PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in Material Characterization in France

CNRS, at the Institut Pprime site on the Futuroscope campus in Poitiers, is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher for the ANR MAFIA project. The project brings together academic partners in France, including IC2MP, Institut Pprime, and ICMCB in Bordeaux, together with industrial partner Sunergy, around innovative zinc-air battery architectures and electrochemical energy conversion. The postdoctoral work focuses on the development of state-of-the-art transmission electron microscopy methods to cha...

This postdoctoral project is centered on the direct conversion of CO2 into liquid fuels through a Fischer-Tropsch-based route. The research addresses a major challenge for low-carbon transport: transforming captured carbon dioxide and hydrogen from renewable electricity into synthetic fuels that can fit existing infrastructure and fleets. The position is hosted at IMT Mines Albi-Carmaux and is part of a collaborative effort involving two laboratories, RAPSODEE in Albi and LCC in Toulouse . The w...

This postdoctoral project is part of WAXUP , a recycling chemistry project funded under the French PEPR Recyclage programme (France 2030). The work targets the valorisation of solid residues from multilayer packaging recycling, especially the polyAl fraction remaining after hydropulping of cartons such as Tetra Pak®. The scientific goal is to transform these residues by slow pyrolysis into high-value paraffinic waxes that can replace petro-sourced waxes in industrial formulations. The project ai...

The IMVIA laboratory at the University of Burgundy is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher for the FLUO project , an ANR-funded research project focused on computational imaging for measuring the reflectance of materials, including fluorescence through the Donaldson matrix . The successful candidate will join a project that combines optical instrumentation , spectral imaging , and computational methods to improve how material reflectance is measured and modelled. The postdoctoral researcher will...

This 16-month postdoctoral project focuses on improving the circularity of polyolefin-containing plastic waste through reactive processing and the development of a new generation of grafting agents. The work is hosted at the C3M laboratory of the Ecole supérieure de physique et de chimie industrielles de la Ville de Paris in collaboration with the industrial high-throughput screening partner Xplore s.r.l. near Naples, Italy. The research combines organic synthesis, high-throughput experimentatio...

This postdoctoral position is based at the Centre Science des Matériaux et des Structures (SMS) , within the Laboratoire Georges Friedel , a joint research unit with the CNRS at the Ecole nationale supérieure des mines de Saint-Etienne . The researcher will join a materials science environment focused on the relationships between processing, microstructure, and properties, with access to advanced preparation and characterization tools and a multi-scale materials-by-design approach. The project, ...

Postdoctoral project at CNRS / Laboratoire Navier focused on the study of thermo-hydric transfers in natural porous materials using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI/IRM). The successful candidate will investigate how water and temperature interact in bio-sourced and geo-sourced porous materials at the macroscopic scale. The project combines non-destructive MRI observations with smaller-scale NMR relaxometry to follow the spatial and temporal evolution of moisture profiles, identify redistribution...

This postdoctoral project is part of the ANR De-Chalco programme, which investigates chalconatronite, a corrosion product associated with small-scale Egyptian statuary conserved in museums in France, with the aim of proposing a treatment. The researcher will work on the preparation of model samples for laboratory experiments, using information on alloy compositions and manufacturing techniques to select natural ores and produce bronze specimens that are representative of ancient material-making ...

A fully funded Master's-level research internship is available at the Laboratoire de Physique des Interfaces et des Couches Minces (LPICM), École Polytechnique, in Palaiseau, France, starting in February 2027 with flexible dates. The project investigates the low-temperature plasma deposition of wide-bandgap semiconductors. The selected student will contribute to advanced materials characterization using THz spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction (XRD), Raman spectroscopy, and SEM/TEM, while helping dev...