PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in High Performance Computing in France

Post-doctoral researcher in DAS seismology at the University of Strasbourg / ITES – Institut Terre et Environnement de Strasbourg (UMR 7063), France. This 18-month postdoctoral opportunity is part of DASEC (Deep listening: fiber-optic seismology in the Antarctic ice sheet) , a two-year project funded by the Université de Strasbourg through a USIAS Fellowship . The project focuses on deploying and analysing DAS fibre-optic seismology in Antarctica, with fieldwork planned for the 2027–2028 austral...

PhD Opportunity at CEA, France (Paris-Saclay region) This post advertises a PhD position in multiscale modeling , molecular dynamics , hydrodynamics , and agentic AI at CEA , in collaboration between Maison de la Simulation and CEA DAM . The research topic is “Multiscale Modeling of Interface Instabilities under Dynamic Loading: From Atoms to Continuum in the Era of Agentic AI.” The project focuses on Richtmyer–Meshkov and Rayleigh–Taylor instabilities in materials under extreme dynamic loading....

Postdoctoral position in multiscale and transient modeling of fluid flows in 3D woven reinforcements at SAFRAN Site de Villaroche and Centre des Matériaux, Mines Paris - PSL University , based at Campus de l'Innovation, Versailles, France . The project focuses on 3D woven interlock composites for LEAP and RISE engines , RTM injection , and high-performance computing . Research topics include transient two-phase flow modeling in large-scale 3D textile architectures at mesoscopic scale, permeabili...

Postdoctoral position in High-Performance Computing for multi-physics simulations of solar receivers with fluidized beds at PROMES-CNRS Laboratory in France. The project is part of LBM4HPC: Lattice Boltzmann for Exascale and focuses on high-fidelity modeling of wall-to-bed heat transfer in high-temperature solar receivers for concentrated solar power (CSP) . Research topics include: (1) high-fidelity simulations using the waLBerla framework with DEM + LBM and radiative heat transfer; (2) multi-p...

Postdoctoral Researcher position in Hazardous Heat and Climate Change in West Africa at Aix-Marseille Université (AMU), based in Marseille, France. The post is hosted at the Faculté des Sciences Médicales et Paramédicales, Campus Timone , within the SESSTIM research unit and the QuanTIM team, an interdisciplinary environment spanning epidemiology, public health, statistics, computer science, and data science. The project, Heat Extremes & Risk Observatory – Ghana (HERO-GH) , addresses hazardous h...

Inria is advertising a postdoctoral research visit in graybox tunneling for multi-objective combinatorial optimization , with a strong emphasis on algorithm design , parallel computing , and high-performance computing (HPC) . The project focuses on extending tunneling principles to the multi-objective setting, exploring Pareto local optima, and developing scalable methods for problems such as NK-landscapes , SAT , and TSP . The researcher will work on designing new tunneling algorithms, hybrid i...

Inria’s Centre at the University of Rennes is advertising a PhD position in computational storage for scientific computing and artificial intelligence / machine learning . The thesis will be hosted by the KerData team in Rennes, France, with supervision from researchers at Inria and collaboration with partners in Germany. The project studies how to reduce data movement by co-locating compute with storage, and how to model, evaluate, and scale computational storage systems for distributed environ...