PhD Position: Analysis and Geometry on Manifolds and Foliations

The Department of Mathematics is seeking a highly motivated PhD candidate for a research position funded by the NWO ENW-M2 project ‘New invariants of singular foliations’. This project is about developing and applying new invariants of singular foliations. Key tools to be used are (Lie) groupoids, cyclic cohomology, C*-algebras, K-theory, index theory, and general geometry and analysis on manifolds.

The PhD project will be supervised by Dr Peter Hochs. This project involves collaboration with Dr Hessel Posthuma at the University of Amsterdam and another PhD candidate under Dr Posthuma’s supervision. We will support you throughout the PhD process to engage in research, participate in local, national and international meetings and report on your results in scientific publications. This position has a light teaching load of up to 10% of your working time.

Would you like to learn more about what it’s like to pursue a PhD at Radboud University? Visit the page about working as a PhD candidate.

PhD Position: Embodied Knowledge of the Past (Traumascapes)

Sites of traumatic experiences become traumascapes through the collective memory and identity formation processes that develop around them over time, including intergenerational and intersectional trauma. The PhD project ’Embodied knowledge of the past: Plantation Suriname and other cases’ focuses on the imprint left by 500 years of West European hegemony on our psyche, bodies and sense perception. How can embodied methodologies such as theatre, music and dance function as tools to identify and process trauma and generate future effect for the memory communities concerned? This research involves close collaboration with social partners such as the HERStory Art Foundation (Farida Nabibaks), Theater Thalia, and NAKS.

As a PhD candidate, you will conduct independent research, including archival research, interviews and fieldwork. You will be based at Radboud University under the joint supervision of Prof. Liedeke Plate (RU) and Prof. Esther Captain (KITLV; Utrecht University). In addition to writing your thesis, you will present your findings in peer-reviewed publications and at national and international conferences. As part of the Radboud Graduate School for the Humanities (GSH), you will also devote part of your time to training, academic services, and teaching.

This PhD forms part of the NWA ORC project ‘Traumascapes: Valuing, Negotiating and Sharing Sites of Trauma, Pain, and Loss’ (2026–2032), in which transdisciplinary teams of researchers, together with societal partners, memory communities and citizens, are conducting research into landscapes associated with collective traumas from our past. The project is funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) under the NWA ORC programme ’Places of Value: Context-Aware Negotiation on the Future of Historically Charged Sites’. The consortium places a strong emphasis on exchange and joint reflection. In this context, you will participate in regular project-wide workshops and meetings.

Would you like to learn more about what it’s like to pursue a PhD at Radboud University? Visit the page about working as a PhD candidate.

PhD Position: Analysis and Geometry on Manifolds and Foliations

The Department of Mathematics is seeking a highly motivated PhD candidate for a research position funded by the NWO ENW-M2 project ‘New invariants of singular foliations’. This project is about developing and applying new invariants of singular foliations. Key tools to be used are (Lie) groupoids, cyclic cohomology, C*-algebras, K-theory, index theory, and general geometry and analysis on manifolds.

The PhD project will be supervised by Dr Peter Hochs. This project involves collaboration with Dr Hessel Posthuma at the University of Amsterdam and another PhD candidate under Dr Posthuma’s supervision. We will support you throughout the PhD process to engage in research, participate in local, national and international meetings and report on your results in scientific publications. This position has a light teaching load of up to 10% of your working time.

Would you like to learn more about what it’s like to pursue a PhD at Radboud University? Visit the page about working as a PhD candidate.

PhD Position: Analysis and Geometry on Manifolds and Foliations

The Department of Mathematics is seeking a highly motivated PhD candidate for a research position funded by the NWO ENW-M2 project ‘New invariants of singular foliations’. This project is about developing and applying new invariants of singular foliations. Key tools to be used are (Lie) groupoids, cyclic cohomology, C*-algebras, K-theory, index theory, and general geometry and analysis on manifolds.

The PhD project will be supervised by Dr Peter Hochs. This project involves collaboration with Dr Hessel Posthuma at the University of Amsterdam and another PhD candidate under Dr Posthuma’s supervision. We will support you throughout the PhD process to engage in research, participate in local, national and international meetings and report on your results in scientific publications. This position has a light teaching load of up to 10% of your working time.

Would you like to learn more about what it’s like to pursue a PhD at Radboud University? Visit the page about working as a PhD candidate.

PhD Position: Embodied Knowledge of the Past (Traumascapes)

Sites of traumatic experiences become traumascapes through the collective memory and identity formation processes that develop around them over time, including intergenerational and intersectional trauma. The PhD project ’Embodied knowledge of the past: Plantation Suriname and other cases’ focuses on the imprint left by 500 years of West European hegemony on our psyche, bodies and sense perception. How can embodied methodologies such as theatre, music and dance function as tools to identify and process trauma and generate future effect for the memory communities concerned? This research involves close collaboration with social partners such as the HERStory Art Foundation (Farida Nabibaks), Theater Thalia, and NAKS.

As a PhD candidate, you will conduct independent research, including archival research, interviews and fieldwork. You will be based at Radboud University under the joint supervision of Prof. Liedeke Plate (RU) and Prof. Esther Captain (KITLV; Utrecht University). In addition to writing your thesis, you will present your findings in peer-reviewed publications and at national and international conferences. As part of the Radboud Graduate School for the Humanities (GSH), you will also devote part of your time to training, academic services, and teaching.

This PhD forms part of the NWA ORC project ‘Traumascapes: Valuing, Negotiating and Sharing Sites of Trauma, Pain, and Loss’ (2026–2032), in which transdisciplinary teams of researchers, together with societal partners, memory communities and citizens, are conducting research into landscapes associated with collective traumas from our past. The project is funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) under the NWA ORC programme ’Places of Value: Context-Aware Negotiation on the Future of Historically Charged Sites’. The consortium places a strong emphasis on exchange and joint reflection. In this context, you will participate in regular project-wide workshops and meetings.

Would you like to learn more about what it’s like to pursue a PhD at Radboud University? Visit the page about working as a PhD candidate.