PhD Opportunities in Anthropology in France

Applications are open for the 2026 John G. Bene Fellowship from the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) . This student award supports master’s and doctoral students conducting field research in the Global South for their thesis work. It is designed for students whose academic background combines an interest in forests with social sciences , and whose research examines the relationship between forest resources and the social, economic, cultural, and environmental welfare of people in...

PhD opportunity in micro-drones, assistive technologies, and AI for blind and low vision people at IRIT, CNRS / Université de Toulouse, in collaboration with the Augmented Human Lab at the National University of Singapore. This fully funded PhD is part of the BEST Doctoral Programme and focuses on designing AI-powered micro-drones as personal assistants for blind and low vision users. The project combines computer science , robotics , cognitive science , and human-computer interaction to build p...

Institut Pasteur Paris and Institut Pasteur de Dakar are seeking prospective PhD students for the Pasteur-Paris University International Doctoral Program (PPU). Project title: Multi-pathogen Epidemiological Monitoring of Immune Responses and Exposure in the Dielmo and Ndiop Cohort Study. The PhD will focus on the acquisition of immunity to multiple infectious diseases using a longitudinal cohort study from Senegal with data spanning 35 years. The work is based at Institut Pasteur in Paris , with...

The MSCA COFUND doctoral programme Between Earth and Sky in Toulouse is advertising 19 funded PhD positions across themes including health and well-being , global change , and sustainable transitions . One featured thesis project focuses on the links between chronic inflammation , muscle degeneration in ageing , and inclusion body myositis . The project offers an international research experience across two environments: one year of PhD research in Perth, Australia , followed by two years in Tou...

Applications are now open for a fully funded cotutelle PhD opportunity in Reinforcement Learning , World Models , Robotics , Assistive Robotics , Artificial Intelligence , and Human-Robot Interaction . This CROSSING PhD Opportunity #1 is supported by IRL CNRS CROSSING and will commence in September 2027 as part of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) COFUND BEST Doctoral Programme . The project is based at IRIT (MISFIT team), Université de Toulouse, France , in cotutelle with Adelaide Unive...

Funded PhD opportunity at the University of Lille in forensic anthropology , centered on radiocarbon bomb-pulse dating of recent human remains. The project investigates how 14C bomb-pulse dating can be used to estimate birth and death dates , with particular attention to tissue remodeling and multi-tissue approaches . The PhD will be carried out in collaboration with Christine Hatté at the Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement (LSCE, CEA/CNRS/UVSQ) and Thibault Clauzel at the ...

Inria is advertising a PhD position in spatio-temporal analysis of remote sensing data at large scales within the TITANE team at the Inria Centre at Université Côte d’Azur, based in Sophia Antipolis, France . The project is part of the Digital Twin of France and its Territories (JUNN) , co-led by IGN, Cerema, and Inria. The research focuses on leveraging large-scale airborne LiDARHD and satellite-derived digital surface models to analyze 3D urban change over time, with applications to updating c...