PhD Opportunities in Neuroscience in Canada

Simon Fraser University is inviting applications to its research-focused PhD programme in Linguistics for the Fall 2027 intake in Canada. The programme is designed for scholars pursuing advanced research on how language is structured, acquired, used and varied across communities. Potential research directions include language acquisition and cognition , linguistic diversity and variation, meaning and language use, phonetics and phonology, linguistic theory, and computational approaches to langua...

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 ...

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...

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...