PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in Neuroscience in Italy

This research contract is hosted by the Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione of the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche in Rome. The project sits within the self-funded research program “Robot, comportamento e cervello” , focused on the study of psychiatric and neurodegenerative conditions, with the advertised position specifically embedded in a program on cognitive functioning and individual differences. The selected researcher will work on computational neuropsychology , with a str...

The Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione at the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche in Rome is recruiting for a research contract within the self-financed project “The Predictive Brain in Action – PredBrain” . The work is centered on the study of embodied decision-making and foraging in human participants, combining experimental design, online data collection, and computational analysis. The successful candidate will contribute to the full research pipeline: designing and running beh...

This research contract is hosted by the Institute of Biophysics (IBF), National Research Council of Italy , at its Palermo secondary site. The selected researcher will join a project on the realistic modelling of physiological and pathological brain conditions, working within a multidisciplinary environment that connects biological, physical, and chemical sciences. The position focuses on multiscale, biophysically detailed, data-driven modelling of single neurons and neuronal networks , with par...

Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Biofisica (sede secondaria di Palermo) is offering two research contracts within the self-funded project “Modellazione realistica delle condizioni fisiologiche e patologiche del cervello” . The work is based in Palermo and is part of a broader neuroscience research effort supported by the Italian Neuroscience Research Infrastructure. The selected researcher will work on real-scale models of the human and mouse hippocampus , focusing on their constr...

The BRAIN Unit Lab at the University of Padua is seeking a doctoral researcher through the China Scholarship Council pathway for the 2027/2028 academic year. The PhD project sits at the intersection of neuroscience, neuroengineering, artificial intelligence and non-linear signal processing . The research environment focuses on advanced analysis of brain activity for clinical and technological applications. One major direction is brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) and neural signal decoding, includ...

Postdoctoral Researcher in AI for Social Cognition The Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) and the Department of Computer Science, Bioengineering, Robotics and Systems Engineering (DIBRIS) at the University of Genoa are seeking a postdoctoral researcher for the AIGO unit in Genoa, Italy. The project focuses on human-aligned cognitive systems and computational models of visual attention, social understanding, cross-modal learning and incremental learning. Research applications include social ro...

Postdoctoral position available within the ERC project COST-X at the University of Turin , Italy. The project focuses on the incentives that motivate people to communicate cooperatively, both offline and online . The successful candidate will join a research team working on this topic in an English-speaking environment. Research areas / keywords: cooperative communication, incentives, philosophy, linguistics, psychology, cognitive science, economics, and related fields. Eligibility: applicants s...

Research opportunity in microbiology , immunology , and cell biology at the University of Milan . The laboratory of Moira Paroni studies the activation and generation of pathogenic Th17 cells in response to bacterial pathogens. The project combines immunology , flow cytometry , microbiology , and molecular biology , with transcriptomic and molecular analyses plus functional studies using human primary cells and complex co-culture models. The selected candidate will work on the genetic manipulati...

Upcoming postdoctoral and predoctoral opportunities are being prepared by the Colombi and Leonzino labs in a collaborative project based at IGM-CNR in Pavia and IN-CNR at Humanitas Research Hospital in Rozzano, Italy . The research focuses on organelle communication , especially membrane contact sites between organelles, and how these processes control organelle dynamics and function. The project also investigates how disruption of these mechanisms contributes to neurodegenerative disease , incl...