PhD Opportunities in Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Canada

This PhD project at Radboud University Medical Center focuses on multiple system atrophy (MSA) , a rare and serious brain disorder that often resembles Parkinson’s disease but progresses more rapidly. The position combines two connected research tracks aimed at improving care for people with MSA and the professionals who diagnose and study it. In the first track, the project develops an AI-supported pathway for MSA knowledge sharing and education . Because most neurologists see MSA only rarely, ...

This PhD project at Maastricht University and Maastricht UMC+ explores how the smallest blood vessels in the brain contribute to dementia and the clearance of harmful waste products from brain tissue. The work is part of the MODEM consortium, which studies the biological mechanisms underlying the onset and progression of dementia. You will investigate the neurovascular unit, with a particular focus on how capillaries interact with surrounding brain tissue and how microvascular function may relat...

This PhD project at UMC Utrecht focuses on person-centred care and technological innovation in brain diagnostics, with a specific emphasis on bringing MRI closer to the patient and into primary care. The project is part of the consortium initiative Brain Matters and the broader Reimagine Imaging programme, which aims to redesign how people are referred, guided, and supported through the imaging pathway. The PhD student will work on the development of a largely automated MRI set-up in which patie...

Lund University is offering a doctoral position in medical radiation physics within its Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) research group in Lund, Sweden. The project focuses on diffusion MRI (dMRI), quantitative MRI and the development of methods for accurate assessment of tissue microstructure in the living human brain. The research will investigate how controlled diffusion encoding can reveal properties such as cell density, cell shape, cell size, blood volume and cell membrane permeability. Th...

PhD position in Precision Psychiatry and Depression Research in Bern, Switzerland. The Universitäre Psychiatrische Dienste Bern is offering a doctoral position within PRECISE-MDD, a CHF 1.99 million research project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. The mult centre study investigates how EEG- and EKG-based biomarkers can support the selection of optimal treatments for patients with unipolar depression, including antidepressants, repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS),...

The Geothermal Energy and Geofluids Group at ETH Zürich is hiring a PhD researcher in magnetic resonance applied to porous media. The project focuses on method development using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), pulsed-EPR-MRI, and dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP). These techniques will be used to investigate chemical and physical processes in porous media, including natural rock formations relevant to geothermal energy and geofluids. The position is available...

ETH Zurich’s Geothermal Energy & Geofluids Group in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences invites applications for a full-time PhD position in magnetic resonance applications for porous media. The project develops and applies multimodal nuclear magnetic resonance and magnetic resonance imaging (NMR/MRI), pulsed-EPR-MRI, and dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) techniques to investigate chemical and physical processes in natural rock and fractured porous media. Research topics may include ...

Meisam K. Arjmandi, Assistant Professor at the University of South Carolina and Director of the Translational Auditory Neuroscience (TAN) Lab, is recruiting a PhD student to join the lab in Fall 2027. The lab studies how to improve cochlear implant outcomes and how hearing loss relates to cognition and brain health. Research combines behavioral experiments, neuroimaging methods including MRI and fNIRS, signal processing, and computational approaches. The opportunity is well suited to students in...

[Funded studentship with fees covered and a stipend of £21,805 per annum for 2026/7.] PhD studentship at the University of Exeter for research on R2T2-Med: Resource-Aware AI for Scalable and Deployable Medical Image Analysis . This project addresses a major challenge in modern healthcare AI: medical image analysis models can be accurate, but often require high computational power, memory, and processing time. That makes them difficult to scale to population-level research and expensive or imprac...