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

Applications are open for the 2026 John G. Bene Fellowship from the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) . This student award supports master’s and doctoral students conducting field research in the Global South for their thesis work. It is designed for students whose academic background combines an interest in forests with social sciences , and whose research examines the relationship between forest resources and the social, economic, cultural, and environmental welfare of people in...

Postdoctoral position in modeling conversational structure and interactions for the ANR-MINERAL project at Université Paris-Saclay in Orsay, France , within the LIPS Team at the Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire des Sciences du Numérique (LISN) . The project sits at the intersection of natural language processing , speech processing , machine learning , and computational analysis of dialogue/conversation. Applicants should have a PhD in one of these areas and be comfortable working with Python and ...

PhD position in automatic control at Université de Lorraine in Nancy, France, within the Control Identification Diagnosis (CID) Department, CRAN . The project focuses on heterogeneity in federated learning using an open multi-agent systems approach, bringing together ideas from control theory, machine learning, optimization, and applied mathematics. Eligibility: applicants should hold a Master's or engineering degree in automatic control, machine learning, optimization, or applied mathematics, a...

Postdoctoral position in AI, NLP, document understanding, information retrieval, and cybersecurity within the RESILIENCE joint laboratory at La Rochelle Université , France. The research focuses on automatically inferring the sensitivity level of a document by combining sensitive information scattered throughout its content. This sits at the intersection of artificial intelligence , natural language processing , information retrieval , data science , and cybersecurity . Applicants with experienc...

Fully funded PhD position in Computer Science at Télécom Paris and Télécom SudParis in France , within the MM Team at LTCI and the ARMEDIA Team at SAMOVAR . The project is part of the PARIS-funded SIGMA initiative and focuses on graph signal processing and graph machine learning . This is a strong fit for candidates interested in computational methods, data-driven modeling, and mathematically grounded machine learning. Eligibility: MSc/M2 or equivalent in computer science, data science, engineer...

Fully funded research visits are available in AI for applied economics at École normale supérieure de Lyon in France , through CERGIC, Center for Economic Research on Governance, Inequality, and Conflict . This opportunity is aimed at PhD students and postdoctoral researchers in economics , with a strong interest in using artificial intelligence , text analysis , or machine learning in research projects. The post describes the visits as fully funded . No tuition or fee waiver is mentioned, and n...

CNRS is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher for the ERC-funded MOVING project, led by Prof. Véronique BENEÏ at the Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Politique (LAP), based at EHESS, Paris . The project studies the embodied traces and memories of African-originated slavery in diasporic contexts, with a focus on the Colombian Caribbean and the broader themes of anthropology , ethnology , ethnographic methods , arts-based research , and interdisciplinary social science. The successful candidate will con...

Postdoctoral Researcher in Data Science & Machine Learning for Financial Fraud Detection at Université d'Orléans (France). This postdoctoral position is hosted by the Laboratoire d'Économie d'Orléans (LEO) and focuses on developing interpretable and operational machine learning and deep learning methods for fraud detection across insurance, social contributions, and banking. The project addresses major practical challenges in detecting anomalous behaviour, suspicious networks, and emerging fraud...

Postdoctoral Researcher in Music Research and Acoustics (M/F) at CNRS in Aix-en-Provence, France . This postdoctoral opening is part of the RAMHO project ( Musical Acoustics and Research in France: An Oral History ), which studies how musical practices were transformed in the second half of the 20th century by sound analysis, synthesis, processing, and the rise of scientific knowledge about sound. The project combines archival research and oral history interviews to document the development of m...