PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in Ecology in France

INRAE Doctoral Contracts are salaried PhD positions hosted by France’s national research institute for agriculture, food and the environment. The institute has around 272 research units across France, giving doctoral researchers access to a wide national research network. These contracts support doctoral research linked to INRAE’s scientific areas, especially agriculture, food, ecology and the environment. The position is structured as a work contract rather than a stipend, so doctoral researche...

The Alpine Ecology Laboratory (LECA), a joint research unit of the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), Grenoble Alpes University, and Savoie Mont Blanc University, is seeking a postdoctoral researcher for a project on the recent upslope shift of the treeline in the Alps and the Pyrenees. The project will examine how vegetation history, historical forests, land-use changes, and present-day site conditions have shaped recent changes in the upper forest limit. One research object...

This postdoctoral position at La Rochelle Université focuses on quantitative ecology within a project developing a digital twin approach for marine ecology and conservation. The work builds on an existing simulation framework for individual movement trajectories and aims to move from individual-scale predictions to population-scale dynamics. The researcher will develop quantitative and statistical methods to aggregate simulated individual trajectories into population-level patterns of movement a...

INRAE is offering a three-year PhD thesis in spatio-temporal modeling and extrapolation of ecological networks at the BioSP (Biostatistics and Spatial Processes) unit in Avignon, France. The project aims to improve understanding and prediction of the natural regulation of crop pests, supporting reduced pesticide use and sustainable agroecology. The research will develop statistical and artificial intelligence methods to extrapolate ecological networks linking plants, pests, and natural enemies f...

Fully funded PhD opportunity in France/Spain within the European TERRA-MED programme . The Université de Montpellier (France) and the University of the Balearic Islands (Spain) are offering a three-year PhD project on plant–mosquito–microbe interactions and their implications for pathogen transmission . The research combines field-based ecological investigations with controlled laboratory experiments , making it a strong fit for candidates interested in biology , ecology , medical entomology , v...

M2 internship offer in modelling the response of lake phytoplankton to temperature variations using a hybrid approach that couples a mechanistic model with neural networks . This opportunity is shared by Télesphore Sime-Ngando , Directeur de Recherche Classe Exceptionnelle at CNRS . The project sits at the intersection of Biology , Environmental Science , Computer Science , and Mathematics , with a strong focus on ecological modelling, lake systems, and data-driven/physics-informed methods. It i...

Master 2 internship offer for 2027 on aquatic biodiversity and the functioning of wetlands . The post announces a Stage M2 (Master 2 internship) related to wetland ecosystems, biodiversity, and ecological functioning. This is a student opportunity rather than a PhD or postdoctoral opening. The announcer shown is Télesphore Sime-Ngando , a Directeur de Recherche Classe Exceptionnelle at CNRS . The post excerpt does not provide the host university, location, funding, deadline, or detailed eligibil...