项目介绍

2024年4月11日

Your function

The Department of Mathematics of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam welcomes applications for a fully-funded, 4-year PhD position in Geometry and Dynamics. The PhD research will focus on the relationship between symplectic invariants and periodic orbits of Hamiltonian systems on manifolds. The PhD position is embedded in the ‘Center for Topology and Applications Amsterdam’ (CTA²), based at our department. We are an inclusive, interdisciplinary group, and diversity and internationalism is at the heart of our research principles, as well as our teaching practice.

The preferred starting date is around 01.09.2024

Applications from all groups currently under-represented in academic posts are especially encouraged. We particularly welcome applications from women and people with an ethnic minority background.

Your duties

• doing research towards writing a PhD thesis
• teaching tasks (roughly 15% of your time), for instance supervising exercise classes

Your profile

• a (prospective) MSc. degree in Mathematics (or an equivalent thereof)
• good communication skills in English