Vacancies
Are you interested in joining our interdisciplinary team of ambitious researchers studying population issues? Then we welcome you to reply to the vacancies at NIDI advertised below (if not yet expired).
Postdoc Position in Future Longevity Inequalities
NIDI and the University of Amsterdam invite applications for a postdoc position at the University of Amsterdam Research Centre for Longevity Risk (RCLR). You will contribute to the research project Future Longevity Inequalities – a joint research project by RCLR and Prof. Fanny Janssen of NIDI. We are looking for talented and motivated researchers interested in modelling and projecting mortality by educational level, thereby distinguishing lifestyle-attributable mortality and remaining non-lifestyle-attributable mortality.
For more information on the vacancy and the application procedure see: Working at the University of Amsterdam [closing date: 21 June 2026].
PhD Position in Health Demography
NIDI has a vacancy for a PhD candidate in Health Demography. The focus of the PhD project will be to establish, using population-based data and novel methodology, how climate change relates to disease onset and whether green transitions can improve health. The project will leverage health indicators across the lifespan, geo-spatial data on climate, and individual engagement with green transitions behaviours.
For more information on the vacancy and the application procedure see: Jobs at KNAW [closing date: 9 June 2026].
Postdoctoral Researcher – GRAPHIA Project
NIDI has a vacancy for a Postdoctoral Researcher position within the Generations and Gender Programme (GGP) as part of the GRAPHIA project. This project contributes to the development of a Social Sciences and Humanities Knowledge Graph and AI-powered tools that improve how research data is found, connected, and used. The position focuses on integrating and interpreting cross-national survey data within this emerging technological framework.
For more information on the vacancy and the application procedure see: Jobs at KNAW [closing date: 8 June 2026].
Dissemination Officer – Generations and Gender Programme
NIDI has a vacancy for a Dissemination Officer position within the Generations and Gender Programme (GGP). This new position will help us promote the use and understanding of cross-national survey data to a wide range of stakeholders, including how the GGP data is found, connected, and used.
For more information on the vacancy and the application procedure see: Jobs at KNAW [closing date: 17 May 2026].
Postdoc position on family formation among sexual minorities
NIDI has a vacancy for a postdoc position on family formation among sexual minorities within the QPATHS project. The central aim of the project is to provide a comparative demographic account of parenthood trajectories among same- and different-sex couples across the Nordic countries. Using longitudinal population register data from Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden (1990-2021), you will study who becomes a parent and which micro- and macro-level factors explain these patterns.
For more information on the vacancy and the application procedure see: Jobs at KNAW [closing date: 5 May 2026].
Internships for Research Master students
We offer (Research) Master students of universities the opportunity to do an internship at NIDI. You can use this internship to write a master thesis, but it can also be part of a course in the curriculum that involves research activities. During the internship you can participate in one of the many interdisciplinary research projects that we are involved in. Available internships are shown below:
Research Internship: Harmonizing Migrant Surveys for the Integrated Migrant Panel Dataset (IMPD)
We are looking for a Master’s or Research Master’s student for a 1–3 month internship to contribute to an innovative data infrastructure project at NIDI. The project builds a new migrant panel by integrating data from several national migrant surveys with register data (over more than 20 years), creating the first nationally representative, longitudinal, and publicly accessible panel dataset on migrant groups in the Netherlands. The resulting Integrated Migrant Panel Dataset (IMPD) will enable researchers to study social, cultural, and socioeconomic dimensions of migrant integration over time — including cohort analyses that have so far rarely been possible.
For more information on the vacancy and the application procedure see: full vacancy description. The application deadline is April 20, 2026.
Vacancies elsewhere
University of Groningen:
Other vacancies in demography:
- In Europe: Population Europe
- In America: Population Association of America
- At the United Nations
