PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in Neurocognition in Germany

The Max Planck School of Cognition offers a doctoral programme in cognition based in Leipzig and delivered in English . It is a structured PhD programme designed to connect research across multiple fields, including artificial intelligence, biology, cognitive neuroscience, genetics, linguistics, mathematics, neurobiology, neuroimaging, neurology, neurophysics, philosophy, physics, psychiatry, and psychology. The programme is explicitly multidisciplinary and is aimed at excellent international ap...

The German Institute of Human Nutrition (DIfE) in Potsdam-Rehbrücke, Germany, invites applications for a Postdoc (m/f/d) in the Junior Research Group of Gut-Brain Interactions. DIfE is a Leibniz Association institute focused on experimental and clinical research in nutrition and health, with the broader goal of understanding the molecular basis of nutrition-dependent diseases and developing prevention and treatment strategies. The position starts on 1 May 2027 and is centered on the neural dynam...

Fully funded international PhD opportunity in Cognition, Learning & Memory at the Max Planck School of Cognition in Germany. The programme is designed for applicants interested in memory formation , learning , cognitive neuroscience , brain imaging , and the biological mechanisms underlying human cognition. This is a PhD programme with a 4-year structure: one orientation year followed by three years of doctoral research. It is fully financed, with a first-year stipend of €1,565 net per month and...

PhD opportunity in computational neuroscience and human neurodevelopment at Forschungszentrum Jülich (INM-7) The Multiscale Neurodevelopment team in the Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine – Brain and Behaviour (INM-7) is recruiting a PhD student fellow to work on multi-modal models of human brain development, function, and cognition . The project combines in vivo MRI , EEG , post mortem brain samples, and computational modelling to study the maturation of cortical architecture, connectivity,...

Fully funded PhD opportunity at the Max Planck School of Cognition in Germany (multiple sites). This is an international doctoral program spanning AI, biology, cognitive neuroscience, genetics, linguistics, mathematics, neurobiology, philosophy, physics, psychiatry, and psychology . The program follows a two-stage structure: a first-year orientation phase, followed by a doctoral phase (years 2–4) with a supervisor from the MPSCog Fellows network . It is designed for students interested in interd...

Postdoctoral Researcher opening in Natural Language Processing , human behavioral evaluation , and long-range language understanding at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS) in Saarbrücken, Germany . The position is part of the newly funded ERC Starting Grant project BrainAlign , led by Dr. Mariya Toneva and the Bridging AI and Neuroscience (BrAIN) group . The project aims to develop language models whose internal processing is aligned with the human brain, combining machine le...

Postdoctoral Researcher in NeuroAI at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems in Saarbrücken, Germany . The Bridging AI and Neuroscience (BrAIN) group, led by Mariya Toneva , is recruiting for the newly funded ERC Starting Grant project BrainAlign . The project sits at the intersection of machine learning , natural language processing , computational neuroscience , neuroimaging , and cognitive neuroscience . Research focus: developing methods to integrate heterogeneous fMRI datasets and tr...

Postdoctoral Researcher in Multi-Modal Models of Human Brain Development, Function and Cognition at Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH (Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine - Brain and Behaviour, INM-7), Jülich, Germany. The Multiscale Neurodevelopment team is seeking a postdoctoral fellow to study the maturation of cortical architecture, connectivity, and functional dynamics across early life. The project combines computational neuroscience , neuroimaging , machine learning , and cognitive neurosc...