Type of contract CDD
Location Lyon, France
Status Available
The goal of this project is to exploit the experimental flexibility of Drosophila to elucidate how branched-chain amino acids (BCAAs) shape the sleep/wake cycle through inter-organ communication, via four aims: (1) monitor BCAA levels in the hemolymph and brain; (2) assess intracellular BCAA levels in GABAergic and dopaminergic neuronal circuits involved in sleep/wake regulation; (3) determine how neuronal activity influences intracellular BCAA levels; and (4) evaluate how BCAA-dependent pathways impact sleep/wake behavior.
Publiée le : 16/10/2026
Type of contract CDD
Location Paris, France
Status available
The PhD project will focus on the study of the cognitive, emotional, and social mechanisms involved in information processing and resistance to misinformation during adolescence. It will aim to better understand the factors that promote information literacy and critical evaluation of information, and to contribute to the design and evaluation of innovative interventions for misinformation prevention and the strengthening of critical thinking skills.
Publiée le : 14/10/2026
Type of contract CDD
Location Paris, France
Status available
The PhD project will focus on the study of the cognitive, emotional, and social mechanisms involved in information processing and resistance to misinformation during adolescence. It will aim to better understand the factors that promote information literacy and critical evaluation of information, and to contribute to the design and evaluation of innovative interventions for misinformation prevention and the strengthening of critical thinking skills.
Publiée le : 07/10/2026
Type of contract CDD
Location Strasbourg, France
Status available
We are looking for a highly motivated PhD candidate to study the mechanisms, dynamics and effects of neuromodulation in the olfactory cortex, focusing on cholinergic and GABAergic inputs from the basal forebrain. The project will primarily use fiber photometry recordings and optogenetic stimulations (Y. Sych, et al., Nature Methods 16, 553 (2019)) in mice performing an olfactory behavioral task.
The project is co-supervised by two scientists with complementary expertise, Y. Sych and D. Desaintjan. The candidate will be surrounded by researchers with diverse skills ranging from cellular and molecular neurobiology to neural network physiology and computational neuroscience. The position is fully funded for 36 months through a grant awarded in 2025 by the ANR, France's primary research funding agency.
Publiée le : 07/10/2026
Type of contract CDD
Location Saclay, France
Status available
La thèse étudie les mécanismes neuronaux de la formation d'une mémoire flexible chez la larve de Drosophila melanogaster. Le projet combine approches comportementales, neurogénétiques, imagerie calcique in vivo et données de connectome pour analyser l'apprentissage et la mémoire.
Publiée le : 30/09/2026
Type of contract CDD Doctorant - 36 mois
Location Marseille, France
Status available
Cette thèse du projet ERC-Synergy NASCE étudie les interactions entre régions cérébrales lors de l'analyse de scènes auditives naturelles. Elle mobilise des données MEG et SEEG, des analyses de connectivité, des méthodes multivariées et des chaînes d'analyse Python.
Publiée le : 30/09/2026
Type of contract CDD doctorant - 36 mois
Location TOULOUSE, France
Status available
Le projet étudie l'effet du vieillissement sur la synchronisation inter-cérébrale lors d'interactions sociales, à partir de mesures EEG, ECG et fNIRS chez des adultes jeunes et âgés. La thèse couvre la conception expérimentale, l'acquisition et l'analyse de données, l'apprentissage automatique et la valorisation scientifique.
Publiée le : 23/09/2026
Type of contract CDD doctorant - 36 mois
Location BRON, France
Status available
La thèse porte sur la représentation des événements sociaux et non sociaux dans l'esprit et le cerveau humains, chez les nourrissons et les adultes. Le projet mobilise notamment l'IRMf, l'EEG et la fNIRS pour étudier les corrélats neuronaux et la cognition humaine.
Publiée le : 23/09/2026
Type of contract CDD doctorant - 36 mois
Location BORDEAUX, France
Status available
La thèse étudie le rôle de protéines de surface dans la biologie des cellules souches de glioblastome et leurs interactions avec le microenvironnement tumoral. Le projet combine cultures et co-cultures avec neurones et astrocytes, analyses moléculaires et fonctionnelles, organoïdes et modèles murins.
Publiée le : 23/09/2026
Type of contract Doctorat financé - 36 mois
Location Lyon, France
Status available
Le projet vise à identifier les voies neurales actives pendant le sommeil paradoxal qui recrutent les neurones adultes nouvellement formés du bulbe olfactif et à déterminer leur rôle causal dans l'activation neuronale, la survie cellulaire et l'apprentissage olfactif.
Publiée le : 16/09/2026
Type of contract Doctorat financé - 36 mois
Location Lyon, France
Status available
Le projet étudie comment le sommeil paradoxal contribue à l'apprentissage perceptif olfactif via la régulation des neurones adultes nouvellement formés dans le bulbe olfactif et la réorganisation de l'activité cérébrale liée à l'apprentissage. Supervision : Nathalie Mandairon avec Pierre-Hervé Luppi ; candidatures à pierre-herve.luppi@cnrs.fr et nathalie.mandairon@cnrs.fr.
Publiée le : 09/09/2026
Type of contract CDD Doctorant - 36 mois
Location VILLEFRANCHE SUR MER, France
Status available
Le projet de thèse vise à élucider l'évolution de la sensation de pression chez le zooplancton et les mécanismes neuronaux associés. Les travaux mobiliseront notamment microscopie in vivo, neurobiologie expérimentale, génétique et analyses comportementales.
Publiée le : 09/09/2026
Type of contract Doctorat financé - 36 mois
Location Lyon, France
Status available
Le projet vise à identifier les voies neurales actives pendant le sommeil paradoxal qui recrutent les neurones adultes nouvellement formés du bulbe olfactif et à déterminer leur rôle causal dans l'activation neuronale, la survie cellulaire et l'apprentissage olfactif. Les approches annoncées comprennent polysomnographie, manipulation du sommeil paradoxal, traçage rabique monosynaptique, approches virales, optogénétique, photométrie de fibre et cartographie cérébrale quantitative.
Publiée le : 09/09/2026
Type of contract CDD Doctorant - 36 mois
Location MONTPELLIER, France
Status available
Publiée le : 01/09/2026
Type of contract CDD
Location Strasbourg, France
Status available
The study will involve a comparison between several species of primates (capuchin monkeys, baboons, great apes, humans), which will enable us to contrast the cognitive and social prerequisites involved and their impact on the performance of individuals within each species. The primates will be studied at several sites across Europe (zoos) with populations accustomed to performing cognitive tasks.
Publiée le : 22/07/2026
Type of contract CDD
Location Paris, France
Status available
This PhD project will investigate the emergence of body representations from infancy to childhood by combining functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), electroencephalography (EEG), and behavioural approaches.
Publiée le : 22/07/2026
Type of contract
Location Lyon, France
Status available
This thesis is part of the ANR Inflamage project, which aims to develop diffusion MRI markers
capable of detecting brain inflammation non-invasively.
Publiée le : 15/07/2026
Type of contract CDD
Location Lyon, France
Status available
We are looking for a student with a strong interest in developmental biology and morphogenesis
Publiée le : 08/07/2026
Type of contract CDD
Location Toulouse, France
Status available
This PhD project aims to investigate how gut microbiota variation shapes cognitive abilities and division of labour in the honey bee (Apis mellifera).
Publiée le : 01/07/2026
Type of contract CDD
Location Marseille, France
Status available
The PhD project will first investigate whether thematic and word-for-word repetition differentially influence perceived truth for both trivia and conspiracy statements. In a second step, the project will examine whether retrieving verbatim (literal) and gist (meaning-based) memory representations contributes to these effects, using an original experimental procedure and multinomial processing tree models.
Publiée le : 24/06/2026
Type of contract CDD
Location Paris, France
Status available
Role of excitatory glycinergic receptors (eGlyRs) in the ventral hippocampus (HPCv) in modulating sleep markers and regulating contextual emotional memories
Publiée le : 24/06/2026
Type of contract CDD
Location Paris, France
Status available
The goal is to investigate how the nonlinear and compartmentalised neuron's dendritic tree gives rise to recurrent network-like dynamic operations. As a part of this work we will examine how the in vivo-like network activity impacts dendritic dynamics and output.
Publiée le : 24/06/2026
Type of contract
Location Brest, France
Status available
La thèse portera sur l'identification de biomarqueurs vocaux et paraverbaux prédictifs de l'évolution clinique de patients atteints de la maladie de Parkinson.
Publiée le : 17/06/2026
Type of contract CDD
Location Caen, France
Status available
This project is at the interface between neuroscience, nanomedicine and translational pharmacology, with strong potential for clinical innovation in the treatment of acute and chronic brain injuries.
Publiée le : 10/06/2026
Type of contract CDD
Location Nantes, France
Status available
The aim of this PhD project is to test the beneficial effects of a targeted nutritional supplementation during gestation on the deleterious cerebral consequences of intrauterine growth retardation (IUGR).
Publiée le : 10/06/2026
Type of contract
Location Aalborg, Aarhus, Copenhagen and Odens, Denmark
Status available
Neuroscience Academy Denmark (NAD) invites exceptional and highly motivated candidates to apply for 16 fully funded neuroscience PhD fellowships.
Publiée le : 10/06/2026
Type of contract 2300
Location , France
Status available
We are looking for a Lab Manager to help establish a new group studying shark embryos to understand the origin of the vertebrate brain. Reach out if this motivates you.
Publiée le : 03/06/2026
Type of contract CDD
Location Paris, France
Status Available
This PhD project will take place at the Institut de l'Audition, in Dr Jérémie Barral's team.
Publiée le : 28/05/2026
Type of contract CDD
Location Caen, France
Status Available
The main objective of this thesis is to deepen our understanding of individual cognitive and brain specificities, with the ambition of leveraging the most developed and/or preserved capacities while bypassing altered or less efficient cognitive strategies.
Publiée le : 19/05/2026
Type of contract CDD
Location Saclay, France
Status available
The candidate will integrate quantitative 3D histology and tissue biomechanics, oculomotor behavioral tests in mutant mice, and mathematical modeling, to develop a predictive multiscale framework linking muscle structure to coordinated motor outputs. By establishing how tissue architecture constrains oculomotor performance, this work will transform not only our understanding of the oculomotor system but also provide a generalizable framework for interrogating complex neuromuscular systems.
Publiée le : 06/05/2026
Type of contract Contrat doctoral
Location Caen, France
Status available
These visant a explorer les alterations des micro-etats du sommeil paradoxal en lien avec les biomarqueurs precoces d'Alzheimer (polysomnographie, IRM, TEP, biomarqueurs plasmatiques). Debut : octobre 2026. Encadrants : G. Rauchs et collaborateur.
Publiée le : 29/04/2026
Type of contract
Location Marseille, France
Status available
Thèse à Aix-Marseille Université / INT sur la dynamique de populations neuronales impliquées dans la planification motrice prospective. Le projet exploite des enregistrements chroniques multi-aires, le suivi oculomoteur et des analyses d'espaces d'états.
Publiée le : 22/04/2026
Type of contract
Location Marseille, France
Status available
Thèse à Aix-Marseille Université / INMED sur les bases moléculaires des altérations d'excitabilité dans des malformations corticales associées à l'épilepsie. Le projet combine transcriptomique, biologie moléculaire, injections stéréotaxiques, histologie et tests de susceptibilité aux crises.
Publiée le : 22/04/2026
Type of contract CDD
Location Lyon, France
Status available
The ability to categorize sounds - distinguishing a human voice from background noise, recognizing a distress call despite ambient interference - is a fundamental cognitive function of the brain. When this ability is impaired, as in autism spectrum disorder the consequences on quality of life can be profound. Yet the neural mechanisms by which the brain forms auditory categories remain largely unknown.
Publiée le : 22/04/2026
Type of contract CDD
Location Lyon, France
Status available
Thèse au CRNL (Université Lyon 1) sur le développement d'une plateforme audio spatiale pour la catégorisation auditive chez les animaux non humains.
Publiée le : 16/04/2026
Type of contract CDD
Location Paris, France
Status available
Doctorat à l'Institut de la Vision (Paris) portant sur la manipulation optique bi-photonique de circuits hippocampiques chez l'animal en mouvement libre.
Publiée le : 16/04/2026
Type of contract CDD
Location Tours, France
Status available
Publiée le : 08/04/2026
Type of contract CDD
Location Strasbourg, France
Status available
Doctoral position open to the doctoral school competition for a candidate with a Master in neuroscience or related field. The project focuses on neuroglia interactions or neuropeptidergic regulation of emotions and values patch-clamp, calcium imaging and Python skills.
Publiée le : 08/04/2026
Type of contract CDD
Location Nouzilly, France
Status available
Thèse en neurosciences sociale et de la reproduction au laboratoire PRC (Physiologie de la Reproduction et des Comportements).
Publiée le : 08/04/2026
Type of contract CDD
Location Marseille, France
Status available
Publiée le : 25/03/2026
Type of contract CDD
Location Marseille, France
Status available
Publiée le : 25/03/2026
Type of contract CDD
Location Marseille, France
Status available
Thèse en neurosciences à Aix-Marseille Université sur les séquelles neurométaboliques du paludisme cérébral expérimental. Deadline : 27 avril 2026.
Publiée le : 25/03/2026
Type of contract CDD
Location Marseille, France
Status available
Thèse à Aix-Marseille sur les interactions gène-environnement dans les troubles neurodéveloppementaux impliquant les circuits GABAergiques et du sommeil. Deadline : 27 avril 2026.
Publiée le : 25/03/2026
Type of contract CDD
Location Marseille, France
Status available
Thèse à Aix-Marseille Université sur les jumeaux numériques du cerveau pour optimiser la stimulation à interférence temporelle dans les maladies neurologiques. Deadline : 27 avril 2026.
Publiée le : 25/03/2026
Type of contract
Location Grenoble, France
Status available
PhD project investigating astrocyte-synapse interactions using multimodal cryogenic microscopy. Focus on structural and functional plasticity.
Publiée le : 25/03/2026
Type of contract CDD-36 months
Location Marseille, France
Status Available
We are looking for a highly motivated student with background in brain anatomy and neurometabolism, an interest in imaging, and hands-on experience with animal use in scientific procedures.
Publiée le : 19/03/2026
Type of contract CDD
Location Toulouse, France
Status available
The candidate will work on a project co-funded by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) and Austrian Science Fund (FWF). The project examines the role of the cerebellum in speech processing, a research question that is rapidly gaining in importance.
Publiée le : 12/03/2026
Type of contract CDD
Location Leiden, Netherlands
Status available
We are seeking a talented and motivated PhD student to join a FNRS funded research project investigating the neuroendocrine control of memory, with a focus on kisspeptin?GnRH circuits in the adult and aging mouse brain. The successful candidate will join the dynamic scientific community of the GIGA Institute and will have access to state-of-the-art technological platforms, advanced training opportunities, and a highly collaborative research environment.
Publiée le : 05/03/2026
Type of contract CDD
Location Bordeaux, France
Status available
The Cortical Plasticity Lab at Neurocentre Magendie has four open PhD positions in fundamental/preclinical neuroscience.
Publiée le : 18/02/2026
Type of contract CDD
Location Marseille, France
Status available
This PhD aims to understand how the human brain processes real-world auditory scenes (environmental sounds, multi-source mixtures) and identify the mechanisms enabling their analysis and interpretation.
Publiée le : 21/01/2026