The Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, seeks to appoint a full-time PhD candidate to carry out research in Paleolithic Archaeology. The successful candidate will join the Department of World Archaeology of our Faculty. The research should lead you to obtain a PhD within a four-year timeframe (1.0 FTE).

The PhD candidate will be supervised by Dr Wei Chu (PI), Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University. The PhD candidate’s research is part of the ERC-funded Consolidator grant: HOME: Palaeolithic shelters in East-Central Europe.

The HOME project is divided into four interconnected Work Packages (WP) The successful candidate will be expected to contribute to WP4 where we will collect primary data on shelter use from karstic deposits in the Carpathians, under the supervision of the PI and in collaboration with other team members and make substantive contributions to other work packages.