PhD Opportunities in Neurocognition in Austria

This PhD studentship investigates how the increasing replacement of human staff by artificial intelligence may create new forms of digital inequality. The project, Human contact as a costly premium: the consequences of new digital inequalities , examines what happens when access to human contact becomes a service that only some people can afford. Working across the UK and Italy, the doctoral researcher will study whether unequal access to human interaction affects people’s satisfaction, sense of...

This PhD project investigates the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying knowledge-driven enhancements in visual working memory. The research focuses on how existing knowledge can improve working-memory performance and aims to clarify the cognitive processes responsible for these enhancements. The project will use a combination of behavioural experiments, electroencephalography (EEG), eye-tracking and computational modelling. This multimethod approach offers training in cognitive psychology ...

International Max Planck Research School on Cognitive NeuroImaging (IMPRS CoNI) is a doctoral programme based at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, offered in cooperation with Leipzig University, the Technical University of Dresden, and the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London. The programme is designed for doctoral researchers interested in the highly interdisciplinary study of human neuroscience, with a particular emphasis on...

The University of Jyväskylä’s Department of Psychology is recruiting 1–2 doctoral researchers for its Doctoral Programme in Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience. The fixed-term role is designed for researchers completing doctoral studies and a dissertation in psychology or cognitive neuroscience. Doctoral researchers will conduct research toward their doctoral thesis, advance their doctoral studies, contribute to manuscripts and related scholarly activities, and assist with teaching and other d...

The Department of Psychology at the University of Jyväskylä is recruiting 1–2 doctoral researchers for the study lines of psychology and cognitive neuroscience. The position is aimed at students working on a dissertation and is connected to the department’s broader research and teaching environment. The advertised role combines dissertation-focused research, doctoral training, assistant teaching duties, and other related tasks. The department describes a wide research profile spanning learning a...

Heidelberg Biosciences International Graduate School (HBIGS) at Heidelberg University is a doctoral programme in the biosciences, offering PhD training in a highly interdisciplinary research environment in Heidelberg. The programme brings together research areas in which Heidelberg is especially strong, including developmental biology, infectious diseases, molecular and cellular biology, molecular biotechnology and biophysics, molecular plant sciences, neurosciences, structural biology, biochemi...

The Graduate School of Systemic Neurosciences (GSN-LMU) at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München offers a research-oriented doctoral programme in systemic neurosciences and closely related interdisciplinary areas. The programme is designed around a structured training environment with careful supervision, regular research discussions, and support from individual thesis advisory committees (TACs). Research themes span multiple levels of neuroscience and its connections to other disciplines, incl...

The Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language (BCBL) is recruiting a PhD researcher to join Nicola Molinaro’s Brain Rhythms and Cognition group in Donostia–San Sebastián, Spain. The PRO-LISTEN project examines how the adult brain adapts to learning and understanding an additional language. The research focuses on Spanish and Basque and uses naturalistic speech, longitudinal magnetoencephalography (MEG) recordings and computational modelling to investigate language-related brain dynamics ove...

The Department of Psychology at the University of Jyväskylä is recruiting 1–2 fixed-term Doctoral Researchers for the Doctoral Programme in Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, starting 1 January 2027 for up to four years. The position is designed for candidates completing doctoral studies and is open to students with study right in the programme who are supervised by staff from the Department of Psychology. The role is embedded in a vibrant, international, and multidisciplinary research envir...