PhD Project: Bioinspired Robotics to Understand How Food Structure Affects Salivation, Mastication, Texture Perception and Swallowing French National Institute for Agriculture, Food, and Environment in France

PhD opening in Bioinspired Robotics and Food Oral Processing at the SayFood Research Unit, jointly associated with INRAE , AgroParisTech , and Université Paris-Saclay in Palaiseau, France . The project is directed by Marco Ramaioli and Anne Saint-Eve and focuses on how food structure affects salivation , mastication , texture perception , and swallowing . The research also includes sensors for real-time measurement of food and bolus properties and in vitro soft robotics calibrated with in vivo a...

CIFRE PhD opening in Thermochemical Response of Sorptive Materials at IRCELYON (CNRS / Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1) with industrial host Savery in Lyon, France . The project focuses on the thermodynamics and kinetics of sorptive materials, including heat release, ageing/regeneration, and thermal signatures at the material, coating, and component scale in dynamic humid air with trace compounds. The work sits at the intersection of physical chemistry , adsorption , materials science , heat an...

BEST – Between Earth and Sky in Toulouse is an international doctoral programme at the University of Toulouse, France, supported by the European Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) COFUND scheme. The call announces 19 fully funded PhD positions for researchers from around the world, with a planned start in September 2027. The programme covers a broad set of research themes tied to major scientific and societal challenges, including health and well-being, global change, energy, industrial trans...

PhD position in 3D nanoelectrode-engineered flexible epicortical brain probes for in vivo recording and stimulation . This interdisciplinary project sits at the interface of nanotechnology , flexible bioelectronics , materials science , electrical engineering , and neuroscience . The work will develop a new generation of flexible epicortical brain probes, combining flexible neural probe technologies developed at ICN2, Barcelona with 3D nanoelectrode technologies from LAAS-CNRS, Université de Tou...

PhD opportunity in 3D nanoelectrode-engineered flexible epicortical brain probes for in vivo recording and stimulation , at the interface of nanotechnology , flexible bioelectronics , neuroscience , microfabrication , and materials science . The project develops a new generation of flexible epicortical brain probes combining flexible neural probe technologies from ICN2, Barcelona with 3D nanoelectrode technologies from LAAS-CNRS, Université de Toulouse . The position is part of the BEST MSCA COF...