroot.ai).

You will be embedded in the Psychological Methods programme group in the Psychology Department and collaborate closely with dr. Zuidema and colleagues from the Institute of Logic, Language and Cognition (ILLC, UvA).

PhD on Integrating Sustainability and Systems Thinking in Engineering Education

The CLEAR initiative (Chemistry Learning for Environmental Action and Responsibility) is an innovative programme within the Chemical Science & Engineering curriculum at the University of Twente. It aims to equip students with the skills and mindset needed to tackle complex global challenges such as climate change, pollution, and greenwashing. By embedding systems thinking into the curriculum, CLEAR enables students to approach sustainability challenges from a holistic perspective, integrating environmental, social, and economic factors into their solutions. For more information, click here.

Within this CLEAR PhD project, you will explore how sustainability, systems thinking, and essential skills are currently embedded in an engineering curriculum, and how these elements can be more effectively aligned. You will work closely with lecturers, students and researchers to analyse existing educational practices and identify opportunities for improvement.

You will investigate how educational interventions can help students develop the ability to address complex real-world challenges. This includes exploring how learning activities, assessment methods, and course design can reinforce each other and contribute to meaningful learning experiences. Part of your work will involve designing and testing new educational interventions in collaboration with teaching staff.

You will work in a multidisciplinary team environment, and collaborate with experts and researchers in chemistry, engineering and educational science, alongside teachers, students, and the educational management team.

Postdoc In Philosophy of Technology

The aim of this position is to co-create a new transdisciplinary framework with societal partners that will anticipate, mitigate, and minimize the socially disruptive effects of emerging technologies. This will involve synthesizing aspects of system thinking with ethical theories of human flourishing. From a system perspective, disrupted sociotechnical systems have qualities that resist disruption, including adaptability, feedback awareness, and the ability to incorporate external elements. Theories in the human flourishing have analogous features, including emphasizing the individual’s capacity to exercise agency, teleological orientation, and narrative coherence. We believe that combining these two frameworks in a concept of sociotechnical system flourishing has the potential to improve how socially disruptive technologies are developed.

Transdisciplinary research aims to shape real-world domains by co-creating with non-academic stakeholders. ESDiT researchers have identified several cases that could benefit from a transdisciplinary approach that specifically combines aspects of system thinking with the ethics of human flourishing. These include problems in the attention economy, dementia care, and workplace well-being. Each of these involve pressing ethical challenges, including digital overuse, care practices overemphasizing autonomy, and perceived tensions between employee well-being and organizational productivity. Your role will be to co-create actionable insights into how sociotechnical systems can flourish by closely engaging with users, designers, businesses, NGOs, and other stakeholders. The project pursues societal impact by helping societal stakeholders to better understand and perform transdisciplinary research and showing how to design for system level flourishing.

You will lead this research project within the parameters outlined above, bringing to bear your education, research background, and personal interests. Your ESDiT supervisory team will support you in building relationships with key non-academic partners, maximizing the real-world impact of your research, as well as navigating key theoretical choices (such as which theories of human flourishing and/or which system theories to focus on). We will support you in developing a unique and coherent research trajectory to prepare you for what you wish to do afterwards (personal grant acquisition, tenure-track job market, non-academic research role).

In addition to contributing to academic philosophy at a globally recognized level, this position will allow you to directly contribute to 1) conceptual innovation and 2) practical impact outside of academia, helping shape new ways to develop emerging technologies that respond to the complexity of human and societal flourishing.

Institutional Embedding This postdoc position will be part of the Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies programme, a ten-year long international research programme of seven academic institutions in the Netherlands. This programme has a combined budget of € 27 million, and is funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, and by matching funds from the participating institutions. The programme has the aim of achieving breakthrough research in at the intersection of ethics, philosophy, technology / engineering and social sciences, and to position its consortium at the top of its field internationally. A key objective is to investigate how new technologies challenge moral values and ontological concepts (like
“nature”, “human being” and “community”), and how these challenges necessitate a revision of these concepts. The consortium, counting over 130 researchers, consists of internationally well-known ethicists, philosophers, engineers and social scientists. The programme functions through nine research lines and three synthesising workshops; for a complete overview, see www.esdit.nl. Your project will primarily be embedded in the STEM line of ESDiT. A fuller description of that research line, as well as the programme as a whole, can be pointed to through the ESDiT website: https://www.esdit.nl/

This postdoc position is a 3-year appointment at TU Eindhoven, focused primarily on publishing at a globally recognized level, as well as doing transdisciplinary research with non-academic stakeholders. The holder will be embedded in the STEM line (and will be expected to take on a coordinating role in this line at some point). They will also contribute to educational programmes in the Philosophy and Ethics group (max. 0,1 – 0,2 FTE), which is part of the Department of Industrial Engineering and Innovation Sciences at TU Eindhoven. They will have generous conference and travel budget available to help them conduct their research at an international level. They are required to be based in the Netherlands.

Eindhoven University of Technology is an internationally top-ranking university in the Netherlands that combines scientific curiosity with a hands-on attitude. Our spirit of collaboration translates into an open culture and a top-five position in collaborating with advanced industries.

AIOS Medische Microbiologie

Functie
Als arts in opleiding tot specialist (AIOS) medische microbiologie werk je binnen de afdeling Medische Microbiologie en volg je de opleiding tot arts‑microbioloog. De opleiding heeft een maximale duur van vijf jaar en is gericht op het opleiden van een medisch specialist die de medische patiëntenzorg ondersteunt en daarin een zelfstandige rol ontwikkelt.

Tijdens de opleiding ligt de nadruk op de preventie, geïntegreerde diagnostiek en therapie van infectieziekten. In dit kader leer je infectieziekten te herkennen, microbiologische diagnostiek te interpreteren en deze te vertalen naar klinisch relevante adviezen. Je wordt intensief betrokken bij de medische patiëntenzorg en werkt daarbij samen met verschillende medische disciplines.

De afdeling Medische Microbiologie is sterk betrokken bij klinische besprekingen en consulten binnen het ziekenhuis. Als AIOS neem je hier actief aan deel. In de loop van de opleiding krijg je steeds meer verantwoordelijkheid en zal je in toenemende mate zelfstandig diagnostisch onderzoek en consulten uitvoeren. Hiermee ontwikkel je je stap voor stap tot een zelfstandig functionerend arts‑microbioloog.

Naast patiëntenzorg maak je gedurende de opleiding deel uit van de onderwijs‑ en onderzoeksactiviteiten van de afdeling. Je participeert in wetenschappelijk onderzoek en levert een bijdrage aan het onderwijs dat binnen de afdeling plaatsvindt. Deze combinatie van zorg, wetenschap en onderwijs vormt een integraal onderdeel van de opleiding.

Een deel van de opleiding wordt gevolgd buiten het Radboudumc. Twee jaar van de opleiding worden ingevuld in het Canisius Wilhelmina Ziekenhuis in Nijmegen of één jaar in het Rijnstate Ziekenhuis in Arnhem. Deze onderdelen maken vast onderdeel uit van het opleidingsprogramma.

Er is een opleidingsplaats beschikbaar per 1 oktober 2026 en per 1 april 2027.