PhD in Social Evolution and Behavioural Ecology National Museum of Natural Sciences (CSIC) in Spain

PhD positions are available in the newly established Batiuk lab at Heidelberg University / Heidelberg University Hospital, Institute of Human Genetics, Germany. The lab is recruiting its first doctoral researchers to study the biological mechanisms of PTSD after psychological trauma. Research topics include single-nuclei transcriptomics, epigenomics, human post-mortem brain research, and preclinical animal models, with the goal of identifying novel cell-type-specific therapeutic targets. This op...

PhD opportunity in Precision Psychiatry at the University of Barcelona (UB) and IDIBAPS. The newly funded FarmaPRED-OPTIM project is seeking highly motivated candidates for a PhD in Precision Medicine focused on improving prediction of antipsychotic treatment response in patients with first-episode psychosis. The research combines genomics, transcriptomics, epigenomics, statistical genetics, bioinformatics, and machine learning to build clinical prediction models. Core topics include polygenic r...

Stockholm University is advertising a PhD student position in Psychology within the Department of Psychology in Stockholm, Sweden. The project focuses on chronomedicine in psychiatry and investigates how the body’s internal biological clock may improve treatment effectiveness and functioning. The doctoral student will work on questions related to psychiatry, neuroscience, sleep and circadian biology, stress research, cognitive psychology, and physiology . Research activities include ecological m...

PhD opportunity at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona, Spain. This funded PhD project is part of the CRG International PhD Programme 2027 and focuses on decoding the molecular rules by which sensor proteins can monitor highly diverse and specific environmental chemicals . The project combines large-scale mutagenesis and functional data generation , AI-enhanced evolutionary modeling , and engineering of chemically inducible protein folds . It is a strong fit for candidates interes...

AMMlab at the University of Cádiz is announcing two upcoming openings linked to the funded HUNTInT project (PID2025-174604OB-I00) : one predoctoral contract (FPI) and one postdoctoral contract . The project focuses on striatal interneurons in Huntington's disease and their partial reprogramming , using single-nucleus RNA sequencing (snRNA-seq) and spatial transcriptomics in human post-mortem tissue and animal models. They are looking for candidates with a background in bioinformatics , in vivo e...