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PhD defences at Dutch universities

See 896 upcoming PhD defences at 17 Dutch universities in 15 cities. At a PhD defence a researcher publicly defends their dissertation to earn a doctorate.

896 results

The Hortus botanicus in Leiden
Photo: Roger Veringmeier, CC BY 4.0

2828 Oct

Wed 28 Oct

Emerging Technologies and Practices in Food Supply Chains - PhD defense Ibrahim Edhem Sakarya

PhD defence of Ibrahim Edhem Sakarya

PhD defenceTU/eEindhoven

Wed 28 Oct

Fighting Terrorism - PhD defense Lotte van Aken

PhD defence of Lotte van Aken

PhD defenceTU/eEindhoven

Wed 28 Oct

Engineering the human brain neurovascular microenvironment

PhD defence of Xinhui Wang

PhD defenceTU/eEindhoven

Wed 28 Oct · 09:00

The gut microbiome in solid organ transplantation: from dysbiosis to strain-resolved profiling

Promotie van Mw. S. (Shuyan) Zhang.

PhD defenceRUGAcademiegebouw RUG, Groningen, GroningenMap

Wed 28 Oct · 09:45

Digital Communication, Unstructured Data, and Customer Outcomes

PhD defence of D. de Jong

PhD defenceVUHoofdgebouw VU, Auditorium, AmsterdamMap

Wed 28 Oct · 10:00

Modular Wireless Power Transfer System for EV Opportunity Charging

PhD defence of C. Riekerk

PhD defenceTU DelftAula, DelftMap

Wed 28 Oct · 10:00

Essays over empirische activaprijsvorming en internationale financiering

Danjun Xu promoveert op het proefschrift: 'Essays in Empirical Asset Pricing and International Finance'.

PhD defenceUvAAgnietenkapel, AmsterdamMap

Wed 28 Oct · 10:00

Online PhD defence Zhilin Xu

Strategic Cooperation and Incentive Design in Competitive and Dynamic Environments

PhD defenceUMOnline, MaastrichtOnline

Wed 28 Oct · 10:00

From Scientific Systems to Artificial Intelligence Adoption: Knowledge, Innovation and Technological Change in Latin America

PhD defence of Fernando Esteban Vargas Cuevas

PhD defenceUMMaastricht

Wed 28 Oct · 10:00

De promovendus verdedigt het proefschrift in het openbaar ten overstaan van de oppo­sitie­commissie

PhD defence of C. Sun

PhD defenceLeidenAcademiegebouwMap

Wed 28 Oct · 10:00

Essays on Empirical Consumer Search

PhD defence of Tinghan Zhang

PhD defenceTiUC186, Tilburg

Wed 28 Oct · 10:00

Promoting Health Education and Behavior Change for Chronic Lung Disease:Potential for eHealth and Insights from a Global Perspective

C. Sun

PhD defenceLeidenAcademy Building, Rapenburg 73, 2311 GJ LeidenMapFree to attend

Wed 28 Oct · 10:15

Structuring Cellulose - Salt, sonication, and solvent in sculpting self-assembly

PhD defence of D. Vieira Pedro Marques Saraiva

PhD defenceUUAcademiegebouw, Domplein 29, UtrechtMap

Wed 28 Oct · 10:30

Bloedstromingsvelden in het hart en de hersenen op basis van ultrasnelle echografie

PhD defence of Yichuang Han

PhD defenceEURCampus Woudestein, RotterdamMap

Wed 28 Oct · 10:30

Strengthening biological control of cotton aphid (Aphis gossypii) in northern Xinjiang, China

PhD defence Shuangshuang Jia

PhD defenceWUROmnia - Building 105, WageningenMap

Wed 28 Oct · 11:00

Betekenisvolle momenten: het begrijpen, voorspellen en beschermen van massabewegingen van vogels in een door mensen veranderd landschap

Bart Hoekstra promoveert op het proefschrift: 'Matterful moments: Understanding, predicting, and protecting mass movements of birds in a human-altered landscape'.

PhD defenceUvAAula - Oude Lutherse kerk, AmsterdamMap

Wed 28 Oct · 11:00

Off-label antipsychotic treatment in children and adolescents

Promotie van Mw. M. (Mariken) Dinnissen.

PhD defenceRUGAcademiegebouw RUG, Groningen, GroningenMap

Wed 28 Oct · 11:30

Coagulation, Inflammation and Cardiovascular Risk in Venous Thromboembolism: Risk factors, Biomarkers and Prevention

E.S. Yap

PhD defenceLeidenAcademy Building, Rapenburg 73, 2311 GJ LeidenMapFree to attend

Wed 28 Oct · 11:30

Promotie E.S. Yap

PhD defenceLeidenAcademiegebouwMap

Wed 28 Oct · 11:45

Optimizing Orthoplastic Strategies in Post-Traumatic

PhD defence of M.P. Noorlander-Borgdorff

PhD defenceVUHoofdgebouw VU, Auditorium, AmsterdamMap

Wed 28 Oct · 12:15

The SWORD Unsheathed - Data-Driven Workaround Detection for Process Improvement

PhD defence of W.G. van der Waal

PhD defenceUUAcademiegebouw, Domplein 29, UtrechtMap

Wed 28 Oct · 12:30

Hydrodynamic study of a conical, jet-spouted bubbling fluidized bed

PhD defence of R. Ramesh

PhD defenceTU DelftAula, DelftMap

Wed 28 Oct · 12:30

PhD Defence Joey Verdijk | Silencing the black dog - Understanding cognitive side effects of electroconvulsive therapy

PhD defenceUTWaaier, 4, EnschedeMap

Wed 28 Oct · 12:45

Smart hip implants

Promotie van Mw. P.H. (Helene) Noordhuis.

PhD defenceRUGAcademiegebouw RUG, Groningen, GroningenMap

Wed 28 Oct · 13:00

From Exiled Government to State-Led Diaspora: Azerbaijani Migrant Organisations in Istanbul and Moscow, 1920-2020

C. Billur Ada

PhD defenceLeidenAcademy Building, Rapenburg 73, 2311 GJ LeidenMapFree to attend

Wed 28 Oct · 13:00

PhD defence Brigitte Agnes Maria van der Zanden

Cross-Border Public Health in European Border Regions: Between Everyday Life and National Systems

PhD defenceUMMaastricht

Wed 28 Oct · 13:00

Vierdimensionale echografie van de hersenen

PhD defence of Luuk Verhoef

PhD defenceEURErasmus MC, RotterdamMap

Wed 28 Oct · 13:00

Verkenning van het concept vloeistoftolerantie

Peter Klompmaker promoveert op het proefschrift: 'Watching the waves. Exploring the concept of fluid tolerance'.

PhD defenceUvAAgnietenkapel, AmsterdamMap

Wed 28 Oct · 13:00

Wilding Pedagogies. Exploring More-than-Human Ecologies of Learning for Deep Environmental Care

PhD defence Reineke van Tol

PhD defenceWUROmnia - Building 105, WageningenMap

Wed 28 Oct · 13:45

Rediscovery of Thioguanine Treatment in Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Echoes of the Past

PhD defence of A.B. Bayoumy

PhD defenceVUHoofdgebouw VU, Auditorium, AmsterdamMap

Wed 28 Oct · 14:15

Medicine shortages - from national signals to global supply chains and local patient impact

PhD defence of D.J. Postma

PhD defenceUUAcademiegebouw, Domplein 29, UtrechtMap

Wed 28 Oct · 14:30

De werking van het afweersysteem bij operaties en ongevallen

Op 28 oktober 2026 om 14:30 is de promotie van L.M.C. Jacobs.

PhD defenceRUAula, NijmegenMap

Wed 28 Oct · 14:30

Functional host immunity to Mycobacterium tuberculosis: connecting innate and adaptive responses

K.E. van Meijgaarden

PhD defenceLeidenAcademy Building, Rapenburg 73, 2311 GJ LeidenMapFree to attend

Wed 28 Oct · 14:30

Hidradenitis suppurativa

Promotie van Mw. N.D.K. (Nicole) Koerts.

PhD defenceRUGAcademiegebouw RUG, Groningen, GroningenMap

Wed 28 Oct · 14:30

PhD Defence Khin Nawarat | Extreme Sea Levels in the Era of Climate Change: from Signals to Impacts and Adaptation Challenges

PhD defenceUTWaaier, 4, EnschedeMap

Wed 28 Oct · 14:30

Promotie K.E. van Meijgaarden

PhD defenceLeidenLUMC, LeidenMap

Wed 28 Oct · 15:00

Carbon data as design material: Architecture and urban design towards the decarbonization of the built environment

PhD defence of H. Veloso e Zárate

PhD defenceTU DelftAula, DelftMap

Wed 28 Oct · 15:30

Chiral-at-S(VI) molecules: from Brønsted acids via sequence-defined oligomers to sequence-controlled polymers

PhD defence Yu Han

PhD defenceWUROmnia - Building 105, WageningenMap

Wed 28 Oct · 15:30

Nicardipine voor behandeling van ernstige hoge bloeddruk

PhD defence of Sebastiaan Nij Bijvank

PhD defenceEURErasmus MC, RotterdamMap

Wed 28 Oct · 15:45

Feeling Too Much or Feeling Too Little: Ambivalence and Indifference in Romantic Relationships

PhD defence of M. Đurić

PhD defenceVUHoofdgebouw VU, Auditorium, AmsterdamMap

Wed 28 Oct · 16:00

Galactische versnellers opsporen

Youyou Li promoveert op het proefschrift: 'Tracing Galactic Accelerators'.

PhD defenceUvAAgnietenkapel, AmsterdamMap

Wed 28 Oct · 16:00

Health before & beyond pregnancy: An analysis of preconception health trends, maternity care bundled payments and maternal cardiovascular risk

A. Klootwijk

PhD defenceLeidenAcademy Building, Rapenburg 73, 2311 GJ LeidenMapFree to attend

Wed 28 Oct · 16:00

Challenges in Acute Coronary Syndromes: From nonobstructive to multivessel obstructive coronary arteries

PhD defence of Tobias Francis Sebastiaan Pustjens

PhD defenceUMMaastricht

Wed 28 Oct · 16:00

Promotie A. Klootwijk

PhD defenceLeidenLUMC, LeidenMap

Wed 28 Oct · 16:15

Heart failure and the exocrine pancreas

Promotie van Mw. M.A.T. (Marlene) Vijver.

PhD defenceRUGAcademiegebouw RUG, Groningen, GroningenMap

Wed 28 Oct · 16:30

Een gevoeliger bloedonderzoek voor het opsporen van resterende ziekte bij multipel myeloom

Op 28 oktober 2026 om 16:30 is de promotie van C. Wijnands.

PhD defenceRUAula, NijmegenMap

Wed 28 Oct · 16:30

PhD Defence Matthew Maat | Discrete Structures and Adversarial Constructions for Games on Graphs and Linear Programming

PhD defenceUTWaaier, 4, EnschedeMap

Wed 28 Oct · 16:30

Distributional Linguistics for Biblical Greek Analysis

PhD defence of Wim Otte

PhD defenceTiUAula, TilburgMap

Wed 28 Oct · 17:30

Interacting particle systems and Riemannian geometry

PhD defence of J. Junné

PhD defenceTU DelftAula, DelftMap

2929 Oct

Thu 29 Oct

Efficient Intersection Access Control with Autonomous Traffic - PhD defense Purva Joshi

PhD defence of Purva Joshi

PhD defenceTU/eEindhoven

Thu 29 Oct

Light-Responsive Liquid Crystal Polymer Surface Topographies for Dynamic Cell Modulation

PhD defence of Ruth Martine Corine Verbroekken

PhD defenceTU/eEindhoven

Thu 29 Oct

Artificial Cell-Mediated Tissue Engineering - PhD defense Yiğitcan Sümbelli

PhD defence of Yiğitcan Sümbelli

PhD defenceTU/eEindhoven

Thu 29 Oct · 09:00

Breaking New Ground

Promotie van Mw. A. (Audrey) Crabbé.

PhD defenceRUGAcademiegebouw RUG, Groningen, GroningenMap

Thu 29 Oct · 10:00

Balancing defense and tolerance: B cell adaptation under chronic parasitic exposure

M.A.M. Chayé

PhD defenceLeidenAcademy Building, Rapenburg 73, 2311 GJ LeidenMapFree to attend

Thu 29 Oct · 10:00

PhD defence Wessel Benjamin William van der Venne

Autologous Fat Transfer for Total Breast Reconstruction: From Trials to Triumphs

PhD defenceUMMaastricht

Thu 29 Oct · 10:00

Promotie M.A.M. Chayé

PhD defenceLeidenLUMC, LeidenMap

Thu 29 Oct · 10:00

Van willekeurige verzamelingen naar sociale groepen: het handelingsvermogen van groepen in multi‑agent modale logica

Daniil Khaitovich promoveert op het proefschrift: 'From arbitrary sets to social groups: group agency in multi-agent modal logic'.

PhD defenceUvAAgnietenkapel, AmsterdamMap

Thu 29 Oct · 10:15

Application of computer vision for food safety, and animal welfare and health monitoring

PhD defence of K.B. Libera

PhD defenceUUAcademiegebouw, Domplein 29 & online via livestream, UtrechtMap

Thu 29 Oct · 10:30

Early adolescents’ independent healthier dietary choices: The role of motivation, autonomy support and availability

PhD defence Roselinde van Nee

PhD defenceWUROmnia - Building 105, WageningenMap

Thu 29 Oct · 10:30

Veilige inzet van kunstmatige intelligentie voor de beoordeling van longkanker op CT

Op 29 oktober 2026 om 10:30 is de promotie van D.J.J. Peeters.

PhD defenceRUAula, NijmegenMap

Thu 29 Oct · 11:30

Promotie S. Galuh

PhD defenceLeidenLUMC, LeidenMap

Thu 29 Oct · 11:45

Connecting the Dots in Genital Gender-Affirming Surgery

PhD defence of P.J. Roijer

PhD defenceVUHoofdgebouw VU, Aula, AmsterdamMap

Thu 29 Oct · 12:15

Learning with Communication in Multi-agent Deep Reinforcement Learning

PhD defence of C. Zhu

PhD defenceUUAcademiegebouw, Domplein 29, UtrechtMap

Thu 29 Oct · 12:30

Opportunities and Challenges in Applying Defined Co-cultures for Microbial Biotechnology

PhD defence of T. Fecker

PhD defenceTU DelftAula, DelftMap

Thu 29 Oct · 12:30

Quantifying the invisible

Op 29 oktober 2026 om 12:30 is de promotie van V. Malizia.

PhD defenceRUAula, NijmegenMap

Thu 29 Oct · 12:45

Finding balance in student well-being in higher education: perspectives on the role of educators

PhD defence of Rynke Douwes

Op 29 oktober 2026 12:45 promoveert Mw. R.M. (Rynke) Douwes aan de Rijksuniversiteit Groningen.Finding balance in student well-being in higher...

PhD defenceRUGAcademiegebouw RUG, GroningenMap

Thu 29 Oct · 13:00

De implicatie van dynamisch repetitief DNA bij de ziekte van Alzheimer

Rita Franco Paulo Guimarães promoveert op het proefschrift: 'The implication of dynamic repetitive DNA in Alzheimer’s disease'.

PhD defenceUvAAgnietenkapel, AmsterdamMap

Thu 29 Oct · 13:00

Greenhouse gas emissions from managed peat grasslands in the Netherlands

PhD defence Erne Blondeau

PhD defenceWUROmnia - Building 105, WageningenMap

Thu 29 Oct · 13:00

Online PhD defence Divya Nair Haridas

Life-course Pathways to Child Adiposity: The Role of Parenting Styles, Feeding Styles, and Home Environment

PhD defenceUMOnline, MaastrichtOnline

Thu 29 Oct · 13:00

lntraepidermal Keratinocyte Neoplasms Evaluation of Treatment and Care

PhD defence of Shima Ahmady

PhD defenceUMMaastricht

Thu 29 Oct · 13:00

Studenten in de sociale wetenschappen voorbereiden op duurzame loopbanen: het ontwikkelen van 21e-eeuwse vaardigheden in het hoger onderwijs

PhD defence of Aysegul Karaca Atik

PhD defenceEURCampus Woudestein, RotterdamMap

Thu 29 Oct · 13:00

The travels and manuscripts of Dr. Anthony Askew and the development of Greek epigraphy in the 18th century

Promotie van R.K. Pitt.

PhD defenceLeidenAcademiegebouw Rapenburg 73 2311 GJ LeidenMapFree to attend

Thu 29 Oct · 13:45

Impressions of the end of life: Engagement and empowerment of older people in advance care planning

PhD defence of T.D. Bergman

PhD defenceVUHoofdgebouw VU, Aula, AmsterdamMap

Thu 29 Oct · 14:00

Valorisatie van polykatoenen textielafval: een zure oplossing

Nienke Leenders promoveert op het proefschrift: 'Valorization of polycotton waste textiles: An acidic solution'.

PhD defenceUvAAula - Oude Lutherse kerk, AmsterdamMap

Thu 29 Oct · 14:15

Urinary Catecholamines in Neuroblastoma From Diagnosis to Relapse

PhD defence of Y.A.H. Matser

PhD defenceUUAcademiegebouw, Domplein 29 & online (livestream link), UtrechtMap

Thu 29 Oct · 14:30

PhD Defence Anneleen Dekker | One size does not fit all: A personalized approach to follow-up care for breast cancer survivors

PhD defenceUTWaaier, 4, EnschedeMap

Thu 29 Oct · 14:30

Let’s Talk Money

PhD defence of Josephien Jansen

Op 29 oktober 2026 14:30 promoveert Mw. J.L. (Josephien) Jansen aan de Rijksuniversiteit Groningen.Let’s Talk MoneyIn haar proefschrift geeft Josephien...

PhD defenceRUGAcademiegebouw RUG, GroningenMap

Thu 29 Oct · 14:30

Promotie T.C. van den Hoek

PhD defenceLeidenAcademiegebouwMap

Thu 29 Oct · 14:30

Tussen druppel en detectie: wat meten we eigenlijk met massaspectrometrie?

In dit proefschrift zijn nieuwe apparatuur en experimentele methoden ontwikkeld om chemische reacties nauwkeuriger en grotendeels geautomatiseerd te onderzoeken met massaspectrometrie.

PhD defenceRUAula, NijmegenMap

Thu 29 Oct · 15:00

On the smallest scales in high-resolution satellite radar altimetry

PhD defence of F. Ehlers

PhD defenceTU DelftAula, DelftMap

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