Working as a student assistant

Many Biosciences bachelor courses can only be taught with the help of student assistants. This means job opportunities for several dozens of biology students every year! So if you are looking for a decently paid job and would love to pass on your recently acquired knowlegde to your fellow students, why not give it a go! A student assistant job is not only a good way to earn some extra cash, but also a great addition to your CV. 

Every quarter Biosciences lecturers are looking for student assistants to help them out during their courses. Sometimes only during the tutorials, sometimes also for practicals. Depending on the course, the number of hours a student assistant will have to work ranges from 10 to 200 hours per quarter. Many lecturers look for suitable candidates themselves. However, if they need a little help finding good candidates, we will place a job ad on the BeeVee site. If you hoover with your mouse over 'Working as a student assistant' on the left of this page, a list will be shown of courses that currently have vacancies. If no list is shown, there are currently no vacancies. Vacancies usually show up as a new quarter approaches, so be sure to check the page every now and then. 

Alternatively, if you do not want to wait for a course coordinator to contact you or a job ad to appear, you can proactively make inquires about a possible vacancy yourself. Below you find a list of all courses that usually require student assistants. If you are interested in helping out during any of these courses or would like more information, do not hesitate to contact the course coordinator.

Note that if you are a non-EU student, you will need a work permit. It takes about 5-6 weeks to file all the paperwork, so keep that in mind when applying for a job as a student assistant.

Additionally, note that you need to be in the Netherlands to work as a student assistant.

If you have general questions about the position of a student assistant (e.g. concerning your contract, or how to claim hours worked), please contact coord.support-science@ru.nl

Note that the list below does not contain current vacancies. This is a list of all courses that usually require assistants.It is based on academic year 2024/2025, so be aware that some changes may occur in the next academic year. We (coord.support-science@ru.nl) will try to update the list as soon as possible after the course schedule for next year has been made available.

Quarter

Bach.year

Course

Contact information

Remarks

1

1

Introduction of the Bachelor programme + Evolution & Development of Plants + Animal evolution & Adaptation

Eduteam.biosciences@ru.nl

These are three courses. You are expected to assist in all three.

1

1

Statistics I

Peter Klaren – peter.klaren@ru.nl

 

1

2

Brain and Behaviour

Bernhard Englitz - b.englitz@donders.ru.nl

Contact students themselves (no official vacancy)

1

2

Animal physiology

Marnix Gorissen - Marnix.Gorissen@ru.nl

Contact students themselves (no official vacancy)

1

2

Microbial metabolism

Peter ter Horst - peter.terhorst@ru.nl

 

1

3

Systems ecology

Yvet Telgenkamp - yvet.telgenkamp2@ru.nl

Contact students themselves (no official vacancy)

1

3

Neural basis of motor control

Bernhard Englitz - b.englitz@donders.ru.nl

Contact students themselves (no official vacancy)

1

3

Biology and Society

Laurens Landeweerd - laurens.landeweerd@ru.nl

 

1

3

Ecological theory and data analysis

Eelke Jongejans – eelke.jongejans@ru.nl

Contact students themselves (no official vacancy)

1

3

Genomics for Health and Environment

Colin Logie - colin.logie@ru.nl

 

1

3

Environmental Toxicology

Cristiana Cannata - caterina.zillien@ru.nl

 

2

1

Research Skills - Bachelor

Eduteam.biosciences@ru.nl

 

2

1

Cellular biochemistry

Jo Zhou - Jo.Zhou@radboudumc.nl

 

2

1

Microbiology

Robert Jansen - robert.jansen@ru.nl

Need students to pour agar plates 

2

2

Intro to Environmental Science

Ad Ragas – ad.ragas@ru.nl

 

2

1

Molecular biology and Recombinant DNA

Colin Logie - Colin.Logie@ru.nl

 

2

2

Plant Physiology

Ivo Rieu - Ivo.rieu@ru.nl & Eric Visser – eric.visser@ru.nl

 

2

2

Genetics

Janny Peters - Janny.Peters@ru.nl

 

2

3

Neurodevelopment

Sharon Kolk - sharon.kolk@donders.ru.nl

 

2

3

Molecular Principles of Development

Hendrik Marks – hendrik.marks@ru.nl

 

2

3

Neurobiophysics

Marc van Wanrooij - marc.vanwanrooij@donders.ru.nl

 

3

1

Genomics & Big data

Akiko Minoda - -  aki.minoda@ru.nl

 

3

1

Histology

Juriaan Metz - Juriaan.Metz@ru.nl

 

3

1

Ecology

Hans de Kroon - Hans.deKroon@ru.nl

 

3

2

Ecophysiology of plants

Eric Visser - Eric.Visser@ru.nl

 

3

2

Neural basis of cognition and perception

Richard van Wezel - r.vanwezel@donders.ru.nl

 

3

2

Introduction to Plant Breeding

Janny Peters - Janny.Peters@ru.nl                

 

3

2

Statistics II

Peter Klaren – mailto:peter.klaren@ru.nl

 

3

3

Applied and environmental microbiology

Katinka van de Pas-Schoonen - katinka.vandepas-schoonen@ru.nl

Contact students themselves (no official vacancy)

3

3

Animal adaptation physiology

Marnix Gorissen - Marnix.Gorissen@ru.nl

 

4

1

Human Biology

Ineke van der Zee - Ineke.vanderzee@radboudumc.nl

 

4

1

Mathematics for biologists

Fleur Zeldenrust - fleur.zeldenrust@donders.ru.nl            

Often contact students themselves (no official vacancy)

4

1

Biodiversity

Wilco Verberk - wilco.verberk@ru.nl

Often contact students themselves (no official vacancy)

4

2

Endocrinology

Peter Klaren – peter.klaren@ru.nl & Juriaan Metz - juriaan.metz@ru.nl

 

4

2

Medical Embryology

Juliette Monquil - juliette.monquil2@ru.nl (or Sharon Kolk - s.kolk@donders.ru.nl)

Zoeken zelf

4

2

Population and evolutionary biology

Heidi Huber - heidrun.huber@ru.nl

 

4

2

Neurons & Synapses

Corette Wierenga - corette.wierenga@donders.ru.nl

 

4

2

Geographic Information Systems

Ad Ragas - ad.ragas@ru.nl 

Contact students themselves (no official vacancy)