PhD Opportunities in Biology in Austria

This PhD project investigates deep tissue imaging with nonlinear microscopy and adaptive optics at the Institute of Biomedical Physics, Medical University of Innsbruck, Austria. The doctoral researcher will work with an adaptive-optics nonlinear microscope built around a high-power pulsed laser system. The research will focus on novel methods for correcting optical aberrations and light scattering in thick tissue, with the goal of extending imaging depth beyond the current state of the art. Appl...

The Medical University of Vienna is recruiting a PhD student to join the Bergthaler Lab and its research environment in Vienna, Austria. The project will investigate T cell immunology and systemic immunometabolism , exploring how immune-cell biology connects with metabolic processes across the body. The research is situated within molecular immunology and may also relate to disease-associated metabolic states such as cachexia, a topic highlighted in the associated research context. The successfu...

The University of Vienna is seeking a predoctoral researcher in geoecology to investigate the ecological functioning of wetlands. The doctoral project focuses on greenhouse gas exchange in the reed belt of Lake Neusiedl and the Pürgschachen Moor . The research will make use of the geoecology group’s existing eddy covariance infrastructure , including towers equipped with sensors for carbon dioxide, water vapor, and methane. The successful researcher will contribute to field-based environmental r...

The Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) is accepting applications to its 2027 interdisciplinary PhD program. The program welcomes highly qualified applicants interested in graduate-level scientific research across biology, chemistry, neuroscience, mathematics, computer science, physics, data science and scientific computing, astronomy, earth science, and related areas. Students join an international research environment built around ISTA’s research groups. During the first year of...

This PhD project focuses on patient-specific liver deformation modelling for radio-frequency liver tumour ablation , where accurate prediction of organ movement is essential for treatment planning and intraoperative guidance. The project develops an AI-driven framework that combines strong modelling approaches to capture liver deformation at the patient level. A major part of the research is tackling the interpretability problem of deep learning systems. The PhD candidate will investigate method...

The Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) is offering fully funded PhD positions within a broad, interdisciplinary doctoral program spanning astronomy, biology, computer science, chemistry and materials, data science and scientific computing, earth science, mathematics, neuroscience, and physics. The opportunity is based at ISTA, a world-class research environment on the outskirts of Vienna. The posting is aimed at highly qualified candidates interested in joining the institute’s Ph...

This PhD project, DC5, is based at the University of Innsbruck and sits at the intersection of mathematics and radiology. The project focuses on conditional diffusion models for image reconstruction, resolution enhancement, data completion, and segmentation in medical imaging. The central research challenge is to develop and mathematically analyse diffusion-based methods that can make use of conditional information such as clinical metadata, while remaining robust across different imaging protoc...

This doctoral project, Joint Denoising and Material Decomposition in Photon Counting Computed Tomography , sits at the interface of mathematics, image reconstruction, and clinical radiology. The PhD is part of the IGNIDTE programme and is hosted by the University of Innsbruck in collaboration with the Medical University of Innsbruck . The project focuses on spectrally resolved CT using photon-counting detectors, an imaging technology with wide clinical relevance. The research aims to combine mat...

The Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) invites applications to its interdisciplinary PhD program for students interested in advanced research across astronomy, biology, computer science, chemistry and materials, data science and scientific computing, earth science, mathematics, neuroscience, and physics. Based in a world-class research environment on the outskirts of Vienna, the program brings together an international scientific community representing more than 80 nationalities....