PhD Opportunities in Neuropsychology in Canada

Université Laval in Québec City, Canada, is offering a fully funded PhD position in Anthropology focused on living with cochlear implants , sensory experience, neurotechnologies, and evidence. The project is part of the CIHR-funded Deafnesses project and is supervised by Professor Stephanie Lloyd in the Department of Anthropology. The research examines how people experience and live with cochlear implants, with attention to sensory experience, deafness, clinical contexts, and the broader implica...

Funded PhD opportunity in NeuroAI and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Toronto , in Y. Helena Liu’s incoming research group and the Department of Psychology (AI for Psychological Sciences). This opening is aimed at students interested in interdisciplinary research spanning neuroscience, psychology, computer science, statistics, mathematics, physics, and engineering. The post highlights that applicants from these fields are welcome, and that scientific programming experience plus b...

Fully funded PhD opportunity in Parkinson's disease and bone health at the University of British Columbia (Okanagan Campus) , Canada. The project is associated with the Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Management in the Faculty of Medicine and is supervised by Dr. Sarah Purcell and Dr. Daryl Wile . Relevant academic areas include medical science , neuroscience , nutrition , kinesiology , exercise science , public health , and chronic disease prevention. The post specifically highlights ...

Majid Mohajerani is hiring for a PhD student and a Postdoc to work on foundation models for behaviour , combining large-scale behavioural video with deep learning . The project focuses on self-supervised video transformers that can discover, model, and search animal behaviour at scale, from micro-actions to higher-order motifs emerging over months of continuous, multi-species recording. The research also includes query-by-example retrieval and modelling behaviour from single frames to long-horiz...

PhD and Postdoc positions are available at the intersection of AI, neuroscience, and behaviour modelling at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, with work connected to the Douglas Research Centre and Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute. The project focuses on building foundation models for behaviour using large-scale animal video data. Research themes include video representation learning , self-supervised learning , video transformers , behaviour embeddings, query-by-example retri...

Postdoctoral opportunity in Toronto at the University of Toronto in the area of biochemistry and neurodegenerative diseases . Professor Gabor G. Kovacs is recruiting a motivated postdoctoral fellow or a PhD candidate nearing completion to join his team for a 6–12 month project starting as soon as possible. The project will involve detailed biochemical characterization across a broad range of neurodegenerative diseases, with the chance to learn and apply specialized methods in a collaborative tra...

Jacquemont Lab at CHU Sainte-Justine and Université de Montréal is hiring for PhD and postdoc positions in an exciting research area at the intersection of neuroscience , genomics , and medical science . The project focuses on the effects of genetic variants on brain transcriptomics and brain architecture . This is a strong fit for candidates interested in human genetics, neurogenomics, transcriptomics, and brain development/structure. Location: Montréal, Canada. Opportunity type: Open research ...

PhD opportunity at CERVO Brain Research Centre , Université Laval, in Quebec, Canada. This post advertises an elite PhD opening for global candidates interested in neuroscience , biophotonics , brain imaging , and mental health . The research environment is described as collaborative and based at one of Canada’s top research hubs, with work integrating advanced neuroscience and psychiatric research alongside cutting-edge photonics-based methods. Funding: full PhD funding is provided. Timeline: a...

Dr. Lauren Guillette and the Animal Cognition Research Group at the University of Alberta are seeking highly motivated students for funded MSc and PhD positions starting in Fall 2027 . The group’s research themes include nest building , social and asocial learning , individual differences , and cognitive biases . This opportunity is a strong fit for students interested in psychology , animal cognition , cognitive ecology , and related behavioral science topics. Funding: all positions are funded....