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

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....

PhD position in episignatures and long-read sequencing at the University of Rouen Normandy in France, within Inserm UMR1245 / Cancer and Brain Genomics (CBG) and in partnership with Rouen University Hospital . The project focuses on using PacBio HiFi sequencing to build the next generation of episignatures. These DNA methylation “fingerprints” may help solve unsolved cases of neurodevelopmental disorders and improve genetic diagnosis in rare disease research. We are looking for a PhD candidate w...

PhD opportunity at the University of Caen Normandy, France in the ABTE laboratory, EcoTEA team, on foam-flow cleaning in milking systems . The project, called FOAMAT , focuses on improving cleaning performance while reducing water, energy, and detergent use. The research combines foam physical chemistry , fluid mechanics , process engineering , rheology , and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to understand how foam formulation, structure, and flow conditions affect the removal of dairy residues...

Postdoctoral position in geomicrobiology at Université Côte d’Azur / CEREEP ECOTRON Île-de-France This postdoctoral project explores a fundamental question about the early Earth: did life shape the surface of the planet, and how did microorganisms influence rock weathering under Archean-like conditions? The work is embedded in the Pandora project and builds on an experimental set-up already designed and constructed by a PhD student. The platform reproduces rock weathering in an anoxic environmen...

PhD opportunity at Institut Pasteur in Paris within the PPU-Research & Technology program (#SpencerShorteProgram). This project is led by Julia Chamot-Rooke and Guillaume Dumenil , bringing together the Mass Spectrometry for Biology and Vascular Infections Pathogenesis teams. The research aims to develop an innovative PlantAndCast cross-linking mass spectrometry (XLMS) approach to identify direct contacts between pathogen surface proteins and host cell factors during infection, using Neisseria m...

A 12-month full-time postdoctoral position is available in the Natural Killer Cells and Anti-Tumour Immunity team at the Centre d’Immunologie de Marseille-Luminy (CIML) in Marseille, France. The project is a translational study of Natural Killer (NK) cells and type 1 innate lymphoid cells (ILC1) in breast cancer, with a special focus on triple-negative breast cancer. The successful candidate will help characterize phenotypic, functional, and transcriptional changes in these innate lymphocyte pop...

Institut Lumière Matière (CNRS / Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1) is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher for the NanoPhiA project within the French national research programme PEPR DIADEM . The position focuses on laser synthesis of nanoparticles , plasma diagnostics , optical emission spectroscopy , data analysis , and machine learning . The project aims to build an AI-based predictive framework linking nanoparticle synthesis conditions to resulting structures, combining experimental physics,...

Postdoctoral Position – Cancer Immunology & Immunometabolism The NuReP team (Nuclear Receptors & Pathophysiology) at iGReD, part of Université Clermont Auvergne/CNRS/Inserm in Clermont-Ferrand, France, is recruiting a highly motivated postdoctoral researcher for the INCa-funded MAVERIC project. The project is titled Microenvironment Metabolism-Adapted Vaccination for Enhanced Reactivation of Immunosurveillance in Advanced Prostate Cancer and sits at the interface of cancer immunology, immunometa...

École Normale Supérieure (ENS), through its Department of Cognitive Studies and the Interventional Neuropsychology Laboratory (NPI), is offering a postdoctoral researcher position focused on language and communication research with neurological adult patients. The position is embedded in Charlotte Jacquemot’s team, a group that combines clinical research aimed at improving care for patients with cognitive disorders and fundamental research in cognition . The post is connected to the NPI laborato...