PhD Opportunities in Neuroscience in Australia

RMIT University in Melbourne is offering a grant-funded PhD opportunity focused on myelin repair and therapeutic design . The project will investigate how the brain builds and repairs myelin, the insulating material that supports efficient neural communication, and how therapeutic strategies might be designed to promote this repair. The doctoral researcher will work across the Fleiss and Holien labs and use a combination of knockout mouse models and in vitro systems . The research will examine t...

This PhD scholarship is based at Monash University’s Clayton campus in Melbourne and sits within a Monash AI Institute collaboration between the Arts and IT faculties. The project investigates communication and navigation for blind and low vision people, with a particular focus on how people interact with digital navigational technologies and use multimodal information to build a navigational frame of reference. The student will carry out detailed linguistic and multimodal research on real-world...

Garvan Institute of Medical Research is seeking a domestic PhD candidate for a project on the immunogenomics of arthritic joint disease in the Masle-Farquhar Lab. The candidate will apply genomic technologies and analytical pipelines available at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard to Garvan’s rapidly growing Arthritis Tissue Biobank. The research will analyse the world’s first single-cell, long-read sequencing dataset integrating transcriptomes, clonotypes, isoforms, and acquired mutations d...

PhD opportunity at The University of Newcastle, Australia in computational genomics , equine genomics , and equine immunology . The project investigates equine health and immune biology using genomic, transcriptomic, and immune-repertoire sequencing data, with a strong emphasis on computational analysis, genome assembly/annotation, comparative genomics, and reproducible bioinformatics workflows. This is a PhD scholarship supported by AgriFutures Australia . Funding includes a living allowance of...

PhD scholarship opportunity at Flinders University , based in the Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute (FHMRI): Sleep Health in Adelaide, Australia. The project is titled “Circadian light sensitivity as a mechanism for PTSD vulnerability” and is supported by a Wellcome-funded Mental Health Award (2024) . The research examines how light exposure at night , circadian rhythms , sleep disturbance , and sleep reactivity may contribute to PTSD vulnerability after potentially traumatic events...

IDEALAB is inviting applications for its next PhD cohort in the International Doctorate for Experimental Approaches to Language And Brain. This is a fully funded joint doctoral programme with a shared curriculum and research training leading to a joint PhD degree. The advertised projects span language and brain research topics such as infant speech perception , aphasia treatment , reading neurocognition , and related experimental approaches. The programme is especially relevant for students inte...

PhD scholarship opportunity at Swinburne University of Technology for research in multimodal imaging for epilepsy surgery assessment . The project is based at the Hawthorn campus in Melbourne, Australia, within the Centre for Mental Health and Brain Sciences. This PhD focuses on improving the localisation of epileptogenic brain regions and refining non-invasive methods for identifying suitable epilepsy surgery candidates. The research is linked to an NHMRC Ideas Grant and involves advanced neuro...

PhD scholarship opportunity at Swinburne University of Technology for research in source imaging for drug-resistant epilepsy . The project is based at the Hawthorn campus in Melbourne and sits within the Centre for Mental Health and Brain Sciences. This PhD is linked to an NHMRC Ideas Grant focused on Non-invasive Dynamic 3D Phase-Velocity Field Imaging (PVFI) to improve epilepsy surgery eligibility and outcomes. The research combines neuroscience , neuroimaging , computational neuroscience , bi...

PhD opportunity in Take C.A.Re (Concussion Assessment and Recovery Research) at the University of Melbourne . This research degree project focuses on concussion , traumatic brain injury , post-concussion symptoms , and recovery in children and adults. The project is offered by the Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences , Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, with the work location listed as Royal Children’s Hospital / Murdoch Childrens Research Institute . Supervision team: Pro...