PhD Opportunities in Evolutionary Biology

The Yorkshire Environmental Sciences Doctoral Training Network (YES-DTN) is recruiting more than 26 fully funded PhD scholars for environmental science research projects in the United Kingdom. Projects are hosted by the University of Leeds and the University of York , bringing together research schools and departments across environmental and natural sciences. The network’s research spans Dynamic Earth and Natural Hazards , Atmosphere and Climate , and Ecology, Evolution and Biodiversity . Parti...

The STRI SIFP Predoctoral Student Fellowship supports doctoral candidates who want to carry out dissertation research at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama. It is part of the Smithsonian Institution Fellowship Program and is designed for PhD-level researchers working on a dissertation project with an in-country research period of three to twelve months. The opportunity is centered on research at STRI, a major tropical research institute known for work in ecological and evoluti...

The STRI SIFP Graduate Student Fellowship supports graduate-level research at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama through a 10-week Smithsonian Institution Fellowship Program award. This opportunity is designed for students working in ecology and evolutionary biology, with research based at STRI’s tropical research environment. The fellowship is open to graduate students who have completed at least one semester and is intended for students at the master’s and PhD level. As part...

The STRI D. Ross Robertson Shore-Fish Fellowship supports predoctoral PhD students carrying out field research on the evolution, ecology, and natural history of marine and brackish-water fishes . The fellowship is based at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) in Panama , placing the awardee in a strong tropical research setting focused on nearshore marine systems. This fellowship is designed for projects on shore fishes in nearshore tropical and subtropical waters . It is a one-yea...

This fully funded PhD project explores how life-history strategies evolve in freshwater fishes, focusing on the interplay between ecological pressures, evolutionary history, and ancestry. The student will work within a broader comparative framework on traits linked to reproductive biology, reproductive investment, sexual selection, and adaptation to challenging environmental conditions. The project is centered at the Reichard Lab at the Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Czech Academy of Sciences ...

Fully funded PhD opportunity in plant pathology and population genomics Rothamsted Research, with the PhD registered at the University of Bath in the United Kingdom, is offering a doctoral project titled Population Genomics and Evolution of Wheat Take-all Under Diverse Agronomic and Seed Treatment Practices for Integrated Pathogen Management . The research will investigate the population genomics and evolution of the pathogen responsible for wheat take-all disease under different agronomic pract...

A PhD position in Evolutionary Genomics is available in the group of Henrik Kaessmann at Heidelberg University in Heidelberg, Germany. The project is part of a highly collaborative research environment at the ZMBH and is focused on major questions in the origins and molecular evolution of organs in mammals and other vertebrates. The lab’s research emphasizes the evolution of gene expression and its regulatory basis, using extensive comparative genomics resources such as single-cell RNA-seq and A...

The Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology in Plön is offering six fully funded doctoral positions in the International Max Planck Research School for Evolutionary Biology (IMPRS EvolBio). This is an internationally oriented research environment focused on the principles, mechanisms, and effects of evolutionary change. The program is a joint initiative between the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Christian Albrechts University in Kiel, and the GEOMAR Helmholtz Center for Oce...

The Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona, Spain, invites applications to its CRG International PhD Programme 2027. The call offers PhD research opportunities across internationally recognised laboratories working in genomics, molecular and cell biology, computational biology, RNA biology, epigenetics, cancer, neuroscience, evolutionary biology, microbiology and bioengineering. Projects include single-cell genomics and lineage tracing, genome regulation, chromatin and 3D genomics, RNA...