PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in Neurocognition in Australia

The Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language (BCBL) is recruiting a PhD researcher to join Nicola Molinaro’s Brain Rhythms and Cognition group in Donostia–San Sebastián, Spain. The PRO-LISTEN project examines how the adult brain adapts to learning and understanding an additional language. The research focuses on Spanish and Basque and uses naturalistic speech, longitudinal magnetoencephalography (MEG) recordings and computational modelling to investigate language-related brain dynamics ove...

Salvador Soto-Faraco’s Multisensory Research Group at Universitat Pompeu Fabra is seeking prospective early-career postdoctoral candidates for a 3-year Juan de la Cierva 2026 fellowship in Cognitive Neuroscience . The opportunity is suited to researchers working across neuroimaging , computational modeling , and signal processing . The project environment is interdisciplinary, combining cognitive neuroscience research with computational and engineering-oriented methods in a multisensory research...

The University of Nevada, Las Vegas is seeking a postdoctoral scholar to join research in neuroimaging within the Department of Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences in the School of Integrated Health Sciences. The role is centered on work with the UNLV MR Imaging Core (UMIC), a public brain imaging research facility that supports interdisciplinary investigation of brain function and brain health. The scholar will work on MRI-based research and development, with opportunities to contribute to t...

The Department of Psychology at the University of Jyväskylä is recruiting 1–2 fixed-term Doctoral Researchers for the Doctoral Programme in Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, starting 1 January 2027 for up to four years. The position is designed for candidates completing doctoral studies and is open to students with study right in the programme who are supervised by staff from the Department of Psychology. The role is embedded in a vibrant, international, and multidisciplinary research envir...

The Max Planck School of Cognition offers a doctoral programme in cognition based in Leipzig and delivered in English . It is a structured PhD programme designed to connect research across multiple fields, including artificial intelligence, biology, cognitive neuroscience, genetics, linguistics, mathematics, neurobiology, neuroimaging, neurology, neurophysics, philosophy, physics, psychiatry, and psychology. The programme is explicitly multidisciplinary and is aimed at excellent international ap...

[Fully funded studentship covering course fees up to home fee level, plus a tax-free stipend at the UKRI standard rate of no less than £22,460 per annum, with additional support for research expenses and conference attendance.] This DPhil project in cognitive neuroscience at the University of Oxford explores how the timing and coordination of brain network activity shape human cognition. Based in the Department of Psychiatry, the studentship focuses on the neural dynamics that support flexible b...

Funded PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience and Language is available through the Brain Rhythms and Cognition Group at the Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language (BCBL) in San Sebastián, Spain. The PRO-LISTEN project investigates the brain mechanisms underlying speech comprehension, multilingualism, and listening in challenging conditions. The position is a four-year, full-time doctoral opportunity funded by Spain’s Ministry of Science and includes research training. The successful candidate wi...

Erasmus University Rotterdam is offering a fully funded, salaried PhD position in Decision Neuroscience through the Erasmus Center for Neuroeconomics, hosted by the Marketing department of the Rotterdam School of Management. The project is open-ended: PhD candidates develop and execute their own research projects in consultation with advisers. Research may address decision-making, persuasive communication, emotions and choice, dishonesty, charitable giving, consumer judgments, advertising, neuro...

The University of Birmingham is recruiting a full-time Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Psychology, based at the Centre for Human Brain Health in Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK. The fixed-term appointment runs until November 2028 and carries a starting salary of £36,636–£46,049, with potential progression to £48,822. Working with Professor Ron Mangun and the wider research team, the postholder will contribute to human cognitive neuroscience research on visual processing and attention, re...