Positions
Postdocs
At present we do not have any open (i.e. funded) postdoc positions.
Interested candidates bringing - or applying for - their own funding (such as MSCA-IF, EMBO or HFSP postdoctoral fellowships) can contact .
In this case, please include your CV and a specific motivation and brief description of the topic you would like to work on.
PhD candidates
Exciting news as we have not one but two PhD student vacancies coming up!
Targeting the WNT/CTNNB1 pathway in breast cancer
Thanks to the award of a KWF project grant, we will soon be recruiting a PhD student to work on a project tentatively called "Targeting the WNT/CTNNB1 pathway in breast cancer".
All applications must be submitted through the official vacancy website in order to be processed, and you will find a link to the vacancy here as soon as it gets posted.
We expect interviews to be held March or April, with a potential starting date of the PhD project sometime between April and September 2026.
Improving human breast organoid technology
Thanks to the award of a starting grant to Dr. Caitrín Crudden, we will soon be recruiting a PhD student to work on a project tentatively called "Improving human breast organoid technology".
All applications must be submitted through the official vacancy website in order to be processed, and you will find a link to the vacancy here as soon as it gets posted.
We expect interviews to be held March or April, with a potential starting date of the PhD project sometime between April and September 2026.
Bioinformatician
We will soon be opening a vacancy for a temporary, two-year position for a bionformatician as part of our recently awarded KWF project "Targeting the WNT/CTNNB1 pathway in breast cancer".
You will be actively involved in developing our complex gene signature into a predictive classifier for breast cancer.
This will be an exciting opportunity to help translate our basic, fundamental research to a more clinical setting.
The work will entail collaborations within our own institute, as well as our with our collaborators at the NKI, Agendia and UCSF.
All applications must be submitted through the official vacancy website in order to be processed, and you will find a link to the vacancy here as soon as it gets posted.
We expect to hold the first interviews before the summer, with a potential starting date at the end of 2026 or early in 2027.
Technicians
We don't have any open positions at the moment.
Students
We receive frequent requests from students that are looking for summer internships.
Unfortunately, the lab does not offer these.
All internship positions for BSc and MSc students for 2025-2026 have been filled.
We are taking applications from BSc and MSc students who want to do an internship in 2026-2027.
See below for details and our selection procedure.
For students interested in joining us in the future, our research internship selection procedure and policies are as follows:
- We always aim for the best match between ongoing research projects in the lab, available supervisors, and different students based on mutual interest. Moreover, we strive for a mix between BSc and MSc students.
- The maximum number of students we can host at any one time is determined by the available bench space and supervision. Typically, this means that we have max. 5 positions available each academic year.
- In the past, we have always had more interest from students than we had spots available (we typically receive more than 20 applications), which is why we usually meet with all students and make our selection for the upcoming internship season (January-August) in late October or early November.
- You can always contact or or at an earlier time to add your name to the list of interested candidates.
When you approach us, please make sure your first e-mail is complete: include an up to date CV and a short motivation for why you are interested to work with us.
- Everything else being equal, we will give preference to students from the University of Amsterdam and, if needed, to students from programs/tracks/courses that the lab is actively involved in.
Note that we also have smaller or larger internship projects for the more computationally inclined:
- We have some bioinformatics and image analysis projects (and questions/problems) that are well suited for students from the MSc Systems Biology and Bioinformatics (collaboration with dr. Marten Postma) or the MSc major Big Biomedical Data Analysis (collaboration with dr. Martijs Jonker).
- For these students, a second supervisor with the relevant bioinformatics or image data analysis expertise will be sought.
- Interested? Then contact
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