PhD positions

Listings last refreshed Sep 8, 2026. Deadlines may have passed since.

• PhD position Neuroscience (opens in new tab)

  University of Groningen · Groningen · Netherlands

  Understanding how patterns of neural activity give rise to behavior is a central challenge in neuroscience. Most of what we know about this relationship comes from rodent experiments performed under tightly controlled l…

  Closed Sep 18, 2026

  AcademicTransfer · Netherlands · posted 2 months ago · older posting, may have been filled

• PhD Candidate in NeuroAI for Auditory Neuroscience (opens in new tab)

  Maastricht University (UM) · Maastricht · Netherlands

  Welcome to Maastricht University! How does the human brain transform complex natural sounds into meaningful percepts, and can artificial neural networks help us understand this process? Join the NASCE project and combin…

  Closed Sep 20, 2026

  AcademicTransfer · Netherlands · posted 8 weeks ago

• PhD candidate 'Neuroplasticity of Brain Stimulation in Depression' (opens in new tab)

  Radboud University Medical Center (Radboudumc) · Nijmegen · Netherlands

  Job description Join a unique translational neuroscience project! We are looking for an enthusiastic and ambitious PhD candidate to join a new multidisciplinary research programme investigating how ECT restores neuropla…

  Closed Sep 23, 2026

  AcademicTransfer · Netherlands · posted 8 weeks ago

• MSCA-DN PhD position in translational in vivo neuroscience (Leiden, NL) (opens in new tab)

  Amsterdam UMC · Amsterdam · Netherlands

  The POLARIS training network POLARIS is a European Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Network focused on accelerating therapy development for leukodystrophies: rare genetic disorders affecting the brain white matter. The n…

  Closed Oct 5, 2026

  AcademicTransfer · Netherlands · posted 8 weeks ago

• PhD Position – Medicine, Biology, Neuroscience (opens in new tab)

  Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf · Düsseldorf · Germany

  Project description: The Hector Fellow Academy offers you the opportunity to realize a self-developed research project under supervision Prof. Katrin Amunts. She is one of the Hector Fellows, a community of outstanding…

  Closed Oct 15, 2026

  DAAD PhDGermany · posted 2 months ago · older posting, may have been filled

• PhD candidate "When vascular clearance fails: can brain networks be restored?" (opens in new tab)

  University of Amsterdam (UvA) · Amsterdam · Netherlands

  Are you looking for a neuroscience PhD project with clear clinical relevance? Do you want to study how brain networks become disrupted and how we might restore them? Are you excited to test novel interventions that targ…

  Closed Oct 15, 2026

  AcademicTransfer · Netherlands · posted 8 weeks ago

• Assistant Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience/Cognitive Psychology (opens in new tab)

  Rice University · Houston, Texas · United States

  The Department of Psychological Sciences at Rice University (Houston, Texas) invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position to begin July 1, 2027. This position is in Cognitive Psychology/Cognitive…

  Closed Oct 16, 2026

  AcademicJobsOnline · posted 8 weeks ago

• PhD Research Fellow in Machine Learning for Cognitive Neuroscience (ref 306376) (opens in new tab)

  University of Oslo · Norway

  We are seeking an ambitious candidate to develop Machine Learning models and frameworks for time series analysis, aimed at understanding how the human brain encodes information.The position is placed in the Digital Sign…

  No deadline listed. Many labs and rolling programs post without one, check the source

  EURAXESS · EU portal · posted 3 months ago · older posting, may have been filled

• MRICD Neuroscience Research Opportunity (opens in new tab)

  Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD · United States

  No deadline listed. Many labs and rolling programs post without one, check the source

  ORISE/Zintellect · US federal labs · posted 3 months ago · older posting, may have been filled

• Assistant Project Scientist Control Theory for Theoretical Neuroscience (opens in new tab)

  University of California, Berkeley · Location unknown

  University of California, Berkeley: Assistant Project Scientist – Control Theory for Theoretical Neuroscience – Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute Position overview Positi Berkeley

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  Inside Higher Ed · posted 3 months ago · older posting, may have been filled

• Assistant Professor - Computational Neuroscience - Department of Neuroscience (opens in new tab)

  University of California, Berkeley · Location unknown

  University of California, Berkeley: Assistant Professor - Computational Neuroscience - Department of Neuroscience Position overview Position title: Assistant Professor Berkeley

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  Inside Higher Ed · posted 3 months ago · older posting, may have been filled

• Cognitive Neuroscience Research Fellowship (opens in new tab)

  Bossier City, LA · United States

  No deadline listed. Many labs and rolling programs post without one, check the source

  ORISE/Zintellect · US federal labs · posted 5 months ago · older posting, may have been filled

• USAMRICD In-Vivo Neuroscience Research Internship Opportunity (opens in new tab)

  United States

  No deadline listed. Many labs and rolling programs post without one, check the source

  ORISE/Zintellect · US federal labs · posted 8 months ago · older posting, may have been filled

• Neuroscience Research Opportunity (opens in new tab)

  Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD · United States

  No deadline listed. Many labs and rolling programs post without one, check the source

  ORISE/Zintellect · US federal labs · posted 21 months ago · older posting, may have been filled