PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in Neuropsychology in Canada

The Tanz Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases at the University of Toronto is seeking a Research Associate to join the laboratory of Dr. Gabor G. Kovacs for a 12-month limited-term appointment. This position is centered on translational research into the molecular and biochemical mechanisms of neurodegenerative disease, with a particular focus on tauopathies and other proteinopathies. The project integrates human postmortem brain tissue, protein biochemistry, cellular disease models...

The University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, Canada, invites applications for a full-time Research Associate position in neural stem cell biology and brain repair. Working under the supervision of Dr. Freda Miller in the Michael Smith Laboratories, the successful researcher will investigate the cellular and molecular mechanisms that enable limited mammalian brain repair. The project focuses on neural stem cells and microglia in mouse models of brain repair. The researcher will apply si...

Université Laval in Québec City, Canada, is offering a fully funded PhD position in Anthropology focused on living with cochlear implants , sensory experience, neurotechnologies, and evidence. The project is part of the CIHR-funded Deafnesses project and is supervised by Professor Stephanie Lloyd in the Department of Anthropology. The research examines how people experience and live with cochlear implants, with attention to sensory experience, deafness, clinical contexts, and the broader implica...

Two postdoctoral fellowships are available through McGill University’s interdisciplinary Citadel of the Mind project, led by Professor Blake Richards and supported by the Schmidt Sciences Polymath Award. The project sits at the intersection of artificial intelligence, neuroscience, cognitive science, psychometrics, and video games , with the goal of developing new approaches to understanding intelligence and the mind. The first position, Postdoctoral Fellow – Cognitive Assessment and Psychometri...

Postdoctoral Researcher in Multimodal Machine Learning for Human Neurotypes at McGill University (Montreal Neuro) This postdoctoral opening focuses on building a foundation model of human neurotypes by integrating cognitive task performance, conversational text, biometric data, psychometrics, and other multimodal signals. The project emphasizes self-supervised representation learning, multimodal architectures, latent-space modeling of individual differences, and rigorous evaluation of robustness...

Funded PhD opportunity in NeuroAI and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Toronto , in Y. Helena Liu’s incoming research group and the Department of Psychology (AI for Psychological Sciences). This opening is aimed at students interested in interdisciplinary research spanning neuroscience, psychology, computer science, statistics, mathematics, physics, and engineering. The post highlights that applicants from these fields are welcome, and that scientific programming experience plus b...

Fully funded PhD opportunity in Parkinson's disease and bone health at the University of British Columbia (Okanagan Campus) , Canada. The project is associated with the Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Management in the Faculty of Medicine and is supervised by Dr. Sarah Purcell and Dr. Daryl Wile . Relevant academic areas include medical science , neuroscience , nutrition , kinesiology , exercise science , public health , and chronic disease prevention. The post specifically highlights ...

Postdoctoral Research Fellow position at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver Campus, in the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences / Kumar Lab under Dr. Ujendra Kumar . The project focuses on neuroscience and medical science topics including excitotoxicity , neurodegenerative disease models , and Alzheimer’s disease . Research activities include validating biomarkers, testing small-molecule therapeutics in animal models, and evaluating the neuroprotective and behavioral effects of ca...

McGill University is advertising a Post-Doctoral Researcher position in Cognitive Assessment and Psychometrics at Montreal Neuro in Canada. The role is part of the Citadel of the Mind project, an ambitious research initiative supported by a Schmidt Sciences Polymath Award. The project aims to build a high-dimensional AI foundation model of human neurotypes using a mobile and browser-based puzzle video game that collects both quantitative cognitive-test data and qualitative conversational AI data...