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

Simon Fraser University is inviting applications to its research-focused PhD programme in Linguistics for the Fall 2027 intake in Canada. The programme is designed for scholars pursuing advanced research on how language is structured, acquired, used and varied across communities. Potential research directions include language acquisition and cognition , linguistic diversity and variation, meaning and language use, phonetics and phonology, linguistic theory, and computational approaches to langua...

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 National Research Council Canada is recruiting a Postdoctoral Fellow in reinforcement learning and vision for a two-year appointment in Hamilton, Canada, within the Automotive and Surface Transportation organizational unit. The fellow will develop a graph-based inverse reinforcement learning framework to analyze and forecast human drivers’ eye-gaze scanpaths under adverse weather conditions. The project will infer reward structures underlying driver gaze behavior, use spectral graph analysis...

A fully funded research-based master's position is available in Anthropology at Université Laval in Québec City, Canada. The project examines everyday experiences with cochlear implants, with emphasis on multisensory perception, communication, and critical disability studies. The student will join Professor Stephanie Lloyd's work on the CIHR-funded Deafnesses project and develop a master's thesis connected to the social and lived dimensions of deafness, cochlear implantation, sensory experience,...

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...

The University of British Columbia is advertising three postdoctoral fellowships in the Men’s Health Research Program at the Vancouver campus (UBC Point Grey). These fellowships are designed for early-career researchers who want to build and lead an independent research program in men’s health. Research themes include coping and consumption (stress, adversity, trauma, alcohol, drugs, gambling, pornography, and other consumption behaviours), social connection (peer, partner, family, and community...

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...

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...