The Donders Graduate School includes a vibrant community of highly talented national and international PhD candidates, with over 500 PhD candidates enrolled. Their backgrounds cover a wide range of disciplines, from physics to psychology, medicine to psycholinguistics, and biology to artificial intelligence. Similarly, their interdisciplinary research covers genetic, molecular, and cellular processes at one end and computational, system-level , and clinical neuroscience with cognitive and behavioural analysis at the other end.
We expect from our PhD candidates that they are curiosity-driven people, have a passion for neuroscience, are eager to learn, show commitment to the Donders Graduate School and Donders Institute and have the ambition to excel.
On these staff pages we provide detailed information on training opportunities and the graduate school certificate, checkpoints and monitoring in Hora Finita, guidelines and other relevant information on finishing your PhD.
Proof of registration as PhD candidate
In case you need proof of registration to use for housing, conferences etc, please send an email to dgcncoordinator [at] donders.ru.nl (dgcncoordinator[at]donders[dot]ru[dot]nl).
PhD Newsletter
Every month, the PhD council in collaboration with the Graduate School, send out a newsletter, with relevant events and other announcements. Please use the form below to sign up.
Other useful resources
As an employee at the Donders Institute, you are part of a wider academic ecosystem. To help you navigate this landscape, we have gathered a selection of helpful resources and organisations that support PhD candidates throughout their journey.
From official regulations and university-wide information to national networks and international initiatives, these links offer valuable guidance, support, and opportunities to connect with fellow researchers. Explore the list below to find what is relevant to you, especially if you are new to Dutch academia!
- Changes in supervision team: the procedure to change your supervision team in Hora Finita.
- Doctorate Regulations: All PhD candidates within the Donders Graduate School follow the Doctorate Regulations set by the University.
- uu77 PhD website: This website contains all the generic information about PhD trajectories at the uu77.
- : For those of you new to the Dutch Academic environment.
- : The organisation that represents all junior researchers of the uu77. Here you can also subscribe to the mailinglist (very useful!).
- : is looking after the interests of PhD candidates and promotes the quality of PhD research.
- helps to improve and promote training for junior researchers, i.e. education for PhD candidates.
- : The council for postgraduate students and junior researchers in Europe.